Privacy Policy

At Wigwam Homes, we are committed to protecting your privacy and your data.

This Privacy Policy explains what personal information we collect about our website visitors, customers and people who contact or interact with us, how we use it, the conditions under which we may disclose it to others and how we keep it secure.

If you do not want us to process your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy, please do not provide information to Wigwam Homes or let us know how you want us to handle your privacy.

For questions relating to this Privacy Policy, please contact us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  or 316 Anlaby Road, Hull.

About Wigwam Homes
Wigwam Homes is a trading name of Wigwam Investments Ltd whose registered VAT number is 316991575 and registered office is 18 Milldale Close, Nottingham, NG11 8NU.

How do we collect personal information about you?
We obtain personal information about you that you provide to us through our website, emails, phone conversations, documents you provide to us or when you visit one of our branches, for example when you:

• Enquire about properties for sale or for rent
• Ask us to perform a valuation of your property
• Register for our email newsletters or for email updates
• Participate in one of our surveys
• Interact with us on our social media sites

We also may collect information from third parties or publicly available sources, for example, the Land Registry.

We also obtain personal information relating to you using automated technical means when you visit our website.

What type of personal information is collected?
Regarding collecting your data, we follow your instructions if you specify, otherwise generally the information we collect from you might include (but is not limited to) your name, address, email address, phone number, date of birth, financial details, information about your family, information about your health, your communication and marketing preferences and any other information you choose to provide to us.

We may during the course of your relationship with us, request additional information from you relevant to the provision of specific services.

Where we are required by law, or for business needs, we will obtain information about you from third parties, but only after we have your agreement to do so. This can include but is not limited to; credit reference agencies, banks, employers, accountants, and solicitors in order to obtain references, undertake identity verification, basic criminal record checks and for validation of income levels and financial history.

Any telephone calls either to or from our offices may be recorded for training, monitoring, compliance and security purposes.

The information we collect through our website using automated technical means includes: 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, identification number, online identifier and location data. We also collect information about your website visit including which website pages are accessed, page response times and length of visits to pages. We use cookies and other technologies to collect information when you visit our websites. Please refer to our cookies policy for more information on how we use cookies.

How long do we retain your personal information?
We review our retention periods for personal data on a regular basis. We are legally required to hold some types of information for certain prescribed periods to fulfil our statutory obligations. Outside of specific statutory obligations, we will hold your personal data on our systems for as long as is necessary for the relevant purposes for which we use it, or in accordance with any retention periods set out in any relevant contract you hold with us.

How do we use your personal information?
We may use the information that you directly provide to us in the following ways:

• We may use your name, address and contact details for the purpose of carrying out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into by you and Wigwam Homes, such as providing you with products and services you have requested, visiting and arranging viewings of your property.  Our legal basis for this use is that it is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are party.
• We may use your name, email address and postal address to provide you with information, you have requested from us, respond to enquiries or requests from you, communicate with you in relation to those enquiries or requests and arranging visits to your property by our staff.  Our legal basis for this use is our legitimate interests, namely carrying out activities in the course of Wigwam Homes’ business in response to customer enquiries or requests.
• We may use your name, email address and postal address to provide you with information regarding similar goods and services to those you have already enquired about or purchased.  Our legal basis for this use is our legitimate interests, namely the on-going marketing of our goods and services to individuals with whom we have an existing relationship in connection with our goods and services and/or who have expressed an interest in those goods and services.
• Where you have entered into a contract with us or we have provided you with services, we may use your name, email address, postal address or phone number to ask for your feedback about the services we have provided to you.  Our legal basis for this use is our legitimate interests, namely evaluating and where necessary improving the quality of our service provision with a view to promoting the success of our business and positive customer relationships.
• Where you are a party to an existing contract with us or regularly enter into contracts with us for our goods and services, we may use your name, email address, postal address or phone number to notify you of changes to the terms and conditions of our services.  Our legal basis for this use is our legitimate interests, namely the administration and management of our business contracts and relationships.
• We may use your name, email address and postal address to send you marketing communications if you have chosen to receive these. These may include information about properties for rent or for sale, the current property market, promotions or offers. Our legal basis for this use is consent.

We may use the information that we automatically collect using technical means through our website to:

• Administer our site and for troubleshooting, testing, research and statistical purposes. We use Google Analytics, a third party website monitoring tool. For more information, see our Cookie Policy. Our legal basis for this is our legitimate interests, namely monitoring the use of our software and IT systems, improving our website
• Measure or understand the effectiveness of our own advertising activity. Our legal basis for this use is our legitimate interests, namely improving the relevancy of our advertising;
• Measure or understand the effectiveness of our marketing emails. Our legal basis for this use is consent.

This automated collection of information may involve the use of cookies.  Please see our Cookies Policy for further detail about these.

We may analyse the personal information we collect directly from you and obtain using automated technical means to create a profile of your interests and preferences so that we can contact you with information relevant to you (if you have chosen to receive marketing communications from us).

We may also use any of your personal information that we collect from you directly and additional information about you from external sources where necessary to detect and reduce fraud and credit risk.  Our legal basis for this use of your personal information is our legitimate interests in preventing our business being subject to fraud or credit risk.
 
Who has access to information?
We will not sell or rent your information to third parties except as prescribed in this privacy notice or as indicated via the consent process at the time the data is collected. We share information with, but not limited to:

• Landlords and landlord associates and sub-processors
• Vetted affiliates and partners/ Financial Institutions/ Insurance companies for business

When we use third party service providers to provide products or other business services and operations, we provide them with only the personal information they need to perform the service we request. We contractually require them to securely protect information and to not use it for any other purpose.
We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies this means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and all its subsidiaries insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.
We may disclose your personal information to our insurers and /or professional advisers insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes of obtaining and maintaining insurance coverage, managing risks, obtaining professional advice and managing legal disputes.
We may transfer your personal information to a third party as part of a sale of some or all of our business and assets, or as part of any business restructuring or reorganisation, or if we’re under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation or to enforce or apply our terms of use or to protect the rights, property or safety of our customers. However, we will take steps with the aim of ensuring that your privacy rights continue to be protected.
In addition to the specific disclosures set out in this section, we may disclose your personal information where such disclosure is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person, or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative out-of-court procedure.

Your rights
In this section, we have summarised the rights that you have under data protection law.  Some of the rights are complex, applying only in certain circumstances and subject to certain exceptions, and in the interests of keeping this policy concise, not all of the details have been included in our summaries.  Accordingly, you should read the relevant laws and guidance from the regulatory authorities for a full explanation of these rights.

You have the right:

• To object to us processing your personal information for marketing purposes. If you object, we will stop processing your personal information for this purpose.  When we collect your data, you can choose whether or not you wish to receive marketing communications from us. If you wish to stop receiving marketing communications, you can opt out at any time by clicking on ‘unsubscribe’ link at the bottom of one of our emails.
• To access the information we hold about you and certain information about our processing of it and your rights in relation to it.
• In certain circumstances, to obtain erasure of the personal information we hold about you, subject to certain exceptions.
• To rectification of the information, we hold about you.
• In certain circumstances, to restrict our processing of your personal information or object to us processing it. If you object, we will stop processing your personal information unless certain exceptions apply.
• Where our legal basis for processing your personal information is your consent or the performance of a contract and we process it by automated means, to be provided with the personal information we hold about you in structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and to transmit the information to another controller.
• To not be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, that produces legal effects concerning you or similarly affecting you, subject to certain exceptions.
• Where our processing of your personal information is based on your consent, to withdraw that consent at any time.  If you withdraw your consent, we will stop the relevant processing, but it will not affect the lawfulness of our processing before the withdrawal.

To exercise any of these rights write to us at 18 Milldale Close, Nottingham, NG11 8NU. In addition, you can exercise your right to object to direct marketing at any time by clicking an ‘unsubscribe’ link at the bottom of one of our emails.
If you consider that our processing of your personal information infringes data protection laws, you have the right to lodge a complaint to a supervisory authority responsible for data protection. You may do this in the EU member state of your habitual residence, your place of work or the place of the alleged infringement.  More information about lodging a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office (the relevant UK supervisory authority) can be found at https://ico.org.uk/concerns/.

Security precautions in place to protect your information
We take appropriate technical and organisational precautions to secure your personal information and prevent its loss, misuse or alteration. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Where we have given (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our websites, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.
The transmission of unencrypted (or inadequately encrypted) data over the internet is inherently insecure, and for this reason we cannot guarantee the security of data sent between us over the internet.

Use of Cookies

Like many other websites, our website uses cookies. 'Cookies' are small pieces of information sent by an organisation to your computer and stored on your hard drive to allow that website to recognise you when you visit. They collect statistical data about your browsing actions and patterns.

Cookies allow us to provide important site functionality so you don’t have to re-enter lots of information. They also allow us to remember what links and pages you have been or viewed during a session. This helps us deliver a better, more personalised service to you.

It is possible to switch off cookies by setting your browser preferences. For more information on the Cookies we use, visit our Cookies Policy.

Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to other websites run by other organisations. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of those organisations or the content of their websites. You should read the privacy policies of these organisations before providing them with any personal information.

Transferring your information outside of European Economic Area (“EEA”)
In this section, we provide information about the circumstances in which your personal information might be transferred to countries outside the EEA.
The data we collect from you may be transferred to and stored at, a destination outside of the European Economic Area (EEA). It will also be processed by staff operating outside of the EEA who work for us or one of our suppliers. This includes 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 policy.
If you use our services while you are outside the EEA, your information may be transferred outside the EEA in order to provide you with those services.

Review of this Policy
We keep this Policy under regular review. This Policy was last updated in May 2018.
If we change our Privacy Policy we will post the changes on this page and may place notices on other sections of the website and/or notify you by email.

Further information
You can obtain further information about data protection laws by visiting the Information Commissioner's Office website at www.ico.org.uk.

Our website uses cookies. Your acceptance of these terms By using this website, you consent to the collection and use of your information as set out in this privacy and cookie policy. If we change our privacy and cookie policy in any way, these changes will be posted on this page.

About cookies

A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser, and stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.

Cookies can be used by web servers to identity and track users as they navigate different pages on a website and to identify users returning to a website.

Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies. A persistent cookie consists of a text file sent by a web server to a web browser, which will be stored by the browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date (unless deleted by the user before the expiry date). A session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.

Cookies on this website

We use both session cookies and persistent cookies on this website.

How we use cookies

Cookies do not contain any information that personally identifies you, but personal information that we store about you may be linked, by us, to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

We may use the information we obtain from your use of our cookies for the following purposes:

• to recognise your computer when you visit our website;
• to track you as you navigate our website, and to enable certain features, such as bookmarking content and logging in.
• to improve the website’s usability;
• to analyse the use of our website;
• in the administration of this website;
• to prevent fraud and improve the security of the website;
• to personalise our website for you, including targeting advertisements which may be of particular interest to you.

Third party cookies

When you use our website, you may also be sent third party cookies.

3rd Party Cookies

Social Networking cookies

Web pages may integrate content modules on social networks in their platform. These modules store and may access cookies from the user terminal allowing the identification of its members while they are on the website.

Google Analytics, DoubleClick and AddThis cookies can be disabled by following the instructions

• Google Analytics
• Double Click
• AddThis

Managing Cookies

The user has the option to allow, block or remove installed ‘cookies’ on your computer by setting your browser options installed on your computer. When cookies are disabled, some available services may no longer be operational.

The process to disable cookies is different in each browser, but it can usually be carried out through the menu.

• Google Chrome (in the Tools Menu)
  Setting > Show Advanced Options> Privacy (Setting the Contents) > Cookies
  More information: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en
  
  

• Microsoft Internet Explorer (in the Tools Menu)
  Internet Options> Privacy> Advanced
  More Information: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/internet-explorer/delete-manage-cookies#ie=ie-9
  
  

• Firefox
  Options > Privacy > Cookies
  More Information: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences
  
  

• Safari, iPad and iPhone
  Preferences > Privacy
  More information: http://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/en-ww/cookies/
  
  
  
• Opera
  Setting > Options > Advanced > Cookies
  More Information: http://help.opera.com/Windows/12.10/en/cookies.html