The privacy policy
We are committed to protecting the privacy of all visitors to
this website. Any information you provide and which we store will
only be used in the following ways:
- To give you the service(s) you have requested as efficiently as
possible
- For research and analysis purposes
- To give you information, when you visit our website, about
relevant promotions, offers or information that may be of interest
to you
- To contact you by telephone, post or email, from time to time,
about financial and other products and services offered by Wesleyan
Assurance Society, which we feel may be of interest to you.
Your IP address (this is your computer’s individual
identification number for internet connection) is automatically
logged by our webserver. This is only used to note your visit to
our website.
If you prefer not to be contacted by telephone, post or email
about other products or services, please use the opt-out facility,
available on any of the contact forms on our website, where
relevant.
The information you provide will only be disclosed outside
Wesleyan Assurance Society and its subsidiary companies in the
following circumstances:
- For the purpose of fraud prevention or where there is a legal
or regulatory obligation to do so
- To carefully selected third parties for processing
purposes
- At your request or with your consent
Whilst we take all reasonable precautions and security measures
to protect your personal data, we cannot be held responsible for,
and therefore exclude any liability for, loss or misuse of personal
data, which is intercepted or otherwise accessed by unauthorised
persons.
Under the terms of the Data Protection Act 1998, you have the
right to obtain from us a copy of the information held about you,
upon payment of an appropriate fee. If you see inaccurate data,
please let us know so that corrections can be made. Our purposes
for holding personal information, and a description of the general
categories of parties to whom we can disclose it, can be found in
the Data Protection Register (opens in new
window).
By using our website, you agree to the collection and processing
of the information that you supply. Any changes to our Privacy
Policy will be posted on this page so that you are always kept
informed of the information we collect and how we use it.
On this website we use Sitestat, a product of Nedstat, to
measure and analyse information regarding visits to our
website.
To that effect, we use your IP address to collect, among other
things, internet traffic data and data regarding your browser type
and computer.
In addition, cookies are used. A cookie is a small file that is
stored on your computer when you visit a website. If you visit the
website again, it is recognised as a repeat visit by means of the
cookie.
The cookie contains merely a unique number and therefore no
personal data.
The cookie cannot be used to identify you on third party
websites, including Nedstat. It is possible to configure your web
browser to refuse cookies or to be informed if a cookie is set. We
refer you to the manual of your web browser.
We will not use the IP addresses or cookies to identify you
personally.
We use the services of Nedstat in order to increase the
efficiency of our websites.
Whenever you elect to complete a contact form on our website,
the information is transmitted via an SSL encrypted connection.
This is a further level of protection to protect the privacy of all
visitors to our website.
Email
If you email us, or give us your email address, we will keep a
record of it for administrative purposes.
If you send us email, remember that it will be "insecure" and
could be intercepted. If you do send us "insecure" email, please
keep the amount of confidential information you include to a
minimum. We will do likewise when we reply.
We operate a content analysis system on all incoming emails. As
a result, your message might be quarantined and/or deleted
automatically. We apologise if this causes any inconvenience.
However, we hope you will appreciate that we need to reduce spam
and malicious emails that may be received.
Responsibility for customer confidentiality
Each employee is personally responsible for maintaining customer
confidentiality. We provide training and education to all our staff
to remind them about their obligations. Our policies and procedures
that support our Privacy Principles are regularly audited and
reviewed.