JW&Co is committed to protecting and processing your personal data in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulations and Data Protection Act 2018 (the legislation). For the purpose of the legislation and your personal data, JW&Co is the data controller, Nina Smith is the person responsible for data protection and can be contacted at 3 London Road, St Albans, Hertfordshire, AL1 1LA 01727 844444
The general data protection regulations are there to safeguard your personally identifiable information or personal data. This privacy notice will be regularly reviewed and updated.
The personal data we hold and process will be, name, address, contact phone number and email address. We may
require employment status, income, marital status, during the tenancy process.
The personal data we hold will be copies of passports or drivers licences, proof of address documents and bank
statements.
To ensure we provide you with the best service possible we will need to collect and retain certain personal
data. The data may be collect and processed by those listed in our contacts.
The 6 lawful basis of processing your data include consent, a legitimate interest, contractual fulfilment, a legal obligation and a vital interest. For each usage of the data the lawful basis of processing will be considered and adhered to by JW&Co
Your personal data is always stored within the UK or outside the UK but with an organisation operating under the General Data Protection Regulations.
We will retain some elements of your personal data for up to the time defined as legitimate interest or when you
request to have your consent withdrawn. After 12 months your personal date will be removed if further consent is
not received. If the lawful basis for processing your data was consent, then you may withdraw consent at any
time.
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for,
including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity
of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the
purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means,
and the applicable legal requirements.
By law we have to keep basic information about our customers including Contact, Identity, Financial and
Transaction Data for six years after they cease being customers for tax purposes.
You have a right of access to check your personal data to verify the lawful basis of processing. We are obliged
to respond to an access request within 30 days and may not a charge a fee unless the request is unfounded,
excessive or repetitive. If a fee is charged it is to be a reasonable fee based upon the administrative cost of
providing the information.
You have a right to rectification if the data we hold is either inaccurate or incomplete. If your data has been
disclosed to third parties then we must inform of the rectification, where possible.
You have a right to the erasure of your data when consent is the basis of our processing (the right to be
forgotten). You may request that your personal data be erased, for example, where there is no compelling reason
for its continued processing or where you withdraw consent. We will comply with your request unless we have
another basis of processing, justifying our retaining the data (for example a legal requirement or the defence
of a legal claim).
You have some rights to ask us to restrict processing, for example, to block or supress processing where the
data may be incorrect and whilst the accuracy is verified. We are permitted to store the data.
You do have a right to object to further processing of your personal data. We may be required to stop processing unless there is some other legitimate basis of processing such as a legitimate interest or a requirement for the exercise or defence of a legal claim.
Where the lawful basis of processing is your consent, you may withdraw consent at any time by writing to Nina Smith JW&Co, 3 London Road, St Albans, Hertfordshire, AL1 1LA or emailing ninasmith@jwandco.co.uk
The supervisory authority responsible for data protection is the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) to whom concerns may be reported by phone on 0303 123 1113 or +44 1625 545 745 if calling from outside the UK, by email using the form on the website ico.org.uk or the live chat function.
LAWFUL BASIS
Legitimate Interest means the interest of our business in conducting and managing our business
to enable us to give you the best service/product and the best and most secure experience. We make sure we
consider and balance any potential impact on you (both positive and negative) and your rights before we process
your personal data for our legitimate interests. We do not use your personal data for activities where our
interests are overridden by the impact on you (unless we have your consent or are otherwise required or
permitted to by law). You can obtain further information about how we assess our legitimate interests against
any potential impact on you in respect of specific activities by contacting us.
Performance of Contract means processing your data where it is necessary for the performance of
a contract to which you are a party or to take steps at your request before entering into such a contract.
Comply with a legal or regulatory obligation means processing your personal data where it is
necessary for compliance with a legal or regulatory obligation that we are subject to.
You have the right to:
Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a “data subject access request”). This
enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully
processing it.
Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any
incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new
data you provide to us.
Request erasure of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal
data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete
or remove your personal data where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see
below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your personal
data to comply with local law. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of
erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your
request.
Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or
those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to
processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms. You also have the
right to object where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes. In some cases, we may
demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your information which override your rights
and freedoms.
Request restriction of processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend
the processing of your personal data in the following scenarios: (a) if you want us to establish the data’s
accuracy; (b) where our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it; (c) where you need us to
hold the data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or
(d) you have objected to our use of your data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate
grounds to use it.
Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party. We will provide to you,
or a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format.
Note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or
where we used the information to perform a contract with you.
Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data.
However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If
you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. We will advise you
if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.
Contractors;
Home Pro Inventories; Mark Duce 07885 726169
K E Knight painting and decorating 07825 178999
The Jobbing Plumber 07883 745028
Kitchen Zone 01727 790676
Abbey Appliances 07980 573150
Herts Carpet Cleaning 0788 429 8519
S W Parrish 01727 825582
First call electrical 07904692572
Techne Solutions 07398 223 552
Graham Fitt Surveyors – 020 3621 2413
Energy performance certificates;
Pete Cowan 07702 710383
Phil Norman – 07989 212918
Financial services;
Premier Property Solutions 07506 932524
Conveyancing;
Philip Ross Solicitors 020 8090 9191
Bryan Mercer solicitors 01727 861 414
*please note we will endeavour to use the contractor partners recommended on this list but this may not be possible due to circumstances outside of JW&Co control.