Our Privacy Policy
Healey Fox Ltd respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy notice will inform you as to how we look after your personal data and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects to you.
- About Us
- The Data We Collect About You
- How Is Your Personal Data Collected
- How We Use Your Personal Data
- Disclosures of Your Personal Data
- International Transfers
- Data Security
- Data Retention
- Your Legal Rights
- Glossary
About Us:
Healey Fox are a UK registered company that markets properties for sale from handpicked English-speaking French estate agents as well as from private vendors. All our associate agencies are registered and licensed in France.
We also have established strategic partnerships with other professionals who can assist with French mortgages, relocation services, insurance, legal services and more.
There are no additional charges when using Healey Fox. You pay the same price for the property as you would if buying directly from the French agent. The bonus for you, as a buyer, is that you have the added benefit of a UK based team who can advise and recommend suitable areas according to your property and lifestyle needs, and who in one call can arrange viewings with multiple agents. No, we do not do all of this for free, it is the French agent who shares commission with us for our work in ensuring that potential buyers are going to the right part of France with the right expectations to view the property of their dreams.
Healey Fox FX is the currency exchange department of Healey Fox Ltd, and we have been specialising in French and overseas property since 2009.
Healey Fox FX provides a fast and secure currency exchange and international transfer service for overseas property buyers and sellers.
Contact Details
E-Mail: info@healeyfox.com
Tel: +44 (0)1869 226350
Phone Lines Are Open: Monday to Friday 9:00am – 17:00
Closed Bank Holidays Registered Address: Office 3, Perch, Franklins House, Wesley Lane, Bicester, OX26 6JU
Registered Company: Healey Fox Ltd
You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please contact us in the first instance.
Changes to the privacy notice and your duty to inform us of changes
It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.
Third-party links
The Healey Fox website and emails may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.
We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
- Direct interactions. You may give us data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise.
- Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs and other similar technologies. We may also receive Technical Data about you if you visit other websites employing our cookies.
- Third parties or publicly available sources. We may receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources such as:
- analytics providers such as Google based outside the EU;
- social media services
- advertising networks; and
- search information providers
Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).
We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together follows:
- Identity Data includes first name, maiden name, last name, username or similar identifier, marital status, title
- Contact Data includes billing address, delivery address, email address and telephone numbers.
- Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences
- Transaction Data includes details about payments to and from you and other details of products and services you have purchased from us.
- Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to interact with or access this website.
- Profile Data includes your client identification number, purchases or orders made by you, your interests, preferences, feedback and survey responses.
- Usage Data includes information about how you use our website, products and services.
We also collect, use and share Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated Data may be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your Usage Data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website feature. However, if we combine or connect Aggregated Data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this privacy notice.
We do not collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.
If you fail to provide personal data
Where we need to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with you and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you (for example, to provide you with services). In this case, we may have to cancel a service you have with us but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
- Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you
- Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
- Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.
We rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data in relation to sending direct marketing communications to you via email or text message. Where you have placed a request with us by completing a form at on the website, at events, seminars and exhibitions or purchased our services we consider that you have an interest in those products or services and similar products or services offered by or through us, and we are permitted under data protection legislation to send those communications to you. We comply with data protection legislation in our electronic marketing and you have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by emailing the data protection manager at dan@healeyfox.com
Purposes for which we will use your personal data
– To assist with specific property enquiries you have made, which will include sharing data with our local agents in France who work under contract with Healey Fox.
– To put you in touch with our third-party foreign partner when consent has been given.
– To put you in touch with our third-party French mortgage partner when consent has been given.
– To provide currency exchanges services if applicable.
Marketing
We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly around marketing and advertising:
Promotional offers from us
We may use your Identity, Contact, Technical, Usage and Profile Data to form a view on what we think you may want or need, or what may be of interest to you. This is how we decide which products, services and offers may be relevant for you (we call this marketing).
You will receive marketing communications from us if you have requested information from us and opted in to our marketing emails.
Third-party marketing
When you request information on products, services or properties provided by our commercial partners via Healey Fox, we will pass your personal data on to them and they may contact you regarding those products, services or properties. We will get your express opt-in consent before we share personal data provided for that purpose with any other company or organisation (other than ourselves) for marketing purposes.
We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to get an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please contact us.
If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.
Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.
If you enquire about a product or service located outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”) – for example, in the USA, your personal data will be provided to the commercial partner. We may also from time to time offer information, products or services from partners outside the EEA in relation to products or services in their country or location. In each case, this will involve transferring your data outside the UK or European Economic Area (EEA).
In many cases where you submit an enquiry about products, services or properties offered by a commercial partner (such as a real estate professional) outside of the UK or EEA, we may be unable to ensure a similar degree of protection for your personal data as exists within the UK or EEA. In these situations, we transmit your personal data directly to the commercial partner at your request and on your behalf . Separately, we may also use the data provided by you for our own business purposes, as set out in this Privacy Notice.
- We will only transfer your personal data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data by the UK or European Commission.
- Where we use certain service providers, we may use specific contracts approved by the UK or European Commission which give personal data the same protection it has in the UK or Europe.
- Where we use providers based in the US, we may transfer data to them if they are part of the Privacy Shield which requires them to provide similar protection to personal data shared between the UK, Europe and the US. For further details, see European Commission: EU-US Privacy Shield.
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
How long will you use my personal data for?
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
By law we have to keep basic information about our customers (including Contact, Identity, and Transaction Data) for six years after they cease being customers for tax purposes.
In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data: see Request erasure below for further information.
In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.
CURRENCY EXCHANGE DATA RETENTION PERIOD
All data collected by the Client in relation to Currencycloud is retained for a period of five years, and this is measured from the date of trade execution or five years from the date that the customer ends its business relationships with Currencycloud. The minimum data we keep is as follows:
1. Customer due diligence information (for OKYC clients);
2. Customer communication information, including phone calls and emails;
3. Internal communication pertaining to customers;
4. Information pertaining to customer complaints; and
5. Any other information relating to provision of Currencycloud services to customers.
Currencycloud are required by our regulators to be able to evidence compliance with a wide range of regulatory rules for this period of five years.
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data.
- Request access to your personal data.
- Request correction of your personal data.
- Request erasure of your personal data.
- Object to processing of your personal data.
- Request restriction of processing your personal data.
- Request transfer of your personal data.
- Right to withdraw consent
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us.
No fee usually required
You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.
What we may need from you
We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.
Time limit to respond
We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.
Lawful Basis
Legitimate Interest means the interest of our business in conducting and managing our business to enable us to give you the best service/product and the best and most secure experience. We make sure we consider and balance any potential impact on you (both positive and negative) and your rights before we process your personal data for our legitimate interests. We do not use your personal data for activities where our interests are overridden by the impact on you (unless we have your consent or are otherwise required or permitted to by law). You can obtain further information about how we assess our legitimate interests against any potential impact on you in respect of specific activities by contacting us
Performance of Contract means processing your data where it is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party or to take steps at your request before entering into such a contract.
Comply with a legal or regulatory obligation means processing your personal data where it is necessary for compliance with a legal or regulatory obligation that we are subject to.
Third Parties
External Third Parties
- Professional advisers acting as processors or joint controllers including lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance and accounting services.
- HM Revenue & Customs, regulators and other authorities, who may act as processors or joint controllers, based in the United Kingdom (or abroad, in relation to properties, products or services located abroad) who require reporting of processing activities in certain circumstances.
- Commercial partners offering properties, or products, services or information related to properties, including real estate agents, property developers, private sellers, lawyers and notaries, mortgage and financial services companies, event organisers, media and marketing companies.
Your Legal Rights
You have the right to:
Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a “data subject access request”). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.
Request erasure of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your personal data to comply with local law. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.
Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes. In some cases, we may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your information which override your rights and freedoms.
Request restriction of processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in the following scenarios: (a) if you want us to establish the data’s accuracy; (b) where our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it; (c) where you need us to hold the data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or (d) you have objected to our use of your data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.
Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party. We will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.
Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.
