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Privacy Policy

Affinity Financial Management Limited, trading as Affinity Financial, is committed to protecting your privacy and to handling your personal information openly and carefully. This notice explains what information we collect when you contact us or use our website, how we use it, who we share it with and the rights you have over it.

For the purposes of data protection law, the data controller is Affinity Financial Management Limited (company number 12455102), 14 Museum Place, Cardiff, CF10 3BH. We are authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority, firm reference number 1023412.

The Information We Collect

Depending on how you deal with us, we may collect:

  • Contact details such as your name, address, telephone number and email address.
  • Information you give us through our website contact form, or by telephone, email or post.
  • Financial information needed to advise you, such as your income, expenditure, assets, liabilities and existing policies and plans.
  • Information about your circumstances and objectives, for example your family situation, employment and financial goals.
  • Where you ask us to advise on protection, life cover or similar products, information about your health and lifestyle. This is treated as special category data and is handled with particular care.
  • Technical information collected automatically when you use our website, such as your IP address, browser type, operating system and the pages you view. There is more detail in our cookie policy.

How We Collect Your Information

We collect most of this information directly from you when you enquire, meet with us or become a client. We may also receive information from third parties acting on your behalf or with your permission, such as lenders, product providers, your accountant or your solicitor. Some technical information is collected automatically by our website through cookies and similar technologies.

How & Why We Use Your Information

We only use your information where the law allows us to. The main reasons we process your data, and the lawful bases we rely on, are set out below.

  • To respond to your enquiry. When you contact us through the website or otherwise, we use your details to reply and to answer any further questions. This is based on your consent, or on taking steps at your request before entering into a contract.
  • To provide advice and arrange products. Where you become a client, we use your information to research the market, give suitable advice and arrange and administer any products you choose. This is necessary for the performance of our contract with you.
  • To meet our legal and regulatory obligations. As a firm authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority, we are required to verify identity, keep records and report certain information. This is necessary to comply with our legal obligations.
  • For our legitimate business interests. We use limited information to run and improve our business, to keep our website secure and, where appropriate, to tell you about services that may be relevant to you. We only do this where your interests and rights do not override ours.

Where we rely on your consent, for example to process health information or to send you marketing, you can withdraw that consent at any time by contacting us.

Sharing Your Information

We do not sell your information, and we do not share it with anyone for their own marketing. We may share your information with:

  • Lenders, insurers, investment and pension providers, in order to arrange and administer the products you have chosen.
  • Service providers who support our business, such as our IT, customer management and email providers, who act only on our instructions.
  • The Financial Conduct Authority and other regulators, and bodies such as HM Revenue and Customs, where we are required to do so.
  • Fraud prevention and credit reference agencies, where this is necessary to arrange lending or to prevent fraud.
  • Your professional advisers, such as your accountant or solicitor, where you have asked us to.

Anyone we share your information with is required to keep it secure and to use it only for the purpose we have set.

Sending Information Outside The UK

Your information is normally stored and processed within the United Kingdom. Where a provider or service we use processes data outside the UK, we take steps to make sure it is protected by appropriate safeguards recognised under UK data protection law.

How Long We Keep Your Information

We keep your information only for as long as we need it. Because we are a regulated financial services firm, we are required to retain client records for a period after our relationship ends, generally at least six years, and longer for certain products such as pensions and investments, in line with regulatory and legal requirements. When we no longer need your information, we delete or anonymise it securely.

Keeping Your Information Secure

We take the security of your information seriously and use appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect it. Our website uses SSL or TLS encryption, which you can recognise by the padlock symbol and the “https” at the start of the web address, so that information you send us through the site cannot easily be read by others. No method of transmission over the internet is completely secure, so while we protect your information as far as we reasonably can, we cannot guarantee the security of data sent to us electronically.

Your Rights

Under data protection law, you have a number of rights over your personal information. You can ask us to:

  • Give you access to the information we hold about you.
  • Correct information that is wrong or incomplete.
  • Delete information where there is no good reason for us to keep it.
  • Restrict or object to how we use your information.
  • Provide your information to you or to another organisation in a portable format, where that right applies.

You can also withdraw any consent you have given at any time. There is normally no charge for exercising these rights, and we will respond within the time limits set by law. To make a request, please contact us using the details below.

Marketing

We will only send you marketing where you have agreed to receive it, or where we are otherwise permitted to. You can ask us to stop at any time by contacting us, or by using the unsubscribe option in any email we send.

Cookies

Our website uses cookies and similar technologies. You can read about the cookies we use, and how to manage them, in our cookie policy.

Changes To This Notice

We may update this notice from time to time. Any changes will be published on this page, so please check it occasionally. This version was last updated in July 2026.

How To Contact Us

If you have any questions about this notice or about how we use your information, or if you wish to exercise any of your rights, please contact us:

If you are not happy with how we have handled your information, you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office, the UK regulator for data protection. You can contact the ICO at ico.org.uk or on 0303 123 1113. We would ask that you contact us first, so that we have the opportunity to put things right.