Privacy Policy For Platinum Choice Insurance

This document explains how we use your personal data.

Platinum Choice Limited is committed to ensuring the privacy of our clients and other people that we have dealings with. In this policy we explain how we hold, process and retain your personal data.

1. How we use your personal data

1.1 This section provides you with information about:

(a) what personal data we hold and process;

(b) in respect of personal data that we did not collect from you directly, where we obtained that data from, and what types of data we have collected;

(d) the legal grounds on which we process your data.

1.2 Contact data. We may process contact details that you provide to us (“contact data”). This contact data may include your name, address, telephone number, and email address, and will be provided by you verbally or through our websites. We may use this contact data to contact you to discuss your insurance needs, and how we performed and functioned for you. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interest in ensuring the efficient administration and continued function of our services.

We may also use this data to provide you with insurance quotations generated by our panel of insurers, and for providing our services to you. In the course of doing so, we may provide your contact data to our panel of insurers so that they might generate these quotations. The contact data may be processed in this way for the purposes of performing our contract with you, or in taking steps at your request prior to entering into a contract.

Where you have provided your consent for us to do so, we may contact you regarding the latest promotions and offers regarding Platinum Choice Insurance products and services, and those of our panel of brokers, insurers and partner organisations, and to send you newsletters.

1.3 Profile Data. During the course of providing services to you, you may provide us with biographical information about yourself (“profile data”). This profile data may include your date of birth, marital status, home address, length of residence in the UK, number of children, employment details, claim history (including details about any claims you have been subject to), details about any previous insurance policies you may have taken out, and details about any vehicles you own or drive.

We may use this data to provide you with insurance quotations generated by our panel of insurers, and for providing our services to you. In the course of doing so, we may provide your profile data to our panel of insurers so that they might generate these quotations. The profile data may be processed in this way for the purposes of performing our contract with you, or in taking steps at your request prior to entering into a contract.

We may also use your profile data in order to create a profile of your interests and preferences, so that we can contact you with information relevant to you, and also to improve our products and services. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interest in only sending you marketing communications that are relevant to you, and to ensure that we provide a consistently high quality level of products and services.

Where you have provided your consent for us to do so, we may also use this data for the purposes of carrying out marketing activities, specifically in order to tailor the offers, advertisements and promotions that we bring to your attention when we contact you.

1.4 Sensitive Personal Data. During the course of using our services and providing us with information in order for us to obtain quotes for you, you may provide us with sensitive information about yourself (“sensitive data”). This sensitive data may include your medical history, and details of any previous convictions you may have had. We may use this data to provide you with insurance quotations generated by our panel of brokers and insurers, and for providing our services to you. However, we will only process this sensitive data if you consent to us doing so.

1.5 Website data. We may process data about your use of our website and services (“website data”). The website data may include your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths, as well as information about the timing, frequency and pattern of your service use. The source of the website data is our analytics tracking system. This website data may be processed for the purposes of analysing the use of the website and services.

The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely monitoring and improving our website and services.

1.6 Enquiry data. We may process information contained in any enquiry you submit to us regarding our products or services (“enquiry data”). The enquiry data may be processed for the purposes of offering, marketing and selling relevant products and/or services to you.

The legal basis for this processing in this way is for the purposes of performing our contract with you, or in taking steps at your request prior to entering into a contract.

1.7 Notification data. We may process information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our newsletters (“notification data”). The notification data may be processed for the purposes of sending you newsletters.

The legal basis for this processing is consent.

1.8 Correspondence data. We may process information contained in or relating to any communication that you send to us (“correspondence data”). The correspondence data may include the communication content associated with the communication.. The correspondence data may be processed for the purposes of communicating with you and record-keeping.

The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the proper administration of our website and business and communications with users.

1.9 Other processing activities. In addition to the specific purposes for which we may process your personal data set out above, we may also process any of your personal data where such processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.

Please do not supply any other person’s personal data to us, unless we prompt you to do so or have entered into a written data processing agreement with you.

2. Providing your personal data to others

2.1 Our partner service providers. We may disclose your data to our partner insurers, and other partner organisations that we work with.

2.2 Our professional advisers. We may disclose your personal data to our professional advisers insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes of managing risks, obtaining professional advice and managing legal disputes.

2.3 Where we provide your personal data to any third party. Where we share your personal data with any third party, we will ensure this processing is protected by appropriate safeguards including a suitable data processing agreement with that third party.

2.4 To comply with legal obligations. In addition to the specific disclosures of personal data detailed above, we may also disclose your personal data where such disclosure is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation we have to comply with, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another individual.

3. Transfers of your personal data outside of the European Economic Area

Where your personal data is transferred outside of the EEA, we will ensure that either (a) The European Commission has made an “adequacy decision” with respect to the data protection laws of the country to which it is transferred, or (b) we have entered into a suitable data processing agreement with the third party situated in that country to ensure the adequate protection of your data. In all cases, transfers outside of the EEA will be protected by appropriate safeguards.

4. Retaining and deleting personal data

4.1 Personal data that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes. However, we may retain your personal data where such retention is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, for our legitimate interests, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person. Details of our retention periods can be found in our Retention Policy a copy of which is freely available on request at any time by emailing info@platinumchoiceinsurance.co.uk

5. Amendments

5.1 We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website.

5.2 You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes to this policy.

5.3 We may notify you of changes to this policy by email.

6. Your rights

6.1 You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you; provision of such information will be subject to:

(a) your request not being found to be unfounded or excessive, in which case a charge may apply; and

(b) the supply of appropriate evidence of your identity (for this purpose, we will usually accept a photocopy of your passport certified by a solicitor or bank plus an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address).

6.2 We may withhold personal information that you request to the extent permitted by law.

6.3 You may instruct us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.

6.4 In practice, you will usually either expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.

6.5 The rights you have under data protection law are:

(a) the right to access;

(b) the right to rectification;

(d) the right to restrict processing;

(e) the right to object to processing;

(f) the right to data portability;

(g) the right to complain to a supervisory authority; and

(h) the right to withdraw consent.

6.6 Your right to access your data. You have the right to ask us to confirm whether or not we process your personal data and, to have access to the personal data, and any additional information. That additional information includes the purposes for which we process your data, the categories of personal data we hold and the recipients of that personal data. You may request a copy of your personal data. The first copy will be provided free of charge, but we may charge a reasonable fee for additional copies.

6.7 Your right to rectification. If we hold any inaccurate personal data about you, you have the right to have these inaccuracies rectified. Where necessary for the purposes of the processing, you also have the right to have any incomplete personal data about you completed.

6.8 Your right to erasure. In certain circumstances you have the right to have personal data that we hold about you erased. This will be done without undue delay. These circumstances include the following: it is no longer necessary for us to hold those personal data in relation to the purposes for which they were originally collected or otherwise processed; you withdraw your consent to any processing which requires consent; the processing is for direct marketing purposes; and the personal data have been unlawfully processed. We will analyse each request for erasure and we will agree if there is no legitimate reason to retain the data to the normal retention period, at which point we will instruct anonymization of the data.

6.9 Your right to restrict processing. In certain circumstances you have the right for the processing of your personal data to be restricted. This is the case where: you do not think that the personal data we hold about you is accurate; your data is being processed unlawfully, but you do not want your data to be erased; it is no longer necessary for us to hold your personal data for the purposes of our processing, but you still require that personal data in relation to a legal claim; and you have objected to processing, and are waiting for that objection to be verified. Where processing has been restricted for one of these reasons, we may continue to store your personal data. However, we will only process it for other reasons: with your consent; in relation to a legal claim; for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person; or for reasons of important public interest.

6.10 Your right to object to processing. You can object to us processing your personal data on grounds relating to your particular situation, but only as far as our legal basis for the processing is that it is necessary for: the performance of a task carried out in the public interest, or in the exercise of any official authority vested in us; or the purposes of our legitimate interests or those of a third party. If you make an objection, we will stop processing your personal information unless we are able to: demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing, and that these legitimate grounds override your interests, rights and freedoms; or the processing is in relation to a legal claim.

6.11 Your right to object to direct marketing. You can object to us processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes. If you make an objection, we will stop processing your personal data for this purpose.

6.12 Your right to data portability. Where you have given us consent to process your personal data for the performance of a contract, you have a legal right to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you. We will not be accepting Data Portability files from other third party companies/individuals. When a data request is made of us we will make available all applicable personal data to you in a .CSV file or alternative machine readable format agreed by us to be passed to the appropriate third party on your instruction. We will not however process your data in this way if we believe that it may pose a threat to the security of the data.

6.13 Your right to object for statistical purposes. You can object to us processing your personal data for statistical purposes on grounds relating to your particular situation, unless the processing is necessary for performing a task carried out for reasons of public interest.

6.14 Automated data processing. To the extent that the legal basis we are relying on for processing your personal data is consent, and where the processing is automated, you are entitled to receive your personal data from us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. However, you may not have this right if it would adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others.

6.15 Complaining to a supervisory authority. If you think that our processing of your personal data infringes data protection laws, you can lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority responsible for data protection. You may do this in the EU member state of your habitual residence, your place of work or the place of the alleged infringement.

6.16 Right to withdraw consent. To the extent that the legal basis we are relying on for processing your personal data is consent, you are entitled to withdraw that consent at any time. Withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of processing before the withdrawal.

6.17 Exercising your rights. You may exercise any of your rights in relation to your personal data by written notice to us in addition to the other methods specified above.

7. Cookie Policy

Visitors to our websites

When someone visits our site we collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of the site. We collect this information in a way which does not identify anyone. We will not associate any data gathered from this site with any personally identifying information from any source. We will make it clear when we collect personal information and will explain what we intend to do with it.

Our use of cookies

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.

Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

8. Our details

8.1 This website is owned and operated by Platinum Choice Limited

8.2 We are registered in England and Wales under registration number 066126016, and our registered office is at First Floor offices, Wesley House, 7 High Street, Kidlington, Oxon OX5 2DH, and we are registered by the Financial Conduct Authority under Firm Reference Number 466955.

8.3 You can contact us:

(a) by post, using the postal address given above;

(b) using our website contact form;

(d) by email, using the email address published on our website from time to time.

9. Data protection officer

Our data protection officer’s contact details are: Martin Ridewood who can be contacted via email: martinr@platinumchoiceinsurance.co.uk or telephone: 01865 290830.