Privacy and Cookie Policy
1. This Privacy and Cookie Policy
2. Personal information we may collect from you
3. Uses made of your personal information
4. Information about Cookies Including Third Party Cookies
5. Information sharing
6. Security
7. Storage of your information
8. Your details
9. Your Data, Your Rights
1. Privacy and Cookie Policy
1.1 This is the Privacy and Cookie Policy (the "Policy") for
newstreet.webcustomerportal.com ("the Site").
The Site is operated by Kensington Mortgage Company Limited trading as New Street ("we", "us" and "our").
For the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation 2016 and the Data Protection Act 2018 (together “the Data Protection Legislation”), we are the data controller of the information collected through this site.
1.2 We are committed to protecting your privacy on-line. This policy explains how we collect information, what we do with it and what controls you have.
1.3 By using the Site, you consent to the collection and use of information in accordance with this privacy policy.
1.4 We reserve the right to change this privacy policy from time to time by changing it on the Site. This privacy policy was last updated on 24th May 2018.
2. Personal information we may collect from you
2.1 We may collect and process the following personal information about you:
- information (such as your name, email address, postal address and telephone number) that you provide by completing forms on the Site, including if you register as a user of the Site, subscribe to any service, upload or submit any material via the Site, or request any information;
- information needed to verify your identity and the fact that you hold a mortgage with us;
- in connection with an account sign-in facility, your log-in and password details;
- details of any payments made by you through the Site (but not card details – see section 5.2);
- communications you send to us, for example to report a problem or to submit queries, concerns or comments regarding the Site or its content; and
- information from surveys, promotions and competitions that we may, from time to time, run on the Site, if you choose to respond to, or participate in them.
2.2 You are under no obligation to provide any such information. However, if you should choose to withhold requested information, we may not be able to provide you with certain services or register you as a user of this Site.
3. Uses made of your personal information
3.1 We use the personal information you provide to:
- enable us to provide you with the services and information offered through the Site and which you request;
- service your mortgage including applying payments made via this Site;
- contact you requesting feedback on the Site and related issues;
- send you information we think you may find useful or which you have requested from us, including information about our products and services, provided you have indicated that you do not object to being contacted for these purposes (or provided you have agreed that we may, in the case of electronic communications).
3.2 You can tell us not to contact you with information regarding our products and services at any time by contacting us using the contacting us details at the end of this privacy policy.
4. Information about Cookies Including Third Party Cookies
4.1 The Site currently only uses session cookies and persistent cookies to store certain information. Cookies are text files that a website transfers to your computer's hard drive to store and sometimes track information about you. Session cookies do not permanently store information and are not transferred to your computer's hard drive. Persistent cookies are stored on your computer's hard drive for a set length of time and although these cookies identify your computer, again, they do not themselves personally identify users.
4.2 Although cookies do identify a user's computer they do not personally identify users and passwords are not stored in cookies. We use cookies, to:
- administer the Site and assist in diagnosing technical problems;
- identify new and return visitors to the Site;
- audit the accessing of resources and downloading of data from the Site;
- assist in improving and updating the Site; and/or
- assist in improving and developing our products and services.
Cookies that we use
| Cookie |
Name |
Type and Duration |
Purpose |
| Site cookie – used by Captcha security controls |
Asp.Net_Session |
Session (20 mins) |
Essential cookie used for customer registration, resetting passwords and contacting us |
| Site cookie – used for borrower authentication |
Acenden.Borrower |
Session (10 mins) |
Used for remembering the unique session identifier of the logged in customer |
| Google Analytics |
_utma |
Click here to find the duration of these cookies |
We use Google Analytics to collect information about how our website is being used. You can find out more about the cookies that Google Analytics saves on this page www.google.com/intl/en/privacypolicy.html
Google also give you the option to opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites.
Click here for an overview of privacy at Google
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| _utmb |
| _utmc |
| _utmz |
| _utmv |
4.3 Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but if you prefer, you can change your browser to prevent this and
your help screen or manual will tell you how to do this. You can learn more about cookies by visiting
http://www.allaboutcookies.org/
which includes useful information on cookies and how to block cookies using different types of browser. However,
you may not be able to take full advantage of the Site if you do so.
4.4 Third Party Cookies
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you follow a link, we are not responsible for the privacy policies of the other sites even if you access the links from the Website. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
4.5 How to withdraw your Consent to Cookies / removing Cookies
If you want to find out more about cookies and how to manage and delete cookies from your computer you may wish to visit www.allaboutcookies.org/
5. Information sharing
5.1 Payments are collected by third party payment providers, currently Trust Payments Limited
(www.trustpayments.com) and Sycurio Limited (sycurio.com)
on our behalf. We will pass your account details to these providers including your mortgage account number, amount of payment,
your name, address, telephone number and email address, in order to identify you and to process payments you wish to make.
5.2 In processing payments, Trust Payments and Sycurio will collect personal details from you including your card type, card number, issue number, security code, start and expiry dates. These details are held and processed securely by these providers, and are not shared with us.
5.3 We may share your information with:
- Analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimisation of our site.
- Credit reference agencies for the purpose of assessing your credit score where this is a condition of us entering into a contract with you.
5.4 We may disclose your personal information to third parties:
- In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.
- If we are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about you may be one of the transferred assets.
- If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of our company , our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
6. Security
6.1 We place great importance on the security of all personally identifiable information associated with our users.
We have security measures in place to protect against the risk of loss, misuse or alteration of personal information
under our control. Our security and privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary and only
authorised personnel have access to personal information. Whilst we cannot ensure or guarantee that loss, misuse
or alteration of information will never occur, we use all reasonable efforts to prevent it.
6.2 You should bear in mind that submission of information over the internet is never entirely secure. We cannot
guarantee the security of information you submit via the Site whilst it is in transit over the internet and any
such submission is at your own risk.
6.3 It is advisable to close your browser when you have finished your user session to help ensure others do not access
your personal information if you use a shared computer or a computer in a public place.
7. Storage of your information
7.1 Information that you submit via the Site is sent to and stored on secure servers located in the United Kingdom.
This is necessary in order to process the information.
7.2 Information submitted by you may be transferred by us to our other offices and/or to the third parties
mentioned in the circumstances set out above (see information sharing).
8. Your details
You must ensure that any registration details you provide are accurate. If you choose, or you are provided with,
a log-on ID (such as a username and password or other identifier) as part of our security procedures, you must
treat such information as confidential and must not reveal it to anyone else. You are responsible for all activities
that occur under your log-on ID and must notify us immediately of any unauthorised use or other security breach of
which you become aware. We reserve the right to disable any log-on ID, at any time, if in our opinion you have failed
to comply with any of the provisions of these terms and conditions or if any details you provide for the purposes of
registering as a user prove to be false.
9. Your Data, Your Rights
You may exercise several rights in relation to the data we process about you. These are:
9.1 You have a right to rectify any incorrect or inaccurate data – please let us know if you believe that we are using any inaccurate or incomplete personal data about you.
9.2 Under certain circumstances, as determined by the Data Protection Legislation, you may ask us to:
a. Erase the personal data we hold and use about you
b. Restrict the way in which we hold and use your personal data
c. Provide you with your data in a re-usable structure, or transmit this to another party at your request
d. Stop holding or using your data for specific reasons, including marketing
9.3 You also have the right to opt out of decision making that is based solely on automated processing (e.g. decisions taken solely by a computer) where the decision has a legal or otherwise significant effect on you.
If you would like to exercise any of the rights mentioned above or require further information in relation to the way in which we process your personal data please contact our Data Protection Officer at DPO@kmc.co.uk or write to us at The Data Protection Officer, Ascot House, Maidenhead Office Park, Maidenhead, SL6 3QQ.
Furthermore, you continue to have the right to access your personal data and be provided with certain information about the way we process your data. This includes the right to obtain a copy of the personal data we hold about you. This is free of charge. Your “Data Subject Access Request” can be submitted verbally over the phone with one of our customer services advisors, or by writing to Customer Services, Ascot House, Maidenhead Office Park, Maidenhead SL6 3QQ.
If you require any further information regarding any of the above points please contact us on 0333 300 0426 between the hours of 9am and 5.30pm, Monday to Friday.
Finally, you can find out more about your rights, how to exercise them, or refer any concerns you have to the Information Commissioner’s Office (www.ico.org.uk or call their helpline on 0303 123 1113).