Policy version: 1.0 – May 2026
The Limelight Collective (our website) is provided by Lime Marketing Ltd, Incorporated in England and Wales, with company registration number 17162894 with VAT registration number 511095133 and whose registered office is at 82A James Carter Road, Mildenhall, Suffolk, IP28 7DE (‘we’, ‘our’ or ‘us’). We are the controller of personal data obtained via our website, meaning we are the organisation legally responsible for deciding how and for what purposes it is used.
We take your privacy very seriously. Please read this privacy policy carefully, as it contains important information about who we are and how and why we collect, store, use, and share any information relating to you (your personal data) in connection with your use of our website. It also explains your rights regarding your personal data and how to contact a relevant regulator or us if you have a complaint.
We collect, use and are responsible for certain personal data about you. When we do so, we are subject to the United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR).
Given the nature of our website, we do not expect to collect the personal data of anyone under 13 years old. If you are aware that any personal data of anyone under 13 years old has been shared with our website, please let us know so we can delete it.
This privacy policy is divided into the following sections:
This privacy policy relates to your use of our website only.
Throughout our website, we may link to other websites owned and operated by certain trusted third parties to make additional products and services available to you. Those third-party websites may also gather information about you in accordance with their own separate privacy policies. For privacy information relating to those third-party websites, please consult their privacy policies as appropriate.
The personal data we collect about you depends on the particular activities carried out through our website. We will collect and use the following personal data about you:
You must provide this personal data to access our membership subscription, use our website and the services on it, unless we tell you that you have a choice.
Sometimes you can choose whether to give us your personal data and let us use it. Where that is the case, we will tell you and give you the choice before you give the personal data to us. We will also tell you whether declining to share that personal data will affect your use of our website or any services on it.
We collect and use this personal data for the purposes described in the section ‘How and why we use your personal data’ below.
We collect personal data from you:
We also collect personal data about you from other sources as follows:
Under data protection law, we can only use your personal data if we have a proper reason, eg:
A legitimate interest is when we have a business or commercial reason to use your personal data, so long as this is not overridden by your own rights and interests. We will carry out an assessment when relying on legitimate interests, to balance our interests against your own. You can obtain details of this assessment by contacting us (see ‘How to contact us’ below).
See ‘Who we share your personal data with’ for further information on the steps we will take to protect your personal data where we need to share it with others.
The table below explains what we use your personal data for and why.
What we use your personal data for | Our reasons |
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Application Assessment | For legitimate interest, to evaluate whether an individual meets the criteria for inclusion in a curated professional network. |
Creating and managing your account with us | For the lawful basis of Contract, to create and manage user accounts. To enable login, profile management, and platform functionality. |
Membership and subscription management | For the lawful basis of Contract, to perform our contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract |
Profile creation and visibility | For the lawful basis of the Contract To control access to member-only functionality. |
Public profile publication and search engine indexing | For Legitimate interests, the platform’s core purpose is to provide visibility and discovery opportunities. |
Member communication, service-related | For the lawful basis of Contract, to provide onboarding communications, account notifications, subscription information, important service updates and other communications necessary to provide the platform and related services to you. |
Member communication, marketing and platform updates | For legitimate interests, to send existing and former members relevant updates about the platform, opportunities, events, features, member benefits and related services. You can opt out of marketing communications at any time. |
Retaining and evaluating information on your recent visits to our website and how you move around different sections of our website for analytics purposes to understand how people use our website, so that we can make it more intuitive, or to check that our website is working as intended | Depending on the circumstances:
If you have provided such a consent you may withdraw it at any time by adjusting your cookie preferences through our website (this will not affect the lawfulness of our use of your personal data in reliance on that consent before it was withdrawn) |
In addition to strictly necessary cookies, we use cookies to analyse site traffic and personalise content through Google Analytics. | Your consent as provided through our cookie banner or cookie preference settings – see ‘Cookies and other tracking technologies’ below If you have provided such a consent you may withdraw it at any time by updating your cookie preferences through our website (this will not affect the lawfulness of our use of your personal data in reliance on that consent before it was withdrawn) |
Communications with you not related to marketing, including about changes to our terms or policies or changes to the products AND/OR services or other important notices | Depending on the circumstances:
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Protecting the security of systems and data used to provide the services | To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations We may also use your personal data to ensure the security of systems and data to a standard that goes beyond our legal obligations, and in those cases, our reasons are for our legitimate interests, i.e. to protect systems and data and to prevent and detect criminal activity that could be damaging to you and/or us |
Statistical analysis to help us understand our customer base | For our legitimate interests, i.e. to be as efficient as we can so we can deliver the best service to you at the best price |
Disclosures and other activities necessary to comply with legal and regulatory obligations that apply to our business, e.g. to record and demonstrate evidence of your consents where relevant. | To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations |
Voluntarily sharing relevant personal data with public authorities, regulators or other bodies exercising official functions in response to written requests where we consider disclosure is necessary and appropriate | For a recognised legitimate interest, namely, to respond to a request from another organisation that needs the personal data for the purposes of carrying out its task in the public interest or exercising its official authority |
More details about how we use your personal data and why are set out in the table below
Purpose | Processing operation | Lawful basis relied on under UK GDPR and EU GDPR | Relevant categories of personal data |
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Communications with you not related to marketing, including about changes to our terms or policies or changes to the products or other important notices | Addressing and sending communications to you as required by data protection laws, i.e. UK GDPR or Data Protection Act 2018 | Processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject (Article 6(1)(c)) | your name, address and contact information, including email address and telephone number and company details your account details (username) |
Addressing and sending communications to you about changes to our terms or policies, or changes to the products, or other important notices (other than those addressed above) | Our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f)), which are to be as efficient as we can, so we can deliver the best service to you | your name, address and contact information, including email address and telephone number and any company details your account details (username) | |
SEO metadata generation, | Processing is necessary to improve the discoverability of member profiles and aligns with member expectations of increased visibility. Processing is limited to metadata generation only. | Our legitimate interests, namely, improving the discoverability of member profiles and supporting the platform’s visibility objectives. | your name, address and contact information, including email address and telephone number and company details. Social media profiles and handles. Professional qualifications, accreditations and experience Topics and areas of expertise for services |
Certain personal data we collect is treated as a special category to which additional protections apply under data protection law:
We will use your personal data to send you updates (by email, text message, telephone or post) about our products and services, including exclusive offers, promotions, member benefits or new products and services.
We have a legitimate interest in using your personal data for marketing purposes (see above ‘How and why we use your personal data’). This means we do not need your consent to send you marketing information. If we change our marketing approach in the future to require consent, we will ask for it separately and clearly.
You have the right to opt out of receiving marketing communications at any time by:
We may ask you to confirm or update your marketing preferences if you ask us to provide further products and services in the future, or if there are changes in the law, regulation, or the structure of our business.
We will always treat your personal data with the utmost respect and never sell OR share it with other organisations outside the Lime Marketing Ltd group of companies for marketing purposes.
For more information on your right to object at any time to your personal data being used for marketing purposes, see ‘Your rights’ below.
We routinely share personal data with:
We only allow organisations to handle your personal data if we are satisfied that they take appropriate measures to protect it. We also impose contractual obligations on them to ensure they can only use your personal data to provide services to you and to us.
We or the third parties mentioned above occasionally also share personal data with:
More details about who we share your personal data with and why are set out in the table below
Recipient | Processing operation (use) by recipient | Relevant categories of personal data transferred to recipient |
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WordPress and website hosting providers | Web and data hosting services, i.e. stores a copy of your personal data on computer equipment so it can be accessed by us and permitted third parties (see below). | For a hosting company: Any of the personal data we collect about you, as detailed in the section Personal Details we collect about you |
Stripe | Payment Processing – a data processing agreement is in place with Stripe Payments Europe Limited. | Name, email address, billing information, transaction information and membership status |
Zapier | Data transfer automation | Contact information, account information and platform activity data where required for automated processes |
ActiveCampaign | Email communications, marketing automation and CRM services | Name, email address, communication preferences and engagement data |
Anthropic Claude API | AI-assisted SEO metadata generation and content processing services | Limited professional profile and publicly displayed profile information are required for metadata generation |
Please note that although we don’t directly provide data to search engines, those engines can locate and ‘cache’ the data on the website, which then appears publicly, known as ‘search indexing’.
We cannot, even on request of erasure, guarantee that information will be removed from external search indexing. As per ICO guidelines, our business will reach out to those providers where feasible and notify them of a request for erasure, but we are under no obligation to ensure that they complete this.
If you would like more information about who we share our data with and why, please contact us (see ‘How to contact us’ below).
We will not keep your personal data for longer than we need it for the purpose for which it is used. For example, marketing preference records may be retained to ensure we continue to respect your communication choices.
Different retention periods apply for different types of personal data. Further details on this are available in our record retention schedule, which can be provided upon request.
If you stop using your account, we will delete or anonymise your account data after two (2) years.
Following the end of the relevant retention period, we will delete or anonymise your personal data.
Countries outside the UK have differing data protection laws, some of which may provide lower levels of privacy protection.
It is sometimes necessary for us to transfer your personal data to countries outside the UK. In those cases we will comply with applicable UK laws designed to ensure the privacy of your personal data.
We will transfer your personal data to:
Under data protection laws, we can only transfer your personal data to a country outside the UK where:
Where we transfer your personal data outside the UK, we do so on the basis of an adequacy regulation or, where this is not available, standard contractual clauses. In the event we cannot or choose not to continue to rely on either of those mechanisms at any time, we will not transfer your personal data outside the UK unless we can do so on the basis of an alternative mechanism or exception provided by UK data protection law and reflected in an update to this policy.
Any changes to the destinations to which we send personal data or in the transfer mechanisms we rely on to transfer personal data internationally will be notified to you in accordance with the section on ‘Changes to this privacy policy’ below.
More details about the countries outside the UK to which your personal data is transferred are set out in the table below.
Recipient country | Recipient | Processing operation (use) by recipient | Lawful safeguard |
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United States of America | Zapier, 548 Market St #62411, San Francisco, California. Stripe Payments Europe Limited (“SPEL”) ActiveCampaign, LLC 1 N Dearborn, Suite 500, Chicago, IL 60602, USA. Anthropic Ireland Limited, 6th Floor South Bank House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland | Web and data hosting services, i.e., store a copy of your personal data on computer equipment so it can be accessed by us and permitted third parties online in order to run our business and provide services | Legally approved International Data Transfer Addendum to the EU Commission Standard Contractual Clauses VERSION B1.0, in force 21 March 2022 |
If you would like further information about data transferred outside the UK, please contact feedback@thelimelightcollective.com (or see ‘How to contact us’ below).
A cookie is a small text file stored on your device (e.g., computer, smartphone, or another electronic device) when you use our website. We use cookies and similar technologies on our website to help us recognise you and your device, and store some information about your preferences or past actions.
For further information about the cookies and similar technologies we use, when we request your consent and how you can manage or disable cookies, please see our Cookie Policy.
You generally have the following rights, which you can usually exercise free of charge:
Access to a copy of your personal data | The right to be provided with a copy of your personal data |
Correction (also known as rectification) | The right to require us to correct any mistakes in your personal data |
Erasure (also known as the right to be forgotten) | The right to require us to delete your personal data in certain situations |
Restriction of use | The right to require us to restrict use of your personal data in certain circumstances, e.g. if you contest the accuracy of the data |
Data portability | The right to receive the personal data you provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and/or transmit that data to a third party in certain situations |
To object to use | The right to object:
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Rights in respect of automated decision-making | Where significant decisions (those which produce a legal or similarly significant effect on you) are made using your personal data and based on solely automated processing with no meaningful human involvement, you have the right to have certain safeguards in place to protect your data subject rights, freedoms and legitimate interests. These safeguards include giving you information about the decision and enabling you to make representations, obtain human intervention, and contest the decision In addition to also requiring the above safeguards, significant decisions made using special category personal data and based on solely automated processing are only permissible in certain specified scenarios (e.g. where you have given your explicit consent for the decision to be made using such data) We do not make any such decisions based on data collected by our website |
The right to withdraw consents | If you have provided us with consent to use your personal data, you have the right to withdraw that consent easily at any time You may withdraw your consent at any time by updating your cookie preferences through our website, using the unsubscribe link in marketing emails or contacting us using the details below. Withdrawing consent will not affect the lawfulness of our use of your personal data in reliance on that consent before it was withdrawn |
For further information on each of those rights, including the circumstances in which they do and do not apply, please contact us (see ‘How to contact us’ below). You may also find it helpful to refer to the guidance from the UK’s Information Commissioner (ICO) on your rights under UK GDPR.
If you would like to exercise any of those rights, please email, call or write to us, see below: ‘How to contact us’. When contacting us, please:
We have appropriate security measures to prevent personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed unlawfully. We limit access to your personal data to those who have a genuine need to access it.
We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach when required by law.
If you want detailed information from Get Safe Online on how to protect your personal data, other information, and your computers and devices against fraud, identity theft, viruses, and many other online problems, please visit www.getsafeonline.org. Get Safe Online is supported by HM Government and leading businesses.
Please contact us if you have any queries or concerns about our use of your personal data (see below ‘How to contact us’). We have a complaints procedure within our data protection policy, which can be made available upon request. We will acknowledge receipt of your complaint within 30 days.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner. They may be contacted using the details at https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint or by telephone: 0303 123 1113.
We may change this privacy policy from time to time. When we make significant changes, we will take steps to inform you, for example, via email notification, providing a description of the changes.
You can contact us by post, email or telephone if you have any questions about this privacy policy or the information we hold about you, to exercise a right under data protection law or to make a complaint.
Our contact details are shown below:
FAO: The Director
Email – feedback@thelimelightcollective.com
Address: 82A, James Carter Road, Mildenhall, Suffolk, IP28 7DE
If you would like this policy in another format (for example, audio, large print, braille), please contact us (see ‘How to contact us’ above)