We recognise our responsibility to treat your personal information with care and to comply with all relevant legislation, in particular the Data Protection Act 2018 and the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). – the legislation This notice covers our requirement to provide you with information on how and why we use your personal data and of your rights under the legislation
For the purposes of the legislation the Safeway Insurance Services Ltd office which provided you with a quotation and/or administers your insurance policy is the main "data controller". This firm will process your personal data for the purposes set out below. As explained later, your data may be passed to other parties, including Insurers, for the purposes of arranging your insurance. These parties could also be data controllers and where necessary will issue their own Data Protection Privacy Notices and/or make them available via their web sites.
We will use personal information about you mainly to:-
Some of the personal information we ask you to provide may be sensitive (special category) as defined in the legislation. For example you may have to give us information about medical history, criminal convictions or driving offences. We are allowed by the legislation to collect such information for insurance purposes without specific consent but it will only be used for the purposes set out above.
If you give us information about another person, in doing so you confirm that they have given you permission to provide it to us and that we may use their personal data in the same way as your own as set out in this notice.
We are required to have a lawful basis (as defined in the legislation) in order to process your personal data and the relevant bases which we use are show in the table below.
We may contact you by email, text, telephone, mail or other agreed means to keep you up to date about our products and services and those of other companies that might be of interest to you.
The legislation allows us to do this in our own commercial interests for certain communications with previous customers. In other circumstances we can only do so with your explicit consent. In all cases you can opt out from receiving such communications at any time.
As a necessary part of providing you with the services described above or in our own legitimate interests we may need to disclose your personal data to other third parties. These include:-
For our on-line Quote & Buy systems we carry out automated decision making to decide whether we can provide insurance to you and at what price.
For all our quotation systems we may use external data from Credit agencies, Electoral Roll, etc. to help in decision-making on pricing and risk acceptance. This may be regarded as "profiling" as defined in the legislation.
The legislation for both of these requires safeguards in the event that they have a legal or similarly significant effect on individuals. We do not consider that our processing poses such risks but you have rights to further information on these processes as explained below.
Your data will not be retained for longer than is necessary and will be managed in accordance with our data retention policy. In most cases the period will be for a maximum of 7 years following the expiry of an insurance contract unless we are required to retain the data for a longer period due to business, legal or regulatory requirements.
We DO NOT transfer your personal data to destinations outside the European Economic Area (EEA).
Under the legislation you have the following rights in relation to our processing of your personal data:-
We use cookies on our site to track how you interact with our site. This information is then used to improve the user experience of the site in the future. Most websites you visit will also use cookies for the same reason.
Cookies are small text files, placed on your computer or mobile device by websites or sometimes emails. Each cookie is unique to your web browser. It will contain some anonymous information such as a unique identifier and the site name and some digits and numbers. It allows a website to remember things like information you have inserted and how you have behaved on a site.
We may at one time or another use three types of cookies on our websites
Internet Explorer – you can delete cookies as a Microsoft Internet Explorer user by clicking:
View Menu >> Internet Options >> Delete Cookies
Mozilla fireFox – you can delete cookies as a Mozilla fireFox user by clicking:
Tools >> Options >> Privacy >> Cookies (Click “Clear” button)
Google Chrome – you can delete cookies as a Google Chrome user by clicking:
Wrench icon on browser’s toolbar >> Settings >> Advanced Settings >> Privacy Section – Click “Content Settings” >> “Cookies” section choose “Delete” or “Block”
Safari:
Choose Preferences from Safari menu >> Select Security icon >> Press Show Cookies button >> Select the Cookies to be deleted from the list >> Press Delete button
If you require any further information on cookies or how to delete them visit www.aboutcookies.org – please note this is an external website and we are not responsible for the accuracy of the information on this site.
If you have a complaint about how we use your personal information please contact us at the address below. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner's office at any time.
For further information on this Privacy Notice, to access your personal information or to exercise any of your other rights, please contact Safeway Insurance Services Ltd office or write to The Data Protection Officer, Safeway Insurance Services Ltd , 11-A Endeavour House , 2 Cambridge Road , Kingston-Upon-Thames KT1 3JU
Safeway Insurance Services Ltd is Authorised and Regulated by the Financial Conduct
Authority. Ref: 757008
Registered Address: Safeway Insurance Services Ltd
11-A Endeavour House , 2 Cambridge Road
Kingston-Upon-Thames KT1 3JU
Registered in England No: 10334716