Privacy policy
This policy explains how The Mantle handles personal information collected through the waitlist at themantle.uk. It was last updated in November 2026.
Who we are
The Mantle is a trading name of Mantle Forum Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales (company number 17548611). Our registered office is 82a James Carter Road, Mildenhall, Bury St Edmunds, IP28 7DE. We are the controller of the personal data described in this policy, which means we decide how and why it is used. You can contact us about this policy or your data at hello@themantle.uk.
What we collect and where it comes from
When you join the waitlist, we collect your full name, work email address, job title, organisation, location and LinkedIn profile, plus the date and a record of your consent. Joining the waitlist is a request to be considered for a founding place. It does not guarantee membership or commit you to becoming a paid member. If you answer our optional survey, we also keep your answers, and you can skip any question. If you write to us, we keep the content of your emails and any details you include. If we write to you before you have joined the waitlist, we will have found your name, job title, organisation and work email address from public sources, such as company websites and professional networking sites, and from business contact data providers (currently Apollo.io and MoltSets). We tell you this in our first message. When you visit the website, we also receive basic technical data such as your IP address, browser and the pages you view. We do not ask for sensitive personal data such as health, political opinions or religion, and we ask you not to send it to us.
Why we use it and our lawful basis
We use waitlist form details to run the waitlist and decide who is invited to the founding cohort, including looking at public professional information to build a balanced cohort. Our lawful basis is your consent, and our legitimate interest in selecting a balanced founding cohort. We use your name, work email and organisation to email you about the waitlist, founding places and the launch of The Mantle, based on your consent. We use your name, job title, organisation and work email to contact senior professionals directly, tell them about The Mantle and invite them to join the waitlist, based on our legitimate interest in promoting a business membership to relevant professionals. We use survey answers, linked to your waitlist details, to run and analyse the survey, based on your consent. We use technical data to keep the website secure and working, based on our legitimate interest. We keep accounting records and respond to requests about your data because the law requires it. When we contact you directly, we only write to work email addresses at organisations, we say who we are and where we found your details, and you can opt out at any time by replying to any email we send you or by writing to hello@themantle.uk. Any clear request to stop is enough, and we will stop straight away. We do not use your data to make automated decisions about you.
Who we share it with
We do not sell your data. We share it only with providers who handle it on our behalf, under contract, and only for the purposes above. These are Google (Workspace, Gmail, Sheets and Drive), for email and for storing waitlist and survey data; Framer, which hosts this website and its forms; Apollo.io and MoltSets, business contact data providers we use to find and check professional contact details; Tally, which hosts our optional survey; and AI assistants such as Claude, provided by Anthropic, which we use to help research and draft messages and which process data on our instructions. We may also share data with our professional advisers, such as accountants and lawyers, and with public authorities where the law requires it. Some of these providers store or process data outside the UK, including in the United States. Where that happens, we rely on a lawful transfer mechanism, such as the UK extension to the EU-US Data Privacy Framework or standard contractual clauses with the UK addendum, so that your data stays protected.
How long we keep it
Waitlist details are kept until we have decided whether to invite you, and for up to 24 months after that if you are not invited, unless you ask us to delete them sooner. For people we contacted who did not respond or join, we delete their details within 12 months of the first message. If you ask us to stop, we keep only your email address on a suppression list so that we do not contact you again. Survey answers are kept for up to 24 months. Emails and correspondence are kept for up to 3 years. Accounting records are kept for 6 years, as the law requires.
Your rights and how to complain
You have the right to ask for a copy of the personal data we hold about you, to ask us to correct data that is wrong or incomplete, to ask us to delete your data, to ask us to restrict how we use it, to receive your data in a portable format where it applies, and to object to us using your data, including for direct marketing, which you can always do. You can withdraw your consent at any time, where we rely on it, without affecting what we did before. To use any of these rights, email hello@themantle.uk. We aim to reply within one month. If you are unhappy with how we handle your data, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk or on 0303 123 1113. We would appreciate the chance to put things right first.
Cookies and the website
This website is hosted on Framer, which also collects basic visit statistics. Its fonts are loaded from Google, which receives your IP address when the page loads. The video on our homepage is hosted on YouTube, a Google service. Google receives your IP address when the video's preview image loads, and if you play the video, YouTube may set cookies and collect information about your device under Google's own privacy policy. We use only the cookies and similar technologies needed to run the site and keep it secure. We do not use advertising cookies. If we add any cookies that need your consent, we will ask you first through a cookie banner.
Changes to this policy
We may update this policy from time to time. The date below shows when it last changed, and we will tell you about any significant change by email if we hold your address. Last updated: 6 November 2026.