At SchemeServe we recognise that privacy is important. This Privacy Policy applies to all of the products, services and websites offered by SchemeServe or its subsidiaries or affiliated companies. It sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect about you, or you provide to us, will be handled by us. By continuing to use our website you will be deemed to have read and accepted this privacy policy. If you do not wish to be bound by this privacy policy then you should immediately leave our website.
We reserve the right to periodically change these terms and therefore you should check these terms regularly.
SchemeServe is owned and operated by SchemeServe Limited, a company registered in England and Wales under company number 4092583, and with the Information Commissioner’s Office under registration no Z8157921. In this privacy policy, “we”, “our” and “us” means SchemeServe, and “you” and “your” means any person who accesses and uses this website.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, about our use of your personal data or any other data protection questions, please contact our Data Protection Officer here: contact us.
We comply with the UK Data Protection Act 2018 (which incorporates the UK-GDPR), the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and any other relevant data privacy laws.
When you visit our website, our servers automatically record information that your browser sends whenever you visit a website. This information is held for statistical and administration purposes only and is collected in a way which does not identify you. This information records statistical data such as the number of visitors to our website. We will not associate any data gathered from this site with any personally identifying information from any source. The data collected includes information such as:
We offer a number of services that do not require you to register for an account or provide any personal information to us, such as SchemeServe Search. In order to provide our full range of services, we may collect the following types of information:
SchemeServe only processes personal information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy and/or the supplementary privacy notices for specific services. In addition to the above, such purposes include:
You can find more information about how we process personal information by referring to the supplementary privacy notices for particular services.
SchemeServe processes personal information on our servers in the United Kingdom. In some cases, we process personal information on a server outside your own country. We may process personal information to provide our own services. In some cases, we may process personal information on behalf of and according to the instructions of a third party, such as our advertising partners.
If you use a password to access our services, you are responsible for keeping that password confidential. Please don’t share it. We cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to us; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have your data, we use strict security procedures and features to try and prevent unauthorised use.
When you sign up for a particular service that requires registration, we ask you to provide personal information. If we use this information in a manner different than the purpose for which it was collected, then we will ask for your consent prior to such use.
If we propose to use personal information for any purposes other than those described in this Privacy Policy and/or in the specific service privacy notices, we will offer you an effective way to opt-out of the use of personal information for those other purposes. We will not collect or use sensitive information for purposes other than those described in this Privacy Policy and/or in the supplementary service privacy notices unless we have obtained your prior consent.
Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, but you can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some SchemeServe features and services may not function properly if your cookies are disabled.
You can decline to submit personal information to any of our services, in which case SchemeServe may not be able to provide those services to you.
SchemeServe only shares personal information with other companies or individuals outside of SchemeServe in the following limited circumstances:
We may share with third parties’ certain pieces of aggregated, non-personal information, such as the number of users who searched for a particular term, for example, or how many users clicked on a particular advertisement or how many policies there are in certain categories. Such information does not identify you individually.
We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorised access to or unauthorised alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. These include internal reviews of our data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures, as well as physical security measures to guard against unauthorised access to systems where we store personal data.
We restrict access to personal information to SchemeServe employees, contractors and agents who need to know that information in order to operate, develop or improve our services. These individuals are bound by confidentiality obligations and may be subject to discipline, including termination and criminal prosecution if they fail to meet these obligations.
SchemeServe processes personal information only for the purposes for which it was collected and in accordance with this Privacy Policy or any applicable service-specific privacy notice. We review our data collection, storage and processing practices to ensure that we only collect, store and process the personal information needed to provide or improve our services. We take reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information we process is accurate, complete, and current, but we depend on our users to update or correct their personal information whenever necessary.
When you use SchemeServe services, we make good faith efforts to provide you with access to your personal information and either to correct this data if it is inaccurate or to delete such data at your request if it is not otherwise required to be retained by law or for legitimate business purposes. We ask individual users to identify themselves and the information requested to be accessed, corrected or removed before processing such requests. We may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive or systematic, require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, or would be extremely impractical (for instance, requests concerning information residing on backup tapes), or for which access is not otherwise required. In any case, where we provide information access and correction, we perform this service free of charge, except if doing so would require a disproportionate effort. Some of our services may have different procedures to access, correct or delete users’ personal information. We usually provide the details for these procedures in the specific privacy notices or FAQs or help guides for these services but for information on any of these procedures, please contact us.
SchemeServe regularly reviews its compliance with this Privacy Policy. If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy or SchemeServe’s treatment of personal information, please contact us.
When we receive formal written complaints, it is SchemeServe’s policy to contact the complaining user regarding his or her concerns. We will cooperate with the appropriate regulatory authorities, including local data protection authorities, to resolve any complaints regarding the transfer of personal data that cannot be resolved between SchemeServe and an individual.
A ‘cookie’ is a piece of information that gets stored on the device you are browsing from. They can record how you move around a website so that when you revisit it can present tailored options based on the information stored about your last visit. Cookies can also be used to analyse traffic and for advertising and marketing purposes. In most cases, cookies are not intrusive but are there to make the page work better either directly (such as essential cookies), or indirectly (such as analytics cookies to assist in making the site easier to use).
Some cookies could be considered intrusive if they collect personal data or otherwise identify you as an individual and further use this data. SchemeServe do not use such cookies on this website.
There are two types of cookies used on our website, strictly necessary cookies, and performance cookies.
‘Strictly Necessary’ cookies let you move around the website and use essential features. Our website won’t work without these, so they do not require consent. These cookies don’t gather any personal information that could be used for marketing or remembering where you’ve been on the internet.
‘Performance’ cookies collect information about the pages you visit and how you use website. These cookies don’t collect any information that could identify you, the information collected is anonymous and is used to help improve website layout and functionality, understand which parts of the website our customers find the most useful.
Cookies we use:
| Cookie Name | Type | Description |
| _fbp | Performance | These cookies are for Analytics. They are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. |
| _ga | ||
| _gid | ||
| Ifa | ||
| SL_C_*_KEY | ||
| SL_C_*_SID | ||
| SL_C_*_VID | ||
| _utma | ||
| _utmb | ||
| _utmc | ||
| _utmt | ||
| __utmz | ||
| ai_session | ||
| ai_user |
| Cookie Name | Type | Description |
| ASP.NET_Sessionld | Strictly necessary | These cookies are essential for the operation of many features on our site. Disabling these may cause our site to stop working correctly. |
| ss_site_data | ||
| ss_notif_dev | ||
| ssDeviceId | ||
| ss_cookies_notif | ||
| Formula Testing.LastFormula | ||
| TiPMix | ||
| x-ms-routing-name | ||
| ssExp | ||
| ss Access | ||
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Please note that not of the all cookies are used at all times, you may have a selection of these cookies depending on the services you are using.
You can opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, by going to http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. Alternatively, some web browsers may have plug-ins that enable analytical cookies to be blocked.
We may make changes to our Privacy Notice in the future. Any updates or changes will be posted on this page and will be reflected in the version date.
Page last updated: 13/09/2023
