1. This privacy policy applies to Bell Associates Architects Limited website at www.bellassociates.co.uk. We at Bell Associates take your privacy seriously. This policy covers the collection, processing and other use of personal data in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and data protection legislation, for which purpose the data controller is Bell Associates. By using Bell Associate’s website, you consent to the policy.
Information we collect
2. We will collect personal data on this website only if it is directly provided to us by you the user, e.g. your e-mail address, name, home or work address and telephone number, and therefore has been provided by you with your consent.
Use, storage and disclosure of your information
3. We may hold and process this personal data in accordance with the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) but we will not transfer, share, sell, rent or lease your personal data to third parties. We may share your personal data within our group of companies, but it will still be subject to these terms if we do.
4. The information that we collect and store relating to you is primarily used to enable us to provide our services to you. In addition, we may use the information for the following purposes:
4.2 To provide you with information requested from us, relating to our products or services. To provide information on other products which we feel may be of interest to you, where you have consented to receive such information;
4.3 To meet our contractual commitments to you;
4.4 To notify you about any changes to our website, such as improvements or service/product changes, that may affect our service;
4.5 If you are an existing customer, we may contact you with information about goods and services similar to those which were the subject of a previous sale to you;
If you are a new customer, we will only contact you or allow third parties to contact you when you have provided consent and only by those means for which you provided consent; and
4.6 To assist fraud protection and minimise credit risk.
5. If you do not want us to use your data for our use, you will have the opportunity to withhold your consent to this by sending us an email to design@bellassociates.co.uk at any time.
6. Please be advised that we do not reveal information about identifiable individuals to our advertisers but we may, on occasion, provide them with aggregate statistical information about our visitors.
7. As part of the services offered to you, for example through our website, the information you provide to us may be transferred to and stored in countries outside of the European Economic Area (EEA) as we use remote website server hosts to provide the website and some aspects of our service, which may be based outside of the EEA, or use servers based outside of the EEA - this is generally the nature of data stored in “the Cloud”. It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work one of our suppliers, e.g. our website server host, or work for us when temporarily outside of the EEA. A transfer of your personal data may happen if any of our servers are located in a country outside of the EEA or one of our service providers is located in a country outside of the EEA. If we transfer or store your personal data outside the EEA in this way, we will take steps with the aim of ensuring that your privacy rights continue to be protected, as outlined in this privacy policy and in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). If you use our service while you are outside the EEA, your personal data may be transferred outside the EEA in order to provide you with these services.
8. We do not use or disclose sensitive personal data, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.
9. We may disclose your personal data outside of our group: (a) in the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets; and (b) if Bell Associates Architects Limited’s business is bought by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the assets to transfer to the buyer. However, any such transfer will only be on terms that the confidentiality of your personal data is protected and that the terms of this privacy policy will continue to be complied with by the recipient.
10. Otherwise, we will process, disclose or share your personal data only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with legal requirements or legal process served on us or the website.
Security
11. The transmission of information via the Internet or email is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of data while you are transmitting it to our site; any such transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your personal data, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.
Third party links
12. You might find links to third party websites on our website. These websites should have their own privacy policies, which you should check. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for their policies whatsoever as we have no control over them.
Access to information
13. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) gives you the right to access information held about you by us. This right can be exercised by you in accordance with the GDPR – a subject access request may incur an administration fee based on the costs of complying with your request for the information we hold about you. Should you wish to receive details that we hold about you, please contact us using the contact details below.
If you have any questions regarding this Policy, please contact us at Bell Associates, Millgrove House, 77 Farleigh Road, Warlingham, CR6 9EJ.
Bell Associates is the trading name of Bell Associates Architects Ltd, a limited company registered in England and Wales with registered number 09245657 whose registered office is at 84A High Street, Southall, Middlesex, UB1 3DB
Version: May 2018
