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Privacy Policy

This privacy policy is for the website www.bodearchitecture.com and served by Bode Architecture (Scott Bennion) and governs the privacy of its users who choose to use it.

The policy sets out the different areas where user privacy is concerned and outlines the obligations & requirements of the users, the website and website owners. Furthermore the way this website processes, stores and protects user data and information will also be detailed within this policy.

Changes to Privacy Policy

Bode Architecture reserves the right to update, change or replace any part of this Privacy Policy at our discretion. It is your responsibility to check this page periodically for changes. Your continued use of the website following the posting of any changes constitutes acceptance of those changes.

Storing Your Data

We may use third party tools to store your personal data and keep your information safe, such as a CRM System, cloud storage or email marketing software, as well as our own hard drives and data storage systems.

Data Retention

Unless we explain otherwise to you, we’ll hold your personal information based on the following criteria:

  • For as long as we have reasonable business needs, such as managing our relationship with you and managing our operations and accounts

  • For as long as we provide goods and/or services to you and then for as long as someone could bring a claim against us; and/or

  • Retention periods in line with legal and regulatory requirements or guidance

Providing Bode With Your Personal Information

Bode is unable to provide you with certain services if you do not provide certain information. In cases where providing some personal information is optional, I’ll make this clear.

We may use your home address, phone numbers, email address and social media or digital channels (for example, Facebook, Google and message facilities in other platforms) to contact you according to your marketing preferences. You can stop the marketing at any time by contacting Bode be emailing scott@bodearchitecture.com.

The Website

This website and its owner take a proactive approach to user privacy and ensure the necessary steps are taken to protect the privacy of its users throughout their visiting experience. This website complies to all UK national laws and requirements for user privacy.

Bode may change this privacy notice from time to time by updating this page in order to reflect changes in the law and/or our privacy practices. Bode encourage you to check this privacy notice for changes whenever you visit our website.

Personal Information Bode May Process

Personal information that we’ll process in connection with all our services, if relevant, includes:

  • Personal and contact details, such as title, full name, email address, date of birth, contact details, address and contact details history

  • Records of your contact with us such as via phone or email, or if you get in touch with us online using our contact form

  • Products and services you have purchased from us, as well as have been interested in and have held and the associated payment methods used

  • Marketing to you and analysing data, including history of those communications, whether you open them or click on links, and information about products or services we think you may be interested in, and analysing data to help target offers to you that we think are of interest or relevance to you.

Any information we collect about you will come either from yourself, any person who may have referred you to us, or from our advertising or social media platforms.

How Bode May Use Your Data

We use your personal data, including any of the personal data listed in section 1 above, for the following purposes:

  • Assessing an enquiry for a product or service, including considering whether or not to offer you the product or service

  • Managing any aspect of the product or service

  • To improve the operation of our business

  • For management and auditing of our business operations including accounting

  • To keep records of our communications with you

  • For market research and analysis and developing statistics

  • For direct marketing communications and related profiling to help us to offer you relevant products and service, including deciding whether or not to offer you certain products and service. We may send marketing to you by email, phone, post, social media and digital channels (for example, using Facebook Custom Audiences and Google Custom Match).

  • For email marketing communications to provide you with relevant information and offers occasionally.

  • To provide personalised content and services to you, such as tailoring our products and services, our digital customer experience and offerings, and deciding which offers or promotions to show you on our digital channels

  • To develop new products and services and to review and improve current products and services

  • To comply with legal and regulatory obligations, requirements and guidance

Legal Grounds for Processing Your Information

I rely on the following legal bases to use your personal data:

1. Where it is needed to provide you with our products or services, such as:
a)    Assessing an enquiry for a product or service you hold with us, including considering whether or not to offer you the product or service
b)    Managing products and services you have purchased from us
c)    All stages and activities relevant to managing the product or service including enquiry, administration and management of accounts

2. Where it is in our legitimate interests to do so, such as:
a)    Managing your products and services relating to that and updating your records
b)    For management and audit of our business operations including accounting
c)    To keep records of our communications with you
d)    For market research and analysis and developing statistics
e)    For direct marketing communications and related profiling to help us to offer you relevant products and services, including deciding whether or not to offer you certain products and service. We may send marketing to you by email, phone, post and social media and digital channels (for example, using Facebook Custom Audiences and Google Custom Match)
f)     For email marketing communications to provide you with relevant information and offers occasionally.
g)    Where we need to share your personal information with people or organisations in order to run our business or comply with any legal and/or regulatory obligations

3. To comply with any legal obligations

4. With your consent or explicit consent for some direct marketing communications

Sharing Your Data

We may share information with the following third parties for the purposes listed above:

  • Governmental and regulatory bodies such as HMRC, the Financial Conduct Authority, the Prudential Regulation Authority, the Ombudsman, the Information Commissioner’s Office and under the Financial Services Compensation Scheme

  • Any other businesses that are needed in order to fulfill our services or products, such as suppliers or outsourcing companies

Your Rights Under Data Protection Law

Here is a list of the rights that all individuals have under data protection laws. They don’t apply in all circumstances. If you wish to use any of them, we’ll explain at that time if they are engaged or not. The right of data portability is only relevant from May 2018.

  • The right to be informed about the processing of your personal information

  • The right to have your personal information corrected if it is inaccurate and to have incomplete personal information completed

  • The right to object to processing of your personal information

  • The right to restrict processing of your personal information

  • The right to have your personal information erased (the “right to be forgotten”)

  • The right to request access to your personal information and to obtain information about how we process it

  • The right to move, copy or transfer your personal information (“data portability”)

  • Rights in relation to automated decision making which has a legal effect or otherwise significantly affects you

  • You have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office which enforces data protection laws: https://ico.org.uk/. You can contact me using the details below.

You have the right to object to certain purposes for processing, in particular to data processed for direct marketing purposes and to data processed for certain reasons based on our legitimate interests.

Individuals can find out if I hold any personal information by making a ‘subject access request’ under the GDPR law. If we do hold information about you we will:

  • Give you a description of it;

  • Tell you why we are holding it;

  • Tell you who it could be disclosed to; and

  • Let you have a copy of the information in an intelligible form.

You can contact us or make an SAR by going to the CONTACT section of our website to exercise these rights or using the contact details below.

Cookies

This website uses cookies and similar technologies which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, see Squarespace’s Cookies Policy.

These functional and required cookies are always used which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.

These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, as described below, only when you select accept on the cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity and other data.

This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

  • information about your browser, network and device

  • web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

  • clicks

  • internal links

  • pages visited

  • scrolling

  • searches

  • timestamps

Bode shares this information with Squarespace, my website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

The cookies may also gather information about the device you use to access it, including device type, operating system, unique identifiers, device settings and geo-location data. The specific data collected is contingent upon the settings of your individual device and software. Refer to the policies of your device manufacturer or software provider to understand the information they may share.

Visitors

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

  • information about your browser, network and device

  • web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • web pages you view while on this website

  • your IP address

Squarespace needs the data to run this website and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyses the data in a de-personalised form.

This website serves font files from and renders fonts using Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, these third parties may receive personal information about you, including:

  • information about your browser, network, or device

  • information about this site and the page you’re viewing on it

  • your IP address

Personal Information and Third Parties

Bode Architecture may share personal information with:

  • third-party service providers to facilitate their services, such as IT service providers, data storage, hosting and server providers, ad networks, analytics, error loggers, debt collectors, maintenance or problem-solving providers, marketing or advertising providers, professional advisors, and payment systems operators

  • contractors and/or related entities

  • courts, tribunals, regulatory authorities, and law enforcement officers, as required by law, for actual or prospective legal proceedings, or to establish, exercise, or defend legal rights

  • third parties, including agents or sub-contractors, assisting in providing information, products, services, or direct marketing to you

  • third parties involved in the collection and processing of data

Complaints

If you believe that Bode Architecture has breached a relevant data protection law and wish to make a complaint, please contact us using the details below and provide us with full details of the alleged breach. Bode Architecture will promptly investigate the complaint and respond to you, in writing, setting out the outcome of the investigation and the steps that will be taken to deal with your complaint. You also have the right to contact a regulatory body or data protection authority in relation to your complaint.

Corrections

If you believe that any information Bode Architecture holds about you is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant or misleading, please contact Bode Architecture at scott@bodearchitecture.com. Bode Architecture will take reasonable steps to correct any information found to be inaccurate, incomplete, misleading or out of date.

Thank you for reading.

Limits of this Privacy Policy

This website may link to external sites that are not operated by Bode Architecture. Please be aware that we have no control over the content and policies of those sites, and cannot accept responsibility or liability for their respective privacy practices.