privacy policy

1.     Privacy Policy

Horizon Seven respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use and protect personal information when you visit our website, contact us, engage with us, apply for a role, subscribe to our updates, or otherwise interact with us.

This policy applies to www.horizonseven.co.uk.


2.    Who we are

Horizon Seven is a UK-based technology procurement and sourcing consultancy.


For the purposes of UK data protection law, Horizon Seven is the data controller of the personal data described in this policy.


3.   The personal data we collect

Information you may provide to us:

  • Name
  • Job title
  • Organisation
  • Contact email address
  • Telephone number


Information you may include in an enquiry or message;

  • Information provided when booking a call, downloading content, registering for an event or subscribing to updates
  • Recruitment information, if you apply for a role with us
  • Information collected automatically when you visit our website:
  • IP address
  • Browser type and version
  • Device type
  • Pages visited
  • Time spent on the website
  • Referral source
  • Cookie and analytics data, where applicable


Information from third parties. We may receive limited business contact information from sources such as LinkedIn, referrals, event platforms, professional networks, partners, public websites, or business databases where it is lawful and appropriate to do so.


4.   How we use your personal data

We may use your personal data to:

  • Respond to enquiries
  • Provide information about our services
  • Manage client and prospective client relationships
  • Arrange meetings, webinars or events
  • Send relevant business updates, insights or marketing communications
  • Improve our website, services and content
  • Manage recruitment and candidate communications
  • Comply with legal, regulatory, tax or accounting obligations
  • Protect our business, website, systems and data


5.    Our lawful basis for processing

We only process personal data where we have a lawful basis to do so:

 

Contract: where processing is necessary to provide services to you or take steps before entering into a contract.


Legitimate interests: where we use personal data to operate, manage and grow our business, respond to enquiries, develop client relationships, improve our services, and send relevant B2B communications, provided your rights and interests do not override our interests.


Consent: where you have actively agreed to receive certain communications or where consent is required for non-essential cookies.


Legal obligation: where we need to process personal data to comply with legal, tax, accounting or regulatory requirements.


6.   Marketing communications 

We may send relevant business updates, insights, event invitations or information about our services to professional contacts where permitted by law.


You can opt out of marketing communications at any time by using the unsubscribe link in our emails or by contacting us at enquiries@horizonseven.co.uk


We will not sell your personal data to third parties.


7.    Who we share personal data with

We may share personal data with trusted third-party providers who support our business operations, such as:

  • Website hosting providers
  • Email and marketing platforms
  • CRM systems
  • IT and cloud service providers
  • Professional advisers, such as accountants, lawyers or insurers
  • Recruitment platforms or consultants, where relevant
  • Event, webinar or booking platforms
  • Analytics providers, where applicable.


We expect all third-party providers to protect personal data and only process it in accordance with our instructions and applicable law.


We may also disclose personal data if required by law, regulation, court order or a competent authority.


8.   International transfers

Some of our service providers may process personal data outside the UK. Where this happens, we take appropriate steps to ensure that personal data is protected in accordance with applicable UK data protection laws, for example through adequacy regulations or appropriate contractual safeguards.


9.   How long we keep personal data

We will only keep personal data for as long as necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, including to meet legal, accounting, reporting or regulatory requirements.


As a general guide:

  • Enquiry data may be kept for as long as needed to manage the enquiry and any resulting business relationship.
  • Client and supplier records may be retained for up to six years after the end of the relationship, or longer where required by law.
  • Marketing data will be kept until you unsubscribe or ask us to stop contacting you.
  • Recruitment data will usually be kept for up to 6 months unless you agree that we may keep it for longer.


10. Your data protection rights

Under UK data protection law, you may have the right to:

  • Access the personal data we hold about you
  • Ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete personal data
  • Ask us to delete your personal data
  • Ask us to restrict how we use your personal data
  • Object to certain types of processing
  • Withdraw consent where we rely on consent


Ask for your data to be transferred to another organisation in certain circumstances.

To exercise your rights, please contact us at enquiries@horizonseven.co.uk


You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office, the UK regulator for data protection. More information is available at www.ico.org.uk.


11.  Security

We take appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect personal data against unauthorised access, loss, misuse, alteration or disclosure. However, no website, email system or internet transmission is completely secure. Please take care when sharing information online.


12. Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to third-party websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices, content or security of those websites. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of any third-party websites you visit.


13. Cookies

For details of how we use cookies and similar technologies on our website, please see our Cookies Policy.


14. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The latest version will always be available on our website.


15. Contact us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or how we handle personal data, please contact us:


16. Monitoring and Review

This policy will be reviewed annually, or sooner if required, to ensure it remains appropriate for the size, nature, and risk profile of Horizon Seven’s operations.