Privacy

Privacy policy

This policy explains how First Fund collects, uses and protects your personal data when you use this website or ask us for a free consultation. We only collect what we need to reply to you and help with your fund, and we never sell it.

Who we are

First Fund is a First Offshore brand and a trading name of SGS Ltd, PO Box 565, St. Peter Port, Guernsey GY1 6JW. SGS Ltd is the controller of the personal data described here. You can contact us about your data through our contact form, by email at hello at firstfund.co.uk or by post.

We handle personal data under the Data Protection (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law, 2017 and, for people in the UK, the UK General Data Protection Regulation.

What we collect

  • What you give us in our forms: your name, email address, phone number and company, and what you tell us about your plans, such as strategy, target size, jurisdiction and stage.
  • Anything you tell us later by email, phone or in meetings.
  • Website statistics from Google Analytics, if you have not turned them off. These count visits and pages read and do not tell us who you are. See our cookie policy.

Please do not send us detailed financial information about yourself or your investors through the website. We will ask for what we need, when we need it.

Why we use it

  • To reply to you and arrange and hold your consultation. This is a step you have asked us to take, and in our legitimate interest of running our service.
  • To introduce you to service providers, but only when you have agreed to the introduction.
  • To keep records of introductions and any commission a provider pays us, as the law and our own accounts require.
  • To understand how the website is used and improve it, through website statistics you can turn off.

Who we share it with

We share your details with a service provider, such as a fund administrator, only when you have agreed to us introducing you. We also use companies that host our website, email and systems for us, under contracts that require them to protect your data. We do not sell personal data and we do not use it for advertising.

How long we keep it

We keep enquiry records for as long as we need them to help you and to record any introduction, and then for up to six years after our last contact, for legal and accounting reasons. Records of enquiries that go no further are deleted sooner. Google Analytics keeps website statistics for the period set in our account, never more than 14 months.

Your rights

You can ask us for a copy of your personal data, ask us to correct or delete it, object to how we use it, ask us to restrict how we use it, and ask for it to be passed to someone else. Where we rely on your agreement you can withdraw it at any time. Use our contact form or email hello at firstfund.co.uk and we will reply within one month.

Complaints about how we use your data

  1. Tell us first

    Use our contact form, email hello at firstfund.co.uk or write to us at SGS Ltd, PO Box 565, St. Peter Port, Guernsey GY1 6JW, saying what went wrong and what you would like us to do.

  2. We look into it

    We acknowledge your complaint, look into it and send you a full written reply within one month.

  3. If you are not satisfied

    You can complain to the Office of the Data Protection Authority in Guernsey at odpa.gg. If you are in the UK you can also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.

Changes to this policy

We update this policy when the way we use personal data changes. This version was published in October 2026.