Privacy Policy

Pocket Horse Sales LTD, trading as Pocket Horse, is a UK digital equestrian marketplace that offers an equestrian buying and selling and advertising process. To provide you with the full range of Pocket Horse services, we need to collect and process certain information about you.

This Notice and our Cookies Policy apply to all visitors to and users of:

  • the Pocket Horse website at www.pocket-horse.com (the “Website”);
  • any Pocket Horse website that links to this Notice and/or our Cookies Policy;
  • Pocket Horse social media accounts;

It also applies to anyone contacting us by phone, SMS, email, in letters and other correspondence, in person and via social media.

“Data Protection legislation” means all applicable data protection and privacy legislation in force from time to time in the UK including the UK GDPR; the Data Protection Act 2018; the Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive 2002/58/EC (as updated by Directive 2009/136/EC) and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 (SI 2003/2426)

“UK GDPR” means Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data as it forms part of the law of England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland by virtue of section 3 of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act of 2018

Advert Creation

To create an advert we require some personal details including your name, email address, contact number, location as well as the details of your listing, whether this is a horse, equine equipment or service.

We use your name and email address to communicate with you regarding your advert. If your advert expires we will contact you via email to give you the option to renew your advert. Your contact details will be shared on the Pocket Horse website in order for individuals to contact you during the advert sale process. We use your location to help other users locate adverts near to them.

We may also use the information you provide for internal business records and purposes, including to analyse and develop our products and services and the Website. We will not loan, rent or sell to any third parties any personal details that have been passed on to us without explicit prior permission.

We use certain features in our advert placement process to protect the privacy of our customers when they are communicating with potential buyers via phone or email.

You will also be required to supply payment card details to place your advert. We use third party payment providers to manage online card payment transactions. Payment card information is collected over a secure online payment gateway provided by:

All payment transactions processed are encrypted. Your payment card information is used solely to process payment for your advert. We retain no record of your payment card details.