In order for us to arrange and administer insurance for you we will collect and process personal data about you. We will also collect your personal data where you request information about our services, customer events, promotions and campaigns.
We may also need to collect personal data relating to others in order to arrange and administer insurance and service. In most circumstances, you will provide us with this information. Where you disclose the personal data of others, you must ensure you are entitled to do so.
You may provide us with personal data when completing online quote or contact forms, when you contact us via the telephone, when writing to us directly or where we provide you with forms for completion or we complete a form in conjunction with you.
We will share your personal data within our company, group of companies, business, including affiliates, subsidiaries and with business partners. This is normal practice within the insurance industry where it is necessary to share information in order to place, quantify and underwrite risks, to assess overall risk exposure and to process claims. It is also necessary to determine the premium payable, any other amounts and to administer our business.
We also share personal data with authorised third parties, this is necessary where we are required to do so by law, where we need to administer our business, to quote for, source, place and administer your insurances including arranging insurance premium finance, to perform underwriting activities and to process claims. Some examples follow:
- Insurers;
- Underwriters;
- Premium finance providers;
- Credit reference agencies;
- Debt recovery agencies;
- Claims handling companies;
- Loss adjusters
- Insurance brokers;
- Regulators.
We may receive data from third parties for marketing purposes, and will be marketing under the basis of Legitimate Interests.
We will collect your personal data when you visit our website, where we will collect your unique online electronic identifier; this is commonly known as an IP address.
We will also collect electronic personal data when you first visit our website where we will place a small text file that is commonly known as a cookie on your computer. Cookies are used to identify visitors and to simplify accessibility, and to monitor visitor behaviour when viewing website content, navigating our website and when using features. For more information please see our Cookie Policy which is displayed on our Website.
We may record your communications with us when contacting our customer service, claims, complaints and other customer focused functions.
Where we collect data directly from you, we are considered to be the controller of that data i.e. we are the data controller. Where we use third parties to process your data, these parties are known as processors of your personal data. Where there are other parties involved in underwriting or administering your insurance they may also process your data in which circumstance we will be a joint data controller of your personal data.
A data ‘controller’ means the individual or organisation which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data.
A data ‘processor’ means the individual or organisation which processes personal data on behalf of the controller.
As a provider of insurance and non-insurance services, we will process the following categories of data:
- Personal data such as an individual’s name, address, date of birth, gender, contact details and details of historic claims
- Special categories of personal data such as health and details on historic claims resulting in injury (physical and physiological)
- Data relating to criminal convictions and offences such as details of driving offences or insurance fraud
If you object to the collection, sharing and use of your personal data we may be unable to provide you with our products and services.
For the purposes of meeting the Data Protection Act 2018 territorial scope requirements, the United Kingdom is identified as the named territory where the processing of personal data takes place.
If you require more information about our insurance and non-insurance service processes or further details on how we collect personal data and with whom we share data with, please contact our Customer Services by e-mailing happyhelpers@betterhomecover.com