Summary
Summary
We value the privacy of your personal information.
This Brawdia Privacy Statement outlines how we collect, hold, use and disclose your personal information. By visiting our website, using any of our services, or providing us with your personal information, you agree to your personal information being collected, held, used and disclosed as set out in this Privacy Statement. We also rely on the consent you gave our clients when they collected your personal data.
The Purposes for Which We Hold, Use and Disclose Personal Information
We use your personal information in compliance with all the relevant laws and may use it in one or more of the following ways:
We may use the personal information of tenants or other natural persons you have supplied us with to carry out work such as project management on your behalf.
We may use the contact information you supply to respond to your requests including details that you may have provided to apply for jobs advertised on our website.
We may use identification verification documents to meet with regulatory and legal requirements to verify who you are as a condition of providing Brawdia services and products.
We may use personal financial information to assess your eligibility for Brawdia’s products and services.
Personal information may be used to inform you of services that may be of interest to you from Brawdia.
We hold limited personal data which we use to inform our clients employees about corporate events and services that we provide. No such communication will be sent to those who withdraw their consent.
We also use the personal information that we hold, to contact you, to notify you about changes to our service, to verify your identity, and to provide customer support.
Where we disclose information to third parties, we limit the use and disclosure of personal information provided to us by them for the purposes for which we collected it (e.g. in relation to the handling or settlement of the relevant claim). Our clients, their agents, advisers and other relevant third parties may have their own privacy policy that contains information about their privacy practices and how you can access any personal information they hold about you, seek correction of it or make a complaint about a breach of the General Data Protection Regulation 2018.
We may also hold and use your personal information, and disclose your personal information to relevant third parties for the following purposes:
- To deal with enquiries – we may need to collect your personal information to answer an enquiry you make;
- Dealing with a complaint – for example a complaint made by you in respect of service provision;
- To contact you in relation to a job application that you may have made to us;
- Maintaining and improving our service, auditing, quality assurance and training – for example, we may review your personal information to identify how our services can be improved;
- Assisting with the process by providing your name address and phone numbers to contractors
- Other purposes – for any other purpose communicated to you at the time we collect your personal information or as required or permitted by law.
- Brawdia’s employees who require it to perform their jobs.
- Organizations that support the products or services we provide to you.
- Anyone you give us permission to share it with.
- Official bodies to detect and prevent criminal activity e.g. money laundering, theft, fraud, terrorism, cybercrime.
Occasionally we may be required or authorised to collect personal information because of laws in England and Wales or an order of a Court / Tribunal. If we are collecting personal information for this purpose, and we are permitted to do so, we will tell you. We may also transfer your personal information outside the EU where the relevant third party is located outside of EU Our contractual arrangements with these entities generally include an obligation for them to comply with GDPR.
The categories of personal data we process when handling claims are determined by the data controllers we are acting for and based on their instructions to us.
Personal Information We Collect and Hold
We will collect your full name and contact details (such as phone number, email address and postal address) from you whenever you engage with us.
In addition, if we are providing a service to you, or on your behalf, where we are required to do so by law, we will collect information relating to your identity, which will be at least one form of photographic identification (such as a passport, a driving licence or an identification card) and one form of documentation with proof of your place of residence (such as a recent utility bill).
We will also confirm whether you have any relatives or close connections working at Brawdia so that we can consider potential conflict of interests and if identified how to manage these, in accordance with our statutory and regulatory obligations.
Depending on the service that we provide to you (or on your behalf) we may also collect additional personal information as detailed below:
- name, date of birth and gender of you, your colleagues/employees and/or family members,
- contact details such as address, phone, fax and email of said persons
- bank account details,
- county court judgements,
- we may collect information required to identify you to meet anti-money laundering and counter terrorist financing requirements. If we are dealing with an entity such as a company, trust or charity, we may need to obtain personal information for the beneficiaries of the entity and those in a position of control. This will include, but is not limited to, identity and address documents.
- where we are working alongside third parties such as solicitors, developers, we may need to share these documents on the basis of legitimate interests.
- information obtained as part of the management and processing of a claim (e.g. information on a police report);
- details of insurance policies you hold or have held; and
- sensitive information such as criminal records (e.g. where this information is relevant to processing a claim).
What Happens if You Don’t Give Us Your Personal Information
If you don’t provide us with the required personal information, we and our clients may not be able to provide you with some or all services. Where we collect personal information from you, we expect you to tell us if you do not consent to us disclosing the personal information you provide to us to the types of third parties referred to above.
How We Collect and Hold Personal Information
How we collect:
We may collect personal information about you and other individuals in various ways including:
- over the phone, including telephone recordings;
- audio/visual recordings, including CCTV;
- in person;
- when we interview witnesses or other third parties;
- when attending site meetings in the notes of those meetings;
- in writing, including via email and hard copy forms;
- social media or other on-line sources where data is in the public domain.
From whom we may collect:
We may collect such information directly from you or through a variety of third parties such as repairers, suppliers, consultants, and the police. We may also collect personal information from publicly available sources such as the phone book or public websites.
When we collect personal information from you about someone else:
We may seek to collect from you personal information about another person. This may happen if you have personal information about another person which is relevant to a claim. For example, you may have the details of a witness to an incident for which you are claiming under your insurance policy. If you provide us with information about another person, then you must:
- have their consent to do so; and
- tell them:
– that you are disclosing their personal information to us; and
– refer them to this Privacy Statement.
Holding personal information:
We hold personal information electronically and on paper / in hard copy.
For the personal information we hold electronically we take reasonable security measures including firewalls, secure logon processes, encryption and intrusion monitoring technologies.
For the information we hold in hard copy / on paper we have in place reasonable confidentiality procedures and we also take reasonable security measures. We also require third party providers to hold personal information securely.
Your Rights
Your information will be held for at least seven years for legal, regulatory and accounting purposes and thereafter for as long as reasonably necessary or as we are contractually required to do so.
You have the right to withdraw consent for us to process your information at any time.
You have the right to withdraw consent for us to pass your information to third parties that we have outlined in this policy.
However, withdrawing consent may result in us ceasing to handle the claim in question and may prejudice those services for which we are instructed by your Insurers or other parties to perform.
Accessing your information (Subject Access Request):
You can make a written request to access the personal information we hold about you. If we aren’t able to meet your request for access, we’ll let you know why.
You have the rights to the following information: –
- The purpose(s) for which we are processing your information.
- The categories of personal information we hold about you.
- The recipients or categories of recipient to whom the personal data have been or will be disclosed.
- The period for which we will store your information; or the criteria used to determine that period.
Some of our clients have a different process for the handling of these request, we will inform you if this is the case.
Further Rights:
To rectification or restriction of the way in which we are processing your information; or to object to us processing it.
To erasure of your personal information provided it is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected; or where there is no legal basis for us processing it.
Where we have collected information about you from sources other than yourself, information about those sources.
To ask us whether any decisions are being taken about you by automated means and if this is happening; information about the logic involved and any significant consequences on you.
To ask us about the appropriate safeguards we take if we transfer your information to a third country or international organisation.
You can exercise any of these rights at any time by writing to the Data Protection Officer Liz Tubb at Compliance@brawdia.com
If you are not satisfied about the way in which your information is handled you have the right to lodge a complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF.
Keeping your information accurate:
We take reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information we collect and store, use or disclose is accurate, up-to-date and complete. However, we rely on you to advise us of any changes to your information to help us do so. If you believe your personal information is not accurate, up-to-date or complete, then please let us know. If you’d like to request access to or seek correction of your personal information, please contact us. Our contact details are at the end of this Privacy Statement.
Complaints about how we handle your personal information:
If you have a complaint about our handling of your personal information or an alleged breach of the principles contained in the GDPR 2018 please contact us and provide us with the details of your complaint / the alleged breach as well as any supporting evidence. You can contact us via the below options:
Liz Tubb
Data Protection Officer
Compliance@brawdia.com
Refer to the website – www.brawdia.com to obtain contact details.
We will promptly acknowledge the complaint, carefully investigate it and determine the steps that we will undertake to resolve your complaint. We will contact you if we require any further information and will provide you with our determination once it is made. If you are unhappy with our determination, please contact us.