Looking after your privacy.
Your privacy is always at the heart of everything we do.
We are firmly committed to keeping your personal details private, even if this means that, sometimes,
we may not be able to serve you as quickly as you might wish. We make simple, strong statements about privacy
so you can be clear about our commitment to you.
- We will never sell or license the use of your email address or telephone number to anyone.
- We will never disclose your personal details to anyone unless we have your permission to do so, or if we are compelled to do so by Court Order.
- You may opt out or opt back in to receive our emails at any time. Every email we send contains a simple one-click ability to opt out.
How we use your information
Your IP address is used to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our website. Your IP address is used to help identify you and your search requirements and to gather broad demographic information.
We use small, harmless cookies to deliver content specific to your interests. We do not extract any information from your computer.
When you register on givemecredit, we ask you for identification information (such as your name, address and date of birth),
contact information (such as your address, telephone number and email address) and secret information that you share with us
(such as your password).
We do not share any of this information with any third party, other than for obvious purposes. For example we need to give:
- your name address and date of birth to the credit reference agencies when we search you;
- your credit application details on to the specific lender you wish to apply to;
- your credit card details to your card company when we seek payment;
- your credit card details to your card company if you ask us to report a loss of the card.
Authentication - ensuring we only provide your data to you
From time to time we may be required to authenticate you as part of our security processes. Amongst other things we may ask for your driving licence number, or National Insurance number. We ask for this information because we have tools available which use this information to help verify your identity.
We never reveal exactly how we do this, nor how we validate the rest of the information you provide. This validation information is not kept on any computer and is used only for the purposes of authentication.
Links to other websites
givemecredit contains links to other sites. Credit Reporting Agency is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites other than those owned by itself.
Online surveys
Our online surveys are optional. The information you provide as an individual respondent is kept confidential and is aggregated with all other responses to provide the survey results.
Security
givemecredit has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. These include the issue and use of passwords, powerful encryption
and computer firewalls to guard against hacking. From time to time we may have to suspend services whilst we investigate a breach of security. You are also obligated, under the Terms and Conditions
you agree to abide by when you use our services, to report any suspected breach to us immediately.
Supplementation Information
givemecredit supplements the information that you provide with information received from third parties, (such as the Royal Mail Postcode Address File, which helps confirm your address).
Opt-Out
If you do not wish to receive future marketing communications from us, you can request removal from our databases using either the link in marketing communications we send you, or by emailing
us at remove@givemecredit.com. Please note that we are still required to notify you from time to time of any significant changes to our terms and conditions, even after you express a preference not to
receive marketing communications.
