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Your information and what happens to it.
Your information
"you" and "your" refers to the Applicant(s)
"we" and "us" refers to Holistic Insurance Services, or their appointed
mortgage processing unit, or the lender (or any successor in title
or assignee of the lender) and
"Group" refers to the group of companies including one or more of
these parties
Your information may be held on a Group database and used by us and
any Group company for the purposes set out in this part of the Terms.
Your information includes any information which we or any Group company
holds, now or at any time in the future (including after any mortgage
or other loan is repaid and any insurance cover ends) and which comes
from or relates to:-
1. Application forms or other dealings with any Group company;
2. Third parties such as credit reference agencies and parties associated
with you and products and services from or through any Group company.
We and other Group companies and others to whom we disclose your information
will use, analyse and assess your information to maintain and develop
relationships with you.
This will include the following purposes:
Purposes:
a) Considering any applications made by you;
b) Operating and administering the services we or they supply;
c) Servicing your relationships with us and them;
d) Risk assessment, money laundering checks, compliance and regulatory
reporting and fraud prevention;
e) Helping to make decisions on any insurance proposals and insurance
claims, for you and members of your household;
f) Helping to identify products and services which may interest you;
and
g) Helping to understand and develop our or their business including
new and innovative products and services.
We, other Group companies and others to whom we disclose your information
may tell you, by letter, phone or fax including automatic dialing,
email or other electronic means, about products and services which
we or they believe would be of interest to you, and which are offered
by the Group or other companies. We will not disclose your information
outside the Group except:
a) To any persons who may use, analyse and assess your information
for the purposes set out above;
b) To any persons who provide a service to us and who have agreed
to keep your information strictly confidential;
c) To any persons, including insurers and/or lenders, who supply benefits
or services to you under or in connection with this agreement;
d) To credit reference agencies and fraud prevention agencies as set
out below;
e) Where required to do so for the operational Purposes a) to e) above;
f) Where we have your consent; or
g) Where we are required or permitted to do so by law, credit reference
and fraud prevention agencies
For loan applications
We will make searches about you at credit reference agencies who will
supply us with credit information, as well as information from the
Electoral Register.
The agencies will record details of the search whether or not this
application proceeds.
We or the Lender may use credit-scoring methods to assess this application
and to verify your identity.
Credit searches and other information provided to us and/or the credit
reference agencies, about you and those with whom you are linked financially
may be used by us, the Lender and other companies if credit decisions
are made about you, or other members of your household.
This information may also be used for debt tracing and the prevention
of money laundering as well as the management of your account.
For insurance applications
We or the Insurer may make searches about you at credit reference
agencies who will supply us with information, including information
from the Electoral Register, for the purpose of verifying your identity.
The agencies will record details of the search whether or not any
application proceeds.
The searches will not be seen or used by lenders to assess your
ability to obtain credit.
We or the Insurer may use scoring methods to assess this application
and to verify your identity.
Credit searches and other information which is provided to us and/or
the Insurer and/or the credit reference agencies, about you and
those with whom you are linked financially may be used by you and/or
the Insurer and other companies if you, or other members of your
household, apply for other facilities including insurance applications
and claims.
This information may also be used for debt tracing and the prevention
of money laundering as well as the management of your account.
Alternatively, we or the Insurer may ask you to provide physical
forms of identification
To prevent or detect fraud
Or to assist in verifying your identity, we or the Lender or
the Insurer may make searches of Group records and at fraud prevention
agencies who will supply us with information.
We or the Lender or the Insurer may also pass information to financial
and other organisations involved in fraud prevention to protect
ourselves and the Lender and the Insurer and our customers from
theft and fraud.
If you give us false or inaccurate information and we suspect fraud,
we will record this.
We, the Lender, the Insurer, members of the Group, and other companies
may use this information if decisions are made about you or others
at your address(es) on credit or credit-related services or motor,
household, credit, life or any other insurance facilities.
It may also be used for tracing and claims assessment.
Stating a financial association
By stating a financial association with another party, you are
also declaring that you are entitled to:
a) Disclose information about your joint applicant and/or anyone
else referred to by you
b) authorise us and the Lender to search, link and/or record information
at credit reference agencies about you and/or anyone else referred
to by you.
(c) Information held about you by the Credit Reference Agencies
may already be linked to records relating to one or more of your
partners. For the purposes of this application you may be treated
as financially linked and your application will be assessed with
reference to any "associated" records.
(d) Where you borrow or may borrow from the Lender, the Lender may
give details of your account and how you manage it to credit referenceagencies.
If you borrow and do not repay in full and on time, the Lender may
tell credit reference agencies who will record the outstanding debt.
You have the right of access to your personal records held on our
files by written request to the address below and on payment of
a fee.
You have the right of access to your personal records held by credit
and fraud agencies.
We will supply their names and addresses upon request to: see
address.