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Privacy Policy

Protecting your personal information is extremely important to us at Legal & General. It’s especially important for a large financial company like ours, as our customers trust us to look after a huge amount of sensitive information on everything from their business affairs to their medical history.

The way we collect, use, store and share your information is equally important. Our customers expect us to manage their information privately and securely.

If we don’t, they’ll lose their trust in us. This policy tells you how we collect and process your personal information. Please take a few minutes to read it, and show it to anyone else connected to your product or whose data you have shared with us. This policy may be subject to future change.

What does this policy cover?

This privacy policy relates to retail customers who request financial advice, obtain quotes, purchase our products or enter into agreements with us, and individuals that we cover under employer sponsored schemes. We have a separate privacy policy for professional business clients, which can be found on our website.

What is personal information?

When we talk about personal information we mean information about an individual that can identify them, like their name, address, e-mail address, telephone number and financial details. It can relate to customers (including prospective customers), their appointed representatives (e.g. powers of attorney), employees, shareholders, business contacts and suppliers. Any reference to “information” or “data” in this policy is a reference to personal information about a living individual.

What information do we hold?

We may collect and process the following personal information about you:

Type of dataDescriptionExamples of how we use it
ContactWho you are
Where you live (including previous addresses)
How to contact you
Third party contacts (e.g. family members offering or friends)
Servicing you product
Pension tracing
Marketing
Analysis & profiling
Enhancing our product and service offering
To provide financial advice
Product underwriting and pricing

Personal Details
Age
Gender
Family details
Visual images & personal appearance
Financial Details
Lifestyle and social circumstances
Health details
Employment Details
Marketing
Analysis & profiling
To provide financial advice
Product underwriting and pricing
Affordability checks (mortgages only)
Pension tracing
TransactionalBank and/or card details
How you use your product
Changes you make to your product
Servicing your product
To provide financial advice
Making sure our products and services are fit for purpose
ContractualYour claims history
Your creditworthiness

Product underwriting and pricing

Making sure the product is right for you
affordability checks (mortgages only)
Consent & preferencesWays you want us to market to you
To obtain information from third parties on your behalf
Marketing
Pension tracing
TechnicalDetails on the devices and technology you useMaking sure our products and services are fit for purpose
Open data & public recordsElectoral register
Land register
Other information about you that is openly available on the internet
To provide financial advice
Product & Service administration
Documentary data & national identifiersDetails about you that are stored in documents like:
Your passport
Drivers licence
Birth certificate
National Insurance number
Identification and verification Prevent financial crime

Where do we get our information from?

How do we use your information?

We use personal information that we hold about you:

When you apply for a product or to receive a service from us, the application form you fill out or the resulting contract may contain additional conditions relating to the way we use and process your personal information. These will apply in addition to the uses described in this document.

In some cases, we may use software or systems to make automated decisions (including profiling) based on the personal information we have, or collect from others. These may include:

Using your information in accordance with data protection laws

Data protection laws require us to meet certain conditions before we’re allowed to use your personal information in the way we describe in this privacy policy. We take these responsibilities extremely seriously. To use your personal information, we’ll rely on the following conditions, depending on the activities we’re carrying out:

This requires us to carry out an assessment of our interests in using your personal data against the interests you have as a citizen and the rights you have under data protection laws.

The outcome of this assessment will determine whether we can use your personal data in the ways described in this privacy policy (except in relation to marketing, where we’ll always rely on your consent). We’ll always act reasonably and give full and proper consideration to your interests in carrying out this assessment.

Please be aware that the personal information you provide to us, and which we collect about you, is required for us to be able to provide our services to you and without it we may not be able to do so.

How long do we keep your information for?

We’ll keep your personal information in accordance with our internal retention policies. We’ll determine the length of time we keep it for based on the minimum retention periods required by law or regulation. We’ll only keep your personal information after this period if there’s a legitimate and provable business reason to do so.

For pension products, we may retain your personal information indefinitely using the legitimate interests condition in order to support future enquires from you, your family or financial adviser and our regulators.

For certain research and statistical activities, we may indefinitely retain minimised personal information about you, including medical information, solely to define our actuarial, underwriting and pricing risk strategies. These activities will not be used to make a decision, or take measures, against you.

Who do we share your personal information with?

We’ll only disclose your information to:

Additionally, your information, including special category and criminal conviction data, may be disclosed to our reassurer and to any other insurance company to whom you apply for products or services.

If you’ve been introduced to us by another company (e.g. bank, insurer, building society, your employer or their financial adviser), we may share your information with them to enable them to:

Credit Reference Agencies (mortgage customers)

In order to process your mortgage application, we will supply your personal information to credit reference agencies (CRAs) and they will give us information about you, such as about your financial history. We do this to assess creditworthiness and product suitability, check your identity, trace and recover debts and prevent criminal activity.

A hard footprint will be left on your credit file, which may affect your credit score when an application has been submitted. This may or may not affect your ability to obtain credit from other providers.

Legal & General will also continue to exchange information about you with CRAs on an ongoing basis, including about your settled accounts and any debts not fully repaid on time. CRAs will share your information with other organisations. Your data will also be linked to the data of your spouse, any joint applicants or other financial associates.

The identities of the CRAs, and the ways in which they use and share personal information, are explained in more detail at:

Fraud prevention

The personal information Legal & General collects from you may be shared with fraud prevention agencies who will use it to prevent fraud and money laundering and to verify your identity.

If false or inaccurate information is provided and fraud is identified, details will be passed to fraud prevention agencies. Law enforcement agencies may access and use this information. We may also share information about you with other organisations and public bodies, including the police and we may check and/or file your details with fraud prevention agencies and databases.

If fraud is detected, you could be refused certain services, finance or employment. Further details of how your information will be used by us and these fraud prevention agencies can be found by accessing this link, www.cifas.org.uk/fpn

Legal & General and other organisations may also access and use this information to prevent fraud and money laundering, for example, when:

Legal & General and other organisations may access and use from other countries the information recorded by fraud prevention agencies. Please contact our Group Financial Crime department if you wish to receive the relevant details of the fraud prevention agencies:

Email: Financial.Crime@landg.com

Address: Legal & General Group Financial Crime, Four Central Square, Cardiff, CF10 1FS

Legal & General may also check the details of other parties related to your contract, including verification of identity. This includes beneficiaries, trustees, settlors, third party premium payers, executors or administrators of your estate, parties with power of attorney and any other beneficial owner.

General insurance only: claims history

Under the conditions of your product you must tell us about any insurance-related incidents, whether or not they give rise to a claim. When you tell us about an incident we’ll pass information relating to it to a database.

We may search these databases when you apply for insurance, in the event of any incident or claim or at a time of renewal, to validate your claims history or that of any other person or property likely to be involved in the product or claim.

Protecting your data outside the UK

The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the UK to third-party suppliers, delegates or agents. We’ll take all reasonably necessary steps to make sure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy, to ensure your personal information is handled with the same protections that we apply ourselves .

We’ll only transfer your data to a recipient outside the UK where we’re permitted to do so by law (for instance, (A) where the transfer is based on standard data protection clauses adopted or approved by the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office, (B) where the transfer is to a territory that is deemed ‘adequate’ by the UK, or (C) where the recipient is subject to an approved certification mechanism and the personal information is subject to appropriate safeguards, etc.). 

Unfortunately, sending information via e-mail is not completely secure; anything you send is done so at your own risk. Once received, we will secure your information in accordance with our security procedures and controls.

Your rights

You have rights under data protection law that relate to the way we process your personal data. More information on these rights can be found on the Information Commissioner’s website. If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please get in touch with your customer services team. Alternatively, you can also use the Contact Us section of our website. 

Your rights
1.The right to access the personal data that we hold about you.
2.The right to make us correct any inaccurate personal data we hold about you.
3.The right to make us erase any personal data we hold about you. This right will only apply where for example: We no longer need to use the personal data to achieve the purpose we collected it for you to withdraw your consent if we’re using your personal data based on that consent. Where you object to the way we use your data, and there is no overriding legitimate interest.
4.The right to restrict our processing of the personal data we hold about you. This right will only apply where for example:You dispute the accuracy of the personal data we hold You would like your data erased, but we require to hold it in order to stop its processing. You have the right to require us to erase the personal data but would prefer that our processing is restricted instead. Where we no longer need to use the personal data to achieve the purpose we collected it for, but you need the data for legal claims.
5.The right to object to our processing of personal data we hold about you (including for the purposes of sending marketing materials to you).
6.The right to receive personal data, which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. You also have the right to make us transfer this personal data to another organisation.
7.The right to withdraw your consent, where we’re relying on it to use your personal data (for example, to provide you with marketing information about our services or products).
8.For automated decisions (including profiling), you have right to:Obtain an explanation of the decision and challenge it. Request for the decision to be reviewed by a human being.

Contacts and complaints

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or wish to exercise any of your rights, including changing your marketing preferences, please get in touch with your usual Legal & General contact or your customer services team. Alternatively, you can also use the Contact Us section of our website.

If you have any concerns about the way we process your personal data, or are not happy with the way we’ve handled a request by you in relation to your rights, you also have the right to make a complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office. Their address is:

First Contact Team
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
SK9 5AF

Data Protection Officer

Legal & General has appointed a Data Protection Officer to provide independent expert advice and monitor compliance with data protection laws:

Name: Liz Bradley
E-mail address: Data.Protection@landg.com
Address: 1 Coleman Street, London EC2R 5AA

Last updated: January 2024