This privacy notice explains how we use any personal information we collect about you.
What information do we collect about you?
We collect information about you when you engage us for the provision of financial advice. This information will relate to your personal and financial circumstances. It may also include special categories of personal data such as data about your health, if this is necessary for the provision of our services.
We may also collect information when you voluntarily complete client surveys or provide feedback to us.
Information about connected individuals
We may need to gather personal information about your close family members and dependents in order to provide our service to you effectively. In such cases it will be your responsibility to ensure that you have the consent of the people concerned to pass their information on to us. We’ll provide a copy of this privacy notice to them or, where appropriate ask you to pass it on to them where information about our policy is requested.
Why do we need to collect and use your personal data?
The primary legal basis that we intend to use for the processing of your data is for the performance of our contract with you. The information that we collect about you is essential for us to be able to carry out the services that you require from us effectively. Without collecting your personal data we’d also be unable to fulfil our legal and regulatory obligations.
Where special category data is required we’ll obtain your explicit consent in order to collect and process this information.
How will we use the information about you?
We collect information about you in order to provide you with the services for which you engage us.
Who might we share your information with?
If you agree, we may email you about other products or services that we think may be of interest to you.
We won’t share your information for marketing purposes with other companies.
In order to deliver our services to you effectively we may send your details to third parties such as those that we engage for professional compliance, accountancy or legal services as well as product and platform providers that we use to arrange financial products for you.
Where third parties are involved in processing your data we’ll have a contract in place with them to ensure that the nature and purpose of the processing is clear, that they are subject to a duty of confidence in processing your data and that they’ll only act in accordance with our written instructions.
Where it’s necessary for your personal data to be forwarded to a third party we’ll use appropriate security measures to protect your personal data in transit. Data sent to third parties will be encrypted in transit.
To fulfil our obligations in respect of prevention of money-laundering and other financial crime we may send your details to third party agencies for identity verification purposes.
How long do we keep hold of your information?
During the courses of our relationship with you we’ll retain personal data which is necessary to provide services to you. We’ll take all reasonable steps to keep your personal data up to date throughout our relationship.
We are also subject to regulatory requirements to retain your data for specified minimum periods. These are generally:
- Five years for investment business
- Three years for mortgage business
- Indefinitely for pension transfers and opt-outs
- Three years for insurance business
These are minimum periods, during which we have a legal obligation to retain your records.
We reserve the right to retain data for longer where we believe it’s in our legitimate interest to do so. In any case, we will not keep your personal data for longer than 5 years following your death.
Where we have not provided you with services for more than 5 years we will ensure your data is only accessible to Directors of the firm.
You have the right to request deletion of your personal data. We will comply with this request, subject to the restrictions of our regulatory obligations and legitimate interests as noted above.
How can I access the information you hold about me?
You have the right to request a copy of the information that we hold about you. If you’d like a copy of some or all of your personal information please email or write to us using the contact details noted below.
When your personal data is processed by automated means you have the right to ask us to move your personal data to another organisation for their use.
We have an obligation to ensure that your personal information is accurate and up to date. Please ask us to correct or remove any information that you think is incorrect.
Automated decision making and profiling
Generally we do not use systems such as automated advice systems which, without any human involvement uses personal data to evaluate, analyse or predict a person’s economic situation, health, preferences or interests.
However if you use our risk assessment tool your personal information will be gathered through the information that you input onto the system. Your data is collected in order for us to carry out the service for which you engage us. If you’re unsure about the outcome of the automated process you can contact us to discuss or to challenge the outcome.
We take measures to ensure the security of your data by ensuring the system we use complies with all data protection legislation and ensuring the system is password protected and only accessible to our staff. We don’t use any special category data (such as data about your health) in the automated process unless it’s strictly necessary to deliver our service and we have obtained your explicit consent to do so.
We regularly check our systems for accuracy and bias and feed any changes back into the design process.
Marketing
Occasionally we would like to send you information which may be of interest to you via our client newsletter. If you’ve agreed to receive our newsletter, you may opt out at a later date. We will not use your data for any other marketing purposes.
Cookies
We use cookies to track visitors use of our website and to compile statistical reports on website activity. For further information visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/
You can set your browser not to accept cookies and the above website tells you how to remove cookies from your browser. However in a few cases some of our website features may not function as a result.
Other websites
Our website contains links to other websites. This privacy policy only applies to this website so when you link to other websites you should read their own privacy policies.
What can you do if you are unhappy with how your personal data is processed?
You also have a right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority for data protection. In the UK this is:
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
0303 123 1113 (local rate)
Changes to our privacy policy
We keep our privacy policy under regular review and we’ll inform you of any changes when they occur. This privacy policy was last updated on 01/05/2018.
How to contact us
Please contact us if you have any questions about our privacy policy or information we hold about you: by email at enquiries@whitmanfry.co.uk or write us at Whitman Fry Wealth Management Ltd, 133 Clarence Avenue, New Malden, Surrey KT3 3TY
Consent
We have provided you with a copy of our Privacy Notice which provides information about the nature of our personal data processing activities and includes details of our retention and deletion policies a well as your rights of access to the personal information that we hold on you.
Sensitive Personal Data
As explained in our Privacy Notice there are certain categories of personal data that are sensitive by nature. These categories include: data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership and data concerning health. The primary basis on which we intend to process your personal data is for the performance of our contract with you. In the case where we need to process special category (sensitive) data as described above we require your consent by indicating your agreement to the following statement:
I / we consent to the processing of sensitive personal data as far as it is necessary for the services I / we require from Whitman Fry Wealth Management Ltd.
| Client name(s): | |
| Client signature(s): | |
| Date: |
Please note that you may withdraw this consent at any time by notifying us at our main business address.
We may also engage the services of third party providers of professional services in order to enhance the service we provide to you. These parties may also need to process your personal data in the performance of their contract with us. If you wish to know the names of these third parties please contact us for further information.
Newsletter and Marketing
Subject to your agreement, send you our email newsletter which may contain details of arrangements which may be of interest to you. This falls within the scope of “marketing” and as such we ask you to provide consent to receive this information. Please indicate your consent to receive our newsletter by ticking below, you are able to opt out at a later date:
I / we consent to be contacted for marketing purposes by:
| Client name(s): | |
| Client signature(s): | |
| Date: |
Please note that you may withdraw this consent at any time by notifying us at our main business address.
Preferred contact methods
I / we am happy to be contacted using the following media:
| Telephone | Text message | Post |
Privacy Notice
This privacy notice explains how we use any personal information we collect about you.
What information do we collect about you?
We collect information about you when you engage us for the provision of financial advice. This information will relate to your personal and financial circumstances. It may also include special categories of personal data such as data about your health, if this is necessary for the provision of our services.
We may also collect information when you voluntarily complete client surveys or provide feedback to us.
Information about connected individuals
We may need to gather personal information about your close family members and dependents in order to provide our service to you effectively. In such cases it will be your responsibility to ensure that you have the consent of the people concerned to pass their information on to us. We’ll provide a copy of this privacy notice to them or, where appropriate ask you to pass it on to them where information about our policy is requested.
Why do we need to collect and use your personal data?
The primary legal basis that we intend to use for the processing of your data is for the performance of our contract with you. The information that we collect about you is essential for us to be able to carry out the services that you require from us effectively. Without collecting your personal data we’d also be unable to fulfil our legal and regulatory obligations.
Where special category data is required we’ll obtain your explicit consent in order to collect and process this information.
How will we use the information about you?
We collect information about you in order to provide you with the services for which you engage us.
Who might we share your information with?
If you agree, we may email you about other products or services that we think may be of interest to you.
We won’t share your information for marketing purposes with other companies.
In order to deliver our services to you effectively we may send your details to third parties such as those that we engage for professional compliance, accountancy or legal services as well as product and platform providers that we use to arrange financial products for you.
Where third parties are involved in processing your data we’ll have a contract in place with them to ensure that the nature and purpose of the processing is clear, that they are subject to a duty of confidence in processing your data and that they’ll only act in accordance with our written instructions.
Where it’s necessary for your personal data to be forwarded to a third party we’ll use appropriate security measures to protect your personal data in transit. Data sent to third parties will be encrypted in transit.
To fulfil our obligations in respect of prevention of money-laundering and other financial crime we may send your details to third party agencies for identity verification purposes.
How long do we keep hold of your information?
During the courses of our relationship with you we’ll retain personal data which is necessary to provide services to you. We’ll take all reasonable steps to keep your personal data up to date throughout our relationship.
We are also subject to regulatory requirements to retain your data for specified minimum periods. These are generally:
- Five years for investment business
- Three years for mortgage business
- Indefinitely for pension transfers and opt-outs
- Three years for insurance business
These are minimum periods, during which we have a legal obligation to retain your records.
We reserve the right to retain data for longer where we believe it’s in our legitimate interest to do so. In any case, we will not keep your personal data for longer than 5 years following your death.
Where we have not provided you with services for more than 5 years we will ensure your data is only accessible to Directors of the firm.
You have the right to request deletion of your personal data. We will comply with this request, subject to the restrictions of our regulatory obligations and legitimate interests as noted above.
How can I access the information you hold about me?
You have the right to request a copy of the information that we hold about you. If you’d like a copy of some or all of your personal information please email or write to us using the contact details noted below.
When your personal data is processed by automated means you have the right to ask us to move your personal data to another organisation for their use.
We have an obligation to ensure that your personal information is accurate and up to date. Please ask us to correct or remove any information that you think is incorrect.
Automated decision making and profiling
Generally we do not use systems such as automated advice systems which, without any human involvement uses personal data to evaluate, analyse or predict a person’s economic situation, health, preferences or interests.
However if you use our risk assessment tool your personal information will be gathered through the information that you input onto the system. Your data is collected in order for us to carry out the service for which you engage us. If you’re unsure about the outcome of the automated process you can contact us to discuss or to challenge the outcome.
We take measures to ensure the security of your data by ensuring the system we use complies with all data protection legislation and ensuring the system is password protected and only accessible to our staff. We don’t use any special category data (such as data about your health) in the automated process unless it’s strictly necessary to deliver our service and we have obtained your explicit consent to do so.
We regularly check our systems for accuracy and bias and feed any changes back into the design process.
Marketing
Occasionally we would like to send you information which may be of interest to you via our client newsletter. If you’ve agreed to receive our newsletter, you may opt out at a later date. We will not use your data for any other marketing purposes.
Cookies
We use cookies to track visitors use of our website and to compile statistical reports on website activity. For further information visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/
You can set your browser not to accept cookies and the above website tells you how to remove cookies from your browser. However in a few cases some of our website features may not function as a result.
Other websites
Our website contains links to other websites. This privacy policy only applies to this website so when you link to other websites you should read their own privacy policies.
What can you do if you are unhappy with how your personal data is processed?
You also have a right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority for data protection. In the UK this is:
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
0303 123 1113 (local rate)
Changes to our privacy policy
We keep our privacy policy under regular review and we’ll inform you of any changes when they occur. This privacy policy was last updated on 01/05/2018.
How to contact us
Please contact us if you have any questions about our privacy policy or information we hold about you: by email at enquiries@whitmanfry.co.uk or write us at Whitman Fry Wealth Management Ltd, 80 Coombe Road, New Malden, Surrey, KT3 4QS
Consent
We have provided you with a copy of our Privacy Notice which provides information about the nature of our personal data processing activities and includes details of our retention and deletion policies a well as your rights of access to the personal information that we hold on you.
Sensitive Personal Data
As explained in our Privacy Notice there are certain categories of personal data that are sensitive by nature. These categories include: data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership and data concerning health. The primary basis on which we intend to process your personal data is for the performance of our contract with you. In the case where we need to process special category (sensitive) data as described above we require your consent by indicating your agreement to the following statement:
I / we consent to the processing of sensitive personal data as far as it is necessary for the services I / we require from Whitman Fry Wealth Management Ltd.
| Client name(s): | |
| Client signature(s): | |
| Date: |
Please note that you may withdraw this consent at any time by notifying us at our main business address.
We may also engage the services of third party providers of professional services in order to enhance the service we provide to you. These parties may also need to process your personal data in the performance of their contract with us. If you wish to know the names of these third parties please contact us for further information.
Newsletter and Marketing
Subject to your agreement, send you our email newsletter which may contain details of arrangements which may be of interest to you. This falls within the scope of “marketing” and as such we ask you to provide consent to receive this information. Please indicate your consent to receive our newsletter by ticking below, you are able to opt out at a later date:
I / we consent to be contacted for marketing purposes by:
| Client name(s): | |
| Client signature(s): | |
| Date: |
Please note that you may withdraw this consent at any time by notifying us at our main business address.
Preferred contact methods
I / we am happy to be contacted using the following media:
| Telephone | Text message | Post |
