Privacy Policy for The Land Team Ltd
Last Updated: July 8, 2025
The Land Team Ltd ("we", "our", "us") is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal information. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, and share information when you visit or make use of our website www.thelandteam.co.uk (the "Site") and our services.
1. Information We Collect
We may collect various types of information from and about users of our Site and services, including:
Personal Identification Information: Name, email address, phone number, postal address, and any other information you provide when you contact us, make an enquiry, or subscribe to our newsletters.
Property Information: Details about land you own or are interested in, including location, size, planning status, and any other relevant specifics you share with us to facilitate our services (e.g., land selling, land sourcing, planning advice).
Technical Data: Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
Usage Data: Information about how you use our website, products, and services, such as pages visited, time spent on pages, and navigation paths.
Marketing and Communications Data: Your preferences in receiving marketing from us and your communication preferences.
2. How We Collect Information
We collect information through various methods:
Direct Interactions: You may give us your identity and contact data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email, or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:
Enquire about our services (e.g., selling land, sourcing land, planning advice).
Subscribe to our newsletter or other publications.
Request marketing to be sent to you.
Give us feedback or contact us.
Automated Technologies or Interactions: As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, Browse actions, and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs, and other similar technologies.
Third Parties or Publicly Available Sources: We may receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources (e.g., land registries, planning portals, public databases, analytics providers like Google).
3. How We Use Your Information
We use your personal data for the following purposes:
To provide and manage our services, including land selling, land sourcing, and planning consultancy.
To respond to your enquiries and communicate with you.
To send you newsletters, marketing communications, and other information that may be of interest to you, in accordance with your preferences.
To improve our website, services, and user experience.
To analyse website usage and trends.
To comply with legal and regulatory obligations.
For internal record keeping and administrative purposes.
4. Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.
Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.
Where you have given your consent.
5. Sharing Your Information
We may share your personal data with:
Service Providers: Third-party vendors and service providers who perform services on our behalf, such as website hosting, data analysis, marketing, and professional advisors (e.g., lawyers, accountants).
Buyers/Sellers (relevant to our services): When facilitating land transactions, we will share relevant information between interested buyers and sellers, but only to the extent necessary for the transaction.
Professional Advisors: Lawyers, bankers, auditors, and insurers who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance, and accounting services.
Regulatory & Legal Authorities: Where required by law or to respond to valid legal processes.
Successors: In the event of a merger, acquisition, or asset sale, your personal data may be transferred.
We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
6. Data Security
We have implemented appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered, or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We have procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
7. Data Retention
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
8. Your Legal Rights
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. These include the right to:
Request access to your personal data.
Request correction of your personal data.
Request erasure of your personal data.
Object to processing of your personal data.
Request restriction of processing your personal data.
Request transfer of your personal data.
Right to withdraw consent.
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us using the details below.
9. Third-Party Links
Our website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins, and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.
10. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The latest version will always be posted on our website with the "Last Updated" date revised. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.
11. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at:
The Land Team Ltd, The Land Team, St Johns House, St Johns Street, Chichester PO19 1UR
Email: office@thelandteam.co.uk
Phone: 01243 880388