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Effective Date: May 2025
Introduction
We at Kletta Limited (“Kletta”, “we”, “our” or “us”) respect your privacy and are strongly committed to keeping secure any information we obtain from you or about you.
We process Personal Data in accordance with:
as well as with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) guidance or best practice, and in accordance with the requirements of our contracts agreed with our customers (brokers, insurers, MGAs or other insurance intermediaries).
UK GDPR and EU GDPR are collectively referred to in this policy as “GDPR”. All terms used within our privacy policy have the meaning(s) given to them under the GDPR.
This privacy policy explains how we collect, use, and share information about you when you access or use Kletta’s websites, the Kletta Portal, or our services (collectively, “Services”) or otherwise interact with us, for example, when you attend a Kletta event or interact with us on any of our social media platforms.
The individuals from whom we may gather and use data include:
1.1. Data Controller
Kletta Limited is your Data Controller and is responsible for your Personal Data.
1.2. What Is Personal Data?
“Personal Data” 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).
All Personal Data we collect is reasonable and necessary to enable us to perform our Services. We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of Personal Data about you which we have grouped together and listed below. Not all of the types of data listed may necessarily be collected from you, but this is the full scope of data that we may collect:
1.3. Special Categories of Data
We may in limited scenarios also process what is known under the GDPR as special categories of Personal Data. In order to collect this special kind of data we need enhanced legal justifications beyond the ordinary legal justifications under the GDPR. All special categories data collected is listed in the Privacy Table below.
2.1. Personal Data You Provide to Us Directly
Kletta collects Personal Data that you provide to us directly, for example, when you make use of our Services, book a demo or request customer support. The types of data we collect are set out in the Privacy Table below.
2.2. Personal Data We Receive Automatically
2.2.1. Use of Kletta Services
Kletta collects Personal Data when you visit, use, or interact with our Services. The types of data we collect are set out in the Privacy Table below.
2.2.2. Open Banking Transactional Data
If you choose to link your bank accounts as part of Kletta’s Open Banking Services, we use an open banking account information service, provided by Plaid Financial Ltd. Please note:
Kletta is an agent of Plaid Financial Ltd., an authorised payment institution regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority under the Payment Services Regulations 2017 (Firm Reference Number: 804718). Plaid provides you with regulated account information services through Kletta as its agent.
Regulated account information services include balance, transaction and merchant data for bank accounts that you give express permission to link to our service, for the purposes of reconciliation services. You can view Plaid’s privacy policy at https://plaid.com/legal/#consumers
2.2.3. Cookies
We may collect Personal Data from website users through cookies. Further details can be found in our Cookie Policy.
2.3. Personal Data Collected from Other Sources
We may collect Personal Data about you from other third-party sources. This could include:
3.1. Legal Bases for Processing
Kletta only processes your Personal Data when we have a valid legal basis to do so. This will depend on what information we collected and the context for processing it. Generally, we only collect and process Personal Data on the following bases:
3.2. Privacy Table
We have set out below, in table format, a description of all the ways we plan to use the various categories of your Personal Data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so.
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Privacy Table |
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Purpose |
Type of Data |
Legal Basis |
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To generate leads for potential customers of our Services. |
Profile/Identity Data Contact Data |
Legitimate Interest (to carry out direct marketing; develop our products and services; and grow our business) |
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To register you as a new user, verify your identity for access to our Services and deliver the Services. |
Profile/Identity Data Contact Data Technical Data |
Consent Contractual Obligation |
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To manage our relationship with you including notifying you of changes to the Services or when you report a problem or submit a query. |
Profile/Identity Data Contact Data |
Consent Contractual Obligation Legal Compliance |
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To use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, customer relationships and experiences and to measure the effectiveness of our communications and marketing. |
Profile/Identity Data Technical Data Usage Data Marketing and Communications Data |
Legitimate Interest (to define the types of customers for our products and services; to keep our website and Services updated and relevant to develop our business; and to inform our marketing strategy) |
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To make recommendations to you about goods or services which may interest you including events. |
Profile/Identity Data Technical Data Usage Data Marketing and Communications Data |
Legitimate Interest (to carry out direct marketing and develop our products and services to grow our business) |
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To (a) detect, investigate, and prevent fraudulent transactions and other illegal activities; (b) protect the security of our IT systems, architecture, and networks; and (c) protect the safety of you and other users. |
Profile/Identity Data Technical Data Special category data: in carrying out customer due diligence we may request that you provide certain biometric data to us (e.g. a copy of your official ID or passport), which is considered special category data. |
Legal Compliance Special category data: Explicit Consent |
3.3. Kletta as Data Controller
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 you wish to get an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please contact our Data Protection Officer.
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, where this is required or permitted by law.
3.4. Kletta as Data Processor
In our capacity as Data Processor, we process data on behalf of our customers, who are the Data Controllers, and with whom we have a contractual agreement that dictates how we may process this data.
As Data Processor, Kletta has the following responsibilities:
3.5. How We Protect Personal Data
We are strongly committed to keeping your Personal Data secure and protecting it from inappropriate disclosure. We implement a variety of security measures to ensure this, including:
Any Personal Data collected by us is only accessible by a limited number of employees who have special access rights to such systems and are bound by obligations of confidentiality.
If and when we use subcontractors to store your data, we will not relinquish control of your Personal Data or expose it to security risks that would not have arisen had the data remained in our possession.
However, unfortunately no transmission of data over the internet is guaranteed to be completely secure. It may be possible for third parties not under the control of Kletta to intercept or access transmissions or private communications unlawfully. While we strive to protect your Personal Data, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any Personal Data you transmit to us. Any such transmission is done at your own risk. If you believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure, please contact us.
Sometimes we may need to share your Personal Data with third parties. This will usually be because you have asked us to, or:
We may also share Personal Data with interested parties in the event that:
When we share Personal Data with third parties which are providing us with services, or providing services to you on our behalf, we always have an agreement in place to ensure protection of your Personal Data i.e. that it is only used for agreed purposes and in accordance with applicable laws such as the GDPR.
We may also collect, use, and share information that is non-Personal or has been aggregated and de-identified in a way that cannot be used to identify you, for any purpose permitted under applicable law.
We will only retain your Personal Data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for. We may retain your Personal Data for a longer period than usual in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you. Any specific retention periods we have established for specific processing activities will be set out in the Privacy Table above. The following retention criteria are applied:
If a specific retention period cannot be determined, data will be reviewed periodically to ensure it is still necessary for the purposes outlined above.
6.1. Your Rights
Under certain circumstances, you have the following rights under data protection laws in relation to your Personal Data:
6.2. Exercising Your Rights
If you think we hold any Personal Data about you which is incorrect or if there are any changes to your Personal Data, please let us know so that we can keep our records accurate and up to date.
We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure you have the 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.
You will not have to pay a fee to access your Personal Data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, if your request is clearly unfounded, we could refuse to comply with your request.
Please note that where Data Subjects exercise their rights in respect of the data held by our customers (Data Controllers), we will make every effort to support them in fulfilling their obligations. Any support we do provide is as agreed with our customers in our customer agreements or other relevant contracts.
To request access to the personal data we hold about you, or to amend, update, or correct your information, please email support@kletta.com. We will provide you with the relevant application form to complete and return. Please note that we can only begin processing your request once the form has been fully completed and submitted to us.
6.3. Your Control Over Kletta’s Use of Your Personal Data
If you do not want us to use your Personal Data for purposes set out in our privacy notice, we may not be able to provide you with access to all or parts of our Services. However, you may delete your account or user profile with us at any time. This will remove your account page from our systems and our related software.
We do not guarantee the ability to delete all stored data. If you would like us to delete personally identifiable data, let us know and we will take action on your request as soon as practicable.
Your account information is protected by a password for your privacy and security. You need to prevent unauthorised access to your account and personal data by selecting and protecting your password appropriately; limiting access to your computer or device; and by signing off after you have finished accessing your account.
7.3. Third-Party Links
Our website or other social media platforms may include links to third-party websites, plug- ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our site, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.
7.4. Interpretation
All uses of the word "including" mean "including but not limited to" and the enumerated examples are not intended to in any way limit the term which they serve to illustrate.
Any email addresses set out in this policy may be used solely for the purpose for which they are stated to be provided, and any unrelated correspondence will be ignored. Unless otherwise required by law, we reserve the right to not respond to emails, even if they relate to a legitimate subject matter for which we have provided an email address. You are more likely to get a reply if your request or question is polite, reasonable and there is no relatively obvious other way to deal with or answer your concern or question (e.g. FAQs, other areas of our website, etc.).
7.5. About this Privacy Policy
This policy is not intended to be a contractual document unless expressly stated in any relevant contract we enter.
We keep our Privacy Policy under review and will place any updates here.
By using Kletta’s Services, you consent to the collection and use of data by us as set out in this Privacy Policy. Continued access or use of Kletta’s Services will constitute your express acceptance of any modifications to this Privacy Policy.
You have the right to lodge a complaint with the data protection supervisory authority responsible for data protection matters in your location. For the UK, this is the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).
This policy may change from time to time and is effective from date of posting to our website and Kletta Platform. For significant changes we will also let you know by email or through the Kletta Platform and Kletta App.