This policy explains how FAID LTD collects, uses, shares and protects your personal data when you use our website or get in touch with us. We take your privacy seriously and only collect what we genuinely need.
We are the "data controller" for the information you provide, which means we decide how and why it is used. We process personal data in line with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018.
01 Who we are
This website is owned and operated by FAID LTD, a company registered in England & Wales.
If you have any questions about this policy or how your data is handled, email us at the address above and we'll respond within 30 days.
02 What information we collect
We only collect personal data that you choose to give us, plus a small amount of technical data needed to run the site securely.
Information you give us
When you submit our consultation / booking form, we collect:
Your first and last name
Your email address
Your phone number
Your company / brand name
Your budget range and services of interest
Your project details and preferred timeline (anything you type into the message field)
When you join our waiting list, we collect only your email address.
Information we collect automatically
Like virtually all websites, our hosting provider automatically logs basic technical data for security and reliability — such as your IP address, browser type and the pages you request. This is standard server-log data and is not used to personally identify or profile you.
Businesses we research for outreach
As part of our own marketing, we research local businesses that may benefit from our services and sometimes contact them to introduce ourselves. For this we collect only publicly available information about businesses — from sources such as a business's own website, its public social-media profiles, Google Business listings and public directories. This may include:
The business name, address and area
A publicly listed business phone, email or social-media handle
The owner or manager's name, where it is publicly associated with the business
Publicly visible information about their online presence (for example whether they have a website, and their public reviews)
We only gather information that is already public and relates to a business. We do not buy marketing lists, and we do not collect private or sensitive personal data this way. If we contact you and you'd prefer we didn't, just tell us and we'll stop and delete your details (see Your rights).
03 How & why we use your information
We use the information you give us to:
Respond to your enquiry and discuss working together
Prepare proposals, quotes and contracts for projects
Deliver the services you've engaged us for
Send you the confirmation email for a booking or waiting-list signup
Notify you when waiting-list places open (if you joined the list)
Keep our site secure and prevent spam or abuse of our forms
We will never sell your data, and we won't send you unrelated marketing without your consent.
04 Our lawful basis for using your data
Under UK GDPR we must have a valid legal reason ("lawful basis") to process your data. Depending on the situation, we rely on:
Consent — for joining the waiting list and receiving emails from us. You can withdraw consent at any time.
Taking steps to enter a contract — when you ask us for a quote or to begin a project.
Legitimate interests — to respond to enquiries, run our business, and protect our website from spam and abuse. We balance this against your rights.
Legitimate interests (business-to-business outreach) — to identify local businesses that may benefit from our services and to contact them, using only publicly available business information. We have weighed this against the rights of the people concerned, keep our outreach relevant and occasional, and you can object or ask us to stop at any time (see Your rights).
Legal obligation — where we're required to keep certain records (e.g. for tax or accounting).
05 Who we share your information with
We don't sell or rent your data. We do use a small number of trusted third-party providers ("data processors") to run the site and respond to you. Each only handles data on our instructions:
Netlify
Website hosting & secure storage of form submissions
Resend
Sending confirmation & notification emails
Google Fonts
Serving the website's fonts (receives your IP as part of the request)
Whereby (Norway)
Powering the video meetings you join via our meeting links — the name you enter and your audio/video are processed only to run the call (see Whereby's privacy policy)
We may also disclose data if required by law, or to protect our legal rights.
06 International data transfers
Some of our providers (such as Netlify and Resend) are based in the United States, so your data may be transferred and stored outside the UK. Where this happens, we ensure appropriate safeguards are in place — such as the UK's International Data Transfer Agreement (IDTA) or equivalent Standard Contractual Clauses — so your data receives the same level of protection as it would in the UK.
07 How long we keep your information
We keep your data only as long as we need it:
Enquiries that don't become projects — up to 24 months after our last contact, then deleted.
Clients — for the duration of our working relationship, plus any period we're legally required to keep records (e.g. up to 6 years for financial records).
Waiting-list signups — until you unsubscribe or we no longer operate the list.
Businesses we research for outreach — kept only while a business is a potential prospect, and deleted within 12 months if we haven't begun a conversation (or sooner on request).
You can ask us to delete your data sooner at any time (see Your rights).
08 Cookies & tracking
At present, this website does not use any advertising, analytics or tracking cookies. We don't run a Meta Pixel, Google Analytics or similar profiling tools, and we don't track your activity across other websites.
Only strictly necessary technical data (such as standard server logs) is processed to keep the site secure and working.
If we add analytics or advertising tools (such as the Meta Pixel) in future, we will update this policy and ask for your consent through a cookie banner before any such tool is activated.
09 How we protect your information
We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to keep your data safe, including:
Serving the entire site over encrypted HTTPS
Validating and sanitising all form input on the server
Rate-limiting and spam protection on our forms to prevent abuse
Restricting access to submitted data to authorised people only
No method of transmission over the internet is ever 100% secure, but we work hard to protect your data and review our measures regularly.
10 Your rights
Under UK GDPR you have the right to:
Be informed — about how your data is used (this policy)
Access — request a copy of the data we hold about you
Rectification — ask us to correct inaccurate data
Erasure — ask us to delete your data ("right to be forgotten")
Restrict processing — ask us to limit how we use your data
Data portability — receive your data in a portable format
Object — object to certain types of processing
Withdraw consent — at any time, where we rely on consent
To exercise any of these rights, email faid.ltd.company@gmail.com. We'll respond within one month, and it's free of charge.
11 Complaints
If you're unhappy with how we've handled your data, please contact us first so we can put it right. You also have the right to complain to the UK's data protection regulator, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO):
We may update this policy from time to time to reflect changes in how we work or in the law. When we do, we'll change the "last updated" date at the top of this page. Significant changes will be made clear on the website.
Get in touch
Questions about your data, or want to exercise your rights?