Privacy policy
For the 2025 Hertfordshire Business Awards

The Hertfordshire Business Awards are committed to protecting your privacy and we comply with the data protection laws applicable to the UK. This Privacy Policy outlines how your personal information is treated and forms part of our Terms and Conditions.

By your continued use of our services, including our web sites, you consent to the collection and use of your personal information for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.

When you complete a form on our website, we may ask you for your name, email address, postal address and your telephone number. This is so we can contact you easily if required.

How do we use your information?

Any personal data relating to you will be used and recorded by us in accordance with current data protection legislation and this Privacy Policy. We use the information collected by you to help in any issues you may have relating to this website or The Hertfordshire Business Awards. We may use your personal information to communicate with you for record keeping purposes, and in aggregate (and therefore anonymously) for market research purposes, to track activity on our site, to publish trends and/or to improve usefulness and content.

We do not sell, trade or rent your personal information to other parties.

If you enter The Hertfordshire Business Awards or request the biz4Biz magazine or any other product or service from the website, we may allow our partners to provide you with news and special offers. We may share personal information with specific partners* who support The Hertfordshire Business Awards. Details of these partners can be provided upon request at entry@biz4biz.org. If at any time you choose not to receive notifications you may do so by sending your request to entry@biz4biz.org or simply unsubscribe via the link at the bottom of the email.

Judging

Judges for The Hertfordshire Business Awards may provide aggregate statistics about customers, sales, traffic patterns, and related site information to our sponsors/partners of the awards, but these statistics will include no personally identifying information.

Use of data for marketing materials

By entering the awards, entrants understand that the information they provide about their company (excluding turnover and pre tax profit information which will remain confidential at all times) will only be used by The Hertfordshire Business Awards or their partners* with consent of the entrants in terms of publicity.

* Partner companies are those Sponsors and organisations who support The Hertfordshire Business Awards and also follow in the aims and principles of the awards.