Privacy Notice

Who we are

Bermola Consulting Ltd is the data controller.

• Registered in England and Wales, company number 9497794
• 66 Paul Street, London, EC2A 4NA, United Kingdom
• VAT: GB208460815
• Privacy enquiries: privacy@bermola.com
• Phone: +44 20 3576 1608

Contact and enquiry forms

When you send a message through the Site, we process the details you submit (typically name, business email, message, and any optional company name, phone number, or “how you heard about us” information). We also use a bot-protection check (hCaptcha) so we can tell automated submissions from genuine ones.

• Purpose: to receive and respond to your enquiry.
• Legal basis: legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f)) — responding to people who contact us about our services. If we later enter into a contract with you, that engagement is governed separately and is outside the scope of this website notice.
• Retention: we keep enquiry records for 12 months, then delete or anonymise them unless we must keep them longer to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.
• Recipients: our email delivery provider (to transmit the message to us) and our bot-protection provider (hCaptcha).

Analytics (only if you Accept)

If you accept analytics cookies, we use Google Analytics 4 (loaded via Google Tag Manager) to understand how the Site is used in aggregate. Advertising and remarketing features are disabled. Ads storage and related consent signals remain denied in our Consent Mode configuration; the analytics tag requires analytics_storage consent before it fires.

• Purpose: site usage measurement and improvement.
• Legal basis: consent (Article 6(1)(a)). You can withdraw at any time via Cookie settings in the footer.
• Retention: Google Analytics data retention is set to 14 months.
• Recipients: Google.

Cookie names, durations, and how to change your choice are in our Cookies Notice.

Booking a discovery call

If you open “Book a discovery call”, you use Google’s appointment scheduling interface. That interaction is with Google; Google’s privacy terms apply to data you enter there. We do not collect booking form fields through the Site before you open that interface.

Technical operation of the Site

To run and secure the Site we process limited technical data such as IP address and request metadata (for example to deliver pages, apply rate limits, and prevent abuse).

• Purpose: security and availability of the Site.
• Legal basis: legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f)) — keeping the Site secure and reliable.
• Recipients: our website hosting provider.

Cookie preference and theme

We store your Accept/Reject choice in a first-party preference cookie so we do not re-prompt on every visit. Theme preference (light/dark) may be stored in your browser’s local storage for display only. See the Cookies Notice for details.

Some providers (including Google and hCaptcha) may process data outside the UK/EEA, including in the United States. Where required, we rely on appropriate safeguards such as the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses with the UK Addendum, or other lawful transfer mechanisms those providers offer.

Depending on applicable law, you may have the right to access, rectify, erase, restrict, or object to processing of your personal data; to data portability; and to withdraw consent where processing is based on consent (withdrawal does not affect prior lawful processing).

To exercise these rights, email privacy@bermola.com. We will respond within one month, or as otherwise required by law.

You may also complain to a supervisory authority. In the UK that is the Information Commissioner’s Office (ico.org.uk). If you are in the EEA, you may contact your local data protection authority.

The Site is aimed at business professionals. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children.

We may update this notice from time to time. The “Last updated” date at the top will change when we do. Please check this page periodically.

Questions about this notice: privacy@bermola.com, or use our contact page.