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Privacy

1. Data Protection

The information you have provided is subject to the General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation
(EU) 2016/679). (GDPR)

By signing this document, you consent to us or any company associated with us, for example,
product providers or platforms we use to provide you with our services, processing your personal
data, both manually and by electronic means.

Your data will be used for the sole purpose of providing financial advice, administration and
management.

“Processing” includes obtaining, recording or holding information or data, transferring it to other
companies associated with us, such as product providers, the FCA or any other statutory,
governmental or regulatory body for legitimate purposes including, where relevant, to solicitors
and/or other debt collection agencies for debt collection purposes and carrying out operations on
the information or data.

In order to provide services to you we may be required to pass your personal information to parties
located outside of the European Economic Area (EEA) in countries that do not have Data Protection
Laws equivalent to those in the UK. Where this is the case we will take reasonable steps to ensure
the privacy of your information.

The information provided may also contain sensitive personal data for the purposes of the Act,
including information that relates to your physical or mental health or condition; the committing or
alleged committing of any offence by you; any proceedings for an offence committed or alleged to
have been committed by you, including the outcome or sentence in such proceedings.

If at any time, should you wish to withdraw consent, for us or any company associated with us, to
processing your personal data or sensitive personal data, please contact The Data Protection
Officer on 0345 224 3175.

or in writing at:

Vision Independent Financial Advisors Limited
Fairfields, 186 Low Road,
Thornhill Edge,
Wakefield,
West Yorkshire
WF12 0PU

You may be assured that we and any company associated with us will treat all personal data and
sensitive personal data as confidential and will not process it other than for a legitimate purpose
associated with the service we will provide you. Steps will be taken to ensure that the information is
accurate, kept up to date and not kept for longer than is necessary.

If we provide you with financial advice, your data will be kept in accordance with FCA regulatory
expectations, which in some cases means the duration could be indefinite.

Measures will also be taken to safeguard against unauthorised or unlawful processing and accidental
loss or destruction or damage to the data.

Subject to certain exceptions, you are entitled to have access to your personal and sensitive personal
data that is held by us.

You will not be charged for us supplying you with such data, however, we do reserve the right to
apply a ‘reasonable fee’ where requests are deemed excessive.

We will respond to your request as soon as possible and within the maximum time frame of one
month.

2. Data Processing

  1. Your data will be lawfully and fairly processed in a transparent manner.
  2. Your data is collected on the grounds of explicit and legitimate purposes only.
  3. We will only ask for your data when necessary, and explain if data will be shared and how long it
    will be kept.
  4. Your data will be accurate, kept up to date and erased, without delay, should your data no
    longer be required for the purposes to be processed.
  5. Your data will only be retained for as long as is necessary.
  6. Your data will be secure.

3. Rights of the client

The points below clearly set out the rights each client is entitled to. Please ask us for an explanation
of each, should you wish to have more information.

  1. The right to be informed.
  2. The right of access
  3. The right to rectification.
  4. The right to erasure
  5. The right to restrict processing
  6. The right to data portability
  7. The right to object.
  8. Rights to automated decision and profiling

4. Right to complain

In rare occasions where you believe your data has been wrongfully processed, stored or handled,
you have the right to raise a concern with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).

Details on how to do this can be found here:
https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/raising-concerns/