Ardmore

Ardmore Financial Planning Ltd

Independent Financial Advice
Your contentment is our focus.

Our business is based on the sound principles of trust and integrity coupled with a genuine desire to add real value to the lives of our clients. We strive to develop lifetime relationships with them so that they enjoy a successful financial management experience.

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Our Philosophy

We want our clients to be comfortable, relaxed and focussed on what is really important to them. We will take the time to understand this.

Contentment comes from understanding what you have, identifying what is important to you and forming a clear vision of the path to making things better. We will work with you in achieving this.

Trust and integrity are the foundation of our business. We apply our expertise and experience to deliver bespoke services, driven by the evolving needs and circumstances of our clients. We will tailor our service to suit your requirements.

Our Team

Scott Warren (Managing Director)

Scott is particularly skilled and experienced in handling complex estate planning cases; ensuring that inheritances pass to those intended with the minimum taxation or delay. He is also responsible for overseeing the investment strategies, including asset allocation and selection of investment funds, which he finds particularly interesting given his economics background.

Scott Warren

Jan Warren (Director)

Jan's further education initially led to a career in the NHS. This was followed by 10 years of being a full time Mum and then a gradual introduction to Financial Services. Jan is now responsible for much of the business management at Ardmore. Her duties include payroll, management accounts, regulatory returns and all matters under the general heading of HR.

With grown up children Jan now finds the time for some voluntary work, golfing and curling but also enjoys entertaining at home, meeting up with friends and walking her dogs.

Jan Warren

Lynne McPheat (Financial Planning Consultant)

Lynne's interest in financial services was sparked while attending The University of the West of Scotland where she obtained a degree in Business Studies. She is now well established in her role at Ardmore. Since joining the team in 2011 her list of qualifications has continued to expand and in 2016, Lynne gained the highest level of qualification available in the financial services industry obtaining Fellowship and Chartered Financial Planner status with the Personal Finance Society. Lynne now offers specialist tax planning, business and pension advice.

Lynne's focus is on continuing her professional development and helping clients achieve financial contentment.

Lynne McPheat

Bernadette Hamilton (Paraplanner)

Bernadette has been working in the Financial Services industry for over 24 years. She now brings her wealth of experience in bigger businesses to the small business environment at Ardmore. Amongst her other achievements she has gained a Diploma in Regulated Financial Planning.

Bernadette's hobbies include travelling and home baking.

Bernadette Hamilton

Sally Pringle (Paraplanner)

Sally graduated from the University of Strathclyde with an Honours Degree in International Business and Finance followed by a Masters degree (with distinction) in Investment and Finance. Whilst at university she studied in America for a period of time. Sally's involvement at Ardmore started as an internship while at university but since graduating she has become a full–time member of staff and is continuing with her studies.

Outside of work, Sally enjoys going to Spin classes, baking and travelling.

Sally Pringle

Archie (Office dog)

Archie is our Springer Spaniel. He greets everyone coming into the office but spends most of his time sleeping. He loves chasing a ball, swimming and is also partial to a gravy bone.

Archie

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Ardmore Financial Planning Ltd.

The Stables, 55 Market Road, Carluke, ML8 4BE.

Tel : 01555 773462Fax : 01555 751535

Customer Privacy Notice

For details of our firm and how to contact us please refer to our website footer.

Why should you read this document?
During the course of dealing with us, we will ask you to provide us with detailed personal information relating to your existing circumstances, your financial situation and, in some cases, your health and family health history (Your Personal Data). This document is important as it allows us to explain to you what we will need to do with Your Personal Data, and the various rights you have in relation to Your Personal Data.

What do we mean by "Your Personal Data"?
Your Personal Data means any information that describes or relates to your personal circumstances. Your Personal Data may identify you directly, for example your name, address, date or birth, National Insurance number. Your Personal Data may also identify you indirectly, for example, your employment situation, your physical and mental health history, or any other information that could be associated with your cultural or social identity.

In the context of providing you with assistance in relation to your financial affairs, Your Personal Data may include:

  • Title, names, date of birth, gender, nationality, civil/marital status, contact details, addresses and documents that are necessary to verify your identity
  • Employment and remuneration information, (including salary/bonus schemes/overtime/sick pay/other benefits), employment history
  • Bank account details, tax information, loans and credit commitments, personal credit history, sources of income and expenditure, family circumstances and details of dependents
  • Health status and history, details of treatment and prognosis, medical reports (further details are provided below specifically with regard to the processing we may undertake in relation to this type of information)
  • Any pre–existing products and the terms and conditions relating to these

The basis upon which our Firm will deal with Your Personal Data
When we speak with you about your financial affairs, we do so on the basis that both parties are entering a contract for the supply of services.

In order to perform that contract, and to arrange the products you require, we have the right to use Your Personal Data for the purposes detailed below.

Alternatively, either in the course of initial discussions with you or when the contract between us has come to an end for whatever reason, we have the right to use Your Personal Data provided it is in our legitimate business interest to do so and your rights are not affected. For example, we may need to respond to requests from mortgage lenders, insurance providers and our Compliance Service Provider relating to the advice we have given to you, or to make contact with you to seek feedback on the service you received.

On occasion, we will use Your Personal data for contractual responsibilities we may owe our regulator The Financial Conduct Authority, or for wider compliance with any legal or regulatory obligation to which we might be subject. In such circumstances, we would be processing Your Personal Data in order to meet a legal, compliance or other regulatory obligation to which we are subject.

The basis upon which we will process certain parts of Your Personal Data
Where you ask us to assist you with for example your insurance, in particular life insurance and insurance that may assist you in the event of an accident or illness, we will ask you information about your ethnic origin, your health and medical history (Your Special Data). We will record and use Your Special Data in order to make enquiries of providers in relation to insurance products that may meet your needs and to provide you with advice/guidance regarding the suitability of any product that may be available to you.

If you have parental responsibility for children under the age of 13, it is also very likely that we will record information on our systems that relates to those children and potentially, to their Special Data.

The arrangement of certain types of insurance may involve disclosure by you to us of information relating to historic or current criminal convictions or offences (together "Criminal Disclosures"). This is relevant to insurance related activities such as underwriting, claims and fraud management.

We will use special Data and any Criminal Disclosures in the same way as Your Personal Data generally, as set out in this Privacy Notice.

Information on Special Category Data and Criminal Disclosures must be capable of being exchanged freely between insurance intermediaries such as our Firm, and insurance providers, to enable customers to secure the important insurance protection that their needs require.

How do we collect Your Personal Data?
We will collect and record Your Personal Data from a variety of sources, but mainly directly from you. You will usually provide information during the course of our initial meetings or conversations with you to establish your circumstances and needs and preferences in relation to your financial affairs. You will provide information to us verbally and in writing, including email.

We may also obtain some information from third parties, for example, credit checks, information from your employer, and searches of information in the public domain such as the voters roll. If we use technology solutions to assist in the collection of Your Personal Data for example software that is able to verify your credit status. We will only do this if we have consent from you for us or our nominated processor to access your information in this manner. With regards to electronic ID checks we would not require your consent but will inform you of how such software operates and the purpose for which it is used.

What happens to Your Personal Data when it is disclosed to us?
In the course of handling Your Personal Data, we will:

  • Record and store Your Personal Data in our paper files, mobile devices and on our computer systems for example websites, email, hard drives, and cloud facilities. This information can only be accessed by employees and consultants within our Firm and only when it is necessary to provide our service to you and to perform any administration tasks associated with or incidental to that service.
  • Submit Your Personal Data to Product Providers and Lenders both in paper form and on-line via a secure portal. The provision of this information to a third party is essential in allowing us to progress any enquiry or application made on your behalf and to deal with any additional questions or administrative issues that lenders and providers may raise.
  • Use Your Personal Data for the purposes of responding to any queries you may have in relation to your financial affairs, or to inform you of any developments in relation to those products and/or polices of which we might become aware.

Sharing Your Personal Data
From time to time Your Personal Data will be shared with:

  • Product Providers / Lenders
  • Third parties who we believe will be able to assist us with your enquiry or application, or who are able to support your needs as identified. These third parties will include but may not be limited to, our Compliance Advisers, Product specialists, estate agents, providers of legal services such as estate planners, conveyancing, surveyors and valuers (in each case where we believe this to be required due to your particular circumstances).
  • In each case, your Personal Data will only be shared for the purposes set out in this customer privacy notice, i.e. to progress your enquiry and to provide you with our professional services.
  • Please note that this sharing of Your Personal Data does not entitle such third parties to send you marketing or promotional messages: it is shared to ensure we can adequately fulfil our responsibilities to you, and as otherwise set out in this Customer Privacy Notice.

Security and retention of Your Personal Data
Your privacy is important to us and we will keep Your Personal Data secure in accordance with our legal responsibilities. We will take reasonable steps to safeguard Your Personal Data against it being accessed unlawfully or maliciously by a third party.

We also expect you to take reasonable steps to safeguard your own privacy when transferring information to us, such as not sending confidential information over unprotected email, ensuring email attachments are password protected or encrypted and only using secure methods of postage when original documentation is being sent to us.

Your Personal Data will be retained by us either electronically or in paper format for a minimum of six years, or in instances whereby we have legal right to such information we will retain records indefinitely.

Your rights in relation to Your Personal Data
You can:

  • request copies of Your Personal Data that is under our control
  • ask us to further explain how we use Your Personal Data
  • ask us to correct, delete or require us to restrict or stop using Your Personal Data (details as to the extent to which we can do this will be provided at the time of any such request)
  • ask us to send an electronic copy of Your Personal Data to another organisation should you wish
  • change the basis of any consent you may have provided to enable us to market to you in the future (including withdrawing any consent in its entirety)

How to make contact with our Firm in relation to the use of Your Personal Data
If you have any questions or comments about this document, or wish to make contact in order to exercise any of your rights set out within it please contact our firm via the contact details within this website and ask for the person responsible for data protection.

If we feel we have a legal right not to deal with your request, or to action, it in different way to how you have requested, we will inform you of this at the time.

You should also make contact with us as soon as possible on you becoming aware of any unauthorised disclosure of Your Personal Data, so that we may investigate and fulfil our own regulatory obligations.

If you have any concerns or complaints as to how we have handled Your Personal Data you may lodge a complaint with the UK's data protection regulator, the ICO, who can be contacted through their website at https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/ or by writing to Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF.