1. Introduction
This Privacy Policy explains how we use Personal Information which we collect about individuals in relation to our health products.
We take the security of your Personal Information very seriously. We use a combination of technical, organisational and physical security measures to protect your Personal Information in line with our obligations under data protection law. Our employees receive training to help us comply with data protection law and safeguard your privacy.
This Privacy Policy is issued on behalf of the JBI Online group companies within the United Kingdom. When we mention “JBI Online”, “we”, “us” or “our”, what we mean is the relevant company in the JBI Online group that processes your Personal Information.
Each JBI Online group company that processes your Personal Information is responsible for looking after it in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Where you are an individual policyholder or a member of a policy (including as a beneficiary under a healthcare trust), the JBI Online group company that underwrites your insurance policy will be the main company responsible for your Personal Information, known as the controller. Please check the documentation that we provide to you for details of the specific JBI Online company acting as the controller of your Personal Information. If you are unsure, please contact us. We may share your Personal Information with other companies in the JBI Online group in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
We have separate privacy notices for our different types of products, so if you have a number of JBI Online products you may need to review more than one privacy notice. We may also supplement this Privacy Policy with additional privacy notices tailored to our specific relationships with you where this is useful to provide you with a full picture of how we collect and use your Personal Information. This Privacy Policy supplements – but doesn’t override – them.
You may also find it useful to review the London Insurance Market Core Uses Information Notice https://www.londonmarketgroup.co.uk/gdpr which explains how the various insurance market participants, e.g. intermediaries, insurers and reinsurers use Personal Information. Our core uses and disclosures of Personal Information are consistent with the London Market Core Uses Information Notice.
Most of the Personal Information we collect relates to the individual who is taking out a policy. We may also ask for Personal Information about other individuals if we need it., e.g:
if you ask us to provide insurance for other household or family members, or members of a group; and
if we ask an insured person to provide health information about other family members where this is relevant to the risk we’re covering when we arrange a policy or handle a claim.
We’ll process their Personal Information according to this Privacy Policy so you might find it helpful to show them this Privacy Policy.
2. Personal Information We Collect and How it is Used
a. Sources of Personal Information
We obtain Personal Information directly from you, including from application and claims forms that you complete, communications between us and your use of our apps and websites and details from the devices you use to interact with our apps and websites. Where you are a member of a health policy, we obtain Personal Information from the person who took out the policy (e.g. your spouse) and where you are covered under a corporate health policy, we will obtain information from your employer.
We may also obtain Personal Information from third parties, including the following:
Your employer, in particular where you are insured under a corporate health policy;
Insurance brokers or financial advisers, where you have purchased a product through one of these third parties;
Third parties who provide you with certain services, e.g. Roadtohealth who provide the MyHealthCounts questionnaire for individual private medical insurance policies;
Third parties who provide us with services e.g. loss adjusters, claims handlers, legal advisers, assistance providers, experts and, in limited circumstances, private investigators;
Third parties relevant to your product or claim, e.g. other insurers, brokers, claims handlers, assistance providers, legal advisers and experts;
Healthcare providers and medical practitioners;
JBI Online group companies who may provide information in relation to other products you hold, previous claims, policies or quotes;
Financial crime detection agencies, databases and sanctions lists, including the Insurance Fraud Bureau;
Government agencies and regulatory bodies, including the police, the courts, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), the National Health Service (NHS) and HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC);
Regulators who regulate how we operate, including the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS);
Third parties who provide us with details of individuals who have expressed an interest in hearing about insurance products;
Third parties that help us maintain the accuracy of our data, e.g. by identifying individuals who are deceased, updating contact details for individuals who have moved and payment card providers who provide us with updated payment card details;
Other third-party suppliers including actuaries, auditors, legal and other professional advisers and sanctions-checking service providers;
Data suppliers, e.g. Experian and LexisNexis;
Publicly available sources including the Office for National Statistics (e.g. census data) and other data made available under the Open Government Licence, internet searches, news articles and social media sites;
Providers of marketing and advertising services; and
Third parties in connection with any acquisition of a business by us.
b. Types of Personal Information collected
The Personal Information we hold and process includes:
Information provided by you or third parties, including:
General data – includes your name, date of birth, marital status and your relationships to other people, e.g. family members where they are also covered on the policy;
Contact data – includes your address, telephone number and e-mail address.
Identification data – includes government-issued identification numbers e.g. your NHS number and other identifiers e.g. usernames and social media identifiers;
Appearance and behavioural data – include your gender, age, descriptive data e.g. your height, demographic data and behavioural data e.g. your purchase history;
Health and lifestyle data – including details of pre-existing or past medical conditions, your family medical history, details regarding appointments and consultations with medical professionals, diagnoses, medical records, whether you do or have ever smoked, details regarding alcohol consumption. For further information see Sensitive Personal Information;
Product data – includes information about quotes, policies, schemes and claims and any other information relevant to your product, including policy and claim histories;
Claims data – if a claim is made under an insurance policy, this includes information about the claim collected from you and relevant third parties, e.g. witnesses;
Fraud and sanctions related data – includes information obtained from checks of fraud databases and sanctions lists;
Employment-related data – includes your employment status, job title, salary and employment history;
Financial data – includes credit and payment card numbers, bank account details and payment information;
Vulnerability data – information about health, life events, resilience and capability that helps us identify if you might be a vulnerable customer so that we can better meet your needs;
Authentication data – includes account log-in information, passwords and memorable data for accessing your JBI Online accounts;
Telephone recordings and online chat transcripts – information obtained during recordings of telephone calls or online chats with our representatives and call centres;
Marketing and communication preferences and customer feedback – includes marketing and communication preferences, information relating to promotions and prize draws, responses to surveys, complaints and details of your customer experience.
Information provided by third parties, including:
Insights about you, e.g. if you are an individual private medical insurance customer and you complete a questionnaire on MyHealthCounts, then the provider of MyHealthCounts, Roadtohealth, will share a Q score with us, which is an indicator of your health status and will be used to calculate your renewal premium. Details of how Roadtohealth processes Personal Information can be found on the MyHealthCounts website;
Your use of the services provided under your policy, e.g. whether you have created a JBI Online Digital GP account with Square Health. Details of how Square Health processes Personal Information can be found within the JBI Online Digital GP app;
Accurate contact data, e.g. where you have moved address, changed your telephone number or started using a new email address and not yet advised JBI Online. This data may be used to ensure that we have a complete understanding of your product holding and to provide you with communications about your products;
Data about the area you live in e.g:
house prices;
your council tax band;
data related to healthcare, the prevalence of certain diseases, life expectancy, education and crime;
census data; and modelled data which predicts characteristics about people in your area e.g. socio-economic groups as well as likely habits.
Information collected from your devices, including:
Mobile device number, device type, operating system, browser, MAC address, IP address, location and account activity obtained through our use of cookies. You can find more about our use of cookies in our Cookies Policy.
Information already held by JBI Online, including:
Data relating to other JBI Online policies – e.g. policy and claim histories relating to other existing JBI Online policies or products or those you may have held in the past;
Modelled data that has been developed by JBI Online using data that it already holds. For example, we use claims data to identify customers who are likely to claim more than others.
Information inferred from your Personal Information, including:
Appearance and behavioural data – includes your general interests, descriptive data and behavioural data e.g. to allow us to make certain predictions and assumptions about your interests, which allows us to personalise your experience with us;
Vulnerability data – information about health, life events, resilience and capability that helps us identify if you might be a vulnerable customer so that we can better meet your needs.
Children’s data:
We collect data about children in some circumstances, e.g. where a child is a member of a policy.
Sensitive Personal Information
Sometimes we will request or receive Personal Information that is sensitive and we call this “Sensitive Personal Information”. This is information relating to your health, genetic or biometric data, sex life, sexual orientation, racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, as well as information relating to criminal convictions including data about offences, court sentences or unspent criminal convictions. For example, to investigate a claim made under a private medical insurance policy, we’ll need to ask you to provide details of your health condition. We know how sensitive this data is, so protecting it is a top priority. The types of Sensitive Personal Information we hold and process where relevant include:
Health data – includes details of existing and previous physical or mental health conditions, health status, test results, medical diagnoses and treatment;
Criminal data – includes details of convictions, e.g. in relation to fraud;
Other sensitive data – in limited circumstances we may process other Sensitive Personal Information. For example, we may process information relating to your religious beliefs where relevant to your preferences regarding medical treatment.
c. Uses of Personal Information
The main purposes for which we use Personal Information are to:
Communicate with you and other individuals;
Make assessments and take decisions, including whether to provide you with our products and services and on what terms. For further information, see Automated Decision Making;
Process payments when you purchase a product or service;
Provide our products and services, including insurance administration, taking payment, making changes that were requested or necessary, managing renewal, claims assessment, settlement and dispute resolution, carrying out clinical assessments and supporting clinical improvements and the provision of apps and other technologies, e.g. My JBI Online;
Manage relationships with third parties, e.g. brokers and service providers;
Prevent, detect and investigate fraud and other crime, including by carrying out fraud, sanctions and anti-money laundering checks. For further information see Fraud and Other Financial Crime;
Improve our products and services, provide staff training and maintain information security, including by recording and monitoring telephone calls;
Provide marketing information and run promotions in accordance with the preferences you have expressed. For further information see the section on Marketing;
Conduct customer analysis, market research and focus groups, including customer segmentation, campaign planning, creating promotional materials, gathering customer feedback and customer satisfaction surveys;
Help us better understand our customers and improve our customer engagement, including noting your interest in our website, understanding your customer journey, profiling and customer analytics which allows us to make certain predictions and assumptions about your interests, make correlations about our customers to improve our products and to suggest other products which may be relevant or of interest to customers, which includes marketing products and services to you;
Carry out data analysis, including ensuring data accuracy and quality and for insurance risk modelling and product and pricing refinement. For further information see Profiling and Data Analysis;
Manage complaints, feedback and queries, and handle requests to exercise data subject rights;
Manage our business operations, including by carrying out internal audits, financial analysis and accounting and performing administrative activities in connection with the services we provide. For further information see Data Rights;
Manage commercial risk, including by taking out and maintaining appropriate insurance;
Comply with applicable legal, regulatory and professional obligations, including cooperating with regulatory bodies e.g. the FCA, PRA, ICO and government authorities, to comply with law enforcement and to manage legal claims;
Identify vulnerable customers, to help us better meet their needs and to comply with regulatory guidance about how we treat vulnerable customers. Sometimes you or a third party may tell us that you are vulnerable and in other cases, we may infer this from your Personal Information and our interactions with you;
Establish, enforce and defend our legal rights or those third parties, including enforcing our terms and conditions, pursuing available remedies and limiting our damages;
Carry out activities that are in the public interest, e.g. we may need to use Personal Information to carry out anti-money laundering checks;
Buy, sell, transfer or dispose of any part of our business;
Archiving, scientific or historical research or statistical purposes.
d. Lawful Bases for uses of Personal Information
We are committed to collecting and using Personal Information in accordance with applicable data protection laws. By law, we must have a legal justification, known as a lawful basis, in order to use your Personal Information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. Depending upon the purpose, our lawful basis will be one of the following:
Performance of a contract – to arrange, underwrite or manage our products, or handle claims in accordance with their terms;
Compliance with a legal obligation – to meet responsibilities we have to our regulators, tax officials, law enforcement, or other legal responsibilities;
Legitimate interests – to operate and improve our products and services and keep people informed about our products and services or for any other purposes we identify as appropriate to our business needs, or those business needs of a third party;
Consent – Where we have obtained appropriate consents to collect or use your Personal Information for a particular purpose.
Where we rely on legitimate interests as our lawful basis, we are required to carry out a balancing test to ensure that our interests, or those of a third party, do not override the rights and freedoms that you have as an individual. The outcome of this balancing test will determine whether we can use your Personal Information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. Where we rely on the lawful basis of legitimate interests, the interests being relied upon will usually be:
To further our business and commercial activities and objectives, or those of a third party, e.g. to provide our products and services and produce management information on our performance and the performance of third parties;
To help us better understand our customers and improve our customer engagement including by carrying out marketing analytics and profiling, e.g. by making certain predictions and assumptions about your interests;
To send you marketing information in accordance with your preferences, e.g. about other products and services we offer;
To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations, guidelines, standards and codes of conduct, e.g. background checks or the prevention, detection and investigation of financial crime or fraud;
To improve and develop our business, products and services, or those of a third party, e.g. to ensure the accuracy of customer data, improve clinical support and to develop our pricing and risk methods and models;
To safeguard our business, shareholders, employees and customers, or a third party, e.g. maintaining the security of our IT network and information, enforcing claims, including debt collection);
To facilitate the purchase, sale, transfer or disposal of any part of our business; and
To analyse and assess competition in the market for our products services, e.g., by carrying out market research.
Our lawful bases for the use of Personal Information:
Purpose Performance of a contract Consent Legitimate interests Legal or regulatory obligation
Communicate with you and others including complaints handling Yes No Yes Yes
Identifying vulnerable customers No No Yes Yes
Evaluating your application or renewal or providing a quote Yes No Yes No
Provision and administration of a policy including taking payment Yes No Yes Yes
Managing third party relationships e.g. brokers Yes No Yes No
Claims assessment and management of claims Yes No Yes Yes
Financial or other crime, fraud and credit checks Yes No Yes Yes
Compliance with legal or regulatory obligations No No No Yes
Establish, enforce or defend legal rights No No Yes Yes
Improving quality, training and security No No Yes No
Managing our business operations e.g. accounts, financial analysis, internal audit No No Yes Yes
Data analysis (including modelling) No No Yes No
Applying for or claiming on our insurance No No Yes No
Marketing and customer insight analysis, campaign planning etc No Yes Yes No
Marketing in accordance with your preferences No Yes Yes No
Buy, sell, transfer or dispose of our business No No Yes Yes
Archiving, research or statistical purposes No No Yes No
We can only collect and use Sensitive Personal Information where we have an additional, specific lawful basis to process such information. We usually rely upon one of the following lawful bases where we process Sensitive Personal Information:
Reasons of substantial public interest:
insurance purposes – including advising on, arranging, underwriting and administering contracts of insurance, administering claims under a contract of insurance and exercising rights, or complying with obligations that arise in connection with contracts of insurance;
complying, or helping someone else comply with, a regulatory requirement relating to unlawful acts and dishonesty or preventing or detecting unlawful acts – including regulatory requirements to carry out money laundering checks;
preventing or detecting unlawful acts – including investigating alleged fraud;
safeguarding the economic well-being of certain individuals – including where we identify and support the needs of vulnerable people.
Necessary to establish, exercise or defend a legal claim – including where we are faced with legal proceedings, we bring legal proceedings ourselves or where we are investigating legal proceedings that a third party has brought against you;
Necessary to protect your vital interests or those of another individual;
Information has been clearly or obviously made public by you.
Our lawful bases for the use of Sensitive Personal Information:
Purpose Lawful Basis for Sensitive Personal Information
Communicating with you Necessary for insurance purposes
Legal rights
Necessary for safeguarding the economic well-being of certain individuals
Identifying vulnerable customers Necessary for safeguarding the economic well-being of certain individuals
Evaluating your application or providing a quote Necessary for insurance purposes
Legal rights
Providing and administrating a policy, including taking payment Necessary for insurance purposes
Managing third party relationships, e.g. brokers Necessary for insurance purposes
Claims assessment and management of claims Necessary for insurance purposes
Legal rights
Vital interests
Identifying or investigating financial or other crime and fraud Necessary for insurance purposes
Legal rights
Regulatory requirement relating to unlawful acts or dishonesty
Clearly or obviously made public by you
Prevent or detect crime
Compliance with legal or regulatory obligations Necessary for insurance purposes
Legal rights
Regulatory requirement relating to unlawful acts or dishonesty
Establishing, enforcing or defending legal rights Legal rights
Improving quality, training and security Legal rights
Explicit consent
Managing our business operations, e.g. accounts, financial analysis, internal audit Legal rights
Explicit consent
Data analysis (including modelling) Necessary for insurance purposes
Applying for or claiming on our insurance Necessary for insurance purposes
Legal rights
Buying, selling, transferring or disposing of our business Legal rights
Explicit consent
Archiving, research or statistical analysis Necessary for archiving, research or statistical analysis
Where we cannot rely on one of the above lawful bases to Process your Sensitive Personal Information for a particular purpose, we will seek your explicit consent.
If you would like to know more about the lawful bases we rely upon, or how the lawful basis of legitimate interests applies to a particular purpose, you can contact us.
3. Who Personal Information Is Shared With
In connection with the purposes set out above, we will sometimes share Personal Information with JBI Online group companies and third parties, including:
brokers and financial advisers who help us arrange, manage and underwrite our products and who provide insurance services;
your employer, if you are a member under a policy provided to your employer;
other insurers (either directly or via those acting for the insurer, e.g. claims handlers);
our insurers (either directly or through brokers), who cover JBI Online under our group insurance policies;
third parties who provide you with certain services, including assistance providers and providers of mobile applications, related to your policy, e.g. we may provide your name and e-mail address to Square Health to enable them to validate your eligibility to use the JBI Online Digital GP app;
third parties relevant to your product or claim including e.g. loss adjusters, claims handlers, assistance providers, experts and, in limited circumstances, private investigators;
legal advisers, accountants, auditors and professional service firms who act on our or your behalf, or who represent a third-party claimant;
data analysts and providers of data services who support us with developing our products and prices and measuring the effectiveness of marketing;
third parties that help us maintain the accuracy of our data e.g. by identifying individuals who are deceased, updating contact details for individuals who have moved and payment card providers who provide us with updated payment card details;
financial crime detection agencies, sanctions-checking providers and third parties who maintain fraud detection databases or provide assistance with the investigation in cases of suspected fraud;
regulators who regulate how we operate, including the FCA, PRA, FOS, HMRC and ICO;
government agencies and regulatory bodies including the police, courts and DWP;
insurance industry bodies, including the Association of British Insurers;
service providers, including those who help operate our IT and back-office systems, underwriting and claims processes and our information security controls;
medical professionals, if we need to access health records or assessments for the purposes of arranging and underwriting certain products or facilitating and handling claims;
with clinicians, including hospitals and third party case managers from whom you and others covered under your policy receive insured treatment or who manage your care or treatment pathway;
research agencies and providers of market research services, including customer feedback surveys;
providers of marketing and advertising services, including delivering and administering marketing, ensuring you receive marketing content that’s relevant to you and in accordance with your preferences and analysing marketing campaigns. These may include media agencies, fulfilment partners, social media and other online platforms and advertising technology companies. You can find further information about this in the section on Marketing; and
third parties in connection with any sale, transfer or disposal of our business.
Some of the organisations we share information with may be located outside of the UK. For further information, please see the section on International Data Transfers.
4. Fraud and Other Financial Crime
We use your Personal Information to detect and prevent fraud and other financial crime including to meet our statutory and regulatory responsibilities in relation fraud and financial crimes.
If you’re making an application or a claim, we may use profiling and other forms of automated processing to assess the probability that your application or claim may be fraudulent. This assessment may involve the use of Sensitive Personal Information. For further details, see Automated Decision Making.
We also use your Personal Information to help us detect fraud committed by brokers or financial advisers.
To prevent, detect and investigate fraud, we:
check public registers (e.g. the electoral roll or registers of county court judgments, bankruptcy orders or repossessions);
conduct online searches from websites, social media and other information-sharing platforms;
use databases managed by, insurance industry bodies, fraud detection agencies and other reputable organisations. This includes the Insurance Fraud Bureau whose Privacy Policy can be viewed here: https://insurancefraudbureau.org/privacy-policy/ and
share Personal Information and undertake searches with other third parties, including other insurers, fraud prevention agencies, law enforcement agencies, public bodies and our regulators (which include the FCA, PRA and ICO).
This will help us verify your identity, make decisions about providing you with our products and related services, e.g. paying claims and trace debtors or beneficiaries.
If you give us false or inaccurate information and we suspect fraud, we’ll record this to prevent further fraud and money laundering and this may be shared with other parties.
We can supply on request further details of the agencies and databases we access or contribute to and how this information may be used. If you require further details contact us.
5. Automated Decision Making
We may make decisions about you based on automated decision making. Our automated process helps us to make predictions, e.g., the likelihood that a claim will be made and its value, the likelihood a product will be purchased or the likelihood that a claim might be fraudulent. This helps us to determine eligibility for a policy, the terms of the policy and the price.
We use an automated underwriting engine as part of that process, which uses the Personal Information you have provided, including Sensitive Personal Information and information we receive from third parties as set out in Types of Personal Information collected. The automated engine may also validate the information you provide against other records we hold about you in our systems and third party databases.
For example, an automated decision in relation to the price of your health insurance policy is based on various factors including your date of birth as customers who are older are more likely to claim due to the increased likelihood of illness as the body ages.
Your personalised price may be presented to you in suitable marketing communications, including those sent from price comparison websites or third party partners with whom you have a relationship.
We also make automated decisions throughout the life of your policy, e.g. before offering you a renewal or when dealing with a claim.
Where we make an automated decision that has a legal or substantially similar effect you have the right to speak to someone from JBI Online who may review the decision, provide a more detailed explanation and assess if the automated decision was made correctly. For more information about this right and how to exercise it please see Data Rights.
6. Profiling and Data Analysis
We use profiling and other data analysis to build, train and audit our insurance models and algorithms (including our automated underwriting engine described in Automated Decision Making) and our machine-learning tools. The models, algorithms and tools we use help us do a number of things including:
understanding our customers better e.g., how they feel about JBI Online, what kind of content or products would be of most use and interest to them, whether they might be displaying characteristics of vulnerability that mean they require further assistance from us; and
predicting the likelihood of events arising to assess insurance risk or to predict if a claim might be fraudulent.
We use a number of data items as described in this Privacy Policy for these purposes. Before we use any such data, we carry out a number of checks including ensuring there are no legal restrictions on using the data under data protection laws, the Equality Act 2010 or under FCA rules and we consider whether the use of the data might cause outcomes that are unfairly or unlawfully biased. We then use statistical modelling techniques to assess the data to ensure that the data tells us something meaningful. From time to time, we may share your Personal Information with third parties who provide us with new data which we will test to understand if such new data provides additional understanding.
We may also use profiling and data analysis for other reasons e.g. to ensure data quality and accuracy and to help us improve our business.
The purpose of this analysis is not to make decisions about you directly, but your Personal Information, in combination with Personal Information relating to other customers and/or data provided by third parties, will be used to conduct data analysis so that we can improve our processes, our products and services and check the way our models, algorithms and machine-learning tools work.
Where possible, we pseudonymise the Personal Information in order to perform this analysis. This means that we remove information from which you can be directly identified, e.g. your name, and replace it with a pseudonym or unique identifier. We do this to maximise the security of your information.
We also use profiling in relation to marketing. For further information please see Marketing.
7. Retention
We keep Personal Information for as long as is reasonably required for the purposes explained in this Privacy Policy. We also keep records – which may include Personal Information – to meet legal, regulatory, tax or accounting needs. For example, we are required to retain an accurate record of your dealings with us, so we can respond to any complaints or challenges you or others might raise later. We’ll also retain files if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation. The specific retention period for your Personal Information will depend on your relationship with us and the reasons we hold your Personal Information.
To support us in managing how long we hold your data and our record management, we maintain a data retention policy that includes clear guidelines on data retention and deletion.
If you would like more information about our data retention policy, please contact us.
8. International Data Transfers
Sometimes we, or third parties acting on our behalf, may need to transfer Personal Information outside of the UK. We’ll always take steps to ensure that any transfer of Personal Information outside the UK is carefully managed to protect your privacy rights and ensure that adequate safeguards are in place. This might include transfers to countries that the UK considers will provide adequate levels of data protection for your Personal Information (such as countries in the European Economic Area) or putting contractual obligations in place with the party we are sending information to. Transfers within the JBI Online group will be covered by an agreement entered into by members of the JBI Online group (an intra-group agreement) which contractually obliges each group company to ensure that your Personal Information receives an adequate and consistent level of protection wherever it is transferred within the group.
For more information about data transfers and the safeguards we have put in place, please contact us.
9. Marketing
We may use Personal Information to send direct marketing communications about our products and services that we feel you’ll be interested in. This may include marketing relating to products offered by other brands or companies within the JBI Online group.
Marketing communications may be sent by email, post, SMS, telephone and push notification. You may also see display advertising on websites, mobile applications, social media, television or in online search results.
You have control over our use of your Personal Information in relation to marketing communications. You can:
‘Opt-out of receiving direct marketing. When you register with us, request an online quote, or purchase a product or service you will be given the opportunity to opt-out. In addition, our email, post, SMS and telephone marketing communications include information to help you manage your marketing preferences;
Change your marketing preferences at any time by emailing us at contactus@jbionline.com or writing to us at JBI Online, Freepost, Mailing Exclusion Team, Unit 5, Wanlip Road Ind Est, Syston, Leicester, LE7 1PD. If you are registered for My JBI Online you can change your marketing preferences at any time from within your account.
Please note that opting out of one type of marketing, e.g. by email or telephone, doesn’t mean you will be opted out of all marketing. Bear this in mind when you manage your preferences. You can always contact us directly if you would like us to stop all forms of direct marketing.
We try to limit marketing and only send you offers and promotions that you might be interested in, based on the Personal Information we have about you and the profiling that we have carried out (further details can be found under the sub-heading ‘Marketing profiles’ below). We won’t send you unsolicited messages (spam).
Please remember that if you opt-out of receiving marketing, we will still send you communications relating to your products. If you choose to opt-out of tailored offers and advertising, you may still see generic advertising displayed online and in My JBI Online, it just might not be as relevant to you.
Cookies and similar technologies
We rely on third-party advertising technology (such as the deployment of cookies or small text files on our website or pixels within emails) to collect information about you. This technology is used to optimise what you may see on our websites and deliver content when you are browsing elsewhere. We may also collect information about your use of other websites. We do this to provide you with advertising that we believe may be relevant for you, as well as to improve our own products and services.
For further information about cookies and other technologies we use on our website and how to manage cookies, please see our Cookie Policy.
Social media and online platforms
We share Personal Information with media agencies and social media and other online platforms to help us target our online marketing. Social media and other online platforms may also use Personal Information they hold and combine it with Personal Information received from us to create target audiences. These are audiences that we think would be interested in our online advertising. This may involve social media and other online platforms building a ‘lookalike’ profile of the type of person we are trying to target and providing specific adverts to those people when they browse the internet or use social media.
If we use or share Personal Information with third parties in order to send you direct marketing, we will respect the marketing preferences you have set. We recommend you routinely review the privacy notices and preference settings that are available to you in My JBI Online and any online platforms and smart devices you use as they will dictate how adverts and other messages are displayed and shared across those platforms.
Marketing profiles
We use automated processes to help us provide more personalised marketing of our products. To do this, our automated process creates a marketing profile for you using information such as:
identification data;
behavioural data (e.g. data relating to your use of our website);
your gender and age;
contact data;
status data (e.g. number of children in the household);
product-related data (e.g. policy identifiers);
device and vehicle-related data.
Our process analyses this data to determine the most relevant products, services, offers or benefits to offer you and to decide the appropriate time and channel for offering them to you.
Information obtained in relation to one product may be used in relation to marketing other products from the JBI Online group.
10. Data Rights
You have legal rights under data protection laws in relation to your Personal Information. Read below to learn more about each right you may have.
We may ask you for proof of identity when you make a request to exercise any of these rights. We do this to ensure we only disclose information to the right individual.
We aim to respond to all valid requests within one month. It may take us longer if the request is particularly complicated or you have made several requests. We’ll always let you know if we think a response will take longer than one month. We may also ask you to provide more detail about what you want to receive or are concerned about.
We may not always be able to do what you have asked. This is because your rights will not always apply, e.g. if it would impact the duty of confidentiality we owe to others, or if the law allow us to deal with the request in a different way. We will always explain to you how we are dealing with your request. In some circumstances (such as the right to erasure or withdrawal of consent), exercising a right might mean that we can no longer provide our product to you.
For further information about or to exercise any of your rights, please contact us. If you wish to make a subject access request, please fill out this form.
Your rights are as follows:
Access to your Personal Information
You may ask us for a copy of your Personal Information together with specified details about how we use your information. This is commonly known as a ‘subject access request’.
If you wish to make a subject access request, please fill out this form or write to us using the details in Contacting JBI Online.
If your request is made electronically, we will where possible, respond to you electronically. Otherwise, we will normally respond in writing unless you request otherwise.
Rectification of your Personal Information
We do our best to ensure that your Personal Information is accurate and kept up to date. If you believe your information is inaccurate or incomplete, then please contact us to request that we amend or update it.
Erasing your Personal Information
You may ask us to erase your Personal Information, but this right only applies in certain circumstances, e.g. where:
it is no longer necessary for us to use your Personal Information for the original purpose;
our lawful basis for using your Personal Information is consent and you withdraw your consent; or
our lawful basis is legitimate interests and there is no overriding legitimate interest to continue using your Personal Information if you object.
This isn’t an absolute right and we have to balance your request against other factors such as legal or regulatory requirements, which may mean we cannot erase your Personal Information.
Restricting processing of your Personal Information
You may ask us to stop using your Personal Information in certain circumstances such as:
where you have contacted us about the accuracy of your Personal Information and we are checking the accuracy;
if you have objected to your Personal Information being used based on legitimate interests.
This isn’t an absolute right and we may not be able to comply with your request.
Data portability
In some cases, you can ask us to transfer Personal Information that you have provided to us to another third party of your choice. This right only applies where:
we have justified our use of your Personal Information based on your consent or the performance of a contract with you; and
our use of your Personal Information is by electronic means.
Right to object
You can object if you no longer wish to receive direct marketing from us. Please see Marketing for further information.
You may also object where you have grounds relating to your particular situation and the lawful basis we rely on for using your Personal Information is our (or a third party’s) legitimate interests. However, we may continue to use your Personal Information where there are compelling legitimate grounds to do so.
Automated decision making and profiling
You have the right not to be subject to a decision that is based solely on automated processing (without human involvement) where that decision produces a legal effect or otherwise significantly affects you. This right does not apply if the decision is:
necessary for the purposes of a contract between us and you;
authorised by law (e.g. to prevent fraud); or
based on your explicit consent.
You do however have a right to request human intervention, express your view and challenge the decision.
Withdrawing consent
In some circumstances, we ask for your consent to use your Personal Information. You are free to withdraw your consent at any time.
If it is the case that we need your consent to provide you with a particular product and you wish to withdraw your consent, we may no longer be able to provide our product to you. Where that is the case, we will inform you before taking any action.
11. Contacting JBI Online
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or how to exercise your rights, please contact our Data Protection Officer:
Write to: The Data Protection Team, JBI Online, 329 Putney Bridge Road, London SW15 2PG
Email us: DATAPRT@jbionline.com
If you’d like to submit a subject access request, please fill out this form or write to us at the above address.
If you’re not happy with the way we’re handling your Personal Information, you have a right to make a complaint with your local data protection supervisory authority at any time. In the UK this is the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). We ask that you please attempt to resolve any issues with us before contacting the ICO.
12. Updates
This Privacy Policy is updated from time to time to take account of changes in our business activities, legal requirements and to make sure it’s as transparent as possible, so please check back here for the current version. You can see when this Privacy Policy was last updated by checking at the top of this page.