JT. Ellis & Co. Ltd is committed to protecting your privacy and the security of your personal information.
Please read this policy carefully before using our Website.
By continuing to use our Website you are, by implication, consenting to our use of your personal information and of cookies in the way we describe in this policy.
This privacy and cookies policy sets out how JT. Ellis & Co. Ltd and other group companies (“JT. Ellis & Co. Ltd”) collect, use and protect any information that you give us online, face-to-face and by email.
It relates to all of the websites and social media managed by, or on behalf of, JT. Ellis & Co. Ltd and other group companies (“Website” “Site”), although other parts of our Website and social media may also have their own policies.
JT Ellis & Co. Ltd is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this Website, you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy and cookie statement.
JT Ellis & Co. Ltd may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should occasionally check this page to ensure that you are happy with any changes.
Giving us permission to contact you
Do we share your data with anyone else?
What we do with the data we collect
How long we hold the data that we collect
Analytics, remarketing & personalisation
How can you manage cookies on your device?
How will we keep our cookies policy up to date?
How can you manage your personal information?
By completing any form or pop-up on the Website or form administered on our behalf on third party sites, you are deemed, by implication, to have provided your consent to be contacted by us or by our appointed representatives.
Similarly, if you contact us by email, telephone, or post, or provide us with your email address by any other means, it is implied that you are consenting for us, or our representatives, to contact you.
You may withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us.
Your data will only be used by JT. Ellis & Co. Ltd for the purposes of providing you with information relevant to your enquiry, for facilitating the processing of your enquiry and, and for the purposes of statistical analysis to enable us to improve our marketing, our Website, and our customer services, and to meet our reporting obligations to statutory and regulatory bodies.
Sometimes this will require us to share your data with third parties in order to provide you with the information you require via email, online advertising, social media, SMS messaging, and other digital and print products such as brochures and technical data sheets, as well as for analysing the effectiveness of those communications.
We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to any other third parties unless:
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What we collect |
Why we collect it |
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Your name |
So we can identify you in subsequent communications and address you correctly |
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Your contact information such as email and postal addresses and telephone number(s) |
So that we can contact you in connection with your enquiry with additional relevant information |
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Demographic details such as your age, location and nationality |
For statistical analysis and so we can provide you with the most relevant information |
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Technical data such as your browser type, IP address and internet service provider |
Used to improve our services and enhance your user experience |
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Details of when you access the Website, which pages you visit and the actions you take on each page |
This helps us understand your preferences and enables us to improve the content of our Website and deliver a better user experience |
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Your preferences and interests |
To enable us to personalise the information that we supply you |
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Other data relevant to a specific enquiry |
To enable us to process your individual enquiry or order |
We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:
In addition:
We’ll only use your personal data on relevant lawful grounds as permitted by the EU General Data Protection Regulation (from 25 May 2018)/UK Data Protection Act and Privacy of Electronic Communication Regulation.
We will only keep your personal information for as long as is necessary for the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy. Copies of your data may also be retained to satisfy legal, regulatory and accounting requirements.
JT Ellis & Co. Ltd is committed to ensuring that your information is secure.
In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
Our Website may contain links to other Websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our Website, 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 that you provide whilst visiting such sites, and this privacy statement does not govern such sites. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the Website in question.
Our Website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our Website and store information about your site usage.
A cookie is a small text file that is sent to your browser from a web server and then stored on your hard drive. Cookies enable us to recognise your computer and record information from your visits to the site, such as your preferred settings. This saves you having to re-enter the same data each time you use the site and allows us to provide you with a more customised experience.
We use both first party and third party cookies. That is, both JT. Ellis & Co. Ltd and third party companies such as Google and Facebook may set cookies whilst you are using this Website.
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 and we provide more information on how to do this below. This may, however, prevent you from taking full advantage of the Website.
If you have any concerns about cookies you can find more information here.
Analytics
Our analytics cookies include Google Analytics.
To opt out of Google Analytics, please visit the Google Analytics Opt Out page.
To find out more information about the Google Analytics security and privacy principles please read this article on Google Security & Privacy.
Our analytics tools use cookies to help us analyse how users use the Website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the Website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States.
Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the Website, compiling reports on Website activity for Website operators and providing other services relating to Website activity and internet usage.
Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf.
Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.
These third parties include media partners such as Google, Bing, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn who make use of Remarketing cookies – both first party (such as Google Adwords and Google Analytics) and third party (such as DoubleClick) – to serve more relevant ads to users based on such users’ past visits to our Website, whether those users are on our Website or on other websites.
To opt out of Google Remarketing or to control your ad preferences, please visit the Google Ad Preferences page.
To opt out of Twitter Remarketing please see Twitter Privacy Controls.
To opt out of other third-party vendor's use of cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page or the Digital Advertising Alliance Consumer Choice page.
Remarketing cookies typically expire a maximum of 180 days from the time that the cookie is set or updated (whichever is the later).
Personalisation
We may also use personalisation cookies to build profiles relating to you and other visitors so that we can direct more relevant content to you based on your use of our Website.
Such personalisation uses cookies to recognise visitors returning to our Website so that relevant content can be directed based on previous visits.
We do not generally store any personal data that you provided to us in your cookies.
We use ‘session’ cookies which enable you to carry information across pages of our Website and avoid having to re-enter information. Session cookies enable us to compile statistics that help us to understand how the Website is being used and to improve its structure.
We use ‘persistent’ cookies which are cookies that remain in the cookies file of your browser for longer and help us to recognise you as a unique visitor to the Website, tailoring the content of certain areas of the Website to offer you content that match your preferred interests.
On some of our web pages third parties may also set their own cookies (for example when you click social media sharing buttons or view embedded videos hosted on another Website). We cannot access the data stored in any such cookies (nor can such third parties access our cookies).
Whenever you visit the Website the following cookies may be set:
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Name |
Purpose |
Maximum Duration |
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_utma |
This cookie keeps track of the number of times you have been to the Website, when your first visit was, and when your last visit occurred. |
2 years |
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_utmb & _utmc |
These two cookies store the start and end time of your visit so that we can calculate how long you visited the Website. |
30 minutes |
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_utmv |
This cookie is only used when more detailed statistics are required. |
2 years |
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_utmz |
This cookie tells us where you came from, what search engine you used, what link you clicked on, what keyword you used, and where you were in the world when you accessed a Website. This helps us understand more about who is using the Website so that we can make it better. |
6 months |
Third-party cookies
In addition to the cookies above, some third-party services we use also store cookies.
On some pages, we display Twitter feeds and share buttons. If you are not already logged into Twitter, only one cookie is set but being logged in means several are used. For more information, see Twitter's Privacy Policy.
Some of our pages contain a Facebook share button, which sets a number of cookies if you are already logged into your account. For more information please see Facebook's Policy on Cookies, Pixels & Similar Technologies.
By using our Website, you are deemed to consent to our use of the cookies described above.
You can refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of cookies.
You may also delete cookies at any time by going to the browsing settings on your web browser.
If you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site and you may not receive the most relevant information from us.
For details about how to adjust your cookie settings in the following browsers, please visit the relevant link:
JT Ellis & Co. Ltd will aim to review what cookies are used on our site every 6 months. We will conduct the same audit process as outlined above and update this policy accordingly. The next audit will take place on:
The previous audit took place on:
If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please contact us as soon as possible. We will promptly correct any information found to be inaccurate.
You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information by contacting us.
You may request details of personal information that we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998.
Technical Data Processing Policy – Version 1.1 17-05-18
This website is built and hosting on the Fledge Content Management System stack (“Fledge”) and we describe here how this underlying technology works and the principles put in place with our website technology provider to observe personal data processing obligations.
You are the owner of the data you submit to our services. When your data is placed on a Fledge server, the Fledge team do not access the data we store on their services, except where required to support technical queries to us, and any processing (as a Data Processor) is only in terms of the hosting services they provide to us. They do not use your data for any processing of their own. They do not share or provide access to any of your data with third parties unless required to do so by law. Where authorised parties request access to their servers, they follow strict internal policies for dealing with such requests in line with existing UK law. Furthermore, the third parties are required to demonstrate they have a lawful reason to access the data and under what authority.
On most web browsers, you will find a “help” or “settings” section on the toolbar. Please refer to this section for information on how to receive a notification when you are receiving a new cookie and how to turn cookies off. Note, however, that if you reject our request to use cookies or turn cookies off, you may be unable to access certain parts of the site and you may not be able to benefit from the full functionality of the site.
Fledge will collect your usage statistics and submitted details on our behalf. Fledge then stores and processes those on our behalf. If you would like your data to be erased, rectified, accessed or for any other queries about your responses, please contact us directly.
As the legal basis of processing data, it is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by both us and our technology providers. Our legitimate interests are:
Fledge will retain data for the period necessary to fulfil the purposes outlined in this policy unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. Please note that we have a variety of obligations to retain data provided to us, including to help identify fraud and malicious computer usage such as hacking, phishing, and ransomware attacks. Accordingly, even if you chose to submit a data amendment request, we may retain certain data to meet our obligations under the law.
If you have any questions about the technical elements of this privacy policy, please contact enquiries@fledgesuite.co.uk or at:
Attention: Fledge Team, Pint Sized Giants Ltd, i-Lab, Stannard Way, Bedford, MK44 3RZ, UK