Privacy Policy

How does Apple Car Leasing use your personal information?

Personal information on you is only collected when you voluntarily choose to give us your personal details by enquiring about or ordering any of our services/goods.

It is important to ensure that your information is kept confidential, under the terms of the Data Protection Act 1998.

We want you to know about this.

We do make some enquiries about you and we may also disclose some or all this information to our Fleet Partners HBoS Plc and any of their Subsidiary or Associate Companies, Agents or Distributors.

The information which you give us about yourself, the Directors of your company, the details of any agreement and the history of business conducted between us will be retained by us in our records.

We may use a credit scoring system and search your record at credit reference agencies to help us decide whether to give you credit. The credit reference agencies will keep a record of our search.

We will give credit reference agencies the information we have about you, your agreement and payment record. This information will be shared with other businesses to assess applications you or other members of your household or company directors make for credit or financial services, to prevent fraud and trace debtors. We and these other businesses may also use the information for market research and for analysing statistics.

We or the companies mentioned above may use this information to write, phone or contact you by other means to offer products or services. You will always be given the opportunity to say that you do not wish this to happen.

Information held by us will only be retained for as long as is necessary to conduct any business relationship between us.

If in the event your application for credit is declined, you have the right to see a copy of any information we hold about you. The Data Protection Act 1998 prevents Apple Car Leasing from disclosing this information to you directly. To obtain this information you should write to one or both of the following companies enclosing a cheque/Postal order for £2 and submitting your full name and address (es) for the last six years.

The Data Protection Act 1998 does not apply to Limited companies but does extend to Sole Traders and Partnerships. When an application is received from a business, in addition to the above information, information may be sought from Credit reference agencies on the company directors and/or partners as individuals.

KEEPING YOU INFORMED

There may be times when we feel that a service or product offered by a selected third party or us may benefit you. We may use information we obtain from your account transactions, in this decision-making process. To make you aware of the service or product we may contact you by mail, telephone, fax, e-mail or other reasonable method to give you further details, so that you can make an informed choice. You are, of course, under no obligation to apply for any of the services or products offered. We will only contact you by fax where you have given us your explicit consent. I Give my consent to Apple Car Leasing and it’s funders, to obtain whatever information they deem necessary, in relation to vehicle acquisition on Hire/Lease Finance