Privacy Policy

HCP Group Limited ("HCP Group", "we", "us", "our") is an automotive advisory firm registered in England and Wales. Our registered office is at 2 The Pavilions, 37 Brighton Road, South Croydon, Surrey, CR2 6EB, United Kingdom.

We are committed to protecting your personal data and respecting your privacy. This policy explains how we collect, use, store and share information about you when you interact with our website or engage our services.

We may collect and process the following categories of personal data:

• •Identity data: name, job title, organisation
• •Contact data: email address, telephone number, country of residence
• •Enquiry data: the content of messages you send us via our contact form or by email
• •Technical data: IP address, browser type, pages visited, time on site (collected via analytics)
• •Communications data: your preferences for receiving communications from us

We use your personal data for the following purposes:

• •To respond to your enquiries and assess whether there is a basis for engagement
• •To deliver advisory services where an engagement has been agreed
• •To maintain records of our business relationships
• •To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations
• •To improve our website and communications

We process your personal data on the following legal bases under UK GDPR:

We do not sell, rent or trade your personal data. We do not maintain a public client list. Your data may be shared only in the following limited circumstances:

• •With trusted service providers who assist us in operating our website or business, under strict confidentiality obligations
• •Where required by law, regulation or court order
• •With your explicit consent

We retain personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected, including satisfying any legal, accounting or reporting requirements. Enquiry data from individuals with whom no engagement is established is typically retained for no longer than 24 months.

Under UK data protection law, you have the right to: access your personal data; correct inaccurate data; request erasure of your data; object to or restrict processing; request data portability; and withdraw consent at any time where processing is based on consent.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at [email protected]. We will respond within 30 days.

Our website uses cookies. For full details of the cookies we use and how to manage them, please see our Use of Cookies policy.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The date at the top of this page indicates when it was last revised. Continued use of our website following any changes constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.

If you have any questions about this policy or our data practices, please contact us at [email protected] or write to us at our registered address.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) at ico.org.uk.