Privacy Policy

Last updated: August 2026.

Who we are

SMB Accountancy Group Ltd ("we", "us") is a holding company registered in England and Wales (company number 16609652), registered office 7 De Havilland Drive, Estuary Commerce Park, Speke, Liverpool L24 8RN. We are the data controller for personal information collected through this website. Contact us about privacy at hello@stuartmcbain.com.

Accountancy services are provided by the member firms in our group, each of which is a separate data controller for its own clients and publishes its own privacy information on its own website.

What we collect and why

General enquiries. When you submit the contact form we collect your name, email address, phone number (if given) and your message. We use these solely to respond to your enquiry. Legal basis: legitimate interests (responding to a request you initiated).

Practice sale enquiries. When you register interest in selling your practice we additionally collect the practice details you choose to share (practice name, location, approximate fee income, timescale). We treat these enquiries as strictly confidential: they are read only by the group's directors, and are never shared with member firm staff or third parties without your agreement. Legal basis: legitimate interests (assessing and responding to an enquiry you initiated).

Website. This site is hosted on Cloudflare Pages. Basic technical data (IP address, browser type) is processed by Cloudflare to serve and secure the site. Our forms are protected by Cloudflare Turnstile, which processes technical signals to distinguish humans from bots. We do not run advertising trackers.

Analytics. If we enable Google Analytics, it loads only after you give consent through the cookie banner, and you can withdraw consent at any time using the cookie icon at the bottom left of the page. With consent declined or not given, no analytics cookies are set.

How long we keep it

General enquiry details are kept for up to 12 months, then deleted if no ongoing relationship has followed. Practice sale enquiries are kept for up to 24 months, reflecting the longer timescales on which owners typically plan a sale, unless you ask us to delete them sooner.

Sharing

We do not sell personal information. We share it only with the service providers that run this website's infrastructure acting as processors (Cloudflare for hosting and form storage, and our email delivery provider for notifications), with professional advisors where a transaction proceeds and you have agreed, and where required by law.

Your rights

Under UK GDPR you can ask for access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal information, object to our processing, and complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ico.org.uk). Email hello@stuartmcbain.com to exercise any of these rights.