Cifas is the UK’s leading fraud prevention service, managing the largest database of instances of fraudulent conduct in the country
Legal & General have become members of Cifas to establish a tougher environment for fraudsters. Using the simple tools of communication and sharing information, Cifas and approved agencies are able to shine a light on fraudulent activity, helping to protect you.
Further details of how your information will be used by Cifas and these fraud prevention agencies, and your data protection rights, can be found on in the full notice below.
Notice for the purpose of fraud prevention and detection
General
1. Before we provide services, goods or financing to you, we undertake checks for the purposes of preventing fraud and money laundering, and to verify your identity. These checks require us to process personal data about you.
2. The personal data you have provided, we have collected from you, or we have received from third parties will be used to prevent fraud and money laundering, and to verify your identity.
3. Details of the personal information that will be processed include, for example: name, address, date of birth, contact details, financial information, employment details, device identifiers including IP address and vehicle details.
4. We and fraud prevention agencies may also enable law enforcement agencies to access and use your personal data to detect, investigate and prevent crime.
5. We process your personal data on the basis that we have a legitimate interest in preventing fraud and money laundering, and to verify identity, in order to protect our business and to comply with laws that apply to us. Such processing is also a contractual requirement of the services or financing you have requested.
6. Fraud prevention agencies can hold your personal data for different periods of time, and if you are considered to pose a fraud or money laundering risk, your data can be held for up to six years.
Consequences of processing
7. If we, or a fraud prevention agency, determine that you pose a fraud or money laundering risk, we may refuse to provide the services or financing you have requested, or to employ you, or we may stop providing existing services to you.
8. A record of any fraud or money laundering risk will be retained by the fraud prevention agencies, and may result in others refusing to provide services, financing or employment to you.
If you have any questions about this, you can email us at Financial.crime@landg.com.
Data transfers
9. Fraud prevention agencies may allow the transfer of your personal data outside of the UK. This may be to a country where the UK Government has decided that your data will be protected to UK standards, but if the transfer is to another type of country, then the fraud prevention agencies will ensure your data continues to be protected by ensuring appropriate safeguards are in place. Cifas has published more information about data transfers.
Your rights
10. Your personal data is protected by legal rights, which include your rights to object to our processing of your personal data; request that your personal data is erased or corrected; request access to your personal data.
11. For more information or to exercise your data protection rights, please contact us using the contact details above.
12. You also have a right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office which regulates the processing of personal data.