Privacy Notice

Introduction

This document refers to personal data, defined as information concerning any living person (a natural person who hereafter will be called the Data Subject) that is not already in the public domain.that the client is fully GDPR compliant.

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) seeks to protect and enhance the rights of data subjects. These rights cover the safeguarding of personal data, protection against the unlawful processing of personal data and the unrestricted movement of personal data within the EU. It should be noted that GDPR does not apply to information already in the public domain.

1. Personal Data

We use the information collected from you to provide quotations, make telephone contact and to email you information which we believe may be of interest to you and your business. In making initial contact you consent to us maintaining a marketing dialogue with you until you either opt out (which you can do at any stage) or we decide to desist in promoting our services. If we also act on behalf of our clients in the capacity of data processor, we will be acting on the instruction of our client and will work hard to ensure that the client is fully GDPR compliant.

Some personal data may be collected about you from the forms and surveys you complete, from records of our correspondence and phone calls and details of your visits to our website, including but not limited to personally identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. We may from time to time use such information to identify visitors to our website. We may also collect statistics about the behaviour of visitors to our website.

Freehaus’ website uses cookies, a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns to identify and track visitors and their website access preferences. Website visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using our website.

Any information Freehaus holds about you and your business encompasses all the details we hold about you and any sales transactions including any third-party information we have obtained about you from public sources and our own suppliers such as credit referencing agencies. We will only collect the information needed so that it can provide you with marketing and consulting services, this agency does not sell or broker your data, although coincidentally there may be times when your information could be contained in data purchased from a third-party list broker, on behalf of a client.

2. Legal Basis For Processing Any Personal Data

To meet contractual obligations to clients and to also respond to marketing enquiries.

3. Legitimate Interests Pursued by Freehaus and/or its Clients

To promote our marketing and consulting services and/or to market the services and/or products offered by Freehaus’ existing clients.

4. Consent

Through agreeing to this privacy notice you are consenting to us processing your personal data for the purposes outlined. You can withdraw consent at any time by emailing studio@freehausdesign.com or writing to us - see last section for full contact details.

5. Disclosure

Freehaus may on occasions pass your Personal Information to third parties exclusively to process work on its behalf. We require these parties to agree to process this information based on our instructions and requirements consistent with this Privacy Notice and GDPR.

We do not broker or pass on information gained from your engagement with the company without your consent. However, we may disclose your Personal Information to meet legal obligations, regulations or valid governmental request. The company may also enforce its Terms and Conditions, including investigating potential violations of its Terms and Conditions to detect, prevent or mitigate fraud or security or technical issues; or to protect against imminent harm to the rights, property or safety of Freehaus, its clients and/or the wider community.

6. Retention Policy

We will process personal data during the duration of any contract and will continue to store only the personal data needed for five years after the contract has expired to meet any legal obligations. After five years any personal data not needed will be deleted.

7. Data Storage

Data is held in United Kingdom using one server. We do not store personal data outside the EEA.

8. Your Rights as a Data Subject

At any point whilst Freehaus is in possession of or processing your personal data, all data subjects have the following rights:

– Right of access – you have the right to request a copy of the information that we hold about you.
– Right of rectification – you have a right to correct data that we hold about you that is inaccurate or incomplete.
– Right to be forgotten – in certain circumstances you can ask for the data we hold about you to be erased from our records.
– Right to be forgotten – in certain circumstances you can ask for the data we hold about you to be erased from our records.
– Right to restriction of processing – where certain conditions apply you have a right to restrict the processing.
– Right of portability – you have the right to have the data we hold about you transferred to another organisation.
– Right to object – you have the right to object to certain types of processing such as direct marketing.
– Right to object to automated processing, including profiling – you also have the right not to be subject to the legal effects of automated processing or profiling.

In the event that we refuse your request under rights of access, we will provide you with a reason as to why, which you have the right to legally challenge.

At your request, Freehaus can confirm what information it holds about you and how it is processed

9. You Can Request The Following Information

– Identity the contact details of the person or organisation (Freehaus) that has determined how and why to process your data.
– Contact details of the data protection officer, where applicable.
– The purpose of the processing as well as the legal basis for processing.
– If the processing is based on the legitimate interests of Freehaus or a third party such as one of its clients, information about those interests.
– The categories of personal data collected, stored and processed.
– Recipient(s) or categories of recipients that the data is/will be disclosed to.
– How long the data will be stored.
– Details of your rights to correct, erase, restrict or object to such processing.
– Information about your right to withdraw consent at any time.
– How to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority (Data Protection Regulator).
– Whether the provision of personal data is a statutory or contractual requirement, or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract, as well as whether you are obliged to provide the personal data and the possible consequences of failing to provide such data.
– The source of personal data if it wasn’t collected directly from you.
– Any details and information of automated decision making, such as profiling, and any meaningful information about the logic involved, as well as the significance and expected consequences of such processing.

10. Identification Requirements for Personal Data Access

Freehaus will accept the following forms of ID when information on your personal data is requested: a copy of your national ID card, driving license, passport, birth certificate and a utility bill not older than three months. A minimum of one piece of photographic ID listed above and a supporting document is required. If we are dissatisfied with the ID documentation, further information may be sought before personal data can be released.

All requests should be made to studio@freehausdesign.com or by phoning +44 208 5100 500 or writing to us at the address further below.

11. Complaints

In the event that you wish to make a compliant about how your personal data is being processed by us or our partners, you have the right to complain to Freehaus Directors. If you do not get a response within 30 days you can complain to the Data Protection Regulator.

12. Contact

Freehaus, attention of the Directors
77 Leonard Street, London, EC2A 4QS, United Kingdom
Telephone +44 208 5100 500 or email studio@freehausdesign.com.