Who Are We:

We are Space Studio limited; a UK architects based in Sheffield, South Yorkshire.

In this document “Spacestudio”, "we", "our", or "us" refer to Space Studio limited.

Contact details

Amer Ahmed, Director
ARB Registered Architect

Our registered office is at:
18 Mylor Road
Sheffield
S11 7PF

Telephone: 0114 263 1762
email@spacestudio.uk

We are a Private Limited Company, our registration number is: 5523513 (England and Wales)

Activities

We are an architects practice working across a range of sectors including: domestic/home extensions; traditional and contemporary new build houses. Commercial architectural projects include apartments, cafe and restaurants, education, offices, multi-dwelling residential, retail new build and extensions, and social sector schemes.

Introduction

At Spacestudio 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 we have 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 our website.

What is collected

For website visitors (Website functionality)

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 Here

Cookies

This website uses cookies (and similar technologies). These are small files or pieces of text that are downloaded 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.

Analytics and performance (non-essential) cookie use

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

We do not use the Analytics (and non-essential) cookies until you have given us your consent by acknowledging our cookie banner and clicking “Yes, I agree”. We then use Squarespace Analytics. This service collects data to power our site analytics, including:

  • Information about browsers, network, and devices

  • Web pages visited prior to coming to this website

  • Links and pages you have visited on our site

  • Search terms

We share this information with our website analytics provider Squarespace, to learn about general site traffic and activity only. This information is collated by Squarespace and presented back to us 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 we use:

Google: You can read Google's cookie notice here and their privacy policy here

As you go through the online checkout, 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.

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

Mailchimp: provides our email marketing service; you can read their cookie notice: here

What are your choices

When you visit www.spacestudio.uk, we will ask you for consent to use our Analytical and Non-essential cookies. This is done by acknowledging our Cookie notification message (Cookie Banner) and clicking “Yes, I agree”, we will then remind you 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 (listed here) 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' web site.

If you choose not to consent to our 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

Visitor data: how we use your personal information

We will only use your personal data in a manner that is appropriate for how your data was collected. For example, we may use your personal data to:

● reply to enquiries sent to us via an online form or email;

● where you gave us your email address and asked us to specifically send you news and marketing emails relating to our work which we think may be of interest to you.

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

When you buy something on this website, we collect personal information from you to fulfil your order. We may collect information 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 us to fulfil your intention of purchasing goods from our online store, and your expectation of receiving a confirmation message. This information is shared with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider so that they can provide website services to us. 

All Apple Pay and credit card transactions are processed via Squarespace’s payment provider Stripe; 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

Enquiry via email and website forms

When inquiring about our company and our work, we collect personal information from you to help fulfil your enquiry. We may collect information like your:

  • Name

  • Email address

  • Phone number

  • Address

  • More details about your enquiry

We share this personal information with Squarespace, our online hosting provider so that they can provide website services to us. It is necessary to read and store your correspondence so that we can respond appropriately.

Emails: Updates and marketing

If you have signed up to our online mailing list, 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. We may collect information like your:

  • Name

  • Email address

Signing up to our online mailing list is done via a double opt-in system. Your actions to fulfil the sign-up process gives us 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: 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 our 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.

Emails: correspondence

We may also send you individual emails via Google Gmail or Ionos (1&1) our email service providers. 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.

 
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 managerial procedures to keep and secure the information we collect online.

Other websites

Our site contains links to other websites. Once you use these links, you leave our 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. Our Privacy Notice is no longer applicable to the new sites. You must look at their statements.

Your information

Time

We only store your data for legitimate purposes and only for as long as it is necessary to do so. For example, HMRC requires us to keep financial records for a number of years. After which time we would delete your file.


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 write to us. We will promptly correct information found to be incorrect.

Updates and Modifications

We may review and modify this Privacy 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'll 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

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