Who we are
Lease UK is a trading style of Lease United Kingdom Limited, we act as a Lease Broker for our customers. Lease UK is Authorised and Regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority under number 676822.
We can be contacted at Dawes Court House, Dawes Court, High Street, Esher, Surrey, KT10 9QU, by calling 01372 466955 or emailing [email protected].
How we will use the information about you
At Lease UK we take your privacy seriously and will use your personal information in a number of ways which will help us; make lender decisions, for fraud prevention & credit reference checks.
We may share your information with, and obtain information about you from credit reference agencies or fraud prevention agencies. We will not disclose your information to any company outside of our panel of Funders except to help prevent fraud or if required to do so by law. For further information on how your information is used, how we maintain the security of your information and your rights to access/alter and change information we hold on you please contact John O’Reilly [email protected].
What we need
Lease UK will be what is known as the ‘controller’ and/or the ‘processor’ of the personal data you provide to us. We collect personal data about you which may also include any special types of information or location-based information.
We may also gather your name, address, date of birth, email, phone numbers & your financial status.
Why we need it
We need to know your basic personal data in order to provide you with an accurate recommendation for your personal circumstances. We will not collect any personal data from you we do not need in order to provide and oversee this service to you.
For processing of data to be lawful under GDPR Lease UK use one of the following legal bases:
(a) Consent: this is where the individual has given clear consent to process their personal data for a specific purpose.
(b) Contract: the processing is necessary for a contract with an individual, or where we have been asked to take specific steps before entering into a contract.
(c) Legitimate Interest: the processing is necessary for our legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of a third party unless there is good reason to protect the individual’s personal data which overrides those legitimate interests.
What we do with it
We will pass your data to our panel of Funders and/or credit reference agencies in order to provide you with the most suitable finance product to meet your requirements. We may periodically send promotionsal emails about new products or other information which we think you may find benefical using the email address you hae provided. From time to time, we may contact you by email, phone or by post using the information you have provided. You may opt out from direct marketing at any time by writing to us or emailing us at the address stated above.
Security
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
How long we keep it
We are required to keep your basic personal data, such as name, date of birth, address & contact details in accordance with our retention policy. This will either be 5 years post agreement termination or 12 months post quotation after which time it will be destroyed.
Call recording
All calls into and out of Lease UK are recorded for quality and security purposes.
Your rights
You may reqeust details of any personal data we hold about you at any time. We may charge you a small fee for this. If at any point you believe retained information is incorrect you can request to see this information and have it corrected and possibly deleted. Providing you with this information is free of charge, but charges may apply for excessive requests. If you wish to raise a complaint on how we have handled your personal data you can contact John O’Reilly. You have the right to withdraw consent at any time and this means that we cannot process your data provided. This can be done by either writing to us or sending an email to [email protected] We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third partes unless we have the permission or are required by law to do so. If you are not satisfied with our response or believe we are not processing our personal data in accordance with the law you can compain to the Information Commissioner’s Office(ICO).
Cookie Policy
We can be reached via e-mail at [email protected] and by telephone on 01372 466955.
We make every effort to be a responsible company and comply with UK laws in data protection and marketing practice.
For each visitor to our Web page, our Web server automatically recognises only the visitor’s domain name, but not the e-mail address (where possible).
We collect the e-mail addresses of those who communicate with us via e-mail and aggregate information on what pages visitors access or visit.
The information we collect is used to improve the content of our web pages and notify visitors about updates to our web site, blogs, podcasts and our services. We do not share this information with any other organisations for any purposes. With respect to cookies: We do not set any cookies.
If our information practices change at some time in the future we will post the policy changes to our Web site to notify you and provide you with the ability to opt out of these. With respect to security: We have appropriate security measures in place in our physical facilities to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of information that we have collected from you at our site. If you feel that this site is not following its stated information policy, you may contact us at the above ‘phone number.
Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise cautions and look at the privacy statement application to the website in question.