Your privacy is important to us. It is our policy to respect the confidentiality of information and the privacy of individuals. We are bound by the Data Protection Principles contained in the Data Protection Act 1998. This policy sets out how we, acting as a data controller, collect and store your personal data, what we use it for and your rights.
We may collect and process the following information about you:
Please note that we do not store your credit or debit card or bank account information.
We may collect information about your computer (including your IP address), operating system and browser type, for system administration purposes.
We may also obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. They help us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalised service. They enable us:
You may elect to refuse acceptance of cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this option you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will automatically issue cookies when you log on to our Website.
All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Any payment transactions will be encrypted using SSL technology.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will use industry best standards to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted over our Website. Any transmission of personal data is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to actively prevent unauthorised access.
We use your personal information to:
Unless you expressly agree, we will not disclose identifiable information about you to any third party. We may, however, provide third parties with aggregate information about our users.
We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group from time to time, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries, as defined in section 736 of the UK Companies Act 2006.
We may disclose your personal information to third parties:You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data. You can also exercise the right at any time by emailing contactus@crowdbnk.com.
The Data Protection Act 1998 gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Data Protection Act. Any access request may be subject to a fee of £10 to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.
Our Website sometimes contains links to and from other third party websites. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
Any changes we may make to our privacy policy will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by email.
Questions, comments and request regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to contactus@crowdbnk.com.