Privacy Policy
Protecting your privacy is important. So is providing you with an unrivalled level of service and advice.
We are fully committed to providing you with a personalised service
that meets your expectations and safeguards your privacy.
The following policy statement outlines how we may collect and use
information about you and gives certain assurances on things we will not
do.
The information you have provided is subject to the Data
Protection Act 1998 (the "Act"). By providing this information you
consent to us or any company associated with us for processing, both
manually and by electronic means, your personal data for the purposes of
providing advice, administration and management.
"Processing"
includes obtaining, recording or holding information or data,
transferring it to other companies associated with us, product
providers, the Financial Services Authority or any other statutory,
governmental or regulatory body for legitimate purposes including, where
relevant, to solicitors and/or other debt collection agencies for debt
collection purposes and carrying out operations on the information or
data.
We may also contact you or pass your details to other
companies associated with us to contact you (including by telephone)
with details of any other similar products, promotions, or for related
marketing purposes in which we think you may be interested. If you do
not wish us to do this complete this form
(PDF, 63K), sign and return to us.
The information provided may
also contain sensitive personal data for the purposes of the Act, being
information as to your physical or mental health or condition; the
committing or alleged committing of any offence by you; any proceedings
for an offence committed or alleged to have been committed by you,
including the outcome or sentence in such proceedings; your political
opinions, religious or similar beliefs, sexual life; or your membership
of a Trade Union.
If at any time you wish us or any company
associated with us to cease processing your personal data or sensitive
personal data, or contacting you for marketing purposes, please contact
The Data Protection Officer at St Marks, Chapel Ash, Wolverhampton, West
Midlands, WV3 0TZ.
You may be assured that we and any company
associated with us will treat all personal data and sensitive personal
data as confidential and will not process it other than for legitimate
purposes. Steps will be taken to ensure that the information is
accurate, kept up to date and not kept for longer than is necessary.
Measures will also be taken to safeguard against unauthorised or
unlawful processing and accidental loss or destruction or damage to the
data.
In order to comply with money laundering prevention
legislation we 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.
Subject
to certain exceptions, you are entitled to have access to your personal
and sensitive personal data held by us. You may be charged a fee
(subject to the statutory maximum) for supplying you with such data.
Telephone
Calls
For our joint protection and for staff training, some
calls may be recorded and/or monitored. This is in case we need to check
we have carried out your instructions correctly and to help improve our
quality of service.
Website Content
This site is the
property of Torquil Clark Ltd. None of the data or content
found within the site may be reproduced, republished, distributed,
posted, sold, transferred, or modified without express permission of
Torquil Clark Ltd.
Cookies
"Cookies" are small
files that are saved to your computer, and help to personalise services
and record information about your visit on our website. We use this data
in order to improve the service we give you. Our cookies are generally
set to last for 30 days, but you may delete or block cookies with your
browser settings if you so wish.
External Links
Where we
link to external websites (other than sites owned by companies within
the Torquil Clark group), Torquil Clark Ltd.
cannot be responsible for the content of such sites.