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Privacy statement
- Privacy statement
1st February 2010
This policy sets out how we use and protect any personal information that you give us when you use this website. If you have any questions about this policy or do not agree with it, please contact our customer services department at Vanquis Card, Customer Services, PO Box 399, Chatham, ME4 4WQ or on 0871 770 5555 (calls to this number will be charged at 7p per minute from a BT landline. Calls from mobiles and other networks may vary) before using this website. Full details are available when you apply and in the Vanquis Card terms and conditions.
We may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure you are happy with any changes. “We/our/us” refer to Vanquis Bank Limited (Company number 02558509) whose registered office is at Colonnade, Sunbridge Road, Bradford, West Yorkshire is a member of the Provident Financial group (the Group).
What information do we collect?
Direct marketing
Email marketing
Managing your account and processing your application
Who do we share this information with?
How to get copies of or amend the information we have collected
Security
Linking
Cookies
What information do we collect?
In general, you can use this website without giving us any information. However, additional products and services may be available if we have certain information about you.
To do this we may collect your name, contact information and personal details
What do we do with the information we collect?
We use this information to provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following:
- To send you details of products and services we believe you may be interested in;
- To provide answers to your questions asked via the website;
- For internal record keeping; and /or
- To third parties that help analyse the website in order to provide a better service to our customers
- To improve the content of our website
We may contact you by mail, email, phone, fax, text unless you have registered with the appropriate Preference Service.
We would like to provide you with information about products and services which we think you may find interesting. We may send you such information by post, email, telephone or mobile text and/or messaging service (SMS) unless you have registered with the appropriate Preference Service. When you provide us with information, you will be given the option to let us know that you do not want your information used for direct marketing purposes. If you request this option, we will not send you any direct marketing.
You can change you mind at any time by contacting Vanquis Card, Customer Service, PO Box 399, Chatham, ME4 4WQ.
You have a legal right to prevent your information being used for direct marketing purposes.
We would also like to provide you with the information above by email. However, we appreciate that email and text “spam” has become a problem in recent years. Therefore we would only use one of these methods to market to you if you have indicated your consent. If you are a customer or you have previously asked us for information on our products, we may send you information on our range of products and/or services by email, unless you have asked us not to do so.
If the reason you have given us personal information is to receive email information from us, we will continue to provide this information by email unless you ask us not to do so.
Otherwise, when you provide us with personal information, we will ask you whether or not you are happy for us to send you this kind of information by email.If you decide at any time that you no longer wish to receive marketing emails from us, please write to us at Vanquis Card, Customer Service, PO Box 399, Chatham, ME4 4WQ.
Managing your account and processing your application
We will process, by computer or otherwise, personal information about you whilst we are assessing your application and/or managing your Account. We may search your credit record at credit reference agencies in relation to your application or for managing your Account, and they will supply us with credit and/or identification information.
Details of our search will be added to their records whether or not your application is successful. Credit and identification information about you and those with whom you are financially linked, which is provided to us and credit reference agencies, may be used by us and other companies to make credit decisions about you and other members of your household. Any of this information may also be used for identification purposes, debt tracing and prevention of money laundering, as well as the management of your Account.
When assessing your application, we may use credit scoring or other automated decision making facilities. We will, on a regular monthly basis, provide details of the performance of your Account to credit reference agencies. This information may be used by other companies to make decisions about credit and credit-related services for you and other members of your household. It is important that you give us accurate information. We will check your details with fraud prevention agencies and if you give us false or inaccurate information and we suspect fraud, we will record this.
We and other organisations may search and use these records to:
i) help make decisions about credit and credit-related services for you and members of your household;
ii) help make decisions on motor, household, credit, life and other insurance proposals and insurance claims for you and members of your household;
iii) trace debtors, recover debt, prevent fraud, and manage yourAccount(s) or insurance policies; and/or
iv) check your identity to prevent money laundering unless you provide us with other satisfactory proof of identity.
We, the credit reference agencies, the fraud prevention agencies and/or the Provident Financial group may use the fraud prevention agency and/or credit performance records for statistical analysis about credit, insurance and fraud. We may also use your information to carry out market research.
For the purposes of managing your Account, credit assessment and analysis, your information may be shared within the Provident Financial group and outside the group to:
i) our agents, processors and sub contractors;
ii) any of our approved suppliers;
iii) the police, if required by law; and/or
iv) any relevant regulatory authority, if required by law.
We may contact you by post, email, telephone or mobile text and/or messaging service (SMS) about products or services relating to your account or application.
Who do we share this information with?
- To any person to whom we transfer our rights or obligations under the agreement;
- If we are compelled to do so by law and for fraud prevention purposes;
- To licensed credit reference agencies to help us and others make credit decisions;
- To third parties to enable them to provide details of products or services you may be interested in; and/ or
- Within Vanquis Bank and the Group
We will not transfer, disclose, sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties other than our subsidiaries, parent company, group companies or potential purchasers of our business without your permission unless this is necessary for the reasons set out in the “What we do with the information we collect” section or where we are required to do so by law. We may release your personal information to our authorised direct marketing or other agents unless you tell us that you do not wish this to happen.
How to get copies of or amend the information we have collected
You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998 if you apply in writing. You are also entitled to request that any inaccurate information be amended or deleted. You have a legal right to this information. A small fee will be payable. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please write to Vanquis Card, Customer Services, PO Box 399, Chatham, ME4 4WQ.
If you think any information we have about you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to us. We will correct or update any information as soon as possible.
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. However, we cannot guarantee the security of any data you disclose online. You should be aware of the inherent security risks of providing information and dealing online over the internet. You do not hold us responsible for any breach of security unless this is due to our negligence or wilful default.
We may link to other websites which are not within our control. Once you have left our website, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
We use cookies for certain areas of our website. Cookies are files that store information on your hard drive or browser that means that our website can recognise that you have visited our website before. They make it easier for you to maintain your preferences on the website, and by seeing how you use the website, we can tailor the website around your preferences and measure usability of the website. You can, should you choose, disable the cookies from your browser and delete all cookies currently stored on your computer. On Microsoft Internet Explorer, this can be done by selecting ‘Tools/Internet Options’ and reviewing your privacy settings or selecting ‘delete cookies’. You can find out how to do this for your particular browser by clicking ‘help’ on your browser’s menu or by visiting http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/. No information obtained from the cookie will be used by us for marketing purposes.
If you have any queries or concerns regarding our Privacy Policy, please contact Vanquis Card, Customer Services, PO Box 399, Chatham, ME4 4WQ.