Privacy Policy

Last updated: March 2026

Leesafe Ltd (“we”, “our”, “us”) is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy explains how we collect, use, store, and share your personal data when you visit our website at www.leesafe.co.uk or engage with our services, in accordance with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018.

1. Data Controller

The data controller responsible for your personal data is:

2. Personal Data We Collect

We may collect and process the following categories of personal data:

• •Identity and contact data: your name, email address, telephone number, and postcode, provided when you submit our contact form or communicate with us directly.
• •Enquiry data: details of your project or service requirements as described in your message, any files you upload to support your enquiry, and the page on our website from which you submitted the form.
• •Technical data: your IP address, browser type and version, operating system, pages visited, time and date of your visit, and time spent on pages. This data is collected through cookies and similar technologies only where you have given consent (see our Cookie Policy).
• •Cookie consent data: a record of the cookie preferences you have set, stored in a first-party cookie on your device.

We do not collect any special category (sensitive) personal data.

3. How and Why We Use Your Data

We process your personal data for the following purposes and on the following lawful bases under Article 6 of the UK GDPR:

4. Who We Share Your Data With

We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal data. We may share your data with the following categories of recipient where necessary:

• •Hosting and infrastructure providers: our website hosting and database providers, who process data on our behalf under appropriate data processing agreements.
• •Email delivery providers: we use Resend to deliver contact form submissions via email. Resend processes your data on our behalf under a data processing agreement.
• •Analytics providers: Google Analytics (only if you have consented to analytics cookies). Google processes this data in accordance with its own privacy policy.
• •Advertising providers: Meta (Facebook) Pixel and Google Ads (only if you have consented to marketing cookies). These providers process data in accordance with their own privacy policies.
• •Professional advisers: accountants, legal advisers, or auditors where reasonably necessary.
• •Regulatory bodies: the Health and Safety Executive, Environment Agency, or other authorities where we are legally required to do so.

5. International Data Transfers

Where you consent to analytics or marketing cookies, data may be processed by Google and Meta (Facebook) in countries outside the United Kingdom, including the United States. These transfers are protected by the UK International Data Transfer Agreement (IDTA) or the EU-US Data Privacy Framework as extended to the UK, as applicable. Our email delivery provider, Resend, is based in the United States and processes contact form data under Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) as supplemented by the UK IDTA Addendum. All other personal data we collect is stored and processed within the United Kingdom or the European Economic Area.

6. Data Retention

We retain your personal data only for as long as necessary for the purposes for which it was collected:

• •Contact form enquiries: retained for up to 3 years from submission, or longer if a contractual relationship is formed.
• •Project documentation: retained for up to 40 years where required by health and safety regulations (in line with HSE guidance on asbestos medical surveillance and exposure records).
• •Cookie consent preferences: stored on your device for up to 1 year.

7. Data Security

We have implemented appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your personal data against unauthorised access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. These measures include encrypted data storage, access controls, and regular security reviews. However, no method of transmission over the internet is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

8. Your Rights

Under the UK GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018, you have the following rights in relation to your personal data:

• •Right of access — to request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
• •Right to rectification — to request correction of inaccurate or incomplete data.
• •Right to erasure — to request deletion of your data where there is no compelling reason for its continued processing.
• •Right to restrict processing — to request that we limit how we use your data.
• •Right to data portability — to request a copy of your data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format.
• •Right to object — to object to processing based on legitimate interest.
• •Right to withdraw consent — where processing is based on consent, you may withdraw it at any time. You can change your cookie preferences using the cookie settings link in our website footer, or by contacting us directly.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at info@leesafe.co.uk. We will respond to your request within one month.

9. Automated Decision-Making

We do not use any automated decision-making or profiling that produces legal effects or similarly significant effects on you.

10. Cookies

Our website uses cookies. For detailed information about the cookies we use and how you can manage your preferences, please see our Cookie Policy.

11. Complaints

If you are unhappy with how we have handled your personal data, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK's supervisory authority for data protection:

We would appreciate the opportunity to address your concerns before you approach the ICO, so please contact us in the first instance.

12. Changes to This Policy

We may update this privacy policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated “Last updated” date. We encourage you to review this policy periodically.

13. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or wish to exercise your data protection rights, please contact us at info@leesafe.co.uk or call 01268 729209.