Privacy Policy

Yellow Door Lets Privacy Notice

Introduction

Yellow Door Lets respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy notice will inform you as to how we look after your personal data and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you. It applies to information we collect in relation to:

• Users of our website;

• People who use our services, including tenants and guarantors;

• Employees or representatives of organisations who use our services or supply us with goods or services;

• People who contact us via any medium (e.g. by post, email, telephone or social media) and provide us with personal data.

It is important that you read this notice, together with any other privacy notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal information about you, so that you are aware of how and why we are using such information. This privacy notice supplements the other notices and is not intended to override them.

  1. Important information and who we are

    Controller and contact information 

    Yellow Door Lets is the data controller and is responsible for your personal data.If you have any questions about this privacy notice, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact Chris Gardner using the details set out below:
    Email address: info@yellowdoorlets.co.uk
    Postal address: 92 Scotforth Road, Lancaster, Lancashire LA1 4SQ
    Telephone number: 07774 920816Complaints

    You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please contact us in the first instance.Changes to the privacy notice and your duty to inform us of changes

    We reserve the right to update this privacy notice at any time.It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.

  2. The data we collect about you

    Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together follows:• Identity Data includes name, username or similar identifier, marital status, title, date of birth and gender.• Contact Data includes home address, accommodation address, email address and telephone numbers.• Financial Data includes bank account and payment details.

    Transaction Data includes details about payments to and from you.

    Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access our website.

    Profile Data includes your interests, preferences, feedback and any survey responses.

    Usage Data includes information about how you use our website and services.

    Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and your communication preferences.

    We will only collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data) where we are permitted to do so by the Data Protection Act 2018 and the GDPR.

    Personal data must be processed in accordance with six ‘Data Protection Principles.’ It must:

    • be processed fairly, lawfully and transparently;

    • be collected and processed only for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes;

    • be adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary for the purposes for which it is processed;

    • be accurate and kept up to date. Any inaccurate data must be deleted or rectified without delay;

    • not be kept for longer than is necessary for the purposes for which it is processed; and

    • be processed securely.

    We are accountable for these principles and must be able to show that we are compliant.

    If you fail to provide personal data

    Where we need to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with you and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you (for example, to provide you with accommodation). We will notify you if this is the case at the time.

  3. How is your personal data collected?

    • We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:• Direct interactions. You may give us your personal data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:

    o negotiate with us for the provision of accommodation;

    o request information to be sent to you;

    o interact with us about lettings or our business activities;

    o apply for a job; or

    o provide us with feedback.

    • Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs and other similar technologies

    • Third parties or publicly available sources. We may receive personal data about you from various third parties as set out below:

    o Technical Data from search engines and analytics providers.

    o Contact, Financial and Transaction Data from providers of technical, payment and delivery services.

    o Identity and Contact Data from publicly availably sources or specialist providers.

    o Information from employers (where we are conducting business with your employer or you are applying for a job with us) and former employers (where you are applying for a job with us).

    o Information from recruitment agencies.

    o Information from our tenants.

  4. How we use your personal dataWe will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:• Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.• Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party), by which we mean in the interest of our business in conducting and managing our business to enable us to give you the best service and the best and most secure experience. We make sure we consider and balance any potential impact on you (both positive and negative) and your rights before we process your personal data for our legitimate interests. We do not use your personal data for activities where our interests are overridden by the impact on you (unless we have your consent or are otherwise required or permitted to by law). You can obtain further information about how we assess our legitimate interests against any potential impact on you in respect of specific activities by contacting us.

    • Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation that we are subject to.Generally we do not rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data other than in relation to sending third party direct marketing communications to you via email. You have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by contacting us via any of the methods referred to in paragraph 1 above.Purposes for which we will use your personal data

    We have set out below, in a table format, a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate.

    Note that we may process your personal data for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data. Please contact us if you need details about the specific legal ground we are relying on to process your personal data where more than one ground has been set out in the table below.

    Purpose/Activity Type of data Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest
    To match you with and provide accommodation including:

    (a) Manage payments, fees and charges

    (b) Collect and recover money owed to us

    (c) Understanding your preferences

    (a) Identity

    (b) Contact

    (c) Financial

    (d) Transaction

    (e) Marketing and Communications

    (f) Profile

    (a) Performance of a contract

    (b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to enable us to provide the accommodation and run a lettings business)

    To manage our relationship with you which will include:

    (a) Notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy

    (b) providing you with other relevant information

    (a) Identity

    (b) Contact

    (c) Profile

    (d) Marketing and Communications

    (a) Performance of a contract with you

    (b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation

    (c) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to keep our records updated and to study how tenants interact with us)

    To administer and protect our business and our website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data) (a) Identity

    (b) Contact

    (c) Technical

    (a) Necessary for our legitimate interests (for running our business, provision of administration and IT services, network security, to prevent fraud)

    (b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation

    To use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, tenant relationships and experiences (a) Technical

    (b) Usage

    (c) Profile

    Necessary for our legitimate interests (to provide the right type of properties/accommodation to tenants, to keep our website updated and relevant, to develop our business and to inform our marketing strategy)
    To make suggestions and recommendations to you about potential available accommodation that may be of interest to you (a) Identity

    (b) Contact

    (c) Technical

    (d) Usage

    (e) Profile

    (f) Marketing and Communication Preferences

    Necessary for our legitimate interests (to develop our services and grow our business)

    Marketing

    We may use your Identity, Contact, Technical, Usage and Profile Data to form a view on what we think you may want or need, or what may be of interest to you. This is how we decide which available accommodation may be relevant to you.

    You will receive marketing communications from us if you have requested information from us, have rented accommodation through us or have previously expressed an interest in renting accommodation through us and, in each case, you have not opted out of receiving that marketing.

    Opting out

    You can ask us to stop sending you marketing messages by contacting us at any time and asking us to stop.

    Cookies

    You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of our website may become inaccessible or not function properly.

    Change of purpose

    We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If we need to use your personal information for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.

    Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.

  5. Disclosures of your personal dataWe may have to share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes set out in the table in paragraph 4 above.• Our employees and those of other companies within our group.• Consultants and subcontractors.• Professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers.

    • Suppliers of goods and services to us.

    • Other tenants.• HM Revenue & Customs, regulators and other authorities.

    We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party processors to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

  6. International transfers

    We will not transfer your personal data outside the European Economic Area.
  7. Data security

    We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
  8. Data retention

    How long will you use my personal data for?

    We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.
  9. Your legal rights

    You have the right to:• Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a “data subject access request”). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.• Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.• Request erasure of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your personal data to comply with local law. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.

    • Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes. In some cases, we may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your information which override your rights and freedoms.

    • Request restriction of processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in the following scenarios:
    (a) if you want us to establish the data’s accuracy;
    (b) where our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it;
    (c) where you need us to hold the data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or
    (d) you have objected to our use of your data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.• Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party. We will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.

    • Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.

    If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us.

    No fee usually required

    You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.

    What we may need from you

    We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.

    Time limit to respond

    We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated but comply in any event within 3 months of receiving your request (or any further information requested from you).