Membership of CIFAS is open to organisations that can identity fraud and are willing to share it with other CIFAS Members through the National Fraud Database. Current Members include:
- Consumer and commercial/corporate credit grantors; e.g. loan providers, credit card issuers, mortgage lenders etc.
- Deposit takers; e.g. banks etc.
- Leasing and hire companies, e.g. motor finance providers etc.
- Other providers
of products, services and facilities; e.g. telecommunication service
providers, factors and discounters, mail order companies, stockbrokers
etc
- Public Sector Organisations
- Other organisations who own their customer data
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Membership is not open to organisations who do not own their customer data.
So what are CIFAS Members required to do?
The basic requirements of Membership are:
- To include
printed or scripted data protection "Fair Processing Notices" (also
known as "Privacy Notices") in applications for products, services or
other facilities to advise applicants how their data may be shared with
CIFAS Members
- To include in their Data Protection Register entry the ‘crime prevention and prosecution of offenders’ purpose
- To identify
frauds and share the details with other Members, in return for the
benefit of being able to access other Members' fraud data
- To be visited annually to confirm compliance
- Not to undertake any processing which would involve the access to CIFAS data from outside the EEA and certain other countries
- To provide an indemnity to all other Members.
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