In this Privacy Notice we let you know how we undertake to look after your personal information and tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
About Us
Business Loan Services (UK) Ltd (BLS) is a commercial finance broker. BLS’ Company Number is 8420293 and we are regulated and authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority, Number 727238.
BLS is registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office and is the Data Controller of the information you provide.
How the Law Protects You
As well as our Privacy Policy, your privacy is protected by law. This section explains how it works.
Data Protection law, as outlined in the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), says that we are allowed to use personal information only if we have a legitimate reason to do so. This includes sharing information with your authority to lenders and other brokers.
GDPR says we must have clearly stated reasons for requesting and holding your personal information. The lawful basis under which personal data is collected and processed by BLS is:
Your Rights
Your personal data is protected by legal rights, which include your rights to:
For more information or to exercise your data protection rights please, please contact us at info@businessloanservices.co.uk.
You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) https://ico.org.uk/concerns/, which regulates the processing of personal data.
How We May Use Your Personal Information
We’ll use your personal information to manage our relationship with you or your business.
We’ll also use your personal information to manage how we work with other companies that provide services to us and ultimately yourself. This will be to:
When We May Use Your Personal Information
We’ll use your personal information for fulfilling contracts and business agreements we have with you and for what we consider to be our legitimate interests or our legal duty. Legitimate reasons when we may use your personal information include maintaining our records and managing our relationship with you, including advising you of new products or key events in the products you already have through us. For anything else, we will only use your personal information with your consent.
What Type of Personal Information We’ll Gather
For us to be able to find the right product or service for you, we need to collect personal information about you and any co-directors should the borrowing be through a company. These will include (but are not limited to) your name, occupation, date of birth, contact details and financial details.
Additionally, we may need to collect sensitive personal data for some products or to comply with legislation. We will only collect and use these types of data if we are specifically required to:
We will only collect the information we require to progress your finance request and only collect and process sensitive personal data where it is essential to finding the financial product you have requested. We will not explicitly request your consent to process this information as it is required by us to perform the service we have agreed to. If you do not want us to use and where necessary, share this information, we will be unable to help you.
Where We’ll Gather Your Personal Information From
The majority of your personal data we collect will come directly from you, from information you enter into our website, details of telephone calls, email correspondence and the completion of application forms.
We gather data from devices you use to connect to those services, such as computers and mobile phones. Additionally, when required we may collect personal information about you from external sources such as other brokers/financial advisers, Companies House and credit reference agencies.
Who We’ll Share Your Personal Information With
We will share your personal information with third parties such as lenders and other brokers, to arrange the supply of services and products we have recommended. We may also share your personal information with other organisations when required, such as:
Our client information system provider, Finative Limited, to the extent necessary for you to share and store information with us. We will only share your data subject to requiring them to process your personal data in accordance with the requirements prescribed by data protection law (and they may also transfer your personal data to their subcontractors and suppliers to the extent necessary to provide the services to us for your benefit);
In addition to the above, should we be acquired by another business, then your data will be used by the new organisation in the same way as set out in this notice.
Credit Reference Agencies (CRAs)
For the avoidance of doubt, we do not carry out credit and identity checks on you as an individual but will do so for Limited Companies.
How We’ll Keep Your Personal Information Secure
We have strict procedures for how and where we store and share your personal data, that comply with industry practices, for both electronic and paper formats. We store all the information you give us and will use new information to update existing records we hold for you.
Sending Data Outside of the EEA
We will only send your data outside of the European Economic Area (‘EEA’) to comply with a legal duty. We do not transfer information to agents or advisers outside of the EEA, but if we should need to, we will ensure that it is protected in the same way as if it was being used in the EEA. We’ll use one of these safeguards:
Marketing
We can only use your personal information to send you marketing messages if we have either your consent or a ‘legitimate interest’. A legitimate interest is when we have a business or commercial reason to use your information in a way that is fair and potentially beneficial to you.
You can ask us to stop sending you marketing messages by contacting us at any time. If you change your mind you can update your choices at any time by contacting us.
How Long We Keep Your Personal Information
We will keep your personal information whilst you are a customer of BLS. After you stop being a customer, we may keep your data for up to seven years so that we can:
We may keep your data for longer than seven years if we cannot delete it for legal, regulatory or technical reasons. We may also keep it for research or statistical purposes. If we do, we will make sure that your privacy is protected, and the data only used for those purposes.
How to Get a Copy of Your Personal Information
You can access your personal information we hold by emailing us at info@businessloanservices.co.uk Alternatively, you can write to us at our registered address:
Oakleigh, 4 Chapel Row, Dinas Powys, Vale of Glamorgan, CF64 4LD
Letting Us Know If Your Personal Information Is Incorrect
You have the right to review any information we have about you and to ask us to correct anything that you think is wrong or incomplete. Please contact us as above if you want to do this. We will take reasonable steps to check its accuracy and correct it if it was wrong at the time of processing and to update your contact details if appropriate.
What If You Want Us to Stop Using Your Personal Information?
You have the right to object to our use of your personal information or to ask us to delete it if there is no need for us to keep it. This is known as the ‘right to object’ and ‘right to erasure’, or the ‘right to be forgotten’.
Please contact us as above if you wish us to delete your personal information. There may be legal or other official reasons why we are not able to, but we may be able to restrict its use. This means that it can only be used for certain things, such as legal claims or to exercise legal rights. We would not use or share your information in other ways whilst it is restricted.
You can ask us to restrict the use of your personal information if:
How to Withdraw Your Consent
You can withdraw your consent for us to use your personal data at any time. Please contact us if you want to do so. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. If this is so, we will tell you.
How to Complain
To let us know if you are unhappy with how we have used your personal information you can contact us by phone on 08456 809 728, via email info@businessloanservices.co.uk or write to us directly to our address Business Loan Services (UK) Ltd, Oakleigh, 4 Chapel Row, Dinas Powys, Vale of Glamorgan, CF64 4LD
You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office. Find out on their website how to report a concern.
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