Sovereign Financial Planners is the trading name for Sovereign Financial Planners Limited, and is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority with the Firm Reference Number 734863. The company is registered in England and Wales with the company number 09827722, and the registered office is 6 Friar Lane, Leicester, LE1 5RA.
By using our website, you consent to us processing your data, and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate. This Privacy Policy explains how we use any personal information we collect about you.
We collect information about you when you engage us for any of our financial planning/advising 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.
Information relating to the usage of our website is collected using cookies. These are text files placed on your computer to collect standard internet log information and visitor behaviour information. Most web browsers allow you to control how cookies are accepted by adjusting your web browser’s settings. If you set up your browser to reject cookies, you may still use this website.
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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 individuals concerned to pass their information on to us.
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 would also be unable to fulfil our legal and regulatory obligations. Our policy is to gather and process only that personal data which is necessary for us to conduct our services appropriately with you and to prevent money laundering or terrorist financing.
Where special category data is required, we will 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. We adopt a transparent approach to the processing of your personal data.
Sometimes, we may need to pass your personal information to other organisations. If you apply to take out a financial product or service, we will need to pass certain personal details to the product or service provider.
We may also engage the services of third-party providers of professional services in order to enhance the service we provide to you. These parties may also need to process your personal data in the performance of their contract with us. Your personal information may be transferred electronically (e.g. via email or over the internet), and we, or any relevant third party, may contact you in the future by what we believe to be the most appropriate means of communication at the time (e.g. telephone/email/letter etc).
The organisations to whom we may pass your details also have their own obligations to deal with your personal information appropriately. Sometimes, a product or service may be administered from a country outside Europe. If this is the case, the firm must put a contract in place to ensure that your information is adequately protected.
Where it’s necessary for your personal data to be forwarded to a third party, we will use appropriate security measures to protect your personal data in transit. Furthermore, to fulfil our obligations of money-laundering and other financial crime, we may send your details to third-party agencies for identity verification 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’re 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. More information about the nature of our personal data processing activities including details of our retention and deletion policies are set out in our Privacy Notice document which we can provide to you separately upon request. You have the right to request deletion of your personal data. All requests for deletion must be made in writing. We will comply with this request, subject to the restrictions of or regulatory obligations as noted above.
Under General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you have the right to access your personal data that we hold. If you would like a copy of some or all of your personal information please email or write to us using the contact details noted below. We may charge a “reasonable fee” for the administration costs involved.
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.
If you have any questions about how we collect, store and use personal information; would like to make a complaint regarding privacy; or if you have any other privacy related questions, please contact us by using any of the following means:
For further guidance regarding data protection and GDPR, please visit https://www.ico.org.uk
Our website may contain links to other websites. This privacy policy only applies to this website so when you go on other websites, you should read their own privacy policies.
