Please read this information carefully. This legal notice applies to the entire contents of the Website under the domain name www.georgebanco.com (the "website") and to any correspondence by e-mail between you and us.
By accessing and using this site and any of its pages, you agree to be bound by the matters referred to below. If you do not accept this legal notice in full, you must leave this website immediately. Copyright © GeorgeBanco.com. All rights reserved.
George Banco and GeorgeBanco.com are trading styles of Everyday Lending Limited (Company Registration No. 5850869, whose registered address is; 1st Floor North, 2 Dukes Meadow, Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, SL8 5XF). Authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (Firm Reference No. 724445).
George Banco.com Ltd is a registered trademark and service mark of George Banco Ltd. George Banco.com Ltd and George Banco Ltd may also claim trademark and service mark rights in other marks contained in the pages of this site.
The information and materials contained in these pages - and the terms, conditions, and descriptions that appear - are subject to change. We reserve the right to revise this legal notice at any time by posting new terms and conditions on the website 14 days before the relevant change(s) take effect. The current terms and conditions displayed on this website are binding on you and the continued use of the website after any changes in respect to our terms and conditions constitutes your acceptance of these changes. If you do not wish to accept any changes you must not continue to use our website. It is your responsibility to check this website from time to time to review the current terms and conditions of this legal notice.
Our products and services are currently only available to residents of United Kingdom. Your eligibility for particular products and services is subject to our final approval.
We have tried to make the information on this website as clear and accurate as possible. However, we do not guarantee the accuracy, adequacy or completeness of the information and materials contained on this site and, to the extent permitted by law, are not responsible for errors or omissions in this information and materials.
In no event will we or any of our associated companies be liable for any damages, or expenses arising in connection with this site or use thereof or inability to use by any party, or in connection with any failure of performance, error, omission, interruption, defect, delay in operation or transmission, computer virus or line or system failure, even if we are advised of the possibility of such damages, losses or expenses.
Nothing in this legal notice shall exclude or limit our liability for:
Hyperlinks to other internet resources are entirely at your own risk. If you use these links, you leave this website. The content, accuracy, opinions expressed and other links provided by these resources are not investigated, verified, monitored, or endorsed by us.
All information submitted to us via this site (other than personally identifiable information which is covered by our privacy policy) shall be deemed and remain our property. We shall be free to use, for any purpose, any ideas, concepts, know-how or techniques contained in information a visitor to this site provides us through this site.
Any information (except personally identifiable information) submitted to the website shall be deemed to be non-confidential and non-proprietary. We shall have no obligations with respect to such information.
Everyday Lending Limited, trading as George Banco and GeorgeBanco.com, of 1st Floor North, 2 Dukes Meadow, Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, SL8 5XF (Company Registration No. 5850869), is the data controller responsible for your personal data.
George Banco Limited is part of the Non Standard Finance plc group of companies which includes Everyday Loans Limited, Everyday Lending Limited which trades as both Everyday Loans and Trust Two, and George Banco.Com Limited (“ELG”, the “NSF Group”, "we" and "us” as applicable).
These companies may share your personal data between them where necessary for administrative purposes, fraud prevention and to undertake work preparatory to entering into an agreement with you.
This notice sets out in clear and plain language our commitment to protecting and respecting your privacy and your data rights as required by the General Data Protection Regulation 2016 (the “GDPR”).
If there is anything you do not understand after reading it please contact us using the details you will find below.
Here is where we explain:
It applies whenever we collect your personal data (including when you use our website or other digital platforms), so please read it carefully.
Please note that this privacy policy forms part of our digital terms of use, which you can read here. By visiting www.georgebanco.com (“our site”) and continuing to click through you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this notice.
We update this policy periodically (it was last updated on 25 May 2018) so feel free to return to this page and read it again from time to time.
In order to operate our business and provide our products to our customers (including guarantors where product appropriate) we gather several different categories of personal data.
Some of this data we gather directly from you either online or via our staff during the loan application process and then afterwards during the term of the loan, some we obtain indirectly by reason of your interactions with us on our website and some from third party sources where you give us permission or it necessary to perform the contract or comply with a legal obligation such as credit references agencies, fraud prevention agencies, other companies within the NSF Group, your bank, any third party you might seek assistance form which contacts us on your behalf.
These categories of personal data include:
We are required to inform you of the purposes for which we use your personal data, the legal reasons for doing so and, if we rely on a so-called “legitimate interest” as a reason, to tell you what that legitimate interest is.
A legitimate interest reason for using your data is one which is justified for a good business or commercial purpose such as marketing.
| Why we use your personal information | Our reasons | Our legitimate interests | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Managing your relationship with us Developing new products and service to meet our customers’ needs Advertising our products and services |
Fulfilling contracts Legitimate interests Consent |
Product development. Informing you about our products and services which we think may interest you Asking your consent if we need it to contact you |
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| Managing our relationships with third parties that provide services to enable us to provide services to you |
Fulfilling contracts Legitimate interests Our legal duty |
Effectively fulfilling our legal and contractual duties | |
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Delivery of our products and services Management of customer payments Managing interest due on customer accounts Collection of money that is owed to us |
Fulfilling contracts Our legitimate interests Our legal duty |
Effectively fulfilling our legal and contractual duties | |
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Detection, investigation, reporting, and prevention of financial crime To manage risk for us and our customers To obey laws and regulations that apply to us Complaints handling |
Fulfilling contracts Our legitimate interests Our legal duty |
Developing methods to prevent financial crime Effectively fulfilling our legal and contractual duties |
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| Effectively operating our business by the management of our financial position, business capability, planning, communications, corporate governance, and audit |
Our legitimate interests Our legal duty |
Effectively fulfilling our legal and contractual duties |
If you are the borrower, we will share relevant data with the guarantor (where product appropriate). We may also share your personal data with any member of NSF Group and with the following categories of third party. Any such sharing data will be under a contract requiring compliance with rules protecting your privacy:
The personal information we have collected from you will be shared with fraud prevention agencies who will use it to prevent fraud and money-laundering and to verify your identity. If fraud is detected, you could be refused certain services, finance, or employment. Further details of how your information will be used by us and these fraud prevention agencies, and your data protection rights, can be found by clicking here.
The security of personal information about you is our priority. We protect this information by maintaining physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that meet or exceed applicable law. We train our employees in the proper handling of personal information. When we use other companies to provide services for us, we require them to protect the confidentiality of personal information they receive.
There has been an upsurge in email 'phishing' activity, where fraudsters send emails to customers and using an array of deceptions, encourage them to give out sensitive personal banking details. Please note, that we will never ask you to send your personal or security details or update them via email, and if you are ever asked to do so, please call us first.
If you have received a phishing email, we advise you to forward the email to [email protected] and we will investigate it.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION - We need to collect personal data from you for performance of a contract and for compliance with our legal obligations. You may refuse to provide us with your personal data at any time in our relationship because you object to such processing but if you do so we will not be able to provide you with credit or may have to terminate our relationship with you. If you do withdraw consent where we have asked for it this will not invalidate the use of your personal data prior to the withdrawal.
We may send your personal data outside the EU in order to enable us to perform the contract, comply with a legal obligation or where we have a legitimate interest in so doing. Currently we have one data processing relationship outside the EU with a South Africa processor. We ensure data security with this processor by means of a contract.
Before we send any personal data to an organisation outside the EU we will make sure it is protected to the same or similar standards as if it was being used within the EU by means of contracts between us and the overseas processor or in reliance on the EU Commission’s finding of that country having adequate data protection provisions in place.
If the personal data is processed in the USA we will ensure that the processor is subscribed to the Privacy Shield which establishes common privacy standards between the US and EU.
Prior to any loan (or guarantee) being agreed with you we will use your personal data to make automated decisions. This is done in order to determine whether we wish to enter into a contract with you and to determine your creditworthiness in the quickest, fairest and most legally compliant way using credit scoring and past payment history to predict future performance. We will also monitor your account using automated means for fraud detection and crime prevention purposes.
The automated decision may result in us declining your loan (or guarantee) application altogether or offering a lesser amount than that sought.
We regularly test our credit scoring model to ensure it is working appropriately and accurately.
If you are dissatisfied with the result of this automated processing you have the right to seek an explanation and request a person review the decision.
In order to process your application, we will perform credit and identity checks on you (and any guarantors) with one or more credit reference and fraud prevention agencies (“CR/FPAs”).
To do this, we will supply your personal information to CR/FPAs and they will give us information about you. This will include information from your application and about your financial situation and financial history. CR/FPAs 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:
We will continue to exchange information about you with CR/FPAs while you have a relationship with us. We will also inform the CR/FPAs about your settled accounts. If you borrow and do not repay in full and on time, CRA/FPs will record the outstanding debt. We will also report the guarantor (where product appropriate) in the event they do not repay the same after we request payment. This information may be supplied to other organisations by CR/FPAs.
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 we notify them of criminal activity on your account they will keep a record of this which may result in other organisations refusing to provide you with services or employment.
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, their role also as fraud prevention agencies, the data they hold, the ways in which they use and share personal information, data retention periods and your data protection rights with the CRAs are explained in more detail at callcredit.co.uk/crain and equifax.co.uk/crain and experian.co.uk/crain
You have a number of rights in respect of how we use your personal information:
If you are dissatisfied about how we have used your personal data you can contact us at [email protected] Alternatively, you also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office although they will ask you whether you have raised the matter with us beforehand. Find out how to report a concern on their website: ico.org.uk/concerns
We will process your personal data for either as long as you (or the guarantor) have a contractual relationship with us or you continue to owe us any repayments. If you stop being a customer after repaying your loan in full we will keep your personal data for no longer than 6 years. We do this because we are obliged to hold transactional data for 5 years by law and in order to answer any regulatory inquiries or respond to any complaints during this period.
Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of 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.
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We use the following session and persistent cookies:
These are cookies that are required for the operation of our site. They include, for example, cookies that enable you complete a loan application form on our site.
They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our site when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our site works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
These are used to recognise you when you return to our site. This enables us to personalise our content for you and remember your preferences.
These cookies record your visit to our site, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our site and any advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
| Cookie name | Purpose | |
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| Analytics.js | The analytics.js JavaScript library is part of Universal Analytics and uses first-party cookies to distinguish unique users and throttle the request rate. | |
| ga.js | The ga.js JavaScript library uses first-party cookies to: determine which domain to measure; distinguish unique users; throttle the request rate; remember the number and time of previous visits; remember traffic source information; determine the start and end of a session; and remember the value of visitor-level custom variables. | |
| _gat | This cookie enables us to throttle request rates. | |
| _ga | This cookie enables us to distinguish unique users. | |
| _utma | Used to distinguish users and sessions. The cookie is created when the JavaScript library executes and no existing __utma cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. | |
| _utmb | Used to determine new sessions/visits. The cookie is created when the JavaScript library executes and no existing __utmb cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. | |
| _utmz | Stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how you reached the site. The cookie is created when the JavaScript library executes and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. | |
| _utmv | Used to store visitor-level custom variable data. This cookie is created when a developer uses the _setCustomVar method with a visitor level custom variable. This cookie is also used for the deprecated _setVar method. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. | |
| _utmx | Used to determine your inclusion in an experiment. | |
| cookies-allowed | Records your response to the cookie acceptance message. | |
| lc_amount | Remembers your selected loan amount from the loan calculator and passes it through to the application form. | |
| lc_term | Remembers your selected loan term from the loan calculator and passes it through to the application form. | |
| seen-disclaimer | Records whether you have the representative APR banner open or closed. |
Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.
