Privacy Notice - Payday Express

This is the privacy statement of Express Finance (Bromley) Limited trading as Payday Express. We understand that your privacy is extremely important to you. As a result we have put in place a number of measures to ensure that any personal data we obtain from you visiting this website is processed and maintained in accordance with accepted principles of good information handling and also in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998.

This statement provides you with details of the type of information we may hold about you, how we obtain and use any information and how we protect your privacy.

Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.

For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the Act), the data controller is Express Finance (Bromley) Ltd of 4th Floor Northside House, 69 Tweedy Road, Bromley, Kent, BR1 3WA

INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT FROM YOU

We may collect and process the following data about you:

  • Information that you provide by filling in forms on our site www.paydayexpress.co.uk (our site). This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our site, subscribing to our service, posting material or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our site.
  • If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
  • We may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them.
  • Details of transactions you carry out through our site and of the fulfilment of your orders.
  • Details of your visits to our site [including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data, whether this is required for our own billing purposes or otherwise] and the resources that you access.

IP ADDRESSES AND COOKIES

We may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers. This is statistical data about our users' browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual. For the same reason, we may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive. They help us to improve our site and to deliver a better and more personalised service. They enable us:

  • To estimate our audience size and usage pattern.
  • To store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise our site according to your individual interests.
  • To speed up your searches.
  • To recognise you when you return to our site.

You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our site. Please note that our advertisers may also use cookies, over which we have no control.

THIRD PARTY WEB BEACONS

We use third party web beacons from Yahoo! to help analyse where visitors go and what they do while visiting our website. Yahoo! may also use anonymous information about your visits to this and other websites in order to improve its products and services and provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by Yahoo!, click here.

SENSITIVE INFORMATION

Information given by you which is considered sensitive information in the Data Protection Act 1998 includes information about your medical or health conditions, racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, sexual orientation and other information which you identify as sensitive. By providing this information voluntarily you give consent that this information may be transferred as per Use of Your information outside the UK to another company within our group. We will not send sensitive information about you to any other third party without your express consent.

TELEPHONE CALLS

If you call any of the telephone numbers quoted on this website we may record your call. These recordings are used for training and quality control purposes to ensure that we continuously monitor and improve our customer service standards.

WHERE WE STORE AND PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA

All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Any payment transactions will be encrypted using SSL technology. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our site, 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. Athough we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; 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.

USE OF YOUR INFORMATION OUTSIDE OF THE UK

If we transfer your information to an associated company of ours, a service provider or agent in another country including outside of the European Economic Area, we will make sure that such organisation agrees to apply the same levels of protection as we are required to apply to information held in the UK and to use your information only for the purpose of providing the service to us.

USES MADE OF THE INFORMATION

The information we collect about you will be recorded electronically and may be used in the following ways:

  • To verify your identity and credit standing and to enable us to consider and process your application for a loan or other products or services.
  • To assess your credit history and confirm your employment details.
  • To detect, prevent and investigate actual and potential fraud and related activities
  • To collect unpaid loans and debt that may become owed by you.
  • To develop, manage and market products and services to meet your needs, to contact you for products and services that may be of interest, to determine your eligibility for different products and services that you may be interested in.
  • To help us to administer and service your account with us.
  • To contact you (by phone, email or other means) in connection with your inquiry even if you do not proceed to complete the application.
  • To extract certain information for the purpose of generating statistics for our own internal purposes.
  • To update our website to better meet our clients’ needs in the future.
  • To ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.
  • To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us.
  • 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.

HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?

How long we keep your information for depends on the basis on which it was provided, generally however:

  • We will keep the information that is necessary to enable us to provide you with a service that you have requested through this website for as long as it takes us to provide that service.
  • We will keep your contact details for as long as we have your consent to send you marketing information and/or pass your contact details to third parties.
  • We will keep records of any transactions you enter into on this website up to a period of six years and no longer than reasonably necessary. This is so that we can respond to any complaints or disputes that arise in that period.
  • We will keep other information about you if it is necessary for us to do so to comply with the law.

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION

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 736 of the UK Companies Act 1985. 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 Express Finance (Bromley) 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 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 Express Finance (Bromley) Limited our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

CREDIT REFERENCE & FRAUD PROTECTION AGENCIES

Credit reference agencies (CRAs) collect and maintain information on consumers' and businesses' credit behaviour, on behalf of lenders in the UK. Although you have applied to us, The Money Shop, and we will check our own records, we will also contact CRAs to get information on your credit behaviour with other organisations. This will help us make the best possible assessment of your overall situation before we make any lending decisions. We may collect the following information;

  • Information on your personal accounts and other personal commitments
  • Financial information on associate's personal accounts if there are any financial links with you
  • Business accounts if you are a director or partner in a small business
  • Data held by fraud prevention agencies on you and your business if you have one

Information that is supplied to us will be sent to the credit reference agencies, who may keep a record of that information. If you give us false or inaccurate information and we suspect fraud, we will record this and may also pass this information to financial and other organisations involved in fraud protection to protect us, them and our respective customers from theft and fraud.

USE OF YOUR INFORMATION FOR MARKETING PURPOSES - YOUR RIGHTS

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 4th Floor Northside House, 69 Tweedy Road, Bromley, Kent, BR1 3WA or customersupport@paydayexpress.co.uk Our site 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.

ACCESS TO INFORMATION

You have the right to access information we hold about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. Any access request may be subject to a fee of £10 to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

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.

CONTACT

Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to Express Finance (Bromley) Limited of 4th Floor Northside House, 69 Tweedy Road, Bromley, Kent, BR1 3WA or customersupport@paydayexpress.co.uk

To find out more information about how credit reference agencies use your data you can contact 4 agencies currently operating in the UK; the information they hold may not be the same so it is worth contacting them all. They will charge you a small statutory fee;

CallCredit, Consumer Services Team, PO Box 491, Leeds LS3 1WZ or call 0870 0601414

Equifax Plc, Credit File Advice Centre, PO Box 3001, Bradford, BD1 5US or call 0870 010 0583 or log onto www.myequifax.co.uk

Experian, Consumer Help Service, PO Box 8000, Nottingham, NG80 7WF or call 0870 241 6212 or log onto www.experian.co.uk

Teletrack UK Ltd, PO Box 9424, Nottingham, NG9 9DS

If you want to receive details of those fraud prevention agencies from whom we may obtain and with whom we may record information about you, write to us at the above address.