How we handle your information.

Last updated: 11 October 2026

Who we are.

Bright Method is the trading name of Bright Method Ltd, a private limited company registered in England and Wales under company number 16439752, with its registered office at 200 Drake Street, Rochdale, England, OL16 1PJ. We are the data controller for personal information collected through this website. Our ICO registration number is ZC269931.

For anything in this notice, contact us at hello@brightmethod.co.uk.

What we collect.

• When you email us. Your name, email address, organisation and whatever you choose to tell us.
• Your cookie choice. Cookiebot records whether you accepted or declined cookies, so we don't ask again on every visit.
• When you book a chat. The name, email address and any notes you give when booking through Google Calendar.
• When you browse the site. Usage information such as the pages you visit, how you arrived, your approximate location, browser and device type. This is collected by Google Analytics, loaded through Google Tag Manager, and only once you've accepted analytics cookies.

We don't ask for special category information, and we don't knowingly collect information from children.

Why we use it, and on what basis.

• To reply to you and arrange conversations. Our legitimate interest in responding to enquiries, or steps you've asked us to take before entering a contract.
• To deliver work you've engaged us for. Performance of a contract.
• To understand how the site is used and improve it. Your consent, where analytics cookies are involved.
• To meet legal and accounting obligations. Legal obligation.

We don't use your information for automated decision-making or profiling, and we won't add you to a mailing list unless you ask us to.

Cookies and analytics.

This site uses Google Tag Manager to load two tools:

• Cookiebot manages your consent. It sets a necessary cookie that remembers your choice.
• Google Analytics 4 counts visits and shows us which pages are useful. Its cookies are not strictly necessary, so they only run if you accept them.

You can change your cookie settings at any time. You can also block or delete cookies in your browser without affecting how the site works.

The full list of cookies this site sets, kept up to date automatically by Cookiebot:

Who we share it with.

We share information only with the service providers who help us run the site and the business, acting on our instructions:

• Google, for analytics (Google Analytics 4), email and calendar booking
• Cybot (Cookiebot), which manages cookie consent
• Hostinger, which hosts this site
• Professional advisers such as accountants, where needed

Some of these providers process data outside the UK. Where they do, the transfer is covered by UK adequacy regulations or the International Data Transfer Addendum.

How long we keep it.

Enquiry emails and booking details are kept for up to two years after our last contact, unless we go on to work together. Client records are kept for six years after an engagement ends, to meet accounting requirements. Google Analytics 4 data is kept for 14 months.

Your rights.

Under UK data protection law you can ask us to:

• give you a copy of the information we hold about you
• correct anything that's wrong or incomplete
• delete your information, where we have no reason to keep it
• restrict or object to how we use it
• transfer it to another organisation, where that applies
• withdraw consent at any time, where consent is our basis

Email hello@brightmethod.co.uk and we'll respond within one month. There's no charge.

Complaints.

If you're unhappy with how we've handled your information, please tell us first so we can put it right. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk or on 0303 123 1113.

Changes to this notice.

We'll update this page when anything changes, and the date at the top will always show the latest version.