Privacy policy

Privacy policy

We take your privacy very seriously. Please read this privacy policy carefully as it contains important information on who we are and how and why we collect, store, use, and share your personal information.

It also explains your rights in relation to your personal information and how to contact us or supervisory authorities in the event you have a complaint.

We collect, us,e and are responsible for certain personal information about you. When we do so we are subject to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which applies across the European Union (including in the United Kingdom) and we are responsible as ‘controller’ of that personal information for the purposes of those laws.

Key Terms: It would be helpful to start by explaining some key terms used in this policy:
We, us, our = Rolfe East (Lettings & Management) Ltd.
Team responsible for data protection compliance = Data Compliance Team, 18-19 The Mall, Ealing, W5 2PJ.
Personal information = Any information relating to an identified or identifiable individual.

We may collect and use the following personal information about you:
– Your name and contact information, including email address, telephone number, and company details if applicable.
– Information to enable us to check and verify your identity, e.g., your date of birth.
– Your gender information if you choose to give this to us.
– Your billing information, transaction, and payment card information.
– Your professional or personal online presence, e.g., LinkedIn profile, if you share it with us.
– Your contact history, transaction, and instruction history with us.
– Your nationality and immigration status and information from related documents, such as your passport or other identification, and immigration information, e.g., if you are a potential tenant applying for a tenancy.
– Information to enable us to undertake Anti Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing electronic checks on you.
– Information about how you use our website, IT, communication, and other systems
– Your responses to surveys and promotions.

This personal information is required to provide our services to you. If you do not provide personal information we ask for, it may delay or prevent us from providing services to you.

How your personal information is collected.
We collect most of this personal information directly from you — in person, by telephone, text, or email and/or via our website. However, we may on rare occasions also collect information from publicly accessible sources, e.g., Companies House or HM Land Registry.

We may also collect information from other publicly accessible sources such as: directly from a third party, e.g.:
– Sanctions screening providers.
– Credit reference agencies.
– Customer due diligence providers.
– From cookies on our website — for more information on our use of cookies, please see our cookies policy.

How and why, we use your personal information:
Under data protection law, we can only use your personal information if we have a proper reason for doing so, e.g.:
– To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations.
– For the performance of our contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering a contract.
– For our legitimate interests or those of a third party; or
– Where you have given consent.

We use your personal information under the legitimate interest basis for using and processing. Legitimate Interest may be used as a basis for processing when we have a business or commercial reason to process your information, so long as this is not overridden by your own rights and interests.

When we use and process your personal information for our legitimate interest, we will consider and balance any potential impact on you and your rights under data protection and any other relevant laws. Our legitimate business interests do not automatically override your interests – we will not use your personal data for activities where our interests are overridden by the impact on you (unless we have your valid consent or are otherwise required or permitted to by law).

The tables below explain what we use (process) your personal information for and our reasons for doing so:

What we use personal information forOur reasons
To provide services to youFor the performance of our contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract.
To prevent and detect fraud against you or Rolfe EastFor our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e., to minimise fraud that could be damaging for us and for you.
Conducting checks to identify our customers and verify their identity.
Screening for financial and other sanctions or embargoes.
Other processing necessary to comply with professional, legal, and regulatory obligations that apply to our business, e.g., under health and safety regulation or rules issued by our professional regulator.
To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations
Gathering and providing information required by or relating to audits,
enquiries or investigations by regulatory bodies.
To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations
Ensuring business policies are adhered to, e.g., policies covering security and internet use.For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e., to make sure we are following our own internal procedures so we can deliver the best service to you.
Operational reasons, such as improving efficiency, training, and quality control.For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e., to be as efficient as we can so we can deliver the best service for you at the best price.
Ensuring the confidentiality of commercially sensitive information.For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e., to protect trade secrets and other commercially valuable information.
To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations.
Statistical analysis to help us manage our business, e.g., in relation to our financial performance, customer base, range of services or other efficiency measures.For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e., to be as efficient as we can so we can deliver the best service for you.
Preventing unauthorised access and modifications to systems.For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e., to prevent and
detect criminal activity that could be damaging for us and for you.
To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations
What we use personal information forOur reasons
Updating and enhancing customer records,For the performance of our contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract. To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations. For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, e.g., making sure that we can keep in touch with our customers about existing orders and new products.
Statutory returns.To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations.
Marketing our services to:
– Existing and former customers.
– Third parties who have previously registered with us or expressed an interest in our services.
– Third parties with whom we have had no previous dealings.
For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e., the processing is necessary for us to promote our business, brands, and products and measure the reach and effectiveness of our campaigns. This may include sending you marketing information from time to time after you have engaged our services or received services from us either which may be
similar and of interest to you or where you have expressly indicated that you would like to receive such information. You have the right to opt out of receiving this information at any time.
Credit reference checks via external credit reference agencies.For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e., to ensure our customers are likely to be able to pay for our products and services.
External audits and quality checks, e.g., for ISO or Investors in People accreditation and the audit of our accounts.For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e., to maintain our accreditations so we can demonstrate we operate at the highest standards. To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations

We do not collect use or process special category personal information, such as racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, trade union membership, Genetic and biometric data, Data concerning health, sex life, or sexual orientation.

Marketing Communications.
We may use your personal information to send you updates (by email, telephone calls, SMS, or post) about our services.
We have a legitimate interest in processing your personal information for marketing purposes (see above ‘How and why we use your personal information’).
We will always treat your personal information with the utmost respect and never sell or share it with other organisations for marketing purposes.

You have the right to opt out of receiving promotional communications from us at any time by:
Contacting us by post at:
The Courtyard
18-19 The Mall, Ealing, W5 2PJ
(For the attention of: Data Compliance Team) or by telephone at 020 8567 2242; or using the ‘unsubscribe’ link in marketing emails: this will unsubscribe you from marketing communications.

Who we share your personal information with:
We routinely share personal information with:
• third parties we use to help deliver our services to you such as:
– payment service providers
– tenants vetting companies carrying out Right to Rent checks on our behalf
– electronic identity search providers
– maintenance contractors for managed properties
– property inventory providers
• third parties we recommend to you, and approved by you to deliver services directly to you such as:
– solicitors and conveyancers
– mortgage brokers and financial advisors
– removal companies
– surveyors

• other third parties we use to help us run our business, such as website suppliers, case management system providers, and email services suppliers.
• third parties approved by you, e.g., social media sites you choose to link your account to or third-party payment providers.
• other third parties such as credit reference agencies and our banks.

We only allow our service providers to handle your personal information if we are satisfied, they take appropriate measures to protect your personal information. We also impose contractual obligations on service providers (where possible) to ensure they can only use your personal information to provide services to us and to you.
We may disclose and exchange information with law enforcement agencies and regulatory bodies to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations.
We may also need to share some personal information with other parties, such as potential buyers of some or all of our business or company, or during restructuring. The recipient of the information will be bound by confidentiality obligations.

Where your personal information is held:
Information may be held at our offices and those of our third-party agencies, service providers, representatives, and agents as described above (see above: ‘Who we share your personal information with’).

How long your personal information will be kept:
We will keep your personal information while you have an active matter with us or we are providing services to you. We will keep your personal
information, as a minimum, for as long as necessary:
• to respond to any questions, complaints, or claims made by you or on your behalf.
• to show that we treated you fairly.
• to keep records required by law and thereafter
• 5 years from any last communication with you for marketing of our services to you as detailed above under ‘How and why we use your personal information’ and under ‘Marketing communications’.
We will not retain your personal information for longer than necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

Transferring your personal information out of the European Economic Area.
We do not transfer your personal information outside of the UK.
Our various third-party service providers may transfer such personal information as held by them outside of the UK and the EEA. Where the countries to which your personal information is transferred do not offer an equivalent level of protection for personal information to the laws of the UK, we will ensure that such third-party service providers have used one of these safeguards:
• Transfer it to a non-EEA country that has received an ‘adequacy decision’ from the European Commission. This means that the country has privacy laws that give the same protection as within the EEA.
• Put in place the EU Commission’s ‘standard contractual clauses’ with the recipient. This means that they must protect it to the same standards as organisations within the EEA.
• Transfer it to organisations that have implemented binding corporate rules, which have been approved by an EU supervisory authority.

Your rights.
You have the following rights, which you can exercise free of charge:

AccessThe right to be provided with a copy of your personal information (the
right of access).
RectificationThe right to be provided with a copy of your personal information (the
right of access).
To be forgottenThe right to require us to delete your personal information—in certain situations, subject at all times to our legal and regulatory obligations.
Restriction of processingThe right to require us to restrict the processing of your personal information—in certain circumstances, e.g., if you contest the accuracy of the data.
Data portabilityThe right to receive the personal information you provided to us, in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and/or transmit that data to a third party—in certain situations.
To objectThe right to object:
– at any time to your personal information being processed for direct marketing.
– in certain other situations to our continued processing of your personal information, e.g., processing carried out for the purpose of
our legitimate interests.
Not to be subject to automated individual decision-makingThe right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing (including profiling) that produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you.

For further information on each of those rights, including the circumstances in which they apply, please contact us or see the Guidance from the UK.
Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on individuals’ rights under the UK General Data Protection Regulation.

Keeping your personal information secure.
We have appropriate security measures in place to prevent personal information from being accidentally lost or used or accessed unlawfully. We limit access to your personal information to those who have a genuine business need to access it. Those processing your information will do so only in an authorised manner and are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.
If you want detailed information from Get Safe Online on how to protect your information and your computers and devices against fraud, identity theft, viruses, and many other online problems, please visit www.getsafeonline.org. Get Safe Online is supported by HM Government and leading businesses.

How to complain.
If you have any complaints about the way we use your personal information please contact the Data Compliance Team as per their contact details below and we will try to resolve the issue.
The UK General Data Protection Regulation also gives you the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority if we cannot resolve your complaint. The supervisory authority in the UK is the Information Commissioner who may be contacted at https://ico.org.uk/concerns or telephone: 0303 123 1113.

Changes to this privacy policy.
This privacy policy was published on 23rd January 2023 and was updated 27th November 2024.

We may change this privacy policy from time to time—when we do, we will inform you via our website at www.rolfe-east.com

Please contact us by post, email or telephone if you have any questions about this privacy policy or the information we hold about you.
Our contact details are below:
Data Compliance Team
The Courtyard
18-19 The Mall, Ealing, W5 2PJ
headoffice@rolfe-east.com
020 8567 2242

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