Privacy and Cookie Notice, and Terms and Conditions

This website; in this document “Brightman Clarke Architects”, "we", “us” “our” refers to the owner of this site.
The term ‘you’ refers to the user or viewer of our website.

Contact details:

Chris Brightman, Director
Brightman Clarke Architects
32 Causeway Head Road,
Dore,
South Yorkshire,
S17 3DT

Aims of this website: to showcase the work and services of Brightman Clarke Architects.

Copyright: This website and its content are protected under copyright. All rights reserved.

Any redistribution or reproduction of part or all of the contents in any form is prohibited.

You may not, except with our express written permission, distribute or commercially exploit the content. Nor may you transmit it or store it in any other website or other form of electronic retrieval system.

Introduction

We want you to know why we need and request some personal information, and how we protect and use this personal data.

We are required to tell you about your rights and our obligations to you when we process your personal data; to do this, please read the information provided at http://www.knowyourprivacyrights.org

Sharing your information: Except as set out below (or unless we have your expressed permission to do so or we are required by law): we do not share, or sell, or disclose to any third party, information collected through this website.

What is collected

This website is hosted by Squarespace.com; they collect personal data when you visit this website, including:

  • Information about your web browser, device and network

  • web pages you visited just prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address (set via your internet provider)

This data is needed so Squarespace can run this website as intended and protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyses the data in a depersonalised form.

Squarespace is based in the USA, quoted from their website:

“Squarespace is committed to treating personal information received from the European Economic Area, Switzerland and the United Kingdom pursuant to the Privacy Shield Frameworks in accordance with the applicable Principles. You can find our certification here, and you can learn more about the Frameworks and Principles by visiting https://www.privacyshield.gov/”

You can read Squarespace’s Privacy Notice in full here: https://www.squarespace.com/privacy/?_ga=2.251201734.1503756742.1582353530-795364863.1577185658&_gac=1.41013142.1581258043.EAIaIQobChMIyb-t6NTE5wIVCbDtCh0xuQPpEAAYAyAAEgJElPD_BwE

Cookies

This website uses cookies (and similar technologies). These are small files or pieces of text that are download to your device when you visit a website. For information about viewing the cookies downloaded on to your device, visit About the cookies Squarespace uses here: https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001264507#toc-check-your-cookies

Necessary functional cookies that are essential/required:

https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001264507#toc-functional-and-required-cookies

The link above lists the Necessary functional cookies that are essential/required for the site to work properly; they are always used. These cookies allow the hosting platform, Squarespace, to securely serve this website to you. They, for example, allow the site to deliver standard functionality that you would expect, such as remembering the contents of your online order before you have fully completed the process.

Optional Analytics and performance (non-essential) cookie use:

https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001264507#toc-analytics-and-performance-cookies

The link above lists the analytics and performance cookies which are used on this site, as described below, but only when you acknowledge our cookie banner by clicking “Accept”. These analytic cookies are used to view site traffic, activity, and other data to help us learn how visitors use this website so we can improve it.

To help comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and in accordance with Squarespace’s recommendations, the Active Log has been deactivated.

The Analytics (and non-essential) cookies are not used until you have given your explicit consent by acknowledging the cookie banner and clicking “Accept”. Only then, does the site start to use Squarespace Analytics cookies. This service collects data to power the sites analytics, including:

  • Information about browsers, network, and devices

  • web pages visited prior to coming to this website

  • Links and pages you have visited on this site

  • Search terms

This information is shared with Squarespace, to learn about general site traffic and activity only. This information is collated by Squarespace and then presented back in a depersonalised form under the following sections:

  • Visits by Device Type

  • Visits by Source

  • Visits by Browser

  • Visits by Operating System

  • Visits by Country

  • Traffic Sources

  • Form & Button Conversions

  • Popular Content

  • Site Search Keywords

  • Number of RSS Subscribers

Third parties services

Google: You can read Google's cookie notice here and their privacy policy here: https://policies.google.com/privacy

As you go through the online checkout (not active), this site may start to auto-complete your address by sharing what you type with the Google Places API. It will then return address suggestions to you to improve your checkout experience.

Email marketing: is via Squarespace & Mailchimp. You can read Mailchimp’s privacy notice: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/

Correspondence email is via Google: You can read Google's cookie notice here and their privacy policy here: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Financial transactions: Stripe (currently not active): Squarespace uses Stripe for its online payment system. You can read their privacy here, and cookies policy here: https://stripe.com/cookies-policy/legal

What are your choices?

When you visit this website, it will ask you for consent to use Analytical cookies. This is done by acknowledging the Cookie notification message (Cookie Banner) and clicking “Accept”, you will then be reminded again of your choice in 30 days, unless you clear (delete) the cookies in the meantime.

You can change your mind anytime by clearing (deleting) our Analytical and Non-essential cookies from your web browser history. You can also prevent and limit cookies from within your web browser too. Please visit the following software developers’ websites for further details:

For any web browsers not listed above, please visit the official developers' website. 

Alternatively, you can press “Decline” on the cookie notification message (Cookie Banner); this site will than only use the essential/required cookies.

If you choose not to consent to the use of Analytical and Non-essential cookies, or if you subsequently delete or block the cookies, certain parts of this website may not work as intended.

Want to learn more about cookies? Visit All About Cookies: https://www.allaboutcookies.org

Data usage

How your personal information is used

Your personal data is only used in a manner that is appropriate for how your data was collected. For example, your personal data to may be used to:

  • reply to enquiries sent to via an online form or email;

  • handle an order that you sent;

  • where you gave your email address and asked to be specifically sent news and marketing emails relating to this website which may be of interest to you.

Placing an order via the online store (not currently active)

When you buy something on this website, your personal information is collected to fulfil your or order. Information collected maybe like your:

  • Billing and shipping address

  • Details relating to your purchase (for example quantity, colour and size etc.)

  • Email address

  • Name

  • Phone number

This information is necessary for your order to be fulfilled and your expectation of receiving a confirmation message. This information is shared with Squarespace, our online donation/store hosting provider so that they can provide website services.

All Apple Pay and credit card transactions are processed via Squarespace’s payment provider, you can read their privacy notice here

As you go through the checkout, this site may auto complete your shipping and billing address by sharing what you type with the Google Places API and returning suggestions to you to improve your checkout experience. You can read Google's privacy policy here (not active).

Emails: online store orders (not currently active)

We may email you with important messages about your online order or recent account activity. For example, we may send you an email to tell you that:

  • You’ve created a new Customer Account

  • Your Account password has been reset or updated

  • You’ve made a purchase from the online store

  • Your order has now been posted.

Because these are legitimate business communications, it’s not possible to unsubscribe from these messages.

We share your contact information with our website hosting provider Squarespace, so they can send these emails to you on our behalf.

Enquiry via email and website forms

When inquiring about this site, some personal information is collected to help fulfil your enquiry. Information like your:

  • Name

  • Email address

  • Phone number

  • Address

  • More details about your enquiry

This personal information is shared with Squarespace & Gmail/Google, the online hosting and our email providers so that they can provide website and email services. It is necessary to read and store your correspondence so that it can be responded to appropriately.

Emails: Updates and marketing

If you have signed up to this websites online mailing list (newsletter / update), we may send you updates and marketing emails. We share your contact information with our email marketing providers Squarespace & Mailchimp so they can send these emails on our behalf. Information collected:

  • Name

  • Email address

Signing up to this websites online mailing list is done via a double opt-in system. Your actions to fulfil the sign-up process gives your active consent. You can, of course, at any time unsubscribe from our mailing list by clicking the link at the bottom of the email.

Emails: correspondence

We may also send you individual emails via Gmail our email service provider. It is, of course, necessary for us to read and store any message you send to us, so that we can respond to them, in an appropriate manner. These are regarded as legitimate interests’ correspondence.

We store your emails on a Google server and securely on our system.

web Fonts

This website uses web font files from Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To display this site as intended to you. Servers, where the font files are stored, may receive personal information about you, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, or device

  • Your IP address

Children’s data

This website has not been designed for use by children, and we do not knowingly collect any data on children.

Security

We endeavour to keep your information safe. we have put in place physical, electronic and procedures to keep and secure the information we collect online.

Other websites

This site contains links to other websites. Once you use these links, you leave this site. we do not have control over other websites, and we are not responsible for the privacy and protection of any information which you provide whilst visiting these other sites. This Privacy Notice is no longer applicable to the new sites. You must look at their statements.

Your Rights

Time

Your data is only store for legitimate purposes and only for as long as it is necessary to do so. After which time it will be deleted.

We will keep the information submitted in a contact form until we have responded to your enquiry, whether it be a telephone call, an email or a site meeting. We will dispose of your details within 3 months of the enquiry being responded to.

It is your information; your rights

You have rights over your data, which include:

● Where personal data processing is based on your consent, you may revoke this consent, at any time; we will make it as easy as possible for you to do this (example: by having a clear 'unsubscribe' link in the footer of our marketing emails).

● Think we have something wrong? You have the right to ask us to correct or delete your information.

● You have the right to see your information.

● You of course have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner if you feel your rights have been infringed.

Visit the Information Commissioner’s website here: https://ico.org.uk/ for a full summary of your legal rights over your personal data.

Please, do not hesitate to get in touch, if you would like to access the rights listed above, or use any other legal rights you have over your personal data under the current legislation.

Note: that exercising some of these rights, like the right to delete your data, will mean it is not possible for us to deliver some of the services to you. However, where we can, we will always try to allow you to have your maximum rights while continuing to deliver as many services as possible.

If you think any information, we have is wrong, please email us via the contact form. we will promptly correct information found to be incorrect.

Updates and Modifications

We may review and modify this Privacy & Cookie Notice from time to time. We will then publish the most current version on this website. If an update or modification meaningfully reduces your rights, we will notify people whose personal data we hold and is affected.

This Policy & Cookie notice has been written with reference (and with the help of starting templates) from the following websites:

Squarespace
Information Commissioner’s Office
White Fuse

IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS AT ALL, PLEASE GET IN TOUCH.

Chris Brightman, Director
Brightman Clarke Architects
32 Causeway Head Road,
Dore,
South Yorkshire,
S17 3DT