Our Privacy Policy

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Please note that our advertisers may also use cookies, over which we have no control.

You block cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be to access all or parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies as soon you visit our Website.

Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after 2 years. 

 All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our Website; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

 

We use information held about you in the following ways:

·   To ensure that content from our Website is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.

·   To improve the quality of our service and the efficiency of our Website and systems.

·   To provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes.

·   To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us.

·   To update our records about you.

·   To enable us to conduct research and statistical analysis and facilitate our internal customer service monitoring.

·   To notify you about changes to our service.

We may monitor or record your calls, e-mails, text messages and other communications in accordance with English law for business purposes such as quality control and training, preventing the unauthorised use of our telecommunications systems and websites, ensuring that our systems are working effectively, meeting our legal obligations, preventing or detecting crime and for the legitimate interests of the Data Controller.

 

We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries, as defined in section 1159 of the UK Companies Act 2006.

We may disclose your personal information to our professional advisers and to independent contractors or other third parties we may engage from time to time to provide services to us.

 

We may disclose your personal information to third parties:

·  In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.

·   If Equity Direct Broking Limited or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets.

·   If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any regulatory or legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Equity Direct Broking Limited, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data.  You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us at paul.brook@equitygroup.co.uk or at Equity Direct Broking Limited, Library House, New Road, Brentwood, Essex, CM14 4GD.

  

Our Website may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates.  If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies.  Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

 

The Act gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. Any access request should be made to the Company Secretary at our registered address and may be subject to a fee of £10 to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.

Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail.

 

Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to Paul Brook, Equity Direct Broking Limited, Library House, New Road, Brentwood, Essex, CM14 4GD OR paul.brook@equitygroup.co.uk.