Privacy Policy
Last Updated: 23/01/2026.
1. Introduction
Bidwells respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy notice will let you know how we look after your personal data generally as well as when you visit our website and tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
2. Who are we?
Bidwells LLP is the Data Controller and responsible for your personal data (collectively referred to as “Bidwells” “we”, “us” or “our” in this privacy notice) collected through the Cambridge Science Park website (www.cambridgesciencepark.co.uk).
3. What personal data do we collect about you?
- Identity Data includes first name and last name.
- Contact Data includes email address and telephone numbers.
- Technical Data includes 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, device ID and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
- Profile Data includes, where relevant, your username.
- Usage Data includes information about how you interact with and use our website.
- Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.
We also collect, use and share aggregated data such as statistical or demographic data which is not personal data as it does not directly (or indirectly) reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate individuals’ Usage Data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website feature in order to analyse general trends in how users are interacting with our website to help improve the website and our service offering.
The table below explains what we use (process) your personal data for and our reasons for doing so:
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Personal data we collect |
What we use personal data for |
Our reasons |
UK GDPR Clause |
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(a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Profile |
To manage our relationship with you which will include dealing with your requests, complaints and queries |
In our legitimate interests to properly respond to your queries |
Legitimate Interest (Article 6(1)(f)) |
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(a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Profile |
Notifying you about any changes to our Terms and/or Privacy Notice. |
Performance of a contract with you |
Contract (Article 6(1)(b)) |
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(a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Profile (d) Marketing and Communications |
To operate our business and manage corporate activities, including to facilitate any business reorganisation or restructuring within our group of companies |
In our legitimate interests to operate and develop our business |
Legitimate Interest (Article 6(1)(f)) |
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(a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Profile (d) Marketing and Communications |
To send you marketing communications about any events we organise and latest news |
In our legitimate interests to send you marketing |
Legitimate Interest (Article 6(1)(f)) |
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(a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Technical (d) Profile (e) Usage (f) Marketing and Communications |
To deliver relevant website content and online advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you. |
In our legitimate interests to develop our business and inform our marketing strategy |
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(a) Technical (b) Profile (c) Usage |
To maintain and protect our website and business operations, including to provide administrative and IT services, protect our network security, prevent fraudulent activity, to troubleshoot technical issues, analyse data, testing systems, maintain and support our infrastructure, report, and host your data securely |
In our legitimate interests to maintain, protect and operate our website and business operations |
Legitimate Interest (Article 6(1)(f))
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(a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Technical (d) Profile (e) Usage (f) Marketing and Communications |
To deliver relevant website content and online advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you. |
In our legitimate interests to understand how customers use our products/services, to develop them, to grow our business and to inform our marketing strategy |
Legitimate Interest (Article 6(1)(f)) |
4. Who do we share your personal data with?
- The Bidwells Group. Your personal data may be accessed by and shared with specific members of the Bidwells group of companies who are all committed to complying with the terms of this privacy notice.
- Business partners, suppliers and subcontractors for the performance of the contract we enter into with them or you.
- Promotional events and marketing organisations, we do not sell data for marketing purposes but may share your data with an event organiser or partner. We will always tell you before (usually on the event registration form) and you will be given the chance to opt-out before we do this.
- Regulators/ Authorities/ Enforcement Agencies if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements; or to protect our, our customers’ and others’ rights. This includes exchanging your personal data with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection.
- Prospective buyers of our business under our legitimate interest to ensure our business can be continued by the buyer.
5. Where do you store my personal data?
We store your personal data both in the UK and outside of the UK. When working with third parties we may need to transfer your personal data outside of the UK.
Whenever we transfer your personal data outside of the UK we ensure it receives additional protection as required by law. To keep this notice as short and easy to understand as possible, we haven’t set out the specific circumstances when each of these protection measures are used. You can contact us at helloteam@cambridgesciencepark.co.uk for more information about this.
6. How long will you keep my personal data for?
We will only retain your personal data for as long as we need it unless we are required to keep it for longer to comply with our legal, accounting or regulatory requirements.
In some circumstances we may carefully anonymise your personal data so that it can no longer be associated with you, and we may use this anonymised information indefinitely without notifying you. We use this anonymised information to improve the way we work and our services.
7. Your rights
You have various rights under data protections laws, which you can exercise free of charge. Please keep in mind that privacy law is complicated, and these rights will not always be available to you all of the time.
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Access |
The right to be provided with a copy of your personal data (the right of access) |
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Rectification |
The right to require us to correct any mistakes in your personal data |
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To be forgotten |
The right to require us to delete your personal data |
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Restriction of processing |
The right to require us to restrict processing of your personal data e.g. if you contest the accuracy of the data |
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Data portability |
The right to receive the personal data you provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and/or transmit that data to a third party |
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To object |
The right to object: – at any time to your personal data being processed for direct marketing; – in certain other situations to our continued processing of your personal data, e.g. processing carried out for the purpose of our legitimate interests |
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Not to be subject to automated individual decision-making |
The right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing (including profiling) that produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you |
For further information on each of those rights, including the circumstances in which they apply, please contact us using the contact details below; and
- let us have enough information to identify you (we may need to have proof of your identity); and
- let us know what right you want to exercise and the information to which your request relates.
8. How to complain
We hope that we can resolve any query or concern you may raise about our use of personal data.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with us or the Information Commissioner’s Office, the supervisory authority for data protection issues in England and Wales.
We may change this Privacy Notice from time to time, and when we do, we will inform you via email and/ or by updating the version of the Privacy Notice on our website at www.cambridgesciencepark.co.uk.
9. Contact details
If you have any questions about this Privacy Notice or about the use of your personal data or you want to exercise your individual rights, you can contact us in the following ways:
- Email address: helloteam@cambridgesciencepark.co.uk
- Postal address: Cambridge Science Park, c/o Bidwells, Bidwell House, Trumpington Road, Cambridge, CB2 9LS.
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