Privacy notice

Data controller

Kernelmesh Hub is the data controller for personal data collected via kernelmesh-hub.digital and during briefing engagements. Contact: contact@kernelmesh-hub.digital, Level 6, 51 Portland Street, Manchester M1 3HP, telephone +44 161 555 6520.

<h2>Data we collect</h2>
<ul>
  <li>Identity and contact details you submit (name, email, phone if provided)</li>
  <li>Message content describing markets or scheduling preferences</li>
  <li>Technical logs such as IP address and browser type when you visit the site</li>
  <li>Cookie preferences stored locally in your browser</li>
</ul>

<h2>Purposes and lawful bases</h2>
<p>We process data to respond to enquiries, deliver briefings, invoice, improve the website, and meet legal obligations. Lawful bases include contract performance, legitimate interests in operating a professional practice, and consent where you accept optional analytics cookies.</p>

<h2>Retention</h2>
<p>Enquiry messages are kept for up to twenty-four months unless a longer engagement relationship continues. Invoices and related records are retained for six years to meet accounting requirements. Analytics data, when enabled, is retained according to the analytics provider’s settings, typically fourteen months or less.</p>

<h2>Sharing</h2>
<p>We use service providers for email, hosting, and (if accepted) analytics. They process data on our instructions. We do not sell personal data.</p>

<h2>International transfers</h2>
<p>If a provider stores data outside the United Kingdom, we ensure appropriate safeguards such as UK adequacy regulations or standard contractual clauses where required.</p>

<h2>Your rights</h2>
<p>Under UK GDPR you may request access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability, and objection to certain processing. You may withdraw cookie consent at any time by clearing the stored preference and revisiting the site. You may complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).</p>

<h2>More detail</h2>
<p>Cookie use is described on our <a href="/cookies/">cookies page</a>.</p>