Who we are

Our website address is: https://purposegroup.co.uk.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

We need your name and contact details in order to answer your enquiry and we process this data with your consent. We will hold your personal data that we collected to answer your enquiry for six weeks after answering you in case you have additional queries.
We will send you marketing information and newsletters when you consent for us to do so. You have the right to unsubscribe to marketing at any time. If you do choose to unsubscribe, we will keep your name and email address on a suppression list so that we don’t email you again by accident. We only use cookies that are necessary to make our website work. Any other cookies will only be used with your consent.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Pixels & Tracking

• Use of Tracking Technologies: This website uses cookies, web beacons, and pixels (specifically the Meta Pixel, Google Analytics, LinkedIn, Commversion, ContentSquare) to track visitor activity and interactions.
• Data Collected: pages visited, IP addresses, browser information, referral URLs, and action events (e.g., clicks, cart additions, or purchases).
• Third-Party Data Sharing: Meta Platforms (and its affiliated entities) receives this data. Meta is a data recipient or controller/processor depending on your region (e.g., Meta Platforms Ireland Limited for EU/UK users).
• Purpose of Collection: This data is used for for advertising measurement, retargeting, building audiences, and optimizing ad campaigns.
• International Data Transfers: Data collected by Meta may be transferred outside your home country (such as to servers in the United States) under legal mechanisms like Standard Contractual Clauses.
• User Opt-Out and Rights: Users can withdraw consent, manage their cookie preferences, or opt out of targeted advertising.

Meta Ad Objection Settings: https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/712876720715583

Digital Advertising Alliance opt-out portal: https://optout.aboutads.info/

Analytics and Cookies

We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors interact with our website. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect information such as how often users visit this site, what pages they visit, and what other sites they used prior to coming here.
Google uses the data collected to track and examine the use of this website, to prepare reports on its activities, and to share them with other Google services. Google may use the data collected on the website to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
You can review how Google handles data by visiting How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services. You can opt out of having your activity made available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we share your data with

We share your personal data with the following recipients:
– our software providers
– cloud service providers
– website host
– Outlook/Microsoft
– Law enforcement, if required

We do not transfer your personal data outside of the UK.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

You have rights in respect of our processing of your personal data which are:
– To access to your personal data and information about our processing of it. You also have the right to request a copy of your personal data (but we will need to remove information about other people).
– To rectify incorrect personal data that we are processing.
– To request that we erase your personal data if:
we no longer need it; if we are processing your personal data by consent and you withdraw that consent; if we no longer have a legitimate ground to process your personal data; or we are processing your personal data unlawfully

– To object to our processing if it is by legitimate interest.
– To restrict our processing if it was by legitimate interest.
– To request that your personal data be transferred from us to another company if we were processing your data under a contract or with your consent and the processing is carried out automated means.

If you want to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

General Public

When you visit us, we may collect and your name, phone and email in our visitor book. We use your name so that we know who is in the building for fire safely purposes. We collect your phone and email address in case we need to contact you.

The business uses CCTV in a variety of locations including the car park, reception and on all sites. We have CCTV for crime prevention and to protect our staff, customers and visitors. We will be processing your image when you are captured on CCTV.

We need a legal basis in order to process your personal data.
– we process your name in our visitor book under our legal obligations for fire safely
– we process your phone and email as it is a legitimate interest of a business to be able to contact those persons who visited us
– we will process your image in CCTV footage. We have a legitimate interest in preventing crime and in the safety and security of our staff, customers, visitors and our sites.

We hold your personal data in our visitor book until the book is complete. Our CCTV footage overwrites itself every 31 days and your image will be deleted then, if we no longer require it. If we are required by any law enforcement agency to retain CCTV footage, then the footage will be held until the conclusion of the criminal justice process

Clients

In your capacity as our client or prospective client, or an employee/contractor/worker of such, we may collect personal data from you.

The purpose is to:
• verify your identity
• comply with legal obligations
• provide our services
• improve, develop and market new services
• investigate or settle enquiries or disputes
• comply with any applicable law, court order, other judicial process, or the requirements of a regulator; and enforce our agreements with you.

You may give us your personal data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:
• apply for further information about our services using our contact form or otherwise
• subscribe to our information emails
• request marketing to be sent to you
• or give us some feedback.

As you interact with our website, we will collect data about your device, your browsing actions and patterns when you consent to our use of cookies.

When we are engaged by corporate entities, those providing instructions are not data subjects. However, as part of such instructions, personal data may be provided to us (e.g. personal data relating to officers or personnel of our corporate client).
We will ask you to provide us with personal data of the owners, directors, partners and persons with significant control of the business and we may require you to provide us with additional personal data as you use our services.

We will collect,store and process the following personal data of the above-named individuals:
• Full name
• Email address
• Date of birth
• Home address
• Proof of address
• Proof of identity
• Other client due diligence information as required to on-board the company and meet our legal requirements,such as AML, fraud prevention, conflict checks and PEP checks.

We need to check that you are using our services legally. To do this, we use providers that perform various checks for us in relation to AML, fraud and other ‘know your client’ related checks.

Our website allows you to request information about our services using an electronic enquiry form. Contact information is required in each case, together with details of other personal data that is relevant to your service enquiry. This information is used to enable us to respond to your requests. We are using your data with your consent to respond to your enquiry.

It is necessary for us to process your information to perform our obligations in accordance with any contract that we may have with you.

We need to process the data of ‘workers’ for crime prevention, health and security via CCTV and access passes, and we need to be able to resolve any complaints or disputes with you. We also need the personal data of your fire wardens. We need the personal data of your business contacts.

We use your personal data to comply with our legal obligations, including anti money laundering, conflicts and our regulatory and statutory obligations.

We use your personal data to send you information about our services which may be of
interest to you. We may also conduct surveys to improve our services. You may also consent to receiving our marketing.

Data Security

We are committed to keeping the personal data provided to us secure and we have implemented appropriate information security policies, rules and technical measures to protect the personal data that we have under our control from unauthorised access, improper use or disclosure, unauthorised modification and unlawful destruction or accidental loss.

Our employees, consultants, workers and data processors, who have access to, and are associated with the processing of personal data, are obliged to respect the confidentiality of such personal data.

Retention of data

Anti-money  laundering and client due diligence data – Five years from the last significant transaction.

Financial information – 7 years

CCTV – 31 Days

What third parties we receive data from

We may receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources including those set out below: Land Registry, Companies House, The Insolvency Service, Electoral Roll, Publicly available sources, Other professionals, including surveyors, accountants, solicitors or barristers.

What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data

We do not use an automated decision making system.

Our contact information

Urban Space Solutions Limited
Registered Address: Studio 408 The Archives Unit 10 High Cross Centre, Tottenham Hale, London, United Kingdom, N15 4QN
Email: hello@purposegroup.co.uk
Tel: 02081 757 585