Privacy Notice
Important information and who we are
This notice explains who we are, what personal data we collect and how we collect, use, share, protect and retain it. It also covers third party, international transfers, marketing, cookies and your legal rights.
This website is not intended for children, and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.
Read this notice alongside any other privacy notices we provide when collecting or processing your personal data, so you understand how and why we use it. This notice supplements, but does not override, those notices.
Changes to the privacy notice and your duty to inform us of any changes
We regularly review this notice and publish updates on this website. To request previous copies, contact Kevin Walker through our website contact form.
This privacy statement was last updated on 1 November 2026.
It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.
Controller
Cura Consultancy Limited is the controller and is responsible for your personal data (collectively referred to as Cura Consultancy Limited, ‘we’, ‘us’ or ‘our’ in this privacy notice).
Our contact details are: Cura Consultancy Limited, registered in Scotland under company number SC897937, registered office 11 Brook Street, Broughty Ferry, Dundee, DD5 1DN, Scotland.
For questions about this notice or requests to exercise your legal rights, contact Kevin Walker through our website contact form. We have appointed him to oversee questions about this notice.
How does Cura Consultancy collect personal information
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. We term this anonymous data. Aggregated data could be derived from your personal information but is not considered personal information in law as this data will not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. We may collect, use and share aggregated data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose.
There are various ways in which we can collect information from the people we deal with. We collect personal information directly from you, including through:
- Email and written correspondence.
- Telephone discussions.
- Visitors to the website.
- Social media.
- Application forms and other information requests.
When you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical data and Usage data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns through cookies and similar technologies. See the Cookies section for details.
The data we collect about you
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Identity data |
Includes first name, maiden name, last name, username or similar identifier, marital status, title, date of birth, gender. |
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Contact data |
Includes company address, email address and telephone numbers. |
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Transaction data |
Includes details about payment to and from you and other details of the services you use from us. |
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Technical data |
Includes internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access this website. |
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Profile data |
Includes preferences and feedback responses. |
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Usage data |
Includes information about how you use our website and services. |
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.
If you fail to provide personal data
If you do not provide personal data required by law or under our contract when requested, we may be unable to fulfil an existing or proposed contract, such as providing services. We may then have to cancel your service and will notify you at the time.
How 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:
- Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.
- 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 or regulatory obligation.
- Where you have given us your consent.
Purposes for which we will use your personal data
Below are all our planned uses of your personal data and the lawful basis for each, including our legitimate interests where applicable. You may fall into more than one basis listed due to the contract we enter into with you.
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Lawful basis |
Examples of processing activities |
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Performance of a contract with you; necessary to comply with a legal obligation |
To manage our relationship with you, which will include notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy notice |
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Necessary for our legitimate interests in running our business, providing administration and IT services and ensuring network security; necessary to comply with a legal obligation |
To administer and protect our business and this website, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data |
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Necessary for our legitimate interests in developing our services and growing our business |
To make suggestions and recommendations to you about services that may be of interest to you |
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Performance of a contract with you; necessary for our legitimate interests in recovering debts due to us |
To perform our services to you, including the collection and recovery of money owed to us |
Change of purpose
We will use your personal data only for its original purposes unless we reasonably consider another use necessary and compatible with those purposes.
If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.
Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.
Disclosures of your personal data
We may have to share your personal data with external third parties (see third parties) for the purposes set out under Purposes for which we will use your personal data.
Our service providers must keep your personal data secure and handle it lawfully. Those acting as our processors may use it only for specified purposes and on our instructions, not for their own purposes. Independent controllers, such as professional advisers, HM Revenue & Customs and regulators, are responsible for their own use of your data under data protection law.
Third parties
Below is a list of third parties we may use during our business activities and the services we provide.
- This website may link to third party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking links or enabling connections may let third parties collect or share your data. We do not control these websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. Please read the privacy notice of each website you visit after leaving ours.
- Some parts of our processing activities may require us to share personal information with third parties. Whenever we share personal data, we take all reasonable steps to ensure it will be handled appropriately and securely by the third party.
- Third party service providers that provide IT, technology and software services to support the administration of Cura Consultancy Limited’s activities and services. The categories of recipient may change from time to time as our services and operations develop.
International transfers
Providers, including Microsoft (Microsoft 365 file storage), may store or access your personal data outside the UK and the EEA, including the United States. Where this happens, we will take appropriate steps to ensure that your personal information is properly protected in accordance with applicable data protection laws. Where required, we will put in place appropriate safeguards recognised under UK data protection law to protect such transfers.
Cookies
This website may use cookies: small text files stored on your device that let websites recognise it and remember your selections for future visits. We use strictly necessary cookies to make the website work; these do not require your consent. Your browser can refuse all or some cookies, or alert you when websites set or access them. Disabling or refusing cookies may make parts of this website inaccessible or prevent them working properly. For more information and instructions on restricting or disabling cookies in your browser, see www.allaboutcookies.org.
Data security
We use appropriate security measures to prevent accidental loss and unauthorised use, access, alteration or disclosure of your personal data. Access is limited to employees, contractors and other third parties with a business need to know. Those acting on our behalf process your data only on our instructions and are subject to a duty of confidentiality. Independent controllers have their own legal and professional obligations.
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.
Data retention
How long will you use my personal data for?
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal or reporting requirements.
We set retention periods by considering the data’s amount, nature and sensitivity; the risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure; our processing purposes and whether other means could achieve them; and applicable legal requirements.
Contact us to request our retention policy, which gives retention periods for different categories of personal data. These depend on the data type, processing purpose and relevant legal obligations.
Lawful basis
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Legitimate interest |
The interest of our business in conducting and managing our business to enable us to give you the best service and the best and most secure experience. We make sure we consider and balance any potential impact on you (both positive and negative) and your rights before we process your personal data for our legitimate interests. We do not use your personal data for activities where our interests are overridden by the impact on you (unless we have your consent or are otherwise required or permitted to by law). You can obtain further information about how we assess our legitimate interests against any potential impact on you in respect of specific activities by contacting us. |
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Performance of contract |
Processing your data where it is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party or to take steps at your request before entering into such a contract. |
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Comply with legal or regulatory obligation |
Processing your personal data where it is necessary for compliance with a legal or regulatory obligation that we are subject to. |
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Consent |
Processing your personal data where you have given us clear, freely given and specific agreement to do so for a particular purpose. You can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us. |
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External third parties |
Service providers (acting as processors) who provide IT and system administration services, including file storage (Microsoft 365). Some of these providers may store or access data outside the United Kingdom. See International transfers for the safeguards we use. Professional advisers (acting as controllers or processors) based in the United Kingdom who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance and accounting services. HM Revenue & Customs, regulators and other authorities (acting as controllers) based in the United Kingdom who may require us to report or disclose information in certain circumstances. |
Your legal rights
You have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data as below.
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Request access to your personal data |
This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it. |
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Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you |
This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us. |
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Request erasure of your personal data |
This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your personal data to comply with local law. We would ask you to note that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request. |
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Request restriction of processing of your personal data |
This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in the following scenarios:
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Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party |
We will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Please note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you. |
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Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data |
This will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent. |
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Object to processing of your personal data |
Where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground, you have the right to object where you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms. |
You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data or to exercise any of your other rights. However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive, or refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.
We do not use your personal data to make decisions about you based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produce legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affect you.
Time limit to respond
If you make a request for data we hold, we must respond to you without undue delay and in any event within one month.
What we may need from you
We may ask for information to confirm your identity and entitlement to access your personal data or exercise other rights, preventing disclosure to anyone not entitled to receive it. We may also request further details to speed up our response.
How to make a complaint
If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a data protection complaint to us at admin@curaconsultancy.co.uk
If you remain unhappy with how we have used your data after raising a complaint with us, you can also complain to the ICO www.ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint or helpline number: 0303 123 1113 (local rate).
The Information Commissioner’s Office address is:
ICO Head Office
4th Floor, No.3 Circle Square
5 Hawkshaw Street
Manchester
M1 7BL