Key privacy and data information regarding how your data is used, processed and lawful bases employed.
In marked contrast to many organisations, 7PM GLOBAL CONSULTING is fairly straightforward when it comes to personal data in the running of the business. So hopefully you’ll find this a shorter read than what you are used to elsewhere!
Anyway, as per the EU-wide General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the following information is provided.
COMPANY INFORMATION
7PM GLOBAL CONSULTING
CLYDE OFFICES
2nd FLOOR
48 WEST GEORGE STREET
GLASGOW
G2 1BP
SCOTLAND
Tel.: +44 (0)141 255 0769
Owner: Mr. Brian Gray
PURPOSES OF DATA PROCESSING
Provision of marketing services
Receiving emails from the website contact form and/or direct emails. Initial correspondence requires a name and valid email address. This may also contain brief project details or enquiries.
As with general consulting convention further discussion will invariably consist of additional project details which may disclose additional personal data.
Should an enquiry progress to a consulting engagement, then further details will be required, which will most likely comprise:
- Key project individuals
- Nature of project
- contact telephone numbers / email addresses
- any other details pertinent to the booking and provision of services
- banking details
Enquiries and subsequent client engagements and specific post-engagement correspondence are processed under the lawful basis of CONTRACT.
For payments, client personal and/or business contact data will be entered into business bank accounts (or alternatively PayPal) and manually entered when creating client invoices. Please visit the PayPal website to familiarise yourself with PayPal’s own data protection and processing standards and safeguards.
Market / Marketing / Customer Research
Processing of research sample (pre-fieldwork) and post-fieldwork respondent data. Client customer details provided by client (whose own data processing under – likely – legitimate interest or consent), and processed by 7PM GLOBAL CONSULTING under lawful basis of CONTRACT.
Business Development / Industry networking
In the running of the company, data (name, email address, telephone number, postal address, company/organisation) may be obtained from external sources in order to make contact and introduce 7PM GLOBAL CONSULTING to target audiences. Such data will be processed under the lawful basis of LEGITIMATE INTEREST.
DATA RETENTION
Emails received from prospects and clients in the running of the business, and PayPal invoice and payment notifications are held for a minimum of six years, in line with standard HMRC accounting requirements. Older enquiries and client details are maintained (under CONTRACT basis for tax and business records only)
DATA PROTECTION
Appropriate security measures are in place to prevent your personal information from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed.
Please be aware that while all reasonable efforts are made to keep personal data safe and secure, the internet itself cannot offer such guarantees, whether through accidental or malevolent acts. Therefore a cast-iron guarantee of protection cannot be given for any personal data that is transferred online. In all online correspondence and dealings with 7PM GLOBAL CONSULTING you hereby accept this risk.
Where there has been any suspected breach of security, procedures are in place to report and notify the appropriate individuals and authorities.
Information – such as tour client contact details – may be transferred to and processed and/or stored at a destination outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”) by organisations such as PayPal. Please visit their website for further details concerning data protection.
PRIVACY RIGHTS
Under existing data protection and GDPR legislation, several privacy rights are afforded. These include:
- The right to be informed
- The right of access
- The right to rectification
- The right to erasure
- The right to restrict processing
- The right to data portability
- The right to object
- Rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling
The right to be informed: You have the right to be informed how your personal data will be used, such as on this particular webpage and at other junctures, such as submitting initial contact form information.
The right of access: You have the right to know what information we hold about you and to ask, in writing, to see your records. Details of the records held on you will be provided to you as soon as possible and no later than one month – assuming the request is straightforward. Proof of identity may be required before data is released. Please get in touch using the website contact form if you wish to exercise this right.
Right to object: You also have a right to object to 7PM GLOBAL CONSULTING processing data where relying on it being within legitimate interests to do so (for example, to send you direct marketing by post). To do this, or to discuss this right further, please get in touch using the contact webpage.
Right to restrict processing: In certain situations you have the right to ask for processing of your personal data to be restricted because there is some disagreement about its accuracy or legitimate usage.
Right of erasure: In some cases, you have the right to be forgotten (i.e. to have your personal data deleted from our database). Where you have requested that we do not send you marketing materials we will need to keep some limited information in order to ensure that you are not contacted in the future.
Right of rectification: You have the right to have personal data held by 7PM GLOBAL CONSULTING updated/rectified if you believe the existing information held is inaccurate. Get in touch via the website contact page.
Right to data portability: Where we are processing your personal data because you have given us your consent to do so or for the performance of a contract, you have the right to request that the data is provided to you to reuse across different services.
COMPLAINTS
Perish the thought, but if you are genuinely dissatisfied with the way your data has been handled, please contact us using the contact webpage.
You are also entitled to make a complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office – https://ico.org.uk/.
CHANGES TO PRIVACY POLICY
Changes to this privacy policy may be made at any time. If you’re really interested in this, you can come back again and again to your heart’s content. If there’s any REALLY big changes, these will be highlighted. The privacy policy was last updated on 31st May 2025.
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Cookies help us to provide you with a good experience when you use our platforms and also allow us to improve our platforms. By continuing to use and browse our platforms, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.
We use the following cookies:
Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our platforms. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our platforms.
Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our platforms when they are using them. This helps us to improve the way our sites and/or the App works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our platforms. This enables us to personalise our content for you and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visits to our platforms, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our platforms and any advertising displayed on them more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
Remarketing cookies. You may notice that sometimes after visiting a site you see increased numbers of adverts from the site you visited. This is because advertisers, including ourselves pay for these adverts. The technology to do this is made possible by cookies and as such we may place a so called “remarketing cookie” during your visit. We use these adverts to offer special offers etc to encourage you to come back to our site. We cannot proactively reach out to you as the process is entirely anonymised.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them as follows:
Essential Site Functionality
Examples of purposes for which a cookie may be used: when a user registers with the site, London & Partners generate cookies that let us know whether the user is signed in or not.
Often, but not always, connected to an email address.
Personalisation and Marketing
This cookie is essential for our site as it enables us to: Serve content based on the user’s past browsing behaviour on the site. Recording that a user has seen a particular registration prompt popup so as not to show it again. It does this by serving A/B tests and ensuring that a given user always sees the same variant. It records whether a user who has clicked an off-site advert for our site has completed a goal (register, purchase, etc.). Only connected to an email address if the user has also registered. May be first or third part cookies or a mix of the two.
Anonymous Analytics
Collecting aggregate data on the most viewed pages, number of unique site visits, length of time spent on site. Not connected to an email address.
Google Analytics
Google Analytics are used widely by websites and mobile applications to collect information about how visitors use a site and/or the App. We may use Google Analytics cookies to collect information about how users use our platforms and to improve our platforms.
Google Analytics collect information in an anonymous form and will not allow us to identify you or collect any personal information about you.
Google Analytics do not track your internet activity after leaving our platforms.
Social media cookies
Our platforms may contain buttons and content from social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to enable you to share content from our platforms with your social media networks. If you use these features, these social media sites may use their own cookies. Information on how these are used can be found on their respective websites.
Third parties’ cookies
Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
You may block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies you may not be able to access all or parts of our platforms.
It may be that your concerns around cookies relate to so called “spyware”. Rather than switching off cookies in your browser you may find that anti-spyware software achieves the same objective by automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive. Learn more about managing cookies with antispyware software.