Company details and regulation
equityreleasehampshire.co.uk is owned and managed by TERE Advisers Limited, a member of the Key Group.
Telephone calls may be monitored or recorded to enable us to improve our service to you. The Equity Release Experts is a trading name of TERE Advisers Limited which is an appointed representative of Key Retirement Solutions Limited, which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.
Registered in England No. 12269172.
Registered Office: Baines House, 4 Midgery Court, Fulwood, Preston, Lancs PR2 9ZH. Telephone: 0345 165 5955.
Our Information Commissioner’s Office registration number is ZA565573.
Key Retirement Solutions is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. The Financial Conduct Authority do not regulate estate planning services.
In this privacy policy references to “we”, “us” and “our” are to The Equity Release Experts. References to “our websites” or “the website” are to equityreleasehampshire.co.uk.
You can contact the Data Protection Officer for The Equity Release Experts at the address above.
The information we collect includes:
We supplement the information we collect from you with publicly available information from 3rd parties to assist with providing services to you – for example this may include additional contact information or geodemographic information.
Any personal information we collect about you will be used in accordance with the data protection laws. The details we collect will be used:
If we receive your data from a third party the categories of data that we collect may include, but are not limited to:
We will process this data in the same way as that collected by ourselves as shown below:
How we use your data | Lawful basis |
To provide you with the services you have requested | This is necessary for the performance of the contract to provide the services you have requested. |
To manage our relationship with you | This is in our legitimate interest of keeping you informed of our available products and services and keeping our records up to date. This is necessary to comply with the legal and regulatory requirements that apply to us. |
To provide you with information about our products and services. | This is in our legitimate interest of keeping you informed of our available products and services. You may opt-out at any time. |
To provide you with a recommendation for an Equity Release plan. | This is necessary for the performance of the contract to produce and provide your recommendation for an Equity Release plan. Health data will be processed only with your consent. Criminal Convictions data will be processed in our legitimate interest for the prevention of financial crime. |
To provide you with a referral to obtain personalised information about an Annuity. | This is necessary for the performance of the contract to produce and provide your Annuity information. |
To provide you with a referral for advice on estate planning (Wills, Trusts and Lasting Powers of Attorney and Funeral Plans) to Key Wills who are also part of the Key Group. | This is necessary for the performance of the contract to provide a referral for Advice on a Will, Trust, Lasting Power of Attorney, or Funeral Plan. |
We use cookies to monitor website usage to improve our online services for you | This is in our legitimate interests to improve our services. |
To run our business in an efficient and proper way. This includes managing our financial position, business capability, planning communications, corporate governance and audit. | This is in our legitimate interest to fulfil our legal and contractual duties efficiently. This is necessary to comply with the legal and regulatory requirements that apply to us. |
All of our data is held securely in keeping with ISO27001 standards (see section Protecting your information).
Here’s when we disclose information about you
Equity release
For referrals about estate planning, annuities, pensions or conventional mortgages we will pass your information to the appropriate Key Group company. You can see their privacy policy here www.keyadvice.co.uk/privacy-policy.
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) regulates all financial services business; if the FCA or any other regulatory body asks for access to customer records we would provide this information.
We may also share your personal data with other members of the Key Group in order to run our business in an efficient manner including for corporate governance or audit purposes.
Any personal data you provide to us during the course of an enquiry where you have not specified that you do not wish to be contacted in future will be retained and processed in order that we can keep you up to date with our services and market developments.
If you notify us that you do not wish to be contacted (either at the point of enquiry or subsequently) we will apply this immediately. If you have not transacted business with us, your personal data will be deleted from our systems within 2 years. Where you have transacted business with us your personal data will be retained indefinitely.
These retention periods also apply to the personal data of third parties acting on behalf of a customer including eligible complainants.
You have the right to:
Where you have provided consent for us to process your data, you have the right to withdraw the consent for the processing of that data.
If you believe that we are not processing your information correctly you should contact our Data Protection Officer at the above address. If you are not satisfied with our response you have the right to take your complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office (www.ico.org.uk).
We are committed to protecting the confidentiality and security of your information. As such any information collected via our website is encrypted and delivered to us through a secure environment and protected using robust security methods. Key Group maintains a comprehensive information security management system which ensures industry standard technical and administrative controls are in place for the protection of customer data.
Please note that there is no guarantee that any email sent will be received, or that the contents of any such email will remain private or unaltered during Internet transmission. For this reason we will not include any of your personal information by email without your prior permission, but will usually respond to your enquiries by telephone or post. If you have any such concerns, you may prefer to telephone or write to us instead. We accept no liability for any damages you or others may suffer as a result of the alteration or loss of confidentiality of any such information.
We reserve the right to monitor the use and content of emails which are sent from and received by us for the purposes of ensuring compliance with our own email policy, and identifying and taking action against unlawful or improper use of our systems, including, but not limited to, spoofing, the transmission of computer viruses and a denial of service attack.
Cookies are small pieces of information that a website can put on your hard drive in order for it to remember something about you at a later time. The information is in the form of a text file, which will only be understood by the web site that initially set the cookie. Our web site uses cookies for certain applications, for example to remember your name when filling in online forms. A cookie is also used to anonymously track how visitors interact with this website, including where they came from and what they did. This is then used to ultimately provide a better online experience for our websites users. You can stop your browser exchanging cookies with web servers at any time by changing the settings in your web browser. For more information about cookies visit www.aboutcookies.org.uk
We sometimes embed photos, videos or tweets from websites such as YouTube and twitter. Pages with this embedded content may present cookies from these websites. Similarly, if you use a share button on our website, a cookie may be set by the service you have chosen to share content through. We do not control the dissemination of these cookies. You should check the relevant third party website for more information about these.
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over the other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
Equity release will reduce the value of your estate and may also affect your entitlement to means-tested benefits. You should always think carefully before securing a loan against your home.
Unless you decide to go ahead our service is completely free of charge, as our fixed advice fee of £1,499 is only payable on completion of a plan.
A lifetime mortgage is the most popular form of equity release, and is a loan secured against your home that’s typically repaid when you pass away or go into long-term care.
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