Privacy and Data Handling

Forbes Hare Services is the collective name for a group of legally separate entities providing trust, fiduciary, and corporate services, each incorporated or registered in its respective jurisdiction. The entity or entities acting as data controller in respect of personal data collected through this website will depend on the nature of the enquiry and the services requested. Each entity acts as data controller only in respect of personal data processed for its own services and activities. For enquiries regarding the applicable data controller, please contact us using the contact details below.

Personal data is collected only where you provide it directly, including through the contact form (name, organisation, email address, subject, message, and language preference), guide download requests (name and email address), and briefings subscription (email address and language preference).

Our servers may also automatically receive limited technical information such as IP address and browser type, used solely for security and operational purposes and not to identify individual users.

If you accept analytics cookies, we use Plausible Analytics to collect anonymised usage data. Plausible does not use cookies to track individual users and does not collect personally identifiable information. We do not collect special category data through this website.

You are not required to provide personal data through this website. Declining to do so may limit our ability to respond to an enquiry or to deliver a requested guide or briefing.

Personal data collected through this website is used for the following purposes:

• -Contact form submissions: to respond to the enquiry (legal basis: legitimate interests). This use is considered necessary and proportionate, and not overridden by the interests or rights of the data subject.
• -Guide requests: to send the requested guide by email (legal basis: consent).
• -Briefings subscription: to send occasional briefings where you have opted in (legal basis: consent).
• -Analytics: to understand how the website is used, where consent has been given (legal basis: consent).

Personal data is not used for profiling, automated decision-making, or targeted advertising.

Aggregated or anonymised data that does not identify any individual may be used for statistical or operational purposes.

Personal data is not sold or rented to third parties. It may be shared with email service providers and content management system providers acting as data processors on our instructions, solely to deliver communications you have requested. It may also be shared with professional advisers or regulatory bodies where required by law.

Personal data collected via this website is not shared with clients of Forbes Hare Services.

Personal data submitted via this website may be processed in jurisdictions outside your country of residence, including where our service providers maintain infrastructure. Data protection rights and obligations vary by jurisdiction, and local law may apply depending on your location and the services requested. Where data is transferred internationally, such transfers are subject to appropriate safeguards, which may include standard contractual clauses or equivalent mechanisms recognised under applicable data protection law.

We implement reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect personal data against unauthorised access, loss, or disclosure. No method of transmission over the internet is entirely secure, and transmission of personal data to this website is at the user's risk. Sensitive or confidential information should not be submitted through the contact form or any other form on this website.

Contact form submissions are retained for two years from the date of the enquiry, unless the enquiry results in a client engagement, in which case client retention periods apply. Guide download requests are retained for one year. Briefings subscribers are retained until unsubscribe, with annual list hygiene reviews. Where retention is required by applicable law, data will be retained for the legally required period and then deleted or anonymised.

Depending on your location, you may have the right to access, correct, or delete your personal data; to object to or restrict processing in certain circumstances; to receive a copy of your personal data in a structured, commonly used format where applicable; to withdraw consent at any time where processing is based on consent, without affecting the lawfulness of prior processing; and to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. Nothing in this policy limits any statutory rights to which you may be entitled.

This website may contain links to third-party websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of those websites and recommend that you review their privacy policies separately before providing any personal data.

This policy may be updated from time to time. The latest version will always be available on this website. Material changes will be noted with an updated review date.

For queries regarding this policy or your personal data, please contact us at enquiries@forbeshareservices.com.