Privacy notice
Last updated: 2 November 2026
Who we are.
This website is run by Chalk & Salt Advisors (CS) Limited, registered in England and Wales, company no. 17555101, registered office 71–75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2H 9JQ ("we", "us"), trading as Chalk & Salt (CS). We are the controller of the personal data described here and are registered with the Information Commissioner's Office (registration no. [ICO reg. no. – pending]). The company's director is Ken Dickie.
Contact for privacy questions and complaints: enquiries@chalksalt.com.
What we collect from you.
Enquiries: your name, work email and message, and your role and company size if you choose to give them, when you use the contact form; and whatever you include if you email us.
Business contacts: if we work with you or your organisation, contact and correspondence details needed to run the engagement.
We don't ask for special category data. Please don't include it in your message.
Where we get data from, if not from you.
If you work in private equity or a business we'd like to work with, we may hold your name, role, organisation and business contact details, and notes of our contact with you, taken from LinkedIn, your organisation's website, public sources or a mutual introduction. We keep them in our contact records and use them, on the basis of our legitimate interests in developing our business, to contact you about our services. We'll tell you where we got your details when we first contact you. You can ask us to stop at any time, and we will.
Purpose
Replying to your enquiry and arranging a call
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Running an engagement with you or your organisation
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Business development contact with people at relevant organisations
Keeping records for accounting, tax and legal purposes
Defending legal claims
Lawful basis (UK GDPR Article 6)
Legitimate interests (responding to business enquiries), or steps at your request before entering a contract
Contract, or legitimate interests (delivering the engagement) where the contract is with your employer
Legitimate interests (developing our business); you can object at any time
Legal obligation
Legitimate interests (protecting our legal position)
Where we rely on legitimate interests, you can object at any time and we'll stop unless we have a compelling reason (we will always stop for marketing).
We don't sell your data, and we don't use it for automated decision-making or profiling. We don't run a mailing list.
Who we share it with.
Service providers acting for us: Wix.com (website hosting and the contact form) and Google Workspace (email). Both process data only on our instructions, under their data processing terms.
Senior specialists we work with: when you contact us, only Chalk & Salt (CS) handles your enquiry. If your enquiry needs a specialist, we'll tell you who they are and share it only with your agreement. On client work, our specialists act for us as subcontractors under written terms that cover confidentiality and data protection.
Professional advisers (accountants, lawyers, insurers) where needed, and authorities where the law requires.
International transfers.
Our website provider Wix (Wix.com Ltd, Israel, and Wix.com Inc., USA) and our email provider Google may process data outside the UK. For Israel, we rely on the UK's adequacy regulations. For the USA we rely on the UK Extension to the EU-US Data Privacy Framework where the provider is certified under it, and otherwise on the International Data Transfer Agreement or the UK Addendum to the EU Standard Contractual Clauses in the provider's data processing terms. You can ask us for details of these safeguards.
How long we keep it.
Enquiries: 24 months after our last contact, unless you become a client.
Business development contacts: 24 months after our last contact, or sooner if you ask us to stop.
Do-not-contact list: name and email, kept for as long as we need to respect your request.
Client and engagement records: 6 years after the engagement ends, for legal and tax purposes.
Copies in our website inbox and email follow the same periods.
Your rights.
You can ask to access, correct or delete your data, to restrict or object to how we use it, and to have it transferred. You can object at any time to how we use your data. Contact enquiries@chalksalt.com. We'll reply within one month.
Complaints.
If you're unhappy with how we've handled your data, email enquiries@chalksalt.com or use the contact form on our website. We'll acknowledge your complaint within 30 days, look into it without undue delay and tell you the outcome. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office: ico.org.uk, 0303 123 1113.
Changes.
We'll update this notice when our practices change and show the date at the top.