Privacy policy

privacy policy

WEBSITE PRIVACY NOTICE FOR KENNEDY WILSON EUROPE

LAST UPDATED: August 2019

INTRODUCTION

Kennedy Wilson Europe (“KW”, “Kennedy Wilson”, “we”, “us” or “our”) respects the privacy rights of individuals and is committed to handling personal information responsibly and in accordance with applicable law.

Kennedy Wilson Europe and other Kennedy Wilson group companies are data controllers in respect of your data.

CONTACT DETAILS

If you have any specific issues relating to this privacy notice, would like a list of Kennedy Wilson group companies who may process your data, or any wider privacy issues relating to us, please get in touch via our Contact Us page at

www.kennedywilson.com or by sending an email to privacy@kennedywilson.eu.

SCOPE OF THIS NOTICE

This Privacy Notice only applies to personal information we collect through this website (the ‘Site’). If you are a tenant or prospective tenant of a Kennedy Wilson property, please see our Privacy Notice for Tenants.

The Privacy Notice does not apply to other third-party websites that you may reach through links on this Site. If you access other third-party websites using the links provided, the operators of these websites may collect information from you which will be used by them in accordance with their privacy notice, which will differ from ours.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT FROM YOU AND HOW IT IS USED

If you browse this Site, subscribe to a mailing list, use a contact form or participate in other initiatives or activities that we may offer or operate though the Site from time to time, we may take some of your details.

The information we may collect and process about you and how it could be used broadly falls into the categories below.

Visitors to the website

When you visit our Site, we may collect certain information automatically from your device. In some countries, including countries in the European Economic Area, this information may be considered personal information under applicable data protection laws.Specifically, the information we collect automatically may include information like your IP address, device type, unique device identification numbers, browser-type, broad geographic location (e.g. country or city-level location), mobile network information, your mobile operating system, the type of mobile browser you use, and time zone setting and other technical information.We may also collect information about how your device has interacted with our Site, including the pages accessed and links clicked.

Online registration for information regarding the property

The information you provide by registering your details on the Site requesting news or information about the property or our offering of services; contacting us via an online contact form; including your title, name, contact details, and preferences.

We may use this information to understand your needs and provide you with the services you have requested.

Contacting us/ Responding to our emails

If you contact us we may keep a record of that correspondence and the information you provide and any amended information you provide when responding to our emails including your title, name, contact details and changes to your contact preferences.

If you contact us, we will only use your information in relation to any further correspondence with you and to ensure that the information we hold about you is kept accurate and up to date.

Photo/ Video Sharing/ Forums/ Blogs/ Social Media websites relating to the property

The information or images you provide when you post content to or comments on, or otherwise submit material for publication in, various areas of our Site, including our chat forum, bulletin board, blog, micro-blog, forum, video and photo galleries and other interactive areas.

We may use this information in line with specific competition terms or terms of use of external social media providers, published from time to time and will be available to you at the time of entry or posting.

Use of WiFi facilities at the property

The information you provide when registering to use this service, including your title, name and contact details, usage of the service.

Providing you with the WiFi facility; additionally, if you also register or are already registered with us, we will note that you used the WiFi facility and only where necessary, monitor and track any usage for keeping the property secure at all times.

LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING PERSONAL INFORMATION

Our legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described above will depend on the personal information concerned and the specific context in which we collect it.

We will normally collect personal information from you only (i) where we need the personal information to perform a contract with you, (ii) where the processing is in our legitimate interests and not overridden by your rights, or (iii) where we have your consent to do so. In some cases, we may also have a legal obligation to collect personal information from you or may otherwise need the personal information to protect your vital interests or those of another person.

If we collect and use your personal information in reliance on our legitimate interests (or those of any third party), this interest will normally be to operate our platform and communicating with you as necessary to provide our services to you and for our legitimate commercial interest, for instance, when responding to your queries, improving our platform or undertaking marketing.

HOW LONG WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION FOR

We will keep your personal information for as long we have an ongoing legitimate business need to do so (for example, to provide you with a service you have requested or to comply with applicable legal, tax or accounting requirements).

When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymise it or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.

WHO DO WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION WITH

We may disclose your personal information to:

to our group companies, our owners and affiliates, third party services providers, suppliers and partners that process information on our behalf and assist in providing our services to you (for example, to support the delivery of, provide functionality on, or help to enhance the security of our Site), or who otherwise process personal information for purposes that are described in this Privacy Notice or notified to you when we collect your personal information;
to any competent law enforcement body, regulatory, government agency, court or other third party where we believe disclosure is necessary (i) as a matter of applicable law or regulation, (ii) to exercise, establish or defend our legal rights, or (iii) to protect your vital interests or those of any other person. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection;
to potential buyers or financiers or replacement owners or operators of all or part of our business on the basis of our legitimate interests and the interests of such person, so that they can appropriately value the business and assess any risks relating thereto;
to any other person with your consent.

WHERE WE STORE OR PROCESS YOUR INFORMATION

The information we collect from you may be transferred to, processed and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”) or UK. Specifically, KW’s servers are located in the UK