Our details
Doe and Co. Ltd. is the Data Controller for any personal information you supply to us. If you would like to speak to us about how we use your information you can contact us on 02380 839214 or contact us by writing to the Data Protection Officer, Doe and Co. Limited, Unit 9 Freemantle Business Centre, Millbrook Road East, Southampton, SO15 1JR.
How we will use your information
Your personal information may be used by Prestige Underwriting Services Limited for the following purposes that are necessary for the performance and management of your contract of insurance, to determine our underwriting and pricing strategies, for our legitimate interests as an underwriting agency and for compliance with any legal obligations.
- to make a decision whether we choose to accept or decline the proposed risk;
- to calculate your premium and policy terms;
- to service your policy;
- to maintain our records;
- to confirm your identity and to prevent fraud;
- to investigate and resolve any complaints;
- to deal with any claims you should submit under your policy;
- to verify the information you provide;
- to undertake internal quality monitoring and external audits;
- to carry out market research, pricing and underwriting strategies, statistical analysis and customer profiling;
- we may supply information to law enforcement agencies, our regulators and other statutory bodies when we believe it is necessary for the detection and prevention of crime and/or fraud and as otherwise required by or permitted by law.
The information we receive
We may obtain personal information from you directly or from someone you have authorised to supply personal information on your behalf, such as your broker. This information is necessary for the performance and management of your contract of insurance, for our legitimate interests as an underwriting agency and for compliance with any legal obligation. This information may consist of the following:
- your name, contact details (including home address, telephone number and e-mail address) and date of birth;
- all other personal information that is provided to your broker when completing an application for any policy, including (as
- necessary) any sensitive information (e.g. information about your health and/or previous convictions);
- details of all policies held with us including cover dates, any lapsed policies and cancellations;
- details of claims on policies held with us;
- your payment history relating to policies held with us.
If you are unable to supply the required information we may be unable to offer you insurance or continue with cover.
We may also obtain information from third parties such as credit reference agencies, CUE – Claims and Underwriting Exchange Register, the police and other insurers (e.g.to confirm your personal data and verify claims information).
We retain information in line with provisions issued by our regulatory body the Financial Conduct Authority in order to manage your policy, deal with complaints and manage claims. We will only retain your personal data for as long as we are required by law.
Disclosing other people’s information
You should show this privacy notice to anyone whose information is disclosed to us with your policy information, you must also obtain their consent to share their information. You must ensure all information provided to us is correct and to the best of your knowledge.
Fraud prevention and detection
It is important that you take reasonable care when providing us with information and answer any questions honestly and to the best of your knowledge. Providing fraudulent or incorrect information could affect the price of your policy, result in your policy being cancelled and claims being rejected or not fully paid.
As a condition of your policy, it is important that you report all incidents which may or may not give rise to a claim to us.
In order to prevent and detect fraud we may (at any time) share information about you with other organisations and public bodies (including the police) and check and/or file your details with fraud prevention agencies and databases. If you give us false or inaccurate information and/or we suspect fraud, we will record this. We can provide any details required by us under a court order.
We and other organisations may also search these agencies and databases to: help make decisions about the provision and administration of insurance, credit and related services (for you and members of your household), trace debtors or beneficiaries, recover debt, prevent fraud, manage your insurance policies, check your identity for the purposes of preventing money laundering (unless you furnish us with other satisfactory proof of identity) and undertake credit searches or additional fraud searches. On request, we can supply further details of the databases we access or contribute to.
Any information shared by us can be used by other bodies in their decision making process, as can information shared from other bodies be used in our decision making process.
Credit searches
If you consent to a credit search it will be soft search which is only visible to you (if you request a copy of your credit file at the credit reference agencies) and is not visible to other organisations. This type of credit reference check will not affect your credit file. The search will be visible on your credit report but it won’t affect your credit rating as it’s not an application for credit. The credit references agencies may add the details of our searches and information to their records relating to you.
If you require further information on credit searches, please follow the ICO link on credit reference checks.
Call recording
Telephone calls with us may be recorded for training, monitoring, audit requirements, quality assurance purposes and fraud prevention and detection. Call recordings may also be supplied to third parties or your insurer as shown on your schedule if they request a call recording in order to investigate a claim, complaint or suspected fraud which we have made them aware of.
Transfer to 3rd parties and outside the UK/EU
In order to deliver our services to you, we may use third party processors (for example credit searches and fraud prevention agencies). Such processing is conducted under contract and we ensure that appropriate data protection and information security assurances are provided.
We may also share your information with an authorised third party supplier appointed by us during a claim, for example a loss adjustor, recovery agencies or approved repairer in order to assist with your claim or provide repair/replacement services. We will only share the information required by the third party and will ensure that appropriate data protection and information security assurances are in place.
In circumstances where we may need to process some of your information using third parties located in countries outside of the European Union, we will take all necessary steps to ensure it is adequately protected. This includes ensuring there is an agreement in place with the third parties which provides the same level of protection as required by the data protection regulations in the UK.
Your rights
You have the right to access or obtain copies of the personal information held about you by us. A response to your request will be provided to you within one calendar month of us receiving a valid request.
You have the right to restrict processing of inaccurate information and request that we correct any inaccuracies in the information held about you. You may also have the right to erasure of data in certain circumstances.
Where we hold or process data on the basis of your consent you have the right to withdraw that consent.
You have the right to withdraw your consent for your information being used for market research, pricing strategies, underwriting strategies, statistical analytics and customer profiling.
If you wish avail of these rights please write to the Data Protection Officer, Doe and Co. Limited, Unit 9 Freemantle Business Centre, Millbrook Road East, Southampton, SO15 1JR.
The Information Commissioner
You can find more details about data protection from the Information Commissioner’s Office at www.ico.org.uk. You can also contact the Information Commissioner if you believe we have not complied with our obligations.