Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how GlobalBrands.ai (“we”, “us”) collects, uses, stores, and discloses personal information when you visit this website, submit an enquiry, or enter into a services discussion with us. We are an independent e-commerce consulting practice, not a fund or financial institution, and we collect only what a services engagement of this kind reasonably requires.

1. Information We Collect

We collect only what we need to evaluate a potential engagement and to comply with our legal obligations:

• Information you provide directly. Name, email address, telephone number, firm or family office name, role, jurisdiction, indicative capital range, and any free-text detail you choose to include in an enquiry or fit-assessment questionnaire.
• Engagement documentation. Where a services agreement is entered into, we may collect the documentation reasonably needed to identify you and your entity for that agreement.
• Technical information. IP address, browser type, device type, referring page, and pages viewed, collected through standard server logs and analytics.
• Communications. Records of correspondence, scheduled calls, and meeting notes.

2. How We Use Your Information

• To assess mutual fit and respond to your enquiry.
• To prepare and administer a services agreement, if one is entered into.
• To provide access to the client portal and reporting materials, if an engagement is established.
• To meet anti-money-laundering, know-your-customer, sanctions-screening, tax, and other legal or regulatory obligations that apply to a services business.
• To maintain security, prevent fraud, and enforce our terms.

We do not sell personal information. We do not use your information for automated decision-making that produces legal effects without human review.

3. Legal Bases (UK/EU/GCC data subjects)

Where applicable data-protection law requires a legal basis, we rely on: (a) your consent, where given; (b) steps taken at your request prior to entering a contract; (c) our legitimate interests in evaluating and conducting business relationships; and (d) compliance with a legal obligation.

4. Disclosure to Third Parties

We disclose personal information only to:

• Professional advisers (legal, accounting, tax) bound by duties of confidentiality.
• Service providers processing data on our instructions (hosting, email, scheduling, form processing, analytics).
• Regulators, law enforcement, or courts where we are legally required to do so.
• A counterparty in connection with a corporate transaction, subject to equivalent confidentiality protections.

Our current processors include, at minimum: our website host, our form-processing provider, our scheduling provider, and our video-hosting provider. A current list is available on request to privacy@globalbrands.ai.

5. International Transfers

We work with prospective clients across multiple jurisdictions. Where personal information is transferred outside your home jurisdiction, we rely on appropriate safeguards including standard contractual clauses or an adequacy determination, as applicable.

6. Retention

Engagement records are retained for the duration of the relationship and for a minimum of seven years thereafter, or longer where a legal, regulatory, tax, or limitation-period requirement applies. Unsuccessful enquiries are retained for up to 24 months unless you ask us to delete them sooner.

7. Your Rights

Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have the right to access, correct, delete, restrict, or port your personal information, to object to certain processing, and to withdraw consent. To exercise any right, contact privacy@globalbrands.ai. We respond within the period required by applicable law. You may also lodge a complaint with your local supervisory authority.

8. Cookies and Analytics

We use strictly necessary cookies to operate the site and, where permitted, analytics cookies to understand aggregate usage. You can control cookies through your browser settings. Disabling non-essential cookies does not affect your ability to use the site.

9. Security

We maintain administrative, technical, and physical safeguards appropriate to the sensitivity of the information, including encryption in transit, access controls limited to personnel with a business need, and vendor due diligence. No system is perfectly secure, and we do not guarantee absolute security.

10. Changes and Contact

We will post any material change to this policy on this page with a revised effective date. Questions or requests: privacy@globalbrands.ai.

This document is provided for information. It is not legal advice and does not create a solicitor-client or attorney-client relationship. Where this document conflicts with a signed services agreement, the signed agreement governs.