Keeping your information safe and secure

Security of the information you store on Biscuit Tin is the backbone of our business. Without industry-leading technology solutions in place to protect your data we wouldn’t sleep at night. Take a look at some of the tools we use below. Pretty impressive, although we do say so ourselves!

We have your account security covered – we validate the identity of you and your nominees, we use two-factor authentication at every login, we encrypt your data and we use SSL certificates. On top of this we don’t mess around when it comes to testing our site security, we use National Security experts. If you would like to delve a little bit more into the detail, read on.

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Your Account Security

We have your account security covered with two-factor authentication used at every login, encryption and SSLs. On top of this we don’t mess around when it comes to testing our site security, we use National Security experts. If you would like to delve a little bit more into the detail, read on:

Digital Identity

We work with one of the global leaders in Digital Identity verification to ensure only genuine customers can sign up.

High level face matching and document authentications are quickly performed and in no time at all your identity check will be complete.

Two Factor Authentication

Whenever you or any of your Nominees sign in to your Biscuit Tin we will send a unique code to the registered mobile phone or email address that must be input as part of the login process.

This additional layer of security means that even in the unlikely event that someone got hold of a password somehow, they still wouldn’t be able to access your data.

Communication Security

All communications between you and Biscuit Tin are secured using a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). SSLs are used is to keep sensitive information sent across the Internet encrypted so that only the intended recipient can access it.

When an SSL certificate is used, the information becomes unreadable to everyone except for the server you are sending the information to.

SSL Certifications are in place across all of our Website and Biscuit Tin application communications.

Site Security

Biscuit Tin follows good industry practices to keep your data secure. Our environments and code are tested and audited regularly against a multitude of good practice security criteria.

We also consult and take counsel from national Security experts who test and verify the security of our site.

The part you play in Security

Biscuit Tin has taken multiple precautions to secure your data for you but another key link in the chain of Security is also you. Choose a strong password, don’t store it publicly on your mobile phone and never share your password with anyone.

Data is only ever shared with the people you choose in a secure and fully authenticated way via use of the Nominee function within your Biscuit Tin.

Privacy of your Data

The information you store on Biscuit Tin is private and will remain so until it is shared with your nominees. Everything is encrypted and can only be accessed by an authenticated user. Further information, as well as our detailed Privacy Policy can be found below.

Encrypted Data

All data that you store on your Biscuit Tin is encrypted. This means that your data is secret and can only be decrypted by you or your nominee(s) via an authenticated login.

Even in the unlikely event that someone did unlawfully compromise the systems where your data is stored, they would not be able to decrypt your data to make any sense of it.

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

The General Data Protection Regulation is a regulation in EU law on data protection and privacy for all individual citizens of the European Union and the European Economic Area.

Please see our Privacy Policy for details of how we process your data according to this law.

Information Commissioners Office

The Information Commissioner Office (ICO) is the UK’s independent data protection regulator. It places a duty on data controllers to notify the Commissioner as well as individuals concerned of any data breaches that could risk affecting individuals.

Our company Biscuit Tin Planning Ltd is officially registered with the ICO and our registration number is ZA532134.

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