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Who we are

Our website address is: www.belyfted.com.

  • This website is the property of Belyfted Limited of 44 Whalebone Lane South Dagenham, RM8 1BB.. By using this website you agree that you consent to and are bound by the following terms and conditions.

Copyright and Trade Marks

The content of this website are © Belyfted. Reproduction of part or all of the contents in any form is prohibited other than in accordance with the following permissions:

What personal data we collect and why we collect it
As a business we collect, use, store and transfer different types of personal data depending on who you are.

If you are remitting currency or initiating transactions through Belyfted we collect and use your personal data to provide you with our services. The personal data we collect and use may include:

Your image in photo or video form, and facial scan data extracted from your photo or video (known as ‘biometric data’), to verify your identity during onboarding as part of our Know-Your-Customer (KYC) checks, to authenticate you as an authorised user of our services, or to detect and prevent fraud

Identity Data (full name, date of birth, username and password, transaction made by you, your interests and preferences, feedback and survey responses)

Contact Data (address, delivery address, email address and telephone numbers)

Financial Data (bank account and payment details)

Transaction Data (details about payments to and from you and other services you have made through us)

Technical Data (internet protocol address, login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, identification number, online identified, location data and other similar identifying information required for the customer’s device(s) to communicate with websites and applications on the internet)

Usage Data (how you use our website products and services, the full uniform resource locators clickstream to, through and from our site (including date and time), download errors, lengths of visit to certain pages, page interaction information, methods to browse away from the page and any phone numbers you use to call us)

Marketing and Communications Data (your marketing preferences from us and our third parties and your communication preferences)

Call recordings (recordings of your conversations with us)

We also may collect and use Aggregated Data. For example, when you visit our website we may aggregate data about your usage to tell us about how certain features on our website are used. This is not usually classified as personal data as whilst it derives from personal data (in the example, it is derived from your Usage Data) it does not reveal your identity to us. If we do link this Aggregated Data to your personal information, it will be treated as personal data in line with this policy.

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
Direct interactions

You may give us your Identity, Contact and Financial Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:

apply for our services;
  • create an account on our website;
  • subscribe to our service or publications;
  • request marketing to be sent to you;
  • contact us through social media;
  • walk-in to our branch offices or telephone our call centre;
  • enter a competition, promotion or survey; or
  • give us some feedback; or
  • speak with us on the telephone and we record the call

Third parties or publicly available sources

We may receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources, for example:
Contact, Financial and Transaction Data from providers of payment services such as Mastercard based inside the EU.
Identity and Contact Data (based inside the EU, or Facebook (based outside the EU)
Identity and Contact Data from publicly availably sources such as Companies House and the Electoral Register based inside the EU.

Comments
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.

An anonymised string created from your e-mail 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.

Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. 

Cookies
The Belyfted website and applications may automatically collect data about how you use our services in order to help us improve future functionality of our website and to assist with advertising and targeting. We use Google Analytics, which is a web analysis service provided by Google.

The cookies on the Belyfted website do not track, collect or upload data such as your name, email address or billing information, but it may collect data about your equipment and browsing activities. We may collect and report on the adoption and usage of specific features, crashes and exceptions and other useful, anonymous metrics.

Certain devices can detect your approximate location, via latitude and longitude. The accuracy of this data is not in the control of Belyfted. If this feature is requested, Belyfted will prompt you to provide your permission to access your location data for the purposes of providing you with results or directions based on your current location. You can disable location settings within your browser or app.

To read more about our use of cookies on the Belyfted website, please consult our cookie policy.

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt in to saving your name, e-mail address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, 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.

Embedded content from other websites
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.

Analytics
Who we share your data with:
We use your personal data for the purposes shown in the table below. We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it. If we need to process your personal data for a different purpose that is not compatible with the original purpose we will let you know.
We may process your personal data for a different purpose without your consent where it is necessary for us to compy with our legal obligations.

Marketing
You have the right to withdraw your consent for us to use your personal data for marketing purposes at any time. You also have the right to withdraw consent for us to pass your information to third parties for marketing purposes. If you do withdraw your consent, this will result in us ceasing to market goods and services to you.

You can ask us to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by:
logging into your ‘myBelyfted’ account (if you have one) and checking or unchecking relevant boxes to adjust your marketing preferences;
following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you; or
contacting us at any time by emailing privacy@belyfted.co.uk or by calling 020 8127 0308.

Where you withdraw your consent to receiving marketing messages, we will still process your personal data in order to fulfil our contract with you and in accordance with our legal, accountancy and regulatory obligations.

If you no longer wish to be contacted by third parties for marketing purposes, please follow the instructions in their marketing communications, or consult their privacy policies about how to unsubscribe.

Third-party marketing
We will get your express opt-in consent before we share your personal data with any company outside the Belyfted Group of companies for marketing purposes.

How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise 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.

We will retain your personal data whilst you use our services (or whilst we provide services connected to you) and for at least seven years thereafter, for legal, regulatory and accounting purposes. If we need to retain your personal data for longer, we will take into consideration the potential risks in continuing to store your data against why we might need to keep it. In some circumstances we might anonymise your personal data so it is not associated with you, and we may then use this information indefinitely.

What rights you have over your data
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.

Where we send your data
We may share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes set out in the “How we use your Personal Data” table above. We have agreements in place with our third parties that restrict their use of your personal data. We only allow third parties to use your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions

International Transfer
We will not transfer your personal data outside of the European Economic Area, except to a country offering the same level of protection for your personal data. For example, with certain service providers we may use specific contracts approved by the European Commission which ensures that your personal data has the same protection as it would have in Europe.

Additional information
We are registered as a Data Controller with the Information Commissioner’s Office, the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues. To contact us about how we handle your personal data, please contact our Data Protection Officer at info@belyfted.com. Alternatively, write to us at Data Protection Officer, Belyfted Limited is registered in England and Wales (registered number 11139735) . Our registered office is at 44 Whalebone Lane South Dagenham, RM8 1BB.. If you have a complaint about the way in which your personal data has been processed you have the right to contact the Information Commissioner’s Office but you may be required to first complete our internal complaints procedure.

Money Laundering
Belyfted is committed to operating its business in a transparent and open manner consistent with our legal and regulatory obligations. We are aware that the real estate industry is a target for organised criminals seeking to launder the proceeds of criminal activity. We always seek to prevent this activity by cooperating fully with the authorities and reporting suspicious activity to the National Crime Agency.

As part of this commitment, we adopt a strict compliance of all Anti-Money Laundering rules, with specific emphasis on the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, the Money Laundering Regulations 2017, the Bribery Act 2010 and the Terrorism Act 2000.

Belyfted policy commitment is applicable to all of our customers, including vendors, buyers, landlords and tenants. As a result we obtain and hold for a period of at least seven years evidence pertaining to our customers’ identity and, where appropriate, we obtain proof of ownership of property and source/destination of funds. We will be unable to proceed with any work on behalf of our customers if we are unable to obtain this information. Customers’ identity will be subject to an electronic identity check, which may also include a credit check

For a full list of acceptable identity documents, please click here

We are registered and supervised by HM Revenue & Customs for compliance with the Money Laundering Regulations 2017. If you would like to speak to us about Anti-Money Laundering, please email enquiries@belyfted.com

Indemnity
You acknowledge that you are solely responsible for the use to which you put this website and all the results and information you obtain from it and that all warranties, conditions, undertakings, representations and terms whether expressed or implied, statutory or otherwise are hereby excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law.

Save in respect of liability for death or personal injury arising out of negligence or for fraudulent misrepresentation, we and all contributors to this website hereby disclaim to the fullest extent permitted by law all liability for any loss or damage including any consequential or indirect loss or damage incurred by you, whether arising in tort, contract or otherwise, and arising out of or in relation to or in connection with your access to or use of or inability to use this website.

Whilst we take every care to ensure that the standard of this website remains high and to maintain the continuity of it, we do not accept any ongoing obligation or responsibility to operate this website (or any particular part of it).

If any part of our terms and conditions is deemed to be unenforceable (including any provision in which we exclude our liability to you) the enforceability of any other part of these conditions will not be affected.

These terms and conditions and your use of this website are governed exclusively by English law.

This does not affect your statutory rights as a consumer.

Belyfted Limited is registered in England and Wales (registered number 11139735). Our registered office is at 44 Whalebone Lane South Dagenham, RM8 1BB.

How we protect your data
We are, through technical and organisational means, committed to ensuring the security of, and prevention of unauthorised access to, your personal data. For example, we limit who can access your personal data to those individuals and third parties who need to know it and who are subject to a duty of confidentiality. If we become aware of a data breach we will, where we are required to, notify the Information Commissioner’s Office. If we believe that the data breach is serious, we may notify you as well.

What data breach procedures we have in place
1) You acknowledge Belyfted as the source of the material. You must include such acknowledgement and the Belyfted web address (www.belyfted.com) in the copy of the material, and

2) You must inform the third party that all the Terms and Conditions set out herewith apply to him/her and that he/she is bound by them.

Disclaimer
Belyfted takes all reasonable care to ensure that the information contained on this website is accurate, however, we cannot guarantee its accuracy and we reserve the right to change the information on this website (including these terms and conditions) at any time. You must therefore check these terms and conditions for any such changes each time you visit this website.

Belyfted makes no representations or warranties of any kind with respect to this website or the content contained on it, including any text, graphics, advertisements, links or other items. Furthermore, neither Belyfted nor any other contributor to this website make any representation or gives any warranty, condition, undertaking or term either expressed or implied as to the condition, quality, performance, accuracy, fitness for purpose, completeness or freedom from viruses of the content contained on this website or that such content will be accurate, up to date, uninterrupted or error free. Nothing on this website shall be regarded or taken as financial advice.

Law
The user confirms that the terms and conditions and use of this website shall be governed by the laws of England and Wales and that any and all disputes arising therefrom shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.

Privacy Policy
At Belyfted we are committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. This privacy notice, together with our Terms and Conditions and any other notice referred to in it, explains how we collect and use your personal data when you visit our website or use our services.

This website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect personal data from children.

What third parties we receive data from
What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data
Industry regulatory disclosure requirements

To the extent provided by law, you have the right to:
access a copy of the personal data that we hold and process about you. You have rights to the following information:
the purpose(s) for which we are processing your information;
the categories of personal information we hold about you
the recipients or categories of recipient to whom the personal data have been or will be disclosed;
the period for which we will store your information, or the criteria used to determine that period;
object to the use of your personal data (including for marketing purposes) by
informing a Belyfted telephone operator; or
by ticking the relevant boxes on the data collection forms; or
by logging into your ‘my Belyfted’ account (if you have done) and checking or unchecking relevant boxes to adjust your marketing preferences; or
by emailing info@belyfted.com

Please note that even if you refuse marketing, we will still contact you to discuss the services you have asked us to provide to you or to tell you about changes to our terms and conditions:
rectification of any inaccurate information we hold about you;
erasure of the personal data we hold about you (in certain situations);
ask that we do not make decisions about you using completely automated means; and/or
ask that personal data we hold about you is, where technically feasible, transmitted to a third-party chosen by you, in a commonly used, machine-readable format.

The rights listed above may not apply in certain circumstances. Therefore we may not always be able to comply with your request. We will tell you if this is the case. We will usually respond to a request from you to exercise your rights within one month of receipt, but it might take longer if your request is particularly complex or if you have made a number of requests. Please be aware that we may need to process your personal data and/or request specific information from you to help us comply with your request. Generally, you do not have to pay a fee to exercise these rights, but you may have to pay a fee if your request is unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request.