Privacy Notice

Version 2.0. Effective 19 September 2026.

This notice has two parts. Part A is for customers, trial users, site visitors and people we market to. Part B is for people whose information appears in the Chikara Intelligence database, and it is the part to read if you are a director, executive, board member or adviser and you want to know what we hold or tell us to stop.

Part A. Customers, visitors and marketing

This part covers the information we hold about you because you use our site, hold an account, or have been in touch with us.

A1. Who we are

Chikara Intelligence Ltd, company number 16495106, registered office Suite Ra01, 195-197 Wood Street, London E17 3NU, is the controller of the personal data described in this Part. Contact us at privacy@chikaraintel.com.

A2. What we collect and why

Account details. Name, work email, organisation and role: To set up and run your account. Our basis is performance of a contract. Kept for the life of the account, then six years as a record of the contract.
Billing records. The last four digits of the card, the amount and the date: To take payment and meet accounting and tax duties. Our basis is performance of a contract, and legal obligation for tax records. Kept for six years from the end of the tax year.
How you use the Service. Searches, views, exports, API and MCP calls: To run the Service, keep it secure, prevent misuse, enforce our Terms and improve the product. Our basis is legitimate interests. While your account is open, and for a period afterwards set by our retention schedule.
Support messages: To answer you. Our basis is legitimate interests. Kept for three years.
Site analytics: To understand how the site is used. Our basis is your consent, given through the cookie banner.
Waitlist details. Name, email, organisation and role: To tell you when the product is available. Our basis is your consent. Kept until you unsubscribe, or two years without contact.
Business contact details of people we approach: To market the Service to organisations we think it suits. Our basis is legitimate interests. Kept until you object, or two years without engagement.

We do not sell your personal data and we do not use it to train any model.

A3. Card payments

Payments are taken by Stripe. Stripe collects and holds your card details and we never see or store the full card number. Stripe acts as an independent controller for payment data, so Stripe's own privacy notice covers what it does. We receive only the outcome, the amount and a masked reference.

A4. Cookies

We use cookies that are necessary for the Service to work, and analytics cookies that we only set if you agree through the banner. You can change your choice at any time from the cookie link in the footer.

A6. Where it is held

In the United Kingdom. Where a provider processes data outside the UK we use a transfer mechanism recognised under UK law.

A7. Marketing

We send marketing to business contacts about the Service. Every message has an unsubscribe link and we act on it straight away. We do not send marketing to personal email addresses.

A8. Your rights

You can ask for a copy of your data, ask us to correct it, ask us to delete it, ask us to restrict or stop using it, object to our use of it where we rely on legitimate interests, and withdraw consent where we rely on consent.

Use the data requests page or email privacy@chikaraintel.com. We answer within one month.

A9. Complaints

Tell us first if you can, through the data requests page. We will acknowledge within 5 working days and give you an outcome as quickly as we can.

You can also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint, or call 0303 123 1113. You do not have to come to us first.

Part B. People in the Chikara Intelligence database

This part is for you if you are a company director, executive, board member, adviser or other senior professional whose information appears in Chikara Intelligence.

We are telling you this because the law requires it, and because you should be able to see what we hold and correct it.

B1. Who we are

Chikara Intelligence Ltd, company number 16495106, registered office Suite Ra01, 195-197 Wood Street, London E17 3NU. We are the controller of this information. Contact us at privacy@chikaraintel.com or through the data requests page.

B2. What we do

We run a business information service about company leadership. Executive search firms, investment firms and corporate strategy teams use it to understand who leads organisations, how leadership changes, and who is involved in investments and transactions.

We do not sell lists of personal contact details, we do not run background checks, and we do not provide information for decisions about credit, insurance or eligibility for anything. Our Terms of Service forbid our customers from using our data that way.

B3. Why we are allowed to do this

We process your information because it is in our legitimate interests, and those of our subscribers, to understand who leads organisations, how leadership changes, and who is involved in investments and transactions. Executive search firms, investors and corporate strategy teams use this to find and assess leaders and to follow changes in the markets they work in.

We only use information that has been made public in a professional context. We only provide it to business subscribers who have agreed to our Terms, which forbid using it to decide eligibility for jobs, credit or insurance. We have weighed our interests against your rights and recorded that assessment. You can ask to see a summary of it.

You can object at any time. If you do, we will stop processing your information unless we have compelling reasons to continue, and we will tell our subscribers to stop using it too. Section B11 explains how.

B4. What we hold

Not all of this for everyone. What we hold depends on what has been published about you.

Your name, and other spellings or forms of it we have matched to you.
Your current role and organisation.
Past roles and organisations, with dates where we have them.
Board and committee positions, and adviser or trustee roles.
Shareholdings and ownership interests in companies, where these are published.
Pay and remuneration published by an employer.
Your involvement in funding rounds, acquisitions, disposals and public offerings.
Movements between organisations, including who you replaced or who replaced you where that is published.
An estimated wealth tier, and an estimated investor status. See section B7.
Your work email address and work phone number, where we hold them.

We do not collect or hold your home address, your personal email, your personal phone number, your date of birth, or any information about your health, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, political opinions or trade union membership.

B5. Where it comes from, and how you can check

Our information comes from company announcements and press releases, official filings across UK and US markets, and regulated investment-adviser disclosures. Where we have matched you to a professional networking profile, that is also recorded.

Every record we hold states four things.

The source it came from, and that source's own reference for it.
The date the source published it.
The date we recorded it.
The basis on which we recorded it, written as a plain sentence.

That means any single record about you can be opened and checked. If you ask us for a copy of your information under section B12, we will give you that for every record, including the specific source for each one rather than just the category.

We should be straight about what this does and does not prove. It shows you where a record came from and when we took it. It does not by itself prove we read the source correctly. If we got a record wrong, section B9 is how it gets fixed, and the same record tells us it was our error rather than the source's.

Where a source we used is no longer reachable online, we say so on the record rather than presenting it as something you can still go and verify.

B6. Who sees it

Business subscribers in executive search, recruitment, investment and corporate strategy. They are named organisations with paid accounts, subject to our Terms. There is no anonymous access and no free public search.
Our service providers, who host the platform and send email on our behalf.
Professional advisers, a buyer of the business, and law enforcement or a regulator where required.

We do not publish your profile on the open web and we do not allow it to be indexed by search engines.

B7. Estimates, and what they are worth

Some information in your profile is our estimate rather than something published about you. This includes an estimated wealth tier and an estimated investor status.

We work these out from published information such as disclosed pay and shareholdings. Each estimate is labelled as an estimate in our service and shows what it is based on. Where we have nothing to base an estimate on, we show no estimate rather than a default.

Estimates can be wrong. An estimate is our opinion and it is not a statement about your legal or financial position. Our Terms forbid a subscriber from telling anyone else that you have a particular net worth or investor status as though it were fact.

If you think an estimate is wrong, tell us. We will look at the basis, record your challenge against the record, and correct or remove the estimate where the basis does not support it.

B8. Information going outside the UK

We hold your information in the United Kingdom.

Some of our subscribers are outside the UK, including in the United States, and they will see your information when they use the Service. Where we transfer information outside the UK we rely on a transfer mechanism recognised under UK law, which for our providers is the UK International Data Transfer Addendum to the Standard Contractual Clauses.

B9. Putting something right

If something we hold about you is wrong, tell us through the data requests page. We will open the record, look at where it came from and what it said, and do one of three things.

If the source said it and the source is right, we will tell you what the source was and when we recorded it, and record your comment against the record.
If the source said it and it has since changed, we will update the record and keep the history of the change.
If the source did not say it, we got it wrong. We will correct it, keep a record of the correction, and fix the rule that caused it.

We answer within one month.

B10. How long we keep it

We keep a profile while the person is active in professional life and the information is still useful for the purposes in section B2.

We review profiles where no new information has been recorded for an extended period, and remove those that no longer serve the purposes in section B2. We remove a profile when we learn the person has died.

Where you have objected and we have suppressed you, we keep the minimum record needed to make sure the suppression holds, which is your name and a marker. We keep that indefinitely, because deleting it would let the profile be recreated.

B11. Your right to object

You can tell us to stop using your information, and this is the easiest right to use.

Go to the data requests page, choose "Ask us to stop using my information", and tell us who you are. You do not have to give a reason.

When you object, we will:

Acknowledge it within 5 working days.
Stop using your information unless we have a compelling reason to continue. If we think we do, we will tell you what it is in writing, and you can challenge that with us or with the ICO.
Add you to a suppression list so your profile is not rebuilt from a later source.
Tell any subscriber our records show has viewed or exported your information that you have objected, and require them under our Terms to stop using it and delete their copies within 30 days.
Remove you from our own marketing posts if you appear in one.

B12. Your other rights

A copy of what we hold: We will give you every record about you, and for each one, the source, its reference, the date it was published, the date we recorded it, and the basis we recorded it on.
Correction: See section B9.
Deletion: Because we rely on legitimate interests rather than consent, a request to delete is handled in the same way as an objection under B11. We will tell you that is what we have done.
Restriction: You can ask us to pause using your information while we look into a correction or an objection.
Portability: This does not apply here, because that right only covers information we hold with your consent or under a contract with you, and neither applies.

Use the data requests page or privacy@chikaraintel.com. We answer within one month. If a request is complicated we may take up to two more months, and we will tell you within the first month if that happens.

We will not charge you and we will not ask for identity documents. We may ask you to confirm something already in the record, or to point us at a professional profile with the same name and organisation, so we are satisfied we are talking to the right person.

B13. Automated decisions

We categorise and estimate, and we match records to people automatically. We do not make decisions about you.

Our subscribers make their own decisions, and our Terms forbid them from using our data to decide whether you are eligible for a job, credit, insurance or any other benefit, and from making a decision about you with a legal or similar effect based only on automated processing.

B14. Complaints

Tell us first if you can, through the data requests page. We will acknowledge within 5 working days and give you an outcome as quickly as we can, and within three months at the latest.

You can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at any time, at ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint, by calling 0303 123 1113, or by writing to the Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF. You do not have to come to us first.

B15. Changes to this notice

We will update this notice when what we do changes. The version and date are at the top.