At Autograph Contracts, we take our visitors and customers privacy rights and data protection very seriously.
In this document, we, our, or us refer to Autograph Contracts Limited & Autograph Leasing (Autograph Contracts Ltd Website).
We are company number 04083515 registered in England and Wales.
Our registered address is at: Unit 5, Ballard Industrial Centre, Revenge Road, Chatham, Kent, ME5 8UD, United Kingdom.
This is the privacy notice of Autograph Contracts Limited.
1. This is a notice to inform you of our policy about all information that we record about you. It sets out the conditions under which we may process any information that we collect from you, or that you provide to us. It covers information that could identify you (personal information) and information that could not. In the context of the law and this notice, process means collect, store, transfer, use or otherwise act on information.
2. We regret that if there are one or more points below with which you are not happy, your only recourse is to leave our website immediately.
3. We take seriously the protection of your privacy and confidentiality. We understand that all visitors to our website are entitled to know that their personal data will not be used for any purpose unintended by them, and will not accidentally fall into the hands of a third party.
4. We undertake to preserve the confidentiality of all information you provide to us, and hope that you reciprocate.
5. Our policy complies with UK law accordingly implemented, including that required by the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
6. The law requires us to tell you about your rights and our obligations to you in regards to the processing and control of your personal data. We do this now, by requesting that you read the information provided at www.knowyourprivacyrights.org
7. Except as set out below, we do not share, or sell, or disclose to a third party, any information collected through our website.
The controller is the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data; where the purposes and means of such processing are determined by Union or Member State law, the controller or the specific criteria for its nomination may be provided for by Union or Member State law.
Name & Address:
Autograph Contracts Limited
Unit 5, Ballard Industrial Centre
Revenge Road, Chatham.
Kent, ME5 8UD
United Kingdom
The Data Protection Officer of the controller in subject (Autograph Contracts Limited) is:
James Keys
Unit 5, Ballard Industrial Centre
Revenge Road, Chatham
Kent, ME5 8UD
United Kingdom
Email: james@autographcontracts.co.uk
Telephone: 01634 687070
The law requires us to determine under which of six defined bases we process different categories of your personal information and to notify you of the basis for each category.
If a basis on which we process your personal information is no longer relevant then we shall immediately stop processing your data.
If the basis changes then if required by law we shall notify you of the change and of any new basis under which we have determined that we can continue to process your information.
When you enquire via our website, buy a product or service from us, or otherwise agree to our terms and conditions, a contract is formed between you and us.
In order to carry out our obligations under that contract, we must process the information you give us. Some of this information may be personal information.
We may use it in order to:
1.1. Verify your identity for security purposes.
1.2. Sell products to you.
1.3. Provide you with our services.
1.4. Provide you with suggestions and advice on products, services and how to obtain the most from using our website.
We process this information on the basis there is a contract between us, or that you have requested we use the information before we enter into a legal contract.
Additionally, we may aggregate this information in a general way and use it to provide class information, for example to monitor our performance with respect to a particular service we provide. If we use it for this purpose, you as an individual will not be personally identifiable.
We shall continue to process this information until the contract between us ends or is terminated by either party under the terms of the contract.
To start an agreement with Autograph Contracts Limited for our services, we will collect, store and use the necessary personal data to move forward. The processing of this personal data is a contractual requirement and is necessary by Autograph Contracts Limited in order to provide the products and services you have requested from us.
When you proceed with our brokerage services, we will ask for your consent to collect and process your personal data. Failure to provide this consent and/or personal data may mean we will be unable to proceed with the contract and will result in the termination of our services.
To proceed forward with our services, you will usually need to provide us the following personal data:
2.1. Your Title
2.2. A first name, middle name and surname.
2.3. The Company/organisational name if the contract is on behalf of a business agreement.
2.4. Current Address and previous addresses if you have lived in your current address for less than 3 years
2.5. Your Email Address.
2.6. Your Date of Birth.
2.7. A Contact Number which may be your Telephone and/or Mobile Number
2.8. Employment Details (Including employer name, employer address & employment history)
2.9. Your Monthly Income and Expenditure to assess affordability.
2.10. Bank/Building Society details to set up a direct debit and verification (These include: account number, account holder, bank name and sort code)
2.11. VAT ID number (If required)
Through certain actions when otherwise there is no contractual relationship between us, such as when you browse our website or ask us to provide you more information about our business, including our products and services, you provide your consent to us to process information that may be personal information.
Wherever possible, we aim to obtain your explicit consent to process this information, for example, by asking you to agree to our use of cookies.
Sometimes you might give your consent implicitly, such as when you send us a message by e-mail to which you would reasonably expect us to reply.
Except where you have consented to our use of your information for a specific purpose, we do not use your information in any way that would identify you personally. We may aggregate it in a general way and use it to provide class information, for example, to monitor the performance of a particular page on our website.
If you have given us explicit permission to do so, we may from time to time pass your name and contact information to selected associates whom we consider may provide services or products you would find useful.
We continue to process your information on this basis until you withdraw your consent or it can be reasonably assumed that your consent no longer exists.
You may withdraw your consent at any time by instructing us sales@autographcontracts.co.uk.
However, if you do so, you may not be able to use our website or our services further.
We may process information on the basis there is a legitimate interest, either to you or to us, of doing so.
Where we process your information on this basis, we do after having given careful consideration to:
- Whether the same objective could be achieved through other means
- Whether processing (or not processing) might cause you harm
- Whether you would expect us to process your data, and whether you would, in the round, consider it reasonable to do so
For example, we may process your data on this basis for the purposes of:
- Record-keeping for the proper and necessary administration of our business.
- Responding to unsolicited communication from you to which we believe you would expect a response.
- Protecting and asserting the legal rights of any party.
- Insuring against or obtaining professional advice that is required to manage business risk.
- Protecting your interests where we believe we have a duty to do so
We are subject to the law like everyone else. Sometimes, we must process your information in order to comply with a statutory obligation.
For example, we may be required to give information to legal authorities if they so request or if they have the proper authorisation such as a search warrant or court order.
This may include your personal information.
If you complain about any of the content on our website, we shall investigate your complaint.
If we feel it is justified or if we believe the law requires us to do so, we shall remove the content while we investigate.
Free speech is a fundamental right, so we have to make a judgment as to whose right will be obstructed: yours, or that of the person who posted the content that offends you.
If we think your complaint is vexatious or without any basis, we shall not correspond with you about it.
The majority of our processed payments are done via direct debit, BACS or bank transfer. We currently do not accept direct payments through our website or by phone, nor do we ask for credit or debit card information.
When you agree to set up a direct debit arrangement, the information you give to us is passed to our finance partners we broker on behalf of for processing according to our instructions. We may occasionally keep a copy.
We are registered under the direct debit guarantee scheme. This provides for the customers bank to refund disputed payments without question, pending further investigation. Direct debits can only be set up for payments to beneficiaries that are approved originators of direct debits. In order to be approved, these beneficiaries are subjected to careful vetting procedures. Once approved, they are required to give indemnity guarantees through their banks.
If you send us information in connection with a job application, we may keep it for up to 12 months in case we decide to contact you at a later date.
If we employ you, we collect information about you and your work from time to time throughout the period of your employment. This information will be used only for purposes directly relevant to your employment. After your employment has ended, we will keep your file for six years before destroying or deleting it.
When you contact us, whether by telephone, through our website or by e-mail, we collect the data you have given to us in order to reply with the information you need.
We record your request and our reply in order to increase the efficiency of our business.
We keep personally identifiable information associated with your message, such as your name and email address so as to be able to track our communications with you to provide a high-quality service.
When we receive a complaint, we record all the information you have given to us.
We use that information to resolve your complaint.
If your complaint reasonably requires us to contact some other person, we may decide to give to that other person some of the information contained in your complaint. We do this as infrequently as possible, but it is a matter for our sole discretion as to whether we do give information, and if we do, what that information is.
We may also compile statistics showing information obtained from this source to assess the level of service we provide, but not in a way that could identify you or any other person.
This is information given to us by you in your capacity as an affiliate of us or as a business partner.
It allows us to recognise visitors that you have referred to us, and to credit to you commission due for such referrals. It also includes information that allows us to transfer commission to you.
The information is not used for any other purpose.
We undertake to preserve the confidentiality of the information and of the terms of our relationship.
We expect any affiliate or partner to agree to reciprocate this policy.
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computers hard drive by your web browser when you visit any website. They allow information gathered on one web page to be stored until it is needed for use on another, allowing a website to provide you with a personalised experience and the website owner with statistics about how you use the website so that it can be improved.
Some cookies may last for a defined period of time, such as one day or until you close your browser. Others last indefinitely.
Your web browser should allow you to delete any you choose. It also should allow you to prevent or limit their use.
Our website uses cookies. They are placed by software that operates on our servers, and by software operated by third parties whose services we use.
When you first visit our website, we ask you whether you wish us to use cookies. If you choose not to accept them, we shall not use them for your visit except to record that you have not consented to their use for any other purpose.
If you choose not to use cookies or you prevent their use through your browser settings, you may not be able to use all of the functionality of our website.
We use cookies in the following ways:
13.1. To track how you use our website.
13.2. To record whether you have seen specific messages we display on our website.
13.3. To record your answers to surveys and questionnaires on our site while you complete them.
13.4. To record the conversation thread during a live chat with our support team.
13.5. To monitor returning visits to the website.
13.6. Marketing & analytics.
Requests by your web browser to our servers for web pages and other content on our website are recorded.
We record information such as your geographical location, session ID, time of visit, your Internet service provider and your IP address. We also record information about the software & operating system you are using to browse our website, such as the type of computer or device and the screen resolution.
We use this information in aggregate to assess the popularity of the webpages on our website, how we perform in providing content to you and how to make our website safer & better for our customers & visitors.
If combined with other information we know about you from previous visits, the data possibly could be used to identify you personally.
Re-marketing involves placing a cookie on your computer when you browse our website in order to be able to serve to you an advert for our products or services when you visit some other website.
We may use a third party to provide us with re-marketing services from time to time. If so, then if you have consented to our use of cookies, you may see advertisements for our products and services on other websites.
Although we do not disclose your personal information to any third party (except as set out in this notice), we sometimes receive data that is indirectly made up from your personal information from third parties whose services we use.
We do not allow for third party advertising on our website. We may occasionally link to a third party website that offers content of value in regards to what we provide & offer.
We are not responsible for and have no control over, information that is submitted to or collected by third parties, such as those where our website may provide links or images linked to third-party websites. Since we have control over these websites, you are responsible for reviewing and abiding by the privacy policies of these third-party sites to ensure they comply with data protection regulations such as the GDPR & Data Protection Act.
To assist in combating fraud, we may share information with credit reference agencies, so far as it relates to clients or customers who instruct their bank to cancel payment to us without having first provided an acceptable reason to us and given us the opportunity to refund their money.
Our websites are hosted in the United Kingdom.
All personal data & information provided by data subjects will not leave the domain of the European Union.
20.1. At any time, you may review or update personally identifiable information that we hold about you, by calling us on 01634 687070 or by sending an email to us at sales@autographcontracts.co.uk
20.2. To obtain a copy of any information that is not provided on our website you may send us a request at sales@autographcontracts.co.uk
20.3. After receiving the request, we will tell you when we expect to provide you with the information, and whether we require any fee for providing it to you.
If you wish us to remove personally identifiable information from our website, you may contact us at sales@autographcontracts.co.uk
This may limit the service we can provide to you.
When we receive any request to access, edit or delete personal identifiable information we shall first take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting you access or otherwise taking any action. This is important to safeguard your information.
23.1. We do not sell products or provide services for purchase by children or anyone under 18, nor do we market to this demographic.
23.2. If you are under 18, you may use our website only with consent from a parent or guardian
23.3. We collect data about all users of and visitors to these areas regardless of age, and we anticipate that some of those users and visitors may be under the age of 18 years old.
23.4. Such child users and visitors will inevitably visit other parts of the site and will be subject to whatever on-site marketing they find, wherever they visit.
We use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates to verify our identity to your browser and to encrypt any data you give us.
Whenever information is transferred between us, you can check that it is done so using SSL by looking for a closed padlock symbol or trust mark in your browsers URL bar or toolbar.
25.1. If you are not happy with our privacy policy or if have any complaint, then you should tell us by email. Our address is sales@autographcontracts.co.uk
25.2. You can find further information about our complaint handling procedure here: https://www.autographleasing.co.uk/complaints-procedure.html
25.3. If a dispute is not settled, then we hope you will agree to attempt to resolve it by engaging in good faith with us in a process of mediation or arbitration.
25.4. If you are in any way dissatisfied about how we process your personal information, you have a right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioners Office. This can be done at https://ico.org.uk/concerns/
Except as otherwise mentioned in this privacy notice, we keep your personal information only for as long as required by us:
26.1. to provide you with the services you have requested;
26.2. to comply with other law, including for the period demanded by our tax authorities;
26.3. to support a claim or defence in court.
Our privacy policy has been compiled so as to comply with the law of every country or legal jurisdiction in which we aim to do business. If you think it fails to satisfy the law of your jurisdiction, we should like to hear from you.
However, ultimately it is your choice as to whether you wish to use our website.
We may update this privacy notice from time to time as necessary. The terms that apply to you are those posted here on our website on the day you use our website. We advise you to print a copy for your records.
If you have any question regarding our privacy policy, please contact us. You can contact us using the information provided on our contact page here: https://www.autographleasing.co.uk/contact-us
R.V 30/08/2022