Privacy Notice

Last updated: July 2026

Berkeley Elevate respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal information.

This privacy notice explains how personal information is collected and used when you visit this website, contact Berkeley Elevate or engage its services.

Who is responsible for your information?

Berkeley Elevate is operated by Justine Berkeley, who is the data controller responsible for the personal information described in this notice.

For questions about this notice or how your information is used, please contact:

Email: contact@berkeleyelevate.co.uk

Website: berkeleyelevate.co.uk

Information collected

Berkeley Elevate may collect and use the following information:

• your name;
• your job title and organisation;
• your email address;
• your telephone number;
• information included in an enquiry, email or other communication;
• information needed to prepare a proposal, enter into an agreement or provide services;
• invoicing, payment and transaction information;
• records of meetings, conversations and correspondence;
• feedback or testimonials you choose to provide;
• limited technical information about your visit to this website, such as your IP address, browser type and pages visited, where this is collected by the website or its service providers.

Please do not submit confidential or sensitive personal information through the website enquiry form unless it is necessary for your enquiry.

How your information is collected

Information may be collected:

• when you complete the website enquiry form;
• when you contact Berkeley Elevate by email, telephone, LinkedIn or another communication method;
• when you request a proposal or engage Berkeley Elevate to provide services;
• during meetings, mentoring sessions, workshops, reviews or consultancy assignments;
• when another person or organisation provides your details in connection with a legitimate business enquiry;
• automatically through essential website technology and, where permitted, website analytics.

How your information is used

Your information may be used to:

• respond to enquiries and arrange initial conversations;
• understand the support you or your organisation may require;
• prepare proposals, quotations and agreements;
• provide consultancy, mentoring, recruitment, training, speaking or governance services;
• manage client and supplier relationships;
• arrange meetings, events and appointments;
• issue invoices, process payments and maintain financial records;
• maintain appropriate records of services and communications;
• obtain and use feedback or testimonials where permission has been given;
• protect the security and operation of the website and business;
• meet legal, regulatory, insurance, accounting and tax obligations;
• establish, exercise or defend legal claims.

Information provided through an enquiry will not be used to send unrelated marketing communications unless you have separately asked or agreed to receive them.

Lawful bases for using your information

Under UK data-protection law, Berkeley Elevate must have a lawful basis for using personal information.

Depending on the circumstances, the lawful bases relied upon are:

Contract

Information may be used where this is necessary to:

• respond to a request before entering into a contract;
• prepare a proposal or quotation;
• enter into or perform an agreement with you.

Legitimate interests

Information may be used where this is necessary for the legitimate interests of operating and developing Berkeley Elevate, provided those interests are not overridden by your rights.

These interests include:

• responding to business enquiries;
• communicating with clients, prospective clients and professional contacts;
• managing business relationships;
• improving services and the website;
• maintaining appropriate business records;
• protecting the business and establishing or defending legal rights.

Legal obligation

Information may be used where this is necessary to comply with legal, regulatory, accounting or tax requirements.

Consent

Consent may be relied upon where you have made an optional choice, such as:

• agreeing to receive marketing communications;
• permitting the use of an identifiable testimonial or photograph;
• accepting optional analytics or marketing cookies.

Where processing is based on consent, you may withdraw that consent at any time.

Sharing your information

Berkeley Elevate does not sell personal information.

Information may be shared, where necessary, with trusted organisations that help operate the business or provide services. These may include:

• website hosting and technical-support providers;
• email, calendar, videoconferencing and cloud-storage providers;
• accountants, bookkeepers, insurers, legal advisers and other professional advisers;
• payment and banking providers;
• carefully selected associates, subcontractors or specialist advisers involved in delivering an agreed assignment;
• event organisers or venues where necessary for an engagement;
• government bodies, regulators, courts or law-enforcement organisations where disclosure is required by law.

Only the information reasonably necessary for the relevant purpose will be shared.

Service providers are expected to handle personal information securely and only for the purposes for which it has been provided.

International transfers

Some technology providers may store or process information outside the United Kingdom.

Where personal information is transferred internationally, Berkeley Elevate will take reasonable steps to ensure that appropriate safeguards recognised under UK data-protection law are in place.

How long information is kept

Personal information will not be kept for longer than reasonably necessary.

As a general guide:

• enquiries that do not result in an assignment will normally be retained for up to 12 months after the last meaningful communication;
• client, contract and assignment records will normally be retained for up to seven years after the end of the relevant financial year or business relationship, where required for legal, tax, accounting or insurance purposes;
• unsuccessful recruitment information received as part of a recruitment assignment will normally be retained only for the period agreed with the commissioning organisation;
• information used with consent, such as marketing preferences or testimonials, will be retained until consent is withdrawn or the information is no longer required;
• technical website information will be kept in accordance with the retention periods applied by the relevant website or analytics provider.

Information may be kept for longer where necessary to resolve a dispute, respond to a complaint or establish, exercise or defend a legal claim.

How your information is protected

Reasonable technical and organisational measures are used to protect personal information against loss, misuse, unauthorised access, alteration or disclosure.

These measures include using reputable technology providers, password protection, access controls, secure devices and appropriate record-management practices.

No method of electronic transmission or storage is completely secure, but reasonable steps are taken to protect the information held.

Your data-protection rights

Depending on the circumstances, you may have the right to:

• ask for access to the personal information held about you;
• ask for inaccurate or incomplete information to be corrected;
• ask for your information to be deleted;
• ask for the use of your information to be restricted;
• object to the use of your information;
• receive certain information in a portable format;
• withdraw consent where consent is the lawful basis being used;
• complain about how your information has been handled.

These rights are not absolute and may not apply in every situation.

To exercise a right or ask a question, email:

contact@berkeleyelevate.co.uk

Berkeley Elevate will normally respond within one month.

Complaints

Please contact Berkeley Elevate first if you have any concerns about how your information has been used.

You also have the right to complain to the UK data-protection regulator:

Telephone: 0303 123 1113

Website: ico.org.uk

Cookies and website technology

Cookies are small files placed on a device when someone visits a website.

This website may use essential cookies or similar technology required to:

• operate and secure the website;
• remember basic website preferences;
• enable the enquiry form to function;
• prevent spam or misuse.

Essential cookies do not require consent where they are strictly necessary for the website to work.

Where optional analytics or marketing cookies are used, they will only be activated after the visitor has been given appropriate information and has made a choice. Visitors will be able to reject optional cookies and change their preferences.

Details of any cookies used, including their provider, purpose and duration, should be made available through the website’s cookie settings or cookie notice.

Links to other websites

This website may include links to external websites, including LinkedIn.

Berkeley Elevate is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of external websites. You should review the privacy information provided by those organisations when visiting their websites.

Changes to this notice

This privacy notice may be updated occasionally to reflect changes to the website, services, technology or legal requirements.

The latest version will be published on this website with the date it was last updated.