Privacy Policy

Website Privacy statement

The website www.chrisjohnson.earth is owned and managed by Chris Johnson [self employed consultant].

Some of the personal and other data we may process and store include:

  • Name and job title
  • Contact information including email address
  • Website usage data
  • Other information relevant to enquiries
  • Other information pertaining to special projects and surveys

We process and use personal data in a number of ways and for a range of reasons, including:

  • When you subscribe to the mailing list you may be sent news and information about new services. You may unsubscribe from this list at any time by emailing chris@chrisjohnson.earth or clicking the ‘unsubscribe’ link in the email.
  • When you contact us through the website and by email, in order to respond to enquiries. We may also keep a record of such enquiries.
  • When you browse the website, we may collect anonymised details of your IP address, browser type and operating system, and the web pages you visited to better understand how people are using our resources and how we might improve the website.

Where we store your information

We will always hold your information securely. To prevent unauthorised disclosure or access to your information, we have implemented strong physical and electronic security safeguards.

Your data will not be shared with any third parties, with the exception of service providers (such as cloud storage and services) who process data on our behalf.

We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely by these third parties and in accordance with General Data Protection Regulation, either by ensuring contractors and suppliers (if outside the EEA) are based in a territory whose data protection laws are deemed by the European Commission to provide adequate safeguards, or by ensuring our contracts with any suppliers cover data protection agreements and safeguards that meet EU Data Protection standards.

Your rights

Any personal information we hold about you is stored and processed in line with the General Data Protection Regulation 2018.

We will never lease, distribute or sell your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or the law requires us to.

You have the right to ask us to ‘be forgotten’. This means that you can ask us to remove any of your personal data from our database(s), which we have to do within a month of you submitting your request. Please email chris@chrisjohnson.earth if you would like to be forgotten.

You also have a right to find out what personal data we hold on you. Please email chris@chrisjohnson.earth for this information. Please note: if your request is manifestly unfounded, excessive, or repetitive, we may charge a reasonable fee to cover our administrative costs.

If you are dissatisfied with the way we have handled your personal data, you have the right to lodge a complaint with Information Commissioner’s Office at https://ico.org.uk/concerns/

Changes to our privacy policy

Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail.

Links from our site
Our website may contain links to other websites. Please note that we have no control of websites outside our domain. 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.

Contact
Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to chris@chrisjohnson.earth 

Client Privacy Notice

This information is our privacy notice. It explains what we do with your personal information, why we want to use it, how we protect it, and what rights you have to control our use of your personal data.

The most important fact is that it’s your personal data. We have complete respect for your rights and we will only use your data where necessary to deliver our services to you or your employer, or to keep you up to date about developments in our products.

Information about the data controller

The data controller is Chris Johnson.

If you want to contact us about any of the points on this notice, or just generally about how we protect your privacy, please email Chris Johnson at chris@chrisjohnson.earth. We use this email address for all data protection and data access matters.

The purpose and lawful basis for processing your personal data

We use information for a few different purposes and these each have a different lawful basis. This section describes these in detail and, although it’s technical, we’re required by law to explain this to you.

  • Existing client
    If you are an existing client, we hold your name and contact details because we have a contractual obligation to deliver services to you. We need your contact details to deliver our services (such as send you update emails when you need to take actions, send you invoices and so on.) We will hold your information for no longer than 6 years from the termination of our working relationship.
  • Previous client
    If you are a previous client, in the following five year period since the end of our working relationship, we may continue to contact you with information about services because we think you will find it useful. We believe we have a legitimate interest in this direct marketing activity (and this is also permitted under the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations or “PECR”). If we do contact you in this way, you are always able to unsubscribe by clicking the link at the bottom of the emails we send, or by emailing us a chris@chrisjohnson.earth .
  • Business customer or supplier of client
    If you are a business customer, supplier or other contact of our client, we may have been given your personal information by that client. In which case, we may hold your name, job title and business contact details so that we can provide our marketing services to that client. We have a legitimate interest in being able to use your information in this way. We may also hold images of you that have been passed to us by your employer and/or our client if you have consented to their use by our client. We will hold your personal information for no longer than 6 years from the last time we were in email contact with you or our client.
  • Associate with our line of business
    If you are a supplier or other organisation associated with our line of business, we will hold your contact details because we have a legitimate interest in doing business with your company. We will aim to hold this information for no longer than five years since we were last in contact with you. It’s possible we picked this information up from public directories (such as LinkedIn and internet searches) or that you passed your details to us with a business card.

Who receives your personal data?

International transfers of personal data, and the measures in place to safeguard it

Your personal data rights

The personal data we hold about you is your data, so you have certain rights over them. This section summarises your rights. You can exercise any or all these rights when you choose, and the easiest way is by dropping us an email at chris@chrisjohnson.earth 

Where we process your data based on a ‘legitimate interest’ you have the right to object to our processing of that data. From that point, we must stop processing your data until we have determined whether your rights override our, or our clients’ interests.

Your rights to lodge a complaint with the Regulator

At all times, you have the right to report a concern or lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office. Please refer to the ICO at https://ico.org.uk/concerns/ or by calling them on 0303 123 1113.

Of course, we hope that we can resolve your issue quickly and fairly – you can contact us at chris@chrisjohnson.earth .

Other purposes for processing personal data

We don’t process your personal data for any other purpose than we’ve described here. We won’t sell your personal data to other companies.

As we develop our products and services, we might add or change our data processing. Should we do so and believe that it will affect your personal data, we will contact you to let you know what we intend to do, the lawful basis we will use, and your rights over our intended new processing. We will also publish information about it here.

If you have any questions, concerns or want some more information about our privacy management, email us chris@chrisjohnson.earth 

Cookie Policy

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