Privacy Policy
We take appropriate technical measures to protect your personal information including making a regular backup of our system and data.
We have measures in place to make sure any personal information we collect is secure. Even though we take appropriate steps to protect your security, you should remember that data transmission over the internet cannot always be guaranteed as 100% secure.
GDPR Privacy Notice
Oak Leasing Ltd will be what’s known as the ‘Controller’ of the data you provide to us.
We only collect basic personal data about you which does not include any special types of information. This does however include name, address, email, phone number.
Why we need your data
We need to know your basic data in order to provide you with the funding options you have requested .We will not collect any personal data from you we do not need in order to provide and oversee this service to you.
What we do with your data
All the data we process is passed to our panel of funders, both in the UK and Europe. The funders will use the data you have provided to make a credit decision. This will include them contacting credit reference agencies to reach their decision.
For the purposes of IT hosting and maintenance, some this information is located on servers within the European Union. No 3rd parties apart from our funders have access to your data unless the law allows them to do so. We will not disclose your data to any company apart from our funders, except to help prevent fraud or if we are required to so so by law.
We have a Data Protection regime in place to oversee the effective and secure processing of your data. Oak Leasing uses a third party service to help maintain the security and performance of our website (Thawte ) To deliver this secure service, it processes the IP addresses of visitors to our website.
How long we keep your data
We are required to keep your basic data if you have accepted , and proceeded to a funding option from one of our funders, for the term of the agreement, either lease, HP or other form of finance, and until the said agreement has concluded . Any other information concerning data that we requested in support of any application, and was either declined or not taken up, will be deleted and destroyed from our records within 6 months.
What are your rights
If at any point you believe the information we process on you is incorrect you can request to see this information and have it corrected or deleted. If you wish to raise a complaint on how we have handled your personal data, you can contact us to have the matter investigated. office@oaklease.co.uk
If you are not satisfied with our response or believe we are processing your personal data not in accordance with the law you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office https://ico.org.uk/
Use of cookies on our website
We use a web analytics tool to analyse site usage, how our users arrive at our site, what they do on the site, what browser they are using and on what operating system etc.
However, this analytics data, collected via our site, is not tied to personally identifiable information.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.
One of the cookies we use is essential for parts of the site to operate and has already been set. You may delete and block all cookies from this site, but parts of the site will not work.
Cookies used
Google Analytics
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These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where vistors have come to the site from and the pages they visited.
Follow the link below for Googles Privacy Policy
http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/analytics/privacyoverview.html
Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
No spam.
Oak Leasing will never sell your details or send you emails from third party companies.
