HOME PRODUCTS WHAT'S NEXT NEWS CONTACT US PEN-UNDERWRITING > PRIVACY AND COOKIES POLICY Privacy And Cookies Policy Privacy and Cookies Policy We committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This policy (together with our terms of use set out in the Legal & Regulatory Information and any other documents referred to on it) sets out the basis on which we will process any personal data we collect from you or that you provide to us, via our website www.penunderwriting.co.uk (the “site”). Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. By using our site, you indicate that you accept these terms and that you agree to abide by them. If you do not agree to these terms of use, please refrain from using our site. Any personal information you supply to us via the site will be treated in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 (the “Act”) and other legislation intended to protect your personal information and privacy. Wherever the name “Pen Underwriting” or the words “we” or “our” are used on the site, this implies one or more companies within the Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. group that are outside of the United States, which may offer products or services on the site. Please refer to the Legal & Regulatory Information document for more information about Pen Underwriting. 1. INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT FROM YOU 1.1 We may collect and process the following data about you: (a) Information that you provide by filling in forms on our site www.penunderwriting.co.uk. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with the site. (b) If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence. 2. IP ADDRESSES AND COOKIES 2.1 We may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers. This is statistical data about our users' browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual. 2.2 For the same reason, we may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive. They help us to improve our site and to deliver a better and more personalised service. They enable us: (a) To estimate our audience size and usage pattern. (b) To store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise our site according to your individual interests. (c) To speed up your searches. (d) To recognise you when you return to our site. 2.3 You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which may allow you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our site. 3. WHERE WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL DATA 3.1 The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. Such staff maybe engaged in, among other things the provision of support services. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy. 3.2 If applicable, where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone. 3.3 Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access. 4. USES MADE OF THE INFORMATION 4.1 We may use information held about you in the following ways: (a) to ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer. (b) to provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes. (c) if applicable, to allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so. (d) to notify you about changes to our service. (e) to safe-guard against fraud and money laundering. 5. DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION 5.1 We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries, as defined in section 1159 of the UK Companies Act 2006. 5.2 We may disclose your personal information to third parties: (a) 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. (b) if any Pen Underwriting company or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets. (c) if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal or regulatory obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use set out in the Legal & Regulatory Information document and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Pen Underwriting, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction. 6. YOUR RIGHTS 6.1 You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data. 6.2 Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of other companies in the Arthur J. Gallagher & Co group, our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites. 7. ACCESS TO INFORMATION 7.1 The Act gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. Any access request may be subject to a fee of £10 to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you. 8. CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY 8.1 We may revise the privacy policy at any time by amending this page. You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we make, as they are binding on you. 9.1 If you have any questions concerning our use of your personal data, or you would like us to check, amend or update the personal data we hold about you, please Contact Us. © PEN UNDERWRITING LIMITED 2015. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. LEGAL AND REGULATORY INFORMATION PRIVACY & COOKIES POLICY