PRIVACY POLICY

Last updated: 24/09/2026

This policy explains how outbloom collects, uses and protects your personal data when you visit www.out-bloom.com (the “Website”), contact us or work with us. We are committed to handling your data fairly, securely and in line with UK data protection law. This includes the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), the Data Protection Act 2018 and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR).

1. Who we are

outbloom is a trading name of JGMS Advertising Limited, a company registered in England and Wales (company number 13849198), with its registered office at No. 1, Spinningfields, Manchester M3 3JE. Our trading address is No. 1, Spinningfields, Manchester M3 3JE.

If you have any questions about this policy or how we use your data, contact us at hello@out-bloom.com.

2. The data we collect

Information you give us

When you complete our contact form, email us, call us or work with us, we may collect:

• your name, email address and phone number
• your company name and job title
• how you heard about us
• anything else you choose to tell us in your message or during our conversations

Information collected automatically

When you visit the Website, we and our partners may collect:

• your IP address and approximate location
• device type, operating system, browser type and version
• the pages you visit, how long you spend on them and how you arrived at the Website
• the date and time of your visit

We collect this using cookies and similar technologies. Some are essential for the Website to work. Others are only set with your consent. For full details, see our Cookie Policy.

Information from other sources

We may receive business contact details from publicly available sources such as LinkedIn or company websites, or from people who refer you to us.

3. How we use your data and our lawful basis

We use your personal data to respond to your enquiries and book discovery calls. We do this on the basis of our legitimate interest in replying to people who contact us, or because it’s a necessary step before entering into a contract with you.

If you become a client, we use your data to provide our services and manage our relationship with you. We do this because it’s necessary to perform our contract with you.

We keep records for invoicing, accounting and tax purposes because we have a legal obligation to do so.

With your consent, we use cookies and similar technologies to measure and improve the performance of the Website and to measure the effectiveness of our own advertising. You can withdraw your consent at any time through our cookie settings.

We may send you updates or insights about our services. For existing business contacts, we do this on the basis of our legitimate interests. Otherwise, we ask for your consent where required. You can opt out at any time.

We use your data to protect the Website against fraud, spam and misuse, based on our legitimate interest in keeping the Website secure. We may also use it to comply with the law or to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.

Where we rely on legitimate interests, we have considered your rights and interests and are satisfied that they are not overridden. You can ask us for more detail on this.

We do not use your personal data for automated decision-making that has legal or similarly significant effects on you.

4. Who we share your data with

We only share your data where necessary, and we never sell, rent or lease it. We may share it with:

• Service providers who help us run our business, such as website hosting, email, CRM, form handling, analytics and IT support. These providers only process data on our instructions and under contract.
• Analytics and advertising partners such as Google (Google Analytics and Google Ads), Meta and LinkedIn, where you have consented to the relevant cookies.
• Professional advisers such as accountants, lawyers and insurers.
• Regulators, law enforcement or other authorities where required by law.
• A buyer or successor if our business, or part of it, is sold or merged.

5. International transfers

Some of our service providers, including Google and Meta, may process data outside the UK. Where this happens, we make sure appropriate safeguards are in place. These include UK adequacy regulations such as the UK Extension to the EU-US Data Privacy Framework.

6. How long we keep your data

We only keep personal data for as long as we need it.

Enquiries that don’t lead to work are kept for up to 2 years after our last contact. Client and supplier records are kept for the length of our relationship, then for up to 6 years for legal, tax and accounting purposes. Analytics data is kept in line with the retention settings of the relevant platform, currently 14 months for Google Analytics.

After this, we securely delete or anonymise it.

7. How we protect your data

We use appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your data against unauthorised access, loss, misuse or alteration. These include access controls, encrypted connections (HTTPS) and working only with reputable service providers. No method of transmitting or storing data online is completely secure, but we take reasonable steps to keep your data safe.

8. Your rights

Under UK data protection law, you have the right to:

• access the personal data we hold about you
• rectification of inaccurate or incomplete data
• erasure of your data in certain circumstances
• restrict how we use your data in certain circumstances
• object to processing based on legitimate interests, including direct marketing
• data portability, where processing is based on consent or contract and carried out by automated means
• withdraw consent at any time, where we rely on consent. This won’t affect processing already carried out.

To exercise any of these rights, email hello@out-bloom.com. We will respond within one month. We won’t usually charge a fee, and we may ask you to verify your identity.

9. Complaints

If you are unhappy with how we have handled your personal data, please contact us first at hello@out-bloom.com. We will acknowledge your complaint within 30 days and look into it promptly.

10. Children’s privacy

The Website and our services are aimed at businesses and are not intended for children under 16. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children. If we learn that we have done so, we will delete it.

11. Links to other websites

The Website contains links to third-party websites, including the sources we cite in our articles. We are not responsible for their content or privacy practices, so we recommend reading their privacy policies.

12. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. The latest version will always be on this page, with the date it was last updated at the top.