This privacy policy sets out how L+ Architects uses and protects any information that you give us when you use this website.

We respect the EU’s General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) and this policy explains how we collect and treat any information you give us. You won’t find any complicated legal terms or long passages of unreadable text. We’ve no desire to trick you into agreeing to something you might later regret.

We value your privacy as much as we do our own, so we’re committed to keeping your personal and business information safe. We’re uncomfortable with the information companies, governments, and other organisations keep on file, so we ask for only the bare minimum from our customers. We’ll never use your personal information for any reason other than why you gave it, and we’ll never give anyone access to it unless we’re forced to by law.

OUR DETAILS

Our company address is L+ Architects, 42 Hertford Avenue, Sheen, London, SW14 8EQ

Our Data Controller is Lindsey Webster. You can contact us via the email address office@lplusarchitects.com

We are committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

We may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from May 2019.

INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE TO US

• Personal data: to be able to contact you, we need your name, email address and contact details.
• Communications with us: you may provide information when contacting us for support, or speaking with us via Twitter, and we may keep records of that communication.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT AUTOMATICALLY

In running and maintaining our website we may collect and process the following data about you:

• Analytics data: Information about your use of our site including details of your visits such as pages viewed and the resources that you access. Such information includes traffic data, location data, and other communication data.
• Enquiry data We ask for contact information including your name, email address, and phone number, on our website so that we can reply to your enquiry.
• Account data We ask for your account and contact information when you hire or buy something from us.

Occasionally, we might receive your contact information from one of our partners. If we do, we protect it in exactly the same way as if you give it to us directly.

WHAT WE DO WITH INFORMATION WE GATHER

We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:

• Internal record keeping.
• We may use the information to improve our products and services.
• We may periodically send promotional emails about new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided.
• From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by email, phone, fax or mail. We may use the information to customise the website according to your interests.
• We are physically located in the United Kingdom. Our development and email servers are hosted in the UK and in the European Union by the hosting company Siteground.

In operating our website, it may become necessary to transfer data that we collect from you to locations outside of the European Union for processing and storing. By providing your personal data to us, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We do our utmost to ensure that all reasonable steps are taken to make sure that your data is treated stored securely.

In the interest of transparency, the following details the third party services, we use to provide our service to you, with information of the data stored or transmitted there:

• Google Analytics
• Mailchimp
• WordPress
• Constant Contact

SECURITY

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

HOW WE USE COOKIES

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

YOUR INFORMATION

We use the information that we collect from you to provide our services to you. In addition to this we may use the information for one or more of the following purposes:

• To provide information to you that you request from us relating to our products or services.
• To provide information to you relating to other products that may be of interest to you. Such additional information will only be provided where you have consented to receive such information.
• To inform you of any changes to our website, services or goods and products.
• If you have previously purchased from us we may provide to you details of similar goods or services, or other goods and services, that you may be interested in.

All marketing emails sent by us will have a clear unsubscribe link. We do not pass on your information to third parties for use in their own marketing at any time.

LINKS TO OTHER SITES

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

CONTROLLING YOUR INFORMATION

You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:

• whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do not want the information to be used by anybody for direct marketing purposes if you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by writing to or emailing us at office@lplusarchitects.com
• We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen.

You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998. A small fee will be payable. If you would like a copy of the information held on you, please write to us.

If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible, at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.

THE STEPS WE TAKE TO KEEP YOUR INFORMATION PRIVATE

Where we store your information in third-party services, we restrict access only to people who need it. The computers we are protected by a passcode or fingerprint access. These computers ask for authentication whenever they’re started or after 15 minutes of inactivity. Our mobile devices are also protected by a fingerprint or facial recognition.

REMOVING YOUR INFORMATION

At any point, you may delete your account, however as this is potentially very destructive (removing license authorisations for any sites you hold) we ask that you contact us if you wish to request this.

HOW TO COMPLAIN

We take complaints very seriously. If you’ve any reason to complain about the ways we handle your privacy, please emails us, office@lplusarchitects.com or write to us at L+ Architects, 42 Hertford Avenue, Sheen, London, SW14 8EQ

CHANGES TO THE POLICY

If we change the contents of this policy, those changes will become effective the moment we publish them on our website.

Get in Touch

We’d love to hear from you, whether you’re interested in discussing your project or have questions about our services. Our contact page is the perfect way to get in touch with us – it’s quick and easy to use, and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible. Don’t hesitate to reach out – we’re here to help bring your vision to life!

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