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Privacy Policy

 

COLLECT PROPERTY GROUP LIMITED takes a serious approach to protecting our customers and employee’s data and privacy. We have carefully considered our duties and obligations under the new General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) including the purposes and legal basis for processing data. This Privacy Policy informs you what to expect when COLLECT PROPERTY GROUP LIMITED processes your personal information. It applies to information about our investment clients, landlords, tenants (both potential and current) and other service users. In particular, we want you to know that COLLECT PROPERTY GROUP LIMITED is not in the business of selling, renting or trading email lists with other non-associated companies and businesses for marketing purposes. 

 

Why do we collect and store personal information?

 

We need to collect, process and store personal information about you and other business partners in order to fulfil our role as an investment company and training provider, and to deliver efficient and effective services relating to these business practices.

 

What information do we collect about you?

 

A number of elements of the personal data we collect from you are required to enable us to fulfil our various duties to you or to others. Where appropriate, some are required by statute or other laws. 

 

Depending on the type of personal data in question and the grounds on which we may be processing it, should you decline to provide us with such data, we may not be able to fulfil our contractual requirements or may not be able to continue with our working relationship.

 

We have identified certain categories to help you understand what type of data we collect at any given time in our relationship.  But at COLLECT PROPERTY GROUP LIMITED, we recognize these are not mutually exclusive – at any point in time, or over time, you may fall in to one, two or possibly more categories.

 

  • Website Users: We collect a limited amount of data from our Website Users which we use to help us to improve your experience when using our websites and to help us manage the services we provide. This includes information such as how you use our websites, the frequency with which you access our website, and the times that our website is most popular.

  • Client Data: If you are a Client, we need to collect and use information about you or individuals at your organization; if you are operating as a Limited Company. We may also notify you of content published by COLLECT PROPERTY GROUP LIMITED which is likely to be relevant and useful to you.

  • Other People: In order to provide our services we need some basic background information. We only ask for very basic contact details, so that we can get in touch with you if necessary.

 

How do we collect information about you?

 

We prefer to collect the information we need directly from you. That way, you know what we have and we can be sure you’ve provided us with the most accurate and up to date information.

 

Generally the information we hold will have been provided by you (on application or enquiry forms or when we communicate with you), but we may also hold information provided by third parties where this is relevant to your circumstances.

 

We will only ask for personal information that is appropriate to enable us to deliver our services. In some cases, you can refuse to provide your details if you deem a request to be inappropriate. However, you should note that this may impact our ability to provide some services to you if you refuse to provide information that stops us from doing so.

 

What do we do with the information we collect?

 

Processing of your personal information will be undertaken in accordance with the principles of the UK Data Protection Act 2018 (the Act). Access to personal information is restricted to authorized individuals on a strictly need to know basis.

We will treat your personal information fairly and lawfully and we will ensure that information is:

  • Processed for limited purposes.

  • Kept up-to-date, accurate, relevant and not excessive.

  • Not kept longer than is necessary.

  • Kept secure.

We are committed to keeping your personal details up to date, and we encourage you to inform us about any changes needed to ensure your details are accurate. To help us to ensure confidentiality of your personal information we may ask you security questions to confirm your identity when you call us and as may be necessary when we call you.

We will not discuss your personal information with anyone other than you, unless you have given us prior written authorization to do so. Anyone calling on your behalf may also be subject to security questions to ensure we’re taking adequate steps to protect your personal information.

 

How do we look after and secure your information?

 

  • We make every effort to keep your information safe by taking appropriate care to secure the information we hold about you.

  • In everything we do with your information we try to be fair, lawful and open; we take seriously our obligations towards your privacy and the protection of information we may hold about you.

 

When we use information about you we will:

  • Take all reasonable efforts to do so fairly.

  • Never use information about you unless it is lawful for us to do so and we have a clearly defined need or purpose.

  • Make sure we minimize what we collect.

  • Try to collect enough accurate and up-to-date information so we can provide you with the excellent, efficient customer service you demand and no more.

  • Not keep your information for longer than we need it and make sure the records we have about you are managed properly and deleted promptly and securely when we no longer need them.

 

Who do we share your information with?

 

We appreciate you have provided your information to us and may not want us to share it with other people or organizations, however, sometimes it is necessary for us to do so. Our relationships with such providers are governed by our contracts with them which include strict data sharing and confidentiality protocols.

We only share your information where we have a legitimate interest in doing so, where we are permitted or required to by law, or where you have requested us to do so. We may share your information with, for example:

  • Third party service providers, in connection with services performed on our behalf. For example, lenders/brokers/accountants while in the process of looking at investment options.

  • Our contractors, in order to undertake maintenance and improvement works.

  • Police and other relevant authorities (e.g. Probation Service, Department of Work and Pensions, HM Revenue and Customs) in relation to the prevention or detection of crime and fraud the apprehension or prosecution of offenders and the assessment or collection of tax or duty.

  • Other statutory organizations, e.g. social services and health authorities, as necessary for exercising statutory functions.

  • Our regulators to comply with our regulatory obligations.

This list is not exhaustive as there are other circumstances where we may also be required to share information, for example:

  • To meet our legal obligations.

  • In connection with legal proceedings (or where we are instructed to do so by court order).

  • To protect the vital interests of an individual (in a life or death situation).

 

 

 

 

International transfer of personal information

 

We do not envisage transferring any information about, or relating, to you to anyone who is located outside of the UK other than as indicated above and we have a commitment from our business partners and data processors that they too will honor this commitment.

 

Your rights in relation to your personal information

 

  • Right of access – You have the right of access to information we hold about or concerning you. If you would like to exercise this right, please do so in writing. 

  • Right of rectification or erasure – If you feel that any data that we hold about you is inaccurate you have the right to ask us to correct or rectify it. You also have a right to ask us to erase information about you where you can demonstrate that the data we hold is no longer needed by us, or if you withdraw the consent upon which our processing is based, or if you feel that we are unlawfully processing your data.

  • Right to restriction of processing – You have a right to request that we refrain from processing your data where you contest its accuracy, or the processing is unlawful and you have requested its erasure, or where we don’t need to hold your data anymore but you need us to in order to establish, exercise or defend any legal claims, or we are in dispute about the legality of our processing your personal data.

  • Right to portability – You have a right to receive any personal data that you have provided to us in order to transfer it onto another data controller where the processing is based on consent and is carried out by automated means called a data portability request.

  • Right to object – You have a right to object to our processing of your personal data where the basis of the processing is our legitimate interests including but not limited to direct marketing and profiling.

 

Further information

 

For further information on how to request your personal information and how and why we process your information, you can contact us using the details below:

COLLECT PROPERTY GROUP LIMITED

Unit 631, Birchwood Blvd

Birchwood

Warrington

WA3 7QU

 

The Information Commissioner (ICO) is also a source of further information about your data protection rights. The ICO is an independent official body, and one of their primary functions is to administer the provisions of the UK Data Protection Act 2018. You also have a right to lodge a complaint about any aspect of how we are handling your data with the ICO and can do so at the following address:

Information Commissioner’s Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF

0303 123 1113 | www.ico.org.uk

 

Changes to this privacy notice

 

We may change this privacy notice from time to time, but if we change it in a way which significantly alters the terms upon which you have agreed, we will post notice of the change on our website and you will be deemed to have accepted such changes. This privacy notice was last updated June 2021.

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