Last Updated: September 2025
Effective Date: September 2025
Who We Are
Private Markets Group Ltd is a UK company specializing in family office summits, private wealth services, digital media, and private markets recruitment. We organize UK Family Office Summits, publish industry magazines, and provide bespoke services to the private wealth sector.
Our Brands & Websites:
- Private Wealth Voices (trading name) - privatewealthvoices.com
- Private Markets Newswire - industry news and insights
- Real Estate Innovation & Technology Magazine - digital publication
- UK Family Office Talent Acquisition & Global Private Markets Recruitment - recruitment services
- Family Office Directory - professional networking platform
This privacy policy applies to all our websites, brands, and services operated under Private Markets Group Ltd.
Data Controller: Private Markets Group Ltd
Company Number: 16246242
Address: Dalton House, 60 Windsor Road, London, Greater London, SW19 2RR, United Kingdom
Email: office@privatemarkets-group.com
Phone: +44 (0) 203 376 9612
What Information We Collect
Contact Forms & Enquiries
- Name, email address, company name, phone number, message content
- Purpose: Responding to enquiries about our summits, services, and publications
- Legal Basis: Legitimate interests (providing requested information)
- Retention: 3 years or until deletion requested
Event Registrations (UK Family Office Summits)
- Name, job title, company, email, phone, dietary requirements, networking preferences
- Purpose: Managing event attendance and providing summit services
- Legal Basis: Contract performance (event registration terms)
- Retention: 3 years for event management and future summit invitations
Newsletter Subscriptions
- Email address, subscription preferences, industry interests
- Purpose: Sending updates about family office summits, private markets news, and industry insights
- Legal Basis: Consent (you can unsubscribe anytime)
- Retention: Until you unsubscribe
Member Accounts & Directory Access
- Username, email, encrypted password, login data, professional profile information
- Purpose: Providing access to family office directory, digital magazines, and exclusive content
- Legal Basis: Contract performance (membership/subscription terms)
- Retention: Duration of membership plus 2 years
Recruitment Services
- CV/resume, contact details, employment history, references, salary expectations
- Purpose: Private markets and family office recruitment services
- Legal Basis: Consent and legitimate interests (recruitment services)
- Retention: 2 years or until withdrawal of consent
Website Analytics
- Anonymized IP address, pages visited, visit duration, referral sources
- Purpose: Improving website performance and understanding user interests
- Legal Basis: Legitimate interests (website optimization)
- Retention: 26 months, then anonymized
Cookies
- Essential cookies for website functionality
- Analytics cookies for understanding usage (Google Analytics)
- Legal Basis: Consent for analytics, legitimate interests for essential cookies
How We Use Your Information
We use your personal data to:
- Organize and manage UK Family Office Summits and events
- Respond to enquiries about our services and publications
- Send newsletter updates about private markets and family office trends (with consent)
- Manage member account access to directories and digital magazines
- Provide recruitment services for private markets positions
- Improve our websites and services
- Ensure website security and prevent fraud
We never sell, rent, or share your personal data with third parties for marketing purposes.
Data Sharing
Within Our Organization
Only authorized team members access your data for legitimate business purposes. All staff are bound by confidentiality agreements.
Event Partners & Sponsors
For summit attendees, we may share basic contact information (name, company, job title) with event sponsors and partners for networking purposes, with your explicit consent during registration.
Third-Party Services
We use these carefully selected processors:
- Google Analytics: Website performance analysis (Ireland, EU adequacy)
- Email Platform: Newsletter delivery and event communications (standard contractual clauses)
- Event Management Platform: Summit registration and management (UK/EU based)
- Web Hosting: UK-based servers with GDPR compliance
All processors have data processing agreements ensuring UK GDPR compliance.
Your Rights
Under UK GDPR, you have the right to:
- Access: Request a copy of your personal data
- Rectification: Correct inaccurate information
- Erasure: Delete your personal data ("right to be forgotten")
- Restrict Processing: Temporarily suspend data processing
- Data Portability: Receive your data in portable format
- Object: Stop processing based on legitimate interests
- Withdraw Consent: Stop newsletters, event communications, or recruitment services
To exercise your rights: Email office@privatemarkets-group.com or call +44 (0) 203 376 9612
Response Time: Within one month of your request
Data Security
We protect your information using:
- SSL/TLS encryption for data transmission
- Secure UK-based hosting infrastructure
- Regular security updates and monitoring
- Access controls and staff training
- Incident response procedures
- Enhanced security for recruitment data
Data Retention
- Contact forms: 3 years from last contact
- Event registrations: 3 years for future summit invitations
- Newsletters: Until unsubscribed
- Member accounts: Membership duration plus 2 years
- Recruitment data: 2 years or until consent withdrawn
- Analytics: 26 months, then anonymized
- Legal requirements: Longer if required by UK law
International Transfers
Some data may be processed outside the UK with appropriate safeguards:
- EU/EEA transfers rely on adequacy decisions
- Other transfers use standard contractual clauses
- We assess data protection risks for all transfers
Cookies Policy
Essential Cookies
Required for website functionality, event registration, and security (always active)
Analytics Cookies
Help us understand how visitors use our sites (Google Analytics)
- You can opt-out via cookie settings or Google's opt-out tool
Managing Cookies
- Adjust settings through our cookie banner
- Change browser settings to block cookies
- Contact us to withdraw consent
Event-Specific Privacy
For UK Family Office Summit attendees:
- Your basic professional information may be shared in attendee lists (with consent)
- Photos/videos may be taken during events for promotional purposes
- Networking data may be collected to improve future events
- Special dietary/accessibility requirements are handled confidentially
Children's Privacy
Our services target financial professionals and family office executives. We don't knowingly collect data from children under 16. If we discover such data, we'll delete it immediately.
Complaints
If you're unhappy with how we handle your data:
- Contact us first: office@privatemarkets-group.com
- Complain to the ICO: ico.org.uk or 0303 123 1113
ICO Address: Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF
Policy Changes
We'll notify you of significant changes via:
- Website notice
- Email to newsletter subscribers and event attendees
- Updated date at top of policy
Contact Us
Data Protection Enquiries:
- Email: office@privatemarkets-group.com
- Phone: +44 (0) 203 376 9612
- Address: Dalton House, 60 Windsor Road, London, Greater London, SW19 2RR, United Kingdom
- Hours: Monday-Friday, By Appointment (as per your business hours)
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Company Number 16246242