Privacy Policy

Last updated: 2 November 2026

This policy explains how Seizing the Opportunity Limited collects, uses, shares and protects personal information when you visit seizingtheopportunity.co.uk, contact us through it, or correspond with us by email. It is given in accordance with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (“UK GDPR”), the Data Protection Act 2018 and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003, as amended.

1. Who we are

Seizing the Opportunity Limited (“STO”, “we”, “us”) is the controller of the personal information described in this policy. We are a private limited company registered in England and Wales under company number 15141720, with our registered office at Radley House Ground Floor, Richardshaw Road, Pudsey, West Yorkshire, LS28 6LE.

We have not appointed a data protection officer, as we are not required to do so. Questions about this policy or about your personal information should be sent to hello@seizingtheopportunity.co.uk, or by post to the address above, marked for the attention of the Directors.

This policy covers this website only. Each business we own operates under its own name and publishes its own privacy information for its own websites and services.

2. The information we collect

Information you give us

When you use the enquiry form on our Contact page, we collect your name, your email address, the reason for your enquiry and the content of your message. When you write to us by email, we collect your contact details and whatever you choose to include in your correspondence and any attachments.

Depending on the nature of your enquiry, this may include:

• Acquisitions: information about you and about a business you own, manage or advise, including financial and commercial information, and any confidentiality agreement we enter into with you.
• Careers: your professional history, qualifications and any CV or covering letter you send.
• Press and research: your organisation, role and the subject of your enquiry.

Please do not send us special category information (for example, information about health, ethnicity, religious beliefs or political opinions) or information about criminal convictions unless we have asked for it. If you give us information about another person, please ensure you are entitled to do so.

Information collected automatically

When you visit the website, our hosting provider’s servers record technical information that every browser sends, such as your IP address, browser type, the page requested, the referring page and the date and time of the request. This is used to deliver the website, keep it secure and diagnose faults.

To protect the enquiry form from abuse, we store a one-way, irreversible code derived from your IP address for one hour after you submit the form, solely to limit repeated submissions. The form also contains a hidden field that legitimate users never see, which helps us to identify automated spam.

We do not use analytics, advertising or social media tracking tools on this website.

3. How we use your information and our lawful bases

We use personal information only for the purposes set out below, and rely on the lawful bases identified under Article 6(1) of the UK GDPR.

• To respond to your enquiry and correspond with you. Lawful basis: our legitimate interests in responding to people who contact us and in operating our business (Article 6(1)(f)).
• To consider and progress a potential acquisition, including entering into a confidentiality agreement. Lawful basis: taking steps at your request before entering into a contract, and performing that contract (Article 6(1)(b)); and our legitimate interests in evaluating acquisition opportunities (Article 6(1)(f)).
• To consider you for a role with STO or a business we own. Lawful basis: taking steps at your request before entering into a contract (Article 6(1)(b)) and our legitimate interests in recruiting suitable people (Article 6(1)(f)).
• To operate, secure and maintain the website, and to prevent spam and misuse. Lawful basis: our legitimate interests in running a secure and reliable website (Article 6(1)(f)).
• To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations. Lawful basis: compliance with a legal obligation (Article 6(1)(c)).
• To establish, exercise or defend legal claims. Lawful basis: our legitimate interests in protecting our legal position (Article 6(1)(f)).

Where we rely on legitimate interests, we have considered whether those interests are outweighed by your rights and freedoms, and concluded that they are not. You may ask us for further information about this assessment.

We do not send marketing communications unless you have asked to receive them, and we do not sell personal information. We do not make decisions about you based solely on automated processing, including profiling.

4. Who we share your information with

We share personal information only where necessary for the purposes described above, with:

• Businesses in the Seizing the Opportunity group, where your enquiry concerns one of them — for example, a careers enquiry relating to a role within one of our businesses.
• Our service providers, who process personal information on our behalf and only on our instructions: Hostinger, which hosts this website, and Microsoft, which provides our email services.
• Our professional advisers, such as lawyers, accountants and corporate finance advisers, who are bound by duties of confidentiality.
• Other parties to a transaction, where this is necessary to progress an acquisition you have discussed with us, and subject to any confidentiality agreement in place.
• Courts, regulators, law enforcement and other public authorities, where we are required or permitted by law to do so.
• A prospective buyer of, or successor to, all or part of our business, in connection with a reorganisation, merger or sale, subject to appropriate confidentiality protections.

5. International transfers

Some of our service providers may process personal information outside the United Kingdom. Where they do, we ensure that the transfer is protected as the UK GDPR requires: either the destination is covered by UK adequacy regulations (including, for certified organisations in the United States, the UK Extension to the EU–US Data Privacy Framework), or the transfer is made under the International Data Transfer Agreement or the UK Addendum to the EU Standard Contractual Clauses. You may ask us for further information about these safeguards.

6. How long we keep your information

We keep enquiries, correspondence and the information they contain for two years from our last contact with you, after which they are deleted.

We keep information for longer only where the law requires it, or where it is reasonably needed to establish, exercise or defend legal claims — for example, where an enquiry leads to a signed confidentiality agreement, a transaction or employment, in which case the relevant records are kept for as long as necessary for that purpose. Server logs are retained by our hosting provider for a limited period in line with its standard practice. The anti-abuse code described in section 2 is deleted automatically after one hour.

7. Cookies

This website does not set cookies for visitors and does not use analytics, advertising or tracking technologies. The typeface used on the website is hosted on our own server, so no information is sent to a third-party font service when you visit.

Cookies are set only for authorised staff who log in to manage the website. Those cookies are strictly necessary to provide that service and are exempt from the consent requirement under the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003. If we introduce any non-essential cookies in future, we will update this policy and ask for your consent before setting them.

8. How we protect your information

We use appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect personal information against loss, misuse and unauthorised access, including encrypted connections (HTTPS) to this website, access controls limiting who can see enquiries, and contractual obligations on our service providers. No method of transmission over the internet is completely secure, however, and you send information to us at your own risk.

9. Your rights

Subject to certain conditions and exceptions set out in data protection law, you have the right to:

• request access to the personal information we hold about you;
• ask us to correct information that is inaccurate or incomplete;
• ask us to erase your personal information;
• ask us to restrict how we use your personal information;
• object to our use of your personal information where we rely on legitimate interests;
• receive personal information you have given us in a structured, machine-readable format, or ask us to transfer it to another organisation, where processing is based on contract or consent; and
• withdraw your consent at any time, where we rely on consent, without affecting the lawfulness of processing carried out before withdrawal.

To exercise any of these rights, contact us at hello@seizingtheopportunity.co.uk. We may need to verify your identity before responding. We will respond within one month of receiving your request, which may be extended by up to two further months where a request is complex or we receive a number of requests, in which case we will tell you why. We do not normally charge a fee.

10. Complaints

If you are unhappy with how we have handled your personal information, please tell us first by writing to hello@seizingtheopportunity.co.uk or to our registered office. In accordance with the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025, we will acknowledge your complaint within 30 days of receiving it, look into it without undue delay, keep you informed of our progress and tell you the outcome.

You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection: online at ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint, by telephone on 0303 123 1113, or by post to Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF.

11. Children

This website is intended for businesses and professionals and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under the age of 18.

12. Links to other websites

This website may link to websites operated by the businesses we own or by third parties. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other websites, and we encourage you to read their privacy information.

13. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. The date at the top of this page shows when it was last revised. Where changes are significant, we will take reasonable steps to bring them to your attention.