Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

Financial Pages ("we", "our", or "us") is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website at financialpages.co.uk and use our services.

This policy complies with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018. By using our website and services, you consent to the data practices described in this policy.

2. Information We Collect

2.1 Information You Provide

• When you use the contact form: your first and last name, email address, company name, the subject and your message, and your confirmation that you are happy to be contacted
• When you search: the company name or number you type, which is sent to the Companies House API to find matching companies

2.2 Information Collected Automatically

We do not set cookies and we do not run analytics, advertising or tracking scripts. Two things happen automatically when you visit, because of how the site is delivered:

• Our hosting provider, Netlify, records technical details of each request (such as your IP address, browser type, the page requested and the time) in its server logs, to deliver the site and protect it from abuse
• Our pages load their typefaces from Google Fonts, so your browser also sends a request, including your IP address, to Google

2.3 Third-Party Data Sources

The company information on this site comes from public sources:

• Companies House (the UK government register): company records, officers, filing history and people with significant control
• The Gazette: corporate insolvency notices, published under the Open Government Licence v3.0. We do not store personal insolvency notices, or the names of individuals that appear in notice text
• Insolvency practitioners' names and firms, shown on the company pages. A person's name is personal data, and the Open Government Licence does not cover personal data, so we do not rely on it here: we publish these details under legitimate interests (section 3.1), because an appointed practitioner acts in a professional capacity and The Gazette publishes the appointment precisely so that creditors and others can identify who to contact. If you are named as a practitioner and want to discuss this, please use the contact form.
• Publishers' public news feeds: headlines shown on the news page

3. How We Use Your Information

3.1 Lawful Basis for Processing

There are no accounts on this site, nothing is sold here and there is no mailing list, so the bases are narrow. Two apply:

• Legitimate interests: to reply when you write in through the contact form, to deliver and protect the site, and to publish insolvency practitioners' names and firms alongside the notices that appointed them
• Legal obligation: where the law requires disclosure or retention, as described in section 4.2

3.2 Purposes of Processing

• Publishing company information drawn from Companies House and The Gazette
• Replying to enquiries sent through the contact form
• Delivering the site and protecting it from abuse, through the hosting provider's server logs
• Meeting legal and regulatory requirements

4. Data Sharing and Disclosure

We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal information. We may share your information in the following circumstances:

4.1 Service Providers

These providers process data on our behalf to run the site:

• Netlify: website hosting, contact form handling (including emailing form submissions to us) and data storage
• Google: web fonts
• Companies House: company search (the search terms you enter are sent to its API)

4.2 Legal Requirements

We may disclose your information if required by law, court order, or to protect our rights, property, or safety, or that of others.

5. Data Security

We protect the personal data we hold in these ways:

• Every page and every form submission is served over HTTPS (encrypted in transit)
• Contact form submissions and stored data are reachable only through our own authenticated hosting and email accounts
• We keep no personal data beyond what is listed in section 2

6. Data Retention

A contact form submission arrives as an email and is kept in the mailbox it was sent to, so that a conversation can be picked up where it left off. We keep those messages for as long as the enquiry might still matter, and no longer than six years; ask us to delete yours sooner and we will.

Server logs are held by the hosting provider under its own retention schedule, not mine.

Company information from Companies House and The Gazette stays on the site as a record — that is the point of a register. It is corrected when the source corrects it.

7. Your Rights

Under UK GDPR, you have the following rights regarding your personal data:

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details in Section 10.

8. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

Financial Pages does not set cookies, and does not use analytics, advertising or other tracking technologies. There is no cookie banner because there is nothing to consent to.

The only third party your browser contacts when a page loads is Google Fonts, for the site's typefaces. Google's handling of those requests is covered by Google's privacy policy.

9. International Data Transfers

Netlify and Google are based in the United States, so the technical request data described in section 2.2, and contact form submissions, may be processed outside the UK by those providers under their own data protection terms.

10. Contact Information

11. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any material changes by posting the new policy on this page with an updated "Last Updated" date. Your continued use of our services after such changes constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.