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As a customer of the Market Harborough Building Society, we take your right to privacy very seriously. This privacy policy outlines how we will treat personal information which you provide when you visit our website.
What information do we collect about you?
Market Harborough Building Society will only collect, process and store information about you that is relevant to our mutual relationship. We will not retain information about you once you have terminated our relationship, except in so far as that may be necessary to satisfy statutory or regulatory requirements.
How will we use the information we collect about you?
We will use the personal information which is collected from our website as follows:
- To set up and then administer your accounts.
- To carry out statistical analysis to enable us to improve our products and services.
We will not disclose information about you or your accounts to anyone, other than where we have your consent, or where we are required by law to do so.
Security
When you sign on to our online service (You-View) all information, including messages, are protected by encryption while in transit across the Internet.
If you use standard e-mail for communication with us, information will not be protected in the same way and you should be aware that Market Harborough Building Society cannot guarantee that it remains confidential whilst in transit.
More information about security is given on our Security pages.
Marketing
You have the right to ask us not to send you marketing information or to pass your information to other carefully selected third parties. You can do this by clicking the appropriate box when you submit your information, or you can write to, or email us at any time to request this. Please note however that if you do opt out, we will not be able to keep you informed of new products or services which may interest you.
Your rightsUnder the Data Protection Act 1998, you have the right to request a copy of the personal information that we hold about you. If you would like a copy of some or all of your personal information, please contact our Head Office. Please note there is a charge for this service – see Savers' Fees for Additional Services.
We want to make sure that your personal information is accurate and up to date. You may ask us to correct or remove information you think is inaccurate.
Cookies
Like many other website operators we use standard technology called "cookies" on this site. Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive. Market Harborough Building Society uses cookies in the following ways:
- to ensure your Internet session is secure.
- to track how users reach our site and the path they take through it to help us to improve our service to you. When we use a cookie for this purpose, we do not record any information that will uniquely identify you. We put together the information from a very large number of users of our website to give us an overall picture of how people visit our site.
- from time to time we use a third party company to monitor and analyse traffic to, from and within our website. Cookies may be used as part of this process. No information will be recorded that uniquely identifies you.
- from time to time we may wish to record personal information about you using cookies.
You may choose to set your browser to not accept any cookies. Please be aware that if you do this, some of the functionality of "You-View" may be impaired.
Other websites
Our website contains links to other websites. This privacy policy only applies to this website, so when you link to other websites you should read their own privacy policies.
Changes to our privacy policy
We keep our privacy policy under regular review and we will place any updates on this web page. This privacy policy was last updated on 10th July 2009.
How to contact usPlease contact us if you have any questions about our privacy policy or information which we hold about you:
Market Harborough Building Society, Welland House, The Square, Market Harborough, Leicestershire. LE16 7PD
Tel: 01858 412250
Fax: 01858 412254
Email: CustomersFirst |