Privacy Notice

Deceased Preference Service

The Deceased Preference Service is provided by MiExact Ltd. Please see MiExact Ltd’s full privacy policy for detail on how we are committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal information. This privacy notice describes how we collect and use personal information about you in accordance with data protection law. Please read it carefully. 

Data protection law says that the personal information we hold about you must be:

  • Used lawfully, fairly and in a transparent way.
  • Collected only for valid purposes that we have clearly explained to you and not used in any way that is incompatible with those purposes.
  • Relevant to the purposes we have told you about and limited only to those purposes.
  • Accurate and kept up to date.
  • Kept only as long as necessary for the purposes we have told you about.
  • Kept securely

If you have any questions about this notice or how we collect and use personal information about you please contact us.

Deceased Preference Service Information Collection

Information on deceased individuals

This website provides a data collection form for the purpose of collecting personal information on the deceased including name, address, date of birth, date of death, and their death certificate number if applicable.

There is also a freephone telephone number for people who would rather call in with this information.

Registration on the Deceased Preference Service is free.  When you sign up to the Deceased Preference Service, we will use the information that you provide on the deceased individual in our Mortascreen and Halo data files. These databases are respectively used by companies to stop marketing communications, for research purposes, fraud prevention and ID verification processes.

Information on registrants to the Deceased Preference Service

In the process of collecting deceased individuals’ data, we will also ask the registrant for their personal data. This information will be processed under legitimate interest and includes name, address, phone number.

We use the information we collect from the registrant for the purpose of identifying the source of information on the deceased individual and handling any subsequent queries.

With your permission, we will share your information with the Bereavement Advice Centre ("the Centre"). The Centre is a free helpline and web-based information service provided by Co-op Legal Services, part of the Co-operative Group Limited.

Please see the following link for the Centre’s (and the Co-operative Group's) privacy policy, which provides more details on how your personal information will be treated by the Centre: https://www.coop.co.uk/privacy-notice

With your permission, we may reserve the right to pass these details on to select partners for offering of additional services, which registrants are able to opt out of at any time.

We will keep registrant information in our database for as long as we hold information on the deceased individual.

Website information

  • We may collect information about you and your use of our website via technical means such as cookies, webpage counters and other analytics tools. We use this as necessary for our legitimate interests in administering our website and to ensure it operates effectively and securely. Your browser has settings that will allow you to accept all cookies, be informed as cookies arrive or reject all cookies.
  • For detailed information on the cookies we use, the website has cookie management software which provides further information when you first visit the site 
  • We keep this website information about you from when it is collected until the relevant cookie expires or you disable it.
  • Our website may, from time to time, contain 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 website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.

Changes to this privacy notice

Any changes we make to our privacy notice in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail or otherwise. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy notice.

 

Last updated: May 2024