Privacy Policy

RSDataTech Ltd ("us", "we", or "our") operates the https://myukcreditreport.co.uk website (the "Service"). This Privacy Policy (the "Policy") has been prepared by RS Data Tech Ltd ("RSDT") to meet the requirements of the Data Protection Act and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and it only relates to the collection, protection, disclosure and use of personal data belonging to living individuals. It does not relate to data which emanates from companies or other entities, although the general principles regarding our collection and use of data is broadly the same irrespective of whoever is the user of our website, or our customers.

RSDT is registered under the Act with registration number: Z3515312 and will act as the data controller. RSDT is registered in England and Wales and has a registered office at Piccadilly House, Suite 606, 49 Piccadilly, Manchester M1 2AP (Parent company: RateSpecial Interactive, 46 Smith Alley, Suite #230, Pasadena, CA 91103), company registration number 8282923.

This Policy (together with our Terms of Use and Cookie Policy) and any other documents referred to in it) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us and the choices you have associated with that data. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data.

We operate in the UK to provide consumers with access to Dark Web Monitoring, Credit reports, Credit score and general credit information services, Perks and discount services. We are authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority under Firm Reference Number 738724. We provide our services in conjunction with Spycloud and TransUnion International UK Limited, who are the companies that will be providing you with the information contained within your reporting services. Spycloud is one of the Worlds leading Cybersecurity companies who identify and report on Darkweb Asset breaches (consumers personal data) whose address is 2130 S Congress Ave, Austin, Texas, 78704. Their privacy policy can be found here. TransUnion International UK Limited is one of the UK's leading credit reference agencies, whose registered office is at One Park Lane, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS3 1EP, registered number 3961870. TransUnion International UK Limited has its own Privacy Policy which is available here.

We trade in the UK to provide consumers with access to their credit reports, credit score and general credit information services. We have a licence under the Consumer Credit Act 1974 (licence number 738724). We provide our services in conjunction with TransUnion International UK Limited , which is the company that will be providing you with credit reporting services. TransUnion International UK Limited is one of the UK's leading credit reference agencies, whose registered office is at One Park Lane, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS3 1EP, registered number 3961870. TransUnion International UK Limited has its own Privacy Policy which is available here.

We use your data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions, accessible from https://myukcreditreport.co.uk/credit/terms

Definitions

Personal Data
Personal Data means data about a living individual who can be identified from those data (or from those and other information either in our possession or likely to come into our possession).

Usage Data
Usage Data is data collected automatically either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).

Cookies
Cookies are small pieces of data stored on a User’s device.

Data Controller
Data Controller means a person who (either alone or jointly or in common with other persons) determines the purposes for which and the manner in which any personal data are, or are to be, processed.
For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, we are a Data Controller of your data.

Data Processor (or Service Providers)
Data Processor (or Service Provider) means any person (other than an employee of the Data Controller) who processes the data on behalf of the Data Controller.
We may use the services of various Service Providers in order to process your data more effectively.

Data Subject
Data Subject is any living individual who is the subject of Personal Data.

User
The User is the individual using our Service. The User corresponds to the Data Subject, who is the subject of Personal Data.

Information Collection And Use
We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our Service to you.

1 TYPES OF DATA COLLECTED

Personal Data
- 1.1 While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you ("Personal Data").
  - 1.1.1 information that you may provide by filling in online forms and registration forms on www.myukcreditreport.co.uk (our "Site"), we may also ask you for information in the event you report a problem with our Site; Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:
    
    Email address
    First name and last name
    Date of Birth
    Phone number
    Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City
    Cookies and Usage Data
    
    We may use your Personal Data to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to you. You may opt out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email we send or by contacting us.
    
    Please note that we have the ability to retain any data that you provide on this website, even if you do not complete your registration / transaction by clicking submit / next or by giving any other indication of transmissions. Such contact details and data may be used to contact you to inquire why you did not complete your registration/transaction or market other products or services to you as described in this Privacy Policy;
  - 1.1.2 correspondence, or a record of it should you contact us;
  - 1.1.3 surveys that we use for research purposes, which we may ask you to complete, although you do not have to respond to them;
  - 1.1.4 details of your visits to our Site (including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data, whether this is required for our own billing purposes or otherwise) and the resources that you access;
  - 1.1.5 information to help verify your identity;
  - 1.1.6 occasionally third parties with whom we work may also ask you to provide documentation for the purpose of verifying your identity, such as utility bills or bank statements (and you should look at our third party partners' Privacy Policy regarding this).
  - 1.1.7. where you post material, comments and/or feedback on our Site, this information will be collected.

2 USAGE DATA: IP ADDRESSES AND COOKIES

2.1 We may also collect information how the Service is accessed and used ("Usage Data"). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
2.2 Tracking & Cookies Data We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service and hold certain information.
2.3 A "cookie" is a small electronic file that collects information when someone visits a website. A cookie can identify the pages that are being viewed, and this can assist us to select the pages that the viewer sees. Some cookies only exist whilst viewers are online, but "persistent" cookies - which are not session-based - remain on the viewer's computer, so that he or she can be recognised as a previous visitor when he or she next visits our Site. This allows us to collect information about a viewer's browsing habits whilst on our Site, and this can be useful in assisting us to monitor and improve our services.
2.4 We do not store sensitive information such as account numbers or passwords in "persistent" cookies, and cookies in themselves, do not contain enough information to identify you. You will only acquire a personal identity in relation to your browsing habits after you have formally provided us with your personal data for the purposes outlined below.
2.5 In addition to using cookies, we might also use web tools to collect information about your browsing activities whilst on our Site. In this respect the information that is provided is similar to the information supplied by cookies, and we use it for the same purposes.
2.6 Any information that we acquire about you using cookies or web tools is subject to the same restrictions and conditions as any other information we collect about you.
2.7 Some of our advertisers may also use cookies or web tools that are set by other people such as advertising agencies, or the businesses to which the advertisements in question relate. We do not have access to any information that might be collected in this way, and, if you are concerned, you should contact the advertiser for more information.
2.8 If you want to delete any cookies already stored on your computer or stop the cookies that keep track of your browsing patterns on the Site you can do so by deleting your existing cookies and/or altering your browser's privacy settings to block third party cookies (the process you follow will differ from browser to browser). If you would like more information on how to do this please visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/. Please note that deleting our cookies or disabling our future cookies means that you may not be able to access certain areas or features of the Site.

Examples of Cookies we use:

Session Cookies. We use Session Cookies to operate our Service.
Preference Cookies. We use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.
Security Cookies. We use Security Cookies for security purposes.
Advertising Cookies. Advertising Cookies are used to serve you with advertisements that may be relevant to you and your interests.
2.9 Use of Data
RSDataTech Ltd uses the collected data for various purposes:

To provide and maintain our Service
To notify you about changes to our Service
To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service when you choose to do so
To provide customer support
To gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our Service
To monitor the usage of our Service
To detect, prevent and address technical issues
To provide you with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless you have opted not to receive such information.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below.

Service	Purpose	Type
MyUKCreditReport	General purpose platform session cookie	Strictly necessary
Instabot	Web chat used to communicate with customers directly on the site. Greatly increases ability to resolve customer issues. Privacy policy	Functionality
Zendesk	Web chat used to communicate with customers directly on the site. Greatly increases ability to resolve customer issues. Privacy policy	Functionality
Optimizely	Optimizely allows us to manage different versions of the same page, showing different elements for different users at the same time. Privacy policy	Functionality
Google Analytics	These cookies are associated with Google Universal Analytics and are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they have visited. Privacy policy	Performance
Pushnami	Used to aid in communication with customers who opt in to receive push notifications. Privacy policy	Targeting
Front	Email and Web chat used to communicate with customers directly on the site. Greatly increases ability to resolve customer issues Privacy policy	Functionality
Calendly	An appointment booking service for Credit Reviews. Functionality. Privacy policy	Functionality

3 RETENTION OF DATA: WHERE WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

RSDataTech Ltd will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

RSDataTech Ltd will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Service, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.
- 3.1 All information you provide to us is, as far as reasonably practicable, stored on our secure servers. Any financial information, such as credit/ debit card numbers will be encrypted using SSL technology. We ask you not to permit anyone to use your name. RSDT employs industry standard security measures to ensure the security of all PCCI compliant data. Any data that is stored on RSDT's servers is treated as proprietary and confidential and is not available to the public. RSDT has an internal security policy with respect of the confidentiality of customer data allowing access only to those employees or third parties who have a need to know such information for the purpose of effectively delivering RSDT services by means of user login and password requirements. RSDT routinely evaluates its data security practices to identify security threats or opportunities for improvement.
- 3.2 Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data as it is transmitted from you to our Site; any such transmission is at your own risk. Please see our Terms of Use concerning our liabilities in this regard.
- 3.3 We will retain your information securely stored for a reasonable period or for as long as the law requires.
4 HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
- 4.1 We use information held about you in the following ways:
  - 4.1.1 to process and submit your request to third party partners;
  - 4.1.2 to help third party partners to verify your identity and in order to provide you with a copy of your credit file, credit score and/or other credit reporting information;
  - 4.1.3 to service your membership;
  - 4.1.4 to provide you with the best possible service;
  - 4.1.5 to ensure that content from our Site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer;
  - 4.1.6 to notify you about changes to our service.
  - 4.1.7 to display material provided by you by way of comments/feedback and/or any other information you may provide by way of a visitor's communications facility and/or forum.
- 4.2 We use your data to provide you with information about goods and services which may be of interest to you. We may contact you by e-mail, text or post with information about services similar to those which were the subject of a previous enquiry made by you.
- 4.3 If you wish to opt-out of receipt of these marketing communications from us please send us an email or contact us at RS Data Tech Ltd, Piccadilly House, Suite 606, 49 Piccadilly, Manchester M1 2AP (Parent company: RateSpecial Interactive, 46 Smith Alley, Suite #230, Pasadena, CA 91103).
- 4.4 If you opt-out of our use of your data for marketing purposes, we will honour such choice once we have had a reasonable opportunity to process your request. We reserve the right to take reasonable steps to authenticate your identity with respect to any such request or other enquiry.
- 4.5 Where we have received the appropriate consent we may also share you data with respected third party partners who may contact you from time to time with offers concerning unrelated products and services.
- 4.6 Any information or statistics relating to our business that we disclose to others shall not identify you personally. We may, for example, perform statistical analysis of the behaviour of the users of our Site in order to measure interest in the various areas of our site and to inform advertisers as to how many consumers have seen or "clicked" their advertising banners. This information, and any other general information about our users that we share with advertisers and other partners, will not disclose personal information about you.
- 4.7 We share personal information with third parties who perform services on our behalf. For example, we may use third parties to host our websites or mobile apps, operate certain of its features, send e-mails, print or send mailings, run our sweepstakes, contests or other promotions, conduct customer research, authorize and process your payments, manage and analyze data and our advertising effectiveness, and fulfill orders. These third parties are not authorised by us to use or disclose the information except as necessary to perform services on our behalf or comply with legal requirements. Any personal information shared with such third parties is protected.
5 TRANSFER OF DATA

Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.

If you are located outside United Kingdom and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to United Kingdom and process it there.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

RSDataTech Ltd will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.

Personal data held shall only be transferred to a country outside the EEA if there is adequate protection in that country.

As a US-based business, it is sometimes necessary for the Company to transfer Personal Data to the US for processing purposes. Such data transfer has been notified to the ICO in compliance with the Act and we will comply with principle 8 of the Data Protection Principles under the Act insofar as we will take steps to ensure by appropriate means that your personal data is afforded equivalent protection upon such transfer.
6 DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION

Business Transaction
If RSDataTech Ltd is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.

Disclosure for Law Enforcement
Under certain circumstances, RSDataTech Ltd may be required to disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

Legal Requirements
RSDataTech Ltd may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

To comply with a legal obligation
To protect and defend the rights or property of RSDataTech Ltd
To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
To protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public
To protect against legal liability

Security Of Data
The security of your data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
- 6.1 We may disclose your personal information to third parties:
  - 6.1.1 to prepare or send any communications to you, or to assist us in connection with any of our administrative or business functions, or in the provision of any of our services to you;
  - 6.1.2 if RSDT or substantially all of its assets, are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by us about our customers will be one of the transferred assets;
  - 6.1.3 if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of RSDT, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
7 YOUR RIGHTS

RSDataTech Ltd aims to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Data.

Whenever made possible, you can update your Personal Data directly within your account settings section. If you are unable to change your Personal Data, please contact us to make the required changes.

If you wish to be informed what Personal Data we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us.

In certain circumstances, you have the right:

To access and receive a copy of the Personal Data we hold about you
To rectify any Personal Data held about you that is inaccurate
To request the deletion of Personal Data held about you
You have the right to data portability for the information you provide to RSDataTech Ltd. You can request to obtain a copy of your Personal Data in a commonly used electronic format so that you can manage and move it.

Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests.
- 7.1 Our Site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own Privacy Policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
- 7.2 Section 7 of the Act gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act by writing to us at RS Data Tech Ltd, Piccadilly House, Suite 606, 49 Piccadilly, Manchester M1 2AP (Parent company: RateSpecial Interactive, 46 Smith Alley, Suite #230, Pasadena, CA 91103). Any access request may be subject to a small statutory fee to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.
- 7.3 Calls between us may be recorded and/or monitored.
- 7.4 If you want to change, modify or update your member information you can do so by submitting a form on the "Contact Us" page of the website. Alternatively you can call or write to us on the contact details listed above.
- 7.5 If you were introduced to us by a third party, we will give them your contact details and sufficient information about you for their accounting and administration purposes.
- 7.6 We may give information about you and how you manage your account to the following:
  - 7.6.1 people who provide a service to us or are acting as our agents on the understanding that they will keep the information confidential. If they are located in another country we will make sure that they agree to apply the same levels of protection as we are required to apply to information held in the UK and to use your information only for the purpose of providing the service to us;
  - 7.6.2 anyone to whom we transfer or may transfer our rights and duties under this agreement; and
  - 7.6.3 we may also give out information about you if we have a duty to do so or if the law allows us to do so.
- 7.7 Otherwise we will keep information about you confidential.
8 CREDIT REFERENCE AND FRAUD PREVENTION AGENCIES
- 8.1 When you submit your information to us, you confirm that all the information you have given is true and complete. When you submit your information you authorise us to check our own records and verify your identity.
- 8.2 Third party partners will make such checks as are deemed necessary including but not limited to verifying your identity.
- 8.3 If false or inaccurate information is provided and fraud is identified, details will be passed to fraud prevention agencies.
- 8.4 Law enforcement agencies may access and use this information.
- 8.5 We and other organisations may also access and use this information to prevent fraud and money laundering.
- 8.6 We and other organisations may access and use from other countries the information recorded by fraud prevention agencies.
- 8.7 Your data may also be used for other purposes for which you give your specific permission or, in very limited circumstances, when required by law or where permitted under the terms of the Act.
9 SERVICE PROVIDERS

We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service ("Service Providers"), to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services or to assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.

These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose. We may use the following companies to help deliver our communications to you effectively: Liftlogic LLC, An email delivery platform service. Privacy Policy here, Active Campaign LLC, An email delivery platform service. Privacy Policy here, Clicksend LLC, An SMS gateway service, Privacy Policy here, Transunion International UK Limited, Privacy Policy here, Spycloud Inc, Privacy Policy here, Front App Inc, Privacy Policy here, Google (email) Privacy Policy here, Sticky.io Privacy Policy here Dine club card, Privacy Policy here Fast Perks, Privacy policy here.
10 ANALYTICS
We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.

For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/
11 ADVERTISING
We may show third-party advertisements to you to help support and maintain our Service.

Our advertising partners and their privacy policies are listed here: Name My Rewards, An online reward selection program, Loyalty Incentives LLC. Privacy Policy here

Some partners’ advertisements, as third party vendors, are displayed on our member portal as an added service to our members. We recommend you read each advertisements privacy policy and terms of conditions before engaging or purchasing anything from third party vendors as you do so at your own risk.
12 BEHAVIOURAL REMARKETING

RSDataTech Ltd uses remarketing services to advertise on third party websites to you after you visited our Service. We and our third-party vendors use cookies to inform, optimize and serve ads based on your past visits to our Service.

Facebook

Facebook remarketing service is provided by Facebook Inc.

You can learn more about interest-based advertising from Facebook by visiting this page: https://www.facebook.com/help/164968693837950

To opt-out from Facebook's interest-based ads follow these instructions from Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/help/568137493302217

Facebook adheres to the Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising established by the Digital Advertising Alliance. You can also opt-out from Facebook and other participating companies through the Digital Advertising Alliance in the USA http://www.aboutads.info/choices/, the Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada in Canada http://youradchoices.ca/ or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance in Europe http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/, or opt-out using your mobile device settings.

For more information on the privacy practices of Facebook, please visit Facebook's Data Policy: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation
13 LINKS TO OTHER SITES

Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.
14 CHILDREN'S PRIVACY

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 18 ("Children & Underage Teens").

We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Children or Underage Teens have provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.
15 CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "effective date" at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
16 CONTACT US

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:

By email: customer.relations@myukcreditreport.co.uk or privacy@myukcreditreport.co.uk
By visiting this page on our website: https://myukcreditreport.co.uk/credit/contact
By phone number: 0161 250 3399
By mail: Piccadilly House, Suite 606, 49 Piccadilly, Manchester M1 2AP
17 PARENT COMPANY

RateSpecial Interactive

46 Smith Alley
Suite #230
Pasadena, CA 91103

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