Privacy policy

We’re the UK's largest retail network and the largest financial services chain in the UK with more branches than all of the UK’s banks and building societies put together.

Post Office Limited is registered in England and Wales. Registered Number 2154540. Registered Office: Finsbury Dials, 20 Finsbury Street, London, EC2Y 9AQ.

Post Office Management Services Limited is registered in England and Wales. Registered Number 08459718. Registered Office: Finsbury Dials, 20 Finsbury Street, London, EC2Y 9AQ

We have a Data Protection Officer who can be contacted at the address above or by sending an email to; data.protection@postoffice.co.uk.

We collect name and contact details (such as email, address and telephone number) when you submit an on line form, when requesting a quote or because you purchased a product or service from us or our Post Office partners. We may also collect opinions or additional data about you that you have added into the free text area in forms, through any resulting correspondence with our customer care teams, phone calls or through surveys.

We also collect additional relevant information about you when you apply for Post Office products and services and then gather information about how you use them. We need to collect this in order for you to benefit from the use of the product or service and if you do not, we would be unable to do this. Please see the individual policies for more details.

When visiting this website, we collect your IP address, data showing when you visited, which pages you looked at, information about your operating system, device and browser version. This data is gathered using commonly used tools such as cookies and web beacons.

Post Office compares information about you in our database with external sources and enriches the data we hold about you. This helps us tailor our communications with you and helps us only offer products and services that you would be interested in, if you have chosen to receive marketing. It also informs us of some changes, for example when email addresses are no longer valid or mail has been returned, so that we can stop sending marketing.

Where we have an obligation as a provider of Post Office products and services (for the ‘performance of a contract’)

• To provide you with the product or service that you have purchased from us. Please see individual Privacy Policies for more details about what this means.
   

Where we have your permission (‘consent’)

• To provide you with news about exciting offers and deals that we think will be interesting to you. We will only contact you in the ways you have given us permission to do so. You can change your mind at any time by completing a contact form or by calling 03457 22 33 44. You can also send an email to pol_marketpermissions@response-service.co.uk or write to Marketing Preference Team, Finsbury Dials, 20 Finsbury Street, London, EC2Y 9AQ.

Where we have a justifiable reason (‘legitimate interests’)

• To enhance or improve your experience with us. This may mean that we learn about your preferences and habits and then tailor our communications with you to make sure that what we send is relevant to you (‘profiling’).
• To put your information together with other customers data and external non personal information so that we better understand our market through analysis and segmentation to ensure that we keep offering competitive products and services and improve our website.
• To send you marketing materials where we can demonstrate a relationship with you and you have not told us that you do not want to receive these.
• To maintain our list of people who have asked not to receive direct marketing material from us.
• To help keep our website safe and secure.
• To allow our internal business processes to function- for example transacting with our partners, carrying out audits, producing management information and dealing with complaints.
• To undertake market research.
• To request feedback on our performance.
• To help prevent fraud and maintain security.
• To assist in training, quality assurance and compliance.

Where we have to do something by law (‘legal obligation’)

• To ensure that your rights are met under the UK Data Protection Act.
• To meet our obligations with law enforcement agencies, courts and other organisations.
• To comply with anti-money laundering regulations.

In exceptional circumstances (‘vital interests’)

• We may use your information in rare situations where vital interests of yourself or another person needs protecting, for example, to trace a missing person or if someone’s life could be in danger.

We do not sell your information to anyone and only pass it to our trusted partners and service providers who work with us to run our business. See individual privacy policies for more product specific details.

We may pass your information to:

• Service providers who work for us such as marketing agencies, marketing survey sites, website hosts, printers and in some cases our sub postmasters and retail agency partners.
• Our subsidiary companies who work for us in providing services.
• Regulatory bodies, courts and law enforcement agencies.
• Our partner companies to supply products or services and where there is a complaint or query.

How long we keep your personal information depends on why we have it and what we’re doing with it. See individual privacy policies for more product specific details.

• We keep records of any dealings you have with us or our partner companies for up to six years after the last contact. This is so that we can respond to any complaints or disputes that may arise.
• We will keep other personal information about you if it is necessary for us to do so to comply with the law.
• Data collected from using the website such as IP address is deleted after 28 days.

Your personal information may be processed outside the European Economic Area (EEA) where privacy laws may not provide protection to the same level as in the UK. Before any transfer takes place we will take steps to ensure that your personal information will be adequately protected as required by the UK Data Protection Act and that safeguards such as standard contractual clauses are in place. For more information please see the individual product or service policies or contact us.

In using this website, transacting in our branches and submitting queries, your information is able to be viewed from India and the Philippines by the service providers who run the platform on our behalf. Contracts are in place (known as an ‘EU Model Clause’) to allow the data to transfer so that your information is kept secure and managed to the standards required by the UK Data Protection Act.

Direct Marketing: You have the right to object to direct marketing. This is done by completing a contact form or by calling 03457 22 33 44. You can also send an email to pol_marketpermissions@response-service.co.uk or write to Marketing Preference Team, Finsbury Dials, 20 Finsbury Street, London, EC2Y 9AQ.

Consent: Where we use your information on this basis, you have the right to withdraw that consent.

Access: You can request a copy of all the personal information we hold about you and other data relating to how we use your information by contacting our Information Rights Team.

Correction (‘Right to Rectification’): We always want to use the most up to date information about you so please get in touch if you think we don’t have that.

Deletion (‘Right to be Forgotten’): In some circumstances, including where we are relying on your consent to use your data, you have a right to request us to delete your information.

‘Right to Portability’: If we have collected your data because you have given us consent, or because we need it in order to provide you with a product or service (under a contract), you have the right to receive the information you gave to us back in a ‘machine-readable’ format.

‘Right to Object’ and ‘Right to restriction of processing’: If we are using your data for activities under the ‘legitimate interest’ justification and in other circumstances, then you have a right to request restriction of processing and also a right to object to that processing.

Right to obtain human intervention where automated processing has taken place where consent has been given or under a contract and where the processing has a legal or similarly significant effect.

Complain: you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office if you think that our use of your information doesn’t meet the law. For more information, visit the ICO website.

Contact us
For further information about our privacy practices and to request any of these rights then please contact our Information Rights Team. To contact the team, you can:

• Write in: Post Office Information Rights Team, Finsbury Dials, 20 Finsbury Street, London EC2Y 9AQ.
• Email: information.rights@postoffice.co.uk.

We take the security of your personal information seriously. We've implemented technology and security policies, rules and measures to protect the personal information we have under our control, both on and offline, from improper access, use, alteration, destruction and loss.

We will take all reasonable and proportionate steps to protect your personal information.

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Updated on 11, May 2018.

To make it easier to find, here are links to some of our partners' privacy policies who help us provide our products to you. These are the responsibility of our partner companies and not the Post Office.

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International Payments