Revision 2
10 June 2026
This privacy policy gives you information about how Virify Limited collects and uses your personal data through your use of this website (https://virify.co.uk/), including any data you may provide when you register with us, sign up for updates on our website and services, create an account, list a property, or communicate with other users via our instant messenger feature.
This website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.
Virify Limited is the controller and responsible for your personal data (referred to as "Virify", "we", "us" or "our" in this privacy policy).
Virify Limited is a company registered in England and Wales under company number 16255324, with its registered office at 14 Museum Place, 4th Floor, Cardiff, United Kingdom, CF10 3BH.
Virify is a property marketplace platform. We are not a property sales or lettings agency, and we are not regulated under the Estate Agents Act 1979. We do not act as an estate agent, property adviser, or intermediary in any property transaction.
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, including any requests to exercise your legal rights (see section 9 below), please contact us using the information set out in section 10 (Contact details).
Personal data means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified.
We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:
We also collect, use and share aggregated data such as statistical or demographic data which is not personal data as it does not directly (or indirectly) reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate individuals' Usage Data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website feature in order to analyse general trends in how users are interacting with our website to help improve the website and our service offering.
We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
Your interactions with us. You may give us your personal data by filling in online forms or by corresponding with us by email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:
Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our website, we will automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs and other similar technologies. Please see our Cookie Policy for further details.
Third parties or publicly available sources. We will receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources as set out below:
Legal basis
The law requires us to have a legal basis for collecting and using your personal data. We rely on one or more of the following legal bases:
We have set out below a description of the ways we plan to use the various categories of your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate.
| Purpose/Use | Type of Data | Legal Basis |
|---|---|---|
| To register you as a new user of our platform | (a) Identity (b) Contact | Performance of a contract with you |
| To process and manage your account, including any payments, fees and charges | (a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Financial (d) Transaction (e) Marketing and Communications | (a) Performance of a contract with you (b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to recover debts due to us) |
| To manage our relationship with you, including notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy and dealing with your requests, complaints and queries | (a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Profile (d) Marketing and Communications | (a) Performance of a contract with you (b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation (c) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to keep our records updated and manage our relationship with you) |
| To enable you to list a property, search for properties, and communicate with other users via our instant messenger | (a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Profile (d) Usage (e) User Content | (a) Performance of a contract with you (b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to operate and develop our platform) |
| To enable you to complete a survey | (a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Profile (d) Usage (e) Marketing and Communications | Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how users use our platform, to develop it and grow our business) |
| To administer and protect our business and this website, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data | (a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Technical | (a) Necessary for our legitimate interests (for running our business, provision of administration and IT services, network security, to prevent fraud and in the context of a business reorganisation or group restructuring exercise) (b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation |
| To deliver relevant website content and online advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you | (a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Profile (d) Usage (e) Marketing and Communications (f) Technical | Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how users use our platform, to develop it, to grow our business and to inform our marketing strategy) |
| To use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, user relationships and experiences and to measure the effectiveness of our communications and marketing | (a) Technical (b) Usage | Necessary for our legitimate interests (to define types of users for our platform, to keep our website updated and relevant, to develop our business and to inform our marketing strategy) |
| To send you relevant marketing communications and make personalised suggestions and recommendations to you about properties or services that may be of interest to you | (a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Technical (d) Usage (e) Profile (f) Marketing and Communications | Necessary for our legitimate interests (to carry out direct marketing, develop our services and grow our business) OR Consent, where required |
| To carry out market research through your voluntary participation in surveys | (a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Profile (d) Marketing and Communications | Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how users use our platform and to help us improve and develop our services) |
| To enforce our terms and conditions, acceptable use policy and other policies, and to protect our rights and the rights of other users | (a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Technical (d) Usage (e) User Content | (a) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to protect our business and our users) (b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation |
You will receive marketing communications from us if you have requested information from us or registered for an account on our website and you have not opted out of receiving the marketing.
We may also analyse your Identity, Contact, Technical, Usage and Profile Data to form a view which services and offers may be of interest to you so that we can then send you relevant marketing communications.
We will get your express consent before we share your personal data with any third party for their own direct marketing purposes.
You can ask us to stop sending you marketing communications at any time by contacting us at [email protected].
If you opt out of receiving marketing communications, you will still receive service-related communications that are essential for administrative or customer service purposes, for example relating to updates to our Terms and Conditions.
For more information about the cookies we use and how to change your cookie preferences, please see our Cookie Policy.
We may share your personal data where necessary with the parties set out below for the purposes set out in section 4 above:
We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
We transfer certain personal data outside the UK and the European Economic Area (“EEA”), such as to the following third-party service provides based in the United States:
both of which are certified under the UK-US Data Bridge, which provides an adequate level of protection for personal data transferred from the UK.
These transfers only occur where you have accepted analytical cookies via our cookie consent banner. If you decline cookies, no data is transferred to these third parties.
We will do our best to protect your personal data, but unfortunately, we cannot guarantee that transfers of personal data via the internet are completely secure. You must be aware that any personal data you make available through any content you upload, create or otherwise make publicly accessible on our site may be viewed by other users outside the UK and the EEA.
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements. We may retain your personal data for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or other requirements.
In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data: see section 9 below for further information.
In some circumstances we will anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes, in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.
You have a number of rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. You have the right to:
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us (see section 10 below).
You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we could refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.
We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.
We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it could take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or about the use of your personal data or you want to exercise your privacy rights, please contact us in the following ways:
You have the right to make a complaint to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK regulator for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). However, before doing so please make sure you have first made your complaint to us or asked us for clarification if there is something you do not understand. The ICO will expect you to have done this before reviewing your complaint:
You can submit a complaint to us at: [email protected]
We keep our privacy policy under regular review.
It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us, for example a new address or email address.
This website may include 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 policy of every website you visit.