Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy explains how
BUILD SMART may collect, use, store,
disclose or otherwise process your personal data including personal data
provided when using our websites (www.buildsmartpbc.com) and describes the
rights you have with respect to your personal data.
BUILDSMART is committed to providing the highest level of
protection regarding the processing of their employees’, vendors’ and
clients’/customers’ personal data based on applicable data protection laws and
regulations.
Personal data comprises all the
details that BUILD SMART collects and
processes directly or indirectly about you as an individual, for instance
information about your identity and contact details (such as name, email-ID,
contact number), including information received from third parties and
information collected through use of BUILD SMART websites, cookies or other
similar tools. BUILD SMART will first and foremost comply with local law where
it exists.
Processing Personal Data
BUILD SMART may process your personal
data where such relevant personally identifiable information is required to be
processed for legitimate BULD SMART purposes as follows, but not limited to:
·
Processing applications for products
and services;
·
Providing products and services; (It
is not feasible for an organisation to provide product / service without
processing)
·
Monitoring and improving our website
and its content;
·
Conducting market research and
surveys with the aim of improving our products and services;
·
Sending you information about our
products and services for marketing purposes and promotions.
·
Establishing, exercising or defending
legal rights in connection with legal proceedings (including any prospective
legal proceedings) and seeking professional or legal advice in relation to such
legal proceedings.
BUILD SMART processes your personal data for the
performance of the contracts/agreements concluded with you, compliance with
applicable legal or regulatory obligations or BUILD SMART legitimate interests to provide you with
adequate and qualitative products and services and to prevent against any
excessive risk. Where providing the data is optional, and you choose not to
share personal data, features like personalisation that use such data will not
work for you.
Access to Personal Data
Your personal data processed by BUILD
SMART will only be accessible by a
limited list of recipients on a need to know basis or where required by law.
Our policy does not apply to third-party websites where our online
advertisements are displayed, nor to linked third-party websites which we do
not operate or control.
To the extent permitted by law, BUILD
SMART may record and monitor your communications with BUILD SMART to ensure compliance with our legal and
regulatory obligations and our internal policies.
Retention of Personal Information
Your personal data processed by BUILD
SMART are kept in a form which permits
your identification for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which
the personal data are processed in line with legal, regulatory or statutory
obligations.
At the expiry of such periods, your personal data will be deleted or archived
to comply with legal retention obligations or in accordance with applicable
statutory limitation periods.
How to access and control your
personal data?
Subject to applicable law,
regulations and/or industry guidelines, you may have the right to invoke a data
subject right in relation to your personal data being processed by BUILD SMART
.
BUILD SMART may be allowed by law, in
particular in case of excessive or manifestly unfounded request, to charge a
fee for fulfilling your request, subject to applicable conditions.
BUILD SMART shall provide information on action taken on a
request pertaining to the Data Subject Rights without undue delay and in any
event within one month of receipt of the request. That period may be extended
by two further months where necessary, taking into account the complexity and
number of the requests.
BUILD SMART shall inform the data subject of any such extension within one
month of receipt of the request, together with the reasons for the delay.
To invoke your data subject rights,
please use the data subject right request form or send an email to data
protection officer (for contact details refer to the last section of this
policy).
Finally, note that you are entitled
to lodge a complaint with a competent Data Protection Authority where existing,
concerning BUILD SMART’s compliance with the applicable data protection laws
and regulation.
Security
The security and confidentiality of
your Personal Data is important to us and BUILD SMART has invested significant
resources to protect the safekeeping and confidentiality of your personal data.
When using external service providers acting as processors, we require that
they adhere to the same standards as BUILD SMART. Regardless of where your
personal information is transferred or stored, we take all steps reasonably
necessary to ensure that personal data is kept secure.
Social Media
BUILD SMART operates channels, pages
and accounts on some social media sites to inform, assist and engage with
employees, vendors and clients/customers. BUILD SMART monitors and records
comments and posts made on these channels about BUILD SMART in order to improve
its products and services.
Please note that you must not
communicate to BUILD SMART through such social media sites the following
information:
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confidential personal data, including
any information regarding your financial situation, bank account details,
transactions, etc.
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sensitive personal data including (i)
special categories of personal data meaning any information revealing racial or
ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade
union membership, and the processing of genetic data, biometric data for the
purpose of uniquely identifying a natural person, data concerning health or
data concerning a natural person's sex life or sexual orientation and (ii)
other sensitive personal data such as criminal convictions and offences and
national identification number; and
·
excessive, inappropriate, offensive
or insulting information towards individuals.
BUILD SMART is not responsible for
any information posted on those sites other than the information posted by its
employees on its behalf. BUILD SMART is only responsible for its own use of the
personal data received through such sites.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
BUILD SMART may in its absolute
discretion update this policy from time to time.
The use of the BUILD SMART Websites
and any products and services supplied are subject to our Terms and Conditions.