Important Information

Data Protection Statement
In accordance with the principles of the Data Protection Act 1998 and the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), we will use your personal details for the purposes of managing your accounts with FAIRshare Credit Union. Your personal details will be treated confidentially and will only be shared with other agencies for the purposes of credit referencing and debt recovery, for which purpose we hold a Category F Consumer Credit Licence.

We are committed to protecting our members’ privacy. Data may be processed outside the European Economic Area by a company which complies with the EU-US Privacy Shield and GDPR.

Credit Rating Agencies
In order to process your application, we will perform credit and identity checks on you with one or more credit reference agencies (“CRAs”). Where you take banking services from us we may also make periodic searches at CRAs to manage your account with us.

To do this, we will supply your personal information to CRAs and they will give us information about you. This will include information from your credit application and about your financial situation and financial history. CRAs will supply to us both public (including the electoral register) and shared credit, financial situation and financial history information and fraud prevention information.

We will use this information to:
• Assess your creditworthiness and whether you can afford to take the product;
• Verify the accuracy of the data you have provided to us;
• Prevent criminal activity, fraud and money laundering;
• Manage your account(s);
• Trace and recover debts; and
• Ensure any offers provided to you are appropriate to your circumstances.

We will continue to exchange information about you with CRAs while you have a relationship with us. We will also inform the CRAs about your settled accounts. If you borrow and do not repay in full and on time, CRAs will record the outstanding debt. This information may be supplied to other
organisations by CRAs.

When CRAs receive a search from us they will place a search footprint on your credit file that may be seen by other lenders.

If you are making a joint application, or tell us that you have a spouse or financial associate, we will
link your records together, so you should make sure you discuss this with them, and share with them this information, before lodging the application. CRAs will also link your records together and these links will remain on your and their files until such time as you or your partner successfully files for a disassociation with the CRAs to break that link.

The identities of the CRAs, and the ways in which they use and share personal information, are explained in more detail at:

• CallCredit
• Equifax
• Experian

Fraud Prevention Agencies
To prevent or detect fraud or to assist in verifying your identity we may make searches of group records and at Fraud Prevention Agencies who will supply us with information. We may also pass information to financial and other organisations involved in fraud prevention to protect ourselves and our customers from theft and fraud. If you give us false or inaccurate information, details will be passed to fraud protection agencies.

Debt Recovery
For the purposes of debt recovery, your details may be passed to a debt collection agency, the Department of Work and Pensions for consideration of deductions through the Eligible Loan Deduction Scheme and or recovery through the court.

Privacy Statement
We are committed to protecting our members’ privacy. We will only use your personal information to administer your account, to meet legal obligations or to enable us to perform our contract with you. To view our Privacy Notice and find out how will we use this information please click here.

All information given by you will be retained securely in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 and the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).