At Tensator Group we take your privacy seriously and we are committed to protecting it.
This privacy policy (the “Privacy Policy“) explains when and why we collect personal information about individuals, how this information is used, with whom we share that information, and the rights they have over it. If you apply for a job vacancy with us, details regarding our use of the personal information you provide to us are set out in our separate Applicant Privacy Notice.
This Privacy Policy may change from time to time so please check this page occasionally to ensure that you are happy with any changes.
Our business operates through numerous individual companies that form part of the Tensator Group (each a “Tensator Company”). For a full list of these companies please visit our Contact Us page.
Whenever providing personal information or interacting with one of our offices, the relevant Tensator Company that corresponds to that office, as set out in our Contact Us page, is the ‘controller’ in relation to the processing activities described below. A ‘controller’ is an organisation that determines the means and purposes of the processing of your personal information.
Where this policy refers to “we”, “our” or “us” below, unless it mentions otherwise, it is referring to the particular Tensator Company that is the controller of your personal information.
If you provide any personal information to our sites located at www.tensator.com and www.tensabarrier.com or interact with it, the controller of your personal information is Tensator Ltd, the Tensator Company which owns and operates that site, and which is registered in England and Wales with company registration number 04046724 and has its registered office at Unit 7, Danbury Court, Linford Wood, Milton Keynes, MK14 6TS.
‘Personal information’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. We collect personal information from you in the following ways:
Personal information you give to us:
This is information about you that you give to us when:
This information is provided by you directly and entirely voluntarily, and includes personal information you submit on any web forms on our Websites, or that you provide to us in person (e.g. business cards). We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our Websites. If, at our request, you complete any surveys for research purposes, we will collect your personal information in such circumstances as well. The information you give to us may include your name, address, email address and phone number, enquiry details and other business and contact information, and may include records of any correspondence and responses to any surveys.
If we do not receive this information, you may be unable to use or interact with certain parts of our Websites, communicate with us effectively, comply with the contractual obligations that the organisation for whom you work is under or allow us to comply with our own obligations if you work for an organisation that is our client.
Personal information we collect about you:
We may automatically collect the following information during your visits to our Websites: traffic data, location data, device data, weblogs and other communication data, and details of the resources you access. We also automatically collect technical information, including anonymous data collected by the hosting server for statistical purposes, the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer or device to the Internet, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform. Please see our Cookies Policy for further information. We may also collect any personal information which you allow to be shared on third party social networks.
Personal information we may receive from other sources:
We obtain certain personal information about you from other sources (including those outside of our business) which may include other Tensator Companies, our suppliers and our clients. The sources that may provide us personal information about you are as follows:
| Source of personal information | The categories of personal information (as described in the section below) that we obtain about you from this source |
| Other Tensator Companies | All categories |
| Our suppliers | Behavioural, Biographical, Contact, Correspondence, Identity, Employment, Fraud |
| Our clients | Behavioural, Contact, Correspondence, Identity, Marketing Preferences |
| Social media networks | Behavioural, Biographical, Contact, Correspondence, Employment |
| Category of personal information | Description |
| Behavioural | Your activities, actions and behaviours |
| Biographical | Your life experiences |
| Contact | Information which can be used to contact, address, send or otherwise communicate a message to you |
| Correspondence | Information contained in our correspondence or other communications with you or your work colleagues |
| Employment | Your previous, current or future employment details |
| Fraud | Information relating to the occurrence, investigation or prevention of fraud |
| Identity | Information contained in a formal identification document or social security or other unique reference relating to you |
| Legal | Information relating to legal claims made by or against you or the organisation for whom you work or the claims process |
| Marketing Preferences | Your preferences in respect of any marketing communications from us from time to time in relation to products or services which we believe may be of interest to you |
| Monitoring | Information relating to the surveillance or monitoring of your activities |
The purposes for which we use your personal information and the legal basis under data protection laws on which we rely to do this are explained below.
Where you have provided consent
We may use and process your personal information where you have consented for us to do so. If you work for an unincorporated business (e.g. sole trader or unincorporated partnership), we will contact you via email with marketing information about our products and services if you subscribe to receive our email marketing communications by ticking the relevant box or when you refresh your marketing preferences when responding to a request from us to do so, and agree to continue receiving marketing emails from us.
You may withdraw your consent for us to use your information in any of these ways at any time. Please see Withdrawing your consent for further details.
Where processing is necessary for us to pursue our legitimate interests
We may use and process your personal information where it is necessary for us to pursue our legitimate interests as a business, for the following purposes:
Processing necessary for us to support our clients and prospects with sales and other enquiries:
Processing necessary for us to respond to changing market conditions and our clients’ needs
Processing necessary for us to operate the administrative and technical aspects of our business efficiently and effectively
Where required to comply with our legal obligations
We will use your personal information to comply with our legal obligations:
Other Tensator Companies
We may share your information with other Tensator Companies. They may use your personal information in the ways set out in How we use your personal information, in connection with the services they provide, including where they complement our own range of services.
Please see the Contact Us page for the details of the Tensator Companies with whom we may share your personal information, including their locations.
Our suppliers, service providers and other recipients
We may share your information with our thirdparty service providers, agents, subcontractors and other organisations (as listed below) for the purposes of providing services to us or directly to you on our behalf. The ‘EEA’ refers to the European Economic Area.
Recipient / relationship to us |
Industry sector (& sub- sector) |
Location |
| Accountancy and auditing services | Professional services (accountancy) | EEA, Dubai, USA |
| Advertising & PR agencies | Media (advertising) | EEA, USA |
| Banks, payment processors and financial services providers | Financial (banking) | EEA, Dubai, USA |
| Cloud storage providers | IT (cloud services) | Global |
| Government tax administration offices | Government (tax) | EEA, Dubai, USA |
| Haulage and delivery service providers | Logistics (haulage/delivery) | EEA, Dubai, USA |
| Insurance services providers | Insurance (brokers/underwriting) | EEA, Dubai, USA |
| Legal advisers | Professional services (legal services) | EEA, Dubai, USA |
| Market research and analytics service providers | Media (research and analytics) | EEA, Dubai, USA |
| Online email marketing, campaign management and customer relationship management platform services | IT (cloud services) | EEA, Dubai, USA |
| On-site security access control services | Security (on-site) | EEA, Dubai, USA |
When we use third party service providers, we only disclose to them any personal information that is necessary for them to provide their service and we have a contract in place that requires them to keep your information secure and not to use it other than in accordance with our specific instructions.
When we share your personal information to third parties that are controllers of that information, they may disclose or transfer it to other organisations in accordance with their data protection policies. This does not affect any of your data subject rights as detailed below. In particular, where you ask us to rectify, erase or restrict the processing of your information, we take reasonable steps to pass this request on to any such third parties with whom we have shared your personal information.
Other ways we may share your personal information
We may transfer your personal information to a third party as part of a sale of some or all of our business and assets or as part of any business restructuring or reorganisation. We may also transfer your personal information if we are under a duty to disclose or share it in order to comply with any legal obligation, to detect or report a crime, to enforce or apply the terms of our contracts or to protect the rights, property or safety of our visitors and customers. We will always take steps with the aim of ensuring that your privacy rights continue to be protected.
All information you provide to us may be transferred to countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA). By way of example, this may happen where any of the Tensator Companies are located in a country outside of the EEA or if any of our servers or those of our third party service providers are from time to time located in a country outside of the EEA. These countries may not have similar data protection laws to the UK and so may not protect the use of your personal information to the same standard. Please see Others who may receive or have access to your personal information for details regarding the locations to which your personal information is transferred.
If we transfer your information outside of the EEA in this way, we will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that appropriate security measures are taken with the aim of ensuring that your privacy rights continue to be protected as outlined in this policy. These steps include:
Please contact us using the details at the end of this policy for more information about the protections that we put in place and to obtain a copy of the relevant documents.
If you use our services whilst you are outside the EEA, your information may be transferred outside the EEA in order to receive those services.
We do not retain personal information in an identifiable format for longer than is necessary.
If we collect your personal information, the length of time we retain it is determined by a number of factors including the purpose for which we use that information and our obligations under other laws. We determine the period of retention of your personal information based on the following criteria:
The exceptions to the above are where:
We implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to keep your personal information safe and secure.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your information transmitted to our Websites and any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your personal information, we put in place reasonable and appropriate controls to ensure that it remains secure against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, or unauthorised access.
Our Websites may contain links to other websites run by other organisations. This policy does not apply to those other websites‚ so we encourage you to read their privacy statements. We cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of other websites even if you access them using links that we provide. In addition, if you linked to our Websites from a third party website, we cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of the owners and operators of that third party website and recommend that you check the policy of that third party website.
Like many other websites, our Websites use cookies (including Google Analytics cookies) to obtain an overall view of visitor habits and visitor volumes to our website. ‘Cookies’ are small pieces of information sent to your computer or device and stored on its hard drive to allow our websites to recognise you when you visit. It is possible to switch off cookies by setting your browser preferences. For more information on how we use cookies and how to switch them off on your device, please visit our Cookies Policy.
We use the services of Google Ads to draw attention to our attractive offers with the help of advertising materials (so-called Google Ads) on external websites. We can determine in relation to the data of the advertising campaigns how successful the individual advertising measures are. We are interested in showing you advertisements that are of interest to you, to make our website more interesting for you and to achieve a fair calculation of advertising costs.
The advertising materials are delivered by Google via so-called “Ad Servers”. For this purpose, we use ad server cookies, through which certain parameters for measuring success, such as the insertion of ads or clicks by users, can be measured. If you access our website via a Google ad, Google Ads stores a cookie on your device. These cookies usually expire after 30 days and are not intended to identify you personally. For this cookie, the unique cookie ID, number of ad impressions per placement (frequency), last impression (relevant for post-view conversions) and opt-out information (mark that the user no longer wishes to be addressed) are usually stored as analysis values.
These cookies enable Google to recognize your Internet browser. If a user visits certain pages of an Ads customer’s website and the cookie stored on their device has not expired, Google and the customer
can recognize that the user has clicked on the ad and has been redirected to this page. Each Ads customer is assigned a different cookie. Cookies cannot therefore be traced via the websites of Ads customers. We do not collect and process any personal data in the aforementioned advertising measures. We only receive statistical evaluations from Google. On the basis of these evaluations we can recognize which of the used advertising measures are particularly effective. We do not receive any further data from the use of advertising material; in particular, we cannot identify users on the basis of this information.
Due to the marketing tools used, your browser automatically starts a direct connection to the Google server. We have no influence on the extent and the further use of the data which are raised by the use of this tool by Google and inform you therefore according to our knowledge: By the integration of Ads conversion Google receives the information that you called the appropriate part of our Internet appearance or clicked an announcement of us. If you are registered with a Google service, Google may associate your visit with your account. Even if you are not registered with Google or have not logged in, it is possible that the providers may obtain and store your IP address.
We use the remarketing function within the Google Ads service. The remarketing function allows us to present to users of our website advertisements based on their interests on other websites within the Google advertising network (in Google search or on YouTube, so-called “Google ads” or on other websites). For this purpose, the interaction of users on our website is analyzed, e.g. which offers the user was interested in, in order to be able to display targeted advertising to users even after visiting our website on other pages. To do this, Google stores cookies in the browsers of users who visit certain Google services or websites in the Google Display Network. This cookie is used to record the visits of these users. The number is used to uniquely identify a web browser on a particular device.
For more information on the purpose and scope of data collection and processing by Google, please refer to the privacy policy. There you will also find further information about your rights and setting options to protect your privacy: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy; Google has submitted itself to the EU-US Privacy Shield, https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework. Alternatively, you will also find more information on the website of the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) at http://www.networkadvertising.org.
Deletion/withdrawal:
You can prevent participation in this tracking process in various ways: a) by setting your browser software accordingly (in particular by suppressing third-party cookies, you will not receive any ads from third-party providers); b) by deactivating cookies for conversion tracking: by setting your browser so that cookies are blocked by the domain www.googleadservices.com, https://www.google.de/settings/ads, this setting being deleted when you delete your cookies; c) by deactivating the interest-based ads of the providers that are part of the “About Ads” self-regulation campaign via the link http://www.aboutads.info/choices.This setting is deleted when you delete your cookies; d) by permanently deactivating Firefox, Internet Explorer or Google Chrome in your browsers under the link http://www.google.com/settings/ads/plugin, e) by setting your cookie preferences accordingly. Please note that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this offer in full.
Cookie lifetime: up to 180 days (this applies only for cookies which have been set by this website).
Legal basis: Art. 6 (1) a GDPR (consent)
This website also uses the extended functions of Google Analytics (Google Anayltics Advertising Features) in addition to the standard functions. The Google Analytics Advertising Features implemented on this website include:
We therefore use first-party cookies (e.g. Google Analytics cookies) and Google advertising cookies and identifiers together in order to optimize our website.
You can prevent participation in this tracking process in various ways: a) by setting your browser software accordingly; b) via your Google ad settings on https://www.google.com/ads/preferences/?hl=en; c) by setting your cookie preferences accordingly. Please note that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this offer in full.
Cookie lifetime: up to 12 months (this applies only for cookies which have been set by this website). Legal basis: Art. 6 (1) a GDPR (consent)
We use Hotjar in order to better understand our users’ needs and to optimize this service and experience. Hotjar is a technology service that helps us better understand our users’ experience (e.g. how much time they spend on which pages, which links they choose to click, what users do and don’t like, etc.) and this enables us to build and maintain our service with user feedback. Hotjar uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on our users’ behavior and their devices. This includes a device’s IP address (processed during your session and stored in a de-identified form), device screen size, device type (unique device identifiers), browser information, geographic location (country only), and the preferred language used to display our website. Hotjar stores this information on our behalf in a pseudonymized user profile. Hotjar is contractually forbidden to sell any of the data collected on our behalf.
For further details, please see the ‘about Hotjar’ section of Hotjar’s support site.
Legal basis: Art. 6 (1) a GDPR (consent)
This website uses functions of the service provider HubSpot. The provider is HubSpot Germany GmbH, Koppenstrasse 93, 10243 Berlin, Germany. HubSpot uses ‘cookies’. The information about your use of this website collected by the cookie is usually transmitted to a HubSpot server and stored there.
You can prevent HubSpot from collecting your data by not accepting the cookies. You can find more information on how HubSpot processes user data in its privacy policy: https://legal.hubspot.com/privacy-policy.
Legal basis: Art. 6 (1) a GDPR (consent)
LinkedIn TagsOn our website we use the LinkedIn Insight Tag a service provided by LinkedIn Inc., Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Irland, USA (“LinkedIn”).
We have concluded a data processing agreement with LinkedIn covering the processing of user data on our behalf.
The LinkedIn Insight Tag is a piece of lightweight JavaScript code that we have added to our websites to enable in-depth campaign reporting and to help us unlock valuable insights about our website visitors. We use the LinkedIn Insight Tag to track conversions, retarget website visitors, and unlock additional insights about members interacting with our LinkedIn adverts. The LinkedIn Insight Tag enables the collection of metadata such as IP address information, timestamp, and events such as page views. All data is encrypted. The LinkedIn browser cookie is stored in a visitor’s browser until they delete the cookie or the cookie expires.
You can opt out of cookies from LinkedIn on your LinkedIn settings page and recommend you read their Cookie Policy for more information. You can further deactivate JavaScript in your browser to avoid the JavaScript to be executed.
The legal basis for the use of the LinkedIn Insight Tag is Art. 6 (1) s. 1 lit. (f) GDPR. The legitimate interest in the processing lies in the analysis of usage data in order to recognize and eliminate errors on the basis of these findings and to optimize the website design.
Facebook Pixel
Our website measures conversions using visitor action pixels from Facebook, Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“Facebook“). These allow the behavior of site visitors to be tracked after they click on a Facebook ad to reach the provider’s website. This allows an analysis of the effectiveness of Facebook advertisements for statistical and market research purposes and their future optimization. The data collected is anonymous to us as operators of this website and we cannot use it to draw any conclusions about our users’ identities. However, the data are stored and processed by Facebook, which may make a connection to your Facebook profile and which may use the data for its own advertising purposes, as stipulated in the Facebook privacy policy. This will allow Facebook to display ads both on Facebook and on third-party sites. We have no control over how this data is used. Check out Facebook’s privacy policy to learn more about protecting your privacy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/. You can also deactivate the custom audiences remarketing feature in the Ads Settings section at https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/?entry_product=ad_settings_screen. You will first need to log into Facebook. If you do not have a Facebook account, you can opt out of usage-based advertising from Facebook on the website of the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance: http://www.youronlinechoices.com/de/praferenzmanagement/.
We do not envisage that any decisions that have a legal or significant effect on you will be taken about you using purely automated means, however we will update this policy and inform you if this position changes.
You have a number of rights in relation to your personal information under data protection law. In relation to certain rights, we may ask you for information to confirm your identity and, where applicable, to help us to search for your personal information. Except in rare cases, we will respond to you within one month from either the date that we have confirmed your identity or, where we do not need to do this because we already have this information, from the date we received your request.
You have the right to ask for a copy of the information that we hold about you by emailing or writing to us at the address at the end of this policy. We may not provide you with a copy of your personal information if this concerns other individuals or we have another lawful reason to withhold that information.
The accuracy of your information is important to us and we are working on ways to make it easier for you to review and correct the information that we hold about you.
In the meantime, if you change your name or address/email address, or you discover that any of the other information we hold is inaccurate or out of date, please let us know by contacting us in any of the details described at the end of this policy. Taking into account the purposes of the processing, you also have the right to have incomplete personal data completed.
Where we rely on your consent as the legal basis for processing your personal information, as set out under How we use your personal information, you may withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us using the details at the end of this policy. The withdrawal of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal. If you would like to withdraw your consent to receiving any direct marketing to which you previously opted-in, you can do so using our unsubscribe tool. If you withdraw your consent, our use of your personal information before you withdraw is still lawful.
Where we rely on your legitimate business interests as the legal basis for processing your personal information for any purpose(s), as out under How we use your personal information, you may object to us using your personal information for these purposes by emailing or writing to us at the address at the end of this policy. Except for the purposes for which we are sure we can continue to process your personal information, we will temporarily stop processing your personal information in line with your objection until we have investigated the matter. If we agree that your objection is justified in accordance with your rights under data protection laws, we will permanently stop using your data for those purposes. Otherwise we will provide you with our justification as to why we need to continue using your data.
You may object to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes and we will automatically comply with your request. If you would like to do so, please use our unsubscribe tool.
In certain circumstances, you may ask for your personal information to be removed from our systems by emailing or writing to us at the address at the end of this policy. Unless there is a reason that the law allows us to use your personal information for longer, we will make reasonable efforts to comply with your request without undue delay.
You may also ask us to restrict processing your personal information where you believe it is unlawful for us to continue processing, you have objected to its use and our investigation is pending or you require us to keep it in connection with legal proceedings. In these situations we may only process your personal information whilst its processing is restricted if we have your consent or are legally permitted to do so, for example for storage purposes, to protect the rights of another individual or company or in connection with legal proceedings.
Where we rely on your consent as the legal basis for processing your personal information or need to process it in connection with your contract, as set out under How we use your personal information, you may ask us to provide you with a copy of that information in a structured data file. We will provide this to you electronically in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable form, such as a CSV file.
You can ask us to send your personal information directly to another service provider, and we will do so if this is technically possible. We may not provide you with a copy of your personal information if this concerns other individuals or we have another lawful reason to withhold that information.
You have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection regulator in Europe, in particular in a country you work or live or where your legal rights have been infringed. The contact details for the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the data protection regulator in the UK, are available on the ICO website, for you to use where your personal information has or is being used in a way that you believe does not comply with data protection law. However, we encourage you to contact us before making any complaint and we will seek to resolve any issues or concerns you may have.
We may review this Privacy Policy policy from time to time and any changes will be notified to you by email, where possible, or otherwise by posting an updated version of this Privacy Policy to our Websites. Any changes will take effect 7 days after the date of our email or date of posting (as applicable), unless we state otherwise. We recommend you regularly check for changes and review all updates to this Privacy Policy.
Please direct any queries about this policy or about the way we process your personal information to our Data Protection Manager using our contact details below.
If you wish to write to us, please write to Tensator Limited, Unit 7 Danbury Court, Linford Wood, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK14 6TS, United Kingdom.
Our email address for data protection queries is GDPR@www.tensator.com, alternatively you can use our Contact Us form online. To opt-out of marketing communications contact unsubscribe@www.tensator.com
If you would prefer to speak to us by phone, please call +44 (0)1908 684600.
