C JEV LTD, trading as Bene Finance, is the controller of personal information collected directly through this website. In this notice, references to Bene Finance mean C JEV LTD trading under that name. This notice is effective from 11 August 2026 and should be read with the website terms.
1. Controller and contact
C JEV LTD is registered in England and Wales under company number 16089456. Email enquiries@benefinance.co.uk for privacy questions, rights requests or data-protection complaints, or write to Suite 312, Atlas House, Caxton Close, Wigan, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom, WN3 6XU.
2. Information we collect
For an initial commercial-finance enquiry, we collect the funding purpose and amount, company or LLP identity, Companies House number, optional business website, trading profile, industry, postcode, authorised contact's name and role, contact details, preferred contact method and the explanation provided. When the Companies House check is used, we also obtain the registered company name, company number, company status and company type from the public register. We do not use the lookup to obtain officer, person-with-significant-control, filing-document or residential-address information.
The separate sole-trader readiness page is a held, browser-only question flow. Answers remain temporarily in that page and are not sent to or received by C JEV LTD, written to server storage or used to create an application, enquiry or eligibility decision. It does not request a personal name, contact details, UTR, National Insurance number, VAT number, tax documents, bank details or identity documents. The visitor's browser may independently offer or restore values through its own autofill or history features.
We also process limited technical, delivery and security information needed to operate the website, verify the security check, prevent misuse and maintain an audit record. To deliver and audit an accepted enquiry, we record its delivery status, delivery time and the message identifier returned by the email-delivery provider.
Do not send bank statements, accounts, tax references, identity documents, personal credit information, health information or other special-category personal information through the initial form.
3. Where the information comes from and what is required
Most information comes directly from the person completing the form. When the company-profile check is used, basic registered-company information comes from the public Companies House register. Limited campaign labels may come from the link used to reach the site.
Fields marked as required are needed to review and respond to the enquiry; without them, the form cannot be submitted. The business website and telephone number when email-only contact is selected are optional. If the automated company-profile service is unavailable, a valid-format company number and the submitted company name and type may be accepted into C JEV LTD's internal manual review without a public-register match. Receipt does not mean those details were verified. Companies House explains that register information is not comprehensive and may contain errors or omissions, so any match is used only to reduce input errors and identify the intended incorporated entity.
4. Purposes and lawful bases
- Initial review and response: legitimate interests. Our interests are receiving and responding to a requested business-to-business enquiry, checking whether it falls within the service scope and maintaining a proportionate record.
- Companies House profile match or manual review: legitimate interests. Our interests are reducing input errors and helping the person submitting the enquiry identify the intended UK incorporated entity. A match or manual review is not used as identity verification, due diligence, proof of trading or a finance-eligibility decision.
- Security, duplicate prevention and service audit: legitimate interests in protecting the website, its users and C JEV LTD from misuse, and demonstrating whether a submission was received and delivered.
- Rights requests, data-protection complaints and legal duties: legal obligation, together with legitimate interests where needed to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.
- A named external introduction: specific consent requested separately before any information is transferred. The initial-review checkbox is not permission for an unidentified broker or lender to receive the enquiry.
- Optional website analytics: consent recorded through the website privacy controls. Analytics remains off unless selected. The site does not load Google Ads or advertising measurement.
The enquiry form does not currently register anyone for email marketing. If marketing is introduced later, it will use separate, optional consent and a simple unsubscribe route.
5. Who may receive information
The initial enquiry is delivered to C JEV LTD's controlled Bene Finance review mailbox using Resend as C JEV LTD's email-delivery provider. Resend processes the sender and recipient addresses, the applicant's reply-to address, the subject and message body, including the enquiry information, and technical delivery data needed to send and troubleshoot the message. C JEV LTD records Resend's message identifier and delivery status with the website enquiry record. Website hosting, security, database and business-email suppliers may also process information for C JEV LTD under their service and data-processing arrangements. Professional advisers, insurers, courts, regulators or public authorities may receive information where reasonably necessary or legally required.
When the lookup is used, the company number is sent from the Bene Finance website server to the Companies House Public Data API. Contact details and enquiry answers are not sent to Companies House.
If a suitable approved introduction route exists, C JEV LTD, trading as Bene Finance, will first name each proposed independent broker or provider, explain what it proposes to share and why, provide or link to that organisation's privacy information, and ask for separate permission. The recipient's controller status, regulatory position and data arrangements must be confirmed for that route before sharing. We do not sell personal information or circulate enquiry details as a public or general broker list.
6. International processing
Some suppliers may process information outside the United Kingdom. Resend states that its primary processing operations are in the United States and that its data-processing addendum incorporates the UK Addendum for restricted UK transfers. Cloudflare's data-processing addendum also provides UK transfer safeguards where applicable. Google Analytics may process analytics information internationally under Google's data-protection terms. C JEV LTD records the providers and safeguards used for each service. You may ask for further information about those safeguards using the contact details above.
7. Retention
The website enquiry record, including the Companies House profile fields, delivery status and Resend message identifier, is kept in the website database for 90 days from submission and then removed by a daily scheduled process. Resend's standard service retains email data for 30 days. After 90 days, Microsoft Exchange moves the delivered mailbox copy into its recoverable deletion state. It may remain recoverable only for Exchange's limited mailbox-recovery period before permanent removal. A specific record may be kept longer only where a live complaint, rights request, legal obligation or legal claim makes that necessary; any extension is limited and recorded under C JEV LTD's retention schedule.
Google Analytics user-level and event-level data is set to its shortest available retention period of two months, without resetting that period when a user returns. Analytics cookies are limited to 60 days and are not refreshed on later page views. This setting does not control aggregated reporting data.
8. Security
Measures include encrypted transport, server-side validation, Cloudflare Turnstile security checks, restricted delivery settings and scheduled database deletion. Access is limited to people who need it for the stated purposes. No internet service can promise absolute security, which is why the initial form deliberately avoids requesting sensitive financial or identity documents.
9. Cookies, local storage and measurement
The site stores a small privacy-choice record called bene-tracking-consent in the browser's local storage so it can remember whether optional analytics was accepted or rejected. That choice expires after six months and is then requested again. Google Analytics scripts and cookies remain blocked until analytics is accepted, and the choice can be changed or withdrawn using Privacy settings in the footer.
If accepted, Google Analytics records the query-free page path and title and limited interaction events for calculator use, enquiry-route clicks, form-step progress, submission attempts or errors, and completed enquiries. It is not sent web-address query details, form answers, contact details, company details, funding amounts or funding purposes. Google signals, advertising personalisation, Google Ads and advertising measurement are disabled. Google states that IP addresses from UK and EU traffic are used for location information and discarded before being logged.
Approved campaign links may carry limited referral labels in the web address. Those labels are not written to cookies, local storage or session storage. A completed-enquiry event is created only after the delivery service accepts a non-duplicate enquiry. It does not mean the enquiry was qualified, introduced, approved or funded.
Cloudflare Turnstile is used on the enquiry form to distinguish genuine users from automated abuse. It processes browser, device, network and interaction signals. The challenge token and, where available, the network address are validated through Cloudflare's Siteverify service. This security processing takes place independently of the optional analytics choice.
10. Internal prioritisation and automated decisions
Business-only indicators such as trading time, turnover band, timing and completeness may help prioritise manual follow-up. They do not create a credit score, eligibility decision, approval probability or automated lending decision. C JEV LTD does not make a decision with legal or similarly significant effect based solely on automated processing.
11. Your rights
Depending on the circumstances, you may ask for access, correction, deletion, restriction or transfer of your personal information. You have the right to object to processing based on legitimate interests and an absolute right to object to direct marketing. Where consent is used, you can withdraw it at any time as easily as it was given; withdrawal does not affect processing that was lawful beforehand.
Email enquiries@benefinance.co.uk or write to the registered office. We may need proportionate information to confirm identity before completing a request.
12. Data-protection complaints
Email enquiries@benefinance.co.uk with the subject “Data protection complaint”, or write to the registered office. C JEV LTD will acknowledge a data-protection complaint within 30 days, investigate it without undue delay, keep you informed where the investigation takes time and communicate the outcome without undue delay.
If you remain unhappy, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office.
13. Updates
This notice was last reviewed on 11 August 2026. It will be reviewed before accepting any sole-trader personal data and before any material change to a recipient, supplier, purpose, lawful basis, retention schedule, international transfer, measurement setup or marketing activity. Material changes will be explained before the new processing begins.