Ben Johnson Privacy Policy

BEN JOHNSON LTD is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. This privacy policy explains how we use the information we collect about you. How you can instruct us if you prefer to limit the use of that information and procedures that we have in place to safeguard your privacy.

General

Any personal data we collect is used in accordance with data protection legislation. All information is kept for a reasonable period and used for our administration, marketing purposes and to inform you of our services.

The Data Protection Policy employed by Ben Johnson Ltd has been developed as an extension of our commitment to combine the finest quality services with the highest level of integrity in dealing with our clients, candidates, suppliers, associates and staff. The Policy guides how we collect, store and use information about individuals and organisations. It will be continuously assessed against new technologies, business practices and the changing needs of everyone we deal with.

The information we collect

Identity information
This is personal information that can be used to identify you. This includes your first name, middle name, last name, and maiden name.

Contact information
This is personal information that can be used to contact you. This includes your phone number, email address, website, and company name.

Technical information
This is technical information about the device you use to interact with the website. This includes your internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, location and time zone, browser extensions, operating system and platform (Windows, Macintosh, Linux, etc), and other technology on the devices you use to access and interact with our website.

Usage information
This is information about how you use our website. This includes uniform resource locators (URLs), pages you’ve viewed while browsing our website, and page interaction information such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-over events.

How information is collected

The above information is collected through direct interactions with our website. Through the use of the contact form on the “Contact” page, you willingly give us your name, company name, phone number, and email address. Technical and usage information is collected as you interact with the various features, hyperlinks, and resources on the website.

How we use the information we collect

Responding to enquiries
We use the identity and contact information that you provide through the interaction of the website to respond to enquiries. When you submit an enquiry using the form on the “Contact” page, you give us your name, company name, phone number, and email address. This information is strictly for business purposes and we use it to follow up on the enquiry you have submitted.

Spam prevention
We use the identity and contact information that you provide to check for and reduce spam submissions that we receive through our contact form. The identity and contact information you submit is processed by Akismet Anti-spam, a third-party service that processes submissions and detects spam. We use Akismet Anti-spam to detect and filter out spam submissions so we only receive genuine ones on our end. For more information about Akismet Anti-spam, who they are, how they operate, and how they comply with GDPR, see their privacy document using the following URL: https://akismet.com/privacy/.

We use reCAPTCHA to detect and prevent robots from submitting spam through our contact form. reCAPTCHA is a third-party service developed and maintained by Google LLC and uses the technical and usage information declared above to detect robots. Through the use of reCAPTCHA, we are able to filter out spam submissions made by robots so we only receive genuine ones made by real people. For more information about reCAPTCHA, Google LLC, what specific information is collected, and the processing of that information, see Google LLC’s privacy policy using the following URL: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

Search engine optimisation and analysis
We use the technical and usage information collected for search engine optimisation and analytics purposes. This information helps us find out what users search for before they arrive on our website, how long they stay on our website, and what pages they access while browsing our website. This information also helps us identify which search queries and pages on our website are the most popular so we can improve rankings on search engines, primarily Google. We use the Google Search Console and Google Analytics services to collect and process this data. These services are developed and maintained by Google LLC. If you wish to opt out of personalised ads served by Google Ads, you can adjust your ad preferences through Google’s Ad Settings. To see more information about what information Google LLC collects, see their privacy policy using the following URL: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

Advertising and Google Ads
We may use Google Ads on our website to display targeted advertisements to our visitors. Google Ads is an online advertising platform provided by Google LLC. This service uses cookies and similar technologies to present personalized ads based on your browsing behaviour and interests. When you visit our website, Google Ads may collect certain information about your interactions and activities on our site. This information may include your IP address, browser type, device type, referring website, and other browsing-related data. Google Ads uses this data to infer your interests and deliver ads that are relevant to you. For more information on how Google Ads collects, uses, and protects your data, please refer to Google LLC’s privacy policy (https://policies.google.com/privacy) and their privacy terms document (https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites).

Our Policy provides the following:

Notice

Ben Johnson Ltd will only use your information for the purposes stated. We will limit the personal information we collect to what we need, and we will use it only for those purposes.  We will obtain your consent if we wish to use your personal information for any other reason. Ben Johnson does not sell data to any third party.

Security

We will maintain appropriate safeguards to ensure the security, integrity and privacy of your Personally-Identifiable Information. We will protect the personal information we obtain with appropriate safeguards and security measures. We hold personal data in accordance with the security provisions of the Data Protection legislation.

We have implemented security policies, rules and technical measures to protect the personal data that we have under our control from:

  • Unauthorised access
  • Improper use or disclosure
  • Unauthorised modification
  • Unlawful destruction or accidental loss

All our employees are obliged to respect the confidentiality of your personal data.

We ensure that your personal data will not be disclosed to authorities except if required by law or other regulation.

Review and Correction

Ben Johnson Ltd will continue to oversee implementation of and compliance with our Policy and will adapt the Policy to reflect changes in technology and the expectations of everyone we deal with. To ensure that we are following our stated Policy, we also conduct periodic and random audits of our systems.

Access to Your Personal Data

We will give you access to the personal information we retain about you. We will provide you the opportunity to update the personal information we retain to ensure it is accurate.

You can request a copy of the personal information that Ben Johnson Ltd holds about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected. Please address requests to gdpr@benjohnson.co.uk and include which division you are registered with.

We allow you to challenge the data that we hold about you and, where appropriate you may have the data erased, amended, or completed.

If you would like to have any / all of the information we hold on you erased, amended or completed please email gdpr@benjohnson.co.uk and include which division you are registered with.

 

Cookies

This website uses cookies to better the users experience while visiting the website. As required by legislation, where applicable this website uses a cookie control system, allowing the user to give explicit permission or to deny the use of /saving of cookies on their computer / device.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small files saved to the user’s computers hard drive that track, save and store information about the user’s interactions and usage of the website. This allows the website, through its server to provide the users with a tailored experience within this website.

To understand more about Cookies and how we use them on, please read our Cookie Policy.

Ben Johnson Ltd may record and monitor calls for quality and training purposes.