Privacy Statement for Allentra.net

Last Updated: 1st November 2025

1. Introduction

Welcome to Allentra.net. We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

This privacy statement explains how Allentra.net ("we", "us", "our") collects, uses, shares, and protects your personal data when you visit our website, https://allentra.net (the "Website"), or use our services. It also explains your rights in relation to your personal data.

We are the 'data controller' for the personal data we process. Our contact details can be found in Section 12.

2. The Data We Collect About You

We may collect, use, store, and transfer different kinds of personal data about you, which we have grouped together as follows:

• Identity Data: Includes first name, last name, job title, and company name.
• Contact Data: Includes email address, telephone numbers, and business address.
• Business and Expansion Data: Includes information about your business operations, strategic plans, international expansion goals, challenges, requirements, and other commercial information you provide during discovery consultations or other interactions.
• Technical Data: Includes your Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting, operating system, and other technology on the devices you use to access this Website.
• Usage Data: Includes information about how you use our Website, which pages you visit, and resources you download.
• Marketing and Communications Data: Includes your preferences for receiving marketing from us and your communication preferences, such as your attendance at events.

We do not intentionally collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (e.g., health, race, religion).

3. How Is Your Personal Data Collected?

• Direct Interactions: You may give us your Identity, Contact, and Business and Expansion Data by filling in forms on our Website, during discovery consultations, or by corresponding with us by post, phone, or email.
• Automated Technologies: As you interact with our Website, we automatically collect Technical and Usage Data using cookies and similar technologies.
• Third Parties: We may receive data from third parties, such as analytics providers (e.g., Google) or from publicly available sources (e.g., Companies House, LinkedIn).

4. How We Use Your Personal Data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Below is a table explaining the ways we use your personal data and our lawful bases for doing so.

Purpose/Activity	Type of Data	Lawful Basis for Processing
To respond to your enquiries submitted via our contact form or email.	Identity, Contact	Legitimate Interest (to respond to your enquiries).
To conduct discovery consultations and assess your business's international expansion needs and viability.	Identity, Contact, Business and Expansion Data	Legitimate Interest (to understand your needs and provide our core service).
To share your information with our network of in-country experts and service providers ("Partners") to determine which services are appropriate and to obtain solutions for you.	Identity, Contact, Business and Expansion Data	Consent. We will ask for your explicit consent before sharing your personal and business data with specific, named Partners for this purpose.
To manage our relationship with you, including notifying you of changes to our terms or privacy policy.	Identity, Contact, Marketing & Communications	Performance of Contract, Legal Obligation, Legitimate Interest.
To administer and protect our business and this Website (including security, troubleshooting, and data analysis).	Identity, Contact, Technical	Legitimate Interest (for running our business and network security).
To suggest relevant resources, events, or marketing communications.	Identity, Contact, Marketing & Communications	Consent (where required) or Legitimate Interest (to grow our business).
To use data analytics to improve our Website, services, and client experiences.	Technical, Usage	Legitimate Interest (to keep our Website relevant and user-friendly).

You have the right to withdraw consent for marketing at any time by contacting us or using the 'unsubscribe' link in our emails.

5. Data Sharing and Third Parties

We may share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes described in Section 4.

Our Network of Partners

Our core service involves connecting you with our curated network of in-country experts and service providers ("Partners") to help you expand internationally. To do this, we need to share your Identity, Contact, and Business and Expansion Data with them.

• Our Process: We will only share your data with Partners after we have discussed them with you and have obtained your clear consent to do so.
• Partner Compliance: We require all our Partners to sign a Data Protection Agreement, which contractually obligates them to handle your data in compliance with UK data protection laws, to maintain its confidentiality and security, and to use it only for the purpose of providing solutions to you.
• Your Relationship with Partners: In many cases, you may contract directly with a Partner. In such instances, the Partner becomes an independent data controller of your information. While we mandate their compliance through our agreement, we do not conduct independent audits of their internal processes. We shall not be held liable for a data breach caused by a Partner, provided we have acted with due diligence in establishing our contractual agreement with them. We strongly encourage you to review the privacy policy of any Partner you engage with.

Other Third Parties

• Service Providers: Companies that provide IT, system administration, and website hosting services.
• Professional Advisers: Including solicitors, accountants, and insurers.
• Regulators: HM Revenue & Customs and other UK authorities.

We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law.

6. International Data Transfers

Your data may be shared with our Partners who are located outside the United Kingdom (UK). This is a necessary part of providing our international expansion services.

When we transfer your personal data out of the UK to a Partner, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by:

1. Ensuring the transfer is to a country deemed to provide an adequate level of protection by the UK.
2. Putting in place a contract (our Partner Data Protection Agreement) which includes the UK's standard contractual clauses, giving your data the same protection it has in the UK.
3. Obtaining your explicit consent for the transfer after having informed you of the possible risks.

7. Data Security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorised way. We limit access to your personal data to those employees and Partners who have a business need to know and are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

8. Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for satisfying any legal, regulatory, or reporting requirements. Typically, we will retain prospective client data for [e.g., 24 months] after our last meaningful contact, and client data for six years after the end of our relationship for tax and legal purposes.

9. Your Legal Rights

Under data protection law, you have rights including: access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, objection to processing, and data portability. To exercise any of these rights, please contact us. You will not usually have to pay a fee.

10. Cookies

Our Website uses cookies to improve your experience. For detailed information on the cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them, please see our Cookie Policy [Link to your Cookie Policy] or contact us.

11. Links to Other Websites

Our Website may contain links to other websites, including those of our Partners. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these other sites. When you leave our Website, we encourage you to read the privacy statement of each website you visit.

13. Changes to This Privacy Statement

We keep this statement under regular review. Any changes will be posted on this page.