Site address-Privacy Statement: Our website address is: https://uk-property-development-finance.com/. This privacy policy confirms how we are committed to securely preserving your personal information. Inclusive any personal details you impart to us, what we learn by interacting with you as a customer along with your marketing choices. This privacy policy further advises you on your privacy rights and how you are protected.
Last Updated 15th April 2022.
The UK Property Development Finance site provides an interactive sourcing model for development loans in order that you, the client, can make an informed decision. This site provides free information, topical news and informative guides, calculators and downloads. This is not intended as and should neither be construed as investment advice. You can use the contact page and select compliance from the dropdown menu to contact us for general data protection queries. We are a registered data controller with Information Commissioner’s Office UK (ICO), registration number ZB328152.
Your input: When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. This is an extremely important part of site security adopted by millions of websites across the world to not only protect themselves from onerous spamming but also hackers.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment/s.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
As well as our Privacy Policy, your privacy is protected by law. The law states that your personal information can be used only if we have a proper reason to do so. This includes sharing it outside of InfraCapital.
The law states we must have one or more of these reasons:
A legitimate interest is when we have a business or commercial reason to use your information. But even then, it must not unfairly go against what is right and best for you. Furthermore your personal data is protected by legal rights including:
For more information or to exercise your data protection rights, please contact us using the ‘contact’ form as previously advised. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) https://ico.org.uk/concerns/, which regulates the processing of personal data.
Embedded content: Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website. Currently InfraCapital do not use or rely on any embedded content as at 1st May 2022. If this changes this Privacy Policy notice will be updated.
IP address: If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email. InfraCapital does not currently introduce or arrange or recommend mortgages and/or financial services. We therefore do not share your personal information with third parties such as lenders and other brokers, to arrange the supply of those services and products (as of November 1st 2021). However as and when this changes this Privacy Policy will be updated. If our business model changes we may, by law, be required to share your information with:
In addition to the above, should we undergo a major company restructuring, then your data will be used by the new organisation in the same way as set out in this notice.
Retention of Data: If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
Some websites who introduce and interact with third party providers should you apply (mortgage/financial services) via a Limited Company. A limited company can and is often used as a tax efficient vehicle to purchase buy to let and HMO properties. These details can include but are not limited to name, occupation, date of birth, contact details and financial details.
Additionally, we may need to collect sensitive personal data for some products or to comply with legislation. We will only collect and use these types of data if we are specifically required to:
Intermediaries/brokers/agents should only collect information to progress your case and only collect and process sensitive personal data where it is essential to finding the express product you have requested. Any broker/agent/intermediary will not explicitly request your consent to process this sensitive information as it is required by same to agreed services. If you do not want this sensitive detail to be shared as and where necessary it will be unlikely anyone will be able to progress your enquiry.
Your Rights: If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
SPAM detection: Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Credit Reference Agencies (CRAs)
We do not carry out credit and identity checks either on you as an individual or through a business (Ltd Co).
For your information you can find out more about the CRAs on their websites, in the Credit Reference Agency Information Notice. This includes details about:
Here are the three main Credit Reference Agencies:
We occasionally make available brochures, PDFs and documents that we feel will be beneficial to you, our visitor. When you download a brochure, tips/advice/document/PDFs etc you will be requested to enter your First Name, Surname and email address. You will also be requested to acknowledge that you have read and agreed to our Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions. In respect of GDPR we will retain your email address for a period of up to 3 years (applies to non subscription/newsletters/PDFs/Downloads), a period of 6 years is recommended by the ICO and upwards to 7 years. Your email address will not be used for SPAM but will be kept securely on our VPS (Virtual Private Server).
We will use your email address to send you newsworthy topical items, occasional newsletters and relevant offers from third party providers that we feel may be of interest to you. Please note that you can unsubscribe at any time by hitting the ‘unsuscribe’ button at the bottom of any email from us. By downloading any free brochure/PDF/document from this site you are not bound, obliged and it is not conditional that you receive further and/or additional email correspondence from us.
While there are no definitive statutory retention periods legislation states that a business should keep information for “no longer than is necessary”. However please note that there is no minimum or maximum time stipulated for email retention. Personal data can be retained in a form that allows an individual to be identified for no longer than necessary to achieve the purpose for which personal data were collected or processed (Article 5(e). Data erasure is a personal right protected under the GDPR (Article 17).