Last Updated: 20 July 2025

1. Introduction

Welcome to Aero Foundry ("we", "us", "our"). We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This policy explains how we collect, use, and protect the personal data you provide to us when you use our website (www.aerofoundry.uk) or interact with us.

Our mission is to de-risk your investments into uncrewed systems by providing clarity and strategic insight. Just as we value clarity in our business, we believe in being clear and transparent about how we handle your personal information.

This policy is written in accordance with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018.

2. Our Details & Data Protection Officer

For the purpose of data protection law, the data controller is Aero Foundry.

We have appointed a Data Protection Officer (DPO) who is responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this privacy policy. If you have any questions, concerns, or requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact our DPO:

Name: Paul Blagbrough

Email: pb@aerofoundry.uk

Company: Aero Foundry

3. The Data We Collect About You

We may collect, use, store, and transfer different kinds of personal data about you, which we have grouped together as follows:

Identity Data: Includes first name, last name, and job title.

Contact Data: Includes company name, email address, and telephone number.

Enquiry Data: Includes any information you provide to us when you fill in our contact form or correspond with us by email, including details about your project or area of interest in uncrewed systems.

Technical Data: Includes your internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system, and platform on which you access this website.

Usage Data: Includes information about how you use our website, such as which pages you visit and how long you spend on them.

We do not 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).

4. How We Use Your Personal Data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Below, we describe the ways we use your personal data and the legal bases we rely on to do so.

• To Respond to Your Enquiries

• When you contact us via our contact form or by direct email, we use your Identity Data, Contact Data, and Enquiry Data to understand and respond to your message. We process this information based on our legitimate interest in engaging with potential clients. If your enquiry leads to a business relationship, this processing also becomes necessary for the performance of a contract with you.

• For Website Administration and Security

• To ensure our website is secure, stable, and running effectively, we process Technical Data and Usage Data. This includes troubleshooting, data analysis, and protecting our systems from threats. Our legal basis for this is our legitimate interest in the proper administration of our website and business operations.

• To Improve Our Website and Services

• We use Technical Data and Usage Data to analyse how visitors navigate our site. This helps us understand what content is most engaging and how to improve the user experience. We do this based on our legitimate interest in developing our services and keeping our website relevant. For the use of non-essential analytical cookies, we will request your consent.

• For Marketing Communications

• Should you choose to subscribe to our mailing list for news or industry insights, we will use your Identity Data and Contact Data to send you these communications. We will only do this with your explicit consent, which you can withdraw at any time by contacting us or using the "unsubscribe" link in an email.

• We will only use your data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason that is compatible with the original purpose.

5. Data Sharing & Third Parties

We will never sell your personal data to third parties. We may have to share your data with trusted service providers for the purposes set out above, including:

IT and system administration providers who host our website and email services.

Analytics providers such as Google Analytics to help us understand website traffic.

Professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors, and insurers who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance, and accounting services.

We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law.

6. International Transfers

Some of our external third-party providers may be based outside the UK, so their processing of your personal data will involve a transfer of data outside the UK.

Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the UK, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring that safeguards are in place, such as using specific contracts approved for use in the UK which give personal data the same protection it has in the UK.

7. Data Security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorised way. We limit access to your personal data to those employees and third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

8. Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, or reporting requirements.

Enquiry Data: We will retain data from your enquiries for the duration of our business relationship and for up to six years after for legal and record-keeping purposes.

Analytics Data: Technical and Usage Data is typically anonymised and may be kept for a period of up to 26 months.

9. Your Legal Rights

Under data protection law, you have rights including:

Request access to your personal data.

Request correction of your personal data.

Request erasure of your personal data.

Object to processing of your personal data.

Request restriction of processing your personal data.

Request transfer of your personal data.

Right to withdraw consent.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact our DPO at pb@aerofoundry.uk.

You also have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK regulator for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO, so please contact us in the first instance.

Cookie Policy

10. What Are Cookies?

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently and to provide information to the owners of the site.

11. How We Use Cookies

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. We use the following types of cookies:

Strictly Necessary Cookies: These are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable basic functions like security and network management.

Analytical/Performance Cookies: They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. We use Google Analytics for this purpose.

12. Managing Cookies

When you first visit our website, we will ask for your consent to place analytical cookies on your device. You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including strictly necessary cookies), you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.

For more information about cookies and how to manage them, please visit www.aboutcookies.org.

13. Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page, and the "Last Updated" date will be revised. We encourage you to review this policy periodically to stay informed about how we are protecting your information.