Privacy Policy
BACKGROUND:
Property118 Ltd understands that your privacy is important to you and that you care about how your personal data is used and shared online. We respect and value the privacy of everyone who visits this website,
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Please read this Privacy Policy carefully and ensure that you understand it. Your acceptance of Our Privacy Policy is deemed to occur upon your first use of Our Site
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- Definitions and Interpretation
In this Policy the following terms shall have the following meanings:
| “Account” |
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| “Cookie” |
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| “Cookie Law” |
means the relevant parts of the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003; |
| “personal data” |
means any and all data that relates to an identifiable person who can be directly or indirectly identified from that data. In this case, it means personal data that you give to Us via Our Site. This definition shall, where applicable, incorporate the definitions provided in the EU Regulation 2016/679 – the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”); and |
| “We/Us/Our” |
Means Property118 Ltd , a limited company registered in England under company number 10295964, whose registered address is 1st Floor, Woburn House, 84 St Benedicts Street, Norwich, NR2 4AB. |
- Information About Us
- Our Site is owned and operated by Property118 Ltd, a limited company registered in England under company number 10295964, whose registered address is 1st Floor, Woburn House, 84 St Benedicts Street, Norwich, NR2 4AB.
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- Our Data Protection Officer is Neil Patterson, and can be contacted by email at npatterson@property118.com, by telephone on 01603 489118, or by post at 1st Floor, Woburn House, 84 St Benedicts Street, Norwich, NR2 4AB.
- What Does This Policy Cover?
This Privacy Policy applies only to your use of Our Site. Our Site may contain links to other websites. Please note that We have no control over how your data is collected, stored, or used by other websites and We advise you to check the privacy policies of any such websites before providing any data to them.
- Your Rights
- As a data subject, you have the following rights under the GDPR, which this Policy and Our use of personal data have been designed to uphold:
- The right to be informed about Our collection and use of personal data;
- The right of access to the personal data We hold about you (see section 12);
- The right to rectification if any personal data We hold about you is inaccurate or incomplete (please contact Us using the details in section 14);
- The right to be forgotten – i.e. the right to ask Us to delete any personal data We hold about you (We only hold your personal data for a limited time, as explained in section 6 but if you would like Us to delete it sooner, please contact Us using the details in section 14);
- The right to restrict (i.e. prevent) the processing of your personal data;
- The right to data portability (obtaining a copy of your personal data to re-use with another service or organisation);
- The right to object to Us using your personal data for particular purposes; and
- If you have any cause for complaint about Our use of your personal data, please contact Us using the details provided in section 14 and We will do Our best to solve the problem for you. If We are unable to help, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with the UK’s supervisory authority, the Information Commissioner’s Office.
- For further information about your rights, please contact the Information Commissioner’s Office or your local Citizens Advice Bureau.
- What Data Do We Collect?
Depending upon your use of Our Site, We may collect some or all of the following personal data (please also see section 13 on Our use of Cookies and similar technologies):
- Name;
- Date of birth;
- Address and post code;
- Business/company name and trading status;
- Number of properties owned;
- Accountants details;
- Contact information such as email addresses and telephone numbers;
- Proof of residence and ID;
- Financial information such as income and tax status;
- Landlords insurance renewal dates;
- Property Portfolio details such as value and mortgage outstanding;
- How Do We Use Your Data?
- All personal data is processed and stored securely, for no longer than is necessary in light of the reason(s) for which it was first collected. We will comply with Our obligations and safeguard your rights under the GDPR at all times. For more details on security see section 7, below.
- Our use of your personal data will always have a lawful basis, either because it is necessary for our performance of a contract with you, because you have consented to our use of your personal data (e.g. by subscribing to emails), or because it is in our legitimate interests. Specifically, we may use your data for the following purposes:
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- Supplying our products and or services to you (please note that We require your personal data in order to enter into a contract with you);
- Personalising and tailoring our products and or services for you;
- Replying to emails from you;
- Supplying you with emails that you have opted into (you may unsubscribe or opt-out at any time by the unsubscribe link at the bottom of all emails;
- Analysing your use of our site and gathering feedback to enable us to continually improve our site and your user experience;
- Provide information to our partner service and product suppliers at your request.
- With your permission and/or where permitted by law, We may also use your data for marketing purposes which may include contacting you by email and or telephone with information, news and offers on our products and or We will not, however, send you any unsolicited marketing or spam and will take all reasonable steps to ensure that We fully protect your rights and comply with Our obligations under the GDPR and the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003.
- You have the right to withdraw your consent to us using your personal data at any time, and to request that we delete it.
- We do not keep your personal data for any longer than is necessary in light of the reason(s) for which it was first collected. Data will therefore be retained for the following periods (or its retention will be determined on the following bases):
- Member profile information is collected with your consent and can be amended or deleted at any time by you;
- Anti-Money Laundering information and tax consultancy records are to be kept as required by law for up to seven years.
- How and Where Do We Store Your Data?
- We only keep your personal data for as long as We need to in order to use it as described above in section 6, and/or for as long as We have your permission to keep it.
- Some or all of your data may be stored outside of the European Economic Area (“the EEA”) (The EEA consists of all EU member states, plus Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein). You are deemed to accept and agree to this by using our site and submitting information to Us. If we do store data outside the EEA, we will take all reasonable steps to ensure that your data is treated as safely and securely as it would be within the UK and under the GDPR
- Data security is very important to Us, and to protect your data We have taken suitable measures to safeguard and secure data collected through Our Site.
- Do We Share Your Data?
- We may share your data with other partner companies in for the purpose of supplying products or services you have requested.
- We may sometimes contract with third parties to supply products and services to you on Our behalf. Where any of your data is required for such a purpose, We will take all reasonable steps to ensure that your data will be handled safely, securely, and in accordance with your rights, Our obligations, and the obligations of the third party under the law.
- We may compile statistics about the use of Our Site including data on traffic, usage patterns, user numbers, sales, and other information. All such data will be anonymised and will not include any personally identifying data, or any anonymised data that can be combined with other data and used to identify you. We may from time to time share such data with third parties such as prospective investors, affiliates, partners, and advertisers. Data will only be shared and used within the bounds of the law.
- In certain circumstances, We may be legally required to share certain data held by Us, which may include your personal data, for example, where We are involved in legal proceedings, where We are complying with legal requirements, a court order, or a governmental authority.
- What Happens If Our Business Changes Hands?
- We may, from time to time, expand or reduce Our business and this may involve the sale and/or the transfer of control of all or part of Our business. Any personal data that you have provided will, where it is relevant to any part of Our business that is being transferred, be transferred along with that part and the new owner or newly controlling party will, under the terms of this Privacy Policy, be permitted to use that data only for the same purposes for which it was originally collected by Us.
- How Can You Control Your Data?
- In addition to your rights under the GDPR, set out in section 4, we aim to give you strong controls on Our use of your data for direct marketing purposes including the ability to opt-out of receiving emails from Us which you may do by unsubscribing using the links provided in Our emails.
- Your Right to Withhold Information
- You may access certain areas of Our Site without providing any data at all. However, to use all features and functions available on Our Site you may be required to submit or allow for the collection of certain data.
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- How Can You Access Your Data?
You have the right to ask for a copy of any of your personal data held by Us (where such data is held). Under the GDPR, no fee is payable and We will provide any and all information in response to your request free of charge. Please contact Us for more details at info@property118.com, or using the contact details below in section 14.
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- Contacting Us
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- Changes to Our Privacy Policy
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Sign Up15:20 PM, 28th March 2014, About 11 years ago
Reply to the comment left by "Industry Observer " at "28/03/2014 - 15:06":
If you really want to know they came round with a new set of taps for the bathroom and said they wanted to leave them in there for a plumber to come and fit at a later date. We weren't expecting it because the taps worked fine... all in all it was bizarre. However, I mean it when I say the relationship with this landlord is pretty good all things considered.
A previous landlord, who also failed to fix heating during cold months, found out that a pipe had fractured during that time and tried to withhold the entire deposit to pay for it. A friend very recently moved in to a flat to find the shower only had two temperatures - scolding and freezing. They were told this wasn't serious enough to warrant work. Another friend moved in a few months ago to find that the oven didn't work. It still doesn't work.
The list goes on sadly; this is just off the top of my head.
Romain Garcin
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Sign Up19:47 PM, 28th March 2014, About 11 years ago
Reply to the comment left by "Flat Detective" at "28/03/2014 - 12:55":
"I have never had a landlord (out of 15+) who hasn’t breached their side of the agreement in more than one way"
Where do you live, in what type of property, and how did you find these landlord/properties and moved in?
There are some bad landlords in the same way that they are some bad tenants.
I don't have any statistic to back this up, but I suspect that the answer to these questions an provide a level of risk.
Joe Bloggs
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Sign Up19:36 PM, 29th March 2014, About 11 years ago
BELOW IS MY CONVERSATION WITH SHELTER ON FACEBOOK
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152143490828999&set=p.10152143490828999&type=1&comment_id=216347680
ME:
Shelter are a despicable organisation who peddle distortions and half lies to further their political agenda. Have no idea how they have kept their charitable status. Not long ago they ran a campaign depicting a landlord as a serial murderer! Crisis are a proper housing charity.
Like · Reply · March 27 at 10:46pm
SHELTER:
Shelter Hello - that's a ridiculous claim and totally untrue. We can understand the need for discussion, but please keep things civil and stick to the facts. Further to this - we know that most landlords are decent and treat renters fairly, but the fact is that some are still evicting tenants unfairly. They give good landlords a bad name, so protecting renters is good for everyone. This campaign is focusing on the need for a legal change and about better protecting renters, it’s not about shaming or demonising landlords. Thank you.
ME:
Im sorry if you think i'm not being civil. As to 'sticking to the facts', what facts have Shelter provided?????? This latest campaign against landlords provides no statistics and nor does it explain that tenants are entitled to damages for disrepair! There are many reasons why a tenant may be evicted and many reasons why a tenant may claim foul play. It just does not make any business sense for a landlord to evict a rent paying tenant. In fact RLA said: “the fact that almost 98 per cent of tenants have not faced the problems should be a sober reminder to Shelter that the majority of tenants face no problems whatsoever with their landlord” http://www.property118.com/rla-probes-shelter-anti-landlord-propoganda/64391/ Perhaps most people think Shelter acts like the Crisis charity but that’s not the case unfortunately. Shelter provides no shelter! Shelter is a Lobby Organisation; most of its funds going towards lobbying or marketing. Shelter doesnt work with landlords to achieve better enforcement against the minority of bad landlords/ raise standards across the sector. Why is that?
Shelter lost all credibility with their ridiculous campaign featuring sean lock: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1tB9y55UrI this is a disgrace. i complained to shelter about this and never got a reply.
So i stand by my views about shelter being a political organisation and despicable. Shelter is in my opinion an anti-landlord organisation at it route.
Support Crisis, not Shelter for protecting vulnerable people requiring housing.
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Sign Up20:41 PM, 29th March 2014, About 11 years ago
Reply to the comment left by "Joe Bloggs" at "29/03/2014 - 19:36":
Hi Alex, I'm not a Shelter member but your posts seem quite 'impassioned'... Just a few points:
"Shelter are a despicable organisation who peddle distortions and half lies to further their political agenda."
I'm not sure they're "despicable". I think they try to stand up for people lacking power in an area crucial to human existence... housing. It takes up a lot of people's salaries and those who don't own have zero power and no choice, so it's important to have checks and balances to highlight and prevent abuses.
"It just does not make any business sense for a landlord to evict a rent paying tenant."
I'd argue that the rent market has overheated to the extent that landlords know their properties will be snapped up within days of them going online. From (extensive) personal experience if you don't put down a deposit within a day of a flat being advertised, you won't get it. Landlords with dubious moral standards know that they can get rid of 'troublesome' tenants and not really lose out.
"So i stand by my views about shelter being a political organisation and despicable. Shelter is in my opinion an anti-landlord organisation at it route."
Ironically this is a politically ill-judged statement given the current climate.
Mark Alexander - Founder of Property118
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Sign Up20:55 PM, 29th March 2014, About 11 years ago
Reply to the comment left by "Flat Detective" at "29/03/2014 - 20:41":
I think your views must be very specific to a particular area. If demand really is that strong landlords should raise the rent to balance the supply and demand and also get pickier about the quality of their tenants. That would improve the area even further as well as their cash flow and funds to take their properties upmarket, hence increasing capital values even further. I'm sure owner occupiers in the area would be very supportive if that too.
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Sign Up20:58 PM, 29th March 2014, About 11 years ago
PS I had a look at the Shelter Facebook thread that Joe linked to and I was shocked at just how strong the feelings amongst landlords are against Sheltet and just how many landlords are expressing their disapproval these days.
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Sign Up21:05 PM, 29th March 2014, About 11 years ago
Reply to the comment left by "Mark Alexander" at "29/03/2014 - 20:55":
Well yes, I'm talking about the city where a quarter of England's people live. And rest assured, rent has been raised at a quite crippling rate. Service levels appear to have fallen at an inversely proportional rate unfortunately.
I think your view of supply vs demand is slightly skewed... supply is currently choked, but demand is at a record high. How will raising rent lower demand? People have to have a roof over their heads within commuting distance of their job.
Joe Bloggs
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Sign Up0:33 AM, 30th March 2014, About 11 years ago
Reply to the comment left by "Flat Detective" at "29/03/2014 - 20:41":
“Shelter are a despicable organisation who peddle distortions and half lies to further their political agenda.”
I’m not sure they’re “despicable”. I think they try to stand up for people lacking power in an area crucial to human existence… housing. It takes up a lot of people’s salaries and those who don’t own have zero power and no choice, so it’s important to have checks and balances to highlight and prevent abuses.
REPLY - 'ZERO POWER AND NO CHOICE' IS AN EXAGGERATION AT BEST. TENANTS HAVE A LOT OF POWER, THEY HAVE THE POWER OF WITHHOLDING RENT, WRECKING THE LANDLORDS ASSET AND THE LAW IS MOST OF THE TIME LEANING OVER BACKWARDS TO HELP THEM. THEY ALSO HAVE CHOICE WHERE THEY LIVE...MOST HAVE THE WHOLE OF EUROPE TO CHOOSE FROM. I CAN SEE THAT SHELTER ARE A LEFT WING/ COMMUNIST AKIN PRESSURE GROUP AND THAT IS FINE. WHAT I OBJECT TO IS THAT THIS IS DONE UNDER THE AUSPICES OF A CHARITY AND PRETENDING TO BE SOMETHING THEY ARE NOT.
“It just does not make any business sense for a landlord to evict a rent paying tenant.”
I’d argue that the rent market has overheated to the extent that landlords know their properties will be snapped up within days of them going online. From (extensive) personal experience if you don’t put down a deposit within a day of a flat being advertised, you won’t get it. Landlords with dubious moral standards know that they can get rid of ‘troublesome’ tenants and not really lose out.
REPLY - AGAIN THIS IS AN EXAGGERATION. EVEN IN LONDON, WHERE I HAVE BEEN A LANDLORD FOR MANY YEARS UNLESS A PROPERTY RENT IS GROSSLY BELOW MARKET RENT IT WILL NOT NORMALLY 'BE SNAPPED UP WITHIN DAYS'. A TENANT WOULD HAVE TO BE EXTREMELY 'TROUBLESOME' FOR A LANDLORD TO RISK MONTHS OF WITHHELD RENT WHILST COURTS SLOWLY PROCESS EVICTION PROCEEDINGS. AND I NOTE THAT YOU DONT PRESUME TO HAVE HAD SUCH DIRECT EXPERIENCE.
“So i stand by my views about shelter being a political organisation and despicable. Shelter is in my opinion an anti-landlord organisation at it route.”
Ironically this is a politically ill-judged statement given the current climate.
REPLY - I DONT UNDERSTAND THIS BIZARE COMMENT...IM STATING MY HONESTLY HELD BELIEFS IRRESPECTIVE OF WHETHER THEY ARE POLITICALLY WELL JUDGED OR NOT AND SURELY THAT IS WHAT DISCUSSION FORUMS SHOULD BE ABOUT?
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Sign Up0:48 AM, 30th March 2014, About 11 years ago
PLEASE IGNORE LAST POST. THIS IS WHAT I MEANT TO SAY:
“Shelter are a despicable organisation who peddle distortions and half lies to further their political agenda.”
I’m not sure they’re “despicable”. I think they try to stand up for people lacking power in an area crucial to human existence… housing. It takes up a lot of people’s salaries and those who don’t own have zero power and no choice, so it’s important to have checks and balances to highlight and prevent abuses.
REPLY - TO ALLEGE 'ZERO POWER AND NO CHOICE' IS AN EXAGGERATION. TENANTS HAVE A LOT OF POWER, THEY HAVE THE POWER OF DECIDING WHERE TO LIVE, WITHHOLDING RENT, WRECKING THE LANDLORDS ASSET AND LITIGATION (AND THE LAW IS MOST OF THE TIME LEANING OVER BACKWARDS TO HELP THEM). THEY ALSO HAVE CHOICE WHERE THEY LIVE...NOT JUST ANYWHERE IN THE UK BUT MOST HAVE THE WHOLE OF EUROPE TO CHOOSE FROM. I CAN SEE THAT SHELTER ARE A LEFT WING/ COMMUNIST AKIN PRESSURE GROUP WHOSE IDEOLOGY IS DIAMETRICALLY OPPOSED TO CREATION OF WEALTH, AND THAT IS FINE. WHAT I OBJECT TO IS THAT THIS IS DONE UNDER THE AUSPICES OF A CHARITY AND PRETENDING TO BE SOMETHING THEY ARE NOT.
“It just does not make any business sense for a landlord to evict a rent paying tenant.”
I’d argue that the rent market has overheated to the extent that landlords know their properties will be snapped up within days of them going online. From (extensive) personal experience if you don’t put down a deposit within a day of a flat being advertised, you won’t get it. Landlords with dubious moral standards know that they can get rid of ‘troublesome’ tenants and not really lose out.
REPLY - AGAIN THIS IS AN EXAGGERATION. EVEN IN LONDON, WHERE I HAVE BEEN A LANDLORD FOR MANY YEARS UNLESS A PROPERTY RENT IS GROSSLY BELOW MARKET RENT IT WILL NOT NORMALLY 'BE SNAPPED UP WITHIN DAYS'. A TENANT WOULD HAVE TO BE EXTREMELY 'TROUBLESOME' FOR A LANDLORD TO RISK MONTHS OF WITHHELD RENT WHILST COURTS SLOWLY PROCESS EVICTION PROCEEDINGS. AND I NOTE THAT YOU DONT PRESUME TO HAVE HAD SUCH DIRECT EXPERIENCE SO THIS SEEMS MERE PROPAGANDA SHELTER STYLE.
“So i stand by my views about shelter being a political organisation and despicable. Shelter is in my opinion an anti-landlord organisation at it route.”
Ironically this is a politically ill-judged statement given the current climate.
REPLY - I DONT UNDERSTAND THIS BIZARE COMMENT...IM STATING MY HONESTLY HELD BELIEFS IRRESPECTIVE OF WHETHER THEY ARE POLITICALLY WELL JUDGED OR NOT! SURELY THAT IS WHAT DISCUSSION FORUMS SHOULD BE ABOUT?
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Sign Up2:03 AM, 30th March 2014, About 11 years ago
Reply to the comment left by "Joe Bloggs" at "30/03/2014 - 00:48":
I'd be interested to see whether any of your colleagues on this site would care to back you up.
I'll admit it's not usual to read an entire post in capital letters, but I'm sure that level of anger doesn't translate into how you treat your tenants.