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Privacy notice

What personal information Benjobuilds collects, why it is used, who receives it and the rights you have.

Last updated: 9 September 2026

This notice applies to information submitted through benjobuilds.com and later correspondence about a potential or active project.

Who is responsible for your information?

Ben Holton is a sole trader trading as Benjobuilds and is the controller responsible for personal information collected through this website.

Legal status
Sole trader
Location
Shrewsbury, Shropshire, United Kingdom

Information collected

Benjobuilds may collect:

  • Your name, business name, email address and phone number.
  • The website, budget, timing and project details in an enquiry.
  • Messages and files exchanged during later correspondence.
  • Basic security logs recorded by the hosting provider, such as IP address, browser, device and request time.

Why it is used

Information is used to:

  • Assess and respond to enquiries.
  • Take steps you request before entering into a contract.
  • Deliver and administer agreed work.
  • Maintain accounting, contractual and legal records.
  • Protect the website and investigate misuse.

Depending on the context, processing is necessary to take steps at your request before a contract, perform a contract, comply with a legal obligation, or pursue the legitimate interests of responding to enquiries and operating and protecting the business where those interests are not overridden by your rights.

No enquiry detail is added to a marketing list.

Who receives the information?

Information is shared only where needed with providers that help operate the website and receive business correspondence:

  • Vercel, for website hosting and security logs.
  • Web3Forms, for secure enquiry-form delivery.
  • The business email provider used to receive and reply.
  • Professional advisers or authorities where legally required.

Some providers may process data outside the United Kingdom. Where this happens, Benjobuilds relies on the safeguards and transfer mechanisms made available under the provider agreement and applicable UK data-protection law.

How long is it kept?

  • Enquiries that do not become projects are normally deleted 12 months after the last meaningful contact.
  • Records connected with paid work are normally retained for six years after the business relationship ends where needed for tax, accounting, contractual or legal purposes.
  • Hosting and security logs are retained according to the hosting provider’s operational retention periods.

Cookies and similar technology

This website does not currently use non-essential analytics, advertising or tracking cookies. Essential technology may be used to operate and protect the website. If that changes, this notice and any required consent controls will be updated before the new technology is enabled.

Security

Reasonable technical and organisational measures are used to protect personal information. No internet transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

Your rights

Depending on the circumstances, you may have the right to ask for access, correction, deletion, restriction, objection or transfer of your personal information. Where processing relies on consent, you may withdraw that consent at any time.

To exercise a right, email benjo@benjobuilds.com. Information may be requested to confirm your identity.

Complaints

Please contact Benjobuilds first so the concern can be investigated. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office at ico.org.uk.

Changes to this notice

This notice may be updated when the website, services, providers or legal requirements change. The revision date above identifies the current version.

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