Privacy Policy

Last updated: 27 Feb 2025

1. Introduction

Welcome to Architects Near Me ("we", "our", or "us"). We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and safeguard your personal information when you use our website and services.

Architects Near Me is a UK-based service that helps users find architectural services across the United Kingdom. We are committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected in compliance with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), the Data Protection Act 2018, and other applicable privacy laws.

2. Information We Collect

We may collect the following information:

Personal identification information (name, email address, phone number) when voluntarily provided through our contact forms
Location data when you use our "Nearby" feature (with your consent)
Information about your visits to our website including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, web logs, and other communication data
Information provided when you report a problem with our website
Records of correspondence if you contact us

3. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect for the following purposes:

To provide and maintain our service
To notify you about changes to our service
To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service when you choose to do so
To provide customer support
To gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our service
To monitor the usage of our service
To detect, prevent and address technical issues
To provide you with news, special offers and general information about other services and events which we offer

4. Legal Basis for Processing

We process your personal data on the following legal bases:

Your consent
Performance of a contract
Compliance with a legal obligation
Protection of vital interests
Performance of a task carried out in the public interest
For the purposes of our legitimate interests

5. Data Retention

We will retain your personal data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your personal data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

6. Data Transfer

Your information, including personal data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those of your jurisdiction.

If you are located outside the United Kingdom and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including personal data, to the United Kingdom and process it there.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

7. Disclosure of Data

We may disclose your personal data in the following situations:

To service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our service
To comply with a legal obligation
To protect and defend our rights or property
To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the service
To protect the personal safety of users of the service or the public
To protect against legal liability

8. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our service and hold certain information.

Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Other tracking technologies are also used such as beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our service.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our service.

9. Your Data Protection Rights

Under UK data protection law, you have the following rights:

Right to access - You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
Right to rectification - You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
Right to erasure - You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
Right to restrict processing - You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
Right to object to processing - You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
Right to data portability - You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the contact information provided below.

10. Children's Privacy

Our service does not address anyone under the age of 18 ("Children").

We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected personal data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

11. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

We will let you know via a prominent notice on our service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "Last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

12. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:

By email: hello@architect-near-me.uk
By visiting the contact page on our website: Contact Us