Who we are
This notice explains how Bennett Williams uses personal information. In it, "we" and "us" mean Bennett Williams Partnership (Midlands) Limited, registered in England and Wales, company number 02613008. Our registered office is 106 Dixons Green Road, Dudley, West Midlands, DY2 7DJ.
Bennett Williams Partnership (Midlands) Limited decides how the information described here is used, so under UK data protection law it is the "controller".
Bennett Williams Partnership (Midlands) Limited is registered with the Information Commissioner's Office as a data controller, registration number ZC268451.
How to contact us
If you have a question about this notice or about your information, email us at info [at] bennettwilliams.co.uk, call us on 01384 238222, or write to us at the address above.
Our Practice Manager deals with data protection questions. You can reach them by email at info [at] bennettwilliams.co.uk or by phone on 01384 238222.
What we collect and why
When you email, write to or phone us
We keep what you tell us, with your contact details, so that we can reply and keep a record of our dealings with you. Our lawful basis is our legitimate interest in running our business and dealing with the people who contact us. Where you are asking about a service you may take up, we are also taking steps you have asked for before entering into a contract.
We do not record phone calls.
When you send us your CV
Our vacancies page invites engineers to send us their CV. We use it to consider you for work with us. Our lawful basis is taking steps you have asked for before a possible contract of employment, and our legitimate interest in recruiting.
If you send us information in connection with a job application, we may keep it for up to three years in case we decide to contact you at a later date.
If you work for us
If we employ you, we collect information about you and your work from time to time throughout your employment. This information will be used only for purposes directly relevant to your employment. After your employment has ended, we will keep your file for six years before destroying or deleting it.
When you visit the website
This website sets no cookies and uses no analytics or tracking (see our cookie policy).
Like every website, when your browser asks for a page, the service that hosts the website receives the technical details your browser sends with the request: your IP address, the page asked for, the time, and the type of browser and device. Our lawful basis is our legitimate interest in running a secure, working website.
We don't record visits to the website's pages.
The website uses HTTPS, so information you send through it is encrypted on its way to us.
When the law requires it
Sometimes we must process or share information to comply with the law, for example if legal authorities ask for it with proper authority such as a court order.
Automated decisions
Nothing on this website makes decisions about you by automated means.
Who we share it with
We do not sell your information, and we share it only as described here.
- Microsoft hosts this website on Microsoft Azure Static Web Apps and provides our email through Microsoft 365. Microsoft processes the information on our behalf, as our processor.
- Our professional advisers and insurers, where we need their advice or cover to manage our risks.
- Legal authorities, where the law requires it.
Where it is stored
The website's pages are served from Microsoft's global network, so a page may be sent to you from a Microsoft server outside the UK.
Our email and files are held by Microsoft. Where Microsoft processes this data outside the UK, the transfer is protected by Microsoft's data protection terms, which include safeguards approved for UK data.
How long we keep it
- Enquiries, by email or by letter: we keep them for as long as we need them to deal with your enquiry. If it leads to work with us, we keep it with the project records for as long as we keep those.
- CVs and job applications: up to three years.
- Employee files: six years after employment ends.
We keep information for longer only where we need to: to provide a service you have asked for, to comply with the law (including for the period our tax authorities require), or to support a legal claim or defence.
Your rights
You have the right to:
- ask for a copy of the information we hold about you;
- ask us to correct information that is wrong or incomplete;
- ask us to delete your information;
- ask us to limit how we use it;
- object to our using it, where we rely on our legitimate interests;
- ask for information you gave us in a format you can take to someone else;
- withdraw your consent at any time, where we rely on your consent.
Some of these rights apply only in certain circumstances. To use any of them, contact us as described above. Before we act on a request, we will take reasonable steps to confirm your identity. We will normally reply within one month, and there is usually no charge.
Complaints
If you are unhappy with how we have used your information, please tell us first so that we can try to put it right.
You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office: ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint, or call 0303 123 1113.
Changes to this notice
We may update this notice from time to time. The version on this page is the current one.
Last updated: October 2026.