Privacy Policy — Full Document
Last Updated: January 2026.Introduction
Horizon Consulting and Marketing Ltd ("we", "our", or "us") is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This policy sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed. Please read this policy carefully to understand our practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.
Information We Collect
We may collect and process the following data about you:
- Identity Data — includes first name, last name, username or similar identifier.
- Contact Data — includes billing address, email address and telephone numbers.
- Financial Data — includes bank account and payment card details where applicable.
- Technical Data — includes internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, and other technology identifiers on the devices you use to access our site.
Legal Basis for Processing
Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), the lawful bases we rely on for processing personal information are:
- Your consent — you are able to withdraw consent at any time.
- We have a contractual obligation — processing is necessary for the performance of a contract.
- We have a legal obligation — processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation.
- We have a legitimate interest — processing is necessary for our legitimate business interests.
Data Retention
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which we collected it, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting or reporting requirements. For financial records, we retain data for a minimum of six years in accordance with UK legal requirements. For enquiry and contact data not resulting in a contract, we retain data for a maximum of 24 months.
Third-Party Processors
We may share your data with selected third parties including: business partners, suppliers and sub-contractors for the performance of any contract we enter into with them or you; analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimisation of our site. All third-party processors are bound by data processing agreements and are required to process data only on our instructions in compliance with UK GDPR.
Your Data Protection Rights
Under data protection law, you have rights including:
- Your right of access — you have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information (Subject Access Request).
- Your right to rectification — you have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate.
- Your right to erasure — you have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.
- Your right to restriction — you have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your information.
- Your right to data portability — you have the right to ask for your information to be transferred to another organisation or to you.
- Your right to object — you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances.
Contact & Complaints (ICO)
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at lamin@horizonconsultingltd.co.uk. You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We would, however, appreciate the opportunity to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO, so please contact us in the first instance.