Quoote.com Privacy Policy
Our privacy policy is important and it is therefore essential that you read this. You will be deemed to have read and accepted this privacy policy if you continue to use our website. If you do not wish to be bound by our privacy policy then you should immediately leave our website. We reserve the right to change these terms from time to time and you should therefore check these terms regularly.
Quoote.com is a trading name of Interweb Media Limited, a company registered in England and Wales under company number 03819705 who are an Appointed Representative of Eversure Limited, a company registered in England and Wales under company number 6751893, both of which has their registered address at Bury House, 1-3 Bury St, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 4AW, United Kingdom. Eversure Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority under FCA number 501311 and are authorised to arrange and deal as an agent with respect to non-investment insurance policies. We are neither an insurance broker nor financial broker.
You can check this on the Financial Services Register by visiting the FCA’s website http://www.fsa.gov.uk/register/home.do or by contacting the FCA on 0800 111 6768.
In this privacy policy, "we", "our" and "us" means Interweb Media Limited, trading as Quoote.com and "you" and "your" means any person who accesses and uses this website.
We are committed to protecting the privacy of our customers as described by the Data Protection Act 1998. This policy explains how we handle personal information collected from customers of:
Interweb Media Limited
Bury House, 1-3 Bury St
Guildford
Surrey
GU2 4AW
United Kingdom
Interweb Media Limited is a registered data controller under the Data Protection Act 1998 in relation to the processing of any personal data in connection with our services. If you have any questions relating to our use of your personal data or any other data protection questions, please contact our Data Protection Officer at dpo@interwebmedia.com. Interweb Media Limited is registered with the Information Commissioner's Office under registration no Z1215237.
Links
Our website may contain links to a number of third party websites that are not subject to our privacy policy. Similarly, you may obtain an insurance quote from an insurance company or other financial institution after submitting a quote request, following which you may visit their website which is not subject to our privacy policy. We are not responsible for the availability or content of any third party website, and any links or quotations obtained from our website do not amount to any endorsement by us of that insurer’s or financial institution’s website and any use of that website by you is at your own risk.
General Data Collection
When you browse one of our websites we record standard details of your visit in our administration databases and our web server log files. This information is held for statistical and administration purposes only and is collected in a way which does not identify you. We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of our website. We will not associate any data gathered from this site with any personally identifying information from any source. The data collected includes:
- your IP (Internet Protocol) address;
- the pages you access and any documents downloaded from our website;
- where applicable and available, the previous website you visited and the search query you used to reach our website;
- the type of browser being used;
- the type of operating system being used.
Telephone Calls
Telephone calls may be recorded for training and security purposes.
Personal Information
We may collect and store personal information that you choose to give us via online forms, by telephone or by email. For example if you:
- complete a quotation request
- request to join one of our email lists
- request to join a discussion forum
- subscribe to one of our newsletters
- participate in an online survey / opinion poll
- participate in a quiz or competition
- complete a contact request form
If we receive your email address because you send us a message, your email address will only be used or disclosed for the purpose for which it has been provided and it will not be added to a mailing list or used or disclosed for any other purpose without the your consent.
If you give us personal information about another person, in doing so you confirm that they have given you permission to provide it to us, and that you have told them who we are and what we will use their data for, as set out in this privacy policy. We only use personal information collected via our websites for the purposes for which it was given to us.
Making a Purchase
You may not purchase an insurance or financial product whilst on our site. Should you make a purchase this will be purchased from an insurance company or financial institution that may or may not have contacted you after you used our website.
We may provide you with an opportunity to request a quotation whilst using our site and the information that you provide may be sent to up 6 members from our panel of carefully selected insurance companies and/or financial institutions. We and they will request and store information relevant to the purchase, such as your name, address, postcode, date of birth, email address, telephone numbers, gender and any other relevant details. The Insurance Company or financial institution will only use your information for the purposes of providing a quote and, if you decide to proceed, arranging your insurance cover - e.g. they would only use the telephone number to communicate or discuss a problem with arranging the quote, arranging the policy or providing you with cover. While we cannot guarantee this we do have contractual arrangements in place to prevent our providers from doing anything other than this, so please let us know if you receive any unwarranted contact from providers that feature on our site.
Electronic Data Storage and Security
By submitting your personal information, you agree that when necessary we may disclose your information to our insurance providers, financial institutions and their agents and service providers, some of which may be located outside the European Economic Area in countries providing less protection for personal data than the UK.
Whilst we take every reasonable precaution to keep your personal information secure, you should be aware that any communications over the internet, such as e-mails, are not secure unless they have been encrypted. Any personal information submitted to us may route through a number of countries before being delivered - this is the nature of the internet. We cannot accept responsibility for any unauthorised access or loss of personal information that is beyond our control.
Any personal information provided to us will be stored on password protected databases. Calls may be recorded for training and security purposes and any recordings will be stored on password protected databases.
Staff members associated with the maintenance of this website will have access to administration files and databases which are password protected. Our website server, hosted by our internet service provider, is also password protected.
We will take reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information we collect, use or disclose is accurate, complete, up-to-date and stored in a secure environment protected from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure.
Non-Electronic Data Storage and Security
Any personal data that is collected by us which is not stored electronically will be either immediately destroyed after use, or stored in a secure location protected from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure.
Information used for Marketing Purposes
When relevant, we may use your contact information to send out promotional material relating to our providers’ products and to send out information about our company. We may also use your email address to contact you on the same date each year to offer a new quotation, based on the information that you have already submitted to us. We may also occasionally notify you about important functionality changes to this website, new services and special offers by mail, telephone, SMS, or email to provide information that we think you will find valuable. You may opt-out of receiving future notifications by emailing us, or sending a message on our Contact Us form. Occasionally, we may also allow other very carefully selected companies to offer related products or services to you by mail, telephone, SMS, or email. If you do not wish to receive information of this kind you can opt-out of marketing when completing a purchase, by sending us an email, or via our 'Contact Us' page.
Disclosure of Personal Information
We may share any personal information supplied to us if one or more of the following applies:
- you have consented, including the completion of a quotation request
- if required to do so by any court, the Financial Conduct Authority, the Office of Fair Trading or any other applicable quasi-governmental law enforcement organisation or quasi-autonomous non-governmental law enforcement organisation ; and/or
- if required or permitted to do so by a law enforcement agency; and/or
- if required in connection with legal proceedings or potential legal proceedings; and/or
- if ownership of the website is transferred in part or full, in which case any new owner would only be permitted to use that information in a way prescribed by this Privacy Policy.
- it will prevent or lessen a serious and imminent threat to somebody's life or health
Information Exchange
We, the insurers or financial institutions may exchange information with other approved organisations, such as insurance providers, for underwriting, claims and fraud prevention purposes. Your insurance provider may also need to share your information for the administration and management of your policy. In addition, in the course of using information in normal business practices such as data backup, banking and professional advisers, we may disclose information to other parties where this is required or permitted by law and by any relevant data protection legislation.
Insurance providers may exchange information through a number of different databases, including the Claims and Underwriting Exchange (CUE), which holds a record of incidents reported to insurers by policyholders and third party claimants. This exchange of information enables the insurers to validate the information you provide, both about yourself and any other named person within the application, and aims to reduce insurance fraud.
Data Access and Correction
We will maintain and update personal information collected from our websites as necessary or when we are advised by users that their personal information has changed. In order to comply with data protection legislation, it is our policy to only deal with the person named on our database. Unless you instruct us otherwise, we will not deal with any other party, other than in extreme and exceptional circumstances.
Viewing Your Data
A full copy of all of the data that we hold about you in our database can be obtained by you but you must make the request in writing to: The Data Protection Officer, Interweb Media Limited, Bury House, 1-3 Bury St, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 4AW, United Kingdom. We reserve the right to charge an administration fee for providing this service.
Cookies
'Cookies' are small pieces of data that a web server can store on and later retrieve from your computer. Our websites store temporary and persistent cookies, which will either remain stored on your computer (until such time as they expire or they are deleted) or will be deleted when the browser window is closed. More information about cookies can be found at: http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
We may also allow very carefully selected third parties to place cookies when you visit our site. Third party cookies may be left by these selected companies who participate with us in marketing programmes. These cookies enable us to monitor which adverts you see and click. The information from the use of cookies may be aggregated to provide anonymous statistical information about the site in order that we may improve our service.
The cookies used on our websites are based on the International Chamber of Commerce guide for cookie categories, being either strictly necessary, performance, functionality or targeting:
'Strictly Necessary' cookies let you move around the website and use essential features like secure areas, quotation forms and online purchasing. These cookies don't gather any personal information that could be used for marketing or remembering where you've been on the internet.
'Performance' cookies collect information about how you use the website, such as the pages you visit and any errors. These cookies don't collect any information that could identify you, the information collected is anonymous and is used to help improve website layout and functionality, understand which parts of the website our customers find the most useful and improve the overall effectiveness of our websites.
Using our site indicates that you accept the use of 'Strictly Necessary' and 'Performance' cookies. Accepting these cookies is a condition of using the website, so if you prevent them we cannot guarantee how our site will perform for you.
Cookies used on our website:
| Cookie type | Name | Set by | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strictly Necessary | ASP.NET_SessionId | Quoote | This cookie is essential for the operation of many features on our site. It is set automatically when you arrive on the website. This cookie is deleted when you close your browser. |
| Strictly Necessary | _utma, _utmb, _utmc, _utmz | Google Analytics | These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from, the pages they visit, and if they have visited the website before. |
How to Control Cookies
If you wish to block Google Analytics cookies, Google offers an opt-out browser add-on for most modern web browsers.
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