Privacy Statement
The Data Protection Act
Lateral Money needs to collect and use personal data about you in order to carry on its business and to plan or provide the specific service that you require. Any personal data that we collect, archive or use in any way whether it is held on paper, computer or other format will have the safeguards applied that are required in law by the Data Protection Act 1998. There are eight principles put in place by the Data Protection Act 1998 to make sure that information is handled properly. These state that data must be:
- Fairly and lawfully processed
- Processed for limited purposes
- Adequate, relevant and not excessive
- Accurate
- Not kept for longer than is necessary
- Processed in line with your rights
- Secure
- Not transferred to countries without adequate protection
When we collect any personal data from you, we will inform you why we are collecting your data and what we intend to use it for. We will limit the collection and use of your information to a minimum. Under the Data Protection Act you have the right to access the information we hold about you on our records. The act allows us to charge a fee of £10 for this service. If anything is inaccurate or incorrect, we will correct it promptly.
Marketing Policy
Lateral Money have a responsible marketing policy and will only give your details to other companies to help plan or provide the service that you have requested. We may occasionally contact our customers by letter, email, telephone or otherwise with details of products and services offered by our partner companies. We will only do this if you have given us express consent. We will limit our customer contact program to levels that are not intrusive.
If you don’t want to receive unsolicited mail or telephone calls from other companies, you can prevent this by registering with the Mailing Preference Service. The contact details are:
Telephone Preference Service: 0207 291 3320
Mailing Preference Service: 0207 291 3310
For more details about these preference services please visit the Direct Marketing Associations website at http://www.dma.org.uk/content/home.asp
Communicating with Lateral Money
You accept the inherent security implications of providing information over the Internet and will not hold us responsible for any breach of security or disclosure of information unless we have been negligent.
If you give us your email address we will keep a record of it for further use. We may use it to contact you occasionally about our products and services as set out above in our Marketing policy statement. Please remember that Emails are not secure and can be intercepted by third parties. We therefore recommend that you keep your confidential personal details to a minimum. We will do the same when we reply.
Telephone Calls
Unless we hear from you to contrary we may telephone you from time to time between the hours of 9AM and 6PM. We may also record telephone conversations for training and monitoring purposes.
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