Privacy Policy

Welcome to Strive’s privacy policy.

Strive respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

When we use your personal data we are regulated under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which applies across the European Union (including in the United Kingdom) and we are responsible as ‘controller’ of that personal data for the purposes of the GDPR. Our use of your personal data is subject to your instructions, the GDPR, other relevant UK and EU legislation and our professional duty of confidentiality.

Purpose of this privacy policy

This privacy policy aims to give you information on how Strive collects and processes your personal data through your use of this website, including any data you may provide through this website.

This website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.

It is important that you read this privacy policy so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. This privacy policy supplements other notices and privacy policies and is not intended to override them.

If you have interacted with Strive, whether through email, meeting someone from Strive, or otherwise, we may keep limited amounts of your personal information. This might include your name, job title, employer organisation and contact details. We do this for the purposes of providing business updates, maintaining a list of contacts; asking you along to events or organising meetings between you and Strive’s representatives.

Third-party links

This website may include links to third-party websites, 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 statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.

The data we collect about you

Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).

We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:

  • your name and contact information, including email address and telephone number and company details

  • Information to enable us to check and verify your identity, e.g. your date of birth

  • your gender information, if you choose to give this to us

  • location data, if you choose to give this to us

  • your personal or professional interests

  • your professional online presence, e.g. LinkedIn profile

  • your contact history

  • information from accounts you link to us, e.g. Facebook

  • information to enable us to undertake credit or other financial checks on you

  • Information about how you use our website, IT, communication and other systems

  • your responses to surveys

We do not 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). Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.

How your personal information is collected

We collect most of this personal information directly from you—in person, by telephone, text or email and/or via our website. However, we may also collect information from publicly accessible sources, e.g. Companies House; directly from a third party, for example credit reference agencies or due diligence providers; from references or recommendations provided by third parties.

How and why we use your personal data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

  • To evaluate potential transactions

  • Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.

  • To conduct checks to confirm your identify

  • Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.

  • Where we need to comply with a legal obligation.

Marketing

We may use your personal data to send you updates (by email, text message, telephone or post) about legal developments that might be of interest to you and/or information about our activities or our events.

Strive may gather statistics around email opening and clicks using industry standard technologies to help us monitor and improve the mailings. You have the right to opt out of receiving promotional communications at any time by contacting us by emailing team@strivecapital.co.uk.

Cookies

Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognises that cookie. We may use cookies on this website to give us anonymous analytics data which we will use to help improve the content and usability of the site.

Data Security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

How long will you keep my personal data for?

We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements. We may retain your personal data for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you.

Your legal rights

If Strive holds your personal information you may be entitled to access it. Additionally, you may be able to request that it is deleted or that any processing of it is limited. You may request that any inaccurate personal information is corrected. If you wish to make any such request (or if you wish to object to the processing of your personal information or obtain a copy of it) you should submit it by email to the Privacy Compliance Officer (PCO) (pco@strivecapital.co.uk).