Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Last updated: 18 February 2026

Premier Networking respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal information. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how and why we use it, who we may share it with and the rights you have under UK data protection law.

This policy applies when you use the Premier Networking website, enquire about visiting or joining one of our groups, attend our meetings or events, become a member, or otherwise interact with Premier Networking.

Who we are

Premier Networking is an unincorporated body operating a professional business networking community based in Liverpool. We operate weekly networking groups that bring together local businesses and professionals to build relationships, exchange introductions and generate business opportunities through trusted referrals.

For the purposes of UK data protection law, Premier Networking is the data controller for the personal information described in this policy.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or how we use your personal information, please contact:

Email: hello@premier-networking.com

What personal information we collect

Depending on how you interact with Premier Networking, we may collect and process the following information:

• Identity and contact information – including your name, company name, job title, business address, email address and telephone number.
• Business and networking information – including your company description, profession or business category, group membership and information relevant to networking introductions and referrals.
• Enquiry and visitor information – including information submitted through our website forms, visitor requests, membership enquiries and other communications with us.
• Membership information – including your group, membership status, membership dates and information required to administer your membership.
• Meeting and attendance information – including meetings or events you attend and information required to organise your attendance.
• Payment and transaction information – including information relating to membership payments and transaction status. Payment providers may collect bank or payment information directly from you.
• Marketing preferences – including whether you have chosen to receive or stop receiving marketing communications from us.
• Photographs and event content – photographs or video taken at Premier Networking meetings, social events, charity activities or other events where appropriate.
• Technical information – including your IP address, browser, device type, referring website, pages viewed and information collected through cookies and similar technologies.

We only collect information that is reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this policy.

How we collect your personal information

We may collect information directly from you when you:

• complete a form on our website;
• request to visit a Premier Networking group;
• apply for or maintain membership;
• attend a meeting or event;
• email, telephone or otherwise contact us;
• subscribe to communications from us;
• make a membership payment; or
• interact with our website.

We may also receive information about you from an existing Premier Networking member or another business contact who introduces, recommends or invites you to Premier Networking.

For example, a member may provide us with your name and contact details so that we can contact you about attending a meeting. Where we receive your information from someone else, we will use it only where we have a lawful basis to do so and will provide appropriate privacy information where required.

Certain technical information is collected automatically when you use our website through cookies, server logs and similar technologies.

Why we use your personal information

We only process personal information where we have a lawful basis under UK data protection law.

Responding to enquiries and arranging visits

We use your contact and business information to respond to enquiries, arrange visits and provide information about Premier Networking.

Our lawful basis is our legitimate interest in communicating with people who are interested in Premier Networking and administering visits to our groups.

Managing membership

We use member information to administer memberships, communicate with members, organise meetings and provide the networking services associated with membership.

Our lawful basis is the performance of our agreement with members, or taking steps at your request before entering into that agreement.

Running our networking groups

We use appropriate member and visitor information to organise meetings, manage attendance, facilitate introductions and referrals, and support the operation of our networking community.

Our lawful basis is the performance of our membership arrangements where applicable and our legitimate interests in operating and developing Premier Networking.

Processing payments and keeping financial records

We process information relating to payments, membership fees and financial transactions.

Our lawful bases are the performance of our membership arrangements and compliance with our legal, tax and accounting obligations.

Communicating with members and visitors

We may contact you about a meeting you have arranged to attend, changes to meeting arrangements, your membership, payments or other administrative matters.

These are service or administrative communications and are not treated as marketing communications.

Our lawful basis is the performance of our membership arrangements where applicable and our legitimate interests in administering Premier Networking.

Improving and protecting our website

We may use technical and usage information to operate, maintain and secure our website, diagnose problems, prevent misuse and understand how our website is being used.

Our lawful basis is our legitimate interest in maintaining a secure, effective and useful website. Where consent is required for particular cookies or similar technologies, we will obtain that consent.

Promoting Premier Networking and its activities

Where appropriate, we may use photographs, event information and other content to communicate Premier Networking news and promote our activities.

Our lawful basis will normally be our legitimate interests in promoting Premier Networking and celebrating the activities of our members and community. We will take account of individuals’ privacy and reasonable expectations when doing so.

If you do not wish to appear in photographs at a Premier Networking event, please let the event or group organiser know.

Our legitimate interests

Where we rely on legitimate interests, those interests may include:

• operating and administering our networking groups;
• responding to people who are interested in visiting or joining Premier Networking;
• facilitating networking, introductions and business referrals between members;
• communicating effectively with members and visitors;
• developing and promoting Premier Networking;
• protecting our website, systems, members and organisation from misuse or security threats; and
• understanding and improving our website and services.

Whenever we rely on legitimate interests, we consider whether our interests are proportionate and balanced against your rights, interests and reasonable expectations.

Special category information

You may occasionally provide us with information about dietary requirements, allergies, disabilities or accessibility requirements so that we can make appropriate arrangements for a meeting or event.

Some of this information may constitute special category personal data because it may reveal information about your health, disability or religious beliefs.

Where this is the case, we will only collect and use the information where necessary and where an appropriate condition under UK data protection law applies. Where required, we will rely on your explicit consent.

We will only use this information to make appropriate arrangements for you and will only share it with a venue, event provider or organiser where this is necessary.

We will not retain special category information for longer than necessary. Where you are a regular member, you may ask us to retain relevant requirements for future meetings or events.

Marketing communications

We may send you information about Premier Networking meetings, events, news, membership opportunities and related activities where we are permitted to do so.

Where consent is required under electronic marketing rules, we will ask for your consent before sending marketing communications.

In some circumstances, particularly when communicating with business contacts, we may rely on our legitimate interests where electronic marketing law permits this.

You can ask us to stop sending marketing communications at any time by:

• using the unsubscribe link included in our marketing emails; or
• emailing hello@premier-networking.com.

Opting out of marketing will not prevent us from sending necessary administrative communications relating to a meeting, visit, membership or payment.

You have an absolute right to object to the use of your personal information for direct marketing at any time.

We do not sell your personal information to third parties.

Who we share your information with

We only share personal information where necessary and appropriate.

This may include sharing information with:

• Premier Networking group organisers and authorised volunteers who need the information to administer meetings, visits, memberships or networking activities;
• other Premier Networking members where this is reasonably expected as part of networking, introductions or referrals, or where you have asked us to make an introduction;
• meeting and event venues where information such as attendance, dietary or accessibility requirements needs to be provided;
• Ambos Digital Ltd, which provides website, hosting and technical support services;
• Microsoft 365, which we use for email and business communications;
• Google Analytics, where enabled, to help us understand use of our website;
• GoCardless, where applicable, to process membership payments;
• video conferencing providers, such as Zoom, where meetings are held online or on a hybrid basis;
• professional advisers such as accountants or legal advisers where necessary; and
• regulators, law enforcement bodies or other authorities where disclosure is required or permitted by law.

Some organisations may process personal information on our behalf as data processors, while others may act as separate data controllers for information they process for their own purposes.

We require organisations processing information on our behalf to protect personal information appropriately and to use it only for the agreed purposes.

International transfers

Some of the technology and service providers we use may store or process personal information outside the United Kingdom.

Where this results in a restricted international transfer of personal information, we take steps to ensure that an appropriate level of protection is in place.

Depending on the circumstances, these protections may include:

• UK adequacy regulations;
• the UK International Data Transfer Agreement;
• the UK International Data Transfer Addendum to approved EU Standard Contractual Clauses; or
• another transfer mechanism permitted under UK data protection law.

Where required, we also assess whether the personal information will receive an appropriate level of protection in the destination country.

You can contact us if you would like further information about the safeguards applying to a particular transfer.

How long we keep your information

We keep personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, including satisfying legal, accounting and regulatory requirements.

As a general guide:

• Visitor requests and general enquiries – normally for up to 24 months following our last meaningful contact with you.
• Membership records – for the duration of your membership and for a reasonable period afterwards.
• Financial, payment and membership records – normally for up to six years where required for accounting, tax, contractual or legal purposes.
• Special category information – only for as long as it is required to accommodate your needs, unless you ask us to retain relevant requirements for future meetings or events.
• Marketing information – until you unsubscribe, withdraw consent or otherwise object to receiving marketing. We may retain limited information on a suppression list afterwards so that we can continue to respect your preference.
• Website security and analytics information – only for as long as reasonably necessary for security, administration and analysis, after which it will be deleted, aggregated or anonymised.

We may retain information for longer where this is necessary in connection with a legal claim, regulatory requirement or investigation.

Your data protection rights

Depending on the circumstances, you may have the right to:

• Access the personal information we hold about you.
• Rectify inaccurate or incomplete personal information.
• Erase your personal information in certain circumstances.
• Restrict the way we use your personal information in certain circumstances.
• Object to processing based on our legitimate interests.
• Object at any time to the use of your personal information for direct marketing.
• Data portability in circumstances where this right applies.
• Withdraw consent at any time where we rely on consent. Withdrawing consent does not affect processing carried out before consent was withdrawn.

You will not normally have to pay a fee to exercise your rights.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact:

Email: hello@premier-networking.com

We may need to ask for information to confirm your identity before responding to your request.

Data protection complaints

If you have a concern or complaint about the way Premier Networking has collected or used your personal information, please contact us in the first instance.

You can make a data protection complaint by emailing:

Email: hello@premier-networking.com

Please include enough information for us to understand your concern and, where possible, use the subject line Data Protection Complaint.

We will acknowledge receipt of a data protection complaint within 30 days and will take appropriate steps to investigate and respond without undue delay.

If you remain dissatisfied with how we have handled your personal information or your complaint, you also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK’s data protection regulator:

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

Telephone: 0303 123 1113
Website: [www.ico.org.uk](http://www.ico.org.uk)

Cookies and similar technologies

Our website uses cookies and similar technologies to operate the website, remember preferences, maintain security and understand how visitors use the site.

Some cookies and similar technologies are necessary for the website to operate and may be used without consent where permitted by law.

Other technologies may require your consent before they are used. Where consent is required, we will provide an appropriate choice through our cookie banner or cookie settings.

UK law also permits certain limited uses of cookies or similar technologies for purposes such as functionality or statistical analysis without consent where specific legal conditions are met. Where those conditions include providing a simple way to object, we will make that facility available.

You can review or change your cookie choices using the cookie controls available on our website. You can also control cookies through your browser, although disabling certain cookies may affect how the website functions.

Security

We take appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect personal information against accidental or unlawful loss, misuse, alteration, disclosure or access.

These measures include appropriate website and hosting security, access controls, software maintenance and the use of trusted technology providers.

No internet-based service can be guaranteed to be completely secure, but we regularly review the measures we use to protect the information entrusted to us.

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to websites operated by other organisations.

Premier Networking is not responsible for the privacy practices of those websites. If you follow a link to another website, we recommend reviewing its privacy information before providing personal information.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our services, technology, business practices or legal obligations.

The current version will always be published on this page and the “Last updated” date at the top of the policy will show when it was most recently revised.