This policy applies to personal information we handle in connection with the Young Car Driver website and related communications. It is based on UK data protection law.
Who we are
Young Car Driver is a trading name of Autedia Limited, a company registered in England and Wales under company number 08775069.
Our registered office is 167-169 Great Portland Street, 5th Floor, London, W1W 5PF. This is our registered business address, but we do not offer in-person appointments. You can check Autedia Limited on Companies House.
Autedia Limited is registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office under registration number ZA148079. You can check Autedia Limited on the ICO register.
Autedia Limited is a credit broker, not a lender, and is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority under Firm Reference Number 948436. You can check Autedia Limited on the FCA Register.
For insurance introductions in the UK, Autedia Limited, FCA FRN 788341, acts as an Introducer Appointed Representative of Seopa Ltd, trading as Quotezone.co.uk, FCA FRN 313860.
You can check Autedia Limited and Seopa Ltd on the Financial Services Register.
For personal information collected directly through Young Car Driver, for example via our website, forms, or email, Autedia Limited is the data controller.
You can contact us about privacy by email at team@youngcardriver.com.
What this policy covers
This policy explains how we collect, use, store, and share personal information when you:
- use the Young Car Driver website
- contact us by email or through a form
- sign up to receive emails from us
- click through to one of our partners
- interact with our content, tools, or partner journeys
Our content focuses on UK drivers and UK rules, including Northern Ireland where relevant.
When you use a partner journey or third party website, their own privacy policy will explain how they handle your information.
What information we collect
Depending on how you use the site, we may collect information that identifies you or could be linked to you. This may include:
- Contact details, such as your name and email address
- Information you send to us, such as messages submitted through contact forms, email, or social media
- Newsletter and marketing preferences, such as whether you have opted in to receive emails from Young Car Driver
- Website and technical data, such as IP address, browser type, device type, pages visited, approximate location, referral source, and cookie information collected through server logs, analytics tools, and cookies, as explained in our Cookie policy
- Partner opt in information, such as your name and email address, where a partner shares limited details with us because you have clearly opted in to receive communications from Young Car Driver
We do not directly collect bank details, payment card details, credit application data, or insurance quote form data through the main Young Car Driver website.
If you apply for finance, compare insurance, or complete a quote journey through one of our partners, the information you enter is usually collected directly by that partner under their own privacy policy.
We do not receive your full quote or application details from partners unless this is clearly stated.
How we collect your information
Some information is collected automatically when you use the site, for example through cookies and similar technologies. Other information is provided directly by you, for example when you fill in a form, email us, or opt in to receive communications.
We may collect information when you:
- use our website
- submit a contact form
- email us
- sign up to our newsletter
- click links or buttons on our site
- accept or manage cookies
- interact with our partner journeys
- opt in through a partner to hear from Young Car Driver
We do not operate phone support.
How we use your information
We may use your personal information to:
- respond to your enquiry
- send newsletters or updates where you have opted in
- manage your email preferences
- improve our website and content
- understand how people use the site
- monitor site performance and security
- keep business, compliance, and regulatory records where needed
- meet legal, regulatory, accounting, or reporting requirements
This includes obligations under UK data protection law, privacy and electronic communications rules, and, where relevant, FCA rules and expectations.
Our lawful bases for using your information
We only use personal information when we have a lawful basis to do so.
We will explain which lawful basis we rely on where this is not obvious, and we try to use consent only where you have a genuine choice.
The lawful bases we may rely on include:
- Consent, for example when you sign up to receive marketing emails or accept certain cookies
- Legitimate interests, for example responding to enquiries, improving the site, measuring performance, protecting the site from misuse, and keeping reasonable business records
- Legal obligation, for example where we need to keep records or respond to regulators, authorities, or legal requirements
- Contract or steps before a contract, where relevant, for example if you ask us to provide information or assistance that we agree to provide, or where we need to process your information to manage our relationship with you
You can withdraw consent at any time where we rely on consent.
Partner journeys
Young Car Driver works with selected partners for services such as car finance and insurance comparison.
If you click through to a partner, you may be taken to a third party website or a partner managed journey. That partner may collect your personal information directly.
For example, if you use an insurance quote journey, the information you enter is collected and processed by the relevant partner, such as Quotezone, under their own privacy policy.
If you use a car finance journey, the information you enter is collected and processed by the relevant finance partner, such as CarFinance 247, under their own privacy policy.
Those partners are usually independent data controllers responsible for how they handle your personal information under their own privacy policies.
Partners are responsible for their own data collection, privacy notices, eligibility checks, decisions, products, services, and communications.
We encourage you to read their privacy policies and terms carefully before submitting any information.
In some cases, a partner may share limited information with us, such as your name and email address, where you have clearly opted in to receive communications from Young Car Driver. We only use that information for the purpose you opted in for.
When we share your information
We never sell your personal information.
We may share personal information only where there is a proper reason, such as:
- with service providers who help us run the site, manage emails, host data, analyse performance, or keep systems secure
- with partners where you have chosen to use a partner journey or opted in to receive communications from Young Car Driver
- with professional advisers, regulators, authorities, or legal bodies where required
- where needed to protect our rights, users, systems, or business
We use MailerLite to manage newsletter emails. Information stored in MailerLite is handled under their privacy and security arrangements.
Marketing preferences
You will only receive marketing emails from Young Car Driver if you have opted in.
Our emails may include updates about learning to drive, insurance, finance, buying a car, running a car, driving advice, or other Young Car Driver content.
You can unsubscribe at any time using the link in any email, or by contacting us at team@youngcardriver.com.
We do not send marketing emails about unrelated third party products, and we do not sell your personal information to others for their marketing.
Cookies and analytics
We use cookies and similar technologies to help the site work, understand how it is used, improve performance, and measure campaigns.
Some cookies are essential. Others are used only where consent is required.
Where required, analytics cookies are only used if you have given consent through our cookie consent tool.
You can manage cookies through your browser settings and, where available, through our cookie consent tool.
For more detail, please read our Cookie policy.
How we store and protect your information
We take reasonable technical and organisational steps to protect personal information from unauthorised access, loss, misuse, or disclosure.
Access to personal information is limited to people who reasonably need it for legitimate business purposes and who are subject to confidentiality obligations.
Where data is processed outside the UK, for example by some service providers, we aim to ensure appropriate safeguards are in place, such as standard contractual clauses or equivalent measures.
No website or online service can be guaranteed to be completely secure, but we take privacy and data protection seriously.
How long we keep your information
We only keep personal information for as long as we need it for the purpose it was collected.
This may include keeping information to:
- respond to enquiries
- manage email subscriptions
- keep records of consent and unsubscribe requests
- meet legal, accounting, regulatory, or reporting requirements
- protect our rights or deal with complaints
If you unsubscribe from marketing emails, we may keep a limited record of your email address so we can make sure we do not contact you again by mistake.
Your rights
You have rights under UK data protection law. These may include the right to:
- access your personal information
- ask us to correct inaccurate information
- ask us to delete your information
- ask us to restrict how we use your information
- object to certain uses of your information
- withdraw consent where we rely on consent
- ask for your information to be transferred where the right applies
- complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office
We may need to verify your identity before responding to some requests. Some rights may not always apply in full, for example where we need to keep certain records for legal or regulatory reasons.
To exercise your rights, email team@youngcardriver.com.
You can also contact the ICO at ico.org.uk if you are unhappy with how your data has been handled.
Updates to this policy
We may update this Privacy policy from time to time.
When we do, we will update the date at the top of the page.
Contact us
For questions about this Privacy policy or how we handle personal information, email team@youngcardriver.com.
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