The Building Archives is committed to respecting your privacy. This policy sets out the basis on which The Building Archives may collect, store and process any of your personal data as a result of your use of this website.

By visiting www.thebuildingarchives.co.uk you are accepting and consenting to the practises described below.

We will collect information in two principle ways:

• Information you give us by completing forms on our website for example when you sign up to our mailing list or apply for a job; and

• Information we automatically collect about you when you visit the website by the use of cookies.

We currently collect and process the following information:

• Personal identifiers, contacts and characteristics (for example, name and contact details)

• Technical information including IP address, browser type and and version, operating system

We use information held about you in the following ways:


• To provide you with information about other goods and services we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about;

• To ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer

• To administer our site and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes;

• To improve our site to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer;

• To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so;

• As part of our efforts to keep our site safe and secure.

For further information see the Cookies section of this policy below.

Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk.
Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

What is a Cookie?

Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognises that cookie. Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognise a user’s device.

Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improve the user experience. They can also help to ensure that adverts you see online are more relevant to you and your interests.

Use of cookies by The Building Archives

Within this website cookies are used to facilitate features and functions which improve your browsing experience. They are also used to measure the performance of the site and the ways in which visitors navigate their way around. The below information details the cookies we use, how to prevent these being written and the impact of doing so on your browsing experience.

Disabling/Enabling all cookies

You can accept or decline cookies by modifying the settings in your browser. However, you will not be able to use all the interactive features of the site if cookies are disabled.
Most recent web browsers allow control over the cookies saved through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them.

Under data protection law, you have rights including:

Your right of access – You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.

Your right to rectification – You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.

Your right to erasure – You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.

Your right to restriction of processing – You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.

Your right to object to processing – You have the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.

We will not share any of your personal data with any third parties for any purposes, subject to the following exception.

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(s) that we have used it, as specified in this Privacy Policy.

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.

Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to info@thebuildingarchives.com.