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From the 30th August 2019 Canada Square Operations are no longer able to accept any new PPI complaints or PPI Checker requests.

If you wish to contact us you can do so by writing to us at the below address:
Canada Square Operations Limited
P O Box 4903
Worthing
BN99 3AR

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4. Categories of Personal Information we Process

The categories of Personal Data about you are as follows:

  • Personal Identifiers: your first and last names and initials, your gender; date of birth, marital status (tax identification number(s), citizenship.
  • Protected Personal Identifiers: samples of your signature, copies of passports, driver license, state or national identity cards, or any other unique identification numbers that are considered sensitive personal information, such as US Social Security Numbers, India Aadhar Unique Identifiers and similar.
  • Family and related person details: the names and contact details of family members and former dependents or beneficiaries of trusts, and details of your attorneys or persons representing you.
  • Business contact details: your business or home address; telephone number; email address; and social media profile details.
  • Employment History: industry; role; business activities; names of current and former employers; their work address; telephone number; work email address.
  • Financial data: Account identifiers such as bank Identifiers codes account numbers; credit card numbers; cardholder or accountholder name and details; instruction records; transaction details; and counterparty (e.g. payee) details.
  • Telecommunications and Electronic Communications information: Information obtained in telephone conversations (including VoIP), and video conferencing services (e.g., Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Cisco or others) including numbers, the service used, participants to the call, etc. We may record such calls (with your consent if required) and use anti-fraud tools (such as automated identification of biometric patterns) to detect threat actors, and for your protection. We may also use automated AI tools to prepare automatic summaries or notes of such conversations using Zoom AI Companion or Microsoft Teams Copilot.


About Sensitive Personal Data: We do not archive nor collect protected categories of data indicated in Articles 9 or 10 of the GDPR.

5. Legal bases, purposes, and categories of personal information

The Data Controller and Citi entities, branches, subsidiaries, or affiliates, may process your personal information for the reasons set out below.

Legal Bases Purposes of Processing Categories of Personal Information
(a) Where the processing is necessary in relation to a surviving provision of a contract a Divested Business had with you
  1. To allow a continuing third party to whom your account or product was transferred, to access your personal and transactional data records, and
  2. To comply with instructions that we may receive from you through those third parties.
Personal Identifiers
Protected Personal Identifiers
Family and related person details
Business contact details
Employment History
Financial Details
(b) Where we are required by applicable law
  1. To disclose information to governmental entities or regulatory authorities, courts or other parties, relating to past transactions or relating to a continuing transaction (such as a bond) intermediaries and counterparties.
  2. For compliance activities such as audit and reporting, assessing and managing risk, maintenance of accounting and tax records. or instructions from financial regulators, for the investigation and prosecution of fraud, anti-money laundering (AML) and other forms of economic crime, for debt recovery, prevention and measures relating to international sanctions and combating terrorism. This includes know-your-customer screening; investigating historical allegations of bribery and impropriety which involves screening client records against internal and external databases to establish connections to politically exposed persons or ‘PEPs’); and with any entity to maintain a trust. We may for these purposes process information from you. and/or your current or former spouse or partner, and other persons living in your household.
  3. To retain telephone conversations and electronic communications with you that resulted in transactions, and to keep samples of your signature likeness and handwriting.
  4. To process any historical claims in relation to the United Kingdom PPI (Payment Protection Insurance) class action.
Personal Identifiers
Protected Personal Identifiers
Family and related person details
Business contact details
Employment History
Financial Details
(c) Where necessary for Citi or an identified third party’s legitimate interests (as listed here)
  1. To comply with obligations with the bank or financial institution that is the continuing party of an account or product previously opened at Citi and to whom we owe a duty.
  2. To analyse the former use of Citi services, for risk assessment and control, for statistical and trend analysis, for compliance with IT policies and system administration, operation, testing and support, and to operate information storage systems, minimising and aggregating your information as necessary to achieve this objective.
  3. To help detect, investigate and prosecute fraud and other criminal activity, and share this data with Divested Entities (and to the extent permitted by law with other financial entities) and to assess past and current suspicious transactions and financial activities.
  4. For compliance with duties under applicable foreign legislation including in respect of US persons, the U.S. Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), and legislation applicable to ours.
  5. To manage our information technology and to ensure the security of our and third-party storage systems.
  6. To disclose information to and comply with instructions of third country governmental, tax or regulatory bodies, and financial markets, brokers or other intermediaries, counterparty, court, auditors or other third parties and to conduct compliance activities, in our, or someone else's interests, in connection with any transaction or instruction anywhere in the world (and specifically outside the territories in 1.1) and to make such disclosures (even to the detriment of the client or its beneficiaries) to prudential regulators in respect of US persons, including under the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and the Common Reporting Standard.
  7. To make applications for protective orders or directions to courts supervising Citi as Trustee or to establish, exercise or defend legal claims and to protect and enforce Citi’s rights, property, or safety, or to assist our clients or others to do this.
  8. To investigate and respond to past complaints about us or our business, or any incidents relating to us or our business (including the Payment Protection Insurance (PPI) class action in the United Kingdom) and to help maintain service quality and train staff, to deal with complaints and disputes.
Personal Identifiers
Protected Personal Identifiers
Family and related person details
Business contact details
Employment History
Financial Details
(d) With your consent, where you instruct us to perform any new operations
  1. Under your direction, to establish a relationship with a financial institution other than Citi, in which we may release all necessary historical personal data and execute all secrecy waivers and consents for disclosure and data processing required by that other financial institution.
  2. Prior to making a distribution of funds from the issuer of a closed (but still active) investment, Citi may require that an interest holder provide authorisation and consent.
  3. For the executing repayments of historical debts into your accounts.
Personal Identifiers
Protected Personal Identifiers
Family and related person details
Business contact details
Financial Details
Telecommunications and Electronic Communications Data.
6. Processing of personal information based on the legal basis of consent and the effects of refusal, withdrawal, or revocation of Consent.

We do not retain historical account or product information under the legal basis of consent.

Where your consent is required for any further processing (for example if you request any personal data rights, or you ask us to transfer your financial information) you may withhold or withdraw your consent by contacting us using the details previously indicated in Section 3. However, if you do so, we will not be able to perform any specific instructions that require your consent. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the validity or legality of any activities carried out prior to its withdrawal or revocation.

7. Processing of personal information pursuant to a statutory or contractual requirement, and consequences of not providing such Information

We do not collect or create information about you on the bases of a statutory or contractual requirements. If we do so by virtue of a change in legislation, we will amend this statement to inform you.

8. Access to personal information and International Data Transfers

We disclose your personal information, as applicable:

  1. to the bank or financial institution that acquired the divested consumer finance business portfolio and, subject to legal restrictions, to in-country Citi affiliates, for the purpose of winding down a business line and other purposes identified in this Privacy Statement.
  2. in case of threatened or filed litigation, to our counsel and external advisors.
  3. in case of substantial business risks and as permitted by applicable law, to our parent and group companies, who may process and exchange personal data with the responsible Citigroup chief trust officer, senior risk officer, compliance officer, tax officer, anti-money laundering officer, fraud officer, audit officer, data protection officer, control officer, Citi leadership team, and Citi managers;
  4. at the request of any financial institution, payment infrastructure provider, custodian, sub-custodian, fund houses, fund administrators or issuers of securities, in relation to any maturing payment or repayment of a closed (but still active) trust, loan or investment.
  5. as required in order to establish, exercise or defend or to protect legal proceedings, including in relation to contracts with our clients and in order to protect the rights, property, or safety of us, our business, any Citi entities, our clients or others including to legal, tax or other professional advisors, government and law enforcement authorities, and with other parties involved in, or contemplating, legal proceedings;
  6. with authorities in any jurisdiction including any government, judicial, or regulatory body of which your Data Controller entity is subject to, in the following cases: (i) if false or inaccurate information was gathered, in case of a criminal or money laundering investigation, (ii) for or in connection with an examination of us by our parent bank or other examiners; (iii) pursuant to subpoena or other legal process; (iv) at the express direction of any other authorised government agency; (v) to our internal or external attorneys or auditors; (vi) to others to whom the Data Controllers are required to make such disclosure by applicable law, including attorneys nominated to represent you under a Lasting Power of Attorney or by the Court of Protection under the Mental Capacity Act 2005.
  7. we will also disclose your information:
    1. Without divulging or giving access to your banking or transaction details, to our sub-contractors who we have engaged for storage of your information under robust confidentiality undertakings.
    2. to any bank, financial institution, law firm or company that processes insurance or legal claims (including class actions) on your behalf, whether contractual or not, arising out of a closed or divested relationship, and to the Credit Management Companies you have given authority to; and
    3. to third parties providing data services to us, in respect of any claims or queries arising out of, or in relation with, any agreement that existed between you and us, including specifically our processors (a) Equiniti (in the UK) and (b) Tata Consulting Services (TCS) in Singapore and other countries.
    Where we transfer data for storage, or grant access for processing to entities outside the UK or the EU/EEA, to countries that have not attained a formal Adequacy decision by the European Commission and the UK government, we put in place standard contractual clauses (SCCs) in the form contained in the European Commission Implementing Decision (EU)2021/914 with an UK Addendum, or rely on other valid data transfer mechanisms. We also conduct data transfer impact assessments and set up specific measures to cover any gaps the impact assessment may highlight.
9. Where does Citi store your personal information?

We archive your personal and financial data within the UK and the EU, or as authorised by local regulators, within secured IT virtual servers or private cloud networks, and physical deep archive solutions subcontracted by Citi for electronic and paper records archival entities. Please note that only us, and the bank or financial institution that acquired our consumer finance business, and our respective financial regulators, have a legal right to access or audit personal or financial data.

Due to the nature of electronic communications, data processors store transient copies that are subsequently deleted after the customer data is processed, without a requirement to retain those transient copies under applicable law.

10. Data Storage and Retention Periods

Personal data processed in connection with a closed or divested consumer business is stored during the term in which the relevant product was open or ‘active, followed by a retention period, the length of which is reasonably determined by Citi, taking into consideration regulatory requirements to store bank data for a certain period after termination. In the UK, most information is deleted after 7 years from the closure of your product, unless the product documentation was executed as a Deed, in which case that term is 12 years. Individual transaction records are retained five (5) years after the transaction. In certain cases, such as where an audit, litigation or regulatory requests are taking place, we retain data until these are completed.

11. What automated decision-making does Citi carry out?

There is no automated decision-making or profiling with your personal data that may result in legal, or substantially similar effects. We do not re-process data nor share it for marketing or other purposes.

We will only use automated processing tools in respect of your data where you contact us, to detect threat actors and for your own safety, as described in the Telecommunications and Electronic Communications category.

12. Your rights in relation to your personal information

12.1 You can ask us to: (a) provide a copy of your personal information; (b) correct errors or mistakes in your personal information; (c) erase your personal information after the data storage and retention periods described in this document; (d) transfer your personal information to other organisations; and (e) restrict processing of your personal information. These rights are limited by law, in particular as this privacy notice relates to the processing of historical data stored in ‘vaults,’ certain rights relating deletion or transfer to a designated person may be impossible or involve a disproportionate effort. Citi does not use or share any data relating to divested consumer finance businesses for marketing purposes.

12.2 If you wish to exercise your data rights, or if you have any queries about your personal information, please contact Canada Square Operations Limited using the contact details provided in Section 2.1 of this Privacy Statement. If you have any unresolved concerns, you can reach out to our GDPR Data Protection Officer. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office as detailed in Section 2.

13. Cookies and Online Identifiers

For information on Cookies and Online Identifiers, please refer to the Cookie Preferences section on our global websites. Canada Square Operations Ltd, the Data Controller, does not have websites.

14. Changes to this Privacy Statement

If we modify this Privacy Statement at any time we will place the modified versions on this website. We encourage you to regularly review this Privacy Statement to ensure that you are always aware of what personal information we collect and how we use, store, and disclose.