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Website Terms and Conditions

These Website Terms and Conditions apply to all visitors to our website and anyone whom has access to our website’s content. These Website Terms and Conditions set out the terms under which you may use our website and its content. Please read these Website Terms and Conditions carefully before using our website. If you do not agree to these Website Terms and Conditions, you must not use our website.

Your acceptance of these Website Terms and Conditions

Your use of our website and its content means that you accept and agree to abide by these Website Terms and Conditions and you have read our website Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy.

We recommend that you a print a copy of this for future reference.

Information about us

This website is operated by Luc Capital Limited. Luc Capital Limited (referred to here as ‘we’, ‘us’ or ‘our’) is a Company Registered in England and Wales under Company Registration Number 09251575.

Changes to and access to our Website

We may update our website from time to time and we may change the content at any time. However, please note that any of the content on our website may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update it. We do not guarantee that our website, or any content on it, will be free from errors or omissions.

We do not guarantee that our website, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. Access to our website is permitted on a temporary basis. We may suspend, withdraw, discontinue or change all or any part of our website without notice. We will not be liable to you if for any reason our website is unavailable at any time or for any period.

You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our website.

You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our website and/or its content through you and/or your internet connection are aware of these Website Terms and Conditions and that they comply with them.

No reliance on information

The content on our website is provided for general information only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our website.

Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our website, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our website is accurate, complete or up-to-date.

Intellectual property rights

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property in our website, and in the content published on it. Those works are protected by intellectual property laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.

Your use of the content of our website must be in accordance with these Website Terms and Conditions and it must be fair and legal and not damage our reputation or take advantage of it.

You may print off or download one copy of any page(s) from our website for your personal use.

You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any content you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.

Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on our website must always be acknowledged.

You must not use any part of the content on our website for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us and/or our licensors.

Linking to our Website

You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it.

The website in which you are linking must not breach any applicable laws or regulations, in particular, but not limited to, the website in which you are linking must not:

Contain any material which is defamatory of any person.
Contain any material which is obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory.
Promote sexually explicit material.
Promote violence.
Promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age.
Infringe any copyright, database right or trade mark of any other person.
Be likely to deceive and/or mislead any person.
Be made in breach of any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence.
Promote any illegal activity.
Be threatening, abuse or invade another’s privacy, or cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety.
Be likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person.
Be used to impersonate any person, or to misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person.
Advocate, promote or assist any unlawful act such as (by way of example only) copyright infringement or computer misuse.

You must not use a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part.

You must not link to our website in any website that is not owned by you.

Our website must not be framed on any other website, nor may you create a link to any part of our website other than the home page.

We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.

Cyber Threats

We do not guarantee that our website will be secure or free from cyber threats, including for example, bugs or viruses.

You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform in order to access our website. You should use your own protection against cyber threats.

You must not misuse our website by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our website, the server on which our website is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our website. You must not attack our website via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack. By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our website will cease immediately.

Prohibited uses

You may not use our website in any way that breaches any applicable laws or regulations, in particular but not limited to, you may not use our website:

In any way that is fraudulent or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect.
To transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam).
To knowingly transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware.

Failure to comply with these Website Terms and Conditions

We will determine, in our discretion, whether there has been a breach of these Website Terms and Conditions by you.

Failure to comply with these Website Terms and Conditions may result in, but not be limited to, our taking all or any of the following actions:

If you print off, copy or download any part of our website in breach of these Website Terms and Conditions, your right to use our website will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return and/or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.
Legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all costs on an indemnity basis (including, but not limited to, reasonable administrative and legal costs) resulting from the breach.
Further legal action against you.
Disclosure of such information to law enforcement authorities as we reasonably feel is necessary.

To the extent permitted by law, we exclude liability for our actions taken in response to breaches of these Website Terms and Conditions.

Limitation of our liability

Nothing in these Website Terms and Conditions excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, or our fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited by English law.

To the extent permitted by law, we exclude our liability for all conditions, warranties, representations or other terms which may apply to our website or any content on it, whether express or implied.

We will not be liable for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with:

use of, or inability to use, our website; or
use of or reliance on any content displayed on our website.

We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a cyber security related issue including but not limited to a virus, distributed denial-of-service attack, or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our website or to your downloading of any content on it, or on any website linked to it.

Where our website contains links to other websites and resources provided by third parties, these are provided for your information only. We have no control over the contents of those websites or resources. We assume no responsibility for the content of websites linked on our website or third-party resources. Where our website contains links to other websites and third-party resources this should not be interpreted as endorsement by us of those linked websites and third-party resources. We will not be liable for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

Applicable law

These Website Terms and Conditions, its subject matter and its formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by English law and is subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

Changes to these Website Terms and Conditions

We may revise these Website Terms and Conditions at any time by amending this page. You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we make, as they are legally binding on you.

Contact us

To contact us, please email us using the contact email address on our website.

Thank you for visiting our website.

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Privacy Policy

Luc Capital Limited Privacy Policy

Please provide this Privacy Policy to any individuals concerned before you disclose their information to Luc Capital Limited and please ensure that you only disclose information which you have the authority to disclose.

Who we are

Luc Capital Limited (referred to here as ‘we’, ‘us’ or ‘our Firm’) is a Company Registered in England and Wales under Company Registration Number 09251575.

Why should you read this Privacy Policy?

During the course of dealing with us, you may provide us with personal information relating to your existing and historical circumstances, including your financial situation and we may obtain some information about you from third parties (Your Personal Data). This Privacy Policy is important as it allows us to explain to you what we may do with Your Personal Data, and the various rights you have in relation to Your Personal Data.

What do we mean by Your Personal Data?

Your Personal Data means any information that describes or relates to your personal circumstances. In the context of our relationship with you, Your Personal Data may include:

Title, names, date of birth, gender, nationality, civil/marital status, contact details, addresses and documents that are necessary to verify your identity and comply with anti-money laundering legislation
Employment and remuneration information, (including salary/bonus schemes/overtime/sick pay/other benefits), employment history
Bank account details, tax information, loans and credit commitments, credit history, sources of income and expenditure, family circumstances and details of dependents
Details and information relating to companies or businesses you are or have been associated with, including, for example, financial information
Any pre-existing investments, mortgages, finance and insurance arrangements and the terms and conditions relating to these
Online identifiers, location data and website log information, including information such as Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, pages accessed, date and time of requests, source of access, browser version and operating system
Identification numbers
Any feedback you give to us
Details relating to our relationship with you including, for example, file notes and copies of our correspondence with you such as via email or social media
Details about whether or not you have consented to us contacting you for marketing purposes
Other information which, when alone or combined, may be sufficient to identify an individual

The content of Your Personal Data processed by us will depend upon the nature and stage of your relationship with us.

Why do we process Your Personal Data?

We must have a lawful basis in order to process Your Personal Data, the legal basis we rely on include:

Consent: You have agreed to us processing Your Personal Data for a specific purpose, for example, if you have expressly consented to us contacting you for marketing purposes

Performance of a contract: If we enter into a contract with you, in order to perform our obligations under the contract, we would need to process Your Personal Data

Legal obligation: For example, this may include processing Your Personal Data to comply with the Financial Conduct Authority’s regulatory requirements’ or for wider compliance with other legal or regulatory obligation to which we are subject

Vital interests: If the processing of Your Personal Data is necessary to protect you or someone else’s life

Legitimate interests: We may need to process Your Personal Data in certain circumstances where it is in our legitimate interest to do so provided your rights do not override our interests, including, for example:

Either in the course of initial discussions with you or when any contract between us has come to an end for whatever reason, we may need to process Your Personal Data. Including, for example, to respond to requests from lenders and our compliance service provider relating to any advice we have given to you, or to make contact with you to seek feedback on the service you received
For providing access to our website, such as to enable the website to load in web browsers used to visit it and website error indication
To obtain services essential to the conduct of our business, such as IT Support
To contact you regarding finance products that are in line with our previous dealings
To establish, exercise or defend legal claims or whenever courts are acting in their judicial capacity
For fraud prevention, security or indication of possible criminal acts or threats to public security

How do we collect Your Personal Data?

We will collect and record Your Personal Data from a variety of sources, but mainly directly from you. You may provide information to us verbally and in writing, including email. We may also obtain some information from third parties, for example, searches of information in the public domain (such as Companies House website) and electronic ID check providers. With regards to electronic ID checks, we would not require your consent but will inform you of the purpose for which it is used.

We also collect website information using cookies when you visit our website, please see our Cookie Policy for further information.

How do we use Your Personal Data?

How we use Your Personal Data will depend upon the nature and stage of your relationship with us.

If you have enquired regarding our professional services or are a client who entered into a contract for our services:In the course of handling Your Personal Data, we may record and store Your Personal Data in our paper files, mobile devices and on our computer systems (websites, email, hard drive and cloud facilities). This information can only be accessed by employees and service providers/consultants acting for our Firm and only when it is necessary to discuss your enquiry or provide our service to you and to perform any tasks associated with or incidental to that and/or associated with the conduct of our business, including, for example, compliance with regulatory obligations.

We may submit and share Your Personal Data to third parties verbally, in paper form and electronically. The provision of this information to a third party may be essential in providing any services to you, in progressing any enquiry or application made on your behalf, dealing with any additional questions or administrative issues that arise and to perform any tasks associated with or incidental to that and/or associated with the conduct of our business, including, for example, compliance with regulatory obligations.

These third parties may include, but may not be limited to: lenders, product providers, product specialists, brokers, packagers, estate agents, providers of legal services such as estate planners, conveyancing, surveyors and valuers, our compliance service providers/advisers, electronic identity check providers, government bodies, regulators (e.g. Information Commissioner’s Office, Financial Conduct Authority), the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) and companies who supply services to our business (for example IT service providers, legal and other professional services).

In each case we will share Your Personal Data where we believe this to be required due to your particular circumstances (for example, to progress your finance application) and because it is incidental to providing any services to you and conducting our business.

We may also use Your Personal Data to respond to any queries you may have or to inform you of any relevant developments of which we might become aware.

Please note that this sharing of Your Personal Data does not entitle any third parties to send you marketing or promotional messages.

If you are a third party (for example client representatives, lenders, suppliers and business associates):In the course of any interactions with you, we may record and store Your Personal Data in our paper files, mobile devices and on our computer systems (websites, email, hard drive and cloud facilities). This information can only be accessed by employees and service providers/consultants acting for our Firm and only when it is necessary to conduct our business and to perform any tasks associated with or incidental to that.

We may also submit and share Your Personal Data with third parties verbally, in paper form and electronically. The provision of this information to a third party may be essential in allowing us to conduct our business and deal with any administrative issues that may arise.

These third parties may include, but may not be limited to: individuals enquiring about our professional services, our clients, lenders, product providers, our compliance service providers/advisers, product specialists, brokers, packagers, estate agents, providers of legal services such as estate planners, conveyancing, surveyors and valuers, electronic identity check providers, government bodies, regulators (e.g. Information Commissioner’s Office, Financial Conduct Authority), the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) and companies who supply services to our business (for example IT service providers, legal and other professional services).

We may use Your Personal Data to respond to any queries you may have or to inform you of any relevant developments of which we might become aware.

Please note that this sharing of Your Personal Data does not entitle any third parties to send you marketing or promotional messages.

International Data Transfers

We process Personal Data inside and outside of the United Kingdom (UK).

Our processes and our use of 3rd party service providers may result in your Personal Data being transferred to and processed in:

the European Economic Area (EEA), there are UK “adequacy regulations” in place regarding UK to EEA transfers; and
other countries outside of the UK for which UK “adequacy regulations” may not be in place, and these transfers are based on other transfer mechanisms, for example, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) International data transfer agreement (ITDA), the European Commission’s standard contractual clauses (EC SCCs) combined with the ICO international data transfer addendum to the EC SCCs, or Binding Corporate Rules (BCRs).

Please note that, when you access the website/services of a 3rd party service provider, you may be doing so as an end user of their services in your own capacity independent of us and, for example, the processing of your personal information by that provider may depend on your own actions including, for example, the location you choose to register your account with the provider or to access the provider’s website/services from.

Security of Your Personal Data

Your privacy is important to us and we will keep Your Personal Data secure in accordance with our legal responsibilities. We will take reasonable steps to safeguard Your Personal Data against it being accessed unlawfully or maliciously by a third party.

We also expect you to take reasonable steps to safeguard your own privacy when transferring information to us, such as not sending confidential information over unprotected email, ensuring email attachments are password protected or encrypted and only using secure methods of postage when original documentation is being sent to us.

Our website contains links to other websites and this Privacy Policy does not apply to other websites so if you link to other websites you should read their own privacy information.

Retention of Your Personal Data

We retain Your Personal Data both electronically and/or in paper format.

If you enquire regarding engaging our professional services and provide us with Your Personal Data in respect of this, but we do not consider that we have provided you with advice and/or we do not consider that we have entered into a contract with you for our services, then we will generally store Your Personal Data for a period of one year to allow us to re-open the enquiry should you contact us during that time.

If we provide you with advice and/or enter into a contract with you, Your Personal Data will be retained by us for a minimum of fifteen years, or in instances whereby we have the legal right to do so (for example, due to legal and regulatory obligation and/or the potential need to establish, exercise or defend legal claims, including, but not limited to, defending complaints made to the Financial Ombudsman Service), we may retain Your Personal Data indefinitely.

If you are a third party, Your Personal Data will be retained in accordance with the nature of our relationship with you and the aspects of our business to which our dealings relate. If, for example, Your Personal Data is in any way related to a client enquiry or contract it may be retained for the retention periods applicable to the enquirer/client as outlined above.

If you are a third party who supplies (including employees and sub-contractors of a supplier) a service and/or product to us or we are considering using your service and/or product, we may keep a record of our correspondence with you and related records, collated in order to understand your offering and as part of our due diligence processes (including for example, responses to our enquiries about the nature of the product and/or service and enquiries as to your data protection processes) for internal assessment purposes and in order to demonstrate compliance with our legal and regulatory obligations. If we decide to proceed with the product and/or service under consideration, Your Personal Data will be retained by us for a minimum of fifteen years, or in instances whereby we have the legal right to do so (for example, due to legal and regulatory obligation and/or the potential need to establish, exercise or defend legal claims), we may retain Your Personal Data indefinitely. If after our assessment we decide not to proceed with the product and/or service under consideration, Your Personal Data will be deleted by us after a period of one year or, in instances whereby we have the legal right to do so (for example, due to legal and regulatory obligation and/or the potential need to establish, exercise or defend legal claims), from fifteen years up to an indefinite period.

Your rights in relation to Your Personal Data

You can:

request copies of Your Personal Data that is under our control
ask us to further explain how we use Your Personal Data
ask us to correct, delete or require us to restrict or stop using Your Personal Data (details as to the extent to which we can do this will be provided at the time of any such request)
ask us to send an electronic copy of Your Personal Data to another organisation should you wish. This only applies to the information which you personally provide to us
change the basis of any consent to marketing that you may have provided, including withdrawing any consent to marketing in its entirety by ‘Opting Out’. ‘Opting Out’ means that we will either remove Your Personal Data from our marketing database or limit our contact with you to the means you specify (for example, by email only), but we reserve the right to retain it for any other purpose explained in this Privacy Policy. If you would like to ‘Opt Out’ of marketing please email privacy@luccapital.co.uk or telephone 07886279773.

How to make contact with our Firm in relation to the use of Your Personal Data

If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, or wish to make contact in order to exercise any of your rights set out within it please contact William Lucey by emailing privacy@luccapital.co.uk or telephoning on 07886279773.

If we feel we have a legal right not to deal with your request, or to action it in a different way to how you have requested, we will inform you of this at the time.

You should also make contact with us as soon as possible on you becoming aware of any unauthorised disclosure of Your Personal Data, so that we may investigate and fulfil our own regulatory obligations.

If you have any concerns or complaints as to how we have handled Your Personal Data you may lodge a complaint with the UK’s data protection regulator, the ICO, who can be contacted through their website at https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/ or by writing to Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We keep our Privacy Policy under regular review and we will place any updates on our Privacy Policy website page.

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Cookie Policy

About this Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy is designed to explain to you how this website uses Cookies and Cache. Within this Cookie Policy, the word ‘Device’ refers to any electronic medium you may use to visit our website upon which Cookies and other similar technologies may be placed e.g. a computer or a mobile phone.

Why does this website use Cookies & Cache?

This website uses necessary Cookies and Cache to make our website work and to assist with website loading. Cookies are small bits of text that are downloaded onto your Device when you visit a website. Cache works by downloading information onto your Device which, for example, assists website content to load more efficiently.

What Cookies and Cache does this website use?

Name: luccapital.co.uk, runyourown.website

Type: Cache, Cookies

Purpose: to enable viewing and to assist with website loading

Name: fonts.googleapis.com, gstatic.com

Type: Cache

Purpose: website font

Name: ajax.googleapis.com, jquery.com

Type: Cache

Purpose: JavaScript code

Managing Cookies & Cache

You can seek to control the setting of Cookies and Cache and delete them by adjusting your browser settings. This may affect your use of our website.

You’ll find more information about cookies at www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org, which gives further information on how to manage your browser settings and delete Cookies from your Device. For additional information on how to do this on your mobile phone browser, for example, you may need to consult your user manual.