IDD
Initial Disclosure Document
Linear Financial Solutions,
5 Northgate,
Baildon,
Shipley.
BD17 6LX.
Our Services & Fees
- Background
This document provides important information about our services, our fees, our regulatory status and your protections and rights in respect of the services that we provide.
You can use this document to decide whether our services are right for you.
- Our Regulator
Linear Financial Solutions is a trading name of Linear Mortgage Network Ltd which is registered in England
No. 5198588 Registered Office: Howard House, 3 St Marys Court, Blossom Street, York, YO24 1AH.
We are an Appointed Representative of PRIMIS Mortgage Network, a trading name of Advance Mortgage
Funding Limited, which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). The FCA is
an independent watchdog that regulates financial services.
PRIMIS is included on the Financial Services Register under registration number 305008. You can check
this via the FCA website www.fca.org.uk or by calling them on 0800 111 6768.
PRIMIS Mortgage Network authorise us to advise and make arrangements in relation to:
Mortgages
Life and Health Insurance
Personal Accident Insurance
Private Medical Insurance
Business Protection
General Insurance
- What type of service do we offer?
We provide an advised service. This means that we will assess your needs and make a personal
recommendation for each of the mortgage and / or insurance areas in which you have asked us to provide a service.
We act for you and not the insurer or the mortgage lender in connection with the services we provide.
- Whose products do we offer?
Insurance
We offer products from a range of insurers for the following insurance products: term assurance, family
income benefit, non-investment whole of life assurance, critical illness insurance, income protection
insurance, private medical insurance and insurance related products for properties and their contents. The
range of insurers is based on a fair analysis of the relevant market.
We only offer products from One Family for over 50s life insurance.
We only offer products from Metlife for Personal Accident Insurance.
We only offer products from Aviva for Private Medical Insurance.
Mortgages
We offer a comprehensive range of first charge mortgages from across the market, but not deals that you
can only obtain by going direct to a lender.
We do not offer advice in relation to second charge mortgages however we can make a referral to a suitable firm to discuss your needs.
- What will you have to pay us for our services?
Insurance
We will not charge you a fee for our services relating to insurance but we will receive commission from the product provider. The commission will be calculated as a proportion of the premiums paid for the insurance product.
You will receive a quotation which will tell you about the fees and charges relating to any particular insurance policy that we recommend.
Mortgages
We charge an arrangement fee of between £199 and £999. Your adviser will agree your arrangement fee
with you before commencing any chargeable work for you, and the amount payable will take account of the following factors:
Your personal financial circumstances
The complexity of your borrowing requirements
The amount of work required to fulfil your needs
Your fee is payable when an application is submitted to a mortgage lender and is non-refundable.
We will also be paid a procuration fee from the lender. The amount of the procuration fee will be disclosed to you.
You have the right to ask us to provide information on the range of procuration fees that the lenders on our panels offer to us.
If an application is submitted to a lender via a packager we will be paid commission by the packager. This
will be disclosed to you.
- Our services when giving advice for increasing borrowing on an existing property
If you are seeking advice for increasing the borrowing secured on a property which is subject to an existing mortgage, we will consider whether you should:
take a further advance from your current lender
take out a new mortgage with a different lender
We will not consider second charge loans or unsecured lending. In some circumstances, these options might be available and appropriate for you.
- Borrowing into retirement
If you are aged over 55 and you are considering taking out a retirement interest-only mortgage, or any other interest-only mortgage which will run into your retirement, then a Lifetime Mortgage may be available and more appropriate for you. A Lifetime Mortgage is a type of loan which does not need to be repaid until you die, sell the property or go into long-term care and where the interest will usually be rolled up into the loan instead of being paid each month.
We do not offer advice on Lifetime Mortgages however we can introduce you to an appropriately qualified adviser if you wish to consider this option.
- Payments to us
You should only pay money to us to settle any fees that we have charged you for our services. We cannot
accept payments of any other type. We do not accept cash as a form of payment.
Any payment requested by third parties (including product providers, lenders and solicitors) should be paid directly to the third party. We are not authorised to hold client money (that is, money which is to be held or processed on your behalf, as defined by the FCA).
- Your duty to provide full and accurate information
It is your responsibility to provide complete, accurate and comprehensive information to us and to any product provider or lender that we might recommend.
Failure to disclose material information could invalidate any insurance product that we arrange for you, or
cause any mortgage application to be declined.
We are entitled to rely on the information that you have disclosed to us. We cannot be held responsible for any consequences arising from the information held on your file becoming inaccurate as a result of changes that you have not told us about.
- Conflicts of interest
We maintain procedures to prevent and manage conflicts of interest arising between you and us, or ,
or between you and any other client of ours, or of PRIMIS’.
Circumstances might occasionally arise where we consider that these procedures will not be sufficient to
ensure, with reasonable confidence, that the risks of damage to your interests will be prevented. In these
cases we may not be able to act for you. Where our procedures would allow us to act, we will clearly disclose
the following to you in writing before we undertake any business for you:
a specific description of the conflict of interest that has arisen;
the risks to you that arise from the conflict of interest;
confirmation that we do not consider that our normal organisational and administrative
arrangements are sufficient to mitigate these risks.
Our disclosure will provide sufficient information to enable you to make an informed decision about the risks to you and hence whether you should proceed with the service.
- What to do if you have a complaint?
We hope that you will be satisfied with the service that we provide. If you wish to register a complaint, please
contact us via any of the following methods:
In Writing: The Customer Resolution Team, PRIMIS Mortgage Network, 3700
Parkside, Birmingham Business Park, Solihull. West Midlands. B37 7YT.
By Telephone: 0121 767 1139
By Email: [email protected]
PRIMIS will aim to deal with your complaint quickly and impartially. You can see our full complaints
procedures via our website www.primis.co.uk. If we cannot resolve your complaint to your satisfaction, you may be entitled to refer it to the Financial Ombudsman Service.
Full details can be found on its website at www.financial-ombudsman.org.uk
- Are we covered by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme?
We are covered by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS). You may be entitled to
compensation from the scheme if we cannot meet our obligations. This depends on the type of business and the circumstances of the claim.
Further information about this scheme is available from the FSCS website www.fscs.org.uk or by writing to:
Financial Services Compensation Scheme,
10th Floor, Beaufort House,
15 St Botolph Street,
London EC3A 7QU.
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Telephone: 0800 678 1100 or 0207 741 4100
- Client Confidentiality
We will keep all of your personal information private and confidential, even when you are no longer a client,
in accordance with the prevailing data protection legislation. Our Data Privacy Statement provides full
information about how we will use your data.
- Electronic verification of identity
We are required by law to confirm your identity, which means we are required to seek proof of who you are and where you live. This is to comply with money laundering regulations.
We may attempt to check your identity electronically based on the information you provide, and may pass on and exchange information with appropriate agencies in order to carry out those searches and checks.
If our service is being provided to a legal entity (for example, if you are a limited company or a partnership)
we are required to verify the identity of the beneficial owners (usually those who hold over 25% of your capital or profit or voting rights or who otherwise has a controlling interest), your Directors or partners and anyone
who has authority to give instructions to us. We may attempt to electronically check the identity of the
individuals who you have told us, or who we separately identify, fall into these categories.
Electronic identity checks will leave an enquiry footprint on the credit file of the individual for every check
carried out. However, electronic identify checks do not affect credit scores. In making use of our services,
you confirm your acceptance of our use of credit reference agencies which will result in such a record.
We will require alternative proof of identification from you if electronic verification of identify is not successful.