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This privacy policy sets out how Holistic Finance uses and protects any information that you give us when you use this website.

Privacy Policy

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The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was introduced in April 2016 by the Information Commissioners Office (ICO). It replaced the Data Protection Act 1998 on the 25th May 2018.

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Holistic Finance Limited are committed to protecting your personal information when you are using our services. This Privacy Policy contains important information about the use of any personal information you provide to us through our website.

This privacy policy explains the following;

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♦ What information Holistic Finance Limited may collect about you

♦ How Holistic Finance Limited will use information we collect about you

♦ Whether Holistic Finance Limited will disclose your details to anyone else

♦ The use of cookies on the Holistic Finance Limited website

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Holistic Finance Limited is committed to safeguarding your personal information. Whenever you provide such information, we are legally obliged to use your information in line with all laws concerning the protection of personal information, including GDPR (these laws are referred to collectively in this Privacy Policy as “data protection laws”)

Information on this website is not designed to appeal or to be sold to persons under the age of 18.

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Data Protection

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As data controller, we take all necessary steps to comply with GDPR and its relevant subordinate legislation when handling any personal information.

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♦ When you supply any personal information to us we will meet our legal obligations to you in the way that we deal with that information

♦ In accordance with GDPR we are required to collect the information fairly and to let you know how we will use it and whether we will pass the information on to anyone else

♦ We will comply with the Principles set out within the GDPR regulations  and we will ensure all personal information supplied to us is held securely

♦ We will ensure that any information will be held only as long as is necessary to ensure our service runs smoothly

♦ We use up to date industry procedures to keep personal data as safe and secure as possible against loss, unauthorised disclosure or access

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Requesting Information Holistic Finance Limited holds about you

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Under the GDPR regulations you have the right to request a copy of the personal information that we hold about you.

You have the right that we correct any inaccuracies. We will endeavour to correct any such inaccuracies. Subject to certain exceptions, you are entitled to have access to your personal data held by us. You may be charged a fee (subject to the statutory maximum) for supplying you with such data. You can instruct us to remove you from marketing communications at any time, free of charge.

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The information that we, Holistic Finance Limited, collect from you and what do they do with it

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Holistic Finance Limited may require you to register with the website in order to take advantage of some of the services offered. The information will be collected when you register with the website or when you use one of the services available via the website.

Holistic Finance Limited may require you to provide personal information such as;

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♦ Your name

♦ Address

♦ Telephone number

♦ Email Address

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We will collect and use personal information about you in order to administer the services to be provided to you, for banking and credit assessments, for market research and statistical analysis and for marketing products and services which we feel will be of interest to you.

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If you do not wish to be contacted about or receive marketing information from us you can write to us at the address below.

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Holistic Finance Limited sharing of information with Third Parties

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Any personal data provided by you to us will be processed in accordance with GDPR. We will use your personal data in connection with the provision of our services to you, but may also use it to contact you in connection with other services. We may need to pass on your information to third parties in order to maintain, administer or develop the website but if so that information is only given to those third parties for that sole purpose. We will not provide information to other third parties, other than as described above, without you consent unless we are obliged to by the law, such as:

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♦ Where we need to share the information to provide a service you have requested. To assist licensed credit reference agencies in relation to credit assessment or if you breach the terms of any agreement we have with you. To prevent fraud or other crime.

♦ Where we need to send the information to persons, agents, sub-contractors or other organisations who work on our behalf to provide a service to you but such persons or organisations may only use this information in order to provide such a product or service and not for any other purpose

♦ Where we are required to forward the information in order to comply with a regulatory or legal process

 

With regards to links to other websites. This Privacy Policy only extends to this website and does not, therefore, extend to your use of, provision of data to and collection of data on any website not connected to Holistic Finance Limited to which you may link by using hypertext links within this website.

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Security of personal information

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Holistic Finance Limited follows strict security procedures in the storage and disclosure of information you have provided via this website in order to prevent unauthorised access in accordance with the the GDPR regulations.

The internet is not a secure medium. However we take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.

Whilst we cannot ensure or guarantee that loss, misuse or alteration of data will not occur, we use our best efforts to prevent this.

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Google Analytics

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Our website, www.holisticfinance.co.uk, uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States.

Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of our website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage.

Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. Further information about Google’s privacy policy may be obtained from http://www.google.com/privacy.html.

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Cookies

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A cookie is a small piece of data sent from a website and stored on the user’s web browser whilst the user is browsing in order to guarantee a secure connection. Every time the user visits the website the cookie can be used to identify them. Most web browsers accept cookies automatically, these can be disabled however this may impair your experience of the service.

We may conduct analysis of user traffic through the use of IP address and cookies such as browser type and the times/dates of the webpage visit. This information is purely for analysis and contains no personal data or browsing habits.

Further information about cookies can be found on the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s website www.allaboutcookies.org.

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Social Media

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If you share our content through social media, for example by liking us on Facebook, following or tweeting about us on Twitter those social networks will record that you have done so and may set a cookie for this purpose.

In some cases, where a page on our website includes content from a social network, such as a Twitter feed, or Facebook comments box, those services may set a cookie even when you do not click a button. As is the case for all cookies, we cannot access those set by social networks, just as those social networks cannot access cookies we set ourselves.

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General Information

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This website contains links to other websites. Holistic Finance Limited cannot be held responsible for privacy policies of such sites. This privacy policy applies solely to information collected by this website.

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Changes to privacy policy

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We may update this Privacy Policy by posting new versions on the website. You should check this page every time you submit any personal data to ensure you are happy with any changes. We reserve the right to notify you by email of any changes to this Privacy Policy.

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Consent

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You acknowledge and agree that in the course of registering or using this Web Site and any services offered via this Web Site, certain information about you will be captured electronically (including sensitive personal data where required, but this will be subject to you giving your explicit consent in such cases) or otherwise and transmitted to Holistic Finance Limited or and, potentially, to any third parties as set out above, or to third parties who host our web servers or assist us in maintaining this Web Site; and

Holistic Finance Limited may send your information outside of the European Economic Area for processing or use in accordance with this Privacy Policy. By using this Web Site, you expressly agree to the collection and use of your information for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.

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Contact Us

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If you have any questions or comments about this privacy policy, we can be contacted via email at info@holisticfinance.co.uk or post to;

Registered Office, Holistic Finance Limited, Gloucester House, 72 Church Road, Stockton-on-Tees, TS18 1TW.

We are registered with the Information Commissioners Office, (www.ico.org.uk) for Data Protection.

Our registration number is ZA162360.

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