Privacy Notice

Silicon Privacy and Cookies Notice

Privacy and Cookies Notice

This Privacy and Cookies Notice (“the Notice”) applies when using www.siliconcreditmanagement.com (“the Website”) which is operated by Silicon Marketing Limited, Bawtry Hall, Saddlers House, South Parade, DN10 6JH

“SILICON”). Please note that where you intend to make a payment using the Website, please ensure you have read the website Terms and Conditions which can be found by clicking here as well as this Privacy and Cookies Notice. As a customer of SILICON, you will have received a copy of our Data Protection Notice when we first wrote to you when we acquired your account. This Notice also applies when we process your personal data when you use the Website. A copy of this notice can be found here. In this notice, SILICON, itself, or together with any member of its group (“SILICON Group”) may be referred to as ‘We’ or ‘Us’ or ‘Our’.

The security and privacy of your personal information is important to us. We will always process your personal data fairly and lawfully, and in accordance with all applicable laws.

We are committed to safeguarding and preserving your privacy when you visit and use the Website or you communicate electronically with us.

This Notice, together with the Terms and Conditions, the Data Protection Notice and any other documents referred to in the Terms and Conditions, this Notice and the Website set out the basis upon which any personal information we collect from you, from third parties, or that you provide to us, shall be processed by us. We may decide or may be legally obliged to amend and update this Notice from time to time so please ensure you read this Notice every time you use the Website.

Information we may collect from you

We may collect and process the following:

Personal data and other information that is provided by you or a third party, authorised to do so on your behalf, when you or they contact us, and when making a payment, completing forms, responding to surveys, and any other responses to requests for information on the Website. This includes but is not limited to information provided by you when registering to use the Website, when making a payment, or requesting services and/or information from us, and can include, but is not limited to, your name, address, e-mail address, phone number, account details, log-in details and other information detailed in the Data Protection Notice, a link is provided above with more information.

Details of your visits to the Website including, but not limited to, traffic, click tracking, location, weblogs and other such data, and the resources that you access from the Website.

Information you provide when you report a problem with the Website.

Special Categories of Personal Data

Under certain circumstances, we may require to ask you to provide us with or you may volunteer, information about you which is deemed “special categories of personal data” (“Sensitive Personal Data”), for example, information about your health. This may be because we think you may be considered vulnerable, and as such, we may need this additional information in order to comply with our obligations to manage your account in the most appropriate manner, having regard to your circumstances. We will only use this Sensitive Personal Data to exercise forbearance in collecting your debt, and to manage your account and circumstances appropriately. Where we have no other legal grounds for processing Sensitive Personal Data, we will seek your consent to process your Sensitive Personal Data, in accordance with applicable laws.. We may share any of your Sensitive Personal Data with other members of SILICON Group, or relevant third parties for such purposes only. We will only ever share your Sensitive Personal Data if we are required or permitted to do so under applicable laws, or if we have obtained your consent.

What do we use your information for

We use information held about you in accordance with the Data Protection Notice including but not limited to the following ways:

To collect your debt and to assist you in managing your account, including setting up of an affordable payment plan and assessing the affordability of such plan.

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

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

To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so.

To notify you about changes to our service.

To allow you to make payments safely and securely on the payments page of the Website.

For research and analysis purposes, including assessment of your likelihood to make payments to your account.

To prevent fraud, money laundering and any other criminal activity.

For other purposes as set out in the Data Protection Notice.

Where you have requested that we contact you, and you provide us with your name, together with your address, telephone numbers or e-mail address for this purpose, you consent to being contacted by these methods, for these purposes.

If you try to login to the payment area of the Website using your mobile phone number, and you are unsuccessful, we will get in touch with you on that number, to help you to log in successfully, and make a payment. By inputting your mobile number, you consent to us using it to get in touch with you, where your login attempt failed

Security of your Personal Information

The transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure and therefore we cannot guarantee the security of any information you send to us electronically, and transmission of such information is therefore entirely at your own risk, We will take all reasonable technical and organisational measures to ensure that your personal information is processed and stored securely on our servers and in accordance with this Notice, the Terms and Conditions, the Data Protection Notice and applicable laws.

Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) login details, including a password so that you can access certain parts of the Website, you are responsible for keeping these login details confidential. We will accept no liability for unauthorised use of your login details on the Website.

Disclosing your Information

We may disclose your personal information to any member of SILICON Group. This includes, where applicable, our subsidiaries, our holding companies and their other subsidiaries (if any).

We may also disclose your personal information:

To prospective purchasers of any or all of our business and/or our business assets and their advisors;
To relevant authorities, where we are under a legal obligation to disclose your information, and to prevent fraud and money laundering
To any third party who provides services to us as a data processor;
To Payment Services providers, to facilitate payments made by you via the payments page of the Website;
In order to protect and enforce our rights;
Where we are entitled to by law; and
To third parties to facilitate credit risk reduction.
To other third parties as set out in the Data Protection Notice
Credit Reference Agencies
Please click on the following links and read the Credit Reference Agencies’ Information Notice (“CRAIN”) to see how Experian, Equifax and Call Credit process your personal data. Go to the following links: www.Experian.co.uk/crain ; www.Equifax.co.uk/crain; https://www.transunion.co.uk/legal/privacy-centre/pc-credit-reference.

Transfer of Data out of the European Economic Area (‘EEA’)

We or some of our third party service providers (including but not limited to merchant services suppliers) may transfer personal information we or they collect outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”) for processing, storing and related purposes.. We will only transfer your personal information outside the EEA, where we can ensure there will be in place, adequate levels of protection for your personal information. We shall ensure a substantially similar degree of protection is afforded to your personal information to that within the EEA, and that such levels of protection comply with applicable laws.

Third Party Personal Information

If you provide us with personal information about another person, you confirm that they have appointed you to act for them, and that you have informed them of our identity and the purposes for which their personal information will be processed.

Your rights

Regulation (EU) 2016/679 , the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”)gives you certain rights: you have the right to access the information that we hold about you, at any time. Where we receive your request to access your personal information we have one month from the date of your request to provide you with the requested information. When necessary, this period may be extended by two further months.

Where the information we hold on you is incorrect and where this can be legally justified, you have a right to have this information rectified. You can make a request that to erase your data, again, where this is legally justifiable; you can object to processing of your personal information under certain circumstances; as well as requesting that we restrict processing of your personal information. Where we process your personal information on the basis of your consent, you can withdraw your consent, by notifying us, at any time.

For more information please refer to the Data Protection Notice referred to above.

Should you wish to exercise any of the above rights, or have a query or complaint in relation to the holding of such information, please contact us using the contact details below. However, please note that as part of security measures, to protect your personal information, we may need to request further information from you to verify and confirm your identity.

Third Party Links

When you are using the Website you may navigate to other websites which are not operated by us (“Third Party Websites”). Third Party Websites may send their own cookies to you and collect or request personal information and other information. We have no control over Third Party Websites and therefore take no responsibility for them. By having a link to Third Party Websites from the Website we do not make any representations or undertakings about the Third Party Websites nor do we endorse them and we may not have any connection with the Third Party Websites’ operators and controllers. You should always read the terms and conditions of use and privacy policy of Third Party Websites before using.

Webserver Logs

We may gather certain information automatically and store it in log files for statistical purposes. These log files contain standard information collected by web servers, such as client IP addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), operating system, etc. This information is only used by SILICON and SILICON Group. This information is not distributed or sold to a third party. We use this information, to analyse trends, to administer the Website and to gather demographic information about the Website users as a whole.

The Use of Cookies

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. These cookies are stored on the hard drive of your computer. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the website.

Like many other websites, we use cookies on the Website to help us gather and store information about visitors to the Website to help us provide a better Website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or to any information about you, other than the information you choose to share with us.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. You can also change the settings on your internet browser to accept all cookies, to notify you when a cookie is set, or not to receive cookies at any time. However, doing any of these may prevent you from taking full advantage of the Website, and you may lose some of the functionality of the Website as a result. If you want to delete any cookies that are already on your computer, please refer to the instructions for your file management software to locate the file or directory that stores cookies.

For help in deleting our cookies please refer to the relevant link below:

Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en-GB&p=cpn_cookies

Microsoft Internet Explorer: https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy

Firefox: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/278835/how-to-delete-cookie-files-in-internet-explorer

Safari: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411?locale=en_US

Opera: https://blogs.opera.com/news/2015/08/how-to-manage-cookies-in-opera/

For further information about cookies and how to disable them please go to: www.aboutcookies.org.

Silicon Marketing Limited

Bawtry Hall,

Saddlers House,

South Parade,

DN10 6JH

Telephone

0843 557 2995

info@siliconcreditmanagement.com