Privacy Policy

Riviera Insurance

Riviera Insurance Services Limited Privacy Notice

In accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation and related UK data protection legislation, we are committed to protecting the confidentiality and security of the information that you provide to us.

This Privacy Notice is designed to help you understand how we collect and use your information.

We may collect information from you about other people, for example, family members who may drive your car or who may be included on a travel or household insurance policy. If you give us information about another person, it is your responsibility to ensure and confirm that:

  • you have told the individual who we are and how we use personal information, as set out in this Privacy Policy; and
  • you have permission from the individual to provide that personal information to us and for us to use it, as set out in this Privacy Notice.

 

If you have any questions or queries about this policy, please contact us.

Who we are

“Riviera” (also referred to in this Notice as “we”, “us”, or “our”) means Riviera Insurance Services Limited.

How to contact us:

For any questions or concerns relating to this Privacy Policy or our data protection practices, or to make a subject access or any other request regarding the information we hold, please contact us at:

Riviera Insurance Services Limited

234-236 Union Street,

Torquay,

TQ2 5QS

 

Tel: 01803 659111; email: admin@rivierainsurance.co.uk

Website: www.rivierainsurance.co.uk

Why we need and how we use your personal information

We only collect, use and store your information where we have lawful grounds and legitimate business reasons to do so.

We collect, use and store your personal information in order to fulfil requests for quotes, products and services as part our insurance broking, claims handling and risk management business. It may also be used to verify your identity, to administer payments and to enable us to carry out anti-money laundering and other financial crime checks where required. If you pay by instalments your information may also be used to arrange credit.

The use of your data is essential for us to check your identity, to enable you to enter into an insurance contract and for the insurance to operate (in the event of a claim, for example). We may also use it keep our records up to date, to notify you about changes to our service and to help us in develop new products and services.

If you do not provide the information required, we are unlikely to be able to arrange your insurance and may not be able to provide certain services to you.

We may monitor calls, emails, text messages and other communications with you.  When you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence and any information provided to us during that or any subsequent communication.

Marketing

We would like to keep you updated about our relevant products and services by email, SMS and/or telephone. If we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes we will only do so with your consent. Your consent will be obtained specifically at the appropriate time.

If you have already consented and wish us to stop using your information for this purpose or any other purpose, then please contact us.

Nature of personal information

Personal data is any information that may identify a living individual.

We collect personal information such as name, contact details, date of birth, gender, marital status, financial details, employment details and other personal details depending on the nature of the insurance and other services we offer.

We may collect, use and store sensitive personal information such as criminal convictions and medical conditions as necessary in relation to insurances such as motor, home, travel and health insurance. This information may be shared with insurers, insurance product providers and our third-party service providers. Where necessary, we shall obtain your consent to the processing of such information.

 

Sharing information

We will only supply your personal information to other parties where such a transfer is a necessary part of the activities that we undertake, where you give us consent or where we are required to do so by law or regulation (e.g. where the disclosure is necessary for the purposes of the prevention and/or detection of crime).

As an intermediary, we must disclose personal information to insurance companies, underwriting agencies, business partners and other parties in order to provide our products and services and to enable you to enter into insurance contracts. Examples of other parties include other insurance intermediaries, loss adjusters, regulatory bodies, legal and accountancy firms involved in the claims handling process. We may also share your personal information with fraud prevention agencies such as the Claims and Underwriting Exchange Register and Motor Insurance Anti-Fraud and Theft Register. We may pass information relating to your insurance policy and any incident to the operators of these registers, their agents and suppliers,

For motor insurance, we share it with the Motor Insurance Database (MID) which may be used to establish whether a driver is insured to drive a vehicle and/or for preventing or detecting crime. If you are involved in an accident in the UK or abroad, the MID may be searched to obtain relevant policy information. You can find out more at www.mib.org.uk

We may also disclose your information to service providers engaged to perform services on our behalf. Such service providers are contractually restricted from using or disclosing the information we give them except as necessary to perform services on our behalf or to comply with legal requirements.

We only share your information if we are satisfied that our partners or suppliers have sufficient measures in place to protect your information in the same way that we do.

We may also disclose personal information to new owners of our business in the event that we are subject to a merger or acquisition. Disclosure may also be made to enable company audits, regulatory inspections or to investigate a complaint, suspicion of fraud or a security threat.

We never share your information outside our organisation for marketing purposes.

You understand that we may disclose the information you provide to relevant other parties for the purposes described in this Notice.

Transfer of personal data outside the UK

Certain personal information held on our Information Technology systems may be transferred across geographical borders in accordance with applicable law.

By providing us with your information, you consent to the collection, international transfer, storage, and processing of your information. These transfers are governed by European Union (EU) standard contractual clauses or equivalent data transfer agreements to protect the security and confidentiality of personal information.

How long we keep information about you

We will keep your information for as long as it is required to enable us to provide quotations, administer your insurances, offer renewal and respond to any claims or complaints (which may arise after the period of insurance has expired). This will usually be a minimum period of seven years or otherwise as determined by law or regulation. Once we decide that we no longer need your information it will be securely and confidentially destroyed.

Your data protection rights

You have certain legal rights under UK data protection law and regulations, summarised as follows:

  • The right to be informed about our data processing activities, including through Privacy Notices such as this.
  • The right of access to the personal information we hold about you. To request a copy of this information you must make a subject access request in writing to us.
  • The right of rectification. You may ask us to correct any inaccurate or incomplete data within one month.
  • The right to erasure and to restrict processing. You have the right to have your personal data erased and to prevent processing except where we have a legal obligation to process your personal information. You should bear in mind that by exercising this right you may hinder or prevent our ability to provide products and services.
  • The right to data portability. On your request, we will provide you with your personal data in a structured format.
  • The right to object. You have particular rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling to reduce the risk that a potentially damaging decision is taken without human intervention. You can object to your personal data being used for profiling, direct marketing or research purposes.

 

If you want to invoke any of these rights, please write to us at:

Riviera Insurance Services Limited

234-236 Union Street,

Torquay,

TQ2 5QS or email: admin@rivierainsurance.co.uk

 

Withdrawal of consent

Where you have provided your specific consent to the use of personal data, you may withdraw that consent by contacting us:

Riviera Insurance Services Limited

234-236 Union Street,

Torquay,

TQ2 5QS

Tel: 01803 659111 or email: admin@rivierainsurance.co.uk

How to make a complaint

If you wish to make a complaint about how we hold or use your data, please contact us:

Riviera Insurance Services Limited

234-236 Union Street,

Torquay,

TQ2 5QS

Tel: 01803 659111 or email: admin@rivierainsurance.co.uk

If you are dissatisfied with how we deal with your complaint, you may contact the Information Commissioner’s Office:

The Information Commissioner, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF; Phone: 08456 30 60 60 Website: www.ico.gov.uk

Information from other sources

We may use legal public sources such as the electoral roll and other third-party sources such as credit reference agencies to obtain information about you, for example, to verify your identity or check your credit history.

We also obtain information about you from credit reference agencies and similar third parties. Some personal information may be provided to us by third parties such as insurance companies, other insurance intermediaries and motor vehicle licensing authorities. In some cases, you will have previously submitted your personal information to them and given them approval to pass this information on for certain purposes.

Such information will only be obtained from reputable sources which operate in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation.

We and/or other parties may use your information for purposes such as statistical and trend research and analysis which may include computerised processes which profile you. Automatic profiling helps us understand, predict and forecast customer preferences to improve the products and services we offer and to assess which products might be most suitable for you.

Information we Collect

We will collect and process the following personal information about you:

    1. Name
    2. Email
    3. Mobile
    4. Date of Birth
    5. Address

      How we use your information

      We will use the information that we collect about you for the following purposes:

      1. Marketing/ Promotional
      2. Creating user account
      3. Enforce T&C
      4. Processing payment
      5. Support
      6. Site protection
      7. Dispute resolution

      If we want to use your information for any other purpose, we will ask you for consent and will use your information only on receiving your consent and then, only for the purpose(s) for which grant consent unless we are required to do otherwise by law.

       

      How we share your information

      We will not transfer your personal information to any third party without seeking your consent, except in limited circumstances as described below:

      1. Analytics

      We require such third party’s to use the personal information we transfer to them only for the purpose for which it was transferred and not to retain it for longer than is required for fulfilling the said purpose.

      We may also disclose your personal information for the following: (1) to comply with applicable law, regulation, court order or other legal process; (2) to enforce your agreements with us, including this Privacy Policy; or (3) to respond to claims that your use of the Service violates any third-party rights. If the Service or our company is merged or acquired with another company, your information will be one of the assets that is transferred to the new owner.

      Retention of your information

      We will retain your personal information with us for 90 days to 2 years after user accounts remain idle or for as long as we need it to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected as detailed in this Privacy Policy. We may need to retain certain information for longer periods such as record-keeping / reporting in accordance with applicable law or for other legitimate reasons like enforcement of legal rights, fraud prevention, etc. Residual anonymous information and aggregate information, neither of which identifies you (directly or indirectly), may be stored indefinitely.

       

      Your Rights

      Depending on the law that applies, you may have a right to access and rectify or erase your personal data or receive a copy of your personal data, restrict or object to the active processing of your data, ask us to share (port) your personal information to another entity, withdraw any consent you provided to us to process your data, a right to lodge a complaint with a statutory authority and such other rights as may be relevant under applicable laws. To exercise these rights, you can write to us at developer@rivierainsurance.co.uk. We will respond to your request in accordance with applicable law.

      You may opt-out of direct marketing communications or the profiling we carry out for marketing purposes by writing to us at developer@rivierainsurance.co.uk.

      Do note that if you do not allow us to collect or process the required personal information or withdraw the consent to process the same for the required purposes, you may not be able to access or use the services for which your information was sought.

       

      Security

      The security of your information is important to us and we will use reasonable security measures to prevent the loss, misuse or unauthorized alteration of your information under our control. However, given the inherent risks, we cannot guarantee absolute security and consequently, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us and you do so at your own risk.

       

      Third Party links & use of your information

      Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. This Privacy Policy does not address the privacy policy and other practices of any third parties, including any third party operating any website or service that may be accessible via a link on the Service. We strongly advise you to review the privacy policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

If you have downloaded our app:

In addition to our Privacy Policy, our Riviera Insurance App may also collect the following:

    • Your contact details such as name, email addresses, phone numbers
    • Further personal details such as marital status, employment status, income information, proof of residency
    • Your claims history
    • Location information for the purposes of location targeting in the event of a car claim
    • Information on your vehicle or property to be used for quotation purposes only

 

Examples of special category data we collect for quotation purposes only may include

    • Your medical history
    • Criminal convictions and county court judgements

Riviera Insurance Services Limited Cookie Policy

In accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation and related UK data protection legislation, we are committed to protecting the confidentiality and security of the information that you provide to us.

Riviera Insurance Cookie Policy

A “cookie” is a small text file that is placed on a user’s hard drive from a website. There are lots of different types of cookie and the most common are often referred to simply as ‘session’ cookies. These are used to keep track of information needed by a user as he/ her goes from page to page within a site. This form of cookie has a short lifespan and expire within a couple of minutes of leaving the website.

There are other forms of cookies that can be used to track internet activity after someone has left a website. These are typically sponsored by businesses external to the website being visited and are also known as ‘third party’ cookies. These usually have a fairly long lifespan with even months being quite common. They are ‘harvested’ and ‘refreshed’ whenever the user visits a page where the same or a similar cookies are being used.

Riviera Insurance Limited may use short lived ‘session’ cookies to tell whether a website user has logged in, where to find details that can be used to pre-fill parts of on-line forms and to tailor the user’s visit to All Sport Insurance’s website. They are also used to track anonymously which areas of the site are popular and which are not used; this allows All Sport Insurance to target carefully where traffic is coming and going and enhance our users experience.

Riviera Insurance Limited may use cookies in its email communications to personalise the email and track whether the mail has been opened or read and whether the recipient has used any website links contained in the email communication. This allows us to monitor and improve our email communications and website.

Riviera Insurance Limited cookies do not analyse visits to other website or any searches undertaken whilst on the Riviera Insurance Limited website.

Internet browsers normally accept cookies by default; however, it is possible to set a browser to reject cookies. If this is done it is important not to exclude the benign and useful session cookies. Choose an option that rejects all third party and long lived cookies.

This website uses Google Analytics to collect anonymous information such as the number of visitors to the site, and the most popular pages.

This website also uses the following cookies:

HotJar
Stripe
Frontend Checklist
Google TAG & Ads
User ID storage

Internet browsers normally accept cookies by default; however, it is possible to set a browser to reject cookies. If this is done it is important not to exclude the benign and useful session cookies. Choose an option that rejects all third party and long lived cookies.

Changes to the Cookie policy

Riviera Insurance may review and edit this policy from time to time. If we make any substantial change we will notify you by posting a prominent announcement on our website.

Effective Date: 07-Oct-2022
Last Updated: 07-Oct-2022

 
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