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INTRODUCTION
Welcome to our website. If you continue to browse and use this website you are agreeing to comply with and be bound by the following terms and conditions of use, which together with our Privacy Policy govern TH March & Co. Limited’s relationship with you in relation to this website. The term “TH March & Co. Limited or TH March Insurance Broker” or “us” or “we” refers to the owner of the website whose registered address is 10/12 Ely Place, London, EC1N 6RY. Our company registration number is 116175 Registered in England. The term in “you” refers to the user or viewer of our website. If you apply for any goods or services mentioned on this website these Terms and Conditions of Website Usage should be read in conjunction with our Terms of Business which are detailed separately on this website or are available upon request. In the event of any conflict our Terms of Business shall override the Terms and Conditions of Website Usage.
The use of this website is subject to the following terms of use:
The content of the pages of this website is for your general information and use only. It is subject to change without notice.
Neither we nor any third parties provide any warranty or guarantee as to the accuracy, timeliness, performance, completeness or suitability of the information and materials found or offered on this website for any particular purpose. You acknowledge that such information and materials may contain inaccuracies or errors and we expressly exclude liability for any such inaccuracies or errors to the fullest extent permitted by law.
Your use of any information or materials on this website is entirely at your own risk, for which we shall not be liable. It shall be your own responsibility to ensure that any products, services or information available through this website meet your specific requirements.
This website contains material which is owned by or licensed to us. This material includes, but is not limited to, the design, layout, look, appearance and graphics. Reproduction is prohibited other than in accordance with the Copyright Notice, which forms part of these terms and conditions.
All trademarks reproduced in this website, which are not the property of, or licensed to the operator, are acknowledged on the website.
You may use our site only for lawful purposes. Unauthorised use of this website may give rise to a claim for damages and/or be a criminal offence. Unauthorised use includes but is not restricted to knowingly introducing viruses or other technologically harmful material, attempting to gain unauthorised access such as by hacking or by attacking the website including denial of service attacks.
Your use of this website and any dispute arising out of such use of the website is subject to the laws of England and Wales.
We will not be liable for any loss or damage if for any reason this website is unavailable or suspended for whatever reason including as a result of technical problems.
We can not provide any warranty or guarantee that our website is free of viruses or any other technically harmful material.
All material on this website is the copyright of TH March & Co. Limited. Any redistribution, modification or reproduction of all or any part of such material is prohibited other than as follows
You may print, or download in electronic form to disc, individual pages for your personal non-commercial use only.
You may copy material on our website to third parties for their personal non-commercial use provided you acknowledge our website as the source of the material.
Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that are sent to and stored on your computer, smartphone or other device that you use for accessing the internet, whenever you visit a website. Cookies are useful as they help us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allow us to improve our site so that we can provide you with a better service. To facilitate optimal use of our website, we use a temporary ” session ” cookie which disappears when your browser session ends. In addition, we use Google Analytics cookies, a popular independent measurement and research service provided by Google Inc. to gather non-personal data regarding the number and frequency of visitors to our site and to see how they move around our site when they are using it. Further information regarding Google Analytics privacy statement can be found at www.google.com/privacy. If you do not wish us to use cookies in your web browser you can normally modify your browser to decline or prevent cookies. For information on deleting or controlling cookies please refer to your file management software or go to www.AboutCookies.org. Please note that by deleting our cookies or disabling future cookies you may not be able to access certain areas or features of our site.
From time to time this website may also include links to other websites. These links are provided for your convenience to provide further information. They do not signify that we endorse such websites. We have no responsibility for the content of the linked website.
Deep links: You may link other websites or documents to our home page www.thmarch.co.uk without our permission. All other deep links require our written permission.
TH March & Co. Limited (also referred to as “we”, “us”, or “our”) is a registered company in England (Company no. 116175). Our registered address is 10/12 Ely Place, London EC1N 6RY
This Notice is designed to help you understand what kind of information we collect in connection with our products and services and how we will process and use this information. In the course of providing you with products and services we will collect and process information that is commonly known as personal data.
This Notice describes how we collect, use, share, retain and safeguard personal data.
This Notice sets out your individual rights; we explain these later in the Notice but in summary these rights include your right to know what data is held about you, how this data is processed and how you can place restrictions on the use of your data.
Personal data is information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. Examples include an individual’s name, age, address, date of birth, their gender and contact details.
Personal data may contain information which is known as special categories of personal data. This may be information relating to an individual’s health, racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, genetic and biometric data, or data relating to or sexual orientation.
Personal data may also contain data relating to criminal convictions and offences.
For the purposes of safeguarding and processing criminal conviction and offence data responsibly, this data is treated in the same manner as special categories of personal data.
In order for us to arrange and administer insurance for you we will collect and process personal data about you. We will also collect your personal data where you request information about our services, customer events, promotions and campaigns.
We may also need to collect personal data relating to others in order to arrange and administer insurance. In most circumstances, you will provide us with this information. Where you disclose the personal data of others, you must ensure you are entitled to do so.
You may provide us with personal data when completing online quote or contact forms, when you contact us via the telephone, when writing to us directly or where we provide you with paper based forms for completion or we complete a form in conjunction with you.
We will share your personal data within our group of companies and with business partners. This is normal practice within the insurance industry where it is necessary to share information in order to place, quantify and underwrite risks, to assess overall risk exposure and to process claims. It is also necessary to determine the premium payable and to administer our business.
We also share personal data with authorised third parties, this is necessary where we are required to do so by law, where we need to administer our business, to quote for, source, place and administer your insurances including arranging insurance premium finance, to perform underwriting activities and to process claims. Some examples follow:
We will collect your personal data when you visit our website, where we will collect your unique online electronic identifier; this is commonly known as an IP address.
We will also collect electronic personal data when you first visit our website where we will place a small text file that is commonly known as a cookie on your computer. Cookies are used to identify visitors and to simplify accessibility, and to monitor visitor behaviour when viewing website content, navigating our website and when using features. For more information please see our Cookie Policy.
We may record your communications with us when contacting our customer care, complaints and other customer focused functions. We are occasionally asked to supply personal data through the use of telematics or similar locational tracking services, where you have agreed to the use of this particular service.
Where we collect data directly from you, we are considered to be the controller of that data i.e. we are the data controller. Where we use third parties to process your data, these parties are known as processors of your personal data. Where we or other parties are involved in underwriting or administering your insurance we/they may also process your data in which circumstance we will be a joint data controller of your personal data.
A data ‘controller’ means the individual or organisation which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data.
A data ‘processor’ means the individual or organisation which processes personal data on behalf of the controller.
As a provider of insurance services, we will process the following categories of data:
If you object to the collection, sharing and use of your personal data we may be unable to provide you with our products and services.
For the purposes of meeting the relevant legislation territorial scope requirements, the United Kingdom is identified as the named territory where the processing of personal data takes place.
If you require more information about our insurance processes or further details on how we collect personal data and with whom we share data, please contact our Yelverton office on 01822 855 555 or e-mail insurance@thmarch.co.uk.
We will use your personal data for the performance of our contract with you, to quote for and provide you with insurance products and services, to process claims and renewals, to administer your policy and our business, to respond to any requests from you about services we provide and to process complaints. We will also use your personal data to manage your account, perform statistical analysis on the data we collect, for financial planning and business forecasting purposes, and to develop new products and services as well as improve existing ones and keep you informed of these.
We will use the special category and criminal conviction data we collect about you for the performance of our contract with you. This allows us to quote for and provide you with insurance products and services, to process claims and renewals and to administer your policy.
In purchasing our products and services you should understand that you are forming a contract with us. If you contact us for a quote or request details on the services we provide, we consider ourselves as having a legitimate business interest to provide you with further information about our services.
In some situations we may request your consent to market our products and services to you, to share your data or to transfer your data outside the European Economic Area. Where we require consent, your rights and what you are consenting to will be clearly communicated to you. Where you provide consent, you can withdraw this at any time by contacting us.
We will retain your personal data at the end of any contractual agreement in line with our retention of records policy, details of which are available on request. Generally this will be for a minimum of 6 years, or longer when any type of liability cover is involved. Where you or law enforcement agencies inform us about any active investigation or potential criminal prosecution, we will comply with legal requirements when retaining this data.
The retaining of data is necessary where required for contractual, legal or regulatory purposes or for our legitimate business interests for statistical analysis, product development and the purposes of keeping you informed on products and services.
Sometimes we may need to retain your data for longer, for example if we are representing you or defending ourselves in a legal dispute or as required by law or where evidence exists that a future claim may occur.
You should be aware that we use automated decision making (services/tools and techniques) to check for customer suitability to our products, for example we might perform a credit search to check an individual’s solvency and credit rating. We also analyse data to identify products and services that customers may be interested in; this is commonly known as profiling. You have the right to object to the use of profiling activities and the use of automated decision making (services/tools and techniques).
Please contact us if you object to the use of, or you have any questions relating to the use of your data and the retention of your personal data or the use of profiling and automated decision making services/tools and techniques. You can opt out of receiving communications about products and services you may be interested in by e-mailing digital@thmarch.co.uk or by telephone or, where available, by clicking on the opt out option appearing on our emails.
We may transfer your data to third parties based outside the European Economic Area. This may be necessary for the purposes of administering out business and underwriting and claims processing purposes. Such parties are not permitted to use your personal data for any other purpose than for what has been agreed with us. These parties are also required to safeguard your personal data through the use of appropriate technical and organisational data security measures and are prohibited from disclosing or sharing your data with other third parties without our prior authorisation, or unless as required by law.
Please contact us for a list of countries and organisations your personal data may be transferred to and/or for further information on the measures undertaken to safeguard your data.
Individuals are provided with legal rights governing the use of their personal data. These grant individuals the right to understand what personal data relating to them is held, for what purpose, how it is collected and used, with whom it is shared, where it is located, to object to its processing, to have the data corrected if inaccurate, to take copies of the data and to place restrictions on its processing. Individuals can also request the deletion of their personal data.
These rights are known as Individual Rights under the Data Protection Act 2018. The following list details these rights:
Individuals can exercise their Individual Rights at any time. As mandated by law we will not charge a fee to process these requests, however if your request is considered to be repetitive, wholly unfounded and/or excessive, we are entitled to charge a reasonable administration fee.
In exercising your Individual Rights, you should understand that in some situations we may be unable to fully meet your request, for example if you make a request for us to delete all your personal data, we may be required to retain some data for taxation, prevention of crime and for regulatory and other statutory purposes.
You should understand that when exercising your rights, a substantial public or vital interest may take precedence over any request you make. In addition, where these interests apply, we are required by law to grant access to this data for law enforcement, legal and/or health related matters.
The flow of data within the insurance sector is complex and we ask you to keep this in mind when exercising your ‘rights of access’ to your information. Where we may be reliant on other organisations to help satisfy your request this may impact on timescales.
If you require further information on your Individual Rights or you wish to exercise your Individual Rights, please contact us by e-mailing insurance@thmarch.co.uk or by writing to The Compliance Manager, TH March & Co. Limited, Hare Park House, Yelverton Business Park, Yelverton, PL20 7LS.
We will take all appropriate technical and organisational steps to protect the confidentiality, integrity, availability and authenticity of your data, including when sharing your data within our group of companies and authorised third parties.
To ensure data privacy and protection has appropriate focus within our organisation we have a Data Privacy Representative who reports to our senior management team. The Data Privacy Representative’s contact details are as follows: The Compliance Manager,
TH March & Co. Limited, Hare Park House, Yelverton Business Park, Yelverton, PL20 7LS.
If you are dissatisfied with any aspect of the way in which we process your personal data please contact The Compliance Manager, TH March & Co. Limited, Hare Park House, Yelverton Business Park, Yelverton, PL20 7LS. You also have the right to complain to the UK’s data protection supervisory authority, the Information Commissioner’s Office(ICO). The ICO may be contacted via its website which is https://ico.org.uk/concerns/, by live chat or by calling their helpline on 0303 123 1113.
If you have any questions regarding this Notice, the use of your data and your Individual Rights please contact us at Hare Park House, Yelverton Business Park, Yelverton, PL20 7LS or by e-mailing insurance@thmarch.co.uk or by telephoning 01822 855555.