Our Privacy Policy for John Artis Limited (also referred to as Artis or Artis UK) has been reviewed and revised in respect to our commitment and conformity to personal data in accordance with the revised GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). This policy (together with our Terms and Conditions of Sale of Goods) sets out the basis that any personal data we collect, or that you provide to us, will be processed and managed by us. Artis UK may change this policy by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes.
How do we operate
We maintain data under the following lawful bases of operation to give our customers clear options and clarity of their rights, and to ensure we maintain and process our customers’ personal data in the appropriate manner.
1) For all customers who trade with us and/or enquire of us or our products or our services, we record and maintain data that may include personal data under the basis of ‘Contractual’ in order to operate and maintain our customer relationship in a normal and legitimate business operation.
2) For our indirect Customer relationships, we maintain personal data on the basis of legitimate interest for communicating with and servicing their associated needs, but also in a manner that is consistent for normal and legitimate business operation. We have considered individuals rights, and we process data in a non-intrusive manner to any individual.
3) We operate a third basis of consent to clearly identify personal data to be used for direct marketing. This allows a clear choice for all our customers, both direct and indirect, and ensures our ability to apply this compliance for this data process.
4) Where we act as a Data Processor for the purpose of supporting our direct customers (see point 1) who may provide John Artis Ltd. with any personal data for the purpose of supporting and providing goods and services, we process this data under a Contractual basis and apply the same level of data protection and control as covered by our GDPR policy
5) For our employees, John Artis Ltd will, as part of its contractual obligation, store and process personal data pertaining to its employees. Personal data may extend to that of Sensitive Personal Data where required, to fulfill the companies legal obligations, and any such similar data supplied by an employee during an HR process.
What do we collect
With respect to all of our data processes, personal data is limited to contact details and maintaining correspondence, and in keeping with that of a normal and legitimate business operation.
How do we process your data
For our direct marketing purposes, we utilise a specialised Data Processor to ensure proper management and compliance for consent based processing of personal data, where by you can maintain your rights and preferences. We do not share this data with any other party or data controller.
Any personal data we maintain is not subject to profiling or automated decision making.
Your rights
Your rights to be informed, that of access, and rectification, and to be forgotten are maintained. Any request or enquiry in relationship to your personal data can be made of us at:
John Artis Limited
Cox Lane
Chessington
Surrey KT9 1SF
United Kingdom
E-mail: sales@artis-uk.com
Telephone: +44 (0)20 8391 5544
Links – Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of third parties. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
Cookies – Cookies are text files stored on your computer, and accessible only to the websites which create them. Our website may from time to time use cookies and log files for statistical analysis, to understand user behaviour, to administer the site, to tailor the information presented to a user based on their preferences, and to improve user experience. Any information gathered by our use of cookies is compiled on an aggregate, anonymous basis. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, however you may delete, or disable cookies by following the instructions at http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/. Please note that you may not be able to take full advantage of a website if you disable cookies. Our website uses cookies to keep you logged in, so disabling cookies may impair your experience of the service.
Social Media – If you share our content through social media, for example by liking us on Facebook, following or tweeting about us on Twitter, or giving us a ´+1´ via Google Plus, those social networks will record that you have done so and may set a cookie for this purpose. In some cases, where a page on our website includes content from a social network, such as a Twitter feed, or Facebook comments box, those services may set a cookie even where you do not click a button. As is the case for all cookies, we cannot access those set by social networks, just as those social networks cannot access cookies we set ourselves.
Log Files – Our systems automatically gather some anonymous information about visitors, including IP addresses, browser type, language, and the times and dates of webpage visits. The data collected does not include personally identifiable information and is used, as described above, for statistical analysis, to understand user behaviour, and to administer the site.
Google Analytics – Our website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). The information generated by the cookie about your use of our website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored on servers by Google. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of our 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. Further information about Google’s privacy policy may be obtained from http://www.google.com/privacy.html.