Credit Karma UK Limited

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN-4310215 Upheld

Upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

£100redress stated in the decision

Wed Oct 18deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Credit file reporting, Data and privacy

In the Ombudsman’s words

allowed a partnered company to carry out soft searches on his credit fileCredit file reporting

giving those partners one’s personal dataData and privacy

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN-4310215.pdf on financial-ombudsman.org.uk.

The outcome shown is the Ombudsman’s own published classification, not our reading of the text. Nothing here is legal advice, and a decision concerns only the complaint it was made about.