Data Protection Statement
Data Protection and Client Privacy
The following information informs you of your rights and our usage policy in respect to the information that we may hold on you and lets you know both what we do with it, and also what you can reasonably demand of us in the handling of your business related information. Fit To Lend Financial Services is registered and fully complies with all aspects of the Data Protection Act 1998.
Data Protection
Fit To Lend Financial Services collect personal and non-personal information on it’s websites fittolend.com and test.fittolend.com and from clients via face to face meetings and telephone discussions. Fit To Lend Financial Services is committed to protecting the privacy of its users and have created this Privacy Statement in order to describe and explain to users our information collection practice. If you have any questions or concerns in connection with Fit To Lend Financial Services information collection practice summarized in this statement, please send an e-mail with the subject heading “Privacy Statement Question,” to info@fittolend.com In the e-mail, please clearly state your questions or concerns.
What Information Is Collected?
To obtain certain services offered on this web site, a user is asked to provide varying amounts of personal information. On pages requiring you to submit personal or business information, we request this information to help us define your requirements and improve our speed and quality of response.
Activities or services that require provision of personal information generally seek full name, email address, and phone number. Depending on the activity or service a user desires, we also may request further business information, such as mobile or cell phone and mailing address. We endeavour to limit our requests for personal information to information we believe is necessary to provide our clients with a high quality of service.
How Does Fit To Lend Financial Services Use My Information?
Personal information is collected and used primarily for such purposes as, for example, facilitating information on-line or assessing a potential client.
We may also use a user’s email address, phone number or business address to obtain feedback or further information relating to a user’s request to us; or to notify a user of new products or services that we think may be of interest; or on other aspects of our business that impact you as a Fit To Lend Financial Services customer.
If a user prefers not to receive email or other forms of communication unrelated to Fit To Lend Financial Services requests for services, the user may opt-out from receiving such communication. The opt-out procedure is discussed in detail below.
We do not sell, rent, share, or otherwise dispose of the personal information collected on fittolend.com or test.fittolend.com to any third party or other commercial agencies. We will however supply information gathered from these web sites for the submission of loan and finacing applications. In such cases clients will be advised of the parties involved prior to those applications being made.
We may, however, disclose your personal information when required by law or in the good-faith belief that such disclosure is necessary to comply with law.
How Can I Opt-Out?
We provide a user with the opportunity to opt-out from receiving updates on any new Fit To Lend Financial Services generated communications. The opt-out option may be exercised by the user simply by sending an email with ‘opt-out’ to in the header or subject line to info@fittolend.com.
You can select not to be contacted in the future if you wish to not receive any information with respect to and our products. You may also ask us to delete your records. Account deletion will erase all past entries in regards to your interaction history with Fit To Lend Financial Services.
What Are Cookies and How Does Fit To Lend Financial Services Use Them?
A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer’s hard drive. “Cookie” technology is used for several purposes. First, it is used to track general information about our web users. The information collected through cookies is non-personal information and is used generally statistical and market research purposes. Cookies also establish a link between your computer and the sending party. This link assures that, when you return to the sending party, you will be able to log in and be recognised by the host server without the necessity of providing your password or identifying your computer. You have choices with respect to cookies. By modifying your browser preferences, you have the choice to accept all cookies, to be notified when a cookie is set, or to reject all cookies. You can still participate in different activities and obtain services offered by Fit To Lend Financial Services if you chose not to accept cookies.
Does Our Privacy Policy Apply to Linked Websites?
Our Privacy Statement applies solely to information collection practice on fittolend.com and test.fittolend.com. These web sites may, from time to time, contain links to other web sites. Please be aware that Fit To Lend Financial Services has no control or influence over the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave details on other linked sites and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that they visit.
How Does Fit To Lend Financial Services Secure Data Transmission?
As there is no requirement to send personally sensitive information between our users and Fit To Lend Financial Services. At the moment we do not use industry-standard, SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encryption. Whilst we strive to protect your submitted information, Fit To Lend Financial Services cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or from our on-line website, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems using a centrally administered and password protected database.
Can I Correct/Update the Information Collected About Me?
You have the right to correct or update the personal information collected about you by Fit To Lend Financial Services. To correct or update personal information, a user should write or email the company using the contact details contained in the site.
If we later change our Privacy Statement, we will post those changes on our homepage so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personal information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by email. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner.