Privacy Policy

Instant Legal complies with all appropriate data protection legislation. This policy explains how we use your personal information to provide services to you through our suppliers in accordance with your requirements.

ABOUT US

Instant Legal is a Claim Management Company authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority under Firm Registration Number 8389905.

OUR PRIVACY PROMISE

Your privacy matters to us, and we will never release your personal details to any third party for marketing purposes. We will tell you how we use your data and who we share it with.

WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT FROM YOU?

We will only collect enough information from you in order to be able to process your claim on your behalf. The information we may collect could include the following: your name, address, contact details, date of birth, details of the circumstances of the claim or incident and any damage, injury or loss suffered by you.

WHO IS COLLECTING IT?

Instant Legal will collect enough information to provide you with services that we are contracted to provide or additional services that you consent to.

HOW IS IT COLLECTED?

Information is collected through our claims notification process. This can be electronically received though our website or via telephone.

WHERE DO WE STORE YOUR INFORMATION?

All which is provided to us is stored on secure servers. We employ appropriate security measures to protect your information stored on our servers.

WHO DO WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION WITH?

In order to fulfil both our contractual obligations and our obligations to you, we will share information with business partners or suppliers for the performance of any contract we enter into with you or them. We do not share your personal information with any third party for marketing of any kind.

HOW LONG DO WE KEEP IT FOR?

We will keep your information for six years after your claim has completed. If for any reason we do not provide you with services, we will delete your personal information from our records. All telephone calls are recorded and kept for 12 months after the date of our last telephone contact with you.

HOW WILL WE USE THE INFORMATION ABOUT YOU?

We will use information to enable us to decide if we can provide services to you and:

  • The administration and management of your claim (including legal services, vehicle replacement and vehicle repair:
  • To comply with any laws or regulations;
  • We will keep your personal information confidential and will take appropriate
    measures to protect it against loss, theft or misuse and to safeguard your privacy.

In the course of providing our services to you, we may need to communicate your personal
information to parties involved in your claim including but not limited to:

  • Vehicle rental companies for the purpose of obtaining a replacement car.
  • Law firms for the provision of legal services.
  • Garages and/or engineers to ensure your vehicle is repaired.

In dealing with your claim, we may also transfer your information to organisations
providing us with support and administrative services for the more efficient processing of
your claim. Your details will be processed in each case in strict confidence and we have set
up adequate measures to ensure that your privacy is protected when transferring your
data to third parties for the purposes of providing our services to you. Please note that the
transmission of data over the internet is never completely secure.

ELECTRONIC INFORMATION

Some information about website users is collected automatically and this may be used by us to monitor and analyse how our site is used by visitors. The process does not, however, identify any individual persons using the site. We do not collect cookies.

ACCESS TO YOUR INFORMATION

You have the right to request a copy of the information that we hold about you. If you
would like a copy of some or all of your personal information, please email or write to us at
the following address:
Michael Taylor, Unit 6 English Business Park English Close Hove East Sussex BN3 7ET
You have a right to ask us to correct or remove information you think is inaccurate.
Our website may contain links to and from the websites of business partners and suppliers
or other third-party firms’. Please note that we do not accept any responsibility for the use
of your information once it leaves our website domain nor the content of any third-party
website. The use of personal information on any website you choose to access will contain
its own privacy policy that governs how they use your personal information.

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 reviewed on 10 th February 2020.

HOW TO CONTACT US

Please contact us if you have any questions about our privacy policy or information we
hold about you:
– By email at: admin@instant-legal.uk