In assessing a secured loan application for credit, enquiries will be made about you including searching records held by Credit Reference Agencies and by checking details with Fraud Prevention Agencies. If you give us false or inaccurate information and we suspect fraud we will record this. The Credit Reference and Fraud Prevention Agencies will keep details of any searches.

Information held about you and by the Credit Reference Agencies may already be linked to records relating to one or more of your financial partners. For the purpose of this application you may be treated as financially linked and your application will be assessed with reference to any 'associated' records.

If you are a joint applicant or you have told us of some other financial association with another person, you must be sure that you are entitled to disclose information about your joint applicant or anyone referred to by you. An association between joint applicants and between you and anyone else you tell us is your financial partner will be created at Credit References Agencies and shall remain until a successful disassociation has been registered with the Credit Reference Agency.