Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy

This website is the property of Atlas Property Lettings Ltd 51 The Grove, Ealing, London W5 5DX. By using this website you agree that you consent to and are bound by the following terms and conditions.

Copyright and Trademarks

The content of this website are © Atlas Property Lettings Ltd. Reproduction of part or all of the contents in any form is prohibited other than in accordance with the following permissions:

Licence to re-copy for Limited Purposes:

1) You acknowledge Atlas as the source of the material. You must include such acknowledgement and the Atlas web address (www.atlasproplet.com) in the copy of the material, and

2) You must inform the third party that all the Terms and Conditions set out herewith apply to him/her and that he/she is bound by them.

This licence to re-copy does not permit incorporation of the material or any part of it in any other work, publication, or website whether in hard copy or electronic or any other form. In particular (but without limitation) no part of Atlas website, including but not limited, to photographs, property details, virtual tours and/or floorplans may be distributed or copied for any commercial purpose. You may not frame this website without the express consent of Atlas. The Atlas logo is a trade mark registered in the name of Atlas in the UK and other parts of the world. Reproduction of this trade mark other than in order to view this website is prohibited.

The Land Registry data is Crown copyright and is reproduced with the permission of Land Registry under delegated authority from the Controller of HMSO.

Disclaimer

Atlas takes all reasonable care to ensure that the information contained on this website is accurate, however, we cannot guarantee its accuracy and we reserve the right to change the information on this website (including these terms and conditions) at any time. You must therefore check these terms and conditions for any such changes each time you visit this website.

Atlas makes no representations or warranties of any kind with respect to this website or the content contained on it, including any text, graphics, advertisements, links or other items. Furthermore, neither Atlas nor any other contributor to this website make any representation or gives any warranty, condition, undertaking or term either expressed or implied as to the condition, quality, performance, accuracy, fitness for purpose, completeness or freedom from viruses of the content contained on this website or that such content will be accurate, up to date, uninterrupted or error free. Nothing on this website shall be regarded or taken as financial advice.

Law

The user confirms that the terms and conditions and use of this website shall be governed by the laws of England and Wales and that any and all disputes arising therefrom shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.

Privacy Policy

At Atlas we are committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. This privacy notice, together with our Terms and Conditions and any other notice referred to in it, explains how we collect and use your personal data when you visit our website or use our services.

Please note that all personal data sent to an Atlas email address (for whatever purpose) will be stored on our IT systems and may be subject to wider systematic monitoring procedures which we have implemented for the purpose of our legitimate business interests to protect confidential and personal data and assist in our ability to identify potential data breaches.

This website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect personal data from children.

This privacy notice was last amended in July 2019 and supersedes any earlier version.

Personal data we collect

As a business we collect, use, store and transfer different types of personal data depending on who you are.

If you are renting or letting a property through Atlas, or renting, or letting a property from one of our clients, we collect and use your personal data to provide you with our services. The personal data we collect and use may include:

– Identity Data (name, marital status, title, date of birth, gender, username and password, purchases made by you, your interests and preferences, property ownership details or other evidence of your ability to sell or let the property, references, credit checks, details of your immigration status, feedback and survey responses)

– Contact Data (billing address, delivery address, email address and telephone numbers)

– Financial Data (bank account and payment details)

– Transaction Data (details about payments to and from you and other services you have purchased through us)

– Technical Data (internet protocol address, login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, identification number, online identified, location data and other similar identifying information required for the customer’s device(s) to communicate with websites and applications on the internet)

– Usage Data (how you use our website products and services, the full uniform resource locators clickstream to, through and from our site (including date and time), download errors, lengths of visit to certain pages, page interaction information, methods to browse away from the page and any phone numbers you use to call us)

– Marketing and Communications Data (your marketing preferences from us and our third parties and your communication preferences)

– Call recordings (recordings of your conversations with us)

We also may collect and use Aggregated Data. For example, when you visit our website we may aggregate data about your usage to tell us about how certain features on our website are used. This is not usually classified as personal data as whilst it derives from personal data (in the example, it is derived from your Usage Data) it does not reveal your identity to us. If we do link this Aggregated Data to your personal information, it will be treated as personal data in line with this policy.

How we collect personal data

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

Direct interactions

You may give us your Identity, Contact and Financial Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:

– apply for our services;

– create an account on our website;

– subscribe to our service or publications;

– request marketing to be sent to you;

– contact us through social media;

– walk-in to or telephone our branch office; take one of our surveys; or give us some feedback; or

speak with us on the telephone.

Third parties or publicly available sources

We may receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources, for example:

– Contact, Financial and Transaction Data from providers of payment services such as Mastercard based inside the EU.

– Identity and Contact Data from data brokers or aggregators such as TwentyCi, Rightmove, Zoopla (based inside the EU, or Facebook (based outside the EU)

– Identity and Contact Data from publicly availably sources such as Companies House and the Electoral Register based inside the EU.

– Credit referencing agencies.

How we use your personal data

We may use your personal data for some or all the purposes shown in the table below. We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it. If we need to process your personal data for a different purpose that is not compatible with the original purpose we will let you know.

We may process your personal data for a different purpose without your consent where it is necessary for us to comply with our legal obligations.

Purpose / Activity	Type of data	Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest
To contact you	– Identity – Contact – Financial – Transaction – Marketing and Communications	Performance of a contract with you Necessary for our legitimate interests (for running our business, to recover debts due to us, to keep our records updated and to study how customers use our products/services)
To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us and to provide with you the information, products and services you request from us	– Identity – Contact – Financial – Transaction – Marketing and Communications	Performance of a contract with you Necessary for our legitimate interests (for running our business and to recover debts due to us)
To provide you with information about other goods and services that we offer which we feel may interest you	– Identity – Contact – Technical – Usage	Necessary for our legitimate interests (to develop our service offering)
To permit selected third parties: • to provide you with information about goods or services which we feel may interest you • to assist us in the improvement and optimisation of advertising, marketing material and content, our services and the website	– Identity – Contact – Technical – Usage	Consent (in relation to email marketing communications) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to develop our service offering)
To assist us in the improvement and optimisation of advertising, marketing material and content, our services and the website	– Identity – Contact – Financial – Transaction – Marketing and Communications Call Recordings	Necessary for our legitimate interests (to develop our products/services and grow our business and provision of administration and IT services, for training and monitoring of our customer service standards and to help resolve disputes
To ensure that content from our website is presented in the most effective manner for you and your computer	Identity – Contact – Financial – Transaction	Necessary for our legitimate interests (to develop our products/services and grow our business and provision of administration and IT services)
To verify your identity	– Identity – Contact – Financial – Transaction	Necessary to comply with our legal obligations Necessary for our legitimate interests (for running our business, provision of administration and IT services, network security, to prevent fraud and in the context of a business reorganisation or group restructuring exercise)
As part of our efforts to keep our site safe and secure and to prevent or detect fraud	– Identity – Contact – Financial – Transaction	Necessary to comply with our legal obligations Necessary for our legitimate interests (for running our business and to prevent fraud and money laundering)
To provide customer support	– Identity – Contact	Performance of a contract with you
To comply with the requirements imposed by law or any court order	– Identity – Contact – Technical – Usage	Necessary to comply with our legal obligations
Where you have viewed through us, we may disclose your name to a landlord or vendor where we have been dis-instructed, in order to avoid a potential commission dispute	– Your name	Necessary for our legitimate interests (to protect our entitlement to a commission and to avoid commission disputes wherever possible)
We may disclose tenant references and any forwarding address to a landlord	– Identity – Contact	Necessary for our legitimate interests (to help protect our landlord customers’ legal rights)

Marketing

You have the right to withdraw your consent for us to use your personal data for marketing purposes at any time. You also have the right to withdraw consent for us to pass your information to third parties for marketing purposes. If you do withdraw your consent, this will result in us ceasing to market goods and services to you.

You can ask us to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by:

– following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you; or

– contacting us at any time by emailing helpdesk@atlas.com or by calling 020 7139 1717.

Where you withdraw your consent to receiving marketing messages, we will still process your personal data in order to fulfil our contract with you and in accordance with our legal, accountancy and regulatory obligations.

If you no longer wish to be contacted by third parties for marketing purposes, please follow the instructions in their marketing communications, or consult their privacy policies about how to unsubscribe.

Third-party marketing

We will get your express opt-in consent before we share your personal data with any company outside the Atlas Property Lettings Ltd Group of companies for marketing purposes.

Cookies

The Atlas website and applications may automatically collect data about how you use our services in order to help us improve future functionality of our website and to assist with advertising and targeting. We use Google Analytics, which is a web analysis service provided by Google.

The cookies on the Atlas website do not track, collect or upload data such as your name, email address or billing information, but it may collect data about your equipment and browsing activities. We may collect and report on the adoption and usage of specific features, crashes and exceptions and other useful, anonymous metrics.

Certain devices can detect your approximate location, via latitude and longitude. The accuracy of this data is not in the control of Atlas. If this feature is requested, Atlas will prompt you to provide your permission to access your location data for the purposes of providing you with results or directions based on your current location. You can disable location settings within your browser or app.

To read more about our use of cookies on the Atlas website, please consult our cookie policy.

Disclosures of your personal data

We may share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes set out in the “How we use your Personal Data” table above. We have agreements in place with our third parties that restrict their use of your personal data. We only allow third parties to use your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions

Category	Explanation
Related Third Parties	Alexander Hall Associates Limited Mortgage Brokers (where you have consented for us to do so).
External Third Parties	Service providers acting as processors based in the United Kingdom who provide IT and system administration services, anti-money laundering service providers (such as NorthRow), tenancy deposit administrators (such as the Tenancy Deposit Scheme) and services to enable us to perform our contract with you, or carry out surveys to help us improve our services. Property developers acting as Processors or independent controllers based in the UK who process your personal data in order to arrange and facilitate your visit to their marketing suite. Advertisers and advertising networks (including social media) that require the data to select and serve relevant adverts to you. Professional advisers acting as processors or joint controllers including lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers based in the United Kingdom who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance and accountancy services. HMRC, regulators and other authorities acting as processors or joint controllers based in the United Kingdom who require reporting of processing activities in certain circumstances. We will refer your personal information to the following third parties, but only where you have consented for us to do so : – Conveyan – Global Property Ventures Limited (t/a Zero Deposit) If you are a tenant and we are helping you with the administration in moving, we will refer your personal data to Tenant Shop Limited which acts on our behalf to provide these services. Tenant Shop Limited may contact you about the other services that they provide if you consent for them to do so. We may forward your present and future contact details to utility suppliers, local authorities and credit or reference providers, including for the purposes of debt recovery. If you are a landlord or a tenant and have decided to use a Zero Deposit Guarantee product in place of a normal Deposit we will refer your personal data to Global Property Ventures Limited (t/a Zero Deposit). Where you are a landlord or a vendor we may forward your personal data to HM Land Registry for proof of property ownership purposes. Other agencies with whom we have entered into a sub-agency agreement and where they have introduced a potential purchaser/vendor/landlord/tenant for your property
Other Third Parties	Sometimes there may be third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets. Alternatively, we may seek to acquire other businesses or merge with them. If a change happens to our business, then the new owners may use your personal data in the same way as set out in this privacy notice.

Data security

We are, through technical and organisational means, committed to ensuring the security of, and prevention of unauthorised access to, your personal data. For example, we limit who can access your personal data to those individuals and third parties who need to know it and who are subject to a duty of confidentiality. We also systematically monitor outbound emails for the purposes of protecting confidential and personal data and assisting in our ability to identify potential data breaches. If we become aware of a data breach we will, where we are required to, notify the Information Commissioner’s Office. If we believe that the data breach is serious, we may notify you as well.

International transfer

Data retention

Your legal rights

To the extent provided by law, you have the right to:

access a copy of the personal data that we hold and process about you. You have rights to the following information:

the purpose(s) for which we are processing your information;

the categories of personal information we hold about you

the recipients or categories of recipient to whom the personal data have been or will be disclosed;

the period for which we will store your information, or the criteria used to determine that period;

object to the use of your personal data (including for marketing purposes) by

informing a Foxtons telephone operator; or

by ticking the relevant boxes on the data collection forms; or

by logging into your ‘myfoxtons’ account (if you have done) and checking or unchecking relevant boxes to adjust your marketing preferences; or

by emailing helpdesk@atlaspropco.com

Please note that even if you refuse marketing, we will still contact you to discuss the services you have asked us to provide to you or to tell you about changes to our terms and conditions:

rectification of any inaccurate information we hold about you;

erasure of the personal data we hold about you (in certain situations);

ask that we do not make decisions about you using completely automated means; and/or

ask that personal data we hold about you is, where technically feasible, transmitted to a third-party chosen by you, in a commonly used, machine-readable format.

The rights listed above may not apply in certain circumstances. Therefore we may not always be able to comply with your request. We will tell you if this is the case. We will usually respond to a request from you to exercise your rights within one month of receipt, but it might take longer if your request is particularly complex or if you have made a number of requests. Please be aware that we may need to process your personal data and/or request specific information from you to help us comply with your request. Generally, you do not have to pay a fee to exercise these rights, but you may have to pay a fee if your request is unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request.

How to contact us

We are registered as a Data Controller with the Information Commissioner’s Office, the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues. To contact us about how we handle your personal data, please contact our Data Protection Officer at helpdesk@atlaspropco.com. Alternatively, write to us at Data Protection Officer, Atlas Property Lettings Limited, 51 The Grove, Ealing, London W5 5DX. If you have a complaint about the way in which your personal data has been processed you have the right to contact the Information Commissioner’s Office but you may be required to first complete our internal complaints procedure.

Anti money laundering

Atlas is committed to operating its business in a transparent and open manner consistent with our legal and regulatory obligations. We are aware that the real estate industry is a target for organised criminals seeking to launder the proceeds of criminal activity. We always seek to prevent this activity by cooperating fully with the authorities and reporting suspicious activity to the National Crime Agency.

As part of this commitment, we adopt a strict compliance of all Anti-Money Laundering rules, with specific emphasis on the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, the Money Laundering Regulations 2017, the Bribery Act 2010 and the Terrorism Act 2000.

Atlas policy commitment is applicable to all of our customers, including vendors, buyers, landlords and tenants. As a result we obtain and hold for a period of at least seven years evidence pertaining to our customers’ identity and, where appropriate, we obtain proof of ownership of property and source/destination of funds. We will be unable to proceed with any work on behalf of our customers if we are unable to obtain this information. Customers’ identity will be subject to an electronic identity check, which may also include a credit check

For a full list of acceptable identity documents, please click here

We are registered and supervised by HM Revenue & Customs for compliance with the Money Laundering Regulations 2017. If you would like to speak to us about Anti-Money Laundering, please email helpdesk@atlaspropco.com.

Indemnity

You acknowledge that you are solely responsible for the use to which you put this website and all the results and information you obtain from it and that all warranties, conditions, undertakings, representations and terms whether expressed or implied, statutory or otherwise are hereby excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law.

Save in respect of liability for death or personal injury arising out of negligence or for fraudulent misrepresentation, we and all contributors to this website hereby disclaim to the fullest extent permitted by law all liability for any loss or damage including any consequential or indirect loss or damage incurred by you, whether arising in tort, contract or otherwise, and arising out of or in relation to or in connection with your access to or use of or inability to use this website.

Whilst we take every care to ensure that the standard of this website remains high and to maintain the continuity of it, we do not accept any ongoing obligation or responsibility to operate this website (or any particular part of it).

If any part of our terms and conditions is deemed to be unenforceable (including any provision in which we exclude our liability to you) the enforceability of any other part of these conditions will not be affected.

These terms and conditions and your use of this website are governed exclusively by English law.

This does not affect your statutory rights as a consumer.

Atlas Property Lettings Limited is registered in England and Wales (registered number 01680058). Our registered office is at 51 The Grove, Ealing, London W5 5DX.