Aritex Biotech Ltd Privacy Policy
Last updated: 24 October 2026
1. Who we are
This privacy policy explains how Aritex Biotech Ltd ("we", "us", "our") collects and uses personal information when you visit aritex.co.uk or contact us.
Aritex Biotech Ltd is the controller of your personal information under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018.
Aritex Biotech Ltd is a private company limited by shares, registered in England and Wales, company number 17531848. Our registered office is 12 Parklands Close, Moortown, Leeds LS17 6TA, England.
For any question about this policy or your personal information, please contact our director, Dr Tony Bairstow, by email at
2. The information we collect
We collect only the information we need:
- Contact form: your title, first name, last name, organisation, email address, telephone number and your message.
- Emails, letters and calls: your name, contact details, the organisation you represent, and what you tell us.
- Business contacts: if you are an investor, adviser, supplier, research partner or potential partner, your name, role, organisation, contact details, our correspondence with you, and any agreements we make with you (for example a confidentiality agreement).
- Shareholders: if you become a shareholder, the details the law requires us to keep in our register of members (your name, address, and the shares you hold).
- Website use: technical information such as your IP address, browser type and the pages you visit, collected by our website host in server logs.
- Google Analytics: if you accept analytics cookies, information about how you use the site, such as the pages you visit, how long you stay, how you arrived at the site, your device and browser type, and your approximate location (city or region). Google Analytics does not store your IP address, and we do not use it to identify you.
We do not ask for, and ask you not to send us, health information or other sensitive ("special category") information through the website.
We do not sell products through this website, and we do not take payments online.
3. How we use your information and our lawful basis
We use your information:
- to reply to your enquiry and keep a record of our correspondence (lawful basis: our legitimate interest in running our business and answering people who contact us);
- to manage our relationships with investors, advisers, suppliers and partners, including confidentiality agreements and other contracts (lawful basis: performing a contract with you, or taking steps you ask for before entering into one, and our legitimate interests);
- to keep our statutory company records, including the register of members, and to meet our tax, accounting and other legal duties (lawful basis: legal obligation);
- to keep the website secure and protect the contact form from spam (lawful basis: our legitimate interests);
- to understand how visitors use the site, using Google Analytics, so we can improve it (lawful basis: your consent, which you give through the cookie banner and can withdraw at any time);
- to establish, exercise or defend legal claims (lawful basis: our legitimate interests).
Where we rely on legitimate interests, we have considered your interests and rights and believe they are not overridden. You can ask us for more details.
We will not send you marketing emails unless you have asked us to or agreed to it, and you can stop them at any time.
4. Who we share your information with
We do not sell your personal information. We share it only where needed with:
- our website hosting provider, which hosts the site in the United Kingdom;
- our email provider (IONOS);
- Google, which provides Google Analytics (only if you accept analytics cookies) and the reCAPTCHA spam check on our contact form (see Google's privacy policy at policies.google.com/privacy);
- our professional advisers, such as our accountant, finance adviser, lawyers and patent attorneys, under a duty of confidentiality;
- HM Revenue & Customs, Companies House, and other public authorities where the law requires it.
Our website links to our pages on LinkedIn, Facebook and X (Twitter). If you visit those sites, their own privacy policies apply.
5. Transfers outside the UK
Some of our service providers, such as Google, may process information outside the United Kingdom. Where that happens, we make sure the transfer is protected by UK adequacy regulations (for example, for countries in the European Economic Area), the International Data Transfer Agreement, or the UK Addendum to the EU Standard Contractual Clauses.
6. How long we keep your information
- Enquiries and general correspondence: up to 2 years after our last contact, unless they become part of a business relationship.
- Business relationships and agreements (including confidentiality agreements): 6 years after the relationship or agreement ends, or longer if an agreement requires it.
- Accounting and tax records: 6 years from the end of the financial year they relate to.
- Register of members: for as long as the company exists. Entries for former shareholders may be removed 10 years after they cease to be members.
- Website server logs: as set by our hosting provider, normally no more than 12 months.
- Google Analytics data: 14 months, after which Google deletes it automatically (the retention period set in our Google Analytics account).
We then delete or securely destroy the information.
7. Your rights
You have the right to:
- ask for a copy of the personal information we hold about you;
- ask us to correct information that is wrong or incomplete;
- ask us to delete your information;
- ask us to restrict how we use your information;
- object to our use of your information where we rely on legitimate interests;
- ask us to transfer information you gave us to another organisation, where the law allows;
- withdraw your consent at any time, where we rely on consent.
Some rights apply only in certain circumstances. To use any of them, contact us using the details in section 1. We will reply within one month. We may need to confirm your identity first. There is normally no charge.
We do not make decisions about you by automated means alone.
8. Security
We use reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect your information, including encryption (SSL/TLS) of information sent through our website.
9. Children
Our website is not aimed at children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18.
10. Cookies and Google Analytics
We use essential cookies to make the website and contact form work. These do not need your consent.
We use Google Analytics cookies only if you accept them through the cookie banner when you first visit the site. You can change your choice at any time using the cookie settings link at the foot of each page, or by deleting cookies in your browser. You can also block Google Analytics on all websites with Google's opt-out browser add-on: tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
For details of the cookies we use, please see our Cookie Policy.
11. Complaints
If you are unhappy with how we have handled your personal information, please contact us first so we can try to put it right. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK regulator for data protection: ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint, telephone 0303 123 1113.
12. Changes to this policy
We may update this policy from time to time. The latest version will always be on this page, with the date it was last updated.