Privacy Policy

Bentley Associates (“the Company”) will collect the personal details that you provide to us on our website for the purposes of providing you with services and/or information. In providing such services and/or information to you we will only use your personal data in accordance with the terms of the following statement.

This statement sets out below:

1. How the Company collects your personally identifiable information through the website.
2. How the Company uses this information.
3. Who the Company may share the information with and for what purpose(s).
4. What choices are available to you regarding collection, use and distribution of your information.
5. The kind of security procedures that are in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of information collected through the Company’s website
6. How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information collected through the website.

 

If you feel that this company is not abiding by its posted privacy policy, you should first contact Anna Fisher by email: anna@bentleyassociates.co.uk

 
Information Collection and Use

The Company collects information from our users at several different points on our website. The Company is the sole owner of the information collected on this site.  We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others. When registering to work or applying for a job advertised by Bentley Associates we collect the following information:

• Name
• Contact information
• A copy of your CV

Registration

We request information from you on our online registration forms.  Here you must provide contact information and information regarding the type of work you are seeking and your skills, qualifications and experience.  This information is used to enable us to provide you with work-finding services.  If we have trouble processing your application, this contact information is used to get in touch with you. The Company does not use this information for any other purpose.

What we do with the information we gather

We require this information to assess your suitability for work:

• Vetting and clearing you for work for our clients
• Internal record keeping and external auditing

We may periodically send promotional emails about new special offers, services and company updates. From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by email, phone, fax or mail. 

How we use cookies and log files

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by  gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
We use traffic log files and third-party tracking cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system. 

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you other than the data you choose to share with us.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Sharing

We may share aggregated demographic information with our clients. This is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person.

Sale of business

If the Company’s business is sold or integrated with another business your details may be disclosed to our advisers and any prospective purchasers and their advisers and will be passed on to the new owners of the business.

Security

The Company takes every precaution to protect our users’ information. Only the company’s employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, our payroll manager or recruitment consultants) are granted access to your information.

The Company uses all reasonable efforts to safeguard your personal information. However, you should be aware that the use of the Internet is not entirely secure and for this reason the Company cannot guarantee the security or integrity of any personal information which is transferred from you or to you via the Internet. If you have any questions about the security of our website, you can send an email to enquiries@bentleyassociates.co.uk

Correction/Updating Personal Information

If your personally identifiable information changes (such as address), we will endeavour to provide a way to correct, update or remove the personal data provided to us.  This can usually be done by emailing Anna Fisher – enquiries@bentleyassociates.co.uk

Notification of Changes

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on our Homepage so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under circumstances, if any, we disclose it.  If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of an email.  Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.

Controlling your personal information

If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by writing to or emailing us at enquiries@bentleyassociates.co.uk

We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we are required by law to do so. You are able to request details of personal information which we hold about you. Please send requests to:

Anna Fisher
Bentley Associates
1 Hinde Street
London
W1U 2AY

or via email to anna@bentleyassociates.co.uk  

If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible, at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.