Privacy Policy
Affinity is pleased to provide information to all of its customers about its online privacy policy. Please rest assured that Affinity uses its best efforts to protect the privacy of visitors to this website.
Club Affinity Limited ("Club Affinity"), is a company registered in England & Wales, Registered Company Number 4912333, Registered Office 257B Croydon Road, Beckenham, Kent BR6 3PS, England.
Club Affinity is a member of the Affinity Group ("the Group"). The Group ("we", "us") also includes Affinity Property Seminars Limited and Affinity Property Finance Limited and their associated companies from time to time. A list of these can be obtained by contacting us. This is a statement of the Group's policy concerning the collection and use of your personal information.
Information, Collection and Use
We collect information from our users at several different points on the website. This is to provide you with the services or information you have requested, to deal with your requests and enquiries, and to:
- Create an individual profile so that we can tailor our services to your specific requirements, identify issues that are important to you, and inform you of particular goods, services or events that may be of interest to you.
- Maintain our records and for administrative purposes.
- Carry out customer and market research.
- Protect our websites and systems against unauthorised access.
- Deal with any requests you make to attend an Affinity Property Seminar.
If you become a Club Affinity member, or ask us to provide mortgage broking or our other professional services, we will also use your information to administer these relationships. This will involving sharing your information within the Group, and with third parties such as underwriters, lenders, solicitors, valuers, where relevant to the service you have requested. It is optional for you to provide an e-mail address and fax number unless information has been specifically requested through that channel. If you provide us with information other than through this website, you will be told when you provide it how it will be used. We may disclose personal data if required to do so by law and to protect and defend the rights of us, or our website or users of our website.
Keeping you Informed
Members of the Group may contact you by post (if you provide your address), telephone, email, fax, or by short text or picture messaging with information, news, events and seminars on our property and financial services and those of relevant partners. We may pass your details to relevant partners whose products and services you may be interested in so that they can contact you in the same way. By providing your details through this website, you are agreeing to receive information of this type and by the methods stated, unless you tick the box provided when you submit your information. You can ask us at any time to stop sending you this information by emailing us or writing to us at the address in the contact us section. Please remember where you a Club Affinity member we may still contact you about the running of your membership and to provide membership benefits.
Cookies & Log Files
We use cookies ("packets" of data that a website can send and store on your computer) or similar technologies, to log the user's IP address and monitor how the website is used. This may show us which pages, functions or services are seen or used, which are the most popular areas of the site, when the site was accessed and for how long, and whether the user returns to the site. Much of this information is not personally identifiable and will be used by us to administer the site's systems, to compile statistics, and help us develop and improve the site and our services.
On our website you are able to save your login name so that it is automatically completed on subsequent visits. This facility is optional and will only store your login details. You can usually adjust your browser so that your computer rejects cookies. Information about cookies and how to remove them from your browser can be found from the Information Advertising Bureau at www.allaboutcookies.org.
Data Transfers Outside the UK
In providing you with the services you request, for example information about overseas properties, we may need to transfer your information to countries which do not have data protection laws as extensive as the UK. If so we will keep control of the information or require anyone we pass it to to treat it to UK standards.
Links to other sites
This website contains links to other sites. This privacy policy applies solely to information collected by www.affinitygroup.co.uk. Please be aware that the Group is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy policies of any third party sites.
Security
We have technological and operational procedures in place to protect this information from loss, misuse, alteration or destruction and our directors and employees are subject to strict obligations of confidentiality. We endeavour to take all reasonable steps to ensure your personal information is protected. To help protect your personal data and minimise the risk of it being intercepted by third parties, we offer the use of a secure server and use industry standard encryption when you submit information through our website. However we cannot guarantee the security of information which you send on-line. In particular you should not use email to send confidential or sensitive information. Please also refer to our terms & conditions regarding the security of your password.
Minors
We respect the importance of privacy for children. Our website, by the nature of the Group's business, is not knowingly designed for or directed at children under the age of 13 years. It is our policy never to knowingly collect data from children aged 13 or under.
Transfer or Sale of Business
If we sell the business or integrate it with another, or dispose of any rights relating to you, your details may be disclosed, subject to strict confidentiality undertakings, to our advisers and those of prospective purchasers. It will be passed on to any new owners of the business to be used in the same way as set out in this Privacy Policy.
Access to Your Personal Information
You have a right under the Data Protection Act 1998 upon written request and payment of a fee, to request a copy of the personal data which we hold about you.
Correcting/Updating Personal Information
Please help us ensure your records are kept up to date by notifying us of any changes in your personal details. If at any time you believe that we have not adhered to these principles or have any comments on our privacy policy, please contact us.