What’s Next customer privacy notice

Registered name: What’s Next Marketing Ltd

This privacy notice tells you what to expect us to do with your personal information.

Contact details

Email

hello@whatsnextconsulting.co.uk

What information we collect, use, and why

We collect or use the following information to provide and improve products and services for clients:

  • Names and contact details
  • Addresses
  • Pronoun preferences
  • Occupation
  • Transaction data (including details about payments to and from you and details of products and services you have purchased)
  • Usage data (including information about how you interact with and use our website, products and services)
  • Information relating to compliments or complaints
  • Records of meetings and decisions
  • Website user information

 

We collect or use the following personal information for the operation of client or customer accounts:

  • Names and contact details
  • Addresses
  • Purchase or service history
  • Account information, including registration details
  • Marketing preferences
  • Technical data, including information about browser and operating systems

 

We collect or use the following personal information for information updates or marketing purposes:

  • Names and contact details
  • Marketing preferences
  • Website and app user journey information

 

We collect or use the following personal information for dealing with queries, complaints or claims:

  • Names and contact details
  • Purchase or service history
  • Customer or client accounts and records

 

Lawful bases and data protection rights

Under UK data protection law, we must have a “lawful basis” for collecting and using your personal information. There is a list of possible lawful bases in the UK GDPR. You can find out more about lawful bases on the ICO’s website.

Which lawful basis we rely on may affect your data protection rights which are in brief set out below. You can find out more about your data protection rights and the exemptions which may apply on the ICO’s website:

 

If you make a request, we must respond to you without undue delay and in any event within one month.

To make a data protection rights request, please contact us using the contact details at the top of this privacy notice.

Our lawful bases for the collection and use of your data

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information to provide and improve products and services for clients are:

  • Consent – we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
  • Contract – we have to collect or use the information so we can enter into or carry out a contract with you. All of your data protection rights may apply except the right to object.

 

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information for the operation of client or customer accounts are:

  • Consent – we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
  • Contract – we have to collect or use the information so we can enter into or carry out a contract with you. All of your data protection rights may apply except the right to object.

 

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information for information updates or marketing purposes are:

  • Consent – we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
  • Legitimate interests – we’re collecting or using your information because it benefits you, our organisation or someone else, without causing an undue risk of harm to anyone. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to portability. Our legitimate interests are:
    • The contact is associated with a connected business and has expressed an interest or engaged with marketing materials sent via that business.

 

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information for dealing with queries, complaints or claims are:

  • Consent – we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

 

Where we get personal information from

  • Directly from you
  • Publicly available sources
  • Partnership with Talent Insight Group

 

How long we keep information

We keep information for up to two years after your last interaction with our company, and review our data on an annual basis.

 

Who we share information with

Data processors

Customer Relationship Management software

This data processor does the following activities for us: store our data and help us target marketing

Others we share personal information with

  • Organisations we’re legally obliged to share personal information with

 

Sharing information outside the UK

Where necessary, our data processors may share personal information outside of the UK. When doing so, they comply with the UK GDPR, making sure appropriate safeguards are in place.

For further information or to obtain a copy of the appropriate safeguard for any of the transfers below, please contact us using the contact information provided above.

Organisation name: Hubspot

Category of recipient: CRM

Country the personal information is sent to: Germany

How the transfer complies with UK data protection law: Addendum to the EU Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs)

Organisation name: Mailerlite

Category of recipient: Email marketing software

Country the personal information is sent to: EU

How the transfer complies with UK data protection law: An exception listed in UK GDPR

If you’re relying on an exception, review our guidance to make sure your identified exception applies to your circumstances. You must not publish your privacy notice without explaining which exception you rely on. Read our guidance on exceptions to find out more.

How to complain

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal data, you can make a complaint to us using the contact details at the top of this privacy notice.

If you remain unhappy with how we’ve used your data after raising a complaint with us, you can also complain to the ICO.

The ICO’s address:           

Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

Helpline number: 0303 123 1113

Website: https://www.ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint

Last updated 25 February 2025