Your information will be held by Blukite Network Limited (Blukite). This privacy notice is to let you know how we promise to look after your personal information. This includes what you tell us about yourself, what we learn by having you as a customer, and the choices you give us about what marketing you want us to send you. This notice also tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
We promise:
This section gives you the legal name of the company who holds your personal information – known as the ‘legal entity’ – and tells you how you can get in touch with us.
Contacting us about data privacy
Please use these details to contact us about any of the topics set out in this Privacy notice.
If you have any questions, or want more details about how we use your personal information, you can email us at info@blukite.net
If you are not satisfied with our response, you can contact our Group Data Protection Officer.
This section sets out the legal reasons we rely on, for each of the ways we may use your personal information.
As well as our Privacy Promise, your privacy is protected by law. This section explains how that works.
Data Protection law says that we are allowed to use personal information only if we have a proper reason to do so. This includes sharing it outside of Blukite. The law says we must have one or more of these reasons:
When we have a business or commercial reason of our own to use your information, this is called a ‘legitimate interest’. We will tell you what that is, if we are going to rely on it as the reason for using your data. Even then, it must not unfairly go against your interests.
The law and other regulations treat some types of sensitive personal information as special. This information is called ‘special categories of personal data’. We will not collect or use these types of data without your consent unless the law allows us to do so. If we do, it will only be when it is necessary:
Here is a list of all the ways that we may use your personal information, and which of the reasons we rely on to do so. This is also where we tell you what our legitimate interests are.
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This explains what all the different types of personal information mean, that are covered by data protection law.
We use many different kinds of personal information. They are grouped together like this. The groups are all listed here so that you can see what we may know about you, even if we simply get it from seeing which shops you buy things in. We don’t use all this data in the same way. Some of it is useful for marketing, or for providing services to you. But some of it is private and sensitive and we treat it that way.
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| Financial | Your financial position, status and history |
| Contact | Your name, where you live and how to contact you |
| Socio-Demographic | This includes details about your work or profession, nationality, education and where you fit into general social or income groupings |
| Transactional | Details about payments to and from your accounts with us, and insurance claims you make |
| Contractual | Details about the products or services we provide to you |
| Locational | Data we get about where you are. This may come from your mobile phone or the place where you connect a computer to the internet. It can also include shops where you buy something with your card |
| Behavioural | Details about how you use products and services from us and other organisations |
| Technical | Details on the devices and technology you use |
| Communications | What we learn about you from letters and emails you write to us and conversations between us |
| Social Relationships | Your family, friends and other relationships |
| Open Data and Public Records | Details about you that are in public records, such as the Electoral Register, and information about you that is openly available on the internet |
| Usage Data | Other data about how you use our products and services |
| Documentary Data | Details about you that are stored in documents in different formats, or copies of them. This could include things like your passport, drivers licence or birth certificate |
| Gender Identity | Information relating to the gender that you identify as |
| Special types of data | The law and other regulations treat some types of personal information as special. We will only collect and use these types of data if the law allows us to do so:
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| Consents | Any permissions, consents or preferences that you give us. This includes things like how you want us to contact you, whether you get paper statements, or prefer large-print formats |
| National Identifier | A number or code given to you by a government to identify who you are, such as a National Insurance number or social security number, or Tax Identification Number (TIN) |
This section lists all the places where we get data that counts as part of your personal information.
We may collect personal information about you (or your business) from authorised third party service providers:
Data you give to us
This covers data given by you as well as data provided by people linked with you or your business’s product or service, or people working on your behalf. This could mean a joint account holder, trustee, or fellow company director.
Data we collect when you use our services
This covers two things: details about how and where you access our services, and account activity that is shown on your statement.
Data from outside organisations
This section explains how long we may keep your information for and why.
We will keep your personal information for as long as you are a customer.
We may keep your data for up to 10 years after you stop being a customer. The reasons we may do this are:
We will only use your personal information for those purposes and will make sure that your privacy is protected.
You can choose not to give us personal information. In this section we explain the effects this may have.
We may need to collect personal information by law, or to enter into or fulfil a contract we have with you.
If you choose not to give us this personal information, it may delay or prevent us from fulfilling our contract with you, or doing what we must do by law. It may also mean that we cannot run your accounts or policies. It could mean that we cancel a product or service you have with us.
We sometimes ask for information that is useful, but not required by law or a contract. We will make this clear when we ask for it. You do not have to give us these extra details and it won’t affect the products or services you have with us.
This section explains how we use data on our websites, apps and emails.
We may use cookies and similar tracking technologies on our websites and apps, and in emails we send you.
Cookies
Cookies are small computer files that get sent down to your PC, tablet or mobile phone by websites when you visit them. They stay on your device and get sent back to the website they came from, when you go there again. Cookies store information about your visits to that website, such as your choices and other details. Some of this data does not contain personal details about you or your business, but it is still protected by this Privacy notice.
Email tracking
We track emails to help us improve the communications we send. We use small images called pixels within our emails to tell us things like whether you opened the email, how many times and the device you used. We may also set a cookie to find out if you clicked on any links in the email.
To find out more about how we use cookies and email tracking, please see our Cookie Policy.
This section gives details of how to contact us to make a complaint about data privacy. It also shows you where you can get in touch with the government regulator.
Please let us know if you are unhappy with how we have used your personal information.
You can contact us using our secure online contact form. You also have the right to complain to the regulator, and to lodge an appeal if you are not happy with the outcome of a complaint.
In the UK this is the Information Commissioner’s Office. Find out on their website how to report a concern.
This section explains what to do if you change your mind about a consent you have given.
You can withdraw your consent at any time. Please contact us if you want to do so.
This will only affect the way we use information when our reason for doing so is that we have your consent. See the section ‘Your Rights’ about more generally restricting use of your information.
If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. If this is so, we will tell you.
Here you can find out how to contact us if you think the information we hold for you is wrong, incomplete, or out of date.
You have the right to question any information we have about you that you think is incorrect. We’ll take reasonable steps to check this for you and correct it.
If you want to do this you can complete the contact form on our website at www.blukite.net or send an email to info@blukite.net.
This section tells you where to write to us to get a copy of your personal information, and how to ask for a digital file you can use yourself or share easily with others. You can do this online or by writing to us.
You can get a copy of all the personal information we hold about you by writing to us at this address: Unit 36-37 Tondu Enterprise Centre, Bryn Road, Aberkenfig, Bridgend, Wales, CF32 9BS
When you want to share your data with outside companies
You also have the right to get certain personal information from us as a digital file, so you can keep and use it yourself, and give it to other organisations if you choose to.
If you wish, we will provide it to you in an electronic format that can be easily re-used, or you can ask us to pass it on to other organisations for you. If you want to do this please email us at info@blukite.net.
What if you want us to stop using your personal information? This section explains about your right to object and other data privacy rights you have – as well as how to contact us about them.
You can object to us keeping or using your personal information. This is known as the ‘right to object’.
You can also ask us to delete, remove, or stop using your personal information if there is no need for us to keep it. This is known as the ‘right to erasure’ or the ‘right to be forgotten’.
There may be legal or other official reasons why we need to keep or use your data. But please tell us if you think that we should not be using it.
We may sometimes be able to restrict the use of your data. This means that it can only be used for certain things, such as legal claims or to exercise legal rights.
You can ask us to restrict the use of your personal information if:
If we do restrict your information in this way, we will not use or share it in other ways while it is restricted.
If you want to object to how we use your data, or ask us to delete it or restrict how we use it you can email your request to us at info@blukite.net.
We may share your personal information with outside organisations such as credit card providers, insurers, or tax authorities. This is so that we can provide you with products and services, run our business, and obey rules that apply to us. Here we list all the types of organisations that we may share your personal information with.
We may share your personal information with other companies in Blukite Group.
Authorities – This means official bodies that include:
Law enforcement and fraud prevention agencies.
Outside companies we work with to provide services to you and to run our business.
Other services and schemes
These are organisations that we may need to share your personal information with, because of what you can do with the product or service you have with us.
Outside companies we use to provide our services, help grow and improve our business.
We may also share your personal information if the ownership of products or services or the make-up of Blukite changes in the future:
We may share or sell some data to other companies outside Blukite, but only when it is grouped so that no-one’s identity can be known or found out.
We combine data in this way so we can look for general patterns and trends. For instance, we might look at customers in one age group shopping for clothes. We could look at one area of the UK, or the average amount spent in one month. But we would not include any data about who these customers are. When we combine data this way, we use all the information – including historical data – that we hold about you and our other customers.
We do this to learn about the types of customers we have, how they use our products, and how our products perform for them. The law says this is not considered to be personal information after it has been grouped in this way.
We use marketing to let you know about products, services and offers that you may want from us. This section tells you how we decide what marketing to show or send you. It also explains how we work out what you may be interested in.
We may use your personal information to make decisions about what products, services and offers we think you may be interested in. This is what we mean when we talk about ‘marketing’.
We can only use your personal information to send you marketing messages if we have either your consent or a ‘legitimate interest’. That is when we have a business or commercial reason to use your information. It must not conflict unfairly with your own interests.
The personal information we have for you is made up of what you tell us, and data we collect when you use our services, or from outside organisations we work with. We study this to form a view on what we think you may want or need, or what may be of interest to you. This is how we decide which products, services and offers may be relevant for you.
This is called profiling for marketing purposes. You can contact us at any time and ask us to stop using your personal information this way.
If you allow it, we may show or send you marketing material online (on our own and other websites including social media), in our own and other apps, or by email, mobile phone, or post or through smart devices and other digital channels.
What you get will depend on marketing choices that you set. You can change these at any time and tell us to stop sending you marketing.
You can also tell us not to collect data while you are using our websites or mobile apps. If you do, you will still see some marketing, but it will not be tailored to you. See our Cookies Policy for details about how we use this data to improve our websites and mobile apps.
Whatever you choose, you’ll still receive statements and other important information such as changes to your existing products and services.
We do not sell the personal information we have about you to outside organisations.
We may ask you to confirm or update your choices, if you take out any new products or services with us in future. We will also ask you to do this if there are changes in the law, regulation, or the structure of our business.
If you change your mind, you can contact us to update your choices at any time.
Here we tell you how we use automated systems to make decisions about you and your money. We also explain the rights you have to challenge decisions made this way.
We sometimes use systems to make automated decisions about you or your business. This helps us to make sure our decisions are quick, fair, efficient, and correct, based on what we know. Automated decisions can affect the products, services or features we may offer you now or in the future, or the price that we charge you for them. They are based on personal information that we have or that we are allowed to collect from others.
Here are the types of automated decision we make:
Pricing
We may decide what to charge for some products and services based on what we know.
Tailoring products, services, offers and marketing
We may place you in groups with similar customers. These are called customer segments. We use these to study and learn about our customers’ needs, and to make decisions based on what we learn. This helps us to design products, services and offers for different customer segments, and to manage our relationships with them.
We also use customer segments from outside companies we work with – such as social networks – by asking them for groups of people who are similar to you or have interests that are like yours in some ways. These companies help us look for new customers who may be interested in products, services or offers that our existing customers are interested in.
This helps us tailor the marketing that individuals receive or are shown on our own and other websites and mobile apps, including social media. It also helps us to design products, services and offers for different customer segments, and to manage our relationships with them.
Detecting fraud
We use your personal information to help decide if your personal or business accounts may be being used for fraud or money-laundering. We may detect that an account is being used in ways that fraudsters work. Or we may notice that an account is being used in a way that is unusual for you or your business. If we think there is a risk of fraud, we may stop activity on the accounts or refuse access to them.
Opening accounts
When you open an account with us or integrate with our network, we check that the product or service is relevant for you, based on what we know. We also check that you or your business meet the conditions needed to provide you with our service. This may include checking age, residency, nationality, or financial position. It may mean we cannot offer you the facilities you want.
Your rights
You can object to an automated decision we have made and ask that a person reviews it.
If you want to know more about these rights, please contact us.
This section explains how we work with outside companies to decide whether to lend you money through products like credit cards or other forms of deferred payment. It explains what we do and why we do it.
We carry out credit and identity checks when you apply for a product or services for you or your business. We may use Credit Reference Agencies to help us with this.
If you use our services, from time to time we may also search information that the CRAs have, to help us manage those accounts.
We will share your personal information with CRAs, and they will give us information about you. The data we exchange can include:
We’ll use this data to:
We will go on sharing your personal information with CRAs for as long as you are a customer. This will also include details of funds going into the account, and the account balance.
If you apply for a product with someone else, we will link your records with theirs. We will do the same if you tell us you have a spouse, partner or civil partner – or that you are in business with other partners or directors.
You should tell them about this before you apply for a product or service. It is important that they know your records will be linked together, and that credit searches may be made on them.
CRAs will also link your records together. These links will stay on your files unless one of you asks the CRAs to break the link. You will normally need to give proof that you no longer have a financial link with each other.
You can find out more about the CRAs on their websites, in the Credit Reference Agency Information Notice. This includes details about:
This section deals with information we share outside our group to help fight financial crime. This includes crimes such as fraud, money-laundering and terrorist financing.
We may need to confirm your identity before we provide products or services to you or your business. This may include carrying out fraud checks at the point of sale.
Once you have become a customer of ours, we will share your personal information as needed to help combat fraud and other financial crime. The organisations we share data with are:
Throughout our relationship with you, we and these organisations exchange data between us to help prevent, deter, detect and investigate fraud and money-laundering.
None of us can use your personal information unless we have a proper reason to do so. It must be needed either for us to obey the law, or for a ‘legitimate interest’.
When we have a business or commercial reason of our own to use your information, this is called a ‘legitimate interest’. We will tell you what that is, if we are going to rely on it as the reason for using your data. Even then, it must not unfairly go against your interests.
We will use the information to:
We or an FPA may allow law enforcement agencies to access your personal information. This is to support their duty to prevent, detect, investigate, and prosecute crime.
These other organisations can keep personal information for different lengths of time, up to six years.
The information we use
These are some of the kinds of personal information that we use:
Automated decisions for fraud prevention
The information we have for you or your business is made up of what you tell us, and data we collect when you use our services, or from third parties we work with.
We and other organisations acting to prevent fraud may process your personal information in systems that look for fraud by studying patterns in the data. We may find that an account or policy is being used in ways that fraudsters work. Or we may notice that an account is being used in a way that is unusual for you or your business. Either of these could indicate a risk that fraud or money-laundering may be carried out against a customer or a bank.
How this can affect you
If we or an FPA decide there is a risk of fraud, we may stop activity on the accounts or block access to them. FPAs and cross-industry organisations may also keep a record of the risk that you or your business may pose.
This may result in other organisations refusing to provide you with products or services, or to employ you.
Data transfers out of the UK and EEA
FPAs and other organisations we share data with for these purposes may send personal information to countries outside the UK and European Economic Area (‘EEA’). When they do, there will be a contract in place to make sure the recipient protects the data to the same standard as the EEA. This may include following international frameworks for making data sharing secure.
Here is the web page for the information notice of the main Fraud Prevention Agency we use:
CIFAS – https://www.cifas.org.uk/fpn
This section tells you about the safeguards that keep your personal information safe and private, if it is sent outside the UK and EEA.
We will only send your data outside of the European Economic Area (‘EEA’) to:
If we do transfer your personal information outside the UK and EEA to our suppliers, we will make sure that it is protected to the same extent as in the UK and EEA. We will use one of these safeguards:
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