Abels Residential takes data protection law very seriously. Please read this policy carefully as it has been put
together to give you more information on the data we hold on you and what we do with that data.
We want you to know that Abels Residential respects the information we hold on you and you can trust us to
respect your privacy and keep your personal information safe.
Some main points to consider:
• We will be transparent about the information we are collecting and what we will do with it.
• We will use the information you give us for the purposes described in our Privacy Policy, which
include providing you with services you have requested and enhancing your experience with Abels
Residential.
• We will also use the information to help us understand you better and so that we can give you
information of legitimate interest to you.
• If you tell us, you don’t want to receive messages we will stop sending them. We will, of course,
continue to send essential information relating to a property or service you have with Abels.
• We will put in place measures to protect your information and keep it secure.
• We will respect your data protection rights and aim to give you control over your own information.
You can access Abels Residential full Privacy Policy below to help you to better understand how we use your
personal information.
In it, we explain in more detail the types of personal information we collect, how we collect it, what we may
use it for and who we may share it with.
Key terms
We, us, our, Abels | Abels Residential |
Personal information, information, data | Any information relating to an identified or identifiable |
Personal Information we collect about you
We may collect and use the following personal information:
• Name
• Email address
• Postal address
• Telephone and/or fax number
• Payment information (such as a credit and debit card) and bank account details
• Telephone number and recordings when you call our customer service line
• Bank statements, passport, drivers licence, utility bill or any other documents deemed relevant when
buying, selling, letting or renting a property for example; for the purposes of right to rent checks and
anti-money laundering
It is important to note that Abels Residential will only use and acquire personal data when one of the
following is adhered to: Consent, contract, legal obligation, vital interests, public task or legitimate interest.
We do not use your information in any way that would identify you personally, Abels will only do this if you
have consented to use of your information for a specific purpose. (e.g.) if you give us consent to tell a
landlord that you were newly married or have children.
How your personal information is collected
We may collect information about you from an array of sources. This includes; information we collect directly
from you; over the phone, from valuation/lead/contact form or via email.
Sometimes you might give your consent implicitly, such as when you send us a message by e-mail to which
you would reasonably expect us to reply.
On the basis that you would find the information we provide useful we continue to process your information,
until you withdraw your consent or it can be reasonably assumed that your consent no longer exists.
Abels require personal information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service. Listed
below are some of those reasons:
What We Use Your Personal Information For | Our Reasons (Legal Basis) | Our Explanation Of Abels Legitimate Interests |
Set up your user account | • Legitimate interest | Process efficiency in dealing with such activity. |
Notify you of the sales/letting process | • Legitimate interests | Process efficiency in dealing with such activity, and to make improvements to our services. |
To detect, investigate and report financial crime (e.g. Fraud) | • Legal Obligation / legitimate interests | Developing and improving how we deal with financial crime. Complying with any legal obligation placed on us by regulators such as the FCA. Complying with any regulations that apply to us. Process efficiency in dealing with such activity, and to make service and process improvements. |
Marketing communications to inform you of special offers, promotions, new lines and Sales. Provide you with online advertising. | • Legitimate interests | Developing products, services, applications and designs that attract and retain customers. Improving customer interaction with our sites. |
Notifying you about enhancements to our services, such as changes to the website and new services that may be of interest to you. | • Legitimate interests | Developing products, services, applications and designs that attract and retain customers. Improving customer interaction with our sites. |
Contact you to undertake customer satisfaction surveys, invite you to provide product reviews or for market research. | • Legitimate interests | Developing products, services, applications and designs that attract and retain customers. Improving customer interaction with our sites. |
Maintaining network and data security | • Legitimate interests | To maintain the security of our network this in turns helps us to maintain the safety and confidentiality of your information. |
Cookies
Cookies are pieces of information that a website transfers to your hard drive to store and sometimes track
information about you. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but if you prefer, you can change
your browser to prevent that. However, you may not be able to take full advantage of a website if you do so.
Cookies are specific to the server that created them and cannot be accessed by other servers, which means
they cannot be used to track your movements around the web.
The Abels website and applications may automatically collect data about how you use our services in order
to help us improve future functionality. We use Google Analytics, which is a web analysis service provided by
Google.
Certain devices can detect your approximate location, via latitude and longitude. The accuracy of this data is
not in the control of Abels. You can disable location settings within your browser.
In addition to Abels using cookies and similar technologies on our Services, we allow certain Third Parties to
set or access their cookies and similar technologies on your device to provide you with personalised content
and advertising.
These two particular Cookies are known as:
• Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to Our Site. They enable us
to change what you see based on your previous activity (for example, to recognise you are using our
instant messaging service again).
• Targeting cookies. These are cookies which are placed when you use Our Site and which are used
to deliver targeted content to you on other sites. Use of these cookies enables a third party to link
your browsing activity on Our Site with your browsing activity on other sites. This information may be
used to deliver targeted advertising or to help measure the effectiveness of an advertising campaign.
These companies’ use of cookies and similar technologies is subject to their own privacy policies, not the
Abels Privacy Policy.
Where personal information is held and how is it protected
All data is stored on our servers and office computers which are encrypted and password protected via
windows authentication.
Some data is on Google drive as part of g suite and backups are stored on Amazon cloud aws platform, both
Google and Abels fully comply with GDPR rules and have are protected with encryption and 2 step
verification.
We also hold information via third parties through winman and vebra cloud servers. To Abels knowledge both
companies have in depth privacy policies and are both fully GDPR compliant.
Abels is committed to protecting the security of your personal information. However, while we take
reasonable precautions to guard the personal information we collect, no security system is impenetrable.
While no Service is completely secure, Abels will always take precautionary measures to help prevent
information about you from loss, theft, misuse and unauthorised access, disclosure, alteration and
destruction.
How long will your personal information be kept
Abels retains personal data for as long as necessary to provide Services, support and to fulfil transactions
you have requested, or for other essential purposes such as complying with our legal obligations, and
resolving disputes and enforcing our agreements.
How do I delete my personal data from Abels Residential and what are the consequences?
You can always request that your data be deleted by sending us an email
via [email protected] or write to us at:
Callan Pang, Abels Residential Ltd, 14 Holly Road, Orpington, BR6 6BE
Please note, however, that by deleting your personal data from software that Abels uses it may hinder the
best possible experience that Abels endeavours to give all of its customers.
Your rights
To provide you with the best possible service we want you to be in control of how your personal information
is used by us. Subject to local law, you can do this in the following ways:
• You can ask us for a copy of the personal information we hold about you;
• You can inform us of any changes to your personal information, or if you want us to correct any of
the personal information we hold about you;
• In certain situations, you can ask us to erase, block or restrict the personal information we hold about
you, or object to particular ways in which we are using your personal information; and
• In certain situations, you can also ask us to send the personal information you have given us to a
third party.
Information sharing
Your trust is of the greatest importance and thus we categorically do not sell your personal information to any
external companies.
We will only share your information if you have given us explicit permission to do so.
We may however from time to time pass your name and contact information to selected associates whom we
consider may provide services or products that you would find useful, such as our mortgage adviser; Heron
Financial or a firm of solicitors if you’re in the process of buying or selling. Or approved contractors if you are
renting through Abels, such as plumbers, electricians etc.
How to complain
Please do inform us promptly of any changes to any inaccuracies in your personal information by
contacting [email protected]
Abels will ensure that any requests are handled courteously, promptly and fully in accordance with the GDPR
and the DPA (date protection act).
How to contact us
You can contact Abels Residential in a number of ways and we will respond to you as soon as we can,
certainly within 30 days.
When you contact us please let us know how you would like Abels to respond to, whether that be phone,
email or post, also please ensure you let us know how you would like to be addressed.
To contact us please do this either by post, email. Details to do this are as follows:
Callan Pang, Abels Residential Ltd, 14 Holly Road, Orpington, BR6 6BE
Updates to privacy policy
Abels can change this policy when required and whenever we feel necessary.
When changes are made we will indicate the effective date when this Privacy Statement is updated.
If we make any changes to this Privacy Statement, we will notify you. Either by sending an e-mail to the email address you most recently provided or by posting notice of the changes on this site.
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