Privacy Policy


This privacy policy was last updated in May 2026.


London & Partners Limited is a company registered in England and Wales (company number 07493460) with a registered office at 169 Union Street, London, England, SE1 0LL.

When you use our services, you’ll share some information with us. We want to be upfront about the information we collect, how we use it, who we share it with and the choices we give you to control, access and update your information.

For the purposes of data protection legislation, we are the data controller of your personal data. This means we make the decisions about how your data is processed, and what is done with it. We are registered with the Information Commissioners Office in the UK with reference number Z2650570.

We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy and this policy sets out how we will process any personal data collected from you. Please read this privacy policy carefully.

Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be sent to hello@growlondonlocal.london


CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY NOTICE

We updated this privacy notice on 26 May 2026 to reflect the use of Google Ads enhanced conversions in respect of new Registered Users, which is discussed below. These updates explain how we use Google Ads Enhanced Conversions when Registered Users sign up on our website, where they have consented to the use of statistics and marketing cookies.


THE PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND USE

We ensure that your privacy is respected at all times and our primary goal is to improve upon and make sure our services and messaging are relevant for all our users, while also ensuring that personal information of all users is respected and protected.

To learn about the information we collect and how we use your personal data, read the notice or notices which apply best to your relationship with us, which are set out below:

· I am a Registered User


COOKIES

Our website uses cookies. Cookies are pieces of code that allow small amounts of information to be passed from your internet browser to our web server. We use third party cookies, serving several purposes. We use the following types of cookies:

  • Necessary or functional cookies - help the site to run properly (when they are strictly necessary cookies it means their only function is to help the site work).
  • Statistics cookies – help us understand and analyse how site visitors use the site. These cookies help provide information on metrics, for example, the number of visitors, bounce rate, etc.
  • Marketing cookies – enable advertising related processing, including measuring the effectiveness of advertising campaigns.

Cookies and similar technologies may collect information relating to your device, browser, online activity and interactions with our website. As discussed below, where you are a Registered User and you have consented to marketing cookies, we may share limited personal data (such as your email address in hashed form) with advertising partners such as Google in order to measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns and improve our marketing activities.

Cookies enable us to:

· ensure the website functions properly and securely;

· remember your preferences and settings;

· understand how visitors use and interact with our website;

· improve website performance, functionality and user experience;

· measure the effectiveness of our advertising and marketing campaigns; and

· where you have consented to marketing cookies, associate conversions with prior advertising interactions using pseudonymised identifiers.

The cookies we use are:


Cookie

Purpose

What it does

How long it lasts

_fbp

Marketing cookie

Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers

1 month

_ga

Statistics cookie

Used to distinguish users and to distinguish sessions for a user.

1 month

_gid

Statistics cookie

Used to distinguish users and to distinguish sessions for a user.

24 hours

_gcl_au

Marketing cookie

Takes information in ad clicks and stores it in a first-party cookie so that conversions can be attributed outside the landing page. Helps measure the effectiveness of a campaign by securely sharing hashed personal data with Google after you sign up on our website.

3 months

_gat_gtag_

Statistics cookie

This cookie does not store any user information, it's just used to limit the number of requests that have to be made to doubleclick.net.

1 minute

_hjSessionUser_

Statistics cookie

Ensures data from subsequent visits to the same site are attributed to the same user ID.

7 days

_hjSession_

Statistics cookie

Ensures subsequent requests in the session window are attributed to the same session.

30 mins

_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress

Statistics cookie

Used to detect the first pageview session of a user.

30 mins

_hjFirstSeen

Statistics cookie

Identifies a new user’s first session.

30 mins

consentCookie

Functional (eg necessary) cookie

Confirmation of acceptance of functional cookies.

30 days


We use strictly necessary cookies without consent where permitted by law. We can only use other cookies with your permission. You will be prompted by a message (our "cookie banner") when you first visit our website where you can choose to accept or decline our cookies. Marketing and statistics cookies, including technologies used for Google Ads Enhanced Conversions, will only be activated where you have provided your consent through our cookie banner.

Specifically, if you are a Registered User:

  • If you consent to statistics cookies only, we will measure website usage and conversions in an aggregated or modelled manner.
  • If you consent to marketing cookies, additional data may be used to improve advertising measurement and, where applicable, to match conversions using pseudonymised/hashed identifiers (such as your email address).

You can update your cookie settings at any time by revisiting the cookie banner. You may withdraw your consent to marketing and statistics cookies at any time by updating your preferences through our cookie banner or your browser settings.

If you do not want to acceptcookies, you can also change your browser settings so that cookies are not accepted. If you do this, please be aware that you may lose some of the functionality of this website. Some third parties also allow you to disable cookies directly with them (for example, you can disable Google Analytics on their website). For further information about cookies and how to disable them please go to:www.aboutcookies.orgor www.allaboutcookies.org.


WHERE WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We store company information (including your personal data) on Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure servers located in the United Kingdom.


WHO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION WITH

We may share your information or data with trusted third parties who help us provide certain aspects of our services.

In accordance with our normal business, we may share your personal data with:

  • Our personnel: our employees (or other types of workers) who have contracts containing confidentiality and data protection obligations in order to provide our services.
  • Our supply chain: other organisations that help us provide our services, such as website hosting, cloud services etc. We ensure these organisations only have access to the information required to provide the support we use them for and have a contract with them that contains confidentiality and data protection obligations.
  • Our business contacts: we may share limited access to some of your personal data where we partner with other businesses to provide our services and the site to you. For example, we work with third party training providers as part of our mentorship programme. We ensure these contacts only have access to the information required to provide the support we use them for and have a contract with, or terms that apply to them that contains confidentiality and data protection obligations.
  • Regulatory authorities: such as HM Revenue & Customs.
  • Our professional advisers: such as our accountants or legal advisors where we require specialist advice to help us conduct our business.
  • Any actualor potential buyer of our business.

In particular, we engage third parties to:

· facilitate the sending of any email to Registered Users or Guests;

· help us track website conversion success metrics and measure and analyse the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns;

· manage our customer support services to you (e.g., e-mail or live chat);

· log any errors and issues with our website.

Where you are a Registered User and you consent to advertising cookies, we may share limited personal information with advertising partners such as Google. This may include identifiers such as your email address provided through registration on our website, which are converted into a hashed format before transmission where required by the relevant service. These technologies help us better understand whether users who interact with our advertisements later take actions on our website, such as registering for events or submitting enquiries.

We enter into confidentiality and data processing terms with our partners to ensure they comply with high levels of confidentiality and best practice in privacy and security standards and we regularly review these standards and practices.

We also have to share information or data in order to:

· meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request;

· enforce applicable policies, including investigation of potential violations;

· detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues;

· protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of our users, the public or to us and/or as required or permitted by law;


TRANSFER OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We store personal information of our members in the UK. However, some of our external third parties are based outside of the UK or transfer personal data outside of the UK.

Where we transfer information outside of the UK, for example, where we use a third-party online service that is based outside of the UK, we will only do so where the country involved has been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data or we have a valid legal mechanism in place (e.g., by using contracts approved by the European Commission or UK Secretary of State). We impose the same requirements on any third parties which transfer your personal data outside of the UK.

If you would like further information about who we share your personal information with, please contact us at hello@growlondonlocal.london.

CHILDREN

Our services are not intended for and may not be used by individuals under the age of 16 (or a lower age if permitted by the laws of their residence) (Children). We do not knowingly collect personal data from Children or allow them to register. If it comes to our attention that we have collected personal data from a Child, we may delete this information without notice. If you have reason to believe that this has occurred, please contact us at hello@growlondonlocal.london


RETAINING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We will hold on to your information for as long as is needed to be able to provide the services to you. If you hold an account with us, we do not delete the data in your account unless you haven’t used your account for two years or more.

If you browse our site, we keep personal data collected through our analytics tools for only as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for (see “Cookies” above for further information).

We may also keep hold of some of your information if reasonably necessary or required to meet legal or regulatory requirements, resolve disputes, prevent fraud and abuse, or enforce our terms and conditions.


KEEPING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION SECURE

We have appropriate security measures in place to prevent personal information from being accidentally lost or used or accessed in an unauthorised way.

We limit access to your personal information to those who have a genuine business need to know it. Those processing your information will do so only in an authorised manner and are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you, our data protection contact and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.

If you want more detailed information on how to protect your information and your computers and devices against fraud, identity theft, viruses and many other online problems, please visit Get Safe Online atwww.getsafeonline.org. Get Safe Online is supported by HM Government and leading businesses.


CONTROL OVER YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

Under the UK GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA), you have a number of important rights applicable to you which you can exercise at any time at no cost to you. In summary, those include rights to:

· be informed about how your personal information is being used (hopefully this privacy policy explains it all),

· access the personal information we hold about you,

· request that we port elements of your data to another service provider,

· request us to correct any mistakes in your information which we hold,

· request the erasure of personal information concerning you in certain situations,

· receive the personal information concerning you which you have provided to us, in a structured format;

· stop any direct marketing (which you can do through your account or the unsubscribe links provided at the bottom of all emails or marketing messages that we send to you),

· restrict how we use your personal data and temporarily limit the way we use it (for example, whilst you check that the personal data we hold for you is correct);

· object to decisions being taken by automated means concerning you or significantly affect you.

For further information on each of these rights, including the circumstances in which they apply, see theGuidance from the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on individuals rights under the General Data Protection Regulation.

If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please:

· let us have information to identify you,

· let us have proof of your identity and address (a copy of your driving licence or passport and a recent utility or credit card bill),

· let us know the information to which your request relates to.

We will respond without delay and at the latest within 1 month of receipt of your request (or, if required, receipt of information confirming your identity or payment of our fee if we need to charge one). Where a request is complex or we have received multiple requests from you, we may extend the time to respond by a further 2 months. The “clock” may be temporarily stopped if we need to ask for clarification of your request.


OPTING OUT

You can ask us to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by logging into your account and adjusting your marketing preferences or by following the opt-out links on any marketing messages sent to you.

Where you opt out of receiving marketing messages, this will not apply to personal data provided to us which we need in order to supply our services to you.


HOW TO COMPLAIN OR CONTACT US

If you are not happy with how we manage your personal data, or you have a general query or concern about your personal data or the content of this privacy policy, please contact us in the first instance at hello@growlondonlocal.london and we will do our best to resolve your concerns as quickly as possible.

If you are not satisfied with our response to your complaint, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. The supervisory authority in the UK is the Information Commissioner who may be contacted athttps://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/.


CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

Any changes we make to this notice will be posted on this page. If you are a registered user of our site, we will notify you of any changes to this policy at the details you provide on registration.


HOW TO CONTACT US

Please contact us if you have any questions about this privacy policy or the information we hold about you.

If you wish to contact us, please send an email to hello@growlondonlocal.london


Privacy Policy: Registered Users and Guests

SUMMARY

This page sets out what information we process when you register as User or register to attend one of our events or campaigns as a Guest. It needs to be read in conjunction with the main Privacy Policy.


WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION WE HOLD

Contact information: when you register as a Registered User or checkout as a Guest, we will collect your first and last name, business name and email address. Where you are a Registered User and you consent to statistics and marketing cookies, your contact information (such as your email address) may be shared in hashed form for advertising attribution and conversion measurement purposes.

Usage information: we collect usage information about you whenever you interact with our websites and services. This includes which webpages you visit, what you click on, when you perform those actions, what language preference you have, and so on.

Device and browser data: we collect information from the device and application you use to access our services. Device data mainly means your IP address, operating system version, device type, system and performance information, and browser type. If you are on a mobile device, we also collect the UUID for that device.

Log data: our web servers keep log files that record data each time a device accesses those servers. The log files contain data about the nature of each access, including originating IP addresses, internet service providers, the files viewed on our site (e.g., HTML pages, graphics, etc.), operating system versions, device type and timestamps.

Information from third parties and integration partners:we collect your personal information from third parties if you give permission to those third parties to share your information with us or where you have made that information publicly available online.

Information from page tags: we use third party tracking services that employ cookies and page tags to collect data about visitors to our websites. This data includes usage and user statistics. Emails sent by us or by users through our services include page tags that allow the sender to collect information about who opened those emails and clicked on links in them.


HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

Under UK data protection law, we need a legal reason (known as alawful basis) for holding, collecting and using your personal data. There are six main legal reasons which organisations can rely on. We process personal data about you under the following lawful bases:

· where there is a contract in place between us,

· where you have consented or,

· to pursue our legitimate interests (our justifiable business aims) of delivering an efficient service which generates useable results for us, troubleshooting and abuse monitoring, (but only if those interests are not outweighed by your other rights and freedoms (e.g., your right to privacy)).


Category of personal data

Purpose for processing

Legal basis for processing

Contact information

We use your contact information to:

· register as a Registered User

· register you for an event or campaign,

· send you an order confirmation,

· provide you with assistance should you need it,

Performance of a contract and/or Legitimate interests

Contact information and online identifiers

Where you have consented to marketing cookies, in the case of Registered Users, we use this information to measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns.

Consent

Usage information

We use information about how you use our services to improve our services for you and all users. This includes streamlining our forms to increase completion rates.

Legitimate interests

Device and browser data

We use device and browser data to troubleshoot problems with our service and to make improvements to it. We also infer your geographic location based on your IP address.

Legitimate interests

Log data

We use log data for many different business purposes to include:

· monitoring abuse and troubleshooting,

· creating new services, features, content or making recommendations;

· tracking behaviour at the aggregate/ anonymous level to identify and understand trends in the various interactions with our services,

· fixing bugs and troubleshooting product functionality.

Legitimate interests

Referral information

The full referral URL is recorded with the Log and browser data above.

Legitimate interests

Third parties and integrations

We collect and use information from third parties and integration partners to:

· ensure you can access our service from a third-party integration,

· personalise our services for you,

· ensure you can use our service in conjunction with other services.

Legitimate interests

Information from page tags

Where you have consented to statistics or marketing cookies, we use page tags and similar technologies to measure website usage, email engagement and the effectiveness of advertising and communications campaigns

Consent


Privacy Policy: Visitors

SUMMARY

This page sets out what information we process when you visit this website. It needs to be read in conjunction with the main Privacy Policy.


WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION WE HOLD

Usage information: we collect usage information about you whenever you interact with our websites and services. This includes which webpages you visit, what you click on, when you perform those actions, what language preference you have, and so on.

Device and browser data: we collect information from the device and application you use to access our services. Device data mainly means your IP address, operating system version, device type, system and performance information, and browser type. If you are on a mobile device, we also collect the UUID for that device.

Log data: our web servers keep log files that record data each time a device accesses those servers. The log files contain data about the nature of each access, including originating IP addresses, internet service providers, the files viewed on our site (e.g., HTML pages, graphics, etc.), operating system versions, device type and timestamps.

Referral information: if you arrive at this website from an external source (such as a link on another website or in an email), we record information about the source that referred you to us.

Information from page tags: we use third party tracking services that employ cookies and page tags to collect data about visitors to our websites. This data includes usage and user statistics. Emails sent by us or by users through our services include page tags that allow the sender to collect information about who opened those emails and clicked on links in them.


HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

Under UK data protection law, we need a legal reason (known as alawful basis) for holding, collecting and using your personal data. There are six main legal reasons which organisations can rely on. We process personal data about you under the following lawful bases:

· where you have consented or,

· to pursue our legitimate interests (our justifiable business aims) of providing support and improving the services we offer and developing new products and service features, (but only if those interests are not outweighed by your other rights and freedoms (e.g., your right to privacy)).


Category of personal data

Purpose for processing

Legal basis for processing

Contact information

We will use your contact information to respond to an enquiry which you submit to us.

Legitimate interests

Usage information

We use information about how you use our services to improve our services for you and all users.

Legitimate interests

Device and browser data

We use device and browser data to troubleshoot problems with our service and to make improvements to it. We also infer your geographic location based on your IP address.

Legitimate interests

Log data

We use log data for many different business purposes to include:

· monitoring abuse and troubleshooting,

· creating new services, features, content or making recommendations,

· tracking behaviour at the aggregate/ anonymous level to identify and understand trends in the various interactions with our services,

· fixing bugs and troubleshooting product functionality.

Legitimate interests

Referral information

We use referral information to track the success of our integrations and referral processes.

Legitimate interests

Information from page tags

We collect information from page tags to enable us to determine the success of our advertising campaigns.

Legitimate interests