Privacy and Security

Privacy statement for Compare Boat Insurance

Compare Boat Insurance takes your privacy seriously
This Privacy Policy Statement explains the data processing practices of Compare Boat Insurance. If you have any requests concerning your personal information or any queries with regard to these practices please contact our Privacy Officer by e-mail at [email protected]

Privacy and Security Policy

This site is owned and operated by CETA Insurance Limited. CETA Insurance Limited is an independent intermediary dealing with selected insurers and authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FRN 307824). This policy explains how we will use information about you and the steps we take to ensure your information is kept confidential and secure.

CETA Insurance Limited, registered office CETA House, Cromwell Business Park, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, OX7 5SR, registered number 02827690 is the Data Controller under the Data Protection Act 1998 in connection to the processing of your personal data.

This notice contains important information about our use of your personal details.

By using our services and in providing your personal data you are consenting to the conditions of this privacy policy. After you get an online quote we may contact you by telephone and email. We do this to confirm that the details you have given us are correct and to ensure we have provided you with the most appropriate level of cover and best premium.

If you take out any insurance policies with us the terms of this notice will also apply to anyone else insured under your policy. You should show this notice to anyone who comes into that category.

Your privacy is important to us.

We promise to respect and protect your personal information and try to make sure that your details are accurate and kept up to date.

The way in which your personal information is collected, held and used by us complies with all legal requirements, particularly as is required by the Data protection Act 1998.

Personal information means any information given to us about you or anyone else in connection with the particular service or product that we are providing to you.

Information we collect

We collect personal information about you when you give this to us during the course of using our services, for example when you get a quotation from us for insurance. We may also store information about your visit to our site, including demographic data and browsing patterns. We may monitor and or record telephone calls.

How we use your personal information

We will use your personal information to manage your insurance policy, including handling underwriting and claims and issuing policy renewal documents to you. These activities may involve us releasing personal information to other insurers, regulatory authorities or agents providing services on our behalf.

We may use your personal information and the information about your use of our products and services to carry out research and analysis about our products and services, as well as to service your needs in connection with your policy.

We may disclose the information you provide to our trusted partners who may contact you about the insurance quotation or to let you know about other products and services that may be of interest to you.

Passing on information about you

We may share the information which we hold and which has been supplied to us in connection with any application for insurance that you have made or any insurance policy which you have with us (including the renewal of any policy which you have with us) may be shared with Claims and Underwriting Exchange register, run by Insurance database Services Limited (IDS Ltd). The aim is to help the insurer check information that is given to us and to prevent fraudulent claims. When we process your request for insurance cover, the insurer may search these registers. Under the conditions of your policy, you must tell us about any incident (such as an accident or theft), whether or not you think it is likely to give rise to a claim. When you tell us about an incident, we will pass information relating to that incident to these registers. Some insurers or product providers may carry out checks against public records and or use the services of third party credit referencing agencies.

Keeping you informed of offers and services

We and other trusted third parties may advise you via e-mail, post, telephone or by text of products, services and other offers that we think may be of interest to you. Any electronic communication will include clear instructions should you wish to unsubscribe at any time.

Cookies

We use "cookies" to identify you when you visit our site and to build up a profile of our regular users. A cookie is a small piece of information sent by a web server to a web browser, which enables the server to collect information back from the browser.

Our use of cookies also allows you to be presented with a personalised version of the site. We will only read cookies from your cookie file placed there through your web browser's interaction with our site.

We may also use cookies to allow third party vendors, including Google, to show this website’s ads on other sites on the internet and to allow third party vendors, including Google, to use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website. You may opt out of Google's use of cookies by visiting the Google advertising opt-out page. (Alternatively you can opt out of a third party vendor's use of cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt out page.)

Security

We use authentication, encryption and data integrity technology for the transmission from you to us of your personal data including financially sensitive data i.e. credit cards details, but we cannot guarantee the security of any data you send to us.

Your rights / further information

You are entitled to receive a copy of the information we hold about you. If you would like a copy of your information, please contact our Data Protection Officer, quoting your name, address and insurance policy number or quotation reference, please note that we are entitled to charge you a small administrative fee for doing this.

Your responsibility for the information you provide / Additional information

You will need to answer a number of questions on this website in order to obtain a quote for an insurance product. These cover the set of questions needed by all the insurance service providers whose details appear on this site. The level of cover and the amount you pay will be determined by the answers you provide to these questions and therefore you should answer all questions to the best of your knowledge and belief. If you fail to provide the insurer with all the necessary information requested it may lead to you having no insurance or having to pay an additional premium.

All cover features shown are indicative, and actual availability may be subject to additional eligibility criteria requested by insurers. Please check policy terms and conditions to confirm the cover that will apply in your individual circumstances.

By supplying data you give explicit consent for all data provided to be used in this way unless you tell us otherwise.

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