Privacy Policy
Effective Date: Updated May 2025
1. Introduction
Welcome to Realise Consulting ("we," "our," "us"). We are committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal data. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect your personal data when you visit our website at realise-consulting.com or interact with us, including through our LinkedIn company page and during business development activities.
We understand that your privacy is important, and we are dedicated to being transparent about our data practices.
2. Data We Collect
We collect personal data to provide our services, respond to inquiries, and manage our business operations. The types of personal data we may collect include:
Contact Information: Name, email address, phone number, postal address.
Professional Information: Company name, job title, industry.
Inquiry Details: Information you provide when you contact us with questions, requests, or service inquiries.
Business Development Information: Information gathered during interactions related to potential or existing business relationships, including notes from meetings or communications.
Website Usage Data: Information about how you interact with our website, such as IP address, browser type, pages visited, time spent on pages, and referring source. This is often collected through cookies and similar technologies (see Section 11).
LinkedIn Interaction Data: Information you share or that is visible to us through your interactions with our LinkedIn company page (e.g., comments, likes, messages, profile information visible to connections or the public).
3. How We Collect Your Data
We collect data through various methods:
Direct Interactions: When you contact us via email, phone, website forms, or provide your business card.
Our Website: Through contact forms, inquiry submissions, or analytics tools that collect usage data.
LinkedIn: When you engage with our company page, send us messages, or connect with us.
Business Development Activities: During meetings, networking events, or through research on potential clients and partners.
Third Parties: We may receive information from third parties where you have provided consent or where legally permitted (e.g., professional networking platforms, publicly available sources).
4. Purposes for Collecting and Using Your Data
We use your personal data for the following purposes:
To respond to your inquiries and provide you with information about our services.
To provide our consulting and operational services to you or your company.
To manage our business relationship with you.
For business development and marketing purposes, such as sending relevant information about our services, updates, or insights, where we have a legal basis to do so.
To improve our website and services based on usage patterns and feedback.
To comply with legal and regulatory obligations.
To protect our business and prevent fraud.
5. Legal Basis for Processing (For UK/EU Residents)
If you are located in the UK or European Union, we rely on the following legal bases for processing your personal data under the UK GDPR and EU GDPR:
Performance of a Contract: Processing necessary to provide the services you have requested or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract.
Legitimate Interests: Processing necessary for our legitimate interests or those of a third party, provided your fundamental rights do not override those interests. This includes interests in:
Marketing our services to prospective clients who we believe would genuinely benefit from them.
Improving our services and website.
Managing our business operations.
Protecting our legal rights.
Consent: Where required by law, we may rely on your explicit consent to process your data for specific purposes (e.g., sending certain marketing communications). You have the right to withdraw consent at any time.
Legal Obligation: Processing necessary to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.
6. Data Storage and Security
We store your personal data securely, using appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect it against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. We use secure systems and limit access to your data to only those employees, contractors, and agents who have a legitimate business need to access it.
7. Data Sharing
We do not sell your personal data. We may share your data with:
Service Providers: Trusted third-party service providers who perform functions on our behalf, such as IT support, CRM systems, email marketing platforms, and analytics providers. These providers are required to protect your data and only use it for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
Legal and Regulatory Authorities: When required to do so by law, court order, or in response to a valid legal request.
Business Transfers: In connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your personal data may be transferred to the acquiring entity.
We ensure that any third parties we share data with have appropriate data protection measures in place.
8. Data Retention
We retain your personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
To determine the appropriate retention period, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
9. International Data Transfers
Given our focus on the UK, parts of Europe, and North America, your data may be transferred to and stored in countries outside of your region, including to the United States, where data protection laws may differ from those in your home country.
When we transfer your data internationally, we take steps to ensure it is protected by appropriate safeguards, such as using standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission or the UK Information Commissioner's Office, or relying on the recipient's adherence to frameworks like the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (where applicable).
10. Your Data Protection Rights
Depending on your location and applicable data protection laws, you may have the following rights regarding your personal data:
Right to Access: Request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
Right to Rectification: Request correction of any inaccurate or incomplete data we hold about you.
Right to Erasure ("Right to be Forgotten"): Request the deletion of your personal data in certain circumstances.
Right to Restriction of Processing: Request that we restrict the processing of your data in certain circumstances.
Right to Object to Processing: Object to our processing of your data in certain circumstances (e.g., for direct marketing).
Right to Data Portability: Request your data be transferred to another controller in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format.
Right to Withdraw Consent: Where processing is based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time.
Right to Lodge a Complaint: Complain to a supervisory authority (e.g., the ICO in the UK, or relevant DPA in the EU/your local privacy commissioner in Canada). Residents of California may have additional rights under CCPA/CPRA.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details provided in Section 13. We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your data (or to exercise any of your other rights).
11. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
Our website may use cookies and similar tracking technologies to enhance your experience, analyze website usage, and support our marketing efforts. Cookies are small text files placed on your device.
We use cookies to understand how visitors interact with our website, which helps us improve its content and usability.
We may use cookies for targeted advertising purposes.
You can manage your cookie preferences through your browser settings. Please note that disabling cookies may affect the functionality of our website. [If you have a separate Cookie Policy, add a link here].
12. Third-Party Links
Our website and LinkedIn page may contain links to third-party websites. This Privacy Policy does not cover how those websites collect or use your data. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of any third-party sites you visit. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of external sites.
13. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or legal requirements. The updated policy will be posted on this page with a revised "Effective Date." We encourage you to review this policy periodically.
14. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, or if you wish to exercise your data protection rights, please contact us:
Realise Consulting: info@realiseconsulting.com