We value your privacy and are committed to protecting and respecting your personal information.
The purpose of this Privacy Notice is to explain how we look after your personal information when you visit our website, use our services, or otherwise engage with us, and or have any other commercial relationship or contract with us.
This Privacy Notice tells you what to expect us to do with your personal information.
Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal information and how we will treat it.
It is important that the personal information that we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal information changes during our relationship with you.
This Privacy Notice may change over time. Any changes we make to our Privacy Notice will be posted on this page If there are any significant changes, we will contact you and explain the changes.
We are The Strategic Land Group Ltd. Where this Privacy Notice refers to “we,” “our” or “us” below, unless it mentions otherwise, it is referring to The Strategic Land Group Ltd.
You can contact us at:
Post: The Strategic Land Group Ltd, Centurion House, 129 Deansgate, Manchester, M3 3WR.
Telephone: 0161 220 2935
Email: info@strategiclandgroup.co.uk
We are the controller and responsible for your personal information unless otherwise stated. As a data controller, we decide how to use your personal information and are responsible for looking after it in accordance with applicable data protection legislation.
We are registered with the Information Commissioner Office (ICO) under registration number: ZB18257
Our website may include links to third-party websites or links to other websites of interest, plug-ins, and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy policies. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the Privacy Notice or Privacy Policy of every website you visit.
Personal information means any information about you that can be used to identify you. This does not include data where your identity has been removed (such as anonymous data).
We collect, use, store, and transfer different kinds of personal information about you.
We process personal information to provide our services. The personal information collected and processed assists us with site promotion, land interests, planning applications, objections, representations and statutory or non statutory consultations.
We may also collect and process third parties’ personal information for example neighbouring landowners and other affected parties whose details are included within site assessments, feasibility work, or wider planning evaluations.
We collect or use the following information to provide you with our services
• Names and contact details
• Addresses
• Payment information and transaction history
• Website user information (including user journeys and cookie tracking)
• Records of meetings and decisions
• Information relating to compliments or complaints
We collect or use the following information to provide you with service updates or marketing purposes:
• Names and contact details
• Marketing preferences
• Location data
• Website journey information
• Records of consent, where appropriate
We collect or use the following information for conducting research, managing potential development opportunities, and / or for any of our archiving purposes:
• Names and contact details
• Addresses
• Location data
• Personal information used for administration of research and to manage potential developments
• Personal information used for the purpose of research
• Records of consent, where appropriate
We collect or use the following personal information for dealing with your queries, and / or any complaints or claims:
• Names and contact details
• Address
• Correspondence
The above list is not exhaustive, and in specific instances, we may need to collect additional data for the purposes set out in this Privacy Notice or as otherwise notified to you.
We do not intentionally collect any special categories of personal data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health, and genetic and biometric data).
All your personal information will be processed in accordance with this Privacy Notice.
We may collect personal information from a range of sources, including:
Direct interactions: information you provide to us directly in the course of your dealings with us (for example, when you complete forms, correspond with us, or engage our services).
Public authorities and other public sector bodies: including councils and organisations that hold relevant records or information.
Publicly accessible sources: such as public registers, online platforms, and other publicly available records.
Third‑party suppliers and service providers: including organisations that support the operation of our business and provide services on our behalf.
In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal information (so that it can no longer be associated with you). This can be for research or statistical purposes; in which case we may use the anonymised information indefinitely without further notice to you.
We collect, use, and share anonymised and aggregated data such as statistical or demographic data for purposes including reporting. Anonymised and aggregated data could be derived from your personal information but will not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. However, if we combine or connect aggregated data with your personal information so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal information which will be used in accordance with this Privacy Notice.
All personal information we collect or are provided with will only be held and stored in accordance with this Privacy Notice and applicable data protection laws.
We will only use your personal information when the data protection law allows us to do so.
Under UK data protection law, we must have a “lawful basis” for collecting and using your personal information. There is a list of possible lawful bases in the UK GDPR. You can find out more about lawful bases on the ICO’s website.
The lawful bases that we typically rely on to collect and process your personal information include:
• where you have provided your consent for us to use your personal information;
• where the processing is necessary for us to enter into or perform our obligations under our contract with you;
• where we need to comply with our legal or regulatory obligations;
• where necessary to protect the vital interests of individuals (e.g., in emergencies);
• where the processing is necessary for our public task; and/or
• where the processing is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and rights do not override those interests.
If you have provided your consent for us to use your personal information, you have the right to change your mind at any time and withdraw that consent. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before your consent was withdrawn.
We may process personal information when we issue invoices in accordance with terms of any agreement we may have with you. The information may include your payment card number, and / or other information necessary for identification and verification of payments.
We handle this information because it is needed to fulfil any agreements with you and to support our legitimate interest in overseeing and collecting project fees. We retain billing and financial records only for as long as required by law and our internal retention policies. Any payment transactions carried out by us, or our chosen third-party provider of payment processing products and services will be kept secure and encrypted where possible.
If we are required by law or by the terms of a contract to collect personal information from you, and you do not provide it when requested, we may be unable to fulfil the contract we have with you or are seeking to enter into (for example, to deliver products to you or provide services). In this case, we may have to cancel the services requested from us, but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.
We keep personal information for no longer than is reasonably necessary, but that varies by the information type. For example, personal details provided to us as part of a planning application process will usually be retained until the development has been completed plus additional time as required for legal and regulatory purposes.
Details provided to us for marketing purposes will be retained as long as you still wish to receive marketing communications from us.
If you have provided your consent to receive marketing emails, you can withdraw this at any time or if we are relying on our legitimate interests to send you marketing, you can object. If you no longer wish to receive these marketing emails, you can unsubscribe by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our marketing emails.
We only ever share your personal information with trusted third parties. Your personal information may be shared or disclosed to third parties in connection with the services we are providing.
• business partners, distributors, suppliers, and sub-contractors for the performance of any contract we enter into with them or you or to otherwise provide our services;
• professional consultants, legal advisors, and professional advisors, to support our business operations, including obtaining professional advice relating to legal, regulatory, operational and / or other specialist advice;
• local planning authorities, planning and technical consultants, highways authorities and other statutory bodies as part of progressing or assessing development opportunities.
• advertisers and advertising networks that require the data to select and serve relevant adverts to you and others; and / or
• analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimisation of our website
We may share your personal information with trusted third parties we may work with from time to time to help us with operating and improving our products and services.
• where we are under a legal or regulatory duty to do so,
• where it is necessary to do so to enforce any of our terms and conditions or other contractual rights;
• where it is necessary to provide you with the services requested;
• where it is necessary for our legitimate business purposes including to develop a potential site, and assist us to consider comments and observations about planning activities;
• where such disclosure is necessary to protect the safety or security of any persons or property; and/or
• otherwise as permitted under applicable law.
Whenever we share your personal information with third parties we will only ever share your personal information with trusted third parties.
We only provide third parties with the information they need to know to perform their specific services. Where personal information is shared with a managed service provider or other third-party supplier, we work closely with them to ensure that your personal information is secure and protected at all times.
We ensure that our contracts with third parties make it clear that they must hold personal information securely, abide by the principles and provisions of data protection rules, and only use information as we instruct them to.
In all instances where we disclose your information to third parties, we will ensure that your information is appropriately protected. If we stop using their services, any of your personal information held by them will either be deleted or rendered anonymous.
We do not use personal information for automated decision-making processes that produce legal or similarly significant effects on individuals. You will be advised if this changes.
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Some of these cookies are essential to our service, for example they ensure that our website loads properly, or enables you to use payment functionalities.
Once you agree, the file is added, and the cookie help analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
• Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services;
• Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
• Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
• Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website, and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.
Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal information.
You can find out more about your data protection rights and the exemptions which may apply on the ICO’s website. As an overview your rights include:
• Your right of access: You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information. You can request other information such as details about where we get personal information from and who we share personal information with. There are some exemptions which means you may not receive all the information you ask for.
• Your right to rectification: You have the right to ask us to correct or delete personal information you think is inaccurate or incomplete. Please note that in some circumstances we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.
• Your right to erasure: You have the right to ask us to delete your personal information.
• Your right to restriction of processing: In certain circumstances you have the right to ask us to limit how we can use your personal information.
• Your right to object to processing: In certain circumstances you have the right to object to the processing of your personal information.
• Your right to data portability: You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you.
• Your right to withdraw consent: When we use consent as our lawful basis you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. Read more about the right to withdraw consent.
• The right not to be subject to automated decision making and profiling. You have the right to not be subject to solely automated decisions (i.e., decisions that are made about you by computer without any human input) in relation to any processes that have a legal or similarly significant effect on you.
If you make a request, we must respond to you without undue delay and in any event within one month.
You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal information (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is deemed unfounded, or excessive. Alternatively, we could refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.
To make a data protection rights request, please contact us using the contact details at the top of this Privacy Notice.
If you have any questions about how we use your personal information or if concerns about our use of your personal information, you can contact us using the contact details at the top of this Privacy Notice.
If you would like to make a complaint about how your personal information has been handled, we would ask that you contact us in the first instance.
If you remain unhappy with how we have used your data after raising a complaint with us, you can also complain to the ICO.
The ICO’s address:
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Helpline number: 0303 123 1113
Website: https://www.ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint
