How Fortress Associates collects, uses and protects your personal data when you contact us or use this website.
Last updated: 25 June 2026
This website is operated by Fortress Associates ("we", "us", "our"), a UK consultancy providing daylight & sunlight reports, fire strategy reports and Building Regulations drawings. We are the data controller responsible for the personal data described in this policy.
You can contact us about this policy or your personal data at:
We do not operate an online contact form. You contact us directly by email, phone or our live chat. When you do, we may collect:
Like most websites, our hosting service automatically records standard technical information in server logs — such as your IP address, browser type, and the pages you request — for security, troubleshooting and to keep the site running. We also use cookies and similar technologies, described in section 6.
Under the UK GDPR we rely on the following legal bases:
| What we do | Legal basis |
|---|---|
| Respond to your enquiry and provide a quote | Taking steps at your request before entering a contract; our legitimate interests in responding to enquiries |
| Prepare and deliver the reports or drawings you instruct | Performance of our contract with you |
| Operate, secure and maintain this website | Our legitimate interests in running a safe, functional website |
| Keep business and accounting records, and meet legal obligations | Compliance with a legal obligation; our legitimate interests |
| Set non-essential (functional, analytics, marketing) cookies | Your consent |
We do not use your personal data to make solely automated decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects.
We do not sell your personal data. We share it only where necessary, with:
Some of these providers may process data outside the UK. Where they do, we rely on appropriate safeguards recognised under UK data-protection law (such as adequacy regulations or standard contractual clauses / the UK International Data Transfer Agreement).
Cookies are small files stored on your device. We use a cookie-consent banner to manage them. The categories we use are:
Functional, analytics and marketing cookies are only set with your consent. You can accept, reject or change your choices at any time through the cookie banner, and you can delete or block cookies through your browser settings — though some parts of the site may not work properly if you do.
We keep enquiry and project information for as long as needed to deal with your enquiry and provide our services, and afterwards only as long as necessary for our legitimate business, accounting and legal purposes — typically up to six years in line with UK tax and contract-record requirements — after which it is securely deleted or anonymised.
Under the UK GDPR you have the right to:
To exercise any of these rights, email us at info@clockfortress.com. You also have the right to complain to the UK's data-protection regulator, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), at ico.org.uk — though we'd appreciate the chance to resolve your concern first.
We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect your information, including serving the site over HTTPS and limiting access to the data we hold. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, but we work to protect your data and to deal promptly with any issues.
Our site and reports may link to external websites we do not control. This policy does not apply to those sites, and we are not responsible for their content or privacy practices.
Our services and website are intended for businesses and individuals dealing with property and construction projects, and are not directed at children.
We may update this policy from time to time. The "last updated" date above shows when it was last changed. Please check back periodically.
If you have any questions about this policy or how we handle your data, contact us at info@clockfortress.com or on 07448 539 682.