Holidayrisk is a trading style of Globeshield International Ltd authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. This may be checked on the Financial Services Register by visiting https://register.fca.org.uk/ or by contacting the FCA on Call 0800 111 6768..
We act as agents for both the insurer and on your behalf to arrange, deal in and assist with the placing and administration of General Insurance policies. We have measures and controls in place to deal with any issues that may give concerns to conflicts of interest. Unless we advise you otherwise, we are acting on your behalf. We also act on behalf of insurers when collecting insurance premiums under risk transfer agreements.
In order to understand we will ask questions to assess your insurance requirements which may include us checking information that we already hold about you and your existing insurance arrangements with us. We do not give advice or make recommendations on your behalf. We will provide factual information about our products to assist you in making your own informed choices based on the information you provide us. Our services in all cases are limited to arranging and administering your insurance including assisting you with any on-going changes.
We will not refund the premium if you have travelled on the policy, or if you have made or if you intend to make a claim or an incident has occurred which is likely to give rise to a claim.
To cancel your policy, you must contact Holidayrisk by phoning Call 0203 859 7000, or emailing cs@holidayrisk.com or by writing to Holidayrisk, Unit 1 Princes House, 9-15 High Street, Slough, SL1 1DY. Opening hours are Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm.
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Period of cover: |
Refund due: |
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If cover has not started |
100% |
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Up to two (2) months |
60% |
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Up to three (3) months |
50% |
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Up to four (4) months |
40% |
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Up to five (5) months |
30% |
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Up to six (6) months |
25% |
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Six (6) months or over |
No refund |
Telephone calls that are made to the sales and medical screening line operated by Holidayrisk will be monitored and recorded for quality and assurance purposes. The medical screening line is available Monday to Friday 9.00am – 5.00pm. and closed on Bank Holidays.
By purchasing insurance through our website, you are deemed to have accepted our terms detailed in our policy wording.
Documentation of insurance policies purchased via the website will be delivered electronically, within one hour to the email address supplied to us.
In the event you do not receive your travel insurance documents, please telephone 020 3859 7000 where a member of the Holidayrisk Travel team will arrange to get them delivered to you by quickest method possible.
We are committed to providing you with an exceptional level of service and customer care. We realise that things can go wrong and there may be occasions when you feel that we have not provided the service you expected. When this happens, we want to hear about it so that we can try and put things right.
The most important factors in getting your complaint dealt with as quickly and efficiently as possible are:
If your complaint relates to the Website or the Holidayrisk call centre, please contact Holidayrisk by Telephone 0203 859 7000 or by Email: cs@holidayrisk.com or write to:
The Complaints Manager
Holidayrisk
Unit 1 Princes House
9-15 High Street
Slough
SL1 1DY
Please provide us your name, address and postcode, contact telephone number and e-mail address (should you have one).
If we are unable to resolve your complaint immediately, we will send you a written acknowledgement within (two) 2 days of receipt. We will then investigate your complaint and, in most cases, send you a full response in writing within 14 days weeks of receipt.
In exceptional cases, where we are unable to complete our investigations within two weeks, we will send you a full written response as soon as we can, and in any event within four (4) weeks of receipt of your complaint.
Financial Ombudsman Service
Exchange Tower
London
E14 9SR
Tel: 0800 023 4567 - From UK Landline
Tel: 0300 123 9123 - From UK Mobile
Email: complaint.info@financial-ombudsman.org.uk
Website: www.financial-ombudsman.org.uk
You have the right of referral within six months of the date of your final response letter. Whilst we and or/our UK service providers are bound by the decision of the Financial Ombudsman Service, you are not. Following the complaints procedure above does not affect your right to take legal action.
Holidayrisk respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy notice will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
This privacy notice aims to give you information on how Holidayrisk collects and processes your personal data through your use of this website, including any data you may provide through this website.
It is important that you read this privacy notice together with any other privacy notice or fair processing notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. This privacy notice supplements the other notices and is not intended to override them.
Holidayrisk is the controller and is responsible for your personal data (collectively referred to as Holidayrisk “we”, “us” or “our” in this privacy notice).
You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please contact us in the first instance.
It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.
Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).
We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:
Holidayrisk collects information from individuals through website, forms, and contact us sections via website sign ups.
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
Where you have positively opted into receive marketing communications from us, we will rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data. You have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by contacting us.
We have set out below, in a table format, a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate.
Note that we may process your personal data for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data.
Means processing your data where it is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party or to take steps at your request before entering into such a contract.
Comply with a legal or regulatory obligation means processing your personal data where it is necessary for compliance with a legal or regulatory obligation that we are subject to.
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We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so. Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.
In certain circumstances, we may be legally required to share certain data held by us, which may include your personal data, for example where we are complying with legal obligations, a court order, or a governmental authority.
We do not transfer your personal data outside the UK.
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality. We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements. In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data see below for further information.
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data:
You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.
We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.
We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.
We may update our Terms of Business & Privacy Policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website. This does not affect your statutory rights.
Our principal place of business is Unit1, Princes House, 9-15 High Street, Slough, SL1 1DY.