Please note that this policy applies to anyone visiting or browsing our site or registering to use our services either in their individual capacity or in the course of their employment. Tenants or prospective tenants who believe that a landlord or letting agent may have instructed us to processes their data using our systems are advised to address any data protection queries to the landlord or letting agent concerned as the relevant data controller.
Total Tenant Referencing ("We") are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
This policy (together with our terms of use) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from or about you or that you or a third party provide to us will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. By visiting www.totaltenantreferencing.co.uk, requesting services from Total Tenant Referencing or by agreeing that Total Tenant Referencing may produce a tenant or guarantor reference report about you or by providing a reference about any individual for use by Total Tenant Referencing in producing a tenant or guarantor reference report about someone else you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this policy.
For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the "Act"), the data controller is Rent4sure Limited of Unit 1 The Glenmore Centre, Honeywood Parkway, Whitfield, Dover, Kent, CT16 3FH. We are registered as a data controller with the Information Commissioner’s Office under registration number Z1882455.
Information we may collect from you
We may collect and process the following data about you:
Information you give us. You may give us information about you by filling in forms on our site www.totaltenantreferencing.co.uk ("our site"), completing a reference application form or by corresponding with us by phone, e-mail or otherwise. This includes information you provide when you register to use our site, subscribe to our services, order specific products or services from us including insurance and rent protection products, make an application for a tenant or guarantor reference report, provide an employer or landlord reference and when you report a problem with our site. The information you give us may include your name, current and past addresses, e-mail address and phone number, financial and credit card information, personal description, employment history, marital status, details of any judgements entered against you including bankruptcies, National Insurance number, medical information and passport and driving licence details.
Information we collect about you. With regard to each of your visits to our site we may automatically collect the following information:
Technical information, including the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform; information about your visit, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL); clickstream to, through and from our site (including date and time); products you viewed or searched for; page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page and any phone number used to call our customer service number.
Information we receive from other sources. We may receive information about you from other sources. If you are a potential tenant or landlord we may receive references about you from your current or previous employers and landlords and from credit reference agencies. If you are a landlord or employer we may be given your name and contact details by a potential tenant or guarantor in order that we can contact you for a reference. If you purchase other products or services that we provide through our site such as insurance or rent protection products we may receive information about you from third party insurance providers or underwriters. We are also working closely with third parties (including, for example, business partners, sub-contractors in technical, payment and delivery services, advertising networks, analytics providers, search information providers, credit reference agencies) and may receive information about you from them.
Cookies
Our site uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our site. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our site and also allows us to improve our site. By continuing to use the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.
We use the following cookies:
Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
Cookie |
Name |
Purpose |
More information |
__utma, __utmb,__utmc, __utmt, __utmv, __utmz |
Google Analytics |
Analytical/performance cookies |
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage |
PRUM_EPISODES |
Pingdom |
Analytical/performance cookies |
https://www.pingdom.com/legal/privacy-policy/ |
identity, remembercode, refsys_csrf_cookie, refsyssession |
Rent4sure System Cookies |
Strictly necessary cookies |
These cookies allow uses to log in to our website |
XSRF-TOKEN, laravel_session |
Laravel |
Strictly necessary cookies |
XSRF-TOKEN cookie is used to protect against cross-site request forgery. The laravel_session cookie is used to persist data across HTTP requests. |
Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
You block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.
Uses made of the information
We use information held about you in the following ways:
Information you give to us. We will use this information:
To undertake tenant and guarantor referencing and to produce reference reports;
To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us and to provide you with the information, products and services that you request from us including insurance and rent protection products;
To provide you with information about other goods and services we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about;
To provide you, or permit selected third parties to provide you, with information about goods or services we feel may interest you. If you are an existing customer, we will only contact you by electronic means (e-mail or SMS) with information about goods and services similar to those which were the subject of a previous sale or negotiations of a sale To you. If you are a new customer or you have provided your details to us as a potential tenant or guarantor for referencing purposes, and where we permit selected third parties to use your data, we (or they) will contact you by electronic means only if you have consented to this. If you do not want us to use your data in this way, or to pass your details on to third parties for marketing purposes, please tick the relevant box situated on the application form on which we collect your data.
To notify you about changes to our service;
To ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.
Information we collect about you. We will use this information:
To administer our site and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes;
To improve our site to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer;
To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so;
As part of our efforts to keep our site safe and secure;
To measure or understand the effectiveness of advertising we serve to you and others, and to deliver relevant advertising to you;
To make suggestions and recommendations to you and other users of our site about goods or services that may interest you or them.
Information we receive from other sources. We may combine this information with information you give to us and information we collect about you. We may use this information and the combined information for the purposes set out above (depending on the types of information we receive).
Disclosure of your information
We may share your personal information with any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries, as defined in section 1159 of the UK Companies Act 2006.
We may share your information with selected third parties including:
Business partners, suppliers and sub-contractors for the performance of any contract we enter into with you.
Advertisers and advertising networks that require the data to select and send relevant adverts to you and others.
Third party insurance providers and underwriters who provide or underwrite the rent protection and insurance products that we advertise on our site.
Analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimisation of our site.
Credit reference agencies for the purpose of assessing your credit score where we are producing a tenant or guarantor reference report about you.
We may disclose your personal information to third parties:
In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.
If Total Tenant Referencing or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets.
If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use or terms and conditions of supply (available from ) and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Total Tenant Referencing, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
Where we store your personal data
The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area ("EEA"). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. Such staff maybe engaged in, among other things, the fulfilment of your order, the processing of your payment details and the provision of support services. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.
All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Any payment transactions will be encrypted. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.
Your rights
You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data. You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us at enquiries@totaltenantreferencing.co.uk.
Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
Access to information
The Act gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. Any access request may be subject to a fee of £10 to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you. Please refer to our Data Protection Information Sheet (available from https://rent4sure.co.uk/files/documents/DPA_Factsheet.pdf) for further information about how we deal with subject access requests.
Changes to our privacy policy
Please note that this policy was last updated in September 2016.
Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy policy.
Contact
Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to enquiries@totaltenantreferencing.co.uk.
Please note calls are recorded for training and monitoring purposes.