Harringtons Sales and Lettings Ltd Privacy Notice

The Harringtons Sales and Lettings Ltd privacy notice provides information on how Harringtons Sales and Lettings Ltd and any of its subsidiaries, branches or representative offices and any 3rd party providers collect, use, secure, transfer and share your information. Harringtons Sales and Lettings Ltd and its affiliates (Harringtons Residential, Harringtons Student and Harringtons Property Management), is a provider of consultancy practices, referral conveyancing services, estate agency sales and lettings, property management and auctions through 3rd parties. 

Harringtons Sales and Lettings Ltd has its head office located at:

30 New Elvet

Durham

Co. Durham

DH1 3AL

It serves most investors, house builders, commercial businesses, local authorities, housing associations and the general public via the following business units / divisions. Full details can be found on our website http://www.harringtonsdurham.com/

1.  Types of Information Collected.

Typically, Harringtons Sales and Lettings Ltd collect:

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1.1.  Methods of Collection

In the general conduct of business, Harringtons Sales and Lettings Ltd collects information relevant to the services being sought across the range of services it offers (listed previously) from:

• yourself
• next of kin
• spouse / partner / family member
• business associates
• Employers
• “trusted” sources including:
• Government / Land / Police registers
• Credit / Default Agencies
• Financial Institutes (Banks, Building Societies, Loan Agencies, Credit Card companies)
• Insurance Companies
• Other Law firms
• Health providers
• Through consent to third parties disclosing information about you to us that they have collected

Such information will generally be collected directly via the use of any of our standard forms, over the internet, via email, in our branches or through a telephone conversation with you.

We may also collect personal information through our affiliates or suppliers.

In addition, you may choose to submit information directly to us via several methods, including:

• through Harringtons Sales and Lettings Ltd and affiliates websites
• in response to marketing or other communications
• through social media
• by signing up for a Harringtons Sales and Lettings Ltd product or service
• through participation in an offer, program or promotion
• in connection with an actual or potential business or employment relationship with us

You may also agree to third parties disclosing information about you to us that those third parties have collected.

We, our service providers and partners collect certain information by using automated means, such as cookies and web beacons, when you interact with our advertisements, mobile applications, or visit our websites, pages or other digital assets. The information we collect in this manner may include: IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs and information on actions taken or interaction with our digital assets.

We may use third-party web analytics services on our websites and mobile apps the analytics providers that administer these services use technologies such as cookies and web beacons to help us analyse how visitors use our websites and apps.

“Your Rights and Choices” section of this Privacy Notice specifies your ability, to opt out or limit the usage of the information collected.

1.2.  Purposes of Collection

Generally, we will collect, use and hold your information for the purposes of:

• Assessing applications for and providing Harringtons Sales and Lettings Ltd products / services
• Conducting business, developing relationships with Harringtons Sales and Lettings Ltd and affiliates
• Process payments / transactions including: Accounting, Authorisation, Clearing, Chargebacks, Auditing, Billing, Reconciliation, Collection, Complaints, Enquiries, Credit Checks and related dispute resolution activities
• Protect against and prevent fraud, unauthorised transactions, money laundering (please see below), tax evasion, claims, other liabilities and manage risk exposure and agent /franchise quality, integrity, compliance and security of business processes
• Create and manage any accounts, associated authentication criteria (id’s and passwords) you may have with Harringtons Sales and Lettings Ltd
• Provide, administer and communicate with you about Harringtons Sales and Lettings Ltd products, services, offers, programs and promotions, their issuers, acquirers, retailers and partners.
• Compile business directories, including business contact information
• Operate, monitor, evaluate and improve our products, services, websites, mobile applications, other digital assets and business.
• Developing new products and services
• Managing communications, assess effectiveness and optimisation of advertising
• Functionality of our websites, mobile applications other digital assets
• Evaluate your interest in employment and contact you regarding possible employment opportunities
• Enforce Harringtons Sales and Lettings Ltd “Terms of Use”, other legal rights as may be required by applicable laws and regulations or requested by any judicial process or governmental agency having or claiming jurisdiction over Harringtons Sales and Lettings Ltd or its affiliates.
• Comply with industry standards and Harringtons Sales and Lettings Ltd policies

Anti-Money Laundering

In addition to help you with a property related service we have to comply with certain regulations for example the “Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017 (referred to as “the Regulations).” Harringtons Sales and Lettings Ltd and other subsidiaries are required to obtain certain information from you to comply with regulations. The information provided will only be used by Harringtons Sales and Lettings Ltd in relation to complying with the Regulations and will not be shared with any other party outside of the companies wholly owned by Harringtons Sales and Lettings Ltd unless we are required to do so under law.

If you decide to enter in to a business relationship with Harringtons Sales and Lettings Ltd or any wholly owned subsidiary to comply with certain regulations.

We will require two separate Identification documents one primary and one secondary document even if it appears on both lists. The information may be required at various stages of the process depending whether you are:

Purchasing (or Selling)

Primary documents – proof of ID

• Valid Passport with MRZ
• Valid full UK photo driving licence
• Valid full UK Driving licence (Non photo, paper) issued before 1998
• Valid EU/EEA/Switzerland photo driving licence.
• Valid EU/EEA/Switzerland national Identity Card.
• Valid UK Armed Forces ID Card.
• Valid UK Biometric Residence Permit (copy of both sides.)
• Valid Blue disabled drivers pass. (With photo)
• Valid Freedom Pass
• Valid Local Authority Bus pass.
• Department for Works & Pensions letter confirming pension details including National Insurance Number dated within the last 12 months.

Secondary documents – proof of residence (home.)

• Valid full UK photo driving licence.
• Valid full UK Driving licence (Non photo, paper) issued before 1998
• Local authority council tax bill (dated within the last 12 months).
• UK Bank / Building societies statements/bills showing activity, dated within the last six mths. Including account number and sort code. (Internet printed acceptable.)
• UK mortgage statement (dated within the last 12 months.) (Internet printed acceptable.)
• Utility bill dated within the last 6 months including – Electricity bill (with MPAN number), Landline, Gas, Satellite TV, Water. (Internet printed acceptable.) (Not mobile phone bills.)
• Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) Inland Revenue (IR) Coding

/ assessment / statement (dated within the last 12 months) with National Insurance number.

• Department for Works & Pensions letter confirming pension details and NI Number. (Dated within the last 12 months).

We reserve the right to employ third party electronic verification for the purpose of verifying identity. This search will not affect your credit rating

1.3.  Lawful basis of processing

Harringtons Sales and Lettings Ltd processes your information under the following

• Performance of a contract: where you enter into a contract with Harringtons Sales and Lettings Ltd and we need to process your information as part of this contract
• Legitimate interests: some information is processed by Harringtons Sales and Lettings Ltd as part of its legitimate interests which include :Fraud, risk assessment, due diligence, network and information security, suppressions and managing opting out of communications , profiling , direct marketing, monitoring, web analytics, cloud storage, acquisitions, updating customer details, lettings, sales, financial services and other core products and service provided by the data controller
• Public interest: some information is processed in accordance public interest such as relocations
• Consent : where we process information under consent we will seek you clear and unambiguous consent prior to processing your data

2.  Information We Share

We do not sell or otherwise disclose personal information we collect about you, except as described in this Privacy Notice or as indicated via the consent process at the time the data is collected. We share the information we collect with, but not limited to:

• Landlords and landlord associates and sub processors
• Vetted affiliates and partners / Financial Institutions / Insurance Companies for business facilitation to provide required services, such as mortgages, insurance cover etc.
• Formally contracted service providers to perform services on our behalf:
• Hosting Datacentres, Infrastructure, Applications (Development / Support) , Cloud Services (Software as a Service – SaaS, Platform as a Service – PaaS , Infrastructure as a Service – IaaS)
• Helpdesk, Call Centres etc.

We contractually require these service providers to safeguard the privacy and security of personal information they process on our behalf and authorise them to use or disclose the information only as necessary to perform services on our behalf or comply with legal requirements

• Councils, health and care providers
• Other Law firms
• Credit agencies, Land Registry Office, Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC), Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and other relevant regulatory bodies
• Additionally we may share information about you, if required legally, to prevent harm or financial / reputation loss, for investigation of suspected or actual fraudulent or illegal activities.
• Perspective employers requesting references via your written consent

On websites, features can be accessed where we partner with other entities that are not affiliated with Harringtons Sales and Lettings Ltd. These include social networking, geo-location tools etc. are operated by third parties (indicated appropriately) who may use or share personal information in accordance with their own privacy policies. It is recommended that you review the third parties’ privacy policies if you use the relevant features.

Harringtons Sales and Lettings Ltd reserve the right to transfer your information in the event of a sale or transfer (wholly or partially) of our business or assets, with reasonable efforts for the acquirer protect / use your information consistent with our Global Privacy Notice. You can exercise your rights to contact the acquiring entity with questions concerning the protection and processing of your information.

2.1   How long do we keep information for?

We will keep information for a reasonable amount of time in order to perform the purposes listed above.

We only keep your information for as long as necessary. We generally keep personal information for 7 years after last contact with you. However, Harringtons Sales and Lettings Ltd reserves the right to keep information for longer if we feel that this is in the legitimate interests of Harringtons Sales and Lettings Ltd.

2.2   International Data Transfers

Harringtons Sales and Lettings Ltd may transfer the personal information collected about you to recipients in countries other than the country in which the information was originally collected. Those countries may not have the same data protection laws as the country in which you initially provided the information. When we transfer your information to other countries, we will protect that information as described in this Privacy Notice or as otherwise disclosed to you at the time the data is collected (e.g. via program specific privacy notice).

2.3   Profiling

For the purposes of business conduct, enhancement, identification of fraud, money laundering and other potential un-authorised activities, Harringtons Sales and Lettings Ltd engages profiling activities via direct use or anonymise of sensitive personal information.

2.3.1 Direct Profiling

Direct profiling is engaged for the fair and lawful purposes, to provide Harringtons Sales and Lettings Ltd the ability to enforce Harringtons Sales and Lettings Ltd “Terms of Use”, legal reporting as may be required by applicable laws, regulations, policies / standards or requested by any judicial process or governmental agency having or claiming jurisdiction over Harringtons Sales and Lettings Ltd or its affiliates; including, but not limited to:

• Benchmarking employees: appraisals, performance, bonus payments, disciplinary actions, improvement plans, promotions and awards.
• Background checks for existing and new employees, clients, business partners, affiliates
• Financial Viability analysis / reports
• Business partner / client portfolio position, performance, risk positions
• Anti-money laundering
• Tax reporting
• Credit defaulting / exposure

2.3.2 Indirect Profiling

• Indirect profiling via anonymisation of personal information is also used for preparing and furnishing aggregated data reports showing anonymised information, including, but not limited to, the following:
• Compilations, analyses, analytical and predictive models and rules, and other aggregated reports for the purpose of advising our partners / affiliates and servicing institutions, retailers and other customers regarding past and potential future patterns of service usage, spending, fraud, and other insights that may be extracted from this data.
• Compiling and communicating promotional and marketing information about products and services that Harringtons Sales and Lettings Ltd, affiliates and other organisations that we have affiliations with have and that may be of interest to you.
• Conducting market research
• Facilitating our internal business operations, including the fulfilment of any legal requirements.

2.4   Your Rights and Choices

Your rights regarding the sensitive / personal information we maintain about you enable you to exercise choices about what personal information we collect from you, how we use that information, and how we communicate with you.

2.5   Access and Correction You may have the right to:

• obtain confirmation that we hold personal information about you
• request access to and receive information about the personal information we maintain about you
• receive copies of the personal information we maintain about you

The right to access personal information may be limited in some circumstances by local law requirements.

To exercise these rights, please contact us as set forth below.

2.6   Update and correct inaccuracies in your personal information

If you feel that the information we hold about you in incorrect or inaccurate you can contact us outlining the information you feel is incorrect of inaccurate.

If we refuse to correct your personal information, we will provide you with a written notice that sets out the reasons for our refusal (unless it would be unreasonable to provide those reasons) and provide you with a statement regarding the mechanisms available to you to make a complaint. We will provide you with access to information we hold about you:

2.7   Object to the processing of your personal information

If you would like to object to any processing of your information by Harringtons Sales and Lettings Ltd you can contact us outlining what processing of information you would like to object to.

2.8   Have the information blocked, anonymised or deleted

If you would like Harringtons Sales and Lettings Ltd to delete, block or anonymise information we hold about you, you can contact us outlining what information you would like deleted , blocked or anonymised.

To update your preferences, ask us to remove your information from our mailing lists or submit a request to access, update, correct or delete your personal information, please contact us as specified in the “How To Contact Us” section below.

2.9   Opting out of processing

You can opt out collection of personal information by automated means e.g. when visiting our website or visit third-party websites and interact with our adverts, by using the Cookie Consent tool displayed in the website (the browser you use may provide options on how to opt out of receiving certain types of cookies). However, without cookies you may not be able to use all the website features and/or online services.