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These Terms of Business set out the general terms under which our firm will provide business services to you and the respective duties and responsibilities of both the firm and you in relation to such services. Please ensure that you read these terms thoroughly and if you have any queries we will be happy to clarify them. If any material changes are made to these terms we will notify you.
Breeze Insurance Ltd trading as Breeze Insurance (109879) is regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland as an insurance intermediary registered under the European Union (Insurance Distribution) Regulations 2018 and as an Investment Intermediary authorised under the Investment Intermediaries Act, 1995. Copies of our regulatory authorisations are available on request. The Central Bank of Ireland holds registers of regulated firms. You may contact the Central Bank of Ireland on 1890 777 777 or alternatively visit their website at www.centralbank.ie to verify our credentials.
Breeze Insurance Ltd trading as Breeze Insurance is subject to the Consumer Protection Code, Minimum Competency Code and Fitness & Probity Standards which offer protection to consumers. These Codes can be found on the Central Bank’s website www.centralbank.ie
Breeze Insurance Ltd. is a member of Brokers Ireland. Our principal business is to provide advice and arrange transactions on behalf of clients in relation to life & pensions and general insurance products. A full list of insurers, product producers and lending agencies with which we deal is available on request. Insurance Intermediary Services (except for Insurance based Investment Products (IBIPs)) We act as an Independent Broker which means that:
Fair and Personal Analysis The concept of fair and personal analysis describes the extent of the choice of products and providers offered by an intermediary within a particular category of life assurance, general insurance, mortgages, and/ or a specialist area. The number of contracts and providers considered must be sufficiently large to enable an intermediary to recommend a product that would be adequate to meet a client’s needs. The number of providers that constitutes ‘sufficiently large’ will vary depending on the number of providers operating in the market for a particular product or service and their relative importance in and share of that market. The extent of fair analysis must be such that could reasonably be expected of a professional conducting business, taking into account the accessibility of information and product placement to intermediaries and the cost of the search. In order to ensure that the number of contracts and providers is sufficiently large to constitute a fair and personal analysis of the market, we will consider the following criteria:
Investment Intermediary Services We are renumerated by commission for our investment intermediary services.
Insurance based Investment Products We are remunerated by commission for the advice we provide on our insurance based investment products.
Life & Pensions/Deposits & Life Wrapped Investments We provide life assurance and pensions on a fair and personal analysis basis i.e. providing services on the basis of a sufficiently large number of contracts and product producers available in the market to enable us to make a recommendation, in accordance with professional criteria, regarding which contract would be adequate to meet your needs. We will provide assistance to you for any queries you may have in relation to the policies or in the event of a claim during the life of the policy and we will explain to you the various restrictions, conditions and exclusions attached to your policy. However, it is your responsibility to read the policy documents, literature and brochures to ensure that you understand the nature of the policy cover; particularly in relation to PHI and serious illness policies. Specifically on the subject of permanent health insurance policies we will explain to you; a) the meaning of disability as defined in the policy; b) the benefits available under the policy; c) the general exclusions that apply to the policy; and d) the reductions applied to the benefit where there are disability payments from other sources. For a serious illness policy, we will explain clearly to you the restrictions, conditions and general exclusions that attach to that policy.
Non-Life We can provide advice on and arrange products from the following range: household, motor, commercial, public liability, employer liability, life/mortgage, travel, pet, and farm insurance. We provide general insurance on a fair and personal analysis basis (providing services on the basis of a sufficiently large number of contracts and product producers available in the market to enable the firm to make a recommendation, in accordance with professional criteria, regarding which contract would be adequate to meet your needs). In some cases we may be granted authority from an insurance undertaking to conduct tasks on their behalf, for which we will be remunerated. Where we place your business with this insurance undertaking under this authority you will be notified in advance of the placement. We will also offer assistance to you in relation to processing claims on policies taken out with us and in seeking renewal terms on your cover. To ensure continuity of cover, where you have an existing policy which is due to expire and where we have been unable to contact you, we may put continuing cover in force whilst awaiting your instruction. You will be liable for any premiums payable to the relevant insurer for the period of time between renewal and when we receive your instruction. You have the right not to avail of this service.
In accordance with the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (‘SFDR’), we inform you that when providing advice on insurance-based investment products/Investments, we do not assess, in addition to relevant financial risks, relevant sustainability risks as far as this information is available in relation the products proposed/advised on. This means that we do not assess environmental, social or governance events/conditions that, if they occur, could have a material negative impact on the value of the investment. Considering Principal Adverse Impacts on sustainability factors in the advice: When providing advice on insurance-based investment products (‘IBIPs’) or investment advice we do not consider the impacts of our advice that result in negative effects on sustainability factors (namely environmental, social and employee matters, respect for human rights, anti-corruption and anti-bribery matters), because currently there is limited relevant products on the market which meet these criteria. The area of sustainable is relatively new and as the issue progresses, we will review our position. The firm will review this approach on an annual basis in June.
We have not assessed the likely impacts of sustainability risks on the returns of Investment/Pensions since we have not been able to identify any sustainability risks that are relevant. We will reference information contained in the product documentation provided by the product manufacturer as and when made available to us.
We may earn our remuneration on the basis of fee, commission and any other type of remuneration, including a non-monetary benefit or on the basis of a combination of these methods. A non-monetary benefit will only be accepted if it enhances the quality of the service to our clients. You may choose to pay in full for our services by means of a fee. Where we receive recurring commission, this forms part of the remuneration for initial advice provided. We reserve the right to charge additional fees if the number of hours relating to on-going advice/assistance exceeds 2 hrs.
Life and Pensions You may elect to deal with us on a fee basis. Our hourly fees are outlined below and in such circumstances would be agreed in advance: Principles / Directors €110 p/hr Senior Advisers €75 p/hr Associates €55 p/hr Support staff €40 p/hr Additional fees may be payable for complex cases or to reflect value, specialist skills or urgency, our scale of fees for such cases range from a minimum of €75 per hour to a maximum of €110 per hour. We will notify you in advance and agree the scale of fees to be charged.
Investment Fees Principles / Directors €110 p/hr Senior Advisers €75 p/hr Associates €55 p/hr Support staff €40 p/hr Additional fees may be payable for complex cases or to reflect value, specialist skills or urgency, our scale of fees for such cases range from a minimum of €75 per hour to a maximum of €110 per hour. We will notify you in advance and agree the scale of fees to be charged.
Personal Retirement Savings Accounts (PRSAs) – Fees Where advice is requested for PRSAs, the following hourly fees will apply: Principles / Directors €110 p/hr
Senior Advisers €75 p/hr
Associates €55 p/hr
Support staff €40 p/hr
Additional fees may be payable for complex cases or to reflect value, specialist skills or urgency. We will notify you in advance of providing you with these services. Our scale of fees for such cases range from a minimum of €75 per hour to a maximum of €110 per hour. If we receive commission from a product provider, this will be offset against the fee which we will charge you. Where the commission is greater than the fee due, the commission will become the amount payable to the intermediary unless an arrangement to the contrary is made.
Clawback If we receive commission from a product provider [and off-set the commission against the fee which we would otherwise have charged you] but the commission is subsequently clawed-back by the provider because of early encashment by you or because of the transferring of the assets or business to another provider or in any circumstances consequent on your actions or omissions, we will charge a fee to you that is equal to 100% of the clawed-back commission. That fee will be owing in simple contract upon the claw-back of the commission.
Insurance Based Investment Products We will return to customers or offset against fees to be paid by the customer, any fees, commissions or non-monetary benefits paid or provided by any third party or person acting on behalf of a third party in relation to the services provided to that customer as soon as reasonably possible after receipt.
General Insurance We may be remunerated by commission from insurers on completion of business. Details of the commission arrangements are available on our website. Where an override commission is received, this will be disclosed to you in general terms.
| Initial Fee | Renewal Fee | Policy Alterations / Cancellation Fee | |
| Motor | Up to a max of €230 | Up to a max of €230 | Up to a max of €90 |
| Household | Up to a max of €230 | Up to a max of €230 | Up to a max of €90 |
| Commercial | Up to a max of 25% of premium | Up to a max of 25% of premium | Up to a max of 25% of premium |
| Fees are calculated depending on the complexity of the product and the amount of time spent assisting the Client with the Services. | |||
Life, Pensions and Investments
We reserve the right to amend these fees should the complexity of the product require a higher fee. We will confirm and agree this fee with you prior to any increased charge being applied. All such fees and charges are non-refundable in the event of policy alternation and/or cancellation. Any bank fees charged on unpaid cheques will be charged back to the client and are payable in full together with any other outstanding balance. An administration fee of up to 10% may be charged on premium finance arrangements. Fees of up to €20 may also be applied for duplicate documentation; both for existing and past clients, for advice provided, mortgages, life and pension policies arranged. In all circumstances, fees will be declared to the client in writing. Any third-party fees or charges that apply in connection with your policy will be included in the premium charged. The following fee table sets out our Schedule of Rates. These rates will be separately charged in the event that extraneous insurance consultation services are provided to our Client outwith the aforesaid circumstances.
| Director | €230 per hour |
| Consultant/Account Executive | €150 per hour |
| Qualified Financial Advisor | €110 per hour |
| Administration | €50 |
Claims handling: Depending on case. We will inform you of the amount of fee to be charged. Where it is not possible to provide the exact amount, we will provide you the method of calculation of the fee.
Investments The firm’s services does not include ongoing suitability assessments.
The firm’s services does not include ongoing suitability assessments.
It is in your best interests that you review, on a regular basis, the products which we have arranged for you. As your circumstances change, your needs will change which may result in you having insufficient insurance cover and/or inappropriate investments. We would therefore advise that you contact us to ensure that you are provided with up to date advice and products best suited to your needs.
It is the policy of our firm to avoid conflicts of interest in providing services to you. However, where an unavoidable conflict of interest arises we will advise you of this in writing before providing you with any service. A full copy of our conflicts of interest policy is available on request. In some cases, we may be a party to a profit-share arrangement with product producers where we provide extra services for the provider. Agreements to this effect are in place with the following: [NA currently]. Any business arranged with these providers on your behalf is placed with them as they are at the time of placement the most suitable to meet your requirements taking all relevant information, demands and needs into account.
We will exercise our legal rights to receive payments due to us from clients (fees and insurance premiums) for services provided. In particular, without limitation to the generality of the foregoing, the firm will seek reimbursement for all payments made to insurers on behalf of clients where the firm has acted in good faith in renewing a policy of insurance for the client. Product producers may withdraw benefits or cover in the event of default on payments due under policies of insurance or other products arranged for you. We would refer you to policy documents or product terms for the details of such provisions. Mortgage lenders may seek early repayment of a loan and interest if you default on your repayments. Your home is at risk if you do not maintain your agreed repayments.
Whilst we are happy to receive verbal complaints, it would be preferable that any complaints are made in writing. We will acknowledge your complaint in writing within 5 business days and we will fully investigate it. We shall investigate the complaint as swiftly as possible, and the complainant will receive an update on the complaint at intervals of not greater than 20 business days starting from the date on which the complaint is made. On completion of our investigation, we will provide you with a written report of the outcome. In the event that you are still dissatisfied with our handling of or response to your complaint, you are entitled to refer the matter to the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman (FSPO). A full copy of our complaints procedure is available on request.
We are subject to the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation 2018 and the Irish Data Protection Act 2018. Breeze Insurance Ltd trading as Breeze Insurance is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. We wish to be transparent on how we process your data and show you that we are accountable with the GDPR in relation to not only processing your data but ensuring you understand your rights as a client. The data will be processed only in ways compatible with the purposes for which it was given and as outlined in our Data Privacy Notice, this will be given to all our clients at the time of data collection. We will ensure that this Privacy Notice is easily accessible. Please refer to our website www.breezeinsurance.ie, if this medium is not suitable we will ensure you can easily receive a copy by hard copy, or telephonic environment. (pre-recorded). Please contact us at care@breezeinsurance.ie if you have any concerns about your personal data.
You are required to answer all questions posed by us or the insurer honestly and with reasonable care – the test will be that of the ‘average consumer’[1]. Before renewal of the contract of insurance, specific questions will be asked. Again, you will be required to answer honestly and with reasonable care. Where you do not provide additional information (after being requested to do so) it can be presumed that the information previously provided remains unchanged. Failure to answer all questions honestly and with reasonable care can result in the Insurer being able to rely on proportionate remedies for misrepresentation, which include but are not limited to the insurer voiding the contract of insurance. If a policy is cancelled by an insurer for any reason including payment default you may encounter difficulty in purchasing insurance in the future.
Completed proposal forms or Statements of Facts will be provided to you. These are important documents as they form the basis of insurance contract between the insurer and you the consumer. You should review and confirm that the answers contained within are true and accurate. You are under a duty to pay your premium within a reasonable time, or otherwise in accordance with the terms of the contract of insurance. A court of competent jurisdiction can reduce the pay-out to you if you are in breach of your duties under the Act, in proportion to the breach involved. Cancellation of a Contract of Insurance
If you have taken out a general insurance contract, and we have not met face to face during the process, you may cancel the contract by giving notice in writing to us within 14 days after the date you were informed the contract is on cover. If you have taken out a general insurance contract, and we have met face to face during the process, you may cancel the contract by giving notice in writing to the insurer within 14 working days after the date you were informed the contract is on cover. The giving of notice of cancellation by you will have the effect of releasing you from any further obligation arising from the contract of insurance. The insurer cannot impose any costs on you other than the cost of the premium for the period of cover. This right to cancel does not apply where, in respect of life insurance the contract is for a duration of six months or less, or in respect of general insurance, the duration of the contract is less than one month. Post-Contract Stage and Claims If, in respect of the insurance contract the insurer is not obliged to pay the full claim settlement amount until any repair, replacement or reinstatement work has been completed and specified documents for the work have been furnished to the insurer, the claim settlement deferment amount cannot exceed
An insurer may refuse a claim made by you under a contract of insurance where there is a change in the risk insured, including as described in an “alteration of risk” clause, and the circumstances have so changed that it has effectively changed the risk to one which the insurer has not agreed to cover. Any clause in a contract of insurance that refers to a “material change” will be interpreted as being a change that takes the risk outside what was in the reasonable contemplation of the both you and the insurer when the contract was concluded. You must cooperate with the insurer in an investigation of insured events including responding to reasonable requests for information in an honest and reasonably careful manner and must notify the insurer of the occurrence of an insured event in a reasonable time. You must notify the insurer of a claim within a reasonable time, or otherwise in accordance with the terms of the contract of insurance. If you become aware after a claim is made of information that would either support or prejudice the claim, you are under a duty to disclose it. (The insurer is under the same duty). If you make a false or misleading claim in any material respect (and know it to be false or misleading or consciously disregards whether it is) the insurer is entitled to refuse to pay and to terminate the contract. Where an insurer becomes aware that a consumer has made a fraudulent claim, they may notify the consumer advising that they are voiding the contract of insurance, and it will be treated as being terminated from the date of the submission of the fraudulent claim. The insurer may refuse all liability in respect of any claim made after the date of the fraudulent act, and the insurer is under no obligation to return any of the premiums paid under the contract.
It is essential that you should bring to our attention any material alteration in risk such as changes of address or use of premises. Any failure to disclose material information may invalidate your claim and render your policy void.
We are members of the Investor Compensation Scheme operated by the Investor Compensation Company Ltd. See below for details.
The Investor Compensation Act, 1998 provides for the establishment of a compensation scheme and the payment, in certain circumstances, of compensation to certain clients (known as eligible investors) of authorised investment firms, as defined in that Act. The Investor Compensation Company Ltd. (ICCL) was established under the 1998 Act to operate such a compensation scheme and our firm is a member of this scheme. Compensation may be payable where money or investment instruments owed or belonging to clients and held, administered or managed by the firm cannot be returned to those clients for the time being and where there is no reasonably foreseeable opportunity of the firm being able to do so. A right to compensation will arise only:
Where an entitlement to compensation is established, the compensation payable will be the lesser of:
For further information, contact the Investor Compensation Company Ltd. at (01) 224 4955.
We are also members of the Brokers Ireland Clients’ Compensation and Membership Benefits Scheme (BIC). Subject to the rules of the scheme the liabilities of its members firms up to a maximum of €100,000 per client (or €250,000 in aggregate) may be discharged by the fund on its behalf if the member firm is unable to do so, where the above detailed Investor Compensation Scheme has failed to adequately compensate any client of the member. Further details are available on request.
The following is a list of the main insurers with whom Breeze Insurance Ltd. trading as Breeze Insurance may and do conduct business. Please note that due to our governance process, these could change as and when a new product offering is reviewed: Insurers: AXA Aviva Insurance Ireland DAC, Zurich Insurance plc [1] Average consumer as per Directive No. 2005/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 May 2005 is reasonably well informed and reasonably observant and circumspect, taking into account social, cultural and linguistic factors.
By engaging with Breeze Insurance, you acknowledge and consent that any communications between you and us — including but not limited to telephone calls, video calls, emails, SMS messages, web chat, instant messaging, social media messages, or any other written or electronic communications — may be recorded, monitored, stored, and used for the purposes of staff training, quality assurance, regulatory compliance, record keeping, dispute resolution, and marketing (including the review and analysis of customer interactions to improve our products, services, and promotional materials).
We will, where practicable, inform you at the beginning of any call or interaction that recording or monitoring may take place. All recordings and stored communications will be kept securely and accessed only by authorised personnel in accordance with our data protection and confidentiality policies, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Data Protection Acts 1988–2018, and the Central Bank of Ireland’s Consumer Protection Code.
These recordings may be used to verify instructions, improve customer experience, train staff, ensure compliance with our obligations, and enhance our marketing activities in a way that protects your privacy. If you do not wish for a call or other communication to be recorded or used for these purposes, please inform us before or at the outset of your interaction so that we can arrange an alternative means of communication.
Your policy will not be placed in trust until Breeze has received a fully completed trust deed.
*Executive Income Protection is only available if the Policy Owner is a company registered in Ireland under the Companies Acts.
You must answer these questions honestly and in full. They are material to the underwriting of your policy and the calculation of the premium.
The answers you provide to the questions and the associated declarations will be used in the underwriting process to establish material
facts about you which influence the assessment and acceptance of cover, the setting of the terms, and the calculation of the premium. You
are obliged to respond to all of the questions posed by us in your application honestly and with reasonable care. If you don’t answer these
questions fully, honestly, to the best of your knowledge and with reasonable care, this may result (depending on the circumstances) in:
• delays in the processing of your claim;
• a reduction in the claim amount or refusal of a claim;
• the policy being treated as if it had been entered into on different terms; or
• the policy being cancelled from the start date (potentially without returning premiums) and with any subsequent claim not being paid.
You must tell us if there’s a change to anything that would affect any of the answers to these specific questions or any relevant additional
information in relation to this application, in the time after you’ve applied for your cover, but before your policy commences, such as a
change to your health, occupation, or leisure activities. If you don’t let us know about any changes affecting any of your answers before
policy commencement, then this may also result in the consequences set out in the bullet points in the above paragraph.
The Disability Act 2005 prohibits processing of genetic data in relation to insurance. Therefore you should not disclose any genetic
test or the results of any genetic test you may have had. You must however, tell us if you are having treatment or have had treatment
for, or are experiencing symptoms of a genetic condition. You will also be asked to give us full information about your family history,
including all genetic conditions.
The weight provided must be current and accurate. If you are currently pregnant, please tell us your weight immediately before your pregnancy
If you are a PEP, or a close relative or close associate of a PEP, we must apply enhanced customer due diligence procedures. You will be required to provide evidence of identity as part of your application. Further information and documentation will be requested, if required.
We are required to identify politically exposed persons (PEPs).
A PEP can be identified as having held one of the following prominent public functions within the last 12 months. Please note that the
below is a non-exhaustive list and if one has held any prominent position in any agency owned or controlled by the State then this should
be considered when determining if one is a PEP. In addition, a PEP may be a close relative or business associate of the following:
1. A specified official such as a head of state, head of government, government minister or deputy or assistant government minister.
2. A member of parliament, a similar legislative body or a member of the governing body of a political party.
3. A member of a supreme court, constitutional court or another high-level judicial body whose decisions are not typically subject to
appeal.
4. A member of a court of auditors or member of the board of a central bank.
5. An ambassador, chargé d’affaires (a diplomat who heads an embassy in the absence of the ambassador) or high-ranking officer in
the armed forces.
6. A member of an administrative, management or supervisory body of a state-owned enterprise.
7. A director, deputy director, member of the board or person performing the equivalent function in an international organisation.
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Most web browsers will accept cookies, but if you would prefer we did not collect data by this method, you can disable this function within your browser settings. If you want to delete any cookies that are already on your computer, please refer to the instructions for your file management software to locate the file or directory that stores cookies.
We may use cookies to:
Below, we have set out the four categories of cookies that we may use on our website.
These cookies are:
This website may also include third party cookies, which are cookies not set by Linehan & Co. Insurances Ltd trading as Breeze Insurance. In each of the four categories above, we have specified where third party cookies are used.
The following types of cookies may be used during your visit to our website:
These cookies are essential to enable you to move around a website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the website. Without these cookies, services you have asked for, such as obtaining a quote, cannot be provided.
These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you have been on the internet.
These cookies will be reviewed on a quarterly basis.
These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. They also allow us to record and count the number of visitors to the website, all of which enables us to see how visitors use the website to improve the way that our website works. These cookies do not collect information that identifies a visitor, as all information these cookies collect is anonymous and is only used to improve how our website works.
| Cookie | Purpose of Cookie |
| Campaign | User campaign reference. |
| Url Referrer | User URL referrer. |
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Information on deleting or controlling cookies is available at www.allaboutcookies.org.
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Linehan & Co. Insurances Ltd trading as Breeze Insurance is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. We wish to be transparent on how we process your data and show you that we are accountable with the GDPR in relation to not only processing your data but ensuring you understand your rights.
For the purposes of the GDPR the data controller is Linehan & Co. Insurances Ltd trading as Breeze Insurance. Our contact details are:
When we refer to we/us, we mean Linehan & Co. Insurances Ltd trading as Breeze Insurance.
Please read this Privacy Notice carefully as this sets out the basis on which any personal data, we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us.
We are a digitally led Irish based insurance intermediary providing general and life insurances intermediary services. We retain a focus on delivering best in class customer service, coupled with providing our clients with great products offered by our diverse panel of insurers.
Our GDPR Owner can be contacted directly here:
The information we collect about you includes the following:
| 1. | Contact and Identifying information, e.g., name, address, contact details; email, mobile, landline |
| 2. | Unique identifiers e.g.
· PPS number – the reason why we collect your PPS number is to assist with providing services in connection with life insurance products that we sell whereby the insurer mandates the collection of such information, or otherwise. · pension scheme reference number- the reason why we collect this is for use when we sell life insurance related products · insurance policy numbers, the reason why we collect this is to be able to reference this policy is we need to communicate with agents or providers of existing policies you might have, given your consent. |
| 3. | Demographic details, age, gender, marital status, lifestyle, and insurance requirements; date of birth, dependents, photo ID, as well as collecting personal information about you, we may also use personal information about other people, for example family members you wish to insure on a policy. E.g., your children/spouse |
| 4. | Family and Beneficiary Data, e.g., dependants, next of kin or nominated beneficiaries, Power of Attorney, Enduring Power of Attorney. Details of Solicitor/Tax Advisor/Accountant. |
| 5. | Employment information e.g., role, employment status (such as full/part time, contract), salary information, employment benefits, and employment history;
This information is necessary for our Fact Find with our clients. |
| 6. | Publicly available sources: e.g., Information about you in the public domain such as Director information from the Companies Registration Office. |
| 7. | Health information such as information about your health status, medical records and medical assessment outcomes; We collect medical information relating to personal habits (e.g., smoking and consumption of alcohol), medical history. We may also process certain special categories of information, for example information about your personal characteristics (biometric information) or disability information. This information may be collected for the benefit of us proving insurances in the form of Life cover, health insurance, etc. |
| 8. | Pensions and Insurance Benefits information such as current benefits, pension entitlement information, date of retirement and any relevant matters impacting your benefits such as voluntary contributions, PAO, etc. |
| 9. | Financial details e.g., bank account details, details of your credit history and bankruptcy status, salary, tax code, third-party deductions, bonus payments, benefits and entitlement data, national insurance contributions details, etc. |
| 10. | Claims Data (From you and any relevant third parties) |
| 11. | Marketing preferences: we will only send you direct marketing if you explicitly consent, either through our website, by phone, email or written correspondence. |
| 12. | Online information: e.g., information about your visits to our websites; please refer to our Cookies Notice at the footer of our webpage for further information. |
| 13. | Events information e.g., information about your interest in and attendance at our events, including provision of feedback forms; |
| 14. | Social media information (e.g., likes and posts) with our social media presence; this includes LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram |
| 15. | Criminal records information e.g., the existence of or alleged criminal offences, or confirmation of clean criminal records for motor products. |
When our organisation collects sensitive personal data as defined within the GDPR we will ensure that we require this information, and we have your explicit consent and/or authorisation prior to our collection. Please see the further information contained in this Privacy Notice that outlines special categories of personal data.
We sometimes automatically collect certain types of information when you visit our websites and through e-mails when we communicate with you. Automated technologies may include the use of web server logs to collect IP addresses, “cookies” and web beacons. Other cookies such as functional cookies, marketing cookies and analytical cookies will only be used with your expressed consent. Further information about our use of cookies can be found in our Cookie Notice at the footer of our web page, here.
Your Personal Data will be used to enable us to fulfil our contractual obligations in relation to your request for insurance, investment, protection, pension products, independent financial advice, quotes.
| 1. | Performing services for our clients and prospective clients – when you require insurance/investment products, we use your data to enable us to provide the required product |
| 2. | Statutory and other regulatory requirements – we are required to carry out various obligations which include: · AML/Sanction checking
· Knowing your customer “Fact Find” · Adherence to the Consumer Protection Code |
| 3. | Communicate and marketing to you – We do this by phone, through email, Google Ad services, Bing Ad services, Social Channels (LinkedIn, Facebook & Instagram). |
| 4. | Process claims – We do this by gathering information relative to the claim by sending you our Claims Form and asking that you fill this in and return it to us for onward issue to the relevant insurer. |
| 5. | To contact you if required or to respond to any communications that you might send to us. |
| 6. | To administer our site including data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes. |
| 7. | Carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered between you and us and to provide you with the information, products and services that you request. |
| 10 | Handling complaints Please refer to a our Complaints Handling Procedure here for further details. |
| 11 | To notify you about changes to our services |
| Legal Basis
We need to ensure that we process your personal data lawfully. We rely on the following legal grounds to collect and use your personal data.
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If you require further information on any of the above basis for processing your data, we can provide you with further details.
When required, we may make your information available to third parties with whom we have a relationship, where that third party is providing services on our behalf. We will only provide those third parties (data processors) with information that is necessary for them to perform the services. We will take measures to protect your information, such as putting in place Standard Contractual Clauses and confidentiality agreements.
| 1. | Insurance Partners where we need to manage the services provided to you such as Product Providers and insurance underwriters, reinsurers, and loss adjuster. You can refer to their privacy statements on their website for more information about their privacy practices. |
| 2. | Vetting and risk management agencies such as credit reference, criminal record, fraud prevention, data validation and other professional advisory agencies, where necessary to prevent and detect fraud in the insurance industry and take steps to assess the risk in relation to prospective or existing insurance policies and/or the services. |
| 3. | Legal advisers, loss adjusters, and claims investigators, where necessary to investigate, exercise or defend legal claims, insurance claims or other claims of a similar nature; |
| 4. | Medical professionals, e.g., where you provide health information in connection with a claim against your insurance policy; or when we are providing a quote for insurance. |
| 5. | EU Law enforcement bodies, when required to do so by law and/or regulation, or another legal request. |
| 6. | Public authorities, regulators and government bodies, where necessary for us to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations, or in connection with an investigation of suspected or actual illegal activity; |
| 7. | Third-party processors: We outsource our processing operations to suppliers that process personal information on our behalf. Examples include IT service providers who manage our IT and back-office systems and telecommunications networks, and accounting and payroll providers, CRM providers.
These processing operations remain under our control and we have data processing agreements in place with all our third party processors to ensure all processing is carried out in accordance with our security standards and the GDPR. |
| 8. | Internal and external auditors where necessary for the conduct of company audits or to investigate a complaint or security threat. |
| 9. | On the sale or reorganisation of our business whether by asset or share disposal or other transaction relating to our business. |
The security of your personal data is important to us, we have implemented appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk. We have processes in place to protect your personal data from loss, unauthorised access, misuse, alteration and destruction.
Linehan & Co. Insurances Ltd trading as Breeze Insurance shall not keep personal data in a form that permits identification of data subjects for a longer period than is necessary.
Linehan & Co. Insurances Ltd trading as Breeze Insurance may store data for longer periods if the personal data will be processed solely for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes, subject to the implementation of appropriate technical and organisational measures to safeguard the rights and freedoms of the data subject.
The retention period for each category of personal data will be set out in our Retention Schedule along with the criteria used to determine this period, including any statutory obligations we have.
Personal data will be disposed of securely.
If you hold insurance against a liability that may be incurred by you against a third party, where for whatever reason you cannot be found or you become insolvent, or the court finds it just and equitable to so order, then your rights under the contract will be transferred to and vest in the third party even though they are not a party to the contract of insurance. The third party has a right to recover from the insurer the amount of any loss suffered by them. Where the third party reasonably believes that you as policyholder have incurred a liability the third party will be entitled to seek and obtain information from the insurer or from any other person, who is able to provide it including Linehan & Co. Insurances Ltd trading as Breeze Insurance concerning:
Linehan & Co. Insurances Ltd trading as Breeze Insurance will facilitate your rights in line with our data protection policy and the Subject Access Request procedure. This is available on request.
All the above requests will be forwarded on, should there be a third party involved, as we have indicated in the processing of your personal data.
If you wish to make a complaint about how your personal data is being processed by Linehan & Co. Insurances Ltd trading as Breeze Insurance or how your complaint has been handled, you have the right to lodge a complaint with our GDPR Owner.
If we are collecting your data for a contract and you cannot provide this data, the consequences of this could mean the contract cannot be completed or details are incorrect.
When you fail to provide us with information we require to fulfil our obligations to you, we may be unable to offer our services to you.
An automated decision is when we input your personal data into a computer programme and this programme analyses your personal data to provide us with a result. There is no human involvement in the decision making. An example of this is our use of Applied Systems eQuote and Relay software to facilitate the generation of quotations from our insurance panel. If a decision is taken by automated means, you have the right to object to this and ask us to reconsider the service you have asked us to provide.
Special categories of data are sensitive in relation to your fundamental rights and freedoms and therefore require specific protection when processed as these could create significant risks to the rights and freedoms of individuals.
If we collect any special categories of personal data, such as health data, we will either obtain your explicit consent or we will adhere to the Data Protection Act 2018. This Act allows us to process special categories of personal data for insurance and pension purposes. We will ensure we have suitable and specific measures in place to safeguard the rights and freedoms of you and the processing of your data. These measures relate to the below:
Your privacy is important to us. If you have any comments or questions regarding this statement, please contact us on:
When we update this Privacy Notice/Statement, we will post a revised version online. Changes will be effective from the point at which they are posted. We would encourage you to review our Privacy Notice so that you are aware of updates.