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Privacy Policy

Last updated: 20 August 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how StandardsDesk collects, uses and protects personal information when you visit standardsdesk.com, use our tools, submit a form or interact with an independent service provider through our website.

StandardsDesk is an independent information and referral website. We are not an LEI issuer, Local Operating Unit, ISO certification body, financial institution, law firm or investment adviser.

Who controls your information

For personal information collected directly through standardsdesk.com, StandardsDesk acts as the data controller.

You can contact us about privacy or data-protection matters using our contact form. Select Privacy or data request as the subject.

Independent providers introduced or linked to through StandardsDesk may act as separate data controllers. Their own privacy policies apply when they collect or process your information.

Information we may collect

Depending on how you use the website, we may collect:

  • Your name, business email address, company name and message when you contact us.
  • Information entered into an LEI, ISO certification or other business-service enquiry.
  • Information needed to understand and respond to your request.
  • Referral information, such as the page, campaign or partner link that led you to StandardsDesk.
  • Basic technical information, including IP address, browser type, device type, approximate location, referring page and requested pages.
  • Cookie and consent preferences.
  • Security, diagnostic and form-submission logs.
  • Information you voluntarily provide when reporting an error or requesting support.

Please do not submit passwords, payment-card details, government identification documents, health information or other highly sensitive personal information through the general contact form.

How we use personal information

We may use personal information to:

  • Respond to questions and support requests.
  • Process service enquiries.
  • Introduce users to appropriate independent providers when requested or consented to.
  • Operate, secure and improve the website.
  • Diagnose technical problems and prevent spam, fraud or misuse.
  • Record consent choices.
  • Measure website performance where analytics consent has been provided.
  • Attribute referrals and calculate commissions.
  • Comply with legal obligations and respond to lawful requests.
  • Establish, exercise or defend legal claims.

Legal bases for processing

Where the UK GDPR, EU GDPR or similar data-protection legislation applies, we rely on one or more of the following legal bases:

  • Consent: for optional analytics, external content and sharing an enquiry where consent is required.
  • Contract or steps requested before a contract: when processing information needed to provide a requested service or introduction.
  • Legitimate interests: to operate and secure the website, respond to enquiries, prevent misuse and understand service performance, provided those interests do not override your rights.
  • Legal obligation: when processing is necessary to meet an applicable legal requirement.
  • Legal claims: when necessary to establish, exercise or defend a legal claim.

You may withdraw consent at any time. Withdrawal does not affect processing that occurred before consent was withdrawn.

Referrals and independent providers

StandardsDesk may connect users with independent providers offering services such as:

  • LEI registration, renewal or transfer.
  • ISO certification and related assessments.
  • Business, compliance or financial services featured on the website.

When you request an introduction, we may send the information necessary to handle your enquiry to the selected provider. We will not present StandardsDesk as the provider of that service.

Once a provider receives your information, its own privacy policy and terms may apply. Providers are responsible for explaining how they process your information.

LEI lookup and public data

Our LEI-related tools may display or retrieve information from public or licensed databases, including data made available through the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation ecosystem.

LEI records generally concern legal entities rather than private individuals. However, business records may sometimes include information connected to an individual. Questions about the source record should normally be directed to the organisation responsible for maintaining that record.

Cookies, analytics and external content

We use necessary storage to operate the website, protect forms and remember your cookie choices.

Optional analytics and third-party embedded content are only activated after the relevant consent, where required. You can accept, reject or change optional categories using the Cookie settings control in the footer.

Some pages may contain third-party content or forms, including TradingView charts or a partner-provided LEI application form. When activated, these services may receive technical information from your browser and may use their own cookies.

See our Cookie Policy for more information.

Who we share information with

We may share information with:

  • Independent providers when you request or consent to an introduction.
  • Hosting, database, security, form-delivery and technical service providers that support the website.
  • Analytics providers, but only where the relevant consent has been provided.
  • Professional advisers where reasonably necessary.
  • Government authorities, regulators, courts or law-enforcement bodies when legally required.
  • A successor organisation if the website or relevant business assets are transferred, subject to appropriate protections.

We do not sell personal information as a standalone product.

International data transfers

Some service providers or referral partners may operate outside your country or the European Economic Area.

Where required, we use appropriate safeguards for international transfers, such as an adequacy decision, contractual protections or another lawful transfer mechanism. Independent providers are responsible for the transfers they conduct under their own privacy policies.

Retention

We keep personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected.

Unless a longer period is required for legal, security or dispute-resolution reasons:

  • General contact enquiries are normally retained for up to 24 months.
  • Referral and service enquiries are normally retained for up to 24 months.
  • Consent records may be retained for as long as needed to demonstrate the consent choice.
  • Security and diagnostic logs are retained for a shorter operational period where practical.
  • Cookie preferences are currently stored for up to 180 days.

Information may be anonymised and retained in aggregated form where it no longer identifies an individual.

Your rights

Depending on your location and the applicable law, you may have the right to:

  • Ask for access to your personal information.
  • Ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete information.
  • Ask us to delete your information.
  • Restrict or object to certain processing.
  • Withdraw consent.
  • Ask for portable data where applicable.
  • Complain to a relevant data-protection authority.
  • Request information about applicable international-transfer safeguards.

To make a request, use our contact form and select Privacy or data request. We may need to verify your identity before completing the request.

If you are in Estonia, you may also contact the Estonian Data Protection Inspectorate. If you are elsewhere, you may contact the supervisory authority responsible for data protection in your country.

Security

We use reasonable organisational and technical measures designed to protect personal information. Nevertheless, no website, transmission method or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

Children

StandardsDesk is intended for businesses and adults. It is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children.

Third-party websites

Our website contains links to independent websites. We do not control their privacy practices, security or content. Review the relevant provider’s policies before submitting personal information.

Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy when our services, providers or legal obligations change. The revised version will be posted on this page with a new “Last updated” date.

Contacting us

For privacy questions or data requests, use our contact form and select Privacy or data request.