Privacy
Privacy Statement and the Data Protection Act 1998
AST Check will treat all your personal information as private and confidential (even when you are no longer a customer), except where disclosure is made at your request or with your consent or where we are required by law to disclose. We may hold your details for a minimum of 14 months.
AST Check will use your information for the purposes of administration, to source your financial products marketing, customer services, analysing your purchasing preferences and customer profiling. If you do not wish to receive information on other products and services, please write to: The Data Controller, AST Check Limited, Red Holme House, Martinsend Lane, Great Missenden HP16 9BH.
Privacy Policy
Before using the AST Check website, you should note the following points:
- In order to deliver an effective service to you it is necessary for AST Check to store personal information about you and / or your Company.
- If you Register to use the AST Check website then we will treat all information supplied to us in accordance with this document.
- We will not pass on any details supplied to us to any other organisation without your express permission.
- If you visit the AST Check website, having been introduced to AST Check by a third party website, then information supplied by you to us may be passed on to the relevant third party only.
- Our privacy policy does not extend to any third party websites that you might visit via the AST Check website, or be directed to the AST Check website from.
- All necessary information supplied to AST Check will be processed and stored on a secure server and may be used during future visits to the site to facilitate easy repeated use. The transaction process will use data, encrypted using a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) session. Note that some older versions of Web Browsers do not support this facility. Therefore you should ensure that the Web Browser you will use supports SSL.
Data Protection Notice
Use of Personal Information
Information you provide or we, AST Check Limited hold (whether or not under this Policy), may be used by us, our employees and / or agents to:
- identify you when you make telephone enquiries;
- help administer any accounts, services and products offered by us now or in the future;
- help us detect fraud or loss;
- keep you updated on any current candidate verification or employment screening transaction specific to you or your Company and undertaken at your request;
- keep you up to date with changes to the current services that we offer. Any email transmitted to you and carrying such information will also indicate a procedure to stop all such future contact. If you do not want to receive this secondary information please let us know by contacting Customer Services by telephone (01494 865563) or email (info@ASTCheck.co.uk); and
- for marketing purposes where we have carefully selected products and services of AST Check Limited and associated companies, which we feel to be of importance to you.
All storage, use and transmission of personal information relating to an individual or a Company is subject to the Data Protection Act. You can obtain a copy of all the details held by applying in writing, enclosing an administration fee of £10, to the following address: The Data Controller, AST Check Limited, Red Holme House, Martinsend Lane, Great Missenden HP16 9BH.
Credit Reference Agencies
We may search the files of credit reference agencies who will record the search. This information may be shared with credit grantors and used for credit decisions and fraud prevention.
Third Party Agencies
We will also provide your information to relevant third parties such as insurers in order to achieve your various requirements. Except where AST Check is required to disclose by law, we will treat all your information as confidential, even when you are no longer a customer and (unless we are required to do so by law) will not disclose any such information except where a disclosure is made at your request or with your consent.
Where necessary you consent to our processing data that is defined as sensitive by the Data Protection Act such as data relating to your health or offences for the above purposes. AST Check its agents and sub-contractors will apply appropriate technical and organisational measures against the unauthorised processing of personal data and against accidental loss of, or damage to personal data. By providing your data you agree to your data being used and transferred as stated above.
Contacting Us
You can obtain a copy of all the details held by applying in writing, enclosing an administration fee of £10, to the following address: The Data Controller, AST Check Limited, AST Check Limited, Red Holme House, Martinsend Lane, Great Missenden HP16 9BH.
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