Privacy Policy

Last updated: 28 September 2026

The Lead Lab South West Limited (“we”, “us”, “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal information.

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store and protect personal information when you visit theleadlab.com, contact us, submit an enquiry, or otherwise interact with our services.

1. Who we are

The Website is operated by:

The Lead Lab South West Limited
Company number: 12631578
Registered office: Studio 1 Rollsbridge House, Ide, Exeter, Devon, England, EX2 9QU
Website: https://theleadlab.com
Email: info@theleadlab.com

For data protection purposes, The Lead Lab South West Limited is responsible for the processing of your personal information described in this Privacy Policy.

If you have any questions about how we use your personal information, please contact us at info@theleadlab.com.

2. Information we collect

Depending on how you interact with us, we may collect the following information:

Information you provide directly

This may include:

  • Your name

  • Email address

  • Telephone number

  • Company or business name

  • Job title or role

  • Information contained in your enquiry or message

  • Information you provide when requesting a consultation, quotation or service

  • Any other information you voluntarily provide to us

Information collected automatically

When you visit our Website, certain technical information may be collected automatically, including:

  • IP address

  • Browser type and version

  • Device type

  • Operating system

  • Approximate location derived from your IP address

  • Pages visited and how you interact with the Website

  • Referring website or source

  • Date and time of visits

  • Other technical and usage information

Some of this information may be collected using cookies and similar technologies. Please see our Cookie Policy for further information.

3. How we use your information

We may use personal information to:

  • Respond to enquiries and requests;

  • Provide information about our services;

  • Arrange calls, meetings or consultations;

  • Prepare quotations or proposals;

  • Provide and manage services you have requested;

  • Communicate with you about our services;

  • Manage our relationship with clients and prospective clients;

  • Improve and develop our Website and services;

  • Understand how visitors use our Website;

  • Monitor Website performance and security;

  • Prevent fraud, misuse or other unlawful activity;

  • Maintain appropriate business and financial records;

  • Comply with legal and regulatory obligations; and

  • Establish, exercise or defend our legal rights.

Where permitted by law, we may also use your information to send you relevant marketing communications. You can unsubscribe from marketing communications at any time.

4. Our lawful bases for processing

Under UK data protection law, we must have a lawful basis for processing personal information.

Depending on the circumstances, we may rely on one or more of the following lawful bases:

Consent

Where you have given us permission to process your personal information for a specific purpose, we may rely on your consent.

You can withdraw consent at any time.

Contract

We may process your information where it is necessary to enter into or perform a contract with you.

Legitimate interests

We may process information where it is necessary for our legitimate business interests, provided those interests are not overridden by your rights and interests.

This may include managing and developing our business, communicating with prospective customers, improving our services, maintaining Website security and understanding Website usage.

Legal obligation

We may process personal information where necessary to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.

5. Marketing communications

We may contact you with information about our services, news, offers or other marketing communications where permitted by applicable law.

Where consent is required, we will ask for it before sending marketing communications.

You can stop receiving marketing communications at any time by:

Opting out of marketing communications does not prevent us from sending essential service or administrative communications where necessary.

6. Cookies and analytics

Our Website may use cookies and similar technologies.

Cookies may be used for purposes such as:

  • Making the Website function correctly;

  • Remembering preferences;

  • Understanding how visitors use the Website;

  • Measuring Website performance;

  • Improving our services and user experience; and

  • Supporting marketing activities, where applicable.

Where required by law, we will ask for your consent before placing non-essential cookies on your device.

You can manage cookies through your browser settings and, where provided, our cookie preference tool.

For more information about the cookies we use, please see our Cookie Policy.

7. Who we share your information with

We do not sell your personal information.

We may share personal information with trusted third parties where necessary to operate our business and provide our services.

Depending on how you use our Website and services, these parties may include:

  • Website hosting and infrastructure providers;

  • Website analytics providers;

  • Customer relationship management (CRM) providers;

  • Email and communication providers;

  • Appointment scheduling providers;

  • IT and software providers;

  • Payment providers, where applicable;

  • Professional advisers such as accountants, lawyers or insurers;

  • Government, regulatory or law-enforcement authorities where legally required; and

  • Other service providers where necessary to provide our services or operate our business.

Where we use third-party service providers to process personal information on our behalf, we take reasonable steps to ensure that appropriate contractual and security arrangements are in place.

8. International transfers

Some of our service providers may process personal information outside the United Kingdom.

Where personal information is transferred outside the UK, we will take appropriate steps to ensure that the transfer is lawful and that your information receives an appropriate level of protection, in accordance with applicable data protection law.

This may include relying on an adequacy decision or appropriate contractual safeguards where applicable.

9. How long we keep your information

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, including where necessary to satisfy legal, accounting, regulatory or reporting requirements.

The appropriate retention period will depend on the type of information and why we hold it.

For example:

  • Enquiry information may be retained for as long as reasonably necessary to deal with the enquiry and maintain appropriate business records.

  • Client information may be retained for the duration of our relationship and for an appropriate period afterwards.

  • Financial and accounting records may be retained for the period required by applicable law.

  • Marketing information may be retained until you unsubscribe or we determine that it is no longer appropriate to retain it.

When information is no longer required, we will securely delete it or anonymise it where appropriate.

10. How we protect your information

We take reasonable technical and organisational measures designed to protect personal information against:

  • Unauthorised access;

  • Accidental loss;

  • Destruction;

  • Misuse;

  • Alteration; and

  • Unauthorised disclosure.

However, no method of transmitting information over the internet or storing information electronically can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

11. Your data protection rights

Depending on the circumstances, you have rights under UK data protection law, including the right to:

  • Request access to the personal information we hold about you;

  • Ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete information;

  • Ask us to delete your personal information in certain circumstances;

  • Ask us to restrict how we use your information in certain circumstances;

  • Object to certain types of processing, including processing based on legitimate interests;

  • Request certain information in a portable format;

  • Withdraw consent where we rely on consent as our lawful basis; and

  • Complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).

These rights are subject to certain legal exceptions and may not apply in every circumstance.

12. How to exercise your rights

If you would like to exercise any of your data protection rights, please contact:

info@theleadlab.com

We may need to request additional information from you to verify your identity before responding to your request.

We will generally respond to valid requests within the time period required by applicable data protection law.

13. Complaints

If you have concerns about how we have handled your personal information, please contact us first so that we can try to resolve the issue.

You also have the right to complain to the UK’s data protection regulator, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).

Website: https://ico.org.uk/

14. Third-party websites

Our Website may contain links to websites or services operated by third parties.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to those third-party websites. We are not responsible for their privacy practices, content or security.

We recommend that you review the privacy policies of any third-party websites you visit.

15. Children’s privacy

Our Website and services are not intended to knowingly collect personal information from children.

If you believe that a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us so that we can take appropriate steps.

16. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our business, services, technology or legal requirements.

When we make changes, we will update the “Last updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

Where appropriate, we will provide additional notice of significant changes.

17. Contact us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or how we process your personal information, please contact:

The Lead Lab South West Limited
Company number: 12631578
Registered office: Studio 1 Rollsbridge House, Ide, Exeter, Devon, England, EX2 9QU
Email: info@theleadlab.com
Website: theleadlab.com