Privacy

Privacy Notice

This website is owned by Faster Payments Scheme Limited (“FPS”). FPS takes the handling of your personal information seriously. This privacy notice explains how we may use information we collect about you. We ask that you please read this privacy notice carefully as by accessing the website you confirm to have understood and agreed to it.

Information we collect about you and how we use it

We collect information about you when you register and when you contact us (either via the online “contact us” button, by submitting a request for change or in writing). By providing us with your name and email address you agree that we may contact you by this method. To improve our service we may monitor or record our communications with you. FPS may use your information to:
- manage, operate and improve the website.
- tell you about changes to the website.
- tell you about changes to the documents.
- assist us in training, analytics, regulatory reporting and testing exercises.
- meet any legal obligations.

FPS will not disclose your personal data to any third party without your prior consent.
FPS may share your personal information with our service providers (acting on our behalf to administer the service).
FPS does not send your personal data outside of the European Economic area.

Security

Whilst we will take all reasonable steps to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee the security of any Personal Information you disclose online. You accept the inherent security implications of dealing on-line over the Internet and will not hold us responsible for any breach of security unless we have been negligent and then only to the limits set out in the Website Terms and Conditions.

Use of cookies

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. A cookie is a small piece of data or message that is sent from a web server to your browser and is stored on your hard drive. A cookie cannot read data from your hard disk or read cookie files created by other websites. Cookies help to deliver a better and more personalised service. You may refuse to accept cookies or be alerted as to when a cookie is being sent by activating the relevant setting on your browser. If you choose not to accept cookies this Website will not function properly.

The cookies used by this website are listed below with a description:

ASP.NET_SessionId This cookie is used to identify the users session on the server. The session being an area on the server which can be used to store data in between http requests.

LOGINCOOKIE This cookie is used by the portal to avoid spoofing. ‘Spoofing’ is falsifying the origin of an internet communication in order to mislead the recipient.

Changes to our Privacy Notice

We reserve the right to change the Privacy Notice at any time.