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Privacy Policy & Information about Cookies

You should read this Policy in conjunction with Q4's Terms and Conditions, of which this Privacy Policy forms part.

How we use your information

We will always keep your personal information safe and secure. So that you're informed this privacy notice tells you why q4.co.uk collects and uses your personal information.

It applies to information we obtain from;

Visitors to our website

Customers who use our services, e.g. make an enquiry or request a quote

q4.co.uk is owned and operated by Financial Management Technology Services Limited, who is the data holder, or controller, of any personal information provided to q4.co.uk.

If you've any questions about how we use your personal information and protect your privacy you can contact us at dpo@q4.co.uk

Cookies

When someone visits q4.co.uk we use site analytic tools provided by companies such as Google, to collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns that are collected through 'cookies'. We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the site and its various pages, browsing habits, where you visited before you reached our website and the frequency that people return to the site. We also use other third-party advertiser pixels, which are common across most digital advertising platforms. These advertising tools consist of cookies that are placed onto our website to track visitors and help us measure the effectiveness of online advertising campaigns, and may be used for personalised or non-personalised advertising purposes.

This information is only processed in a way which does not identify anyone at an individual level. We do not make, and do not allow Google or any online advertisers to make, any attempt to analyse this data at a personal level. The information we gather from cookies will be stored and used for statistical purposes to help us make informed decisions about how to improve our online advertising and website content or functioning for returning and future visitors.

For more information about our use of cookies please see the detailed "Use of Cookies" section below.

Why we collect your personal information

We use your information quite simply at your request to deal with your enquiry and to provide you with a quotation. If you provide personal information about someone else, for example if an enquiry is made for yourself and a partner, you must do so with the permission of the other person. The personal information about the other person will be used in the ways as described in this privacy notice.

You don't have to give us any of your personal information, but if we are collecting your data to fulfil our contract with you and it's necessary to enter into a contract, we will be unable to provide our services if you choose not to provide your information.

If you make an enquiry or ask for a quote, either through our website or over the phone, these details will be used to contact you to help you with your enquiry and to get you a quote. This contact could inlcude quote and renewal reminders. We are using these details at your request, as a first step prior to entering into a contract with you. To provide you with a quote we will securely pass your personal details to FCA authorised partners, we do this to fulfil our contract with you.

Please note: If you decide to progress with an application for insurance through a relevant and associated third party, the information you have provided to us, together with any further information requested by them and supplied by you, will be held by them for the purposes set out in their privacy notice.

If you or a third-party authority makes a complaint about us or if we are legally obligated, we will use your personal information to investigate the complaint or comply with our legal obligations. We are contractually obligated to deal with your complaint appropriately. Your personal information is also further used for statistical analysis purposes. For example, we will exchange information with third party FCA authorised partners to see whether you took out a policy or not. Or we will share management reports and forecasting internally and with partners for whom we are acting as an intermediary. We do this to help us develop our business, assess our performance and plan for the future.

Sharing your information

We will not share, sell, loan or lease your personal information to any other third party except those relevant, or needed, to provide the products or services you have requested - your information is passed securely to the following categories of companies:

FCA authorised partners - we are an intermediary and we help you get a quote by passing the details of your enquiry to an expert who will provide an accurate quote based on your needs.

Related companies - when we use your information for administrative, management forecasting and planning and statistical purposes we may share data reports with other businesses that are related through Financial Management Technology Services Limited, as well as FCA authorised partners. Your broker/insurer may also send us information relating to products purchased following initial use of our service to assist with sales tracking.

We do not routinely transfer personal information outside of the European Economic Area (EEA). However, a product or service may be administered from a country outside Europe. If this is the case, we put a contract in place to ensure that your information is adequately protected, secure and any transfer of personal information outside of the EEA will comply with local data protection regulation.

Keeping your information

We'll hold on to your information for at least as long as is needed to be able to provide our services to you. After this point we review the data that we hold to decide whether we need to keep hold of your information any longer, for example to deal with a complaint or for any legal reasons that may arise from a complaint being made.

We may also hold your information for administrative, management forecasting and planning and statistical purposes, in which case, we will limit what we keep where possible to minimise risk and safeguard personal information.

Your rights

You have a lot of rights relating to your personal information:

The right to be informed about how we use your personal information (that's why we have produced this notice)

The right to ask for confirmation of and access to the personal information we hold about you

The right to ask us to amend your information if it is inaccurate or incomplete

The right to request that we delete your information, or stop using it in some circumstances

The right to complain to the data protection regulator in the UK, the Information Commissioner's Office

CREDIT SEARCHES & NON INSURANCE DATABASES

In the course of calculating insurance quotations, some providers may use a credit scoring system to search your credit information. They may also search external sources (e.g. the edited electoral roll, county court judgments, bankruptcy registers and higher education sources to verify student or graduate status if applicable) to check and assess your insurance application for accuracy. These searches may be recorded by credit agencies but won't affect your credit standing. If you purchase a policy, please note that these searches may take place again when your policy is due for renewal.

Q4 Insure does not carry out any of these searches, but may offer quotations from providers who do.

INSURANCE INDUSTRY DATABASES

Insurers pass information to the Claims and Underwriting Exchange Register, run by Insurance Database Services Ltd (IDS Ltd) and the Motor Insurance Anti-Fraud and Theft Register, run by the Association of British Insurers (ABI).

The aim is to help insurers check the information provided by you and also to prevent fraudulent claims. When they deal with your request for insurance, they may search these registers. Under the conditions of your policy, you must tell them about any incident (such as an accident or theft) which may or may not give rise to a claim. Any incidents you disclose will be passed to the registers.

Further details are available from insurance providers when you purchase your insurance policy.

VEHICLE INSURANCE, including Private Car

Your insurance cover details will be added to the Motor Insurance Database, run by the Motor Insurers' Information Centre (MIIC). This has been set up to help identify uninsured drivers, and may be searched by the Police to help confirm who is insured to drive. If there is an accident, the Database may be used by insurers, MIIC and the Motor Insurers' Bureau to identify relevant policy information.

Further details are available from insurance providers when you purchase your insurance policy.

Use of cookies

We use cookies when you visit our site. Cookies can be temporary or permanent. Temporary cookies are deleted as soon as you close your browser or mobile application - these are known as session cookies. Others, known as persistent cookies, are stored more permanently on your computer or device either until you delete them, or they expire.

By using our site, you agree to us placing these sorts of cookies on your device and accessing them when you visit the site in the future. If you want to delete any cookies that are already on your computer, the "help" section in your browser should provide instructions on how to delete specific cookies and change your cookie settings. Further information about cookies can be found at allaboutcookies.org. Please note that by deleting or disabling future cookies, your website experience may be affected, and you might not be able to take advantage of certain functions of our site. Please see details below of cookies set on this site as well as links to the respective third parties' privacy policies.

Organisation : Q4

Cookies: cb-enabled

Purpose: This cookie is associated with the cookie consent. This cookie saves the user preference on cookie consent. It saves whether a user has dismissed the notice to prevent it re-appearing on the re-visit to the website.

Type: Functional

Organisation : Google

Cookies: _ga

Purpose: The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors.

Type: Analytics

Third Party Privacy Policy: For more information please see: https://policies.google.com/privacy and to opt out: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Organisation : Google

Cookies: _gid

Purpose: Installed by Google Analytics, _gid cookie stores information on how visitors use a website, while also creating an analytics report of the website's performance. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously.

Type: Analytics

Third Party Privacy Policy: For more information please see: https://policies.google.com/privacy and to opt out: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Organisation : Google

Cookies: _gat_gtag_UA_*

Purpose:Google Analytics sets this cookie to store a unique user ID.

Type: Analytics

Third Party Privacy Policy: For more information please see: https://policies.google.com/privacy and to opt out: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

How to contact us

We always have our customers best interests at heart and we want to hear from you, especially if:

You have any requests or queries in relation to your personal information

You want to exercise any of your rights as set out above

You have a complaint

You can contact our Data Protection Officer by emailing dpo@q4.co.uk.

Or if you'd like to, you can write to us at:

q4.co.uk

Data Protection Officer

PO Box 285

Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 2WD

We keep our privacy notice under regular review. Any future updates to this privacy notice will be found on this page.

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Q4 Insure is a trading style of Financial Management Technology Services Ltd and is authorised to conduct the regulated business of introducing and arranging Insurance Products. (We are not a lender). Authorised and Regulated (FRN 444539) by the Financial Conduct Authority.

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The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) is an agency for arbitrating on unresolved complaints between regulated firms and their clients. Full details of the FOS can be found on its website at www.financial-ombudsman.org.uk.