Privacy Notice (GDPR)

BACKGROUND:

Sonic Funding Partners 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.sonic-funding.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 Notice carefully and ensure that you understand it. Your acceptance of Our Privacy Notice is deemed to occur upon your first use of Our Site. If you do not accept and agree with this Privacy Notice, you must stop using Our Site immediately.

1. Definitions and Interpretation

In this Policy the following terms shall have the following meanings:

Information About Us

• Our Site is owned and operated by Sonic Funding Partners
• Our Data Protection Officer can be contacted by email at info@sonic-funding.com, by telephone on 020 8159 8456, or by post at Sonic Funding Partners Limited, 14 Old Queen Street, London, SW1H 9HP.

2. What Does This Notice Cover?

This Privacy Notice 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.

3. Your Rights

• As a data subject, you have the following rights under the GDPR, which this Notice and Our use of personal data have been designed to uphold. Some of the rights may not be available to you or may be restricted in certain circumstances:
• 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
• Rights with respect to automated decision making and profiling.
• If you have any cause for complaint about Our use of your personal data, please contact Us using the details provided in section 2.3 and We will do Our best to solve the problem for you. 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.

4. What Data Do We Collect?

Depending upon your use of Our Site, We may collect some or all of the following personal and non-personal data (please also see section 13 on Our use of Cookies and similar technologies and Our Cookie Policy):

• name;
• date of birth;
• gender;
• business/company name
• job title;
• contact information such as email addresses and telephone numbers;
• demographic information such as post code, preferences and interests;
• financial information such as credit / debit card numbers;
• IP address;
• web browser type and version;
• operating system;
• a list of URLs starting with a referring site, your activity on Our Site, and the site you exit

5. How Do We Use Your Data?

All personal data is processed and stored securely, for no longer than is necessary considering 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.

We will hold and process your data for our legitimate interests to:

• Determine whether or not to offer a loan
• Manage any loan advanced through to redemption
• Manage any relationship with intermediaries including a record of introductions, payments made and other relevant information appropriate to managing the relationship
• Manage the relationship with funders or anyone applying to become a funder and to maintain appropriate records relevant to that relationship
• To manage business relationships with our professional advisers, contractors and third-party providers
• Share information where necessary with funders, our professional advisers, contractors and third-party providers and anyone who may wish to acquire all or any part of our business
• Share information with other companies in the same group and associated companies
• Carry out checks with fraud prevention and credit agencies and tracing agencies if required

We will hold and process your data for legal purposes in order to:

• Meet our legal obligations
• Help identify you and meet our anti-money laundering obligations
• Supply information to any government body, regulatory authority, law enforcement agency as required and to credit and fraud prevention agencies
• For full details of the Company’s approach to data retention, including retention periods for specific personal data types held by the Company, please refer to our Data Retention Policy. Please contact us for more details at info@sonic-funding.com, or using the contact details below in section 14.

We will hold and process your data by consent for marketing purposes to keep you informed of news and offers on Our products and/or services. We will not, however, send you any unsolicited marketing email.

6. How and Where Do We Store Your Data?

• Your data will only be stored in the UK.
• 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.
• Steps We take to secure and protect your data include:

1. SSL Encryption when using any of ours webform.
2. Recipient of your data using Microsoft Office 365 Business
3. All electronic copies of personal data are stored securely using passwords and data encryption.

7. Do We Share Your Data?

• We may share your data with other companies in our group if we can identify any services that might be relevant to you.
• We may sometimes contract with third parties to supply products and services to you on Our behalf. These may include payment processing, delivery of goods, search engine facilities, advertising, and marketing. In some cases, the third parties may require access to some or all of your data. 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.

8. 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.
• In the event that any of your data is to be transferred in such a manner, you will be contacted in advance and informed of the changes. When contacted you be given the choice to have your data deleted or withheld from the new owner or controller.

9. How Can You Control Your Data?

• In addition to your rights under the GDPR, set out in section 4, when you submit personal data via Our Site, you may be given options to restrict Our use of your data. In particular, 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 and at the point of providing your details).
• You may also wish to sign up to one or more of the preference services operating in the UK: The Telephone Preference Service (“the TPS”), the Corporate Telephone Preference Service (“the CTPS”), and the Mailing Preference Service (“the MPS”). These may help to prevent you receiving unsolicited marketing. Please note, however, that these services will not prevent you from receiving marketing communications that you have consented to receiving.

10. 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 and Our Cookie Policy.

11. 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). There is usually no charge for this and we will provide the data within 1 month. We reserve the right to refuse to provide the data or charge the costs involved where requests are repetitive or vexatious. Please contact Us for more details at info@sonic-funding.com, or using the contact details below in section 14.

12. Our Use of Cookies

• Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. The table below explains the cookies we use and why.

These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website and WordPress blog. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the website and blog, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited.

We also use analytics services provided by Google Analytics. 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 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.

13. Cookie Names

If you have any questions about Our Site or this Privacy Policy, please contact Us by email at info@sonic-funding.com or by telephone on 020 3915 5615. 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).

14. 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.