This Privacy Notice explains who we are and how we use your personal data. Personal data is any information that can be used to identify who you are as a unique individual.

Ecology Building Society is a controller of your personal data, this means that we make decisions on how we use personal data in the context of our business relationship with you. How we use this data is explained in this Privacy Notice.

Before we provide services to you, we undertake checks for the purposes of preventing fraud and money laundering and to verify your identity. These checks require us to process personal data about you.

The personal data you have provided, we have collected from you or we have received from third parties, will be used to prevent fraud and money laundering and to verify your identity.

Further details on how your information will be used by us and these fraud prevention agencies and your data protection rights can be found at www.cifas.org.uk/fpn.

When we use terms such as we, us and our in this notice, we mean Ecology Building Society.

We are registered with the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) under registration number Z5798250.