Terms and Conditions
PERSONAL DETAILS AND DATA PRIVACY
Data Protection
Your privacy is important to us, we have a strict confidentiality policy and do not share your contact details.
The personal details which you submit to us (Personal Data) are held by Open Annuities and Portal Financial LLP for their own use. It is your responsibility to ensure that your Personal Data is accurate and up to date and to inform us of any changes that need to be made. Open Annuities may use the Personal Data for the purposes they have notified to the Information Commissioners Office. By submitting your Personal Data you CONSENT to it being processed by Open Annuities.
I/we confirm that I/we have the consent of any third party whose details I/we may disclose to Open Annuities ("You") to disclose such details and to authorise You and the third parties referred to in the paragraph below to process such details for the purposes of assessing my/our application and administering and enforcing any subsequent financial service which may be granted to me/us.
I/we agree that You and any adviser resulting from this application (the "adviser") shall be entitled to use and process, by any medium, the information given by me/us in this enquiry form and any other information about me/us which may be acquired during the lifetime of any enquiry ("the Data") for the following purposes:-
i. to provide the Data to and search the files of one or more credit reference or fraud prevention agencies whether before, or during the lifetime of any financial service granted to me/us by the adviser, who will keep a record of such search, to confirm the Data, and for the purposes of credit assessment or account administration. I/we understand that You and /or the adviser will record false or inaccurate information if this is given by me/us and fraud is suspected.
ii. to disclose the Data to any other company within the adviser's group of companies and/or to any third parties (insurers for example) at any time for the purposes of assessing my/our application and administering and enforcing any subsequent financial service whether during the course of my/our application or during the lifetime of any financial service granted pursuant to such application;
iii. to disclose the Data to any third party who replaces or who may replace my/our adviser.
PREVENTION OF MONEY LAUNDERING
The adviser and other organisations may use and search the records of credit reference or fraud prevention agencies to check your identity to prevent money laundering, unless you have furnished other satisfactory proof of identity.
ACCESS TO AND REMOVAL OF DATA WE MAY HOLD ABOUT YOU
You can ask us, in writing for details of what personal data we hold about you. Upon receipt of such a written request and proof of your identity, we will provide you with a readable copy of the personal data which we keep about you. We will do this within a month, and reserve the right to charge you £10 for this information. We allow you to challenge the data that we hold about you and, where appropriate, you may have the data: erased/rectified or amended/completed. We don't reserve the right to refuse to provide you with a copy of your personal data.
Portal Financial's Data Controller is Paul Wheal. You may write to him at Portal Financial, Portal House, Sunderland Quay, Rochester, Kent ME2 4HN
GOVERNING LAW
Any such contract will be interpreted, construed and enforced in all respects in accordance with the laws of England, and you and Open Annuities irrevocably submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts.
This agreement is governed by English law and all disputes will be handled solely in the United Kingdom. English Courts will have jurisdiction in respect of it. You consent to such venue and jurisdiction. The Open Annuities website is controlled and operated from offices in the United Kingdom and makes no representations or warranties that its content or use is legal in other locations.
USE OF SERVICE AND SITE
Use of the Open Annuities ("we", "us", "www.openannuities.co.uk") website ("the site") constitutes acceptance of the Open Annuities Website User Agreement ("the agreement") and Terms and Conditions of Use ("terms"). This is our standard terms upon which we intend to rely. For your own benefit and protection you should read these terms carefully. If you do not understand any point please ask for further information.
If you do not agree to all the terms and conditions on this page, please do not use this website. Use of any internal or external links on the Open Annuities website constitutes acceptance of the terms on this page. If you do not agree with these terms, please exit this site by closing the browser window.
The terms "Open Annuities", "openannuities.co.uk" encompass the Open Annuities Internet Site and Marketing Communications.
YOU DO NOT PAY US A FEE
There is no charge for us investigating your policy and you are under no obligation to follow any recommendations that are made. By using a broker's service you will get advice that is paid for by the annuity company. You will not have to pay them a fee as your broker will receive a commission payment direct from the recommended annuity company. Your adviser's costs are already factored into the income that you are offered by the annuity provider. Commission is paid but this can be refunded should you wish to pay via a fee.
To reiterate, if you buy a financial product, the annuity broker will normally receive commission on the sale from the product provider. Although you pay nothing up front, that does not mean our service is free. You still pay us indirectly through product charges. Product charges pay for the product providers own costs and any commission. These charges reduce the amount left for investment. If you buy direct, the product charges could be the same as when buying through an adviser, or they could be higher or lower. We will tell you how much the commission will be before you complete an investment, but you may ask for this information earlier.
TRANSPARENCY
This independently owned website acts as an advertising and marketing vehicle to attract passive annuity enquiries (from people that are proactively searching for annuities using search engines or directories on the internet) and pass on such enquiries for a fee (but free to the searcher) to financial services providers. As such, the owners, webmasters and marketing professionals of this website are unable to offer financial advice. Information on this site does not constitute regulated financial advice and is intended only to provide general personal financial information. You should always consult an Independent Financial Adviser (IFA) before making any financial decision. Responsibility rests with the broker to comply with the relevant regulating authorities.
Any information contained on the Open Annuities website does not form the basis of any contract. Business or financial decisions should not be based solely on the information contained within this website. Open Annuities UK is not responsible or liable for any financial service obtained through a 3rd party. An annuity enquiry from this website does not constitute an offer to provide an annuity.
AVAILABILITY OF SERVICE
Any guidance contained within this website is subject to the UK Financial Services Authority regulatory regime and is therefore restricted to consumers based in the UK.
We do not warrant or guarantee that the Open Annuities website will be uninterrupted or error-free.
LINKS AND SITE CONTENT
We do not make any warrant or guarantee, either expressed or implied as to the accuracy, validity, completeness, suitability, reliability, or currency of any information content within its site or sites to which it is linked to. Links to other websites are provided solely as a resource guide and do not represent an endorsement or guarantee, either expressed or implied. The Open Annuities website does not assume any liability for any of the products, services, or data of any other sites. The Open Annuities website is a facilitator of links to the content of other sites and as such has no editorial control over the content of such linked sites in the same manner that a public library has no control over the content of the books that it distributes. It is the responsibility of the user to evaluate the information, opinion, advice, or other content contained within the site. We cannot be held responsible or liable for any loss or damage due to reliance on information obtained through the Open Annuities website.
INDEMNITY
In order to use this site you must agree to be legally bound and to abide by the terms and to indemnify and hold the operators of the Open Annuities website harmless from all alleged or actual damages, claims and expenses relating to any warrant, guarantee or representations made by the individual service providers featured within this website or linked websites. This also includes, without limitation, attorney's fees. The use of this site for any reason is deemed to be an agreement of this condition.
DISCLAIMERS
Bearing in mind that this is a free "public access" site, it is a condition of use of the site and the materials in it that use is at the user's own risk. We give no representation or warranty as to the accuracy of the content of the site and assume no responsibility for errors or omissions in it or the effect it has upon your computer. We disclaim all liability in respect of such information and its provision. Neither Open Annuities nor any of the site's administrators, editors or contributors shall be liable for any loss or damages suffered as a result of any use of the site, including but not limited to direct loss, consequential loss and loss of profits. We do not assume, and therefore disclaim, any liability for any loss or damage caused by errors or omissions.
Open Annuities is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis. We shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages. This includes, without limitation and even if we are advised of the possibility thereof, any damages for loss of goodwill or any and all other commercial damages or losses including loss of profit, that result from the use of, or inability to use Open Annuities. The user agrees not to rely on any information obtained from the Open Annuities website and indemnifies us from mistakes, omissions, errors, interruptions, delays of service or performance, defects, harmful components, viruses and bugs, howsoever caused. It is the user's duty to execute anti-contamination or virus software and ensure that any information, if contaminated or infected, will not damage the user's information or system. The entire risk as to the use of the Open Annuities website is with the user. Open Annuities or its agents are not responsible or liable for telephone, network, ISP, electronic, computer or other communication problems or failures of any kind. Personal information sent to Open Annuities UK is at the senders own risk.
SEVERANCE
If a term, covenant, provision, or condition of this agreement becomes, or shall be held by any court of competent jurisdiction to be against public policy or illegal, all remaining provisions of this agreement shall remain in full force and effect and unaffected, impaired or invalidated by this decision. The invalidated item shall be modified by the parties to the full extent possible to carry out all the intentions and directives stated in this agreement.
VARIATION
Whilst it is not our intention to do so, the operators of the Open Annuities Website reserves the right to change its policies and terms at any time. Any such changes will be posted on this page.
We do not assume, and therefore disclaim, any liability for any loss or damage caused by errors or omissions.
Open Annuities is not associated with other companies who own similar sounding names.
If you do not agree to all the terms and conditions on this page, please do not use this website. Use of any internal or external links on the Open Annuities website constitutes acceptance of the terms on this page. If you do not agree with these terms, please exit this site by closing the browser window.
COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Design: 1-2-3-4 Feedback form image: Dominik Gwarek. This website is not associated with other companies or websites who own or trade under similar sounding names or with similar design. © Content Copyrighted.
HEADINGS
Headings are for reading convenience only and are not to be used in the interpretation of this agreement.
Contact Information
The Open Annuities website is an advertising vehicle for...
Portal Financial LLP
(Registered Office) Portal House
Sunderland Quay
Rochester
Kent ME2 4HN UK
Company Reg. Number: OC344297. Registered in England and Wales as a limited liability partnership.
Portal Financial LLP is Authorised and Regulated by the Financial Services Authority 501272
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