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Goodwin Barrett Ltd company number 09294215, registered in England & Wales. Authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority 830495. Goodwin Barrett Ltd is registered with the Information Commissioner's Office under registration reference ZA085532
At Goodwin Barrett we are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our customers. The privacy policy has been established to inform you as to how we use your personal data, who we share it with, our legal obligations and legal bases for processing your personal data aswell as what this means. This policy should be read in conjunction with our Cooke Policy and the Terms and Conditions of our service.
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our treatment of your personal data, please contact us:
Goodwin Barrett Ltd is the controller of personal data submitted and is responsible for the security and safety of your personal data.
We collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about with regard to the services we provide.
Identification data such as your first and last name, maiden name, marital status, title, date of birth and gender
Contact data such as your current and previous addresses, email address and telephone numbers
Financial Data such as investment and pension details and account history for the purposes of investigation your potential mis selling claim
Claims related data such as information provided by yourself for the purposes of investigating your potential mis selling claim
Transaction data such as details of products and services you have engaged us for
Technical data includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type and version, time zones setting and location and other technology and devices you use to access our website
Usage data such as information about you use our website, products and services
Marketing and communications data includes your preferences in receiving marketing/communications from us and our 3rd parties and your communication preferences
You can control, access or restrict the use of your data. You can withdraw your consent for us to contact you at any time. However, if you have signed a contract our contractual rights will still apply and we may contact you in relation to a cancellation fee or any outstanding monies owed to us.
Please note, we require certain personal information to be able to complete our services. If you do not provide this, we may not be able to fulfil our contract with you. In this event, we will explain what data is required and why. If you do not wish to provide this, we have the right to terminate your contract with us in accordance with our Terms and Conditions. We will inform you should we fail to terminate your contract with us.
In respect of our legitimate interests, we have a legitimate interest in keeping you updated about any further services offered by us which may be of interest to you both during and after the conclusion of your contract with us, including communication of any developments that may have an impact on your original service (e.g. a change in rules or processes which may enable us to help you with a claim where previously we could not). We will use the details you have provided to contact you including by telephone and post. If you do not wish for us to contact you in this manner, or by a specific method, you will be able to unsubscribe at any time to one or all contact methods.
Furthermore, we may offer other services in areas of financial mis-selling. As part of this service, we can provide a direct referral to 3rd parties. We will always ask for your consent before doing so and this is entirely your choice.
We also have a legitimate interest in using your data to help us to review our services and obtain analytics in respect of our customer base.
We may also be required to use your data due to a legal requirement which is placed upon us; this includes our regulatory requirements such as financial record keeping, staff training and monitoring, in addition to complaint handling. In these circumstances, we may be required to keep your data by law.
We use different methods to collect data from and about you, including:
Direct Interactions: You may provide us with your personal data and product/policy information by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you engage our products and services, request marketing to be sent to you or to provide some feedback on our services.
Automated Technologies or Interactions: You may provide us with your personal data when you interact with our website, we may automatically collect technical data about your equipment, browsing actions or patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies and similar technologies. Please see our Cookies Policy for more information.
Third Parties: We may receive personal data about you from various third parties, which may be obtained from technical data under analytics providers such as Google and identity and contact information from data brokers by which you have provided your consent to receiving your personal data for the purpose of contacting you about our services.
Purpose/activity
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Type of data
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Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest |
To register you as a new client
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(a) Personal data (b) Contact information (c) Policy information |
Necessary for the purposes of the contract |
To process and deliver our service to you such as:
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(a) Identity (b) Contact information (c) Financial details (d) Claims related details (e) Marketing and communications
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Necessary for the purposes of the contract
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To manage our relationship with you:
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(a) Identity (b) Contact information (c) Profile information (d) Marketing and communications |
(a) Necessary for the purposes of the contract (b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation (c) Necessary for our legitimate interests (which includes maintaining accurate and up to date records and to study how our products and services are used) |
We control the use of your data as you have directed.
To allow us to provide our services to you, the following third parties provide critical functions to our business and will process your personal information as directed by us and in accordance with strict data security arrangements:
We do not sell your data to third parties in any circumstances. We have carefully selected our third parties due to their commitment to keeping your data safe, and all data is processed within the UK. If you request for us to stop processing your data, we will also communicate this to the relevant third parties if they are processing this on our behalf. If you have any concerns about the above third parties, please let us know and we can provide advice and support to help you manage your data preferences.
If you require details of the third parties we use please contact us.
We may also disclose your information with:
A cookie consists of information sent by a web server to a web browser, and is stored by the browser. The information is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. This enables the web server to identify and track the web browser.If you want to know more general information about cookies, there is a website: http://www.aboutcookies.org/
To learn more about behavioral targeting and advertising visit: http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices
Introduction
Our website uses cookies. Insofar as those cookies are not strictly necessary for the provision of our website and services, we will ask you to consent to our use of cookies when you first visit our website.
About cookies
A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.
Cookies may be either:
(a) persistent cookies - will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date
(b) session cookies - will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed
(c) first party cookies – set by the web server of the page and shares the same domain
(d) third party cookies – stored by a different domain, this can occur when webpages reference a file (such as Javascript), located outside of its domain
Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.
Cookies that we use
We use cookies for the following purposes:
(a) we use cookies to identify you when you visit our website and as you navigate our website - cookies used for this purpose are preference cookies
(b) we use cookies to help us to determine if you are logged into our website - cookies used for this purpose are necessary cookies
(c) we use cookies to store information about your preferences and to personalise our website for you -cookies used for this purpose are statistical cookies
(e) we use cookies to help us to display advertisements that will be relevant to you – these are marketing cookies
COOKIE NAME |
EXPIRY |
CLASSIFICATION |
PURPOSE |
LAWFUL BASIS |
_cfduid |
1 Year Peristent |
Third Party |
Strictly necessary to the functioning of the website |
No consent required |
_livechat
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3 Years Peristent |
Third Party |
To store preferences upon use of the website |
Consent |
_adiCookieCheck
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Session |
First Party |
Anonymous collection and reporting of statistical information |
Legitimate Interest |
_adroll |
1 Year Peristent |
Third Party |
Marketing |
Consent |
_adal_first_visit |
1 Year Persistent |
First Party |
Stores first time entering website |
Consent |
Adalyser
We also use Adalyser - An analytics platform that is used to measure response to TV advertising.
COOKIE NAME |
TYPE |
DATA STORED |
PURPOSE |
__adal_ca |
Persistent |
Traffic source / campaign data |
Store which advertising campaign drove a user to visit |
__adal_cw |
Persistent |
Visit timestamp |
Tie back conversion events to earlier visits |
__adal_id |
Persistent |
Device ID (generated) |
Uniquely identify a device |
Cookies used by our service providers
Our service providers use cookies and those cookies may be stored on your computer when you visit our website.
Managing cookies
Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can however obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these links:
(a) https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en (Google Chrome)
(b) https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences (Mozilla Firefox)
(c) https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies (Internet Explorer)
(e) https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411 (Safari)
Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.
This website is owned and operated by Goodwin Barrett Ltd. We are registered in England and Wales under registration number 09294215 and our registered office is at Mikar Business Park, Northolt Drive, Bolton BL3 6NJ
Our principal place of business is as above
You can contact us:
(a) by post, to the postal address given above
(b) by using our website contact form
(c) by telephone, on 01204 471280 or the number published on our website from time to time; or
(d) by email, using enquiries@goodwinbarrett.co.uk
You can withdraw your consent (opt-out) for us to contact you at any time. Please note: if you have signed a contract to complete a claim, our contractual rights will still apply and we can contact you in relation to a cancellation fee or any outstanding monies owed to us.
We may disclose information about you to any of our employees, officers, agents, suppliers or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes as set out in this privacy policy.
In addition, we may disclose information about you:
We do not specifically transfer your data to countries outside of the European Union. However, some of our third party service providers may provide services which mean your data is transferred outside of the European Union. In any case, we ensure that there are appropriate security measures in place such as technical security, including encryption and restricted access to your data. The only circumstance in which this may happen is if one of our third party data processors backs up their systems (to keep their data secure) outside of the European Union. In any event, we have strict contracts in place to make sure your data is kept safe and your data is always under our control. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us for further information.
We may update this privacy policy from time-to-time by posting a new version on our website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes, although anything that will affect you will be communicated directly to you.
Under certain circumstances you have rights with regard to the use of your data, as described by the Data Protection Act 2018.
In exercising any of your rights, we will take action within one month. However, should the request be complex we can extend this by a further two months. We will inform you of this in this event. We will need to confirm your identity before completing any action on your behalf, and reserve the right to not complete action until we are satisfied that you are making the request. If we cannot complete your request, we will inform you within one month and explain why.
These rights are as follows:
You can access your data at any time by submitting a Subject Access Request (“SAR”). We will confirm what data is being processed and provide you with a copy of your data in addition to confirming your data rights. We will provide this free of charge. However, if you make a repeat request, we will charge an administrative fee of £10.
You can make this request using reasonable means, including by telephone, post or email. If you make the request by email, we will provide your information in a commonly used electronic format unless you instruct us otherwise.
If you wish to amend any inaccurate data that we hold, please notify us specifically by telephone, post or email, or during the course of the provision of our services. We will make the amendment as soon as possible. If any data held is incomplete, you can complete this at any time. We may require this to be completed to allow us to provide our services (e.g. if we do not have your full address).
We can erase or “forget” your data when requested by you in the following circumstances:
You can make this request using reasonable means including by telephone, post or email. If you request for your data to be erased, we will confirm whether this can take place and the next steps that we will take. Please note that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.
You can restrict us from processing your data in the following circumstances:
If you make a restriction request, we will still store a copy of your data but cannot use this. We will inform you if the restriction needs to be lifted. You can make this request using reasonable means including by telephone, post or email. If you request for your data to be restricted, we will confirm whether this can take place and the next steps that we will take. If we cannot restrict your data, we will explain why and confirm any actions required to allow us to do so.
You can object to the processing of your data at any time. This right will only apply if we are using your data in relation to a legitimate interest. If you object, we will no longer process your data unless we have a compelling and legitimate reason not to do so (e.g. a legal obligation). In this case, you will be informed why we cannot stop processing your data.
You can always object to receiving marketing from us and we will stop processing your data for marketing purposes at any time.
You can request your data in a commonly used electronic format, and for us to transfer this to another entity or person, where we are processing your data with your consent or in accordance with a contract. This will only apply to information which is processed by automated means (e.g. by a computer). Where feasible, we will send your data directly to another entity or person.
We are Regulated by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in respect of our obligations to protect your data. You have the right to make a complaint about our use of your data to the ICO, who will investigate this on your behalf. The ICO will only investigate complaints made within three months of your last contact with us.
You can contact the ICO through their website: https://ico.org.uk or by telephone: 0303 123 1113.
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