Website Terms and Conditions of Use
Our Terms
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- These Terms explain how you may use this website (‘the Site’), which is provided
by us free of charge.
- References in these Terms to the Site includes the following websites and all associated
subdomains and web pages:
www.kissmydebt.com
- You should read these Terms carefully before using the Site.
- By accessing or using the Site or otherwise indicating your consent, you agree to be bound
by these Terms and Conditions, and policies referred to in them.
- If you do not agree with or accept any of these Terms and Conditions and/or Privacy Policy,
you should stop using the Site immediately.
- If you have any questions about the Site, please contact us by:
e-mail: info@theiadesk.com
- Our Services
- Kissmydebt.com is an introductory firm whom provides a free service to the public.
- The information within this site must not be interpreted as financial or legal advice, and
is only written for informational purposes.
- Upon receiving your customer enquiry for debt help. We may contact you to ensure the
information we hold for you is accurate.
- Upon validation of your information provided, we may transfer your data with your consent to
a service provider.
- The service provider shall provide you with regulated financial or legal advice, and may
further advise the most relevant debt solution suitable to your needs based on your personal
circumstance.
- For the avoidance of doubt, kissmydebt.com acts solely as an introducer and shall not
provide you with any form of regulated advice whatsoever.
- In some instances we may receive a commission for introducing you to the service provider.
The remuneration paid to our company allow us to provide this service for free to the public
and additionally allows us to maintain the upkeep of this site for your use.
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- Definitions
Content
means any text, images, video, audio or other multimedia content, software or other
information or material submitted to or on the Site;
Terms
means these terms and
conditions of use as updated from time to time;
Intellectual property rights
means rights such as copyright, trade marks, domain names, design rights, database rights, patents and
all other intellectual property rights of any kind whether or not they are registered or unregistered
(anywhere in the world);
Unwanted Submission
has the meaning given to it in the section entitled “Submitting
information to the site”;
Privacy policy
means the policy
(https://kissmydebt.com/privacy-policy/), which governs how we process any personal data collected from
you;
Site
has the meaning given to it in clause 1.1;
We, us or
our
means The AI Desk Ltd Company registration number 07812164 the registered office
of which is at:
Unit 19, 1-13 Adler Street London, E1 1EG
The AI Desk Ltd is an introducer firm.
References to us in these Terms also includes any group
companies which we may have from time to time.
You or your
means the person accessing
or using the Site or its Content.
Partner Advisor
means a 3rd party
entity who is appropriately regulated to provide financial advice in relation to your online enquiry.
- We are regulated by</li
Information Commissioner’s Office DPA
no.ZA228693
(hereafter our “Regulators”)
- Your use of the Site means that you must also comply (where applicable) with: our Privacy policy
- We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to change, modify, add or remove portions of these
Terms of Use, at any time. It is your responsibility to check these Terms of Use periodically for
changes. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of changes will mean that you accept
and agree to the changes.
- The Site is for your personal, non-commercial and non-exclusive use only. As long as you comply with
these Terms of Use, The AI Desk Ltd grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, and
non-commercial limited privilege to enter and use the Site.
- You may not use any “page-scraper”, “robot”, “spider”,
“deep-link” or other automatic device, program, algorithm or methodology, or any similar
or equivalent manual process, to access, copy, acquire, or monitor any part of the Site, or in any
way reproduce or circumvent the navigational structure or presentation of the Site or any Content,
to obtain or attempt to obtain any materials, documents or information through any means not
purposely made available through the Site.
- You may not attempt to gain unauthorized access to any part or feature of the Site, or any other
systems or networks connected to the Site or to any of our servers, or to any of the services
offered on or through the Site, by password “mining”, hacking or any other illegitimate
means.
- You may not scan, probe or test the vulnerability of the Site or any network connected to the Site,
nor breach the security or authentication measures on the Site or any network connected to the Site.
- You may not reverse look-up, trace or seek to trace any information on any other user of or visitor
to the Site, or any other customer of ours, to its source, or exploit the Site or any service or
information made available or offered by or through the Site, in any way where the purpose is to
reveal any information, including but not limited to personal identification or information, other
than your own information, as provided for by the Site.
- You agree that you will not take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large
load on the infrastructure of the Site or our systems or networks, or any systems or networks
connected to the Site.
- You agree not to use any device, software or routine to interfere or attempt to interfere with the
proper working of the Site or any transaction being conducted on the Site, or with any other
person’s use of the Site.
- You may not forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any
message or transmittal you send to us on or through the Site or any service offered on or through
the Site. You may not pretend that you are, or that you represent, someone else, or impersonate any
other individual or entity.
- You may not use the Site or any Content for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these
Terms of Use, or to solicit the performance of any illegal activity or other activity which
infringes our rights or those of others.
- The Site is intended for use only by those who can access it from within the UK. If you choose to
access the Site from locations outside the UK, you are responsible for compliance with local laws
where they are applicable.
- You agree that you are solely responsible for all costs and expenses you may incur in relation to
any 3rd party agreements you consensually enter into such as an Insolvency Practitioners fees.
- Our services are not targeted towards, nor intended for use by, anyone under the age of 18. If you
are under the age of 18, you are not permitted to use our services.
- The services offered on this Site are completely free to use you and we do not charge you
whatsoever. However we may receive a commission from our selected partners for referring you to them
as an introducer.
- You are under no obligation to use our, nor our selected partners services by using this Site.
- We seek to make the Site as accessible as possible. If you have any difficulties using the
Site, please contact us at info@theaidesk.com
- We may prevent or suspend your access to the Site if you do not comply with any part of these Terms,
any terms or policies to which they refer or any applicable law.
Ownership, use and intellectual property rights
1 This Site and all intellectual
property rights in it, including but not limited to any Content, are owned by us, our licensors or both
(as applicable). We and our licensors reserve all of our and their rights in any intellectual property
in connection with these Terms. This means, for example, that we and they remain owners of them and free
to use them as we and they see fit.
2 Nothing in these Terms grants you any legal rights in the
Site other than as necessary to enable you to lawfully access the Site as intended and authorized by us.
You agree not to adjust to try to circumvent or delete any notices contained on the Site (including any
intellectual property notices) and in particular in any digital rights or other security technology
embedded or contained within the Site.
Submitting information to the Site
- While we try to make sure that the Site is secure, we cannot guarantee the security of any
information that is transferred or potentially intercepted over the internet. We therefore cannot
guarantee that it will be kept confidential. For that reason, you should not submit any information
that you regard as sensitive information or valuable (Unwanted Submissions) to the Site. While we
value your feedback, you agree not to submit any Unwanted Submissions.
- We may use any Unwanted Submissions as we see reasonably fit in relation to servicing your online
enquiry (bear in mind that we have no way of knowing whether such information is confidential or
valuable because we do not monitor the Site to check for these specific matters). Therefore, we will
not be legally responsible for keeping any Unwanted Submissions confidential nor will we be legally
responsible to you or anybody else for any use of such Unwanted Submissions.
Accuracy of information and availability of the Site
- While we try to make sure that the Site is accurate, up-to-date and free from bugs, we cannot
guarantee that it will be. Furthermore, we cannot guarantee that the Site will be fit or suitable
for any purpose. Any reliance that you may place on the information on this Site is at your own
risk.
- We may suspend or terminate operation of the Site at any time as we see fit.
- Content is provided for your general information purposes only and to inform you about us, news,
features, services and other websites that may be of interest. It does not constitute technical,
financial or legal advice or any other type of advice and should not be relied on for any purposes.
- While we try to make sure that the Site is available for your use, we do not promise that the Site
is available at all times nor do we promise the uninterrupted use by you of the Site.
Hyperlinks and third party sites
The Site may contain hyperlinks or references to
third party websites other than the Site. Any such hyperlinks or references are provided for your
convenience only. We have no control over third party websites and accept no legal responsibility for
any content, material or information contained in them. The display of any hyperlink and reference to
any third party website does not mean that we endorse that third party’s website, products or
services. Your use of a third party site may be governed by the terms and conditions of that third party
site.
Limitation on our liability
Except for any legal responsibility that we
cannot exclude in law (such as for death or personal injury), we are not legally responsible for any
losses or incorrect financial advice provided by the referred regulated 3rd party. This exclusion shall
include, but not be limited to:
(a) losses that:
- were not foreseeable to you and us when these Terms were formed; or
- that were not caused by any breach on our part
(b) business losses; and
(c) losses to non-consumers.
Events beyond our
control
We shall have no liability to you for any breach of these Terms caused by any
event or circumstance beyond our reasonable control including, but not limited to, strikes, lock-outs or
other industrial disputes; breakdown of systems or network access; or flood, fire, explosion or
accident.
Rights of third parties
No one other than a party to these Terms
has any right to enforce any of these Terms.
Treating Customers Fairly
At
kissmydebt.com, we are committed to providing our customers with the highest standards of service
throughout the customer journey. In so doing, we are committed to ensuring that the Financial Conduct
Authority’s Principle of “treating customers fairly” is adhered to at all
times.
We recognise that both our customers and ourselves have everything to gain if we are looking
out for your best interests and treat you fairly in all aspects of our dealings with you.
Our
commitment to you
We vet our associated companies to ensure they:
Provide you with clear
information about the products and services they offer, including fees and charges.
Establish your
individual needs, preferences and circumstances before allowing any application or enquiry for a
particular debt solution is made via their services.
Advise you on sources of information that
would help you understand your situation and potential impacts of their services.
Encourage you to
ask if there’s something you don’t understand.
Give you access to a formal complaints
procedure should you become unhappy with their service.
How you can help us
To help us give
you the most appropriate advice, we will ask you to:
Let us know about your individual needs,
circumstances and preferences.
Let us know if there is any aspect of our service, or of a product
our partners have discussed or recommended, that you don’t understand.
Tell us if you think
there are ways we can improve our service.
Our Cookies
kissmydebt.com
website(s) (our website(s)) uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website(s). This
helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website(s) and also allows us to
improve our website(s). This policy explains what we mean by “cookies”, the cookies we use
on our website(s), what the cookies do, how long they last for and where you can find out more
information about them.
What are cookies?
Cookies are pieces of data created when you visit a
website, and contain a unique, identification number. Some cookies are stored in the cookie directory of
your hard drive, and do not expire at the end of your session. Cookies do not contain any personal
information about you and cannot be used to identify an individual user.
Cookies have a lifetime.
Many only last until you close your browser or for a short time. These are called ‘session
cookies’. Some last far longer though, for example, to enable a website to recognise you when you
return to them. These are called ‘persistent cookies’. Where possible, we’ll let you
know how long these cookies last for.
Cookies set directly by a website owner (like us) are
generally known as ‘first party cookies’. Many (if not most) modern websites also use bits
of hidden technology provided by other parties. Online advertising is a particularly common example.
These other parties may also set cookies when you use our website. If they do so, their cookies are
generally known as ‘third party cookies’.
There are some other computer technologies
which are technically different to cookies but are used to perform very similar jobs and function in a
very similar way. For example, ‘locally stored objects'(or ‘flash cookies’) are used
to power some online video content, and ‘web bugs'(or ‘web beacons’) are used for many
of the same purposes as cookies. When we provide services to you through our website, we want to make
them easy to use, useful and reliable. Cookies are used to improve services for you through, for
example:
enabling a service to recognise your device so you don’t have to give the same
information several times during one task;
recognising that you may already have given a username
and password so you don’t need to do it for every web page requested; and measuring how many
people are using services, so they can be made easier to use and there is enough capacity to ensure they
are fast. Now that we have explained what cookies are, please read “Our use of cookies” to
understand why we use them.
First party cookies
These are cookies we set and
that our website needs in order to function and if they are not accepted by you, parts of the site
won’t be usable. Example would be for us to save a visitor filter selection from our homepage.
These cookies may be used to enable us to identify a visitor’s current browsing session and allows
our website to function as intended. These cookies can also let us know what web channel you used to
find us, along with the keyword you used.
Third party cookies
These are
cookies which are set by other people. Aside from setting cookies ourselves, we also allow
carefully-selected third parties to set cookies during your visit to our website. These organisations
provide us with information on how you use our website(s). They may also use cookies to promote our
newest products and latest offers to you on other websites based on your previous activity at with us.
For example, you may see products that you viewed on our website(s) presented on other websites as you
move around the internet.
We regularly review the cookies we use and which our suppliers use to
keep them to the minimum we think we need. In doing so, we aim to respect your right to privacy in your
online life, which is very important to us, but also ensure you have a good browsing experience and
ensure we have enough of the right kind of information to improve our website and the services which we
offer. During your visit to our website(s) you may notice some cookies that are not related to our
website(s). This happens when you visit a page with content embedded from a third party or use some of
the links to social networking websites (e.g. FaceBook). We love it when you share information through a
social media network but when you do so, please be aware that, these websites may place cookies on your
device. We do not control how a third party uses their cookies. You should check these third party
websites’ privacy policies for more information about their cookies if you are concerned about
this.
Analytics cookies
We use various software tools that allow us to study, and then
improve, how customers interact with our website(s) – this is known as website analytics. Examples
of analytical tools that we use are: Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics and User Replay.
Analytics
cookies allow us to understand more about how many visitors we have to the website(s), how many times
they visit us and how many times a user viewed specific webpages within our site. Although analytics
cookies allow us to gather specific information about the pages that you visit and whether you have
visited our site(s) multiple times, we cannot use them to find out details such as your name or
address.
How you can manage cookies
We hope you are happy with our cookie
policy, but if you do not want to accept cookies from our website(s) you can change your browser
settings so that cookies are not accepted. If you choose to do this, please be aware our website(s) may
no longer function as intended.
All popular browsers (e.g. Chrome, Internet Explorer, Edge and
Safari) allow you to amend your cookie settings so that cookies are no longer enabled across all
websites that you visit. For further information about cookies and how to disable them please go to the
Information Commissioner’s webpage on cookies;
https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/online/cookies/.
Updates to our cookie
policy
We review our use of cookies and similar technologies regularly. In doing so,
we may change the cookies and other technologies we use, and how we use them. As a result, we will need
to change this Cookie Policy from time to time to keep it accurate and up to date.
Contact
us
If you want any further information about our approach to cookies and similar
technologies, our website in general or have any other privacy questions relating to us, we’d be
happy to help you. Please write to us by post to The AI Desk Ltd, Unit 19, 1-13 Adler Street, London, E1
1EG
Other Resources
The Insolvency Service
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/insolvency-service
OTHER
‘FREE ADVICE’ RESOURCES
Money Helper
https://www.moneyhelper.org.uk
Citizens Advice Bureau
www.citizensadvice.org.uk
Debt
Advice Foundation
www.debtadvicefoundation.org
Debt
Support Trust
www.debtsupporttrust.org.uk
National
Debtline
www.nationaldebtline.co.uk
Disputes
It
is our promise that The AI Desk Ltd will act in a fair, lawful, and honest manner in everything we do,
and so if you have a complaint about any aspect of our service, we’re keen to resolve it as
quickly as possible. You can contact us is any of the following ways:
By Post:
Complaints
Department, The AI Desk Ltd. Unit 19, 1-13 Adler Street, London, E1 1EG
By Email:
info@theaidesk.com (Usually The Fastest Method)
We will acknowledge receipt of the complaint within
5 working days and we hope to provide a final response within 8 weeks. We will write to you again within
4 weeks if we are unable to provide a final response within that time period. In any event we will
respond to your complaint in full within 8 weeks.
If you are not satisfied with our response, or if
a complaint is not resolved after eight weeks, you may refer the complaint to –
Financial
Ombudsman Service
Exchange Tower
London
E14 9SR
Telephone: 0800 023 4567
Web
site: www.financial-ombudsman.org.uk
You
can report any of your concerns to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO)
Information
Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9
5AF
Tel: 0303 123 1113 (local rate) or 01625 545 745 if you prefer to use a national rate
number
Fax: 01625 524 510
European Online Dispute Resolution Platform in relation to your
complaint you can also request a review from the European Online Resolution Platform:
http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr
Subject Access Request
- You can obtain a copy of the Information we hold about You under the Data Protection Act.
- An individual who makes a written request is entitled to be:
- Told whether any personal data is being processed;
- Given a description of the personal data, the reasons it is being processed, and whether it
will be given to any other organisations or people;
- Given a copy of the information comprising the data; and given details of the source of the
data (where this is available).
More information about Subject Access Request can be found
here:
https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protection/principle-6-rights/subject-access-request/
If
you wish to send us your Subject Access Request, please email: info@theaidesk.com
We aim to respond
to you within 8 weeks dependant on complexity of Your request.
Your Right to be Forgotten /
Erasure Of Your Personal Information
Under the General Data Protection Regulation
(GDPR), all individuals have the right to request the deletion or removal of personal data (the right to
be forgotten) under the following circumstances:
- Where the personal data is no longer necessary in relation to the purpose for which it was
originally collected/processed.
- When the individual withdraws consent.
- When the individual objects to the processing and there is no overriding legitimate interest for
continuing the processing.
- The personal data was unlawfully processed (i.e. otherwise in breach of the GDPR).
- The personal data has to be erased in order to comply with a legal obligation.
- The personal data is processed in relation to the offer of information society services to a child.
- There are some circumstances where the right “to be forgotten” does not apply i.e. where
we need to comply with a legal obligation.
If you wish to request your “right to be forgotten” please email:
info@theaidesk.com
Governing Law
By continuing to use the Site, you
explicitly agree that the Terms and Conditions within this website shall be construed and governed by
the laws of England and Wales and you irrevocably agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the
English courts.