PRIVACY POLICY

1. Introduction

We take your privacy seriously and you can find out more here about your privacy rights and how we gather, use and share your personal information – that includes the personal information we already hold about you now and the further personal information we might collect about you, either from you or from a third party. How we use your personal information will depend on the services we provide to you.

At Hough Architecture Ltd we make sure that we apply the best standards to protecting your personal information. if you have any questions about how we use your personal information we can be reached by email at jh@hougharchitecture.co.uk or by post at Hough Architecture Ltd, 31 Park Lane, Sandbach, Cheshire, CW11 1EN.

See Your Privacy Rights below for more information about your rights and how we can help you.

This Privacy Notice provides up to date information about how we use your personal information and will update any previous information we have given you about using your personal information (also referred to as personal data). We will update this Privacy Notice if we make any significant changes affecting how we use your personal information, and if so we will contact you to let you know about the change.

2. About us

We are what is known as the ‘controller’ of personal information we gather and use. When we say ‘we’ or ‘us’ in this Privacy Notice, we mean Hough Architecture Ltd. Company.

3. Your privacy rights

You have the right to object to how we use your personal information. You also have the right to see what personal information we hold about you. In addition, you can ask us to correct inaccuracies, delete or restrict personal information or to ask for some of your personal information to be provided to someone else. You can make a complaint to us by emailing jh@hougharchitecture.co.uk or by writing to Hough Architecture Ltd, 31 Park Lane, Sandbach, Cheshire, CW11 1EN.

You can also make a complaint to the data protection supervisory authority, the Information Commissioner’s Office, at https://ico.org.uk.

To make enquires for further information about exercising any of your rights in this Privacy Notice please contact us by emailing jh@hougharchitecture.co.uk or by writing to Hough Architecture Ltd, 31 Park Lane, Sandbach, Cheshire, CW11 1EN.

4. What kinds of personal information we use

We use a variety of personal information depending on the services we deliver to you. For all services, we need to use your name, address and contact details, to allow us to locate you and visit your land/ property. For some services we might need additional information, for example:

• bank details for payments
• information to allow us to check your identity and information about your credit history.
• proof of identity – anti money laundering
• fraud prevention, anti-money laundering and to meet legal obligations.
• Any other information that is relevant to be able to provide the contracted services to you, meet or enforce a legal obligation or where it is fair and reasonable for us to do so.

Sometimes where we ask for your personal information needed to enter into a contract with you or to meet a legal obligation (such as a credit check), we will not be able to provide some services without that personal information.

5. How we gather your personal information

We obtain personal information directly from you, for example when you fill out an application or contract, in person or over the telephone

6. How we use your personal information

To provide you with any services we need to know your name, address and contact details.
We sometimes need to gather, use and share additional personal information for specific purposes, which are set out in more detail below.

• To operate and administer our services, including dealing with your complaints and rectifying problems, we will use your contact details;

We use your information in this way because it is necessary to perform our contract with you and to meet our legal obligations.

• To administer payments from you, we will use your contact details and the payment details that you have provided to us.
• For financial management and debt recovery purposes, we will use your contact details;

We will give information to and receive information from third parties where that is necessary to recover debts due by you to us, for example, other banks, debt recovery agents, our accountants, our solicitors, credit reference agencies and sheriff officer or bailiff services. This might include passing personal information about you to a third party who we have transferred your debt to, and who will then contact you directly to collect that debt. If your debt is transferred to a third party you will be advised of the identity of that third party.
We use your information in this way because it is necessary to perform our contract with you, to exercise our legal rights, and because it is fair and reasonable for us to do so.

• To carry out market research and analysis to develop and improve our products and services we will use information about how you have used our services, such as which services and RIBA Stages.
• To market products and services to you from us we will use the contact details you have provided to us; and information we have gathered from your use of our other products and services to form a profile of you which we will use to assess what other services would be most beneficial for you.

Personal information requirements for Business Customers

For business customers, we will use personal information about key individuals in the business, so we can operate and administer the services which we provide to the business – to do this we will use:

(a) personal information about key individuals who are either a sole trader of the business or are a proprietor, director, company secretary, shareholder, partner, member, committee member, trustee, controller, beneficial owner or authorised signatory to the account of the business.

(b) the personal information we use about key individuals is as set out in section 6, and we may use it for any of

the purposes described in section 6. We may hold personal information on key individuals for the purposes of operating and administering services which we provide to the business, as well as for the purposes of debt recovery purposes, and to make credit decisions about the business.

Personal information on key individuals is obtained directly from the key individual, from the business to which the key individual is linked with, from the key individual’s dealings with any member of BP Architecture.

7. Our legal basis for using your personal information

We only use your personal information where that is permitted by the laws that protect your privacy rights. We only use personal information where:

• we have your consent (if consent is needed);
• we need to use the information to comply with our legal obligations;
• we need to use the information to perform a contract with you; and/or
• it is fair to use the personal information either in our interests or someone else’s interests, where there is no disadvantage to you – this can include where it is in our interests to contact you about services, market to you, or collaborate with others on a project or to improve our services.

Where we have your consent, you have the right to withdraw it. We will let you know how to do that at the time we gather your consent. See section 10 keeping you up to date, clause 10.2 for details about how to withdraw your consent to marketing.

8. Sharing your personal information with or getting your personal information from others

We will share the necessary elements of your personal information with members of your project team to allow them to be able to provide the contracted services to you, meet or enforce a legal obligation or where it is fair and reasonable for us to do so. See section 6 How we use your personal information for more information about how we do this. We will only share your personal information to the extent needed for those purposes.

Who we share your personal information with depends on the services we provide to you and the purposes we use your personal information for.

The personal information we have about you is information you have given to us, or gathered by us in the course of providing services to you.

9. How long we keep your personal information for

How long we keep your personal information for depends on the products and services we deliver to you. We will never retain your personal information for any longer than is necessary for the purposes we need to use it for.

We keep the personal information we use for up to twelve years after the completion of a project. In some circumstances we will hold personal information for longer where necessary for active or potential legal proceedings, to resolve or defend claims, and for the purpose of making remediation payments.

10. Keeping you up to date

We will communicate with you about services we are delivering using any contact details you have given us – for example by post, email, text message, social media, and notifications on our website.

Where you have given us consent to receive marketing, you can withdraw consent, and update your marketing preferences by calling us directly on 01270 482 730, emailing jh@hougharchitecture.co.uk or by writing to Hough Architecture Ltd, 31 Park Lane, Sandbach, Cheshire, CW11 1EN..

11. Your online activities

We use cookies to track your use of our website www.hougharchitecture.co.uk . We may use cookies to provide tailored marketing messages when you are on our website, if you have given us consent.