Assess your creditworthiness, such as assessing how you have maintained previous and current credit commitments; and Mercedes-Benz UK Companies’ Integrity Code details the rules and procedures by which we should treat fellow employees. This includes: When CRAs receive a search from us, they will place a search footprint on your credit file that may be seen by other lenders. Mercedes-Benz UK Companies have the right at any time to audit suppliers for compliance against the sustainability clause. You may withdraw your consent for us to use your information in any of these ways at any time. Please see Withdrawing your consent in Section 8.4 for further details.

You can ask us to send your personal information directly to another service provider, and we will do so if this is technically possible. We may not provide you with a copy of your personal information if this concerns other individuals or we have another lawful reason to withhold that information. When these targeting and retargeting tools are used, some data may be transferred to servers located in the United States and processed there.If you are making this application as a partner in a firm or as the director of a limited company, MBFS may also carry out searches with credit reference and/or fraud prevention agencies in respect of other partners and directors. By making this application you warrant that your partners or directors understand that MBFS will be carrying out such searches and using their personal information. If you are making a joint application, or inform us that you have a spouse, partner or financial associate, we will link your records together. Please ensure you discuss this with the relevant parties, and share this information with them, before lodging the credit application. CRAs will also link your records together and these links will remain on your and their files until such time as you or any other individual involved in a joint application successfully files for a disassociation with the CRAs. Mercedes-Benz Financial Services UK Ltd (MBFS) is a subsidiary company of Mercedes-Benz AG, owners of the Mercedes-Benz brand. MBFS works with other subsidiary companies which includes our Agent partners and Dealer Network in the UK to provide finance, leasing and related services to Mercedes-Benz and smart customers. If you opt-in to receiving marketing from our recommended third parties, you will receive marketing from the third parties listed in the table below via your preferred communication methods indicated by you: Below you will find information about the providers of the analytics tools and the respective opt-out procedures:

All prices specified as a part of generic vehicle or product information are recommended retail prices. Prices are current at the time of publication an subject to change without notice. Statement of Mercedes-Benz UK Ltd, Mercedes-Benz Parts Logistics Ltd, Mercedes-Benz Retail Group UK Ltd and Mercedes-Benz Financial Services UK Ltd Pursuant to the Modern Slavery Act 2015 for marketing activities (other than where we rely on your consent) e.g. to tailor marketing communications or send targeted marketing messages via social media and other third party platforms; Where this policy refers to "we", "our" or "us" below, unless it mentions otherwise, it’s referring to the particular company that is the controller of your personal information.When we use third party service providers, we only disclose to them any personal information that is necessary for them to provide their service and we have a contract in place that requires them to keep your information secure and not to use it other than in accordance with our specific instructions. If we, or a fraud prevention agency, determine that you pose a fraud or money laundering risk, we may refuse to provide the financial services you have requested, or we may cease to provide existing services to you.

We will supply your personal information to CRAs and they will provide us with information about you. CRAs will supply public (such as the electoral register) and shared credit information. This will include information relating to both your financial situation and history in addition to information used for the purposes of fraud prevention. You have the right to opt-out of our use of your personal information to provide marketing to you in any of the ways mentioned above. Please see Withdrawing your Consent in Section 8.4 and Objecting to our use of your personal information and automated decisions made about you in Section 8.5 above for further details on how you can do this.

We value your privacy

Please see further How we use your personal information in Section 4 for details of the purposes for which we use the personal information we obtain from these sources and the legal basis on which we rely to process that information. The remaining provisions of this policy also apply to any personal information we obtain from these sources. We will continue to exchange information about you with CRAs while you have a relationship with us. We will also inform the CRAs about your settled accounts. If you borrow and do not repay in full and on time, CRAs will record the outstanding debt. This information may be supplied to other organisations by CRAs. Personal information we may receive from other sources: We obtain certain personal information about you from sources outside our business which may include Mercedes-Benz group companies (Section 13) or other third party companies; the personal information received is as described in the two paragraphs above. for analysis, and profiling to inform our marketing strategy, and to enhance and personalise your customer or visitor experience; We may share your information with other companies within the Mercedes-Benz Group. They may use your personal information in the ways set out in How we use your personal information in Section 4, in connection with products and services that complement our own range of products and services, for example finance or insurance products.