Last Updated: May 7, 2025

1. Introduction

Welcome to Meridian Research ("we," "us," "our"). We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website ([https://www.google.com/search?q=YourWebsiteAddress.com]) (the "Website"), purchase our industry reports (the "Reports"), and interact with our services.

This policy applies where we are acting as a data controller with respect to the personal data of our Website visitors and service users; in other words, where we determine the purposes and means of the processing of that personal data.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. By using our Website and services, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy.

Our website incorporates privacy controls which affect how we will process your personal data. By using the privacy controls, you can specify whether you would like to receive direct marketing communications and limit the publication of your information.

2. Who We Are

Meridian Research is a limited company registered in United Kingdom

You can contact us:

• By post, to the postal address given above.
• Using our website contact form.
• By email, using info@meridianresearch.co

3. What Personal Data We Collect

We may collect and process the following types of personal data:

• Identity Data: Including first name, last name, username or similar identifier, title, company name, and job title.
• Contact Data: Including billing address, delivery address, email address, and telephone numbers.
• Financial Data: Including payment card details and bank account information (processed through our secure third-party payment processors). We do not store full payment card details on our servers.
• Transaction Data: Including details about payments to and from you and other details of Reports you have purchased from us.
• Technical Data: Including internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this Website. This may also include information about how you use our Website (e.g., pages visited, time spent on pages).
• Profile Data: Including your username and password (if you create an account), purchases or orders made by you, your interests, preferences, feedback, and survey responses.
• Marketing and Communications Data: Including your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.
• Correspondence Data: Information contained in or relating to any communication that you send to us. The correspondence data may include the communication content and metadata associated with the communication.

We do not typically collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health, and genetic and biometric data). Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.

4. How We Collect Your Personal Data

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

• Direct interactions: You may give us your Identity, Contact, Financial, and Marketing and Communications Data by filling in forms on our Website (e.g., when you register for an account, purchase a Report, subscribe to our newsletter, or contact us) or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise.
• Automated technologies or interactions: As you interact with our Website, we will automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, Browse actions, and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs, and other similar technologies. Please see our Cookie Policy (Section 11) for further details.
• Third parties or publicly available sources: We may receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources as set out below:
• Technical Data from analytics providers such as Google.
• Contact, Financial and Transaction Data from providers of technical, payment and delivery services such as Stripe.
• Identity and Contact Data from data brokers or aggregators
• Identity and Contact Data from publicly available sources such as Companies House and the Electoral Register based inside the UK.

5. Lawful Basis for Processing Your Personal Data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

• Performance of a Contract: Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you (e.g., to process your order for a Report, manage your account).
• Legitimate Interests: Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests. This includes:
• Operating our Website and providing you with our services.
• Improving our Website, Reports, services, marketing, customer relationships and experiences.
• For business administration and record keeping.
• To respond to your queries and communications.
• To protect our business and this Website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data).
• For marketing and promotional activities (where consent is not required).
• Consent: Where you have given us explicit consent to do so (e.g., for sending you certain direct marketing communications, or for placing certain cookies). You have the right to withdraw consent at any time by contacting us.
• Legal Obligation: Where we need to comply with a legal obligation (e.g., for tax purposes, or to respond to a lawful request from a competent authority).