CONTENTS

1. Terms of Use

2. Acceptable Use Policy

3. Privacy Policy

4. Cookie Policy

5. Consent to receive unsolicited direct mail

SECTION1 - TERMS OF USE OF WEBSITE

PLEASE READ THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS SITE

Who we are and how to contact us

www.blendnetwork.com is a site operated by Blend Loan Network Limited (we or us).We are registered in England and Wales under company number 10025252 and we have our registered office at 142 New Cavendish Street, London, W1W 6YF, UK. Our main trading address is 142 New Cavendish Street, London, W1W 6YF, UK. Our VAT number is 263814594.

Blend Loan Network Limited are authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (Registration Number 913456). We are not covered by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme.

We are a limited liability company.

To contact us, please email contact@blendnetwork.com or telephone our customer service line on 020 3409 3300.

By using our site you accept these terms

By using our site, you confirm that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to comply with them.

If you do not agree to these terms, you must not use our site.

We recommend that you print a copy of these terms for future reference.

There are other terms that may apply to you

These terms of use refer to the following additional terms, which also apply to your use of our site:

• Our Privacy Policy (see Section 3 below) which sets out the terms on which we process any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us. By using our site, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.

• Our Acceptable Use Policy (see Section 2 below) which sets out the permitted uses and prohibited uses of our site. When using our site, you must comply with this Acceptable Use Policy.

• Our Cookie Policy (see Section 4 below), which sets out information about the cookies on our site.

We may make changes to these terms

We amend these terms from time to time. Every time you wish to use our site, please check these terms to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time.

We may make changes to our site

We may update and change our site from time to time to reflect changes to our products, our users' needs and our business. We will try to give you reasonable notice of any major changes.

We may suspend or withdraw our site

Our site is made available free of charge.

We do not guarantee that our site, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. We may suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of our site for business and operational reasons. We will try to give you reasonable notice of any suspension or withdrawal.

You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your internet connection are aware of these terms of use and other applicable terms and conditions, and that they comply with them.

Users outside the UK

We do not represent that content available on or through our site is appropriate for use or available in other locations.

You must keep your account details safe

If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential. You must not disclose it to any third party.

We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our reasonable opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use.

If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your user identification code or password, you must promptly notify us at contact@blendnetwork.com or telephone our customer service line on 020 3409 3300.

How you may use material on our site

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site, and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.

You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our site for your personal use and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to content posted on our site.

You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.

Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on our site must always be acknowledged.

You must not use any part of the content on our site for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.

If you print off, copy or download any part of our site in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

Do not rely on information on this site

The content on our site is provided for general information only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our site.

Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our site, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our site is accurate, complete or up to date.

We are not responsible for websites we link to

Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. Such links should not be interpreted as approval by us of those linked websites or information you may obtain from them.

We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources.

User-generated content is not approved by us

This website may include information and materials uploaded by other users of the site, including to bulletin boards and chat rooms. This information and these materials have not been verified or approved by us. The views expressed by other users on our site do not represent our views or values.

If you wish to complain about information and materials uploaded by other users please contact us on complaints@blendnetwork.com or telephone our customer service line on 020 3409 3300.

Our responsibility for loss or damage suffered by you

Whether you are a consumer or a business user:

• We do not exclude or limit in any way our liability to you where it would be unlawful to do so. This includes liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or the negligence of our employees, agents or subcontractors and for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.

• Different limitations and exclusions of liability will apply to liability arising as a result of the supply of any services to you, which will be set out in our Terms and Conditions of Supply of Services.

If you are a business user:

• We exclude all implied conditions, warranties, representations or other terms that may apply to our site or any content on it.

• We will not be liable to you for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with:

• use of, or inability to use, our site; or

• use of or reliance on any content displayed on our site.

• In particular, we will not be liable for:

• loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue;

• business interruption;

• loss of anticipated savings;

• loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or

• any indirect or consequential loss or damage.

If you are a consumer user:

• Please note that we only provide our site for domestic and private use. You agree not to use our site for any commercial or business purposes, and we have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity.

Rights you are giving us to use material you upload

When you upload or post content to our site, you grant us the following rights to use that content:

• a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable licence to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform that user-generated content in connection with the service provided by the website and across different media.

We are not responsible for viruses and you must not introduce them

We do not guarantee that our site will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.

You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform to access our site. You should use your own virus protection software.

You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our site. You must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack. By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our site will cease immediately.

Rules about linking to our site

You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it.

You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.

You must not establish a link to our site in any website that is not owned by you.

Our site must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of our site other than the home page.

We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.

The website in which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy (see Section 2 below).

If you wish to link to or make any use of content on our site other than that set out above, please contact contact@blendnetwork.com or telephone our customer service line on 020 3409 3300.

Which country's laws apply to any disputes?

If you are a consumer, please note that these terms of use, their subject matter and their formation, are governed by English law. You and we both agree that the courts of England and Wales will have exclusive jurisdiction except that if you are a resident of Northern Ireland you may also bring proceedings in Northern Ireland, and if you are resident of Scotland, you may also bring proceedings in Scotland.

If you are a business, these terms of use, their subject matter and their formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by English law. We both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

Our trademarks are registered

BLEND and B.LEND are UK registered trademarks of Blend Loan Network Limited. You are not permitted to use these without our approval, unless they are part of material you are using as permitted in accordance with the provisions of this website.

SECTION 2 - WEBSITE ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY

This acceptable use policy sets out the terms between you and us under which you may access our website www.blendnetwork.com (our site). This acceptable use policy applies to all users of, and visitors to, our site.

Your use of our site means that you accept, and agree to abide by, all the policies in this acceptable use policy, which supplement our Terms of Use (see Section 1 above).

Prohibited uses

You may use our site only for lawful purposes. You may not use our site:

• In any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation.

• In any way that is unlawful or fraudulent, or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect.

• For the purpose of harming or attempting to harm minors in any way.

• To send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any material which does not comply with our content standards (see below).

• To transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam).

• To knowingly transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware.

You also agree:

• Not to reproduce, duplicate, copy or re-sell any part of our site in contravention of the provisions of our Terms of Use (see Section 1 above).

• Not to access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt:

• any part of our site;

• any equipment or network on which our site is stored;

• any software used in the provision of our site; or

• any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party.

Interactive services

We may from time to time provide interactive services on our site, including, without limitation:

• Chat rooms.

• Bulletin boards.

(interactive services).

Where we do provide any interactive service, we will provide clear information to you about the kind of service offered, if it is moderated and what form of moderation is used (including whether it is human or technical).

We will do our best to assess any possible risks for users (and in particular, for children) from third parties when they use any interactive service provided on our site, and we will decide in each case whether it is appropriate to use moderation of the relevant service (including what kind of moderation to use) in the light of those risks. However, we are under no obligation to oversee, monitor or moderate any interactive service we provide on our site, and we expressly exclude our liability for any loss or damage arising from the use of any interactive service by a user in contravention of our content standards, whether the service is moderated or not.

The use of any of our interactive services by a minor is subject to the consent of their parent or guardian. We advise parents who permit their children to use an interactive service that it is important that they communicate with their children about their safety online, as moderation is not fool proof. Minors who are using any interactive service should be made aware of the potential risks to them.

Where we do moderate an interactive service, we will normally provide you with a means of contacting the moderator, should a concern or difficulty arise.

Content standards

These content standards apply to any and all material which you contribute to our site (contributions), and to any interactive services associated with it.

You must comply with the spirit and the letter of the following standards. The standards apply to each part of any contribution as well as to its whole.

Contributions must:

• Be accurate (where they state facts).

• Be genuinely held (where they state opinions).

• Comply with applicable law in the UK and in any country from which they are posted.

Contributions must not:

• Contain any material which is defamatory of any person.

• Contain any material which is obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory.

• Promote sexually explicit material.

• Promote violence.

• Promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age.

• Infringe any copyright, database right or trademark of any other person.

• Be likely to deceive any person.

• Be made in breach of any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence.

• Promote any illegal activity.

• Be threatening, abuse or invade another’s privacy, or cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety.

• Be likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person.

• Be used to impersonate any person, or to misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person.

• Give the impression that they emanate from us, if this is not the case.

• Advocate, promote or assist any unlawful act such as (by way of example only) copyright infringement or computer misuse.

Suspension and termination

We will determine, in our discretion, whether there has been a breach of this acceptable use policy through your use of our site. When a breach of this policy has occurred, we may take such action as we deem appropriate.

Failure to comply with this acceptable use policy constitutes a material breach of the Terms of Use (see Section 1 above) upon which you are permitted to use our site, and may result in us taking all or any of the following actions:

• Immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use our site.

• Immediate, temporary or permanent removal of any posting or material uploaded by you to our site.

• Issue of a warning to you.

• Legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all costs on an indemnity basis (including, but not limited to, reasonable administrative and legal costs) resulting from the breach.

• Further legal action against you.

• Disclosure of such information to law enforcement authorities as we reasonably feel is necessary.

We exclude liability for actions taken in response to breaches of this acceptable use policy. The responses described in this policy are not limited, and we may take any other action we reasonably deem appropriate.

Changes to the acceptable use policy

We may revise this acceptable use policy at any time by amending this page. You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we make, as they are legally binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in this acceptable use policy may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our site.

SECTION3 – PRIVACY POLICY

WHO WE ARE

We, Blend Loan Network Limited, are a company registered in England (Company no. 10025252) and are committed to protecting your privacy and complying with applicable data protection and privacy laws. This privacy notice (Notice) is designed to help you to understand what kind of personal data we collect and how we process and use such data. It also sets out your rights in relation to how we look after your personal data.

We act as a data controller for the personal data we hold about you.

Our products or services may contain links to a third party’s website or service. Unless that third party is processing your personal data on our behalf, we are not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of such a third party. We recommend that you carefully read the privacy notice for such third parties.

For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the Act), Blend Loan Network Limited is registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office under registration reference ZA193706.

PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT

We collect your personal data typically when you register for our services, make a purchase, enter a sales promotion or otherwise interact with us. Below are examples of the categories of the data we collect on you.

Technical Information. For the most part, you may visit our websites without having to identify yourself. However, certain technical information is normally collected by us as a standard part of our services. This information relates to your IP-address, information about your device and other technical information your browser provides us with including full Uniform Resource Locators (URL), clickstream to, through and from our site (including date and time), page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), methods used to browse away from the page and any phone number used to call our customer service number and metadata about your use of our websites (such as when you use the website and how you interact with content). If you call us, additional information such as your telephone number may be saved as a standard part of that communication.

Information you provide us. This is information about you that you give us by filling in forms on our site http://www.blendnetwork.com/ or by corresponding with us by phone, e-mail or otherwise. It includes information you provide when you register to use our site, subscribe to our service, participate in discussion boards or other social media functions on our site, enter a survey, and when you report a problem with our site. To allow us to provide you with the products and services you have requested, or to communicate with you, we may ask you to provide us with certain information such as your name, date of birth or age, email address, home or postal address, or financial situation. In registering for our services, you create usernames, passwords and other credentials that we use to authenticate you and to validate your actions. You may send us copies of your personal identity documents or details about other financial products to which you may be a party.

Our services may ask you to submit information about other people, for example, members of your family or household, or a beneficiary of a product.

You may also indirectly provide us with information through your consents, preferences and feedback.

Information we collect about you to administer our site and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes; to improve our site to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer; to allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so; as part of our efforts to keep our site safe and secure; to measure or understand the effectiveness of advertising we serve to you and others, and to deliver relevant advertising to you; to make suggestions and recommendations to you and other users of our site about goods or services that may interest you or them.

Special categories of personal data. To enable us to provide you with a quote we may ask you for information relating to your health (for example, whether you are a smoker or not) or whether you have unspent criminal convictions [or driving penalties].

Your transactions with us. We collect details of the queries or requests you have made, the products and services provided (including delivery details), purchasing details (including payments made, billing address, credit checks and other such financial information), details of agreements between us, records of contacts and communications, information and details relating to the content you have provided us with and other such transactional information. We may, in accordance with applicable law, record your communication with our customer care or with other similar contact points.

Personal data obtained from third parties. We may obtain personal data about you from third party sources such as social media analytics, and from the following partners:

MangoPay, Credit Safe, Experian, North Row (formerly Contego) and other credit reference agencies and other third parties.

We are working closely with third parties (including, for example, business partners, sub-contractors in technical, payment and delivery services, advertising networks, analytics providers, search information providers, credit reference agencies). We will notify you when we receive information about you from them and the purposes for which we intend to use that information.

WHY WE NEED YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We collect and process your data for one or more of the following grounds:

To fulfil our contract with you. We use your personal data as is necessary to provide you with our products and services in line with our overall contract. We process and use your personal data to provide you with a personalised service and the product or service you have requested, to fulfil your other requests, process your order(s), and as otherwise may be necessary to perform or enforce the contract between us. You agree that we have the right to share your personal information with:

Any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries, as defined in section 1159 of the UK Companies Act 2006.If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our Terms of Use (see Section 1 above) the Blend Terms and Conditions; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Blend Loan Network Limited, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

We do not disclose information about identifiable individuals to our advertisers, but we will provide them with aggregate information about our users (for example, we may inform them that 500 men aged under 30 have clicked on their advertisement on any given day).

We are required to do so by law or regulation. We are required by Law to process and store some of your data in order to fulfil our regulatory obligations. We may capture and share your personal data with organisations who can confirm your identity and provide information necessary to prevent fraud or other financial crimes. We may also be required to share your personal details where requested to by legal authorities or the Financial Ombudsman.

Your have provided us with your consent. You have provided us with your consent. Where you have given your informed consent, we will process your data in accordance with the permission you have given us and this Notice. You may withdraw your consent at any time.

OUR OTHER LEGITIMATE INTERESTS IN YOUR DATA

Taking into account your interests, we process your personal data for the following purposes:

To verify your identity and administer your account. We process and use your personal data to ensure the functionality and security of our products and services, to identify you and the instructions you give us, and to prevent and detect fraud and other misuses.

Development of products and services. We process and use your personal data to develop our products and or services. However, for the most part we only use aggregate and statistical information in the development of our products and services, and not data directly identifiable to you. We may also process and use your personal data to personalise our offerings and to provide you with service more relevant to you, for example, to make recommendations and to display customised content and advertising. We may combine personal data collected in connection with your use of a particular product and or service with other personal data we may hold about you, unless the purpose for which we collected that data is incompatible with amalgamation.

Communicating with you and marketing. We process and use your personal data to communicate with you, for example, to provide information relating to our products and or services you are using or to contact you for customer satisfaction queries. We may process and use your personal data for marketing. Marketing purposes may include using your personal data for personalised marketing or research purposes in accordance with applicable laws, for example, to conduct market research and to communicate our products, services or promotions to you via our own or third parties/ electronic or other services. When contacting you for the purpose of marketing, we will take into account any preferences you have expressed to us, including any desire not to receive marketing.

Profiling. We may process and use your personal data for profiling for such purposes as targeted direct marketing and improvement of our products or services. We may also create aggregate and statistical information based on your personal data. Profiling includes automated processing of your personal data for evaluating, analysing or predicting your personal preferences or interests in order to, for example, send you marketing messages concerning products or services best suitable for you.

Tracking remuneration due to us or our partners. We use your personal data to ensure that we receive the remuneration or commission due to us from, or payable by us to, any third-party product providers or distributors.

Insurance. We process personal data as required to enable us to periodically obtain insurance cover for our business and to notify and process claims with our insurers.

Business continuity. In the event of an interruption or cessation of our business, we need to ensure that we can implement our business continuity procedures (for example, we may need to rebuild our IT systems) or wind down planning to protect your interests. This may involve a transfer of your personal data to a third party (see below).

TRANSFERS OF PERSONAL DATA

We will transfer your personal data to the third parties noted below, or as obligated by law.

Material service providers. We will transfer your personal data to the following third parties who provide us with a material service:

MangoPay, Credit Safe, Experian, North Row (formerly Contego) and other credit reference agencies and other third parties for the purposes of anti-money laundering checks and fraud prevention.

Generic service providers. We may transfer your personal data to third parties who control or process personal data on our behalf to enable the efficient technical and logistical provision of our services. These service providers supply us with cloud data storage, data security services, customer relationship management software, and support ticketing services. We may substitute a technical or logistical service provider from time to time. Such parties are generally not permitted to use your personal data for any other purposes than for what your personal data was collected, and we require them to act consistently with applicable laws and this Notice as well as to use appropriate security measures to protect your personal data.

Event driven transfers. We may transfer your personal data to third parties in certain events where is it necessary to protect your, or our, legitimate interests. This includes the cessation, sale or transfer of our business; civil or criminal legal, or regulatory, proceedings; or insurance claims.

International transfers. Our products and services may be provided using resources and servers located in various countries around the world. Therefore, your personal data may be transferred outside the country where you use our services, including to countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA). We will only transfer data in such circumstances if the level of data protection in that jurisdiction is deemed adequate, or if there are appropriate safeguards in place to protect your privacy.

HOW LONG DO WE KEEP PERSONAL DATA

We will only keep your personal data for so long as it is reasonable for us to do so, depending upon the nature of the data and our processing, and the grounds upon which we collected it. In general, we will delete redundant account information within 14 days of our relationship ending. However, we are obliged to keep certain records of our relationship to comply with the FCA’s rules, in which case we will instead restrict access through our archiving processes. Subject to any actual or potential legal claim, the maximum time that we envisage retaining any of your information is five (5) years, after which time it will be destroyed.

Information we use for marketing purposes will be kept by us until you notify us that you no longer wish to receive this information. If you do notify us that you no longer wish to receive marketing information we will keep an encrypted version of your contact information to ensure we respect your wishes.

PROTECTING YOUR PASSWORD

Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

WHAT ARE YOUR RIGHTS?

You have the right to request information and access to the personal data we hold about you.

You also have the right to request that we correct or delete any incomplete, incorrect, unnecessary or outdated personal data we hold on you. However, we cannot delete such personal data that is necessary for compliance, our binding legal obligations or if the personal data must be retained according to applicable laws or is required for the exercise or defence of a legal claim.

In case you consider your personal data collected by us to be inaccurate, but you do not wish your personal data to be deleted; if we have used your personal data unlawfully or you have objected to the processing and the existence of legitimate grounds for processing is still under consideration, you may request restriction of processing of your personal data.

You may also at any time object to your personal data being processed for direct marketing purposes, sending promotional materials, profiling, or for the performance of market research. Further, where your personal data is processed based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent for such processing at any time.

In case you wish to make use of your rights mentioned above, you may, as appropriate and in accordance with applicable laws, exercise such rights by contacting us through the contact points referred in the marketing materials or below in this Notice. In some cases, especially if you wish us to delete or cease the processing of your personal data, this may also mean that we may not be able to continue to provide the services to you.

Please note that we may need to identify you and to ask for additional information in order to be able to fulfil your above requests. Please also note that applicable law may contain restrictions and other provisions that relate to your above rights.

You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data. You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us at contact@blendnetwork.com or telephone our customer service line on 020 3409 3300.

Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

How to contact us

If you wish to contact us, please send an email to our nominated person at contact@blendnetwork.com, write to Blend Network, 142 New Cavendish Street, London, W1W 6YF, UK or call 0203 409 3300.

Changes to this Notice

We may change this Notice from time to time. You should check this Notice occasionally to ensure you are aware of the most recent version.

This Notice was last updated on April 13th, 2021.

SECTION 4 - COOKIE POLICY

Information about our use of cookies

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.

A cookie is a small piece of code a website sends to a user's internet browser, which allows that website to track the user's previous activity when they return to that website. This allows us to provide you with the experience that you expect from us and lets us continually improve our service.

You can block cookies by changing the settings on your browser, but if you do you will not be able to access all or parts of our website

The type of cookies we use are:

Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.

Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).

Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.

We do not have any control over the use of cookies by third parties, including our partners and affiliates. To manage cookies from third party websites you will need to visit their site to adjust your settings.

If you want more information about how cookies operate, or how to manage them, please visit About Cookies.

SECTION 5 - CONSENT TO RECEIVE UNSOLICITED DIRECT MAIL

Opt-in wording for consent to direct marketing by electronic means (email or SMS)

By registering as a Member of the Blend Platform you are giving your consent to us contacting you by electronic means (email or SMS) with information about services which we feel may be of interest to you.

Opt-out wording for consent to direct marketing by electronic means in respect to similar goods or services

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