Leveo Limited (together with its affiliated companies – “Leveo”, “we”, “our” or “us”) puts great efforts in making sure that your personal data is kept safe and used properly and responsibly. We offer Master Broker services to Introducers, Borrowers and Lenders who offer loan solutions, secured against a wide range of assets including buy-to-let and commercial properties, land (with or without planning) and properties requiring refurbishment or change of use (our “Services”).

This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, store, use and disclose the following types of personal data:

  1. Borrower Data relating to individuals or companies who are borrowers or potential borrowers of Novellus Finance Limited(“Borrower(s)”);
  2. Introducer Data relating to individuals (Introducers, Partners and Brokers) who engage with Leveo and its affiliates and may provide personal data regarding potential Borrowers. (“Introducer(s)”);
  3. Lender Data relating to individuals (employees and contact people) who are employed by Lenders or contacted by Leveo on behalf of Lenders (“Lender Employees”).
  4. Sites Usage, Customer Relationship Management (“CRM”) & Prospect Data, relating to visitors of our website, participants at our events, business clients, partners, and any prospective Borrower and Introducer who visits or otherwise interacts with any of our websites, online ads and content, emails or other communications under our control (“Leveo Sites” or “Sites”).

Specifically, this Privacy Policy describes our practices regarding the following with respect to our Services:

  1. Data Collection
  2. Data Uses
  3. Data Location and Retention
  4. Data Sharing
  5. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
  6. Communications
  7. Data Security
  8. Data Subject Rights
  9. Data Controller/Processor
  10. Additional Notice & Contact Details

If you are Borrower, Introducer, Site visitor (“you”), please read this Privacy Policy carefully and make sure that you fully understand and agree to it.

You are not legally required to provide us with any personal data, and you are free to do so or not to do so. If you do not wish to provide us with your personal data, or to have it processed by us or any of our Service Providers (defined below), please refrain from accessing, using or registering to our Services or sending us your personal data.

 

1. Data Collection

(i) Borrower Data: we may collect the following types of personal data relating to our customers (“Borrower Data”):

(ii) Introducer Data: we may engage with Introducers, and receive information relating to potential Borrowers form them.

We may collect and generate the following types of personal data relating to Introducers (“Introducer Data”):

(iii) Lender Data: we may engage with Lenders and engage with Lender Employees.

We may collect and generate the following types of personal data relating to Lender Employees (“Lender Data”):

(iv) Sites Usage, CRM & Prospective Client Data, and Human Resources Data: we may collect and generate the following types of personal data concerning our website visitors, partners Introducers, Borrowers and prospective Borrowers (collectively, “Non-Services Related Data”):

We collect the above Non-Services Related Data either automatically, through the data subject’s interaction with us or with our Sites or Services; or through third party services, social media, analytics tools, events we organize or participate in, and other business initiatives.

To the extent that any of the above-mentioned data pertains only to a non-human entity (e.g., the phone number or bank account of a company or business), we will not regard it as “personal data” and this Privacy Policy will not apply to it.

 

2. Data Uses

We use personal data as necessary for the facilitation and performance of our Service; to comply with our legal and contractual obligations; and to support our legitimate interests in maintaining and improving our Services; providing customer service and technical support; and protecting and securing our clients, partners, ourselves and our Service.

Further detail about the legal basis on which we rely for each type of processing can be found in the table below.

Borrower, Introducer & Lender Data

Purpose

Legal basis for processing

Provision of our Services

  • Performance of a contract.
  • Legitimate Interest

To comply with applicable laws and regulations

  • Compliance with a legal obligation

Sending marketing communications

  • Legitimate Interest
  • Consent

To support and enhance our data security measures, including for preventing and mitigating the risks of fraud, money laundering, error or any illegal or prohibited activity.

  • Legitimate Interest
  • Compliance with legal obligations

To create aggregated data, inferred non-personal data or anonymized or pseudonymized data (de-identified data), which we or our business partners may use to provide and improve our respective Services, conduct research, or for any other purpose

  • Legitimate Interest

To comply with applicable laws and regulations

Compliance with legal obligations

Non-Services Related Data

Purpose

Legal basis for processing

To facilitate, operate, and provide our Service

  • Legitimate Interest
  • Performance of a Contract

To provide our visitors, Users, Borrowers, Introducers and Lenders with assistance and support.

  • Legitimate Interest
  • Performance of a Contract

To evaluate and develop new features, technologies, and improvements of our Services.

  • Legitimate Interest

To facilitate and optimize our marketing campaigns, ad management and sales operations, and to manage and deliver advertisements for our products and services more effectively, including on other websites and applications.

  • Legitimate Interest

To contact our Site visitors, Users, Borrowers Introducers and Lenders (whether existing or prospective) with general or personalized service-related messages, as well as promotional messages that may be of specific interest to them.

  • Legitimate Interest
  • Consent

To facilitate, sponsor and offer certain events, contests and promotions.

  • Legitimate Interest
  • Consent

To publish your feedback and submissions to our Sites, public forums and blogs.

  • Legitimate Interest
  • Performance of a Contract
  • Consent

To support and enhance our data security measures, including for the purposes of preventing and mitigating the risks of fraud, error or any illegal or prohibited activity.

  • Legitimate Interest

To create aggregated data, inferred non-personal data or anonymized or pseudonymized data (de-identified data), which we or our business partners may use to provide and improve our respective services, conduct research, or for any other purpose.

  • Legitimate Interest
  • Performance of a Contract
  • Compliance with legal obligations 

To comply with applicable laws and regulations.

  • Compliance with legal obligations

 

If you reside or are using the Services in a territory governed by privacy laws under which “consent” is the only or most appropriate legal basis for the processing of personal data (in general, or specifically with respect to the types of personal data you expect or elect to process or have processed by or via the Services, e.g. ‘special categories’ under the GDPR), your acceptance of our Privacy Notice and this Privacy Policy will be deemed as your consent to the processing of your personal data for all purposes detailed in this Policy. If you wish to revoke your consent, please contact us at [email protected].

 

3. Data Location & Retention

Data Location: Your personal data may be maintained, processed and stored by us and our authorized Service Providers (defined below) in multiple locations, including in the United States, Europe and the United Kingdom, as reasonably necessary for the proper performance and delivery of our Services, or as may be required by law.

While privacy laws may vary between jurisdictions, Leveo and its Service Providers are each committed to protect personal data in accordance with this Privacy Policy, customary industry standards, and such appropriate lawful mechanisms and contractual terms requiring adequate data protection, regardless of any lesser legal requirements that may apply in the jurisdiction to which such data is transferred. These may include transferring your personal data to a country which is considered to provide an ‘adequate’ level of protection to your personal data, or putting in place standard contractual clauses and additional security measures to ensure your personal data is protected.

 

Data Retention: We will retain your personal data for as long as it is reasonably necessary for us to maintain our relationship with you and provide you with our Services and offerings; in order to comply with our legal and contractual obligations; or to protect ourselves from, or defend, any potential or actual disputes (i.e. as required by laws applicable to log-keeping, records and bookkeeping, and in order to have proof and evidence concerning our relationship, should any legal issues arise following your discontinuance of use), all in accordance with our contractual terms and data retention policy. Generally speaking, we will hold Borrower Data (and any data related to financing we have provided) for a period of 5 years following the end of a contract.

Please note that except as required by applicable law or our specific agreements with you, we will not be obligated to retain your personal data for any particular period, and we are free to securely delete it or restrict access to it for any reason and at any time, with or without notice to you. If you have any questions about our data retention policy, please contact us by e-mail at [email protected].

 

4. Data Sharing

Legal Compliance: In exceptional circumstances, we may disclose or allow government and law enforcement officials access to your personal data, in response to a subpoena, search warrant or court order (or similar requirement) and where such disclosure is necessary to comply with applicable laws and regulations. Such disclosure or access may occur if we believe in good faith that: (a) we are legally compelled to do so; or (b) disclosure is appropriate in connection with efforts to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding actual or suspected illegal activity, fraud, or other wrongdoing; or (c) such disclosure is required to protect the security or integrity of our Services.

Service Providers: We engage selected third-party companies and individuals to perform services complementary to our own. Such service providers hosting and server co-location services, communications and content delivery networks (“CDNs”), billing and payment processing services, data and cyber security services, fraud detection and AML prevention services, web analytics, e-mail, text messages and web/mobile notification distribution, monitoring and analytics services, marketing services, document storage (e.g. SharePoint), collaboration and backup (e.g. Dropbox) services, social and advertising networks, content providers, e-mail, voicemails, support and customer relation management systems, and our legal, financial and compliance advisors (collectively, “Service Providers“).

These Service Providers may have access to your personal data, depending on each of their specific roles and purposes in facilitating and enhancing our Services, and may only use it for such limited purposes as determined in our agreements with them. Should you decide to directly engage with any of our Service Providers, please note that such engagement is beyond the scope of our Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy, and will therefore be covered by our Service Provider’s terms and policies.

Third Party Websites and Services: Our Services may also include links to third-party websites, and integrations with third party services. These websites and third-party services, and any information you process, submit, transmit or otherwise use with such websites and third-party services, are governed by the third party’s terms and privacy practices and policies, and not by this Privacy Policy. We encourage you to carefully read the terms and privacy policies of such website and third-party services.

Protecting Rights and Safety: We may share your personal data with others if we believe in good faith that this will help protect the rights, property or personal safety of Leveo, any of our users, partners or clients, or any members of the general public.

Our Subsidiaries and Affiliated Companies: We may share personal data internally within our group of companies, for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. In addition, should we or any of our subsidiaries or affiliates undergo, or propose to undergo, any change in control or ownership, including by means of merger, acquisition or purchase of substantially all or part of our assets, your personal data may be shared with the parties involved in such an event. If we believe that such change in control might materially affect your personal data then stored with us, we will notify you of this event and the choices you may have via e-mail.

For the avoidance of doubt, we may share your personal data in additional manners, pursuant to your explicit approval, or if we are legally obligated to do so, or if we have rendered such data non-personal and anonymous. We may transfer, share or otherwise use non-personal data at our sole discretion and without the need for further approval.

 

5. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

Cookies are packets of information sent to your web browser and then sent back by the browser each time it accesses the server that sent the cookie. Some cookies are removed when you close your browser session. These are “Session Cookies”. Some last for longer periods and called “Persistent Cookies”. We use both types.

We use Persistent Cookies to remember your log-in details and make it easier for you to log-in the next time you access the Services. We may use this type of cookies and Session Cookies for additional purposes, to facilitate the use of the Services’ features and tools.

Every browser allows you to manage your cookies preferences. Please bear in mind that disabling cookies may complicate or even prevent you from using certain parts of features of the Services.

For more information, please review our Cookie Policy.
We also use analytics tools such as Google Analytics. These tools help us understand your behavior on our Services, including by tracking page content, and click/touch, movements, scrolls and keystroke activities. Further information about the privacy practices of our google analytics is available at: www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/;

Further information about your option to opt-out of google analytics services is available at: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Please note that if you get a new computer or device, install a new browser, erase or otherwise alter your browser’s cookie file (including upgrading certain browsers), you may also clear the opt-out cookies installed once you opt-out, so an additional opt-out will be necessary to prevent additional tracking.

 

6. Communications

Service Communications: We may send you notifications (through any of the means available to us, including by email, SMS and mobile notifications) of changes or updates to our Services, billing issues, service changes, etc. Please note that you will not be able to opt-out of receiving certain service communications which are integral to how we operate our Services (for example, payment notices).

Promotional Communications: We may also notify you about additional loan offerings, events and special opportunities or any other information we think you will find valuable. We may provide such notices through any of the contact means available to us (e.g. phone, SMS, mobile notifications or e-mail), through the Services, or through our marketing campaigns on any other sites or platforms.

 

7. Information Security

We and our hosting services implement systems, applications and procedures to secure your personal data, and to reduce the risks of theft, damage, loss of data, or unauthorized access or use of personal data. These measures provide sound industry standard security. However, although we make efforts to protect your privacy, we cannot guarantee that the Services will be immune from any wrongdoings, malfunctions, unlawful interceptions or access, or other kinds of abuse and misuse.

 

8. Data Subject Rights

Individuals have rights concerning their Personal Data. If you wish to exercise your privacy rights under any applicable law, including the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) or the UK GDPR, such as the right to request access to, and rectification or erasure of your Personal Data held by Leveo, or to restrict or object to your Personal Data’s processing, or to exercise your rights to portability with respect to your Personal Data or your right to equal services and prices (each to the extent available to you under the laws which apply to you) – please contact us at: [email protected].

Please note that when you ask us to exercise any of your rights under this policy or applicable law, we may need to ask you to provide us certain credentials to make sure that you are who you claim you are, to avoid disclosure to you of personal information related to others and to ask you to provide further information to better understand the nature and scope of data that you request to access. Such additional data will be then retained by us for legal purposes (e.g. as proof of the identity of the person submitting the request), in accordance with Section ‎‎3 above.

We may redact from the data which we will make available to you, any personal data related to others.

 

9. Additional Notices

Updates and Amendments: We may update and amend this Privacy Policy from time to time by posting an amended version on our Services. The amended version will be effective as of the date it is published. We will provide prior notice if we believe any substantial changes are involved via any of the communication means available to us or via the Services. After such notice period, all amendments shall be deemed accepted by you.

External Links: While our Services may contain links to other websites or services, we are not responsible for their privacy practices. We encourage you to pay attention when you leave our Services for the website or application of such third parties, and to read the privacy policies of each and every website and service you visit. This Privacy Policy applies only to Leveo’s Services.

Our Services are not designed to be used by children under the age of 16: We do not knowingly collect personal data from children and do not wish to do so. If we learn that a person under the age of 16 is using the Services, we will attempt to prohibit and block such use and will make our best efforts to promptly delete any personal data stored with us with regard to such child. If you believe that we might have any such data, please contact us by e-mail at [email protected]

UK Representative: Leveo has appointed Novellus Capital Limited as their UK representative in the United Kingdom for data protection matters pursuant to Article 27 of the UK GDPR. Novellus Capital Limited may be contacted on matters related to the processing of personal data of residents of the UK, at [email protected].

Data Protection Officer: Leveo has appointed PrivacyTeam as our Data Protection Officer (“DPO”), for monitoring and advising on Leveo’s ongoing privacy compliance and serving as a point of contact on privacy matters for data subjects and supervisory authorities. If you have any comments or questions regarding our Privacy Policy, if you have any concerns regarding your privacy, or if you wish to make a complaint about how your personal data is being processed by Leveo, please contact our DPO at [email protected]

Questions, concerns or complaints: If you have any comments or questions regarding our Privacy Policy, or if you have any concerns regarding your personal data held with us, please contact us at: [email protected]

 

Effective Date: 1 July, 2022

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Amber

Amber

Head of Relationships

Amber has many years of industry specific experience, having worked both on the master broker side (at loans.co.uk) and for direct specialist lenders. Having sat both sides of the fence, this gives her a great advantage for quickly assessing and placing enquiries. Customer service is at the forefront of everything she does.

Mike

Commercial Director

Mike has a wealth of knowledge within both the mainstream and specialist finance sectors. He has worked at managerial and board level with some of the largest UK banks, specialist lenders and leading finance brokers. With over 25 years of deep industry experience, Mike will ensure Leveo delivers for our valued partners.

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Loyalty, integrity and persistence are at the forefront of what we do for you.

Our aim is to build rapport and trust and a longstanding relationship. A win-win for all parties involved is always our aim. We can work with brokers on behalf of clients or clients directly.

We utilise our own brand of systems, analysis tools and relationships to best promote and negotiate your case, we assign dedicated resource to each part of the process to gain you the best results we can, in a timescale that intends to exceed expectations. 

Introduction

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Leveo are a team of highly experienced and professional finance experts, dedicated to finding the right finance solution for you.

We have access to secure and competitive loan funding solutions and a Master Broker relationship with Novellus Finance Limited, where we receive exclusive terms and fast track processing available to our clients.

We are here to take the effort and complication out of navigating a complex market where different funders require different approaches from you. We are your trusted finance partner in Ireland, getting the solutions you need in a rapid and straightforward way, allowing you to focus on your core objectives for success. Contact our team today and allow us to start finding the finance you need.