Who we are
Vera & Partners Ltd is a business advisory firm, registered in England and Wales with company number 17522878. Our registered office is 66 Paul Street, London, EC2A 4NA. We are the controller of the personal data described in this notice. It explains what we collect when you use our website, apply to work with us, become a client, use our client portal or view a data room shared with you, and what we do with it.
Questions? Email info@verapartners.co.uk.
What we collect and why
We only collect what we need. We do not sell personal data, and we do not use it for automated decisions that affect you.
Who we share it with
We use trusted providers to run our business. They only use your data to provide their service to us, under written contracts.
We also share personal data with investors or other third parties only when you have asked us to or agreed to it; with our professional advisers, such as accountants, lawyers and insurers, where needed; and with authorities such as HMRC, the police or a court where the law requires it.
Partner firms. Some work needs a specialist we work with, such as a CFO, accountant, solicitor or regulated immigration adviser. With your agreement, we may let a named partner firm see part of your file in our client portal, for a stated purpose. They see only what that work needs, never our invoices or other clients, and everything they open, upload or send is logged. Each partner firm has signed a data-sharing and confidentiality agreement with us. Depending on the work, they act either for us or as a separate controller under their own engagement with you, and their own privacy notice then also applies. You can see which firms can see your file under More in the portal, and ask us to remove their access at any time.
Where a provider holds data outside the UK, the transfer is protected by UK adequacy regulations, the UK–US Data Bridge, or the UK International Data Transfer Addendum to standard contractual clauses.
How long we keep it
After these periods we delete the data or make it anonymous.
Keeping it safe
Data is encrypted when it travels between your device and our systems, and when it is stored. Each client can only see their own information in the portal, and only authorised Vera & Partners staff, and partner firms you have agreed to, can see client information. Partner firms see only the parts of your file we have agreed with you, and what they do is logged. Files shared with investors use private links that expire and can be switched off at any time.
Cookies and browser storage
We do not use advertising or tracking cookies. Our visitor counts work without cookies and store nothing in your browser.
Our website stores your light or dark mode choice, and any referral code you arrived with, in your browser. The client portal stores a sign-in token in your browser to keep you signed in. These are needed for the site to work, so we do not ask for consent. You can clear them at any time in your browser settings.
Your rights
You have the right to:
- ask for a copy of the personal data we hold about you;
- ask us to correct data that is wrong or incomplete;
- ask us to delete your data, where we no longer have a reason to keep it;
- ask us to limit how we use your data, or object to us using it;
- ask us to send your data to you or another organisation in a common format;
- withdraw your consent at any time, for example to a published review.
To use any of these rights, email info@verapartners.co.uk. We will reply within one month. There is normally no charge.
Complaints
If you are unhappy with how we have handled your data, please tell us first so we can put it right. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk or on 0303 123 1113.
Changes to this notice
We may update this notice from time to time. The date at the top shows when it last changed. If we make important changes that affect clients, we will tell you through the portal or by email.