What this Privacy Notice covers
Category | Product | Description |
Motor Insurance | LexisNexis® Policy Insights | If you’re a proposer, a policyholder, or a named driver, Policy Insights provides information to Customers about your previous motor insurance policies so you can obtain a quote for insurance. |
Attract™ for Motor | Attract for Motor uses some of the data from our Policy Insights and Risk Insights datasets to create your insurance risk score. | |
No Claims Discount Module for LexisNexis® Policy History Motor | The No Claims Discount Module helps our Customers in their validation of your entitlement to a discount for not having previous claims by comparing the information you provide to our Customers with the No Claims Discount history collated and shared from other Customers. | |
LexisNexis® Vehicle Build |
Vehicle Build allows our Customers to better understand and evaluate the vehicle features fitted to a declared vehicle. Vehicle Build standardises and classifies the numerous vehicle data points into a common classification using the specific Vehicle Identification Number (VIN). |
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LexisNexis® Risk Insights Score | Risk Insights Score uses some of the data from the LexisNexis® Risk Insights dataset to create your insurance risk score. | |
Home & Motor & Commercial | LexisNexis® Risk Insights | Risk Insights can assist our Customers in
understanding any risks associated with home, motor and commercial insurance
applicants through the presence or absence of certain public data, such as
court judgments or your appearance on
the Open Electoral Register. |
LexisNexis® Indicium and Consumer Plus | Indicium and Consumer Plus are insurance risk scores developed to assist our Customers in predicting the likelihood of you, as an insurance applicant, making a claim in the future. | |
LexisNexis® Quote Intelligence | Quote Intelligence identifies certain potentially unexpected, unusual or inconsistent connections between quotes or individuals named on a quote, for example by identifying when and how frequently an individual requests an insurance quote as well as identifying changes in some of the information provided in the course of obtaining quotes. | |
LexID® for Insurance | The LexID® is a numeric personal identifier which can be assigned to each of our Customer’s consumers’ records across their different data systems, enabling our Customers to create a connected view of their customers. This in turn allows them to improve their customer experience and gain operational efficiencies by linking together data related to, for example, different product holdings you have with that insurer. We use proprietary linking technology to match identifying data, such as name, address, and date of birth, across different data sources, as described in the section What personal data is collected and from whom it is obtained, in order to assign the unique LexID to consumer identities. |
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Linked Addresses and Alias Names | Linked Addresses and Alias Names is a data source used by LexisNexis to support our Customers in their assessment of insurance risk and in the prevention of fraud. Linked Addresses and Alias Names identifies other addresses, or names, held within our databases and previously used by you, which differ from that provided in your request for a quote for insurance. At the request of our Customers, this data is then used by us to perform a wider search of our Customers’ consumer data existing on the Claims and Underwriting Exchange licensed by the Motor Insurers’ Bureau. | |
LexisNexis® Property Insights | LexisNexis Property Insights helps our Customers better understand and evaluate the features and associated risks of a residential property that is the subject of an insurance application and the likelihood of you, as an insurance applicant, making a claim in the future. |
How we use personal data
Automated processing of personal data to evaluate certain personal aspects relating to an individual, particularly to analyse or predict aspects concerning that individual, is considered profiling under the applicable data protection laws. Attract for Motor, Risk Insights Score, Risk Insights, Indicium and Consumer Plus and Quote Intelligence are products that use profiling as part of the insurance risk analysis.
Profiling is not the same as an automated decision-making and we don’t make any decisions about you, automated or not. Our products, including the ones that use profiling, are one factor that our Customers may use in their decision-making, to assist them to prevent fraud and more accurately predict risk and determine the pricing and underwriting of your insurance premium.
Using
personal data for our and our Customers’ legitimate interests
We use personal data to develop and improve our products and services, created to help our Customers to price and underwrite insurance policies, check the identities of people applying for policies, manage claims and prevent fraud. Our legitimate interest is, therefore, in facilitating the provision of our products and services to the insurance industry, through recognition of our Customers’ need to accurately assess insurance risk and reduce the likelihood of fraud. We do this by making comprehensive, consistent and accurate data available to the insurance market in a cost-effective way, irrespective of our Customers’ sales channel.
We do not decide the price of insurance policies: our Customers do this independently. The products and services we provide to our Customers, as described in this Privacy Notice, are just one of the factors that our Customers consider when making a decision about you. It’s our Customers’ decision how much they will charge for an insurance policy and the price is different for different individuals. For example, motor insurance prices reflect matters such as previous driving history or where the driver lives. Insurers have a business interest in obtaining information about individuals applying for policies, the individuals expect the information to be obtained, and we have a business interest in providing this information through our products and services.
We have set out more information about the legitimate business interests in processing personal data below:
Purpose | How is personal data used and why? |
Verifying data you provide, assessing insurance risk and preventing fraud | No Claims Discount Module for LexisNexis® Policy Motor History When you request a quote for insurance - whether this be through a price comparison site, broker or insurer website or by enquiry made through a call centre or branch - that insurance provider will usually ask you to confirm your entitlement to a No Claims Discount. We use information from your motor insurance policy history that we collect from other insurers to confirm whether the No Claims Discount that you have confirmed to our Customer matches our records. While only the Customer can decide whether you are eligible for a discount on the basis of this data, we only permit our Customers to use the data we provide to validate your no claims discount entitlement. |
LexisNexis® Policy Insights We provide personal data that helps insurers to make more informed underwriting and pricing decisions about motor insurance policies, by providing information about the motorists’ previous motor insurance history. We use information contributed to us by other insurers and brokers such as where individuals live, vehicle information and previous insurance policies to analyse their motor insurance history and to provide facts that are useful to insurers for predicting future risk. Each insurer will have its own criteria to assess what insurance cover to offer and what premium to set – and they use various factors to help them including the data we provide. We only permit our Customers to use this data to help prevent fraud and decide whether to offer insurance and, if so, what level of cover to offer and at what premium. |
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LexisNexis® Risk Insights When you request a quote for insurance - whether this be through a price comparison site, broker or insurer website or by enquiry made through a call centre or branch - that insurance provider will usually ask you to provide information about your identity and to answer certain questions. Our products and services allow our Customers to check this information and to obtain further information about you from publicly available data such as the Open Electoral Register, CCJ and insolvency data, together with data which may be accessed under Open Government Licence in respect of the area in which you live – for example crime and unemployment figures. We may also access information provided by you to our business partners where permitted. We describe the information we receive from business partners below. Risk Insights summarises this information in a way that can easily be used by our Customers in their risk assessment of you, in combination with other information provided in your quote request or at renewal, to determine whether to present an insurance quote, the premium quoted and the policy terms offered. For example, if the address or date of birth you provide does not match our records then some of our Customers my decline to provide a quote or may offer a higher premium. |
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LexisNexis® Risk Insights Score We use the information from LexisNexis® Risk Insights to create an insurance risk score. Insurers may use this at quote or renewal as one of the factors to help inform their risk assessment and to help them to decide on how to price your policy. When you request a quote for a motor insurance product, we will generate your insurance risk score. This score is a value between 200 and 997, with the highest scores representing the lowest risk to the insurer. This will include information such as your presence on the Open Electoral Register, county court judgment information and general indicators about the area in which you live, for example house prices, crime, and unemployment figures. While only the insurance provider can assess what policy to offer on the basis of this data, we only permit our Customers to use this data as one factor to decide whether to offer insurance and, if so, what level of cover to offer at what premium. |
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Attract™ for Motor We use the information from LexisNexis® Policy Insights and LexisNexis® Risk Insights to create an overall insurance risk score. Insurers may use this at quote or renewal as one of the factors to help inform their risk assessment and to help them to decide on how to price your policy. When you request a quote for a motor insurance product, we will generate your insurance risk score. This score is a value between 200 and 997, with the highest scores representing the lowest risk to the insurer. This will include information, such as how long you have continuously held an insurance policy, your presence on the Open Electoral Register, county court judgment information and general indicators about the area in which you live, for example house prices, crime, and unemployment figures. While only the insurance provider can assess what policy to offer on the basis of this data, we only permit our Customers to use this data to help prevent fraud and decide whether to offer insurance and, if so, what level of cover to offer at what premium. |
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LexisNexis® Vehicle Build When you request a quote for motor insurance - whether this be through a price comparison site, broker or insurer website or by an enquiry made through a call centre or branch - that insurance provider will usually ask you to provide information about the vehicle you are planning to insure. The quote request will ask for either the vehicle’s VRN (Vehicle Registration Number) or VIN (Vehicle Identification Number) if known at the time of the request. Insurers will share that VRN or VIN with us to assist them in detecting the presence of vehicle features on that vehicle. We are supplied vehicle data via third party vendors, after we have sent them the VRN or VIN. These third party vendors are either external data providers or direct from the vehicle manufacturers. We normalise that vehicle data to produce a set of attributes that enable our Customers to confirm the presence and type of safety features fitted to a specific vehicle. The vehicle features may be used by insurers to assess the risk associated with that vehicle and whether the presence of vehicle features may have an impact on the underwriting and rating decisions that they may make when quoting motor insurance. |
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LexisNexis® Indiciumand Consumer Plus We use information from data we access on behalf of our Customers to create an overall risk score that insurers may use as one factor to help them assess the price they offer for home, motor or commercial insurance. When you request an insurance quote - whether this be through a price comparison site, broker or insurer website or by enquiry made through a call centre or branch - we will generate an insurance risk score on behalf of an insurance provider. The score is a numeric value that is scaled according to the likely risk presented by an individual with the highest scores representing the lowest risk. So, for example, we identify whether you have historically had a CCJ or been bankrupt - which would lower your score; however these may be partially offset by, for example, if your identity can recently be verified at your address and general indicators about the area in which you live such as average household income and average house prices. The overall score is created by adding each of the factors together. The data included in these scores will differ by insurance provider but may include information from credit reference agencies and/or other commercially available indicators, such as the known demographics in the neighbourhood where you live, as described further in the "What data is collected and from whom it is obtained" section below. These risk scores may also be used by our Customers in order to provide you with a quote at renewal. Similar to widely-used credit scores which lenders use to help establish your ability to repay credit, these insurance risk scores are used by our Customers to help assess the likelihood that an applicant will make an insurance claim. |
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LexisNexis® Quote Intelligence When you apply for insurance, and our Customers engage us, we obtain information about your quote requests, which we use to help our Customers separate normal shopping behaviour from potentially fraudulent behaviour. For example, it is accepted that different levels of voluntary excess payable on a policy may be selected in order to obtain a more favourable premium. However, some behaviour is not normal and could lead to an applicant fraudulently obtaining insurance at an unreasonably low price, such as inputting different dates of birth for the same person on different quote requests. Quote Intelligence identifies potential manipulation by linking any quotes undertaken by you over the previous 90 days and comparing the information about you and any other individuals you have supplied in each quote request. This data includes, for example: date of birth, address, declared previous claims, declared motoring and non-motoring convictions and the associated penalty points and any DVLA notifiable medical condition. It also considers how frequently you have obtained quotes, how many days prior to your policy start date you have requested a quote and whether you have quoted, for example, with different named drivers. We do not determine whether these differences, or the number of changes, are of importance to an insurance provider or whether it should affect the premium offered. Quote Intelligence simply notifies the insurance provider of information related to previous applications. |
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LexisNexis® LexID® for Insurance We match the information you provide to our Customers to our own database,, sourced from third parties and from publicly-available sources, and where your information matches the information we already hold in our database, we will provide the corresponding LexID® to our Customers. This matching can occur when you request a quote for insurance cover from one of our Customers or whenever our Customer sends us your information from their databases, during the insurance policy lifecycle. The LexID® is a numeric personal identifier that enables our Customers to identify you and to link different records it holds on you within their own databases or to help our Customers identify if you are a new customer. This linking supports our Customers to run insurance risk assessment, prevent fraud and improve customer experience, in addition to improving their own data management operational efficiencies. |
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Linked Addresses and Alias Names When you apply for insurance our Customers may request that we undertake a search for Linked Addresses and Alias Names to support their risk assessment of any individuals on your insurance quote request. Using the information supplied related to individuals - typically name, address, date of birth, and, if available, email addresses and telephone numbers – we will search our databases to identify any other addresses or names, previously used which differ from that provided in the request. This new data, combined with the information in the request, is then used by us to perform a search of the Claims and Underwriting Exchange licensed by the Motor Insurers’ Bureau. Our Customers use this information to verify your declared claims information against that held on the Claims and Underwriting Exchange database. This is one factor which is used to help assess the likelihood that an applicant will make an insurance claim and to assist in identifying potential fraud. |
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LexisNexis® Property Insights When you request a quote for residential property insurance - whether this be through a price comparison site, broker or insurer website or by an enquiry made through a call centre or branch - that insurance provider will usually ask you to provide information about the residential property you are planning to insure. The quote request will ask for the property’s address at the time of the request. Insurers will share that address with us to assist them in identifying the main features of the property to be insured. Upon receiving the address from the insurer, we match it to our database of property data and return that data to the insurer. The insurer may use this data to prefill application forms to give you a simpler and shorter application through verification of data, or they may compare the data returned with your declarations. The property features may be used by insurers to assess the risk associated with that property and whether the presence of certain property features may have an impact on the underwriting and rating decisions that they may make when quoting property insurance. |
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Developing our statistical models |
We use personal data for statistical analysis to improve our products and services and to help insurers better predict risk, to validate data you provide and to help to prevent fraud. To do this, we compare policy and quote information against variables, like age, address, previous claims and driving history to help insurers predict risk more accurately. We use data to test our products with a representative sample of real identities to ensure they are working correctly and provide accurate results to our customers. Without being able to include a representative example of real data, we risk not being able to test full scenarios to ensure existing products are functioning as expected and leaves us open to missing relevant information that may have a negative impact on customers and data subjects. |
Protecting our legitimate business interests and legal rights |
Where we believe it is necessary to protect our legal rights, interests and the interests of others, we use personal data in connection with legal claims, compliance, regulatory, and audit functions, and disclosures in connection with the acquisition, merger or sale of a business. |
Where required by law
In exceptional circumstances, we may be required by law to provide personal data to law enforcement agencies, courts or others in connection with claims and other litigation.
Sensitive personal data
Where LexisNexis Risk Solutions processes details of convictions, e.g. driving-related or non driving-related offences, we do so for insurance purposes. We can only process information relating to criminal convictions where we have an additional, specific lawful basis to process such information. For this processing, we rely upon reasons of substantial public interest:
What personal data is collected and from whom it is obtained
Product | Source | Categories of personal data we use |
LexisNexis® Risk Insights Risk Insights Score
LexisNexis ® Indicium Linked Addresses and Alias Names Property Insights |
Credit related information on public record such as Bankruptcy and insolvency databases, (the Individual Insolvency Register (IIR), The Registry Trust and information published by The Stationary Office (TSO)) | Identifier information, such as name, address and date of birth. Information about debt and insolvency, such as type of insolvency, status and dates of judgments; |
Property related information, such as Her Majesty’s Land Registry (HMLR) - Land Registry | Along with the address and postcode we receive information such as property type, age of property, tenure and sale prices; |
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County and High Court Judgments, such as provided by credit reference agencies and Registry Trust Limited |
Information on court judgments that have been issued, such as how much money was owed and whether the judgment has been satisfied; |
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Registered commercial entity information, such as Companies House | Data on directorships, such as presence of a director within a postcode area; |
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Open Electoral Register | We receive an extract of the Open Electoral Register, including data such as name, current address and any previous addresses. |
Source | Categories of personal data we receive |
Other members of the RELX Group | RSG receives data from other RELX Group companies. This includes identification data (such as names and addresses) and fraud prevention indicators (such as information about debt and insolvency). |
Third-party data partners | RSG also receives data from reputable commercial sources. This includes identification data (such as names and addresses or the VIN or VRN of a vehicle and associated vehicle data), fraud prevention indicators (such as County Court Judgments) property features and consumer insight data (such as individual, household and postcode level consumer segmentations). |
How personal data is shared and retained
Insurers and brokers | We share personal data with insurers, brokers and other insurance intermediaries when an individual requests a quote or makes an application for insurance or where the insurer is initiating a renewal quote. We ask insurers and brokers to explain to individuals that they use our information. |
Service providers |
We share personal data with service providers who assist us with our products and services. These providers include, customer support, IT service providers, financial services, professional advisors and third party data providers. Some of the service providers we use are other affiliated companies of RSG within the RELX group of companies. These companies assist us in providing the products and services described in this Notice, such as to provide customer and product support. We have contracts in place with them to ensure they only use the personal data we provide them in accordance with our instructions. Your personal information may be stored and processed in your region or another country where LexisNexis Risk Solutions affiliates and their service providers maintain servers and facilities, including Australia, India, Ireland, the Philippines, the United Kingdom and the United States. We take steps, including through contracts, intended to ensure that the information continues to be protected wherever it is located in a manner consistent with the standards of protection required under applicable law. If some or all of RSG or RELX business is acquired by another company, personal data may be disclosed and/or transferred to the prospective or actual purchasers. |
Other affiliated companies of LexisNexis® Risk Solutions within the RELX Group of companies | Some of the service providers we use are other
affiliated companies of RSG within the RELX group of companies. These companies
assist us in providing the products and services described in this Notice, such
as to provide customer and product support. We have contracts in place with
them to ensure they only use the personal data we provide them in accordance
with our instructions. Your personal information may be stored and processed in your region or another country where LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group affiliates and our service providers maintain servers and facilities, including but not limited to Australia, Brazil, France, Germany, Iceland, India, Italy, Ireland, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Singapore, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States. We take steps, including through contracts, intended to ensure that the information continues to be protected wherever it is located in a manner consistent with the standards of protection required under applicable law. Certain U.S. entities within the LexisNexis Risk Solutions group of companies have certified certain of their services to the EU-U.S. and Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Frameworks as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce. Please view these entities’ Privacy Shield Notices here. To learn more about the Privacy Shield program, and to view these entities’ certification, please visit www.privacyshield.gov. If some or all of the LNRS or RELX business is acquired by another company, personal data may be disclosed to the prospective or actual purchasers. |
Third parties where required by law (or to protect our rights) |
We also share personal data in order to:
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How you can request to access, correct, or delete your personal data or ask us not to process your personal data
How to contact us
If you have any questions or wish to exercise any of the rights described in this Privacy Notice, please contact our Data Protection Officer whom we have appointed to respond to enquiries regarding any of the products connected to the data controllers described in this Notice:
For U.S. Privacy requests, click here to submit online.
For non-U.S. Privacy requests, click here to submit online.
Data Protection Officer
LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group
Global Reach
Dunleavy Drive
Cardiff
CF11 0SN
The data controller for each RSG service is described below:
Services | Data controller |
LexisNexis® Policy Insights | LexisNexis Risk Solutions UK Limited* |
LexisNexis® Risk Insights | |
Attract ™for Motor | |
Risk Insights Score | |
Linked Addresses and Alias Names | |
No Claims Discount Module for LexisNexis® Policy History Motor | |
LexisNexis® Vehicle Build (UK only) | |
LexisNexis® LexID® for Insurance | |
LexisNexis® Vehicle Build (Europe only) | LexisNexis Risk Solutions (Europe) Limited |
LexisNexis® Indicium and Consumer Plus | Insurance Initiatives Limited* |
LexisNexis® Quote Intelligence |