Privacy notice

Westminster & Partners operates through Alderwick & Co. LLC, a limited liability company formed in New York, United States. New York Department of State ID: 8027460. Alderwick & Co. LLC is the operator responsible for the personal information described in this notice.

For privacy questions, objections or requests, email contact@westminsterpartners.co.uk. You can also call +44 20 7131 0852 or +1 646 917-7791.

Our London address is 3rd Floor, 45 Albemarle Street, Mayfair, London, W1S 4JL, United Kingdom. Our New York correspondence address is 224 W 35th St, Ste 500 #2213, New York, NY 10001, United States. The New York address is for correspondence, not a representation of a staffed office.

If you email or call us, we receive your contact details and whatever information you choose to share. This may include your name, organisation, role, correspondence and a brief description of a proposed matter. We use it to respond, assess whether we can act, carry out preliminary conflict checks and discuss next steps.

You can contact us using the website enquiry form, email or telephone. Enquiry-form submissions are processed through Ploy’s native form service. There is no document-upload facility or account-registration function on these pages. Email and telephone links open the relevant service on your device; they do not submit a website form. Your email or telephone provider has its own information-handling arrangements.

Please initially send only a brief, non-confidential outline. Do not send sensitive personal information, identity documents, bank details or confidential matter papers until conflicts, the proposed engagement and an appropriate sharing route have been addressed. An enquiry does not create a client relationship. Acceptance and written engagement terms are required.

Where you ask us to take steps towards a contract with you personally, we process the information needed for those steps on that basis. Where you contact us for a business or another person, our basis for ordinary enquiry handling and business correspondence is our legitimate interest in assessing and responding to potential work.

Our legitimate interests also include administering business relationships, checking conflicts and operating and securing the website and our communications. Information necessary to perform a contract with an individual is processed for that purpose. We rely on a legal obligation only where an applicable law actually requires the relevant processing. Any accepted engagement may need further information about the handling of matter-specific data.

Website measurement is intended to help us understand page use and improve the site. That purpose does not establish an exemption from cookie or similar-technology rules. A legitimate-interest basis does not replace consent where consent is required for storing or accessing information on a device. We do not treat visiting this website as consent. The current measurement setup and its control limitation are described below.

Ploy provides this website's platform. Native Ploy analytics collects page visits, sessions and clicks. Ploy support has confirmed that its consent API does not gate native analytics and that no per-site off switch is currently available. Visitor enrichment is disabled independently; website privacy notices, Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control do not control platform identity matching. We do not use that enrichment feature to identify visiting companies or people. Ploy’s Google Ads forwarding remains inactive. Google Analytics 4 and Meta integrations remain unconfigured. Our separate consent-based Google Ads measurement is described below.

Website delivery, security and measurement can involve technical information about a request and visit, including IP address, browser or device information, requested pages, referrer information, sessions and interactions. The precise fields retained depend on the platform function. Ploy's privacy policy describes these categories; this notice does not claim that every field is retained for every visit.

The footer links to our Privacy Notice, Cookies page and Measurement preferences. These preferences control only our optional Google Ads measurement. They do not switch off native Ploy analytics. We do not describe native collection as strictly necessary or exempt from consent requirements. Emailing us is a route for a privacy request, not an immediate technical switch.

With your permission, we load the Google Ads tag to measure which ads lead to received enquiries and email or telephone link clicks. Google may use advertising cookies and receive technical data, including your IP address, browser information, permitted page address and advertising click identifiers. Our conversion events do not include enquiry text, your name, email address or telephone number. Enhanced conversions and advertising personalisation are not enabled.

Google Ads measurement stays off until you choose Accept measurement. Rejecting, closing preferences or continuing to browse does not grant permission. We store a versioned advertising choice in your browser for up to 180 days. Older generic advertising choices are not reused. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control keep our optional Google measurement off. Missing, invalid or unavailable preference storage cannot grant permission.

You can change your choice through Measurement preferences in the footer. Withdrawing stops new conversion events and reloads the page to stop the loaded Google tag. Save an unfinished enquiry first. Withdrawal does not recall information already sent. It does not disable Ploy’s native analytics or the separate click-to-play YouTube player. Read Cookies and website technologies and Google’s privacy policy.

The homepage founder interview and Firm & People community film use click-to-play YouTube players. Posters are served by this website. This player implementation does not load YouTube scripts or an embedded player until you select Play. Playing connects your browser to YouTube, which can receive technical information such as your IP address, device information and playback interactions under its own arrangements. This is separate from our optional Google Ads measurement. Closing or pausing a player does not recall information already sent to YouTube. Read Google's privacy policy for provider information.

Ploy, Inc. provides the website platform and native analytics. Its privacy policy describes processing customer end-user information on the customer's behalf. Website hosting, security and communication services may involve supporting providers. Correspondence also passes through the email or telephone services used by the sender and recipient. We do not identify an unverified provider as part of this site's data flow.

The operator is formed in the United States, and Ploy's privacy policy describes processing in the United States and other countries. Information may therefore be handled outside the United Kingdom. That policy is provider information, not evidence of a particular signed data-processing agreement, transfer mechanism or compliance certification for this site. Contact us for information about arrangements relevant to your information or proposed engagement.

We retain enquiry and correspondence information according to its purpose, whether discussions or an engagement remain ongoing, the need for appropriate conflict records, and any applicable legal, record-keeping or claims requirements. Information should not be kept merely because it is available. Retention for an accepted matter depends on that matter and the applicable requirements.

A fixed retention period for this site's native analytics has not been confirmed. Platform records and backups are also subject to the provider's retention arrangements. Contact us if you need information about retention or wish to request deletion. We will explain any relevant limit; we do not promise immediate removal from every provider record or backup.

Depending on the applicable law and circumstances, you may request access to your information, correction, erasure, restriction of processing or a portable copy. You may object to processing based on legitimate interests. If a particular activity relies on consent, you may withdraw that consent without affecting the lawfulness of processing before withdrawal. These rights have conditions and exceptions.

Send requests or objections to contact@westminsterpartners.co.uk, identifying the issue and the information concerned. We may need proportionate verification before disclosing or changing information. Please do not send identity documents before an appropriate verification route has been agreed. We will respond within the applicable legal timeframe. A request about analytics does not itself stop technical collection.

You may raise a data-protection complaint with the UK's Information Commissioner's Office. The ICO explains how to make a complaint. You can contact us first so that we can address your concern; this does not remove your right to approach the ICO or another competent authority.

We will update this notice if the website's functions or information handling change. For technology and control information, read Cookies and website technologies. For the operator and service boundaries, read Legal and regulatory information.