Statement on how we Protecting Your data
Security of Your data is very important to Us. We will ensure that Your data is processed with appropriate security measures in place. We will collect and process personal data about You and any other persons insured under the Policy, including information about health and criminal convictions. We will use the data to effect and administer the contract of insurance and any claim you may make.
If You provide any data to Us about other people, such as family, friends or other associates, you must have their permission. It is Your responsibility to inform them about Our use of use of their data.
You may ask Us to erase Your data at any time, if so, we may no longer be able to provide You with deals and offers.
We will share data about You, including where applicable about health and criminal convictions, with other parties.
These parties may include OUR Insurance intermediary, their supplier, the insurers, service suppliers, underwriting agents, credit reference agencies, anti-fraud databases, solicitors, claims administrators and their suppliers and agents, public and regulatory bodies. We will not use Your data or pass it to any other party for marketing products or services.
We will not keep Your data for longer than necessary. We will delete data about You within Five years, though for some types of insurance we hold, we may be required to retain data for longer due to legal or regulatory obligations. If We transfer Your data outside the EEA, we will ensure it has equivalent protection. You have a number of rights in relation to Your data, including rights of access and in certain circumstances, of deletion.
We, HHBTA Ltd may use data about You (including sensitive data) for general risk assessment, statistical and trend analysis, research and modelling purposes.
If You need more information about how We process Your data or if You wish to exercise Your rights under the Data Protection laws, please contact us at
HHBTA UK Ltd
Avionics House,
Kingsway Business Park
Newhaven Road, Quedgeley
Gloucester GL2 2SN
If You are not satisfied with the way We have managed Your personal data, you may complain to the Information Commissioners Office. Further information can be found at www.ico.org.uk/concerns, or you can telephone them on 0303 123 1113.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Contact forms
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
Who we share your data with
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.