Privacy

Mercury Land Holdings Limited (“we, us“) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

This policy sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you 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.placetocallhome.co.uk and www.mercurylandholdings.co.uk 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 us (Mercury Land Holdings Limited) and our registered address is Tollgate House, 96-98 Market Place, Romford, RM1 3ER.

Our nominated representative for the purpose of the Act is Christopher Hobbs.

INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT FROM YOU

We may collect and process the following data about you.

Information you give to us

You may give us information about yourself by registering your interest via our site or by corresponding with us by phone, email or otherwise. This includes information you provide when you register to use the booking system, search for flats or products, book a flat and report a problem with our site. The information you give may include your name, address, email address, phone number, nationality and visa and financial information, including employment information. You may also give us the contact details of others to enable us to carry out reference checks. Please ensure that you have their permission before passing on such information to us.

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; and

• information about your visit, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through and from our site (including date and time); flats and 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), methods used to browse away from the page and any phone number used to call service numbers we may supply to you.

Information we receive from other sources

We work 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 website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. For detailed information on the cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them see our Cookies policy.

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 help you search for and reserve flats;

• to draw up, provide to you and enter with you into any tenancy agreement we decide to make;

• to carry out our obligations arising from that and any other contracts entered into between you and us and to provide you with the information, products and services that you request from us;

• 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;

• to notify you about changes to our service; and

• 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, for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research and for 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;

• 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; and

• 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, and may us this information and the combined information for the purposes set out above.

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 also share your information with selected third parties including:

• business partners, suppliers and sub-contractors for the conclusion and performance of any contract we enter into with them or you;

• advertisers and advertising networks that require the data to select and serve relevant adverts to you and others;

• analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement of our site;

• the referees whose details you supply to us; and

• credit reference agencies for the purpose of assessing your credit score where this is a condition of us entering into a contract with you.

In addition, 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 we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, terms and conditions of supply, booking terms, any tenancy you enter into with us and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Mercury Land Holdings Ltd, 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 an order you make, 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.

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.

OTHER SITES

Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of certain partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for those 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.

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

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 email. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy policy.

CONTACT

Any questions and requests regarding this privacy policy should be addressed to info@placetocallhome.co.uk

COOKIES

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a better experience and allows us to make improvements to our site. By continuing to use this site, you agree 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. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.

We use the following:

• 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 site or make payments.

• Analytical/performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our site, which helps us to improve the way it works.

• Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our site. This enables us to personalise our content for you and remember information you have given us.

• Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited on it and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and any advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

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 are likely to be analytical/performance or targeting cookies.

You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. Please note that if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access parts of our site.

Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after 30 days.