Our aim is always to provide an exceptionally high level of service to all of our customers. Where customers feel they have cause to raise a complaint it is important to us that these are dealt with objectively, fairly and within an acceptable time frame.
The following procedure explains how we deal with complaints, our commitments to you and what redress you have if you think your complaint has not been resolved to your satisfaction.
If you have a complaint about any aspect of our service, then we would like to hear from you.
To help us investigate and resolve your issue as quickly as possible, you can contact us by telephone or in writing. The most appropriate person will handle your complaint in the quickest possible time.
Our complaints contact details are:
To assist us in resolving your complaint efficiently it would be helpful if you could provide the following information:
Any complaint, verbal or written, will be allocated it to the most appropriate Complaints Handler. We will always try to resolve your complaint immediately. However, sometimes this may not be possible. In all cases we will implement the following process:
If we are able to investigate and resolve your complaint within 3 days, you will receive a summary resolutions response from ourselves, which will detail our outcome and findings.
In the event our investigations take longer than 3 days, we will issue you a Final Response within the 8-week timescale.
This will include detailed information of your complaint, our investigation and the resolution we have come to.
In all responses, we will list the Financial Ombudsman Services details should you wish to take your complaint further, or you are unhappy with the decision we have come to.
We will consider a complaint closed when we have made our final response to you. This does not prevent you from exercising any rights you may have to refer the matter to the Financial Ombudsman Service.
If you have a regulated consumer credit contract arranged by us and are not satisfied with our Final Response, you may be eligible to refer the matter to the Financial Ombudsman.
If relevant, you can refer your complaint to the Financial Ombudsman Service – you must do this within six months of our final response. When we send you a final response, we will also provide you with a copy of the Financial Ombudsman Service’s explanatory leaflet.
We will co-operate fully with the Ombudsman in resolving any complaints made against us and agree to be bound by any awards made by them.
You can contact the financial Ombudsman at the following address:
The Financial Ombudsman Service
Exchange Tower
London
E14 9SR
Telephone: 0800 023 4567 (free for most people from a fixed line) or 0300 123 9123 (cheaper for those calling using a mobile) or 020 7964 0500 (if calling from abroad)
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.financial-ombudsman.org.uk
In relation to your complaint you can also request a review from the European Online Dispute Resolution platform.(but hyperlink the words European Online Dispute Resolution platrom. http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr/
