Privacy Policy

BACKGROUND:

A.R.TAYLOR Ltd understands that your privacy is important to you and that you care about how your personal data is used. We respect and value the privacy of everyone who visits this website, A.R.Taylor Ltd Architectural Technologist Nuneaton (“Our Site”) and only collect and use your personal data as described in this Privacy Policy. Any personal data we collect will only be used as permitted by law.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully and ensure that you understand it. By using our website or providing us with your personal information you are agreeing to this policy.

4. What Are My Rights? Under the Data Protection Legislation, you have the following rights, which we will always work to uphold: a) The right to be informed about our collection and use of your personal data. This Privacy Policy should tell you everything you need to know, but you can always contact us to find out more or to ask any questions using the details in Part 10. b) The right to access the personal data we hold about you. Part 9 will tell you how to do this. c) The right to have your personal data rectified if any of your personal data held by us is inaccurate or incomplete. Please contact us using the details in Part 10 to find out more. d) The right to be forgotten, i.e. the right to ask us to delete or otherwise dispose of any of your personal data that we hold. Please contact us using the details in Part 10 to find out more. e) The right to restrict (i.e. prevent) the processing of your personal data. f) The right to object to us using your personal data for a particular purpose or purposes. g) The right to withdraw consent. This means that, if we are relying on your consent as the legal basis for using your personal data, you are free to withdraw that consent at any time. h) The right to data portability. This means that, if you have provided personal data to us directly, we are using it with your consent or for the performance of a contract, and that data is processed using automated means, you can ask us for a copy of that personal data to re-use with another service or business in many cases. i) Rights relating to automated decision-making and profiling. We do not use your personal data in this way. For more information about our use of your personal data or exercising your rights as outlined above, please contact us using the details provided in Part 10. It is important that your personal data is kept accurate and up-to-date. If any of the personal data we hold about you changes, please keep us informed as long as we have that data. Further information about your rights can also be obtained from the Information Commissioner’s Office or your local Citizens Advice Bureau. If you have any cause for complaint about our use of your personal data, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office. We would welcome the opportunity to resolve your concerns ourselves, however, so please contact us first, using the details in Part 10.

Information About [Us] OR [Me]

Our Site is [owned and] operated by A.R.TAYLOR Ltd, a Limited Company registered in England under company number 05949627.

Address:

91 Bulkington Lane

Nuneaton

CV11 4SD.

VAT number: 299240077

Data Protection Officer: A.R.TAYLOR Ltd.

Email address: enquiries@taylordesign.ltd

Telephone number: 024 7710 3393.

2. What Does This Policy Cover?

This Privacy Policy applies only to your use of Our Site.

Our Site may contain links to other websites. Please note that we have no control over how your data is collected, stored, or used by other websites and we advise you to check the privacy policies of any such websites before providing any data to them.

3. What Is Personal Data?

Personal data is defined by the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 (collectively, “the Data Protection Legislation”) as ‘any information relating to an identifiable person who can be directly or indirectly identified in particular by reference to an identifier’.

Personal data is, in simpler terms, any information about you that enables you to be identified. Personal data covers obvious information such as your name and contact details, but it also covers less obvious information such as identification numbers, electronic location data, and other online identifiers.

5. What Personal Data Do You Collect and How? Subject to the following, we do not collect any personal data from you. We do not place cookies on your computer or device, nor do we use any other means of data collection. We also confirm that we do not use analytics or similar tracking technologies on Our Site. If you send us OR me an email, we may collect your name, your email address, and any other information which you choose to give us for the purposes of the Data Protection Legislation, we are the data controller responsible for such personal data. Our Site is not intended for use by children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect or process personal data from our about them. The lawful basis under the Data Protection Legislation that allows us to use such information is article 6(1)(f) of the UK GDPR which allows us to process personal data when it is necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests, in this case, the proper operation and functionality of Our Site. If you contact us as described above, you will be required to consent to our use of your personal data to contact you. In this case, our lawful basis for using your personal data will be article 6(1)(a) of the UK GDPR, which allows us to use your personal data with your consent for a particular purpose or purposes.

6. How Do You Use My Personal Data? Where we collect any personal data, it will be processed and stored securely, for no longer than is necessary in light of the reason(s) for which it was first collected. We will comply with our obligations and safeguard your rights under the Data Protection Legislation at all times. For more details on security see Part 7, below. As stated above, we do not generally collect any personal data directly from you, but if you contact us and we obtain your personal details from your email, we may use them to respond to your email. The other technical data referred to above is necessary for the technical operation of Our Site and will not normally be used in any way to personally identify you. Any and all emails containing your personal data will be deleted no later than 12 months after your active project has been completed and all financial and legal issues resolved and no other personal data will be retained for any longer than is necessary. We will not share any of your personal data with any third parties for any purposes other than storage on an email and/or web hosting server.

7.How and Where Do You Store My Data? We will only store your personal data in the UK. This means that it will be fully protected under the Data Protection Legislation. We ensure that your personal data is protected under binding corporate rules. Binding corporate rules are a set of common rules which all our group companies are required to follow when processing personal data. For further information, please refer to the Information Commissioner’s Office. Personal data security is essential to us and to protect personal data, we take the following measures: · limiting access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties with a legitimate need to know and ensuring that they are subject to duties of confidentiality; · procedures for dealing with data breaches (the accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure of, or access to, your personal data) including notifying you and/or the Information Commissioner’s Office where we are legally required to do so;

8. How Long Do we Keep Your Information? In Short: We keep your information for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes outlined in this Privacy Notice unless otherwise required by law. We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Notice, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting, or other legal requirements). When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymise such information, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible. Even if we delete your Data, it may persist on back up or archival media for legal, tax or regulatory purposes

9. Cookies This Website may place and access certain Cookies on your computer A.R.Taylor Ltd uses Cookies to improve your experience of using the Website. A.R.Taylor Ltd has carefully chosen these Cookies and has taken steps to ensure that your privacy is protected and respected at all times. All Cookies used by this Website are used in accordance with current UK and EU Cookie Law. Before the Website places Cookies on your computer, you will be presented with a message bar requesting your consent to set those Cookies. By giving consent to the placing of Cookies, you are enabling A.R.Taylor Ltd via Wix to provide a better experience and service to you. You may, if you wish, deny consent to the placing of Cookies: however certain features may not function fully as intended. You can find a list of the Cookies that we use in the Cookies Schedule. You can choose the enable or disable Cookies in your browser. By default, most internet browsers accept Cookies but this can be changed. You can choose to delete Cookies at any time, however you may loose information that enables you to access the Website more quickly. For more information generally on Cookies, including how to disable them, please refer to aboutcookies.org.

Cookies Schedule Below is a list of the Cookies that we use. We have tried to ensure this is the complete and upto date, but if you think that we have missed a Cookie or there is any discrepancy, please let us know. Strictly Necessary Cookies Cookie Key - hs Cookie Type - First Party Expiration - Session Description - Used for security reasons bSession Firsty Party 29 minutes 53 seconds Used for system effectiveness measurement ssr-catching First party 12 Seconds Indicates how a site was rendered XSRF-TOKEN First party Session This cookie is written to help with site security in preventing Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks. Targeting Cookies Cookie Key - svSession Cookie Type - First Party Expiration - 1 year 1 Month Description - Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitors sessions on a site Unclassified Cookies Cookie Key - Server5-session-bind Cookie Type -First Party Expiration - Session

10. Do You Share My Personal Data? We will not share any of your personal data with any third parties for any purposes, subject to the following exceptions. We may share your Information as a requirement to provide our service to you, this may include but not exclusively, with the local authority for planning and building Regulations, Severn Trent and other professionals or contractors that support our services... such as building contractors, structural designers, project managers. No information will be shared unless we have a contract for your project and these parties have already been discussed with you all information/ data we process will only be retained in line with our retention policy. If we sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or assets, your personal data may be transferred to a third party. Any new owner of our business may continue to use your personal data in the same way that we have used it, as specified in this Privacy Policy (i.e. to communicate with you). In some limited circumstances, we may be legally required to share certain personal data, which might include yours, if we are involved in legal proceedings or complying with legal obligations, a court order, or the instructions of a government authority. If any of your personal data is transferred to a third party, as described above, we will take steps to ensure that your personal data is handled safely, securely, and in accordance with your rights, our obligations, and the third party’s obligations under the law, as described above in Part 7.

11. How Can I Access My Personal Data? If you want to know what personal data we have about you, you can ask us for details of that personal data and for a copy of it (where any such personal data is held). This is known as a “subject access request”. All subject access requests should be made in writing and sent to the email or postal addresses shown in Part 10. To make this as easy as possible for you, a Subject Access Request Form is available for you to use. You do not have to use this form, but it is the easiest way to tell us everything we need to know to respond to your request as quickly as possible. There is not normally any charge for a subject access request. If your request is ‘manifestly unfounded or excessive’ (for example, if you make repetitive requests) a fee may be charged to cover our administrative costs in responding. We will respond to your subject access request within 28 days and, in any case, not more than one month of receiving it. Normally, we aim to provide a complete response, including a copy of your personal data within that time. In some cases, however, particularly if your request is more complex, more time may be required up to a maximum of three months from the date we receive your request. You will be kept fully informed of our progress.

12. How Do I Contact You?

To contact us about anything to do with your personal data and data protection, including to make a subject access request,

please use the following details (for the attention of Claire Taylor Nicholls):

Email address: enquiries@taylordesign.ltd.

Telephone number: 024 7710 3393.

Postal Address: 91 Bulkington Lane Nuneaton CV11 4SD.

13. General

You may not transfer any of your rights under this privacy policy to any other person. We may transfer our rights under this privacy policy where we reasonably believe your rights will not be affected.

This Agreement will be governed by and interpreted according to the law of England and Wales.

All disputes arising under the Agreement will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English and Welsh courts.

14. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may review and update this Privacy Policy from time to time to ensure continued compliance with the law and best practice.

This may be necessary, for example, if the law changes, or if we change our business in a way that affects personal data protection.

Any changes will be immediately posted on Our Site and you will be deemed to have accepted the terms of the Privacy Policy on your first use of Our Site following the alterations.

We recommend that you check this page regularly to keep up-to-date.

This Privacy Policy was last updated on 07 May 2026.

15. Attribution

This Privacy Policy has been created using a document template from www.simply-docs.co.uk.