Privacy Policy

Utter Rubbish Ltd is a circular economy policy think tank registered in England and Wales. Our registered office is in Staffordshire, United Kingdom. We are committed to protecting your personal data and being transparent about how we use it. If you have any questions about this policy, please contact us.

We may collect and process the following personal data: • Contact information – your name, email address, and organisation when you submit our contact form or subscribe to updates. • Usage data – information about how you use our website, including pages visited, time spent, and referring URLs, collected via analytics tools. • Communications – records of correspondence if you contact us by email or through our website forms. • Event registration data – if you register for a webinar, workshop, or event we host. We do not collect sensitive personal data (such as health, financial, or biometric data) through this website.

We use your personal data for the following purposes: • To respond to your enquiries and provide the services you have requested. • To send you our newsletter, policy briefs, and research updates (only where you have opted in). • To improve our website and understand how visitors engage with our content. • To comply with legal obligations. We will never sell your personal data to third parties, and we will not use it for purposes incompatible with those listed above.

We process your personal data on the following legal bases under UK GDPR: • Consent – where you have given us clear consent to process your data for a specific purpose (e.g. newsletter subscription). • Legitimate interests – where processing is necessary for our legitimate interests, such as improving our services and communicating with stakeholders, provided these interests are not overridden by your rights. • Legal obligation – where we are required to process data to comply with the law.

We retain your personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected, or as required by law. Contact form submissions are retained for up to 2 years. Newsletter subscriber data is retained until you unsubscribe. Website analytics data is retained in aggregated, anonymised form.

Under UK GDPR, you have the following rights: • Right of access – to request a copy of the personal data we hold about you. • Right to rectification – to request correction of inaccurate data. • Right to erasure – to request deletion of your data in certain circumstances. • Right to restrict processing – to request that we limit how we use your data. • Right to data portability – to receive your data in a structured, machine-readable format. • Right to object – to object to processing based on legitimate interests. • Right to withdraw consent – at any time, where processing is based on consent. To exercise any of these rights, please contact us. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) at ico.org.uk.

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies on our website. For full details of the cookies we use and how to manage them, please see our Cookie Policy.

We may use trusted third-party services to help operate our website and deliver our services, including analytics providers and email marketing platforms. These providers are contractually obligated to handle your data securely and only for the purposes we specify. We do not permit them to use your data for their own marketing purposes.

Where we transfer personal data outside the UK, we ensure appropriate safeguards are in place in accordance with UK GDPR, such as standard contractual clauses or adequacy decisions.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The date of the most recent revision will always be shown at the top of this page. We encourage you to review this policy periodically.