GDPR: Privacy Notice
1. Who we are
This website is owned and operated by Uniform Communications Ltd (“we”, “us”, “our”). We are fully committed to protecting your personal data and respecting your privacy.
a) Company Name: Uniform Communications Ltd
b) Company Registration Number: 3652521 (England and Wales)
c) Registered Office: Bold St Studios, 9-19 Bold Street, Liverpool, L1 4DN
d) Data Protection Lead: Our Senior Responsible Individual (SRI) can be contacted at privacy@uniform.net
This privacy notice explains what personal data we collect, why we collect it, how
we use it, and how we keep it secure.
2. What we process and why
We process your personal data for several different purposes, and we must have a valid lawful basis for each one. The table below explains the activities we undertake and our legal justification for them.
To respond to your enquiries:
- Personal data we use: Your name, email address and the content of your message.
- Lawful basis: Legitimate Interest — to respond to your request and run our business.
To send you our newsletter and marketing updates:
- Personal data we use: Your name and email address.
- Lawful basis: Consent — you must actively subscribe to receive these.
To operate and secure our website:
- Personal data we use: Your IP address, browser type and device information.
- Lawful basis: Legitimate Interest — to ensure the security and performance of our website.
To understand and improve our website:
- Personal data we use: Anonymised data about your website usage, such as pages visited and length of visit. See our Cookie section below.
- Lawful basis: Legitimate Interest — to improve our services and user experience.
3. Cookies and tracking technologies
Cookies are small text files placed on your device. Our website uses different types of cookies:
Strictly Necessary Cookies: These are essential for the website to function correctly (e.g., for security). They do not require your consent.
Analytics Cookies: We use tools like Google Analytics to collect statistical information about how visitors use our site. Under the UK's Data Protection and Digital Information (DPDI) Act, we are permitted to use these cookies without your prior consent for the purpose of improving our service. The data collected is aggregated and helps us understand usage patterns. You can opt out of this at any time via our cookie settings tool.
You can manage your cookie preferences at any time using our cookie consent banner.
4. Data retention
We will not hold your personal data for any longer than is necessary. Our retention periods are defined in our internal Data Retention Schedule. Key periods for data processed via this website are:
Contact Form Submissions: Retained for 12 months after our last communication with you.
Marketing Consent: Retained for as long as you remain subscribed, and for 2 years after you unsubscribe, as a record of your consent history.
Website Analytics Data: Anonymised data is retained by Google Analytics for 26 months.
5. International data transfers
Some of our data processing, specifically for website analytics, involves transferring your data outside of the United Kingdom.
Recipient: Google LLC (for Google Analytics)
Destination Country: United States of America
Safeguard in Place: We transfer this data under the protection of the UK Addendum to the EU Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs). We have also conducted a Transfer Risk Assessment (TRA) to ensure that your data is protected to a standard equivalent to that in the UK.
We will not transfer your personal data outside the UK for any other purpose without ensuring appropriate legal safeguards are in place.
6. Your data protection rights
Under UK data protection law, you have the following rights over your personal data:
Right of Access: You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.
Right to Rectification: You have the right to ask us to correct information you think is inaccurate.
Right to Erasure: You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.
Right to Restrict Processing: You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your information in certain circumstances.
Right to Object: You have the right to object to processing if it is based on our legitimate interests.
Right to Data Portability: You have the right to ask that we transfer the information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact our Senior Responsible Individual at privacy@uniform.net. You do not have to pay a fee, and we have one month to respond to you.
7. Your right to complain
If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a complaint to us at privacy@uniform.net.
You can also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) if you are unhappy with how we have used your data. The ICO is the UK's independent data protection authority.
The ICO’s address: Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF
Helpline number: 0303 123 1113
ICO website: https://www.ico.org.uk
8. Changes to this notice
We may update this privacy notice from time to time. We recommend you review this page periodically.
Reviewed Aug 2026
