This privacy statement sets out how Ben Hunt Planning Ltd uses and protects any information that you give us in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Data Protection Act 1998 or 2018.

Ben Hunt Planning Ltd is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

Ben Hunt Planning Ltd may change this policy from time to time and we will contact you to let you know of any substantive changes.

Who we are

Ben Hunt Planning Ltd is a planning consultancy company registered with Companies House in England and Wales, registration number 5191639, VAT registration number 842090054, registered office:

We offer impartial town and country planning advice to businesses, local authorities, other public sector organisations including NGOs; businesses; private individuals. 

What we collect

We may collect the following information:

• name and job title
• contact information including email address, postal address and telephone number
• financial payment information
• publicly available information

We do not collect sensitive information about you such as health, disabilities and ethnicity.

How do we collect this information

This information may be collected from yourself, via the Ben Hunt Planning Ltd website, or via emails, postal correspondence, meetings and telephone conversations with you; or from sources of publicly available information such as planning registers.

What we do with the information that we gather

We require this information to provide you with services, and in particular for the following reasons:

• Internal record keeping
• To improve our services, for instance by contacting you to seek your thoughts on the services we provide
• To contact you regarding any enquiry you have made to us, and in connection with any contract (instruction or commission services) with you for services you have requested. We may contact you by email, phone, fax or post.
• To carry out any instruction or commission services you have requested – including:

1. using this information as necessary to fulfill statutory requirements with regard to planning applications, appeals and other similar submissions made on your behalf such as filling in planning application forms and certificates;
2. engaging with contractors (such as architects and environmental consultants) on your behalf.

We will keep personal information collected for up to ten years after any enquiry you made or the completion of any contract you entered into with Ben Hunt Planning Ltd, which ever is the later.  

Security

We are 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.

Rights to access and control your personal data

If you:

• would like to request details of personal information which we hold about you; or.
• believe that any information we are holding on you is inaccurate or incomplete and should be corrected; or
• wish us to restrict the processing or use of your personal information; or
• delete the personal information we hold,

then please write to or email us as soon as possible at:

Ben Hunt Planning Ltd                            Email -: info@huntplanning.co.uk

The Office

Gothic House                                       

Barker Gate

Nottingham

NG1 1JU

We will promptly respond to your request.

You also have the right to make a complaint to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues, at any time. The ICO’s contact details are as follows:  

Information Commissioner's Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF

Telephone - 0303 123 1113 (local rate) or 01625 545 745

Website - https://ico.org.uk/concerns

Ben Hunt Planning Ltd May 2018.