Privacy Policy

We Take Privacy Seriously

Beals Estate Agents Ltd are committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. This privacy notice, together with our Terms and Conditions and any other notice referred to in it, explains how we will collect your personal data and how we use your personal data when you visit our website.

Beals Estate Agents Ltd are a data controller in respect of the personal data processed. If you have any questions or concerns in relation to this Privacy Notice you can contact our Data Protection Officer at privacy@beals.co.uk or by writing to the Data Protection Officer, Beals Estate Agents, Unit 1, Fulcrum 2, Solent Way, Whiteley, Fareham, PO15 7FN.

This website is not intended for children.

This privacy notice was last amended in May 2018. It supersedes any earlier version.

Third-party links

This website may include links to third party websites, plug-ins or applications which may allow third parties to collect or share your personal data. We are not responsible for their use of your personal data and cannot control it.

What information we may collect and how we use it

As a business we collect, use, store and transfer different types of personal data depending on who you are.

If you are purchasing, renting, selling or letting a property through Beals, or purchasing, renting, selling or letting a property from one of our clients, we collect and use your personal data in order for us to provide you with our services. The personal data we collect and use may include:

  • Identity Data (name, marital status, title, date of birth, gender, username and password, purchases made by you, your interests and preferences, feedback and survey responses)
  • Contact Data (billing address, delivery address, email address and telephone numbers)
    Financial Data (bank account and payment details)
  • Transaction Data (details about payments to and from you and other services you have purchased through us)
  • Technical Data (internet protocol address, login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, identification number, online identified, location data and other similar identifying information required for the customer’s device(s) to communicate with websites and applications on the internet)
  • Usage Data (how you use our website products and services, the full uniform resource locators clickstream to, through and from our site (including date and time), download errors, lengths of visit to certain pages, page interaction information, methods to browse away from the page and any phone numbers you use to call us)
  • Marketing and Communications Data (your marketing preferences from us and our third parties and your communication preferences)

How is your personal data collected?

Personal information includes your name, address, or phone number and other information that is not otherwise publicly available. We collect personal information about you when you contact us about products and services, visit our offices/branchs, visit a website we may have or register to receive one of our newsletters (if applicable).

The type of personal information we collect will depend on the purpose for which it is collected and includes:

  • Contact detail
  • Information to verify your identity
  • Family, lifestyle, health and financial information
  • Payment details.

We collect personal information directly from you. For example, we ask for personal information at the start of our relationship and in subsequent communications in order to check your identity, and protect you from fraud. This is a legal requirement and is important to help safeguard you against potential crime.

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

Direct interactions

You may give us your Identity, Contact and Financial Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:

  • apply for our services;
  • create an account on our website;
  • subscribe to our service or publications;
  • request marketing to be sent to you;
  • contact us through social media;
  • walk-in to our branch offices or telephone our call centre;
  • enter a competition, promotion or survey; or
  • give us some feedback.

Third parties or publicly available source

We may receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources as set out below:

  • Rightmove based inside the EU
  • Zoopla Property Group based inside the EU
  • Social media including Facebook, Instagram & LinkedIn based outside the EU

Identity and Contact Data from publicly availably sources such as Companies House and the Electoral Register based inside the EU.

How we use your personal data

We process your information in order to support and maintain our contractual relationship with you and to comply with legal and regulatory requirements. This includes the following:

  • Providing our advice, products or services to you;
  • Carrying out transactions you have requested;
  • Confirming and verifying your identity for security purposes;
  • Credit scoring and assessment, and credit management (where applicable);
  • Detecting and preventing fraud, crime, money laundering or other malpractice.

We also process your data for specific business purposes to enable us to give you the best products and services and the best and most secure experience. For example, we process your information to send you marketing that is tailored to your interests.

Our business purposes include the following:

  • Enhancing, modifying, and personalizing our services for the benefit of our customers;
  • Providing communications which we think will be of interest to you;
  • Market or customer satisfaction research or statistical analysis;
  • Audit and record keeping purposes
  • Enhancing the security of our network and information systems.

You have the right to object to this processing if you wish, please see “YOUR RIGHTS” section below. Please bear in mind that if you object this may affect our ability to carry out the tasks above for your benefit.

We may also process your personal data as part of an acquisition or sale. Should this happen, you will notified about any change to processing or data controller arising as a result of this activity.

In the table below we summarise the ways that we plan to use your personal data and the purposes for which we will use your personal data. We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we have collected it. If we need to process your personal data for a different purpose that is not compatible with the original purpose that we collected your personal data, we will let you know.

We may process your personal data for a different purpose and without your consent where it is necessary for us to comply with our legal obligations.

Marketing
 
You have the right to withdraw your consent for us to use your personal data for marketing purposes at any time. You also have the right to withdraw consent for us to pass your information to third parties for marketing purposes. If you do withdraw your consent, this will result in us ceasing to market goods and services to you.

You can ask us to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by:
  • following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you; or
  • contacting us at any time by emailing privacy@beals.co.uk.

If you do withdraw your consent to receiving marketing messages, we will still process your personal data in order to fulfil our contract with you and in accordance with our legal, accountancy and regulatory obligations.

If you no longer wish to be contacted by third parties for marketing purposes, please follow the instructions in their marketing communications, or consult their privacy policies about how to unsubscribe.

Third-party marketing

We will get your express opt-in consent before we share your personal data with any company outside the Beals Group of companies for marketing purposes.

Cookies

We also collect information about you from other sources. For example, our website automatically collects information from your computer using “cookies” which provides us with limited personal information. 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 website owners. For further information visit www.aboutcookies.orgor www.allaboutcookies.org

You can set your browser not to accept cookies and the above websites tell you how to remove cookies from your browser. However, in a few cases some of our website features may not function as a result.

We use Google Analytics, which is a web analysis service provided by Google.

Disclosures of your personal data

We may have to share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes set out in the “Purposes for which we will use your personal data” table above. We have agreements in place with our third parties that restrict their use of your personal data. We only allow third parties to use your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

We share your information with trusted third parties who perform tasks for us and help us to provide the services you require these include:

  • Third parties to verify your identity, in line with money laundering or other requirements (this may involve carrying out checks with credit reference databases);
  • contacting us at any time by emailing privacy@beals.co.uk.
  • Other organizations, including regulatory bodies, the police and fraud prevention agencies, to prevent and detect fraud;
  • Third parties where required by law, court order or regulation; and
  • Third parties as part of an acquisition or sale.
  • Quilter Financial Services Ltd Group;
  • Other adviser firms in the network for the purpose of providing you with advice (with your knowledge);
  • Quilter group companies to enhance the services and products we can offer you;

Anti-Money Laundering

Beals is committed to operating its business in a transparent and open manner consistent with our legal and regulatory obligations. We are aware that the real estate industry is a target for organised criminals seeking to launder the proceeds of criminal activity. We always seek to prevent this activity by cooperating fully with the authorities and reporting suspicious activity to the National Crime Agency.

As part of this commitment, we adopt a strict compliance of all Anti-Money Laundering rules, with specific emphasis on the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, the Money Laundering Regulations 2017, the Bribery Act 2010 and the Terrorism Act 2000.

Beals policy commitment is applicable to all of our customers, including vendors, buyers, landlords and tenants. As a result we obtain and hold for a period of at least seven years evidence pertaining to our customers’ identity and, where appropriate, we obtain proof of ownership of property and source/destination of funds. We will be unable to proceed with any work on behalf of our customers if we are unable to obtain this information. Customers’ identity will be subject to an electronic identity check, which may also include a credit check.

Data Security

Once we have received your personal data we will use reasonable and necessary procedures and security features to try and prevent unauthorised access. For example, we limit who can access your personal data to those individuals and third parties who need to know it and who are subject to a duty of confidentiality. If we become aware of a data breach we will notify the Information Commissioner’s Office. If we believe that the data breach is serious, we may notify you in accordance with our legal requirements.

Internal Transfers

We will not transfer your personal data outside of the European Economic Area, except to a country offering the same level of protection for your personal data. For example, with certain service providers we may use specific contracts approved by the European Commission which ensures that your personal data has the same protection as it would have in Europe.

Data Retention

We hold on to your personal data whilst you use our services (or whilst we provide services connected to you) and for at least seven years thereafter, for legal, regulatory and accounting purposes. If we need to hold on to your personal data for longer, we take into consideration the potential risks in continuing to store your data against why we might need to keep it. In some circumstances we might anonymise your personal data so it is not associated with you, and we may then use this information indefinitely.

Your Legal Rights

Under data protection laws you have the right to protect and look after your personal data. You have the right to:
ask us for the personal data that we hold and process about you (this is commonly known as a data subject access request). You have rights to the following information:

  • the purpose(s) for which we are processing your information;
  • the categories of personal information we hold about you;
  • the recipients or categories of recipient to whom the personal data have been or will be disclosed;
  • the period for which we will store your information, or the criteria used to determine that period;
  • prevent the use of your personal data for marketing purposes by
  • informing a Beal’s telephone operator; or
  • by ticking the relevant boxes on the data collection forms; or
  • relevant boxes to adjust your marketing preferences; or
  • by emailing privacy@beals.co.uk
  • prevent the use of your personal data Please note that even if you refuse marketing, we will still contact you to discuss the services you have asked us to provide to you or to tell you about changes to our terms and conditions;
  • ask that any inaccurate information we hold about you is corrected;
  • ask that we delete the personal data we hold about you in certain situations;
  • ask that we stop using your personal data for certain purposes;
  • by emailing privacy@beals.co.uk
  • ask that personal data we hold about you is given to you, or where technically feasible a third party chosen by you, in a commonly used, machine-readable format.

The rights listed above may apply in certain circumstances, and so we may not always be able to comply with your request to exercise these rights. We will usually respond to a request from you to exercise your rights within 1 month of receipt, but it might take longer if your request is particularly complex or if you have made a number of requests. Please be aware that we may need to process your personal data and/or request specific information from you to help us comply with your request. You will not usually have to pay a fee to exercise these rights, but we reserve the right to if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive, alternatively we may refuse to comply with your request.

Complaints and Feedback

If you would like to speak to us about how we handle your personal data, please contact our Data Protection Officer in the first instance at privacy@beals.co.uk . You can also complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office who is the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues.

How to contact us

We welcome your views about our website and our Privacy Policy. If you would like to contact us with any queries or comments please send an e-mail to privacy@beals.co.uk

Indemnity

We welcome your views abouYou acknowledge that you are solely responsible for the use to which you put this website and all the results and information you obtain from it and that all warranties, conditions, undertakings, representations and terms whether expressed or implied, statutory or otherwise are hereby excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law.

Save in respect of liability for death or personal injury arising out of negligence or for fraudulent misrepresentation, we and all contributors to this website hereby disclaim to the fullest extent permitted by law all liability for any loss or damage including any consequential or indirect loss or damage incurred by you, whether arising in tort, contract or otherwise, and arising out of or in relation to or in connection with your access to or use of or inability to use this website.

Whilst we take every care to ensure that the standard of this website remains high and to maintain the continuity of it, we do not accept any ongoing obligation or responsibility to operate this website (or any particular part of it).

If any part of our terms and conditions is deemed to be unenforceable (including any provision in which we exclude our liability to you) the enforceability of any other part of these conditions will not be affected.

These terms and conditions and your use of this website are governed exclusively by English law.

This does not affect your statutory rights as a consumer.t our website and our Privacy Policy. If you would like to contact us with any queries or comments please send an e-mail to privacy@beals.co.uk