Cookie Notice

Last updated 22/12/2025

About this notice

This cookie notice explains what cookies and other tracking technologies are, and why they are used.

It clearly outlines the cookies used, their purposes, and your rights regarding any personal data processed by these cookies.

Who we are

The data controller responsible in accordance with the purposes of the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and other data protection regulations is:

Speakers Corner (London) Ltd (‘we’, ‘our’, ‘us’)

Ground Floor and Lower Ground, 5-6 Mallow Street, London EC1Y 8RQ

nick@speakerscorner.co.uk

https://www.speakerscorner.co.uk

Data Protection Officer

The contact details for our Data Protection Officer are as follows:

By post:  DataCo International UK Limited
Suite 1, 3rd Floor Suite 1
11 - 12 St James's Square
London
United Kingdom
SW1Y 4LB

By email:  privacy@dataguard.co.uk
By phone:  +442035146557

Our role

We are the controller of the personal data we process. This means that we are responsible for deciding how we collect, use and store information about you.

We are registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) under Registration reference: ZA635301.

What are cookies?

If you are just browsing our website, we may collect your data using cookies or other tracking technologies.

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device, such as your computer, phone, or tablet, when you view pages on our website. These cookies allow us to track some of your browsing preferences and optimise how the website works.

Although we do not use cookies to identify you directly, as the focus is on your device, it is still possible for us to identify you or infer information about you. Unless the cookies are “strictly necessary” to make our website function, we will always ask for your consent before they are placed on your device.

What types of cookies are there?

First-Party Cookies

First-party cookies are hosted on the website you are visiting. They are only set or retrieved by the website while you are visiting it, so they cannot normally be used to track activity or pass data from one site to another. However, the owner of that website can still collect data through their cookies and use that to change how the website appears to the user, or the information it displays.

Third-Party Cookies

Third-party cookies are where the host domain or address is not the same as the website you are visiting. They are usually placed on a website via scripts or tags added to the webpage. Sometimes these scripts will also bring additional functionality to the site, such as enabling content to be shared via social networks.

Online advertising is the most common use of third-party cookies. By adding their tags to a page, which may or may not display adverts, advertisers can track a user (or their device) across many of the websites they visit.

How are cookies categorised?

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are set to provide the service, application or resource requested. Without these cookies, your request cannot be properly delivered. They are usually set to manage actions made by you, such as requesting website visual elements, page resources, or due to user login or logoff. They can also be used to set up essential functionalities that guarantee the security and efficiency of the requested service, such as authentication and load balancing requests. Consent is not needed to use this category of cookies.

Performance Cookies

These cookies are set to provide quantitative measures of website visitors. Information collected with these cookies is used in operations to measure website or software KPIs, such as performance. By using these cookies, we can track visits and traffic sources to improve the performance of our site and application. If you do not allow these cookies, we will not be able to track when you visit our site. These cookies can only be used with your consent.

Functional Cookies

These cookies are set by us or by third-party service providers we use to implement additional functionalities or to enhance features and website performance; however, they are not directly related to the service you requested. Services and functionalities implemented by these cookies support features such as automatically filled text boxes, live web chat platforms, non-essential forms, and optional security parameters like single sign-on (SSO). These cookies can only be used with your consent.

Targeting/Analytical Cookies

Our advertising partners set these cookies to provide behavioural advertising and remarketing analytical data. They collect any type of browsing information necessary to create profiles and to understand user habits to develop an individual and specific advertising routine. The profile created based on your browsing interests and behaviour is used to customise the ads you see when you access other websites. These cookies can only be used with your consent.

What cookies do we use?

How can I manage my cookie settings?

Except for any strictly necessary cookies, you can opt out of any cookies you have already provided consent for by opening the cookie settings in the cookie banner.

Alternatively, you can manage your cookie settings at the browser level by opening the browser settings menu and choosing which cookies to allow.

Is there automated decision making occurring?

No processing activities include making automated decisions about you that might significantly affect you or have any legal consequences. Automated decisions mean decisions based solely on automated processing without human intervention.

Is the provision of personal data a requirement?

The placement of cookies on your device and the provision of personal data through them are not statutory or contractual requirements. This means that you are not legally obligated to allow cookies to be placed on your device, nor are you required to provide personal data collected through them.

The consequences of cookies not being placed on your device depend on the type of cookies:

Data Transfers outside the UK

Where we transfer your personal data outside the UK to third-party cookie providers, we will ensure that it continues to receive a level of protection consistent with UK data protection law. This may be achieved in one of the following ways:

• Adequacy decision: where the destination country has been recognised by the UK Government as providing an adequate level of protection for personal data;
• Appropriate safeguards: where we use mechanisms such as the UK International Data Transfer Agreement (IDTA), or the UK Addendum to the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs), to ensure your data is protected.

You have the right to obtain a copy of the safeguards we use for transfers outside the UK. Please contact us (see the “Who we are” section above for contact details) if you wish to receive further information.

Your rights

Under data protection legislation, in certain circumstances, you have the following rights over the processing of your personal data as described in this notice:

• right to be informed about how your data is used;
• right of access to your personal data;
• right to correction or rectification of your data;
• right to request deletion of your data;
• right to object to the personal data processing;
• right to data portability.

In most cases, we must respond to a request to exercise these rights within one month, if not before. If you would like to submit a request, please contact us (see the “Who we are” section above for contact details).

Complaints

If you are unhappy with any aspect of this privacy notice or how your personal data is being processed, please contact us or our Data Protection Officer.

If you are still not happy, you have the right to complain to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO):

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

By phone:  +44303 123 1113

Via ICO website: https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/