Privacy Policy.
www.saladgroup.com (our website) is provided by Salad Holdings Limited, a company registered in England and Wales under company registration number 10988702. Our registered office is at 49 Greek Street, London, W1D 4EG. References on our website to “Salad Group”, “the Salad Group” or “the Group” refer to Salad Holdings Limited and its subsidiary undertakings from time to time. We, our or us means Salad Holdings Limited. We are the controller of personal data obtained via our website, meaning we are the organisation legally responsible for deciding how and for what purposes it is used.
We take your privacy very seriously. Please read this privacy policy carefully as it contains important information on who we are and how and why we collect, store, use and share any information relating to you (your personal data) in connection with your use of our website. It also explains your rights in relation to your personal data and how to contact us or a relevant regulator in the event you have a complaint.
We collect, use and are responsible for certain personal data about you. When we do so we are subject to the United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR).
Our website is not intended for children or anyone under 18. If you are aware that personal data relating to anyone under 18 has been shared with us through our website, please let us know so that we can take appropriate steps to delete it.
This privacy policy is divided into the following sections:
- What this policy applies to
- Personal data we collect about you
- How your personal data is collected
- How and why we use your personal data
- Marketing
- Who we share your personal data with
- How long your personal data will be kept
- Transferring your personal data out of the UK
- Cookies
- Your rights
- Keeping your personal data secure
- How to complain
- Changes to this privacy policy
- How to contact us
What this policy applies to.
This privacy policy relates to your use of our website only.
The Salad Group’s businesses have their own websites and privacy policies. This policy does not cover their products or services. If you are a customer or applicant of one of those businesses, please read the privacy policy on that business’s website.
Our website may link to websites owned and operated by trusted third parties. Those third-party websites may collect and use information about you under their own privacy policies, so you should read those policies if you follow a link from our website.
Personal data we collect about you.
The personal data we collect about you depends on the particular activities carried out through our website. We will collect and use the following personal data about you:
- your name and email address
- the information you give us in your message when you use our contact form
- if you use our investor enquiry form, your company name, investor type, telephone number, the business you are interested in, your investment amount and any further details you provide
- information about how you use our website and technology systems, such as your IP address, browser and device type, and the pages you visit
You must provide the personal data we identify as required in order to use our website forms, unless we tell you that providing it is optional.
Sometimes you can choose whether to give us personal data and allow us to use it. Where you have a choice, we will tell you before you provide the data and explain whether choosing not to provide it will affect your use of our website.
We collect and use this personal data for the purposes described in the section ‘How and why we use your personal data’ below.
How your personal data is collected.
We collect personal data from you through our website, including when you complete a form and, automatically, through cookies and similar technologies when you visit.
How and why we use your personal data.
Under data protection law, we can only use your personal data if we have a proper reason, eg:
- where you have given consent
- to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations
- for the performance of a contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract
- for the purposes of a recognised legitimate interest, or
- for our legitimate interests or those of a third party
A legitimate interest is when we have a business or commercial reason to use your personal data, so long as this is not overridden by your own rights and interests. We will carry out an assessment when relying on legitimate interests, to balance our interests against your own. You can obtain details of this assessment by contacting us (see ‘How to contact us’ below).
The table below explains what we use your personal data for and why.
| What we use your personal data for | Our reasons |
| Responding to enquiries and messages, including about investment, partnerships and other opportunities with the Salad Group | Depending on the circumstances: - to take steps at your request before entering into a contract - in other cases, for our legitimate interests, ie to respond to people who contact us and to manage our relationships with them |
| Enforcing legal rights, defending legal claims or undertaking legal proceedings | Depending on the circumstances: - to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations - in other cases, for our legitimate interests, ie to protect our business, interests and rights |
| Customising our website and its content to your particular preferences based on a record of your selected preferences or on your use of our website | Depending on the circumstances: - your consent as gathered by the cookie banner on our website - see ‘Cookies’ below - where we are not required to obtain your consent and do not do so, for our legitimate interests, ie to be as efficient as we can so we can deliver the best service to you at the best price If you have provided such a consent you may withdraw it at any time by changing your choice using the cookie settings link in our website footer (this will not affect the lawfulness of our use of your personal data in reliance on that consent before it was withdrawn) |
| Retaining and evaluating information on your recent visits to our website and how you move around different sections of our website for analytics purposes to understand how people use our website so that we can make it more intuitive or to check our website is working as intended | Depending on the circumstances: - your consent as gathered by the cookie banner on our website - see ‘Cookies’ below - where we are not required to obtain your consent and do not do so, for our legitimate interests, ie to be as efficient as we can so we can deliver the best service to you at the best price If you have provided such a consent you may withdraw it at any time by changing your choice using the cookie settings link in our website footer (this will not affect the lawfulness of our use of your personal data in reliance on that consent before it was withdrawn) |
| Communications with you not related to marketing, including about changes to our terms or policies or other important notices | Depending on the circumstances: - to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations - in other cases, for our legitimate interests, ie to be as efficient as we can so we can deliver the best service to you at the best price |
| Protecting the security of systems and data used to run our website, including preventing spam and misuse of our website forms | To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations We may also use your personal data to ensure the security of systems and data to a standard that goes beyond our legal obligations, and in those cases our reasons are for our legitimate interests, ie to protect systems and data and to prevent and detect criminal activity that could be damaging for you and/or us |
| Statistical analysis to help us understand our website audience | For our legitimate interests, ie to be as efficient as we can so we can deliver the best service to you at the best price |
| Keeping our records of your enquiries and preferences up to date | Depending on the circumstances: - to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations - in other cases, for our legitimate interests, eg making sure our records are accurate |
| Disclosures and other activities necessary to comply with legal and regulatory obligations that apply to our business, eg to record and demonstrate evidence of your consents where relevant | To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations |
To share your personal data with members of our group and third parties that will or may take control or ownership of some or all of our business (and professional advisors acting on our or their behalf) in connection with a significant corporate transaction or restructuring, including a merger, acquisition, asset sale, initial public offering or in the event of our insolvency In such cases information will be anonymised where possible and only shared where necessary |
Depending on the circumstances: - to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations - in other cases, for our legitimate interests, ie to protect, realise or grow the value in our business and assets |
| Voluntarily sharing relevant personal data with public authorities, regulators or other bodies exercising official functions in response to written requests where we consider disclosure is necessary and appropriate | For a recognised legitimate interest, namely to respond to a request from another organisation that needs the personal data for the purposes of carrying out its task in the public interest or exercising its official authority |
How and why we use your personal data - in more detail.
More details about how we use your personal data and why are set out in the table below.
| Purpose | Processing operation | Lawful basis relied on under UK GDPR | Relevant categories of personal data |
| Communications with you not related to marketing, including about changes to our terms or policies or other important notices | Addressing and sending communications to you as required by data protection laws, ie UK GDPR or Data Protection Act 2018 | Processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject (Article 6(1)(c)) | Your name and contact information, including email address |
| Communications with you not related to marketing, including about changes to our terms or policies or other important notices | Addressing and sending communications to you about changes to our terms or policies or other important notices (other than those addressed above) | Our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f)), which is to be as efficient as we can so we can deliver the best service to you | Your name and contact information, including email address |
How and why we use your personal data - special category personal data.
We do not intentionally collect special category personal data through our website (for example, information about your health, ethnic origin, religious beliefs or political opinions). Please do not include this type of information when you complete a form or contact us.
Marketing.
We do not add people to a marketing list because they have used a form on our website. We will use the details you give us to respond to your enquiry.
If we offer a mailing list in the future, we will ask you separately and clearly before sending you marketing.
We will always treat your personal data with the utmost respect and never sell or share it with organisations outside our group for marketing purposes.
For more information on your right to object at any time to your personal data being used for marketing purposes, see ‘Your rights’ below.
Who we share your personal data with.
We routinely share personal data with third parties who help us run our business, including website hosts and analytics providers.
We only allow those organisations to handle your personal data if we are satisfied they take appropriate measures to protect it. We also impose contractual obligations on them so they can only use your personal data to provide services to us and to you, except as described below.
We or the third parties mentioned above occasionally also share personal data with:
- our and their external auditors, eg in relation to the audit of our or their accounts, in which case the recipient of the information will be bound by confidentiality obligations
- our and their professional advisors (such as lawyers and other advisors), in which case the recipient of the information will be bound by confidentiality obligations
- law enforcement agencies, courts, tribunals and regulatory bodies to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations
- public authorities, regulators and other bodies exercising official functions, where they make a written request for personal data they need for their public task or official functions and we decide it is necessary and appropriate to disclose it
- other parties that have or may acquire control or ownership of our business (and our or their professional advisers) in connection with a significant corporate transaction or restructuring, including a merger, acquisition, asset sale, initial public offering or in the event of our insolvency - usually, information will be anonymised but this may not always be possible. The recipient of any of your personal data will be bound by confidentiality obligations
Who we share your personal data with - in more detail.
More details about who we share your personal data with and why are set out in the table below.
| Recipient | Processing operation (use) by recipient | Relevant categories of personal data transferred to recipient |
| Squarespace Ireland Limited, Squarespace House, Ship Street Great, Dublin 8, D08N12C, Ireland, and its parent company Squarespace, Inc., 225 Varick Street, 12th Floor, New York, NY 10014, United States | Website hosting, website forms and website analytics | Any of the personal data we collect about you through our website |
| Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States | Spam protection for our website forms (reCAPTCHA) | Information about your device and how you use our website |
| Adobe Systems Software Ireland Limited, 4-6 Riverwalk, Citywest Business Campus, Dublin 24, Ireland | Providing the fonts used on our website (Adobe Fonts) | Your IP address and information about your browser |
| Salad Finance Limited (company number 11006249) or other group company, if group staff or systems are used to handle enquiries | Providing staff and shared business support | Your name, contact information and messages |
| Salad Affinity Limited trading as Rokit (company number 16230223), if its staff or systems are used to handle enquiries | Providing staff and shared business support | Your name, contact information and messages |
Squarespace also acts as an independent controller of certain technical information it automatically receives when you visit our website, such as your IP address, when it uses that information for its own purposes, including keeping its services safe and secure. You can read more in the Squarespace privacy policy.
Who we share your personal data with - further information.
If you would like more information about who we share your personal data with and why, please contact us (see ‘How to contact us’ below).
How long your personal data will be kept.
We will not keep your personal data for longer than we need it for the purpose for which it is used. The period for which we keep it will depend on the type of personal data, the reason we collected it, and whether we need to keep it to comply with legal, accounting, reporting or regulatory obligations.
- Website enquiries: 12 months after we have finished dealing with them
- Investor enquiries: 12 months after we have finished dealing with them
- Website analytics: 12 month in Squarespace
We generally keep personal data for up to six years where this is necessary for legal, accounting, reporting or regulatory purposes.
Following the end of the relevant retention period, we will delete or anonymise your personal data.
Transferring your personal data out of the UK.
Our website is hosted by Squarespace, so your personal data will be processed outside the UK. Squarespace Ireland Limited is based in Ireland, and personal data may also be transferred to Squarespace, Inc. in the United States.
Transfers to Ireland are made on the basis of UK adequacy arrangements for the European Economic Area. Transfers to Squarespace, Inc. rely on the UK Extension to the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, under which Squarespace, Inc. has certified its compliance.
Our spam protection and website fonts are provided by Google and Adobe. These providers may also transfer personal data to the United States, relying on the UK Extension to the EU-US Data Privacy Framework.
If you would like more information about these transfers and the safeguards used, please contact us (see ‘How to contact us’ below).
Cookies.
A cookie is a small text file placed on your device when you use our website. We use cookies and analytics technologies to help our website work, understand how visitors use it and remember your preferences where appropriate.
We ask for your consent through the cookie banner on our website before setting analytics or other non-essential cookies. You can change your choice at any time by using the cookie settings link in our website footer.
Our website is built on Squarespace. Some cookies are essential for our website to work, so we do not ask for your consent to use them. Analytics and performance cookies are only set if you accept them.
The table below lists the Squarespace cookies that may be used on our website.
| Cookie | Type | Purpose | How long it lasts |
| crumb | Essential | Prevents cross-site request forgery | Session |
| _dd_cookie_test | Essential | Tests whether cookies are supported | Expires instantly |
| _dd_site_test | Essential | Tests whether cookies are supported | Expires instantly |
| _dd_s | Essential | Tracks browser errors | Four hours |
| Test | Essential | Checks cookie support and prevents errors | Session |
| ss_performancecookiesAllowed | Essential | Records whether you accepted performance and analytics cookies | 30 days |
| ss_marketingcookiesAllowed | Essential | Records whether you accepted marketing cookies | 30 days |
| ss_cid | Analytics and performance | Identifies unique visitors and tracks visitor sessions | Two years |
| ss_cpvisit | Analytics and performance | Identifies unique visitors and tracks visitor sessions | Two years |
| ss_cvr | Analytics and performance | Identifies unique visitors and tracks visitor sessions | Two years |
| ss_cvisit | Analytics and performance | Identifies unique visitors and tracks visitor sessions | 30 minutes |
| ss_cvt | Analytics and performance | Identifies unique visitors and tracks visitor sessions | 30 minutes |
Our website forms also use Google reCAPTCHA to help prevent spam, which may use cookies or similar technologies. You can find out more in Google’s privacy policy.
You can also block or delete cookies in your browser settings. If you block essential cookies, parts of our website may not work properly, including our forms.
Your rights.
You generally have the following rights, which you can usually exercise free of charge:
| Access to a copy of your personal data | The right to be provided with a copy of your personal data |
| Correction (also known as rectification) | The right to require us to correct any mistakes in your personal data |
| Erasure (also known as the right to be forgotten) | The right to require us to delete your personal data - in certain situations |
| Restriction of use | The right to require us to restrict use of your personal data in certain circumstances, eg if you contest the accuracy of the data |
| Data portability | The right to receive the personal data you provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and/or transmit that data to a third party - in certain situations |
| To object to use | The right to object: - at any time to your personal data being used for direct marketing (including profiling) - in certain other situations to our continued use of your personal data, eg where we use your personal data for our recognised legitimate interests or legitimate interests unless there are compelling legitimate grounds for the processing to continue or the processing is required for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims |
| Rights in respect of automated decision-making | Where significant decisions (those which produce a legal or similarly significant effect on you) are made using your personal data and based on solely automated processing with no meaningful human involvement, you have the right to have certain safeguards in place to protect your data subject rights, freedoms and legitimate interests. These safeguards include giving you information about the decision and enabling you to make representations, obtain human intervention, and contest the decision In addition to also requiring the above safeguards, significant decisions made using special category personal data and based on solely automated processing are only permissible in certain specified scenarios (eg where you have given your explicit consent for the decision to be made using such data) We do not make any such decisions based on data collected by our website |
| The right to withdraw consents | If you have provided us with a consent to use your personal data you have a right to withdraw that consent easily at any time You may withdraw consents by contacting us or changing your choice using the cookie settings link in our website footer Withdrawing a consent will not affect the lawfulness of our use of your personal data in reliance on that consent before it was withdrawn |
| To complain | See the section on How to complain below |
For further information on each of those rights, including the circumstances in which they do and do not apply, please contact us (see ‘How to contact us’ below). You may also find it helpful to refer to the guidance from the UK’s Information Commissioner on your rights under UK GDPR.
If you would like to exercise any of those rights, please use the contact form on our website - see below: ‘How to contact us’. When contacting us please:
- provide enough information to identify yourself (eg your full name and email address) and any additional identity information we may reasonably request from you, and
- let us know which right(s) you want to exercise and the information to which your request relates
Keeping your personal data secure.
We have appropriate security measures to prevent personal data from being accidentally lost, or used or accessed unlawfully. We limit access to your personal data to those who have a genuine need to access it.
We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.
If you want detailed information from Get Safe Online on how to protect your personal data and other information and your computers and devices against fraud, identity theft, viruses and many other online problems, please visit www.getsafeonline.org. Get Safe Online is supported by HM Government and leading businesses.
How to complain.
We acknowledge that we may not always get things right, so if something has gone wrong, we need you to tell us. You have the right to make a complaint to us about how we use your personal data. You can complain by using the contact form on our website.
We will acknowledge your complaint within 30 days, take appropriate steps to respond to it without undue delay, and tell you the outcome. We hope we will be able to resolve any issues you may have.
If we are unable to resolve your complaint, you may also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner. They may be contacted using the details at https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint or by telephone: 0303 123 1113.
Changes to this privacy policy.
We may change this privacy policy from time to time. When we make significant changes we will take steps to inform you, for example via a prominent notice on our website or, where we hold your email address, by email.
How to contact us.
You can contact us using the contact form on our website if you have any questions about this privacy policy or the information we hold about you, want to exercise a right under data protection law or want to make a complaint.
Our contact details are shown below:
| Our contact details | Salad Holdings Limited 49 Greek Street London W1D 4EG Contact form: www.saladgroup.com |