Privacy policy.

Brock Hatherton Limited (registered in England and Wales, company number 17228179, registered office 71–75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9JQ) takes the privacy of its website visitors and clients seriously. This policy explains what personal information we collect, why we collect it, how we use it, and the rights you have over it.

This policy is written in plain English. If anything is unclear, please contact us at seb@brockhatherton.com.

Who we are

Brock Hatherton Limited ("we", "us", "our") is the data controller for personal information collected through this website and through our advisory work. Our website is brockhatherton.com.

What information we collect

We collect personal information from you in the following circumstances:

• When you contact us via our website. Our contact form collects your name, email address, and a short message describing your enquiry.
• When you contact us by email or phone directly. We retain the contents of our correspondence with you.
• When you engage us for advisory work. We collect such information as is reasonably necessary to provide our services, which may include your address, financial information relevant to your project, details of the property or land in question, and other information you share in the course of our work together.
• Through routine website operation. Our hosting provider collects standard technical information including IP address, browser type, and pages visited, used to operate and secure the site.

We do not collect special category data (such as information about your health, ethnicity, religion, or political views) unless you voluntarily provide it in correspondence with us.

How we use your information

We use your personal information to respond to your enquiry, to provide advisory services where you become a client, to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations (including those relating to our records, our regulatory status, and applicable money laundering and professional conduct requirements), and to send you occasional communications you can opt out of at any time.

We do not use your information for automated decision-making or profiling. We do not sell your personal information to third parties.

The legal basis for our processing

We rely on the following legal bases, depending on the context:

• Legitimate interests. Responding to your enquiry, delivering our services, and administering our business.
• Contractual necessity. Where we have entered into an engagement letter or other agreement with you.
• Legal obligation. Where we are required to retain or process information to comply with a legal or regulatory requirement.
• Consent. Where we send you marketing communications, which you may withdraw at any time.

Who we share your information with

We share your information only where necessary and only with parties bound by appropriate obligations of confidentiality: our service providers (who process data on our behalf and are bound by their own privacy obligations); professional advisors and regulated firms, where the services you require fall outside our consultancy work – we will not share your information with them without your knowledge; and where we are required to do so by law, regulation, court order, or to comply with our professional obligations.

We do not transfer your personal data outside the United Kingdom or European Economic Area without appropriate safeguards in place.

How long we keep your information

We retain personal information for as long as necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, and thereafter for such period as is reasonable to satisfy our legal, regulatory, and professional obligations. In general:

• Enquiry correspondence that does not lead to an engagement is retained for up to 24 months.
• Client files and correspondence are retained for a minimum of seven years from the conclusion of the engagement, in line with professional record-keeping requirements.
• Website analytics data is retained for the period determined by our hosting provider's standard settings.

Your rights

Under UK data protection law, you have the right to:

• Access the personal information we hold about you
• Request that we correct inaccurate information
• Request that we delete your information (subject to our legal and professional retention obligations)
• Object to or restrict our processing in certain circumstances
• Withdraw consent where we are relying on consent as the legal basis
• Lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner's Office (ico.org.uk)

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at seb@brockhatherton.com. We will respond within one month.

Cookies

Our website uses only the essential cookies necessary for it to function. We do not run advertising or third-party tracking cookies. You can manage cookie preferences through your browser settings.

Security

We take appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your personal information against unauthorised access, loss, or disclosure. No system is entirely secure, but we treat the protection of client information with the same seriousness expected of a solicitor-led practice.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. The current version is always available at this URL. Material changes affecting how we use your information will be notified to you where appropriate.

Contact

Sebastian Brock, Brock Hatherton Limited – seb@brockhatherton.com · 07703 035 139

This policy was last updated on 29 May 2026.