We collect information about you when you request us to provide you with quotes for our services and engage us for financial planning, financial advice, mortgage advice and investment management services. This information will relate to your personal and financial circumstances. It may also include special categories of personal data such as data about your health, if this is necessary for the provision of our services.
We may also collect information when you voluntarily complete client surveys or provide feedback to us.
We try at all times to keep at all personal data collected and processed accurate and up-to-date. We check the accuracy of data when it is collected and at regular intervals thereafter. Where any inaccurate or out-of-date data is found, all reasonable steps will be taken to amend or erase that data, as appropriate.
We may need to gather personal information about your close family members and dependants in order to provide our service to you effectively. In such cases it will be your responsibility to ensure that you have the consent of the people concerned to pass their information on to us. We'll provide a copy of this privacy notice for them or, where appropriate, ask you to pass the privacy information to them.
The primary legal basis that we intend to use for the processing of your data is for the performance of our contract with you. The information that we collect about you is essential for us to be able to carry out the services that you require from us effectively. Without collecting your personal data we'd also be unable to fulfil our legal and regulatory obligations.
Where special category data is required we'll obtain your explicit consent in order to collect and process this information.
We collect information about you in order to provide you with the services for which you engage us.
Sense Network Ltd, as the regulated principal of our firm is also a data controller for your personal data.
In certain circumstances we or they may inform you about how you can access their privacy notices, which will give further information as to how they use your personal data and how you can exercise your rights in relation to your personal data.
In order to deliver our services to you effectively we may also send your details to third parties such as those that we engage for professional compliance, accountancy or legal services as well as product and platform providers that we use to arrange financial products for you.
Where third parties are involved in processing your data we will have a contract in place with them to ensure that the nature and purpose of the processing is clear, that they are subject to a duty of confidence in processing your data and that they'll only act in accordance with our written instructions.
Where it's necessary for your personal data to be forwarded to a third party we'll use appropriate security measures to protect your personal data in transit, including password protection or encryption of data.
To fulfil our obligations in respect of prevention of money-laundering and other financial crime we may send your details to third party agencies for identity verification purposes.
If you agree, we may email you about other products or services that we think may be of interest to you.
We use tools supplied by third-parties for profiling customers and agreements are in place to protect your data in accordance with data protection laws and policies.
We won't share your information for marketing purposes.
During the course of our relationship with you we'll retain personal data which is necessary to provide services to you. We'll take all reasonable steps to keep your personal data up to date throughout our relationship.
We are also subject to regulatory requirements to retain your data for specified minimum periods. These are, generally:
These are minimum periods, during which we have a legal obligation to retain your records.
We reserve the right to retain data for longer where we believe it's in our legitimate interests to do so.
When determining the appropriate retention period, we consider the risks of the processing, our contractual, legal and regulatory obligations, internal retention policies and our legitimate business interests as described in this privacy notice.
You have the right to request deletion of your personal data. We'll comply with this request, subject to the restrictions of our regulatory obligations and legitimate interests as noted above.
You have the right to request a copy of the information that we hold about you. If you'd like a copy of some or all of your personal information, please email or write to us using the contact details noted below.
You may make a subject access request (“SAR”) at any time to find out more about the personal data which we hold about you. We are usually required to respond to SARs within one month of receipt (this can be extended by up to two months in the case of complex and/or numerous requests, and in such cases the data subject shall be informed of the need for the extension).
All subject access requests must be sent to our Data Protection Officer.
We do not charge a fee for the handling of normal SARs. The Company reserves the right to charge reasonable fees for additional copies of information that has already been supplied to a data subject, and for requests that are manifestly unfounded or excessive, particularly where such requests are repetitive.
You also have the following rights in respect of your personal data:
For more details on how to exercise these rights please contact us.When your personal data is processed by automated means you have the right to ask us to move your personal data to another organisation for their use.
We have an obligation to ensure that your personal information is accurate and up to date. Please ask us to correct or remove any information that you think is incorrect.
We'd like to send you information about our products and services which may be of interest to you. If you've agreed to receive marketing information, you may opt out at a later date.
You have a right at any time to stop us from contacting you for marketing purposes. If you no longer wish to be contacted for marketing purposes, please contact us by email or post.
Our website contains links to other websites. This privacy policy only applies to this website so when you link to other websites you should read their own privacy policies.
You also have a right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority for data protection. In the UK this is:
Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House
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We keep our privacy policy under regular review, and we'll place any updates on this web page. This privacy policy was last updated on 1st August 2023.
Please contact us if you have any questions about our privacy policy or information we hold about you: by email at info@richstonepark.co.uk.
Or write to us at Richstone Park Financial Planning Limited, The Atkins Building, Lower Bond Street, Hinckley, Leicestershire. LE10 1QU.
We may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers. This is statistical data about our users' browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual and we will not collect personal information in this way.
We may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive. They help us to improve our site and to deliver a better and more personalised service. They enable us:
You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our site.
We maintain a high level of service and advice to our clients. It's important that we receive feedback from you, good or bad. Whilst we always aim to provide the highest levels of service, we do accept that occasionally, we may not satisfy your expectations.
If we have failed to deliver what you have expected, please contact us so that we can put things right. We are an appointed representative of Sense Network Ltd ‘Sense' who are independent from us and have clear and impartial process's in place so that they can resolve complaints impartially.
We hope that you never have to raise any complaint with us, however, if you do you can contact Sense using any of the following:
Sense aim to acknowledge your complaint as quickly as possible, usually within five days at which point they may request further information from you, and a letter of authority to allow them to contact third parties, such as providers in relation to your complaint.
They aim to resolve complaint within eight weeks, however, If you feel that your complaint has not been resolved to your satisfaction, you may have the right to refer your complaint to the Financial Ombudsman Service who are an independent organisation set up under legislation to sort out individual complaints that clients and financial services business aren't able to resolve themselves. To contact the Financial Ombudsman Service, please visit www.financial-ombudsman.org.uk.
Great professional service from a knowledgeable highly competent advisor. Thank you Darren and thank you Richstone Park.
T. Lakhani~Private Client
