Privacy Policy

1 Introduction

1.1 Who we are

We are GridLink Interconnector Limited (“GridLink”, “we”, “us”), a limited company incorporated and registered in England and Wales with company number 10181689 and registered office at Anumerate Office 2.05 Clockwise, Old Town Hall, 30 Tweedy Road, Bromley, England, BR1 3FE.

1.2 Purpose of this Privacy Policy

We take your privacy very seriously. As such, we ask that you read this Privacy Policy carefully as it contains important information about:

1. what personal data we may collect from you;
2. how we will use, store and protect your personal data;
3. with whom we may share personal data; and
4. your rights under relevant data protection laws.

It is important that you read this Privacy Policy together with any other privacy notice or fair processing notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. This Privacy Policy supplements the other notices and is not intended to override them.

2 Lawful basis for processing

Under data protection laws, we must have a legal basis in order to process your personal data. The legal bases on which we may process your data are:

• Legitimate interest: in order to carry on GridLink’s business and related activities.
• Consent: where you have consented for us to process your personal data for one or more specific reasons.
• Performance of a contract: in order to perform a contract that GridLink may have with you.
• Legal obligation: where processing of the data is required by law.

3 What data we may collect from you

We may collect and process the following personal data:

• your name, email address, telephone number(s), organisation, role and information related to our business relationship with you;
• for clients and commercial counterparties, the personal data of its representatives and staff, including the data set out above as well as date of birth, gender, financial information, visual images (such as copies of passports) and data contained in identity documentation;
• cookie data (please see our Cookies Policy on our website www.gridlinkinterconnector.com for further information); and
• technical data such as internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access our website.

4 How we collect information from you

We collect your personal data in a number of ways:

• as you browse the GridLink website certain information is collected automatically using cookies, server logs and other similar technologies. Please see our Cookies Policy on our website for further information;
• during the communications between us, such as via email, telephone, correspondence or in meetings;
• any personal information you provide to us during your relationship with us as a commercial counterparty of us; and
• from third parties/public sources:
  • technical data may be obtained from the following parties:
    
    1. our website management provider,
    2. data analytics providers, such as Google Analytics, and
  • identity and contact data from publicly availably sources such as internet searches and Companies House.

5 How we use your personal data

We may use your personal data for the following purposes:

• to contact you to respond to any queries you have raised;
• where you are a commercial counterparty of GridLink:
  
  1. to carry out necessary anti-money laundering and anti-fraud checks, including any periodic updates of the same, and
  2. to enable us to conduct day-to-day business activities with you; and
• as we believe to be necessary or appropriate:
  • in order to comply with a legal obligation. This applies where the processing is necessary for us to comply with the law,
  • to enforce or apply this Privacy Policy, and
  • to protect our legitimate rights, privacy, property or safety, and/or those of a third party and your rights do not override those interests.

6 Third party links

The GridLink website may contain links to and from other applications, plug-ins and websites of other networks, advertisers, and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that they (and any services that may be accessible through them) have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies or for any personal data that may be collected through these apps, websites or services. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites or use such services.

7 Retention of your data

We will not retain your personal data for longer than is necessary for the purposes for which the personal data is processed. This means that your data will only be retained for as long as it is still required to provide you with services or is necessary for legal (including regulatory) reasons. When calculating the appropriate retention period for your data, we consider the nature and sensitivity of the data, the purposes for which we are processing the data, and any applicable statutory retention periods. Using these criteria, we regularly review the personal data which we hold and the purposes for which it is held and processed.

When we determine that personal data can no longer be retained (or where you request us to delete your data in accordance with your right to do so (please see section 11 below for more information), we ensure that this data is securely deleted or destroyed.

For more details about our retention periods, please contact us at contact@gridlinkinterconnector.com.

8 Accuracy of your data

It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.

9 Security of your data

We seek to ensure that we have appropriate organisational and technical security measures to protect your personal data.

In the unlikely event of a data breach, we will take steps to mitigate any loss or destruction of data and, if required, will notify you and any applicable authority of such a breach.

10 Transfer of your data

Transfers within our group

GridLink is owned by iCON Infrastructure Partners III, L.P., part of the iCON Infrastructure LLP (“iCON”) group, a limited company incorporated and registered in England and Wales with company number OC364705 and registered office at 5^th Floor 15 Golden Square, London, England, W1F 9JG. We may share your data within the iCON group.

Transfers to third parties

There may be circumstances in which we may also need to share your personal data with certain third parties, including third parties located outside of the UK and the European Economic Area (EEA).

The third parties to which we may transfer your personal data include:

• We employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf, including our outsourced IT support and accounting functions, software suppliers, and data hosting providers;
• Banks who assist us by acting as depositories for funds;
• Other professional advisors such as accountants, lawyers, consultants and other business advisors engaged by us; and
• Other third parties where required under law or applicable regulation, or in connection with legal or regulatory proceedings.

The security of your data is important to us. We will, therefore, only transfer your data to such third parties if:

• the third party has agreed to comply with our instructions, required data security standards, policies, and procedures and put adequate security measures in place;
• the transfer complies with any applicable cross border transfer restrictions and suitable safeguards have been put in place; and
• a written contract containing suitable obligations and protections has been entered into between the parties.

As mentioned above, we will only transfer your data where suitable safeguards have been put in place. These safeguards are intended to ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to your data wherever it may be transferred and include:

• Only transferring your personal data to countries which have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data by the European Commission; and
• Where your data will be transferred by us outside of the UK or EEA, entering into specific contractual terms which have been approved by the ICO and which give personal data the same protection as within the UK

In some circumstances, we may have to disclose your personal information by law, because the courts or other law enforcement agency has asked us for it, or to enforce our legal rights.

11 Your rights

You have certain rights in relation to the personal data GridLink process and hold about you. These include:

• Right to rectification: you have the right to require GridLink to correct any inaccuracies in your data.
• Right to erasure: you have the right to require GridLink to delete your data, subject to certain legal requirements.
• Right to restriction of processing: you have the right to require GridLink to restrict the way in which GridLink processes your personal data. You may wish to restrict processing if, for example:
  • You contest the accuracy of the data and wish to have it corrected;
  • You object to processing but GridLink is required to retain the data for reasons of public interest; or
  • If you would prefer restriction to erasure.
• Right to data portability: you have the right to obtain from GridLink easily and securely the personal data we hold on you for any purpose you see fit.
• Right to object to processing: you have the right to require GridLink to stop processing your personal data should you wish the data to be retained but no longer processed.
• Right of access: you have the right to request access to personal data that GridLink may process about you.
• Right to withdraw consent: you have the right at any time to withdraw consent allowing GridLink to process your personal data.

If you would like to exercise any of the above rights, please contact GridLink at contact@gridlinkinterconnector.com.  We will respond to requests made by you within one month.

12 Amendments to this Privacy Policy

No changes to this Privacy Policy are valid or have any effect unless agreed by GridLink in writing. GridLink reserves the right to vary this Privacy Policy from time to time. Our updated terms will be displayed on the GridLink website. It is your responsibility to check this Privacy Policy from time to time to verify such variations.

13 Questions in relation to this Privacy Policy

You should also be aware that you have the right to raise any concerns in relation to how GridLink processes your personal data to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).

GridLink, has appointed a data privacy lead (DPL) who is responsible for dealing with any such concerns, in addition to overseeing questions in relation to this Privacy Policy and handling requests in relation the exercise of your legal rights. If you have any concerns, questions, or requests, please contact the DPL using the details set out below.

GridLink Interconnector Limited

Anumerate Office 2.05 Clockwise,
Old Town Hall,
30 Tweedy Road,
Bromley,
England,BR1 3FE

Email address: contact@gridlinkinterconnector.com

Cookies Policy

This website (www.gridlinkinterconnector.com) (‘the website’) is brought to you by GridLink Interconnector Limited (“GridLink”, “us”, or “we”) and you should be aware that it may contain cookies. For more information about the use of cookies and how to disable them, please refer to the guidance on the allaboutcookies.org website.

What is a cookie?

Cookies which are small text files which are downloaded onto your computer, smart phone, or any other mobile device you use to access a website. The cookies used on this website may store information about your device’s operating system, browsing behaviour, connection type, and IP address, but do not collect or store any personally identifiable information.

What type of cookies are used?

This website uses Google Analytics:  These cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited.  We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site.  These include: _ga, __ga_*.Read Google Privacy to find out more.

We use a WordPress Cookie Management System for this site.  This system uses cookies for logged in users and commentators. These cookies are purely a convenience, set up so that the visitor won’t need to re-type all their information again if they want to leave another comment.  These can include: wordpress_test_cookie, wordpress_[hash], wordpress_logged_in_[hash] and wp-settings-{time]-[UID].  To find out more please read WordPress Cookies.

The site also stores user’s language selection. This is a session cookie pll_language, which is functional and strictly necessary for the multilingual feature of the site and persistent only during the user’s browsing the site.

We sometimes embed photos and video content from websites such as YouTube, Vimeo, Flickr, etc. As a result, when you visit a page with embedded content from one of these sites, you may be presented with their own cookies.

Why are cookies used?

We use these cookies for website analytics purposes to understand more about website traffic and usage.

When do cookies expire?

Cookies can remain on your computer for different periods of time. Some cookies used on this website are ‘permanent cookies,’ meaning that they survive after your browser is closed.

How do I block cookies?

By default, only necessary and essential cookies are active on the site, with Analytics ones active only when the user explicitly opts in by clicking ‘Accept all’.

 You may choose to accept or decline cookies. Declining cookies may limit the full experience of our site.

Alternatively, you can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. Using the ‘Do Not Track’ setting on your browser will automatically block all tracking cookies while allowing essential cookies.

You can opt-out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites by making use of the Google Analytics opt-out tool.

Links to other websites

The site may contain links to other websites of interest. We cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide while visiting such sites; such sites are not governed by our privacy statement.

Last updated on 9th February 2026.