Privacy & Cookie Policy
Please take a moment to read our privacy policy and understand how we collect, use and store your personal data.
Information Collection and Use
Benjamin Opticians is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement. Benjamin Opticians collects information from our users at a number of different points depending on how you use and interact with our website.
Cookies
We use a number of different cookies on this website. For detailed cookie information please see our cookie policy.
Log File Analytics & Google Analytics
Our web server records IP addresses and writes these to log files that allow us to analyse visitor numbers on this website, track user’s movement around the website and from page to page, we use this information see how visitors use and interact with our website.
Google Analytics is implemented on this website and collects various data points from visitors to the website. IP Addresses are used to distinguish visitor numbers to the website. Google Analytics will record the country you access this website from using your IP Address. Data gathered by Google Analytics allows us to analyse visitor numbers on this website, track user’s movement around the website and from page to page, we use this information see how visitors use and interact with our website. Google Analytics data is stored for a period of 26 months which allows us to build a year upon year picture of visitor numbers to our website.
Data gathered by Google Analytics may be stored outside of the European Union in line with its undertakings through the EU-US Privacy Shield Program. Further information can be found at https://policies.google.com/privacy/frameworks?hl=en&gl=de
You can find out more about Google’s position on privacy as regards its analytics service at https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en-GB
Advertising Pixels
Doubleclick Remarketing pixels are being used for advertising purposes by Newsquest Media Group. Newsquest Media Group is a digital business partner and may target readers of their website with Double Click adverts which tracks user activity on our website. By continuing to browse our website, you agree to this use.
Contact Form Submissions
If you submit an enquiry through our contact form, that enquiry will be emailed to a mailbox monitored by employees of Benjamin Opticians, the email is then stored securely on our email server which enables us to respond to your enquiry.
Your enquiry may be forwarded to one or multiple mailboxes within Benjamin Opticians to ensure it is dealt with and acted upon by the apprioriate person.
Website Backups
This website is backed up on a regular basis for security and disaster recovery purposes. The backups are stored securely with Dropbox. Dropbox may store these backups outside of the European Union in line with its undertakings through the EU-US Privacy Shield Program. Further information can be found at https://www.dropbox.com/privacy
Website backups will be stored for a maximum of 60 days before being deleted.
Newsletter
You have the choice whether to subscribe to our email newsletter. If you subscribe, we will collect your name and email address. We use MailChimp to store this information and to send you our email newsletters.
You can unsubscribe from our newsletters at any time by clicking the “Unsubscribe” link at the bottom of each email. Alternatively please email us and we will remove you from our mailing list.
MailChimp may store your data outside of the European Union in line with its undertakings through the EU-US Privacy Shield Program. Further information can be found at https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/ and https://kb.mailchimp.com/accounts/management/about-mailchimp-the-eu-swiss-privacy-shield-and-the-gdpr
Links to other websites
This website contains links to other websites. Please be aware that Benjamin Opticians is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other websites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this website.
Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on our website so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what 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.
This site uses cookies – small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping carts, and provide anonymised tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics. As a rule, cookies will make your browsing experience better. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. We suggest consulting the Help section of your browser or taking a look at the About Cookies website which offers guidance for all modern browsers.
The cookies we set are a mix of essential cookies used for security and anti-spam purposes and non-essential cookies that are used to collect information for making reports about how people use our website and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form.
The list below describe the cookies we use on this site and what we use them for. We currently place these cookies using Implied Consent – if you are not happy with the usage of cookies on this website, then you should delete the cookies having visited the site, or you should browse the site using your browser’s anonymous usage setting (called “Incognito” in Chrome, “InPrivate” for Internet Explorer, “Private Browsing” in Firefox and Safari etc.)
First Party Cookies
These are cookies that are set by our website directly.
Cookie Consent
Cookie Name: catAccCookies – Expires after 1 month – This cookie is used to remember your cookie preference if you visit the website multiple times within 1 month.
Marketing & Notifications
Cookie Name: hustle_module_show_count-popup-{incremental number} – Expires after 1 month – This cookie is used to ensure you only see our popup notifications once.
Cookie Name: hustle_module_show_count-slidein-{incremental number} – Expires after 1 month – This cookie is used to ensure you only see our slide-in notifications once.
Session Cookies
These session cookies are essential cookies that are used to remember the status of website users for actions such as commenting on our blog posts.
Cookie Name: PHPSESSID – Expires at end of session when you leave the website.
WordPress Comments
If you leave a comment on our blog, cookies will be placed on your computer. This is purely a convenience, so that you won’t need to re-type all your information again when you want to leave another comment.
Cookie Name: comment_author_{HASH} – Expires after 1 year
Cookie Name: comment_author_email_{HASH} – Expires after 1 year
Cookie Name: comment_author_url_{HASH} – Expires after 1 year
Email Marketing Opt-in
Cookie Name: et_bloom_optin_optin_1_{random}_imp – Expires after 1 year – This cookie is used to remember interactions with our newsletter signup system.
Cookie Name: et_bloom_optin_optin_1_mailchimp_{random}_imp – Expires after 1 year – This cookie is used to remember interactions with our newsletter signup system.
Spam Shield
These cookies are classed as strictly necessary and are used to prevent spam being submitted through contact forms and blog comments.
Cookie Name: JCS_INENREF – Expires at end of session
Cookie Name: JCS_INENTIM – Expires at end of session
Cookie Name: ckon{random} – Expires at end of session
Cookie Name: SJECT{random} – Expires at end of session
Cookie Name: _wpss_h_ – Expires at end of session
Cookie Name: _wpss_p_ – Expires at end of session
Third Party Cookies
These are cookies set on your computer or device by external websites whose services are used on this site.
You should check the respective policies of each of these sites to see how exactly they use your information and to find out how to opt out, or delete, such information.
Google Analytics
Cookie Name: _ga – Expires after 2 years – This cookie is used to distinguish users.
Cookie Name: _gid – Expires after 24 hours – This cookie is used to distinguish users.
Cookie Name: _gat – Expires after 1 minute – This cookie is used to throttle request rate.
You can find out more about Google’s position on privacy as regards its analytics service at https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en-GB
External Websites
This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that Benjamin Opticians is not responsible for the cookie policies of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the cookie policies of each and every web site that they visit. This cookie policy applies solely to this Web site.
You have the right to: Access your information, update your information, limit the use of your information, transfer your information, delete your information.
You retain all rights to your personal information and data and can access it at anytime. Benjamin Opticians will take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your personal information.
It is important to note that as stated in our privacy policy, there may be times, due to legal and regulatory requirements, that we are unable to delete your personal information, particularly in relation to orders placed with us.
If you would like to access your personal data or know what data Benjamin Opticians holds about you, please contact us using the details below:
Phone: 01756 792 933
Email: info@benjamin-opticians.co.uk
Write to us at: Benjamin Opticians, 23 Newmarket Street, Skipton, North Yorkshire, BD23 2JE
We aim to acknowledge data access requests within five working days of receipt. We aim to fully respond to access requests within 30 days.