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Ideas Forums Ltd believes in respecting your privacy. We do not collect any personally identifiable data from visitors to this website other than when you subscribe to any of our services. The basis on which we collect such data and other relevant information are set out in our Data Privacy Notice below.
We explain below how we analyse data from this website. Any links to external sites are out of our control and we encourage you to always read the privacy statements on the other websites you visit.
We use third-party services, WordPress and Plot, to host our websites. The security of the website is protected by industry standard encryption processes (SSL encryption)
For more information about how WordPress and Plot secures and processes data, please visit their privacy policies. We have no legal means of finding out the identities of persons visiting our website and do not make any attempt to do so.
The UK Data Protection Act 2018 (“DPA”) as read with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) give individuals enhanced rights over the use of their personal data. Ideas Forums Limited respects your privacy and is the controller of your personal data for the purposes of this privacy policy. In this privacy policy, we explain the legal basis on which we process personal data, the purposes for which we use personal data, how we use and protect personal data and what your rights are.
The Great British Entrepreneur Awards, Fresh Business Thinking, FastGrowth 50 Index, StartUp Awards National Series and Ideas Fest, brands are owned by Ideas Forums Ltd.
When you join our community or register Ideas Forums or any of our other services, we will request certain personal information from you necessary for processing your registration, running the Awards or other services and keeping you informed. Our legal basis for processing your personal data for these purposes is consent (Article 6(1)(a) GDPR).
We use your personal data which you have supplied us with or will supply to us for the following purposes:
We will not use your data other than for the purposes described above.
You are able at any time to unsubscribe from our communications by following the unsubscribe link in any emails we send you or by emailing a request to unsubscribe to us at awards@ideasforums.com.
We use a number of different cookies for various purposes, including enhancing website functionality and enabling our GetResponse Live Chat function. These cookies are all strictly necessary for the running of the website. We do not use cookies for collecting personal data or analytics or marketing purposes.
We will not share your personal data with third parties except in the following circumstances:
If you enter our awards, we will share your submission, including any personal data that is contained in it, with the judges of the competition, who will be contractually bound to keep the information secure and confidential
In accordance with the principle of minimising data retention, we will retain your personal data only for so long as is necessary for the purposes for which it was acquired, subject to legal and other relevant requirements, in accordance with our data retention policy, as follows:
Your rights under the DPA/GDPR include the following:
Your rights above can be exercised free of charge by:
In certain cases, we will need to satisfy ourselves of your identity before we can action a request under the DPA/GDPR.
If you feel that any of your rights have been infringed, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office.
We work with a wide range of industry related sponsors and partners. If you register for an event, webinar, award programme or download our content, we may share your personal data with the sponsor of the that campaign or event. This processing is carried out based on our legitimate business interests. Being able to share the data relating to our attendees with our partners and sponsors allows us to grow and develop our business.
The way in which our sponsors and partners use your personal data is their responsibility only, and details will be set out in their own privacy notices. Please ensure that you read and are happy with such notices. If you would prefer for us not to share your data with our sponsors or partners, please email awards@ideasforums.com after each registration.
If you have any queries, please get in touch with the team using the Live Chat bar at the bottom of the page. Alternatively, you can contact us on our Contact Us page or email: awards@ideasforums.com
We reserve the right to make changes from time to time to our Privacy Policy which will be effective from the time that they are published on this website.
Ideas Forums Limited
The Cottages, Jones Court, Womanby Street, Cardiff, CF10 1BR
September 2023