Policy version: 24 February 2025
www.consolidatedocs.com (our website) is provided by Consolidatedocs Limited (‘we’, ‘our’ or ‘us’).
We are the controller of personal data obtained via our website, meaning we are the organisation
legally responsible for deciding how and for what purposes it is used.
We take your privacy very seriously. Please read this privacy policy carefully as it contains important information on who we are and how and why we collect, store, use and share any information relating to you (your personal data) in connection with your use of our website. It also explains your rights in relation to your personal data and how to contact us or a relevant regulator in the event you have a complaint.
We collect, use and are responsible for certain personal data about you. When we do so we are
subject to the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR). We are also subject to the EU
General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR) in relation to goods and services we offer to
individuals and our wider operations in the European Economic Area (EEA).
Given the nature of our website, we do not expect to collect the personal data of anyone under 13 years old. If you are aware that any personal data of anyone under 13 years old has been shared with our website please let us know so that we can delete that data.
This privacy policy is divided into the following sections:
• What this policy applies to
• Personal data we collect about you
• How your personal data is collected
• How and why we use your personal data
• Marketing
• Who we share your personal data with
• How long your personal data will be kept
• Transferring your personal data out of the UK and EEA
• Cookies and other tracking technologies
• Your rights
• Keeping your personal data secure
• How to complain
• Changes to this privacy policy
• How to contact us
What this policy applies to
This privacy policy relates to your use of our website only.
Throughout our website we may link to other websites owned and operated by certain trusted third parties to make additional products and services available to you. Those third party websites may also gather information about you in accordance with their own separate privacy policies. For privacy information relating to those third party websites, please consult their privacy policies as appropriate.
Personal data we collect about you
The personal data we collect about you depends on the particular activities carried out through our website. We will collect and use the following personal data about you:
• your name, address and contact information, including email address and telephone number
and company details.
• details of any information, feedback or other matters you give to us by phone, email, post or
via social media.
• your activities on, and use of, our website.
• information about how you use our website and technology systems.
• your responses to surveys, competitions and promotions.
Sometimes you can choose if you want to give us your personal data and let us use it. Where that is the case, we will tell you and give you the choice before you give the personal data to us. We will also tell you whether declining to share that personal data will have any effect on your use of our website or any services on it.
We collect and use this personal data for the purposes described in the section ‘How and why we
use your personal data’ below.
How your personal data is collected
We collect personal data from you:
• directly, when you enter or send us information, such as when you register with us, contact us
(including via email), send us feedback, purchase products or services via our website, post
material to our website and complete customer surveys or participate in competitions via our
website, and
• indirectly, such as your browsing activity while on our website; we will usually collect
information indirectly using the technologies explained in the section on ‘Cookies and other
tracking technologies’ below.
We also collect personal data about you from other sources as follows:
• In person-meetings
• Telephone
How and why we use your personal data
Under data protection law, we can only use your personal data if we have a proper reason, e.g.:
• where you have given consent
• to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations
• for the performance of a contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into
a contract, or
• for our legitimate interests or those of a third party
A legitimate interest is when we have a business or commercial reason to use your personal
data, so long as this is not overridden by your own rights and interests. We will carry out an assessment when relying on legitimate interests, to balance our interests against your own. You can obtain details of this assessment by contacting us (see ‘How to contact us’ below).
We use your personal data for the following reasons:
● Creating and managing your account with us.
● Providing products and services to you.
● Enforcing legal rights or defend or undertake legal proceedings.
● Customising our website and its content to your preferences based on a record of your
selected preferences or on your use of our website.
● Retaining and evaluating information on your recent visits to our website and how you move
around different sections of our website for analytics purposes to understand how people use
our website so that we can make it more intuitive or to check our website is working as
intended.
● Communications with you not related to marketing, including about changes to our terms or
policies or changes to the products or services or other important notices.
● Protecting the security of systems and data used to provide the services.
● Statistical analysis to help us understand our customer base.
● Updating and enhancing customer records.
● Disclosures and other activities necessary to comply with legal and regulatory obligations that
apply to our business, e.g. to record and demonstrate evidence of your consents where
relevant.
● Marketing our services to existing and former customers (See ‘Marketing’ below for further
information).
● To share your personal data with members of our group and third parties that will or may take
control or ownership of some or all of our business (and professional advisors acting on our or
their behalf) in connection with a significant corporate transaction or restructuring, including a
merger, acquisition, asset sale, initial public offering or in the event of our insolvency.
How and why we use your personal data—sharing
See ‘Who we share your personal data with’ for further information on the steps we will take to
protect your personal data where we need to share it with others.
Marketing
We will use your personal data to send you updates (by email, text message, telephone or post) about our services, including exclusive offers, promotions or new services.
We have a legitimate interest in using your personal data for marketing purposes (see above ‘How and why we use your personal data’). This means we do not need your consent to send you marketing information. If we change our marketing approach in the future so that consent is needed, we will ask for this separately and clearly.
You have the right to opt out of receiving marketing communications at any time by:
• contacting us at [insert email address]
• using the ‘unsubscribe’ link in emails or ‘STOP’ number in texts
We may ask you to confirm or update your marketing preferences if you ask us to provide further
services in the future, or if there are changes in the law, regulation, or the structure of our business.
We will always treat your personal data with the utmost respect and never sell or share it with other organisations outside the Consolidatedocs group for marketing purposes.
For more information on your right to object at any time to your personal data being used for
marketing purposes, see ‘Your rights’ below.
Who we share your personal data with
We routinely share personal data with:
• third parties we use to help deliver our services to you, e.g. IT service providers, warehouses
and delivery companies.
• other third parties we use to help us run our business, e.g. marketing agencies or website
hosts and website analytics providers.
• third parties we use to help deliver our products and services to you, e.g. payment service
providers, warehouses and delivery companies;
• other third parties we use to help us run our business, e.g. marketing agencies or website
hosts;
• third parties approved by you, e.g. social media sites you choose to link your account to or
third party payment providers;
• credit reference agencies;
We only allow those organisations to handle your personal data if we are satisfied that they take
appropriate measures to protect your personal data. We also impose contractual obligations on them to ensure they can only use your personal data to provide services to us and to you.
We or the third parties mentioned above occasionally also share personal data with:
• our and their external auditors, e.g. in relation to the audit of our or their accounts, in which
case the recipient of the information will be bound by confidentiality obligations.
• our and their professional advisors (such as lawyers and other advisors), in which case the
recipient of the information will be bound by confidentiality obligations.
• law enforcement agencies, courts, tribunals and regulatory bodies to comply with our legal
and regulatory obligations.
• other parties that have or may acquire control or ownership of our business (and our or their
professional advisers) in connection with a significant corporate transaction or restructuring,
including a merger, acquisition, asset sale, initial public offering or in the event of our
insolvency—usually, information will be anonymised but this may not always be possible. The
recipient of any of your personal data will be bound by confidentiality obligations.
Who we share your personal data with—further information
If you would like more information about who we share our data with and why, please contact us (see ‘How to contact us’ below).
How long your personal data will be kept
The length of time we keep your personal data depends on what it is and whether we have an
ongoing business need to retain it (for example, to provide you with a service you’ve requested or to comply with applicable legal, tax or accounting requirements).
We will retain your personal data for as long as we have a relationship with you and for a period of time afterwards where we have an ongoing business need to retain it, in accordance with our data retention policies and practices. Following that period, we’ll make sure it’s deleted or anonymised.
Transferring your personal data out of the UK and EEA
Under data protection laws, we can only transfer your personal data to a country outside the UK/EEA where:
• in the case of transfers subject to UK data protection law, the UK government has decided the
particular country ensures an adequate level of protection of personal data (known as an
‘adequacy regulation’) further to Article 45 of the UK GDPR;
• in the case of transfers subject to EEA data protection laws, the European Commission has
decided that the particular country ensures an adequate level of protection of personal data
(known as an ‘adequacy decision’) further to Article 45 of the EU GDPR;
• there are appropriate safeguards in place, together with enforceable rights and effective legal
remedies for you; or
• a specific exception applies under relevant data protection law.
Where we transfer your personal data outside the UK, we do so on the basis of an adequacy
regulation or (where this is not available) legally approved standard data protection clauses
recognised or issued further to Article 46(2) of the UK GDPR. In the event we cannot or choose not to continue to rely on either of those mechanisms at any time we will not transfer your personal data outside the UK unless we can do so on the basis of an alternative mechanism or exception provided by UK data protection law and reflected in an update to this policy.
Where we transfer your personal data outside the EEA we do so on the basis of an adequacy
decision or (where this is not available) legally approved standard data protection clauses issued
further to Article 46(2) of the EU GDPR. In the event we cannot or choose not to continue to rely on either of those mechanisms at any time we will not transfer your personal data outside the EEA unless we can do so on the basis of an alternative mechanism or exception provided by applicable data protection law and reflected in an update to this policy.
Any changes to the destinations to which we send personal data or in the transfer mechanisms we rely on to transfer personal data internationally will be notified to you in accordance with the section on ‘Changes to this privacy policy’ below.
Cookies and other tracking technologies
A cookie is a small text file which is placed onto your device (e.g. computer, smartphone or other
electronic device) when you use our website. These help us recognise you and your device and store some information about your preferences or past actions.
For further information on cookies, when we will request your consent before placing them and how to disable them, please see our Cookie Policy
Your rights
You generally have the following rights, which you can usually exercise free of charge:
● Access to a copy of your personal data: The right to be provided with a copy of your
personal data.
● Correction (also known as rectification): The right to require us to correct any mistakes in
your personal data.
● Erasure (also known as the right to be forgotten): The right to require us to delete your
personal data in certain situations.
● Restriction of use: The right to require us to restrict use of your personal data in certain
circumstances, e.g. if you contest the accuracy of the data.
● Data portability: The right to receive the personal data you provided to us, in a structured,
commonly used and machine-readable format and/or transmit that data to a third party—in
certain situations.
● The right to object:
—at any time to your personal data being used for direct marketing (including profiling); or
—in certain other situations to our continued use of your personal data, e.g. where we use
your personal data for our legitimate interests unless there are compelling legitimate grounds
for the processing to continue or the processing is required for the establishment, exercise or
defence of legal claims.
● Not to be subject to decisions without human involvement: The right not to be subject to
a decision based solely on automated processing (including profiling) that produces legal
effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you. We do not make any such
decisions based on data collected by our website.
● The right to withdraw consents: If you have provided us with a consent to use your
personal data you have a right to withdraw that consent easily at any time. You may withdraw
consents by [our contact details in the ‘How to contact us’ below]. Withdrawing a consent
will not affect the lawfulness of our use of your personal data in reliance on that consent
before it was withdrawn.
For further information on each of those rights, including the circumstances in which they do and do not apply, please contact us (see ‘How to contact us’ below).
If you would like to exercise any of those rights, please email, call or write to us—see below: ‘How to contact us’. When contacting us please:
• provide enough information to identify yourself (e.g. your full name, address and customer or
matter reference number) and any additional identity information we may reasonably request
from you, and
• let us know which right(s) you want to exercise and the information to which your request
relates.
Keeping your personal data secure
We have appropriate security measures to prevent personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed unlawfully. We limit access to your personal data to those who have a genuine need to access it.
We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.
How to complain
Please contact us if you have any queries or concerns about our use of your personal data (see
below ‘How to contact us’). We hope we will be able to resolve any issues you may have.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with:
• the Information Commissioner in the UK
The UK’s Information Commissioner may be contacted using the details at https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint or by telephone: 0303 123 1113.
Changes to this privacy policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the date at the top of this Privacy Policy.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy
Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
How to contact us
You can contact us and/or our Data Protection Officer by post, email or telephone if you have any
questions about this privacy policy or the information we hold about you, to exercise a right under data protection law or to make a complaint.
Our contact details:
17 Cavendish Square, London, W1G 0PH
+44330 122 8180
Our data protection officer's details:
17 Cavendish Square, London W1G 0PH
+44339 122 8180