When you purchase a freehold property, you are legally required to inform tenants that you are their new landlord. Get your free, Section 3 template today.
If you’re selling a freehold privately, you’ll need to serve Section 5A Notices on qualifying tenants to offer them the Right of First Refusal.
When selling a freehold by public auction, you’ll need to serve Section 5B Notices on qualifying tenants to offer them the Right of First Refusal.
If your freehold property requires major works, you may need to serve the Section 20 Notice. Start the consultation procedure with our free template.
Any demand for ground rent must be made using a Section 166 Notice. We offer two solutions to help you retrieve rent for up to six previous years.
Last updated: 18th October 2023
Your privacy is important to us. This notice applies to personal information we collect from you when you use this site, when you contact us, when we provide services to you, and when you visit our social media platforms. When doing so, you agree to the use of your personal information in accordance with this policy.
From time to time we may need to update this policy to reflect changes in legislation or changes to our business policy. Please check the policy regularly to ensure you are familiar with the terms. The latest copy will always be available on this site.
Some of the links on this website may lead to other websites where you are no longer governed by this privacy notice. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of those websites and we encourage you to read their privacy notices carefully.
For this Privacy Notice, the data controller is Freehold Sale, 1 The Spinney, 121 Main Road, Danbury, Essex, CM3 4DL.
Information we may collect from you
We currently collect and process the following information about you:
How we use your information
We only use your data within our legitimate interests, for providing the services you request and in operating and maintaining the website. We use information that has been provided to us by you, obtained from this site or from our social media channels, for the purposes of:
Third-Party services
We only share your personal data with third-party service providers that we use in order to deliver our services to you. Your data is only shared to the extent necessary to allow them to perform the services they provide on our behalf. Your data may be shared with:
You will not be contacted by anyone other than Freehold Sale.
Cookies
This site only uses anonymous cookies, meaning that our cookies are not collecting any information which would enable you to be identified personally. The cookies we use are listed at the end of this notice.
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping carts, and provide anonymised tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics. As a rule, cookies will make your browsing experience better.
However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. We suggest consulting the Help section of your browser or taking a look at the About Cookies website which offers guidance for all modern browsers.
How we store your personal information
We use a range of measures to keep your information safe and secure which includes data encryption, secure server storage and compliance standards for our staff.
Your information is stored and secured as follows:
We do not have a set limit on the length of time that we hold your personal data as the data is required for legitimate business purposes. For example, we use the information we hold to support our customers with future enquiries, in case information is required in relation to a historical transaction e.g. to settle a dispute, for marketing purposes and because financial data must be retained for 6 years to comply with the Companies Act. We review our data on a regular basis and where it is no longer required it is deleted, or where it is only retained for statistical purposes it is anonymised. You can withdraw consent for marketing emails and request deletion of your data (subject to statutory requirements for retention) at any time using the contact details provided in this notice.
In the event of a data breach, which would significantly harm individuals, we will report it within 72 hours to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office. We will also notify any customers affected.
Your rights
Under data protection law you have a number of rights in relation to the information that we hold about you. These rights include:
You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.
You can exercise your rights by contacting us using the details set out in the ‘More details about your information’ section below. You also have the right to complain to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office by visiting www.ico.org.uk.
More details about your information
If you’d like further information regarding the privacy notice, would like to access, correct, amend or delete any personal information we hold about you, or register a complaint, please contact our Data Protection Officer at [email protected] or write to us at Freehold Sale, 1 The Spinney, Danbury, Essex, CM3 4DL.
Cookies used by Freehold Sale
Google Analytics Cookies
We use Google Analytics on our website to improve customer experience and make future improvements on our website. They are as follows:
The ga.js JavaScript library present on our website and uses first-party cookies to:
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Our aim is to make selling a freehold fast and simple for our customers and we can do this because we are expert freehold buyers, with a wealth of experience.