Mortgage-Claim.com – Privacy Policy
Mortgage-Claim is a trading style of Crystal Legal services Ltd.
Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy sets out the data processing practices carried out through the use of the Internet and any other electronic communications networks by Crystal Legal Services Ltd. (Crystal Group). If you have any requests concerning your personal information or any queries regarding these practices, please contact us at datacontroller@crystallegal.com. Please note that all data thus captured will be used and held in accordance with the requirements of the Data Protection Act 2018 and the EU General Data Protection Regulation 2016.
Information collected
We collect information from visitors using online forms that can be found on various pages of our digital properties
We collect your details when you contact us with an enquiry
In addition to the above, we collect information automatically about your visit to our digital properties. Please see our Cookies Policy for more details
Use of personal information
We process personal information collected for the purposes of:
Dealing with your enquiries and requests
Providing and personalising our services
Providing information to you about products and services when appropriate, where you have given us permission, or we believe there is a legitimate interest to do so
We process anonymised data to better understand our current and future offerings and to enable us to improve our service.
General Data Protection Rights
When you supply personal information to Crystal Group we have a legal obligation to you in how we protect and use that information. We must, for example, tell you when we are collecting such data and why, and if we intend to pass this information on to a third party. You must give us your permission if you wish us to pass your details on to a third-party partner.
We will not retain data longer than is necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected or as required by applicable laws or regulations. When an account is closed, all personally identifiable data collected will be deleted, as required by applicable law.
Subject access requests
You have the right to see what personal identifiable data we hold about you. To obtain a copy of the personal information we hold about you, please write to us at The Data Controller, Crystal Legal Services Ltd, Gawsworth House, Westmere Drive, Crewe, CW1 6XB or email datacontroller@crystallegal.com.
Right to erasure (“right to be forgotten”)
You have the right for your personally identifiable data to be erased from our servers when requested for the following reasons:
We are processing your personal data for marketing purposes only
It is no longer necessary to keep your data for the services we have provided
Your objections legitimately over-ride our reasons for keeping your data
We have a legal obligation for doing so
We may not delete your personally identifiable data if:
We have a legal obligation to continue to keep your data
We have a legitimate interest in continuing to keep your data as part of our service to you
These reasons are not exhaustive. Should we believe your request is not valid, we will contact you with our reasons as to why. You then have the right to contact the Information Commissioner’s Office to report your concern.
To request to have your personal identifiable data erased, please email datacontroller@crystallegal.com, call 01270 44 66 00 , or write to us at The Data Controller, Crystal Legal Services Ltd, Gawsworth House, Westmere Drive, Crewe, CW1 6XB.
There is no charge in having your personally identifiable data deleted from our servers and will be undertaken within 1 calendar month of the initial request we agree to do so.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
Crystal Group will only send personally identifiable information about you to other organisations when we have your consent to provide the information or service you have requested, or if we are required to by law. Third parties include:
Financial institutions with whom you have a complaint
Financial partners providing named services
Ombudsman Services as part of our service delivery to you
Regulatory bodies under our legal requirement in law to provide such data
We keep your Personal Identifiable data securely via our own dedicated servers. We use a number of third party suppliers (known as “data processors”) to administer your account. Your personal data is not shared with these vendors.
Customer Relationship Management systems to administer your account
Email Service providers & other communication platforms to contact you regarding your account
Printing organisations to print the personalised information pack
Courier partners to send you information packs
Social media platforms for the basis of digital marketing and advertising
For our clients, a full list is available upon request. Please email marketing@crystallegal.com or call 01270 44 66 00
Crystal Group does not sell customer data to third-parties.
Marketing preferences and Data Capture Information
Please note that your information may be used to send you details of products or services that we offer that we have identified as likely to be of interest to you.
If at any point you would like to update your communication preferences with us, please email datacontroller@crystallegal.com or use the preference links in our emails. Please note, changes may take up to 48 hours to filter across all our systems.
Use of cookies
A cookie is a small piece of information sent by a web server to a web browser, which enables the server to collect information from the browser.
Crystal Group may conduct analysis of user traffic. These analyses will be performed using IP addresses and cookies which are required to ensure a secure server connection. Crystal Group does not use cookies to store any personal data or browsing habits.
Find out more about how we use cookies via our Cookie Policy
Other websites
Our website may contain links to other websites that are outside our control and are not covered by this Privacy Policy. If you access other sites using the links provided, the operators of these sites may collect information from you that will be used by them in accordance with their privacy policy, which may differ from ours.
Amendments
By using our sites, you agree to accept this privacy policy and are aware that our policy may change with time. Any changes to this policy will appear on this web page.
Last updated and reviewed in January 2019.