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1. Who we are
Capital Business Media Ltd ("CBM", "we", "us", "our") is a UK-incorporated specialist media company headquartered in London with offices in New York and Florida. Our company number is [PLACEHOLDER]. Our registered office is [PLACEHOLDER address].
We publish ten specialist titles — Business Matters, Optimum, Not Ltd, EV Powered, Electric Home, Travelling For Business, Property Portfolio Investor, Fund Manager Today, the Business Champion Awards and the Rural Business Awards — and run three annual flagship awards programmes. This privacy policy applies to capitalbusinessmedia.co.uk and to all of our brand websites unless a brand publishes its own privacy policy that overrides it.
For UK and EEA visitors, the data controller is Capital Business Media Ltd. For US visitors, the data controller is CBM Inc.
2. What data we collect
The categories of personal data we collect depend on how you interact with us:
- Identity & contact data — name, work email, company name, job title and country, when you submit a contact form, request a media pack, sign up for a newsletter, enter an awards programme or apply for a role.
- Technical data — IP address, browser type, device type, operating system, time zone setting and approximate location, automatically collected when you visit any of our websites.
- Usage data — pages viewed, time spent on pages, scroll depth, click paths and referrer.
- Marketing & communications data — your preferences in receiving marketing emails from us and our partners, including unsubscribe history.
- Awards entry data — entry submissions, supporting evidence and judging notes (we hold these strictly for the awards programme entered and never share them with sponsors or third parties without express consent).
3. How we use your data
We use personal data only for the specific purposes for which it was collected:
- To respond to a sales, editorial, awards or press enquiry you've sent us.
- To send you newsletters or media-pack updates you've signed up for, until you unsubscribe.
- To process an awards entry, including sharing it with our independent judging panel under conflict-of-interest controls.
- To process a job application and contact you about the role.
- To analyse aggregate site traffic and improve our editorial and commercial offering.
- To meet our legal obligations — tax, audit, fraud prevention and regulatory compliance.
4. Legal basis for processing
Under the UK GDPR and EU GDPR, we rely on the following legal bases:
- Consent — for marketing newsletters, media-pack downloads and similar opt-in communications.
- Contract — to deliver services you've requested (awards entries, media packs, contract publishing).
- Legitimate interests — to run and improve our business, including responding to sales enquiries and analysing site traffic.
- Legal obligation — tax, regulatory and contractual record-keeping.
5. Who we share data with
We share personal data only with:
- Mailchimp, our email service provider, for newsletters, media-pack delivery and awards communications.
- Our hosting provider [PLACEHOLDER] and our analytics provider [Google Analytics 4 / PLACEHOLDER].
- Our independent awards judges, where you have entered an awards programme and consented to your entry being judged.
- Our auditors, legal counsel and tax advisers, where required by law.
- Law enforcement or regulators, where compelled by law.
We do not sell personal data, and we do not share marketing data with sponsors or partners unless you have specifically opted in to that share.
6. How long we keep data
We hold personal data only as long as we need it for the purposes set out above. Specific retention periods:
- Newsletter subscribers: until you unsubscribe.
- Media-pack and contact-form data: 24 months from last activity.
- Awards entries: held for the relevant awards cycle plus three years for archive and dispute resolution.
- Job applications: 12 months from submission unless you ask us to remove it sooner.
- Tax and accounting records: as required by HMRC / IRS (typically 7 years).
7. Your rights
You have the right to:
- Access the personal data we hold about you.
- Correct inaccurate data.
- Request deletion (subject to lawful exceptions).
- Restrict or object to processing.
- Receive a copy of your data in a portable format.
- Withdraw consent at any time, where consent is the basis of processing.
- Lodge a complaint with the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) or your local data-protection authority.
To exercise any of these rights, email privacy@cbmeg.co.uk. We respond within 30 days.
8. International transfers
CBM operates in the UK, the EU and the US. Where we transfer data outside the UK or EEA, we rely on adequacy decisions, Standard Contractual Clauses or other safeguards approved under UK GDPR / EU GDPR. The UK–US Data Bridge applies to transfers between our London and US offices.
9. Cookies and tracking
Our websites use cookies for essential functionality, analytics and (where consented) marketing. See our Cookies policy for full detail and how to manage your preferences.
Privacy questions and data subject requests:
- Email: privacy@cbmeg.co.uk
- Post: Data Protection, Capital Business Media Ltd, [PLACEHOLDER address], London [PLACEHOLDER]
- UK regulator: Information Commissioner's Office — ico.org.uk
