Privacy policy

Tier 1 Global Talent Visa is a trading name of Celestite Limited, a company registered in England and Wales (company number 12071009). Our trading address is 71-75 Shelton Street, London, Greater London WC2H 9JQ, United Kingdom.

Celestite Limited is the controller of the personal data described in this policy. This means we decide why and how your data is used, and we are responsible for looking after it. We are registered with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).

We do not need to appoint a Data Protection Officer. For any question about your data, email info@tier1globaltalentvisa.com.

This policy applies when you:

• visit www.tier1globaltalentvisa.com
• use our eligibility checker or send us a form
• contact us by email, phone, WhatsApp or social media, or fill in one of our lead forms on LinkedIn
• book a free consultation or become a client
• receive emails from us

Our services are for adults. The Global Talent route is open to people aged 18 or over, and we do not knowingly collect data from anyone under 18.

Where it comes from. Almost all of it comes from you. If the link you used to reach us contains a campaign tag (for example from one of our adverts), we record that tag with your form. We may also look at public information you point us to, such as your LinkedIn profile, publications, products or press coverage, to prepare for a call. If you fill in a lead form on LinkedIn, LinkedIn passes us the details you entered.

Sensitive information. We do not ask for information about your health, ethnicity, religion, political opinions, sexual orientation or criminal record. If a document you send us contains it, we use it only to prepare your application, with your explicit consent, and you can ask us to delete it at any time.

Your letter writers. If you are a client, you may give us the names, roles and contact details of the people who will write letters for you, and we may see their draft letters. We use this only to help prepare your application. Please let them know, and point them to this policy.

UK data protection law says we must have a lawful basis for each use of your data. These are ours:

Where we rely on legitimate interests, we have checked that our interests are not outweighed by your rights. You can ask us for details of that check.

You do not have to give us your data, but we cannot reply to an enquiry without your contact details, and we cannot provide our services without the information they need.

If you send us an enquiry, send us your eligibility checker result, book a consultation or become a client, we may send you occasional emails about the Global Talent endorsement, such as new guides, changes to the rules and events. We use your name and field to make these emails relevant to you.

You can say no when you send a form, and every email has an unsubscribe link. If you unsubscribe, we keep your email address on a suppression list so that we do not email you again.

If you fill in a lead form on LinkedIn or another platform, or you have not asked us about our services, we only send you these emails if you have agreed to receive them.

Emails about your own enquiry or service, such as a booking confirmation, are not marketing and are always sent.

Cookies are small files stored by your browser. Under the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations, we need your consent before we store anything on your device unless it is strictly necessary, or falls under one of the exemptions the law allows. When you first visit, we ask you to accept or reject analytics. Nothing optional runs until you accept.

We also use Vercel Web Analytics, which counts page views without cookies and without identifying you. Google Analytics is set up so that advertising features stay off.

You can change your choice at any time:

We do not sell your data. We share it only with the service providers below, who process it for us under contract and only on our instructions:

We may also share your data:

• with our accountants, lawyers and insurers, when they need it to advise us
• with an endorsing body or the Home Office, only if you ask us to
• with the police, HMRC, a court or a regulator, when the law requires it
• with a buyer, if our business is ever sold, under the same protections

If you contact us on WhatsApp, LinkedIn or another social platform, that platform also processes your messages under its own privacy policy.

Some of our providers hold data outside the UK. When they do, we make sure your data has the protection UK law requires, by relying on:

• UK adequacy regulations, which cover the European Economic Area
• the UK Extension to the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, for US providers certified under it
• the ICO's International Data Transfer Agreement or the UK Addendum to the EU Standard Contractual Clauses, for other transfers

Email us if you would like more detail about the safeguard used for a particular provider.

Only the people who need your data to answer you or to work on your application can see it. Our website runs over an encrypted connection, our accounts are protected with strong passwords and two-step sign-in where available, and we choose providers with recognised security standards.

No system is completely secure. If a breach puts your rights at risk, we will tell you and, where the law requires, the ICO within 72 hours of becoming aware of it.

Under UK data protection law you have the right to:

• Access a copy of the personal data we hold about you
• Correct data that is wrong or incomplete
• Delete your data, where we have no good reason to keep it
• Restrict how we use your data, for example while we check a complaint
• Move data you gave us to another organisation, in a common format
• Withdraw consent at any time, where we rely on it. This does not affect what we did before you withdrew it.

Your right to object. You can object at any time to our use of your data based on legitimate interests. You can also tell us to stop sending you marketing emails, and we will always stop.

To use any of these rights, email info@tier1globaltalentvisa.com. It is free. We reply within one month. If your request is complex, we may extend this by up to two more months and will tell you why. If we need to confirm your identity or understand what you are asking for, the time limit starts once we have that information.

Our eligibility checker shows you an indicative result based on your answers. It is a guide only. It does not make any decision about you that has a legal or similarly significant effect, and a person reviews every checker result you choose to send us.

If you are unhappy with how we have used your data, please tell us first. You can use the form on our contact page, email info@tier1globaltalentvisa.com with the subject line “Data protection complaint”, or write to us at the address in section 15. We will acknowledge your complaint within 30 days, look into it, keep you informed of progress and tell you the outcome without undue delay.

You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office, the UK regulator for data protection: ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint, or call 0303 123 1113.

We review this policy at least once a year and when the law or our services change. The date at the top shows when it last changed. If we plan to use your data for a new purpose, we will tell you before we do.

Celestite Limited, trading as Tier 1 Global Talent Visa
71-75 Shelton Street, London, Greater London WC2H 9JQ, United Kingdom
Email: info@tier1globaltalentvisa.com
Phone: +44 7388 813058

See also our terms and conditions.