Abbey Life Data Protection Notices
Keeping your information secure
At Abbey Life we recognise that one of our fundamental responsibilities is to ensure that we protect the information entrusted to us by our clients, our website visitors and all those with whom we communicate. Our information technology infrastructure, business processes and contracts with third parties are developed with this firmly in mind.
Information collected through the website
We do not generally seek to identify our website visitors or collect information regarding their use of this site. In order to improve our website, we may track which pages you visit and for how long, but we will not use this information to identify you personally.
Where website visitors do provide us with information about themselves, such as through enquiry forms, we will only use it for the stated purposes and ensure that it is only available to those with a legitimate need to have access to it. Where website visitors wish to provide us with information relating to other individuals, they must obtain prior consent from the people concerned.
Disclosures
We will only use your personal information, or disclose it to third parties, as permitted or required by law.
We may transfer your information to countries which have a lower standard of data protection than in the UK. Wherever practicable, however, we will require the recipients to provide an appropriate level of protection for your information.
Information retention
We will only retain information about you for as long as necessary to fulfil the purpose for which it was collected or to comply with legal or internal policy requirements. However, if a website visitor wants his or her personal data removed from our databases, we will delete their information upon written request, so long as permitted by legal and regulatory rules.
Cookies
We may use “cookies” to enhance your user experience while visiting our website. Cookies are small files which are stored on your hard drive. There are two different types of cookies. Session cookies are temporary and erased when you close your browser. Persistent cookies remain on your hard drive until you erase them or they expire. We may use persistent cookies to recognise previous visitors when they return but only the cookie on your computer is identified. Most web browsers can be set to prevent you from receiving new cookies, notify you before accepting cookies or disable cookies altogether. The instructions for this can often be found via your browser’s Help function. You can delete cookies already on your hard drive at any time. If you choose to disable cookies, this may result in a reduced availability of the services provided by our website.
Scope of this notice
The terms of this notice may be revised from time to time and are subject to any particular contractual terms you have entered into with us. It is not applicable to any internet websites controlled by third parties not affiliated with Abbey Life that this website may link to. You should therefore review the privacy policy on any such third party websites in order to understand their privacy practices. We assume no liability for the contents of such third party websites.
Queries
Under data protection law you have a right of access to some or all of the information Abbey Life holds about you, for which Abbey Life may charge a small fee. You also have a right to correct inaccurate data. You should contact Abbey Life in writing if you wish to exercise either of these rights.