Privacy policy​

STRAT7 Limited and its affiliate and subsidiary group companies (together “STRAT7”, “we”, “our” or “us”) are the controller of your personal information. This means that we are responsible for deciding how we hold and use your personal information. We are required under data protection law to tell you the things set out in this Notice. Our registered office is at 11 Soho Street, London, England, W1D 3AD.

What is this Privacy Notice about?

This Notice tells you how we use your personal information when we collect it from you through any of group websites on the “get in touch” pages or the personal data you provide to us via the any of the email addresses we publish and the cookies we use on our websites.

This notice is not intended for participants in any survey, or members in a panel, conducted by STRAT7, nor any related market research activities. If you have participated in such activities, please see the ‘how to contact us’ information below to ask us for help if you cannot find the relevant notice.

This Notice answers the following questions:

• What personal information do we collect about you?
• How do we use your personal information and what is our legal ground for using it?
• Do we use your personal information to make automated decisions?
• How long will we keep your personal information?
• Who will we share your personal information with?
• Will we transfer your personal information outside the EEA?
• What rights do I have over my personal information?
• How we’ll tell you about changes to this Notice
• How to contact us
  
  

What personal information do we collect about you?

When you fill in the “get in touch” form on any of our websites, we will collect the following personal information from you: full name, email address, and any other information you include in the enquiry you send us through the form.

Additionally, we will process any personal information your supply to us when you contact us via any of our published email addresses.

Our websites also use cookies. Full details of the cookies we use can be found in our cookie policy.

How do we use your personal information and what is our legal ground for using it?

We use the information you give us on the “get in touch” forms, or you provide to us via email, to respond to your queries, which will include passing it on to relevant members of our staff who can respond, and also to send you any information you have requested, for example about our products and services.

Our legal grounds for using your personal information in this way are that it is in our legitimate interests to be able to respond to the enquiries we get through our websites.

We use cookies to help us improve the performance and user experience of our websites. Other than as set out in our cookie policy, we do not collect information through our cookies that identifies you personally.

Our legal ground for using cookies on our websites is that it is in our legitimate interests to monitor how our websites are used and to make sure we can improve the way our websites perform.

Do we use your personal information to make automated decisions?

You will not be subject to decisions that will have a legal or significant impact on you based solely on automated decision-making.

How long will we keep your personal information?

We keep your personal data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes for which we are using it. The period for which we keep your personal data will be determined by a number of criteria, including the purposes for which we are using the information, the amount and sensitivity of the information, the potential risk from any unauthorised use or disclosure of the information, and our legal and regulatory obligations.

Who will we share your personal information with?

We will only share the personal information that you give us with the following third parties and for the following reasons:

• With third parties who provide or support our IT systems: We use reputable third parties to provide us with our IT systems and support for them. They may access your personal information to the extent that they need to in order to provide their services or provide support to us. The legal ground for this is that it is in our legitimate interests to be able to use reputable third parties to provide appropriate IT systems to us and to fix issues with our IT systems;
• With a company that we merge with or transfer our business assets to: If we sell all or part of our business, or merge with another company, we may transfer personal information that we have collected as described in this Notice, along with our other business assets, to the company that we are selling to or merging with. The legal ground for this is that it is in our legitimate interests to be able to merge or sell our business;
• With entities, companies or individuals outside STRAT7 for legal reasons: We will share your personal information with entities, companies or individuals outside STRAT7 where it is necessary to comply with any law, rule, regulation, legal procedure or governmental request that is applicable to us. The legal ground for this is that sharing your personal information in this way is necessary in order for us to comply with our legal obligations;
• With entities, companies or individuals outside STRAT7 to obtain advice: We also share your personal information with external professional advisors such as lawyers or accountants in order to take advice and for the purposes of legal and tribunal proceedings. The legal ground for this is that it is in our legitimate interests as a business to be able to obtain professional advice from our external advisors about issues that may arise within our business.
  
  

Will we transfer your personal information outside the European Economic Area?

We store your personal information in the United Kingdom or in countries within the European Economic Area (“EEA”).

STRAT7 may send your personal data outside the United Kingdom and/or the European Economic Area (“EEA”). Where your personal data is transferred, to or accessed from, outside of the UK and/or the EEA in countries that the UK and/or the EU have not assessed as providing an adequate level of data protection, we will take steps to ensure that personal data is adequately protected in accordance with applicable data protection law, including by ensuring information security and other appropriate safeguards are in place and using approved model clauses to cover the transfers (such as the EU Standard Contractual Clauses (“EU SCCs”) approved by the European Commission for the transfer of personal data outside the EEA and in the UK, the UK Addendum to the EU SCCs or the UK International Data Transfer Agreement.

If you would like further details about our transfer of your personal information outside the EEA please contact our Data Protection Officer using the contact details at the start of this Notice.

What rights do I have over my personal information?

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), (the UK regulator for data protection issues, please see https://ico.org.uk/). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO and so, if you are happy to do so, please contact our Data Protection Officer in the first instance and we will try to resolve your issues.

You have a number of rights over your personal information, which are:

• where our use of your personal information is based on your consent, the right to withdraw your consent at any time;
• the right to ask us what personal information we have about you and to have a copy of your personal information from us;
• the right to ask us to correct any errors in your personal information;
• the right to ask us to review and explain our legitimate interests to you;
• the right to ask us to delete your personal information where:

  • our processing of your personal information is based on consent, you withdraw that consent and we have no other legal basis to use your personal information;

  • we don’t need your personal information anymore;

  • you have asked us to review and explain our legitimate interests to you and we don’t actually have a valid legitimate interest to do what we are doing;

  • our use of your personal information is illegal;

  • we have to delete your personal information to comply with our legal obligations;

• the right to ask us to restrict the use that we are making of your personal information where:

  • you don’t think the personal information we have about you is correct, so that we can check if it is correct;

  • what we are doing with your personal information is illegal but you would rather we stop using your personal information rather than delete it;

  • we don’t need your personal information anymore, but you need us to keep it so that you can exercise any legal rights; and

  • you have asked us to review and explain our legitimate interests to you, so that we can check whether we actually have a valid legitimate interest to do what we are doing; and

• the right, where our use of your personal information is carried out for the purposes of an agreement with us and is carried out by automated means, to ask us to provide you with a copy of your personal information in a structured, commonly used, machine readable format.

If you want to exercise any of your rights over your personal information, please contact our Data Protection Officer by email at dpo@strat7.com or by calling 020 7438 4950.

How we’ll tell you about changes to this Notice?

We keep this Notice under regular review. Any changes we make to this Notice in the future will be posted here on our website and if the changes will have an effect on you or the way we use your personal information we will bring them to your attention by email where appropriate. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to this Notice. This Notice was last updated in January 2025.

How to contact us

If you have any questions about this Notice or about the ways we use your personal information, please contact us by email at dpo@strat7.com, by calling 020 7438 4950 or by writing to us at DPO, STRAT7, 11 Soho Street, London, England, W1D 3AD.

Links to other websites

Our sites may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of STRAT7. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy notices and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.