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,
www.property118.com (“Our Site”) and will only collect and use personal data in ways that are described here, and in a manner that is consistent with Our obligations and your rights under the law.
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
. If you do not accept and agree with this Privacy Policy, you must stop using Our Site immediately.
- Definitions and Interpretation
In this Policy the following terms shall have the following meanings:
| “Account” |
means an account required to access and/or use certain areas and features of Our Site; |
| “Cookie” |
means a small text file placed on your computer or device by Our Site when you visit certain parts of Our Site and/or when you use certain features of Our Site. Details of the Cookies used by Our Site are set out in section 13, below; |
| “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.
- Our VAT number is 990 0332 34.
- 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:
- Providing and managing your access to Our Site;
- 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.
- You may restrict Our use of Cookies. For more information, see section 13.
- 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.
- Our Use of Cookies
- Our Site may place and access certain first party Cookies on your computer or device. First party Cookies are those placed directly by Us and are used only by Us. We use Cookies to facilitate and improve your experience of Our Site and to provide and improve Our products AND/OR We have carefully chosen these Cookies and have taken steps to ensure that your privacy and personal data is protected and respected at all times.
- All Cookies used by and on Our Site are used in accordance with current Cookie Law.
- Before Cookies are placed on your computer or device, you will be shown a cookie prompt requesting your consent to set those Cookies. By giving your consent to the placing of Cookies you are enabling Us to provide the best possible experience and service to you. You may, if you wish, deny consent to the placing of Cookies; however certain features of Our Site may not function fully or as intended. You will be given the opportunity to allow only first party Cookies and block third party Cookies.
- Certain features of Our Site depend on Cookies to function. Cookie Law deems these Cookies to be “strictly necessary”. These Cookies are shown below in section 13.5. Your consent will not be sought to place these Cookies, but it is still important that you are aware of them. You may still block these Cookies by changing your internet browser’s settings as detailed below in section 13.9, but please be aware that Our Site may not work properly if you do so. We have taken great care to ensure that your privacy is not at risk by allowing them.
- The following first party Cookies may be placed on your computer or device:
| Name of Cookie |
Purpose |
Strictly Necessary |
| JSESSIONID |
Used only to collect performance data, with any identifiable data obfuscated |
No |
| __cfduid |
This cookie is strictly necessary for Cloudflare's security features and cannot be turned off. |
Yes |
- Our Site uses analytics services provided by Google Analytics and Facebook. Website analytics refers to a set of tools used to collect and analyse anonymous usage information, enabling Us to better understand how Our Site is used. This, in turn, enables Us to improve Our Site and the products AND/OR services offered through it. You do not have to allow Us to use these Cookies, however whilst Our use of them does not pose any risk to your privacy or your safe use of Our Site, it does enable Us to continually improve Our Site, making it a better and more useful experience for you.
- The analytics service(s) used by Our Site use(s) Cookies to gather the required information.
- The analytics service(s) used by Our Site use(s) the following Cookies:
| Name of Cookie |
First / Third Party |
Provider |
Purpose |
| __utma, __utmb, __utmc, __utmt, __utmz |
First |
Google |
Helps to understand how their visitors engage with our website |
| _fbp |
First |
Facebook |
Helps to understand how their visitors engage with our website |
- In addition to the controls that We provide, you can choose to enable or disable Cookies in your internet browser. Most internet browsers also enable you to choose whether you wish to disable all cookies or only third party cookies. By default, most internet browsers accept Cookies but this can be changed. For further details, please consult the help menu in your internet browser or the documentation that came with your device.
- You can choose to delete Cookies on your computer or device at any time, however you may lose any information that enables you to access Our Site more quickly and efficiently including, but not limited to, login and personalisation settings.
- It is recommended that you keep your internet browser and operating system up-to-date and that you consult the help and guidance provided by the developer of your internet browser and manufacturer of your computer or device if you are unsure about adjusting your privacy settings.
- Contacting Us
If you have any questions about Our Site or this Privacy Policy, please contact Us by email at info@property118.com, by telephone on 01603 489118, or by post at 1st Floor, Woburn House, 84 St Benedicts Street, Norwich, NR2 4AB. Please ensure that your query is clear, particularly if it is a request for information about the data We hold about you (as under section 12, above).
- Changes to Our Privacy Policy
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time (for example, if the law changes). Any changes will be immediately posted on Our Site and you will be deemed to have accepted the terms of the Privacy Policy on your first use of Our Site following the alterations. We recommend that you check this page regularly to keep up-to-date.
The Man From Nowhere
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Sign Up17:06 PM, 12th December 2013, About 11 years ago
Reply to the comment left by "Mark Alexander" at "12/12/2013 - 16:33":
Fantastic article over at FT Adviser! It's great to see the adviser forum Cherry being so supportive of us and our prospects of success, and so damning in its views of the West Brom's case.
On a different note, I emailed Anup Vyas at Vyman Solicitors and Shailesh Patel at Prideview Properties to see if they were interested in referring any clients who had been affected by the West Brom's BTL tracker rate hike to the Property118 representative action group but I haven't had a response from either as yet. Prideview states the following in an article on its website:
"We have met many borrowers in similar situations and are considering launching a class action lawsuit. So please get in touch with us (Shailesh Patel, Prideview Properties or Anup Vyas, Vyman Solicitors) if you wish to join us."
The preceding paragraph also states:
"You may also be aware that the Banks are relying upon market disruption clauses which they say allow them to charge higher rates of interest. Depending upon the precise terms of the facility letters and the general conditions, we have received legal advice to the effect that these extra interest charges are susceptible to challenge."
http://www.prideviewproperties.co.uk/2013/04/prideviews-client-defeats-west-bromwich-commercial-in-the-high-court/
I don't know if you or anyone else on this forum might have have more success eliciting a response from Vyman Solicitors and Prideview Properties? I know we don't really need any additional funds anymore but it would be good to get as many people as possible signed up the representative action.
Paul Eastabrook
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Sign Up17:29 PM, 12th December 2013, About 11 years ago
Reply to the comment left by "Mark Alexander" at "12/12/2013 - 16:33":
It's good that Donna was prepared to voice the positives, as I think there was some early suspicion and concerns at Cherry when we first started posting on its forum.
Charles Pilton
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Sign Up17:47 PM, 12th December 2013, About 11 years ago
Dear All
I would strongly encourage all affected borrowers to join the West Bromwich Action Group.
The paperwork is simple and minimal and took me only about 10 or 15 minutes to do.
I would also encourage any buy-to-letter to donate to the marketing fund to raise awareness of this issue.
Just remember, if you don't join the Action Group, you won't benefit directly from the outcome. You would have to fight your own case which will cost you much more.
If West Brom can get away with this, the cost over the lifetime of your mortgage could be very substantial - many thousands of pounds.
In addition, you can be sure that other companies are watching this case and waiting to see if they too can change their interest rates.
Time is short, join the Action Group today!
Mark Landlord
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Sign Up18:30 PM, 12th December 2013, About 11 years ago
Reply to the comment left by "Mark Alexander" at "12/12/2013 - 16:33":
Great articles on FT Mark !
Well done
Samir Patel
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Sign Up23:57 PM, 12th December 2013, About 11 years ago
Reply to the comment left by "The Man From Nowhere" at "12/12/2013 - 17:06":
My name is Samir and I have a commercial mortgage with West Brom Commercial Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of WBBS, but one that does not entitle membership to me.
I have a commercial mortgage with WBCL and they did a similar thing with my commercial mortgage about a 1.5 years ago, increasing my libor+1 mortgage to one of a "cost of funds" + 1 (reflecting 3 month libor), and hence I have been paying a significant premium over the quoted libor figures.
Shailesh and Anup, as mentioned in the header email, are significant players here, but in the commercial arena, and so their case may not fit completely with the BTL naughtiness that WBBS are undertaking.
It does, however, reflect the business' difficulties in committing to cheap deals that it can no-longer afford, and so it is looking to any strategy that can help it recoup as much as it can from the nose-to-tail herds in its portfolio!
They are currently trying to re-possess a commercial property from me on the basis of a breach of the LTV covenant, and their position is poor.
Shailesh and Anup have been involved from a professional basis involving similar case(s).
I wonder if there is a position here that might involve widening the whole strategy to encompass immoral and perhaps illegal behaviour on the part of the whole organisation, to include their activities in the commercial sector.
There is no doubt in my mind that these are the flappings of a fish struggling in de-oxygenated water (a pool with not much cash and too great a body-size). The bank over-reached itself and committed itself to perhaps un-affordable commitments that it is now finding un-manageable.
I would welcome the views of those involved in this thread as to how I, and others, might be able to be involved in a form of this action.
I also have some standard residential BTL commitments, and this is much my preferred arena of investment. I have no other mortgages with WBBS or any subsidiary.
Does anyone know of an asset-holding body where West Brom might park re-possessed assets and wait to make a profit on it, like the Vince Cable/Lawrence Tomlinson RBS situation that is currently in the news?
Will The Gasman
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Sign Up8:23 AM, 13th December 2013, About 11 years ago
Reply to the comment left by "Mark Alexander" at "12/12/2013 - 16:33":
Theres also this article
http://www.ftadviser.com/2013/12/04/ifa-industry/companies-and-people/west-bromwich-s-rate-hike-puts-pension-at-risk-qHLX3GVX2GLOt3vyxdVihO/article.html
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Sign Up9:14 AM, 13th December 2013, About 11 years ago
Reply to the comment left by "Samir Patel" at "12/12/2013 - 23:57":
Hi Samir
You could try the following link. I believe GBR Phoenix Beard may be the firm you're looking for as they are responsible for valuing the commercial assets in the UK of West Bromwich Commercial Limited.
http://www.gbrpb.com/case-studies/lease-consultancy-and-valuation/west-bromwich-commercial-limited/
I hope the above is of assistance.
David Lawrenson
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Sign Up10:08 AM, 13th December 2013, About 11 years ago
Reply to the comment left by "Deceived by West Brom " at "12/12/2013 - 13:28":
I am still awaiting a reply to my open letter to Andrew Tyrie too.
Pathetic isn't it.
David Lawrenson
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PS You may have seen in the news today a director of MEx owner, B&B was fined for hiding relevant info. I don't suppose the small sucker shareholders will ever be compensated and no one at the regulators will walk the plank either for this.
M Jones
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Sign Up10:11 AM, 13th December 2013, About 11 years ago
Reply to the comment left by "Samir Patel" at "12/12/2013 - 23:57":
If we are questioning the WB's viability as a business, then surely we should be seeking to obtain an order whereby the increased payments on our mortgage accounts can be paid in escrow until the case is resolved?
It would be nice to think that as and when we win this case the WB have sufficient capital to return our money?
Mark can you let us know whether Justin is considering this?
Samir Patel
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Sign Up10:17 AM, 13th December 2013, About 11 years ago
Reply to the comment left by "The Man From Nowhere" at "13/12/2013 - 09:14":
I think this company values their owned assets, and not those of customers.
My valuation was done by CBRE.
I don't think pursuing any valuer has any benefit for me. I have asked for an independent valuation of the property which will show it to be of significantly higher value than that in their valuation.
The behaviour of WBCL equates to that of WBBS and it seems to be a well-known industry fact that this bank over-reached itself and is desperately trying to reduce the value of its loan book, as well as make existing loans pay them more in order to make their position as a bank more viable.
Their poor judgement is now being visited on people who took out a loan with them in good faith ....