Under the Data Protection Act I need to advise what will happen to the personal information you provide. Specialist Development Finance shall use it to obtain soft credit reference agency searches, and underwriting and processing your finance application. It will be kept on their computer systems and files. The information given may be recorded with one or more credit reference agencies, and used by Specialist Development Finance, their lenders or other companies for making credit decisions about you and other members of your household, for tracing debtors, for controlling fraud and money-laundering.

(ONLY READ IF MORE THAN 1 APPLICANT) You are disclosing information about a joint applicant, and you are confirming you are entitled to do so. An ‘association’ between joint applicants and between you and anyone you tell us is your financial partner will be created at the Credit Reference Agencies. This will link your financial records, each of which will be taken into account in all future applications by either or both of you until one of you successfully files a disassociation at the Credit Reference Agencies.

May we have your permission for the credit search and the storage of your personal information?