Overview
Confluence Advisory Limited (“Company”, “we” or “us”) owns and uses this website (www.confluenceadvisory.co.uk). By using this website, you consent to the collection, use, storage and transfer of your personal information under the terms of this Privacy Policy.
For the purposes of the Data Protection Act 2018 and the GDPR 2018, the Company is registered as the Data Controller with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the regulatory body in the United Kingdom for data protection, and you can contact us at info@confluenceadvisory.co.uk. We understand the obligations on us as Data Controller in respect of your personal information and will take all reasonable steps to securely store it and use it only in lawful ways and for lawful purposes.
Collection of personal information
When you contact us with an interest in our services or visit this website you may be asked to, or will of your own volition, provide information to us from which you can be identified, including your name, contact details, any text you may upload, other technical data such as the IP address and browser type of the device you use and all personal information you disclose to us during the course of any consultancy engagement we may enter into with you.
Use of personal information
We may use or disclose your personal information to:
- Send you e-mail communications
- Provide you with consultancy services
- Invoice you, collect payments and maintain our financial records (which may include the use of accountants)
- Maintain records of our business dealings
- In the establishment or exercise of legal rights or defences against legal claims, to comply with applicable laws or regulations, to comply with a valid legal process, such as a search warrant, subpoena or court order or to investigate suspected fraud.
Disclosure of personal information
We will never knowingly sell or assign your personal information without your knowledge and/or approval. We will never disclose any personal information about you to any third party, including any that forms part of our consultancy engagement (including the subject of the engagement and personal information exchanged between us in connection with the engagement) except:
- with your informed consent; or
- in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy; or
- in the establishment or exercise of legal rights or defences against legal claims, to comply with applicable laws or regulations, to comply with a valid legal process, such as a search warrant, subpoena or court order or to investigate suspected fraud.
The information you provide to us may be accessed by or given to third parties or bodies who work with us, work for us, act for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy or for other purposes approved by you. Those parties may process information, fulfil and deliver consultancy services, process payments and/or provide support services to us and/or to you on our behalf. We may also pass aggregate information on the usage of this website to third parties, but this will not include information that can be used to identify you.
Transferring your personal information outside the EU
We will not intentionally transfer your personal information outside the EU without ensuring appropriate safeguards are in place. We do not knowingly transfer your personal information outside the EU. However, we have no control over the routes that emails may take, and even emails exchanged between two people in the United Kingdom could appear on equipment in countries outside the EU, where they may not be protected by strong privacy or data protection laws.
Use of cookies
Cookies are small text files that a website can write to your computer. They are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. We use cookies to identify you as a user of this website. Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org. We do not use cookies to store information such as bank account details, telephone numbers or other personal information you may provide. This Privacy Policy only covers our use of cookies; it does not cover the use of cookies by any third parties or advertisers.
Data security
We keep your personal data secure and safe using modern and regularly updated firewalls and anti-virus software. We employ security measures to protect, so far as reasonably possible, your information from access by unauthorised persons and against unlawful processing, accidental loss, destruction and damage.
We require that any third parties we may work with must ensure the security of the data that you provide to them. However, in the event of a breach of their security measures, we are not liable for any losses or damages and in using this website and/or by engaging us to provide consultancy services you agree to this.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our website. Any transmission to us of your personal data is at your own risk. If there is a data breach of which we become aware, we will inform you immediately.
Access to the information we collect about you
You are entitled to see the personal data about you that we hold; to ask how, why and where we process and store it; and to ask us to make any necessary changes to ensure that it is accurate and kept up to date. If you wish to do any of this, please contact us via the email address at the end of this Privacy Policy.
Opt-out
You have the right to ask us to restrict or stop using your personal information for any purposes (including marketing). If you wish to do this, please send us an email at the address at the end of this Privacy Policy.
Deletion of personal information
We will keep your personal information for a maximum of 7 years, after which time we will securely delete it.
Location
This website is maintained in the United Kingdom. If you are located outside of the United Kingdom, by using the website you agree to and authorise the import of your information and its use, as specified in this Privacy Policy.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Policy at any time in the event that this becomes necessary. We will not personally notify you of any amendments to this Privacy Policy. You should check this Privacy Policy frequently to determine whether any changes have been made. By using this website you understand and agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, as it may be amended from time to time.
Contact
Please contact us at info@confluenceadvisory.co.uk with any comments, queries and requests relating to our use of your information.
This Privacy Policy was last updated on 3 May 2025.
