Our Privacy Policy

Dantier+Balogh (‘we’ or ‘us’ or ‘our’) is committed to protecting the privacy and security of any Personal Data it handles.

This Privacy Notice describes how we collect and use Personal Data about visitors to our website, clients and potential clients, third party consultants and any other individuals whom we may collect Personal Data on in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Past, present and prospective employees, workers, and contractors should refer to our Privacy Notice for Employees and our Privacy Policy (found on our intranet and our recruitment webpage).

We are required under data protection legislation to notify you of the information contained in this Privacy Notice. Dantier+Balogh may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from 14th November 2019.

Data Protection Principles

We comply with the GDPR. This says that the Personal Data we hold must be:

1. Used lawfully, fairly and in a transparent way.
2. Collected only for valid purposes that we have clearly explained to you and not used in any way that is incompatible with those purposes.
3. Relevant to the purposes we have told you about and limited only to those purposes.
4. Accurate and kept up to date.
5. Kept only as long as necessary for the purposes we have told you about.
6. Kept securely.

 

What we collect

Personal Data means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).

We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of Personal Data about you which we have grouped together as follows:

  • Identity Data includes first name, last name, country of residence, company, and job title.

  • Contact Data includes address, email address and telephone numbers.

  • Professional Data includes CVs, and documents related to your qualifications, experience, and role, current salary, eligibility to work in the UK.

  • Usage Data includes information about how you use our website.

  • Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.


Personal Data may be collected in the following ways

1. Through information collected by cookies when you use our website.
When you visit www.dantierandbalogh.com we may send a ‘cookie’ to your computer. 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 allow a website to recognise a user’s device. A cookie cannot give us access to your computer or to information beyond what you provide us. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies; consult your browser’s manual or online help if you want information on restricting or disabling the browser’s handling of cookies. If you disable cookies, you can still view the publicly available information on our web site. You can find more information at: www.allaboutcookies.org.

2. Direct interactions – where you provide information by filling in forms or corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise. This includes Personal Data you provide when you:

  • Complete an online form to subscribe to our mailing list;

  • Make business enquiries via email or telephone; and

  • Enter into a working relationship with us.

3. Third parties or publicly available sources. For example, consultants working with us whose CVs might be sent by their employer for bid documents or so we can assess their suitability for a project.

How we will use information about you

We will only use your Personal Data when the law allows us to, such as:
1. Where it is necessary to perform a contract with you or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract.
2. Where we need to for compliance with a legal obligation.
3. Where it is necessary for the purposes of our legitimate business interests to run a successful international design studio, and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.

We may also use your Personal Data in the following situations, which are likely to be rare:
1. Where we need to protect your interests (or someone else’s interests).
2. Where it is needed in the public interest.

 

Special Category Personal Data
Special Categories of sensitive Personal Data require higher levels of protection and we will need to have further justification for collecting, storing and using this type of Personal Data, such as:
1. In limited circumstances, with your explicit written consent.
2. Where it is necessary for us to meet legal obligations.
3. Where it is necessary for reasons of public interest.
4. Where it is needed on health grounds, subject to appropriate confidentiality safeguards. 
5. Where it is needed for legal claims.
6. Where it is needed to protect your interests (or someone else’s interests) and you are not capable of giving your consent, or where you have already made the information public.

It is unlikely that we will need to collect or process Special Categories of sensitive Personal Data. Where we do need to, we will notify you and (where required) obtain your consent to the processing.

Change of purpose
We will only use your Personal Data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose.

Occasionally we may use Personal Data to send you updates about our business or invites to events. If you prefer not to receive promotional material from Dantier+Balogh email us at dantierandbalogh@hotmail.com and put “unsubscribe” in the subject line together with the name of the publication you wish to unsubscribe from.

Please note that we may process your Personal Data without your knowledge or consent where this is required or permitted by law.

Security
All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. 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 prevent your Personal Data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way. In addition, we limit access to your Personal Data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your Personal Data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

 

Retention
We will only retain your Personal Data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which we collected it or 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.


In some circumstances, we may anonymise your Personal Data so that it can no longer be associated with you, in which case we may use such information without further notice to you.

 

Your Rights in Connection with Personal Data
Under certain circumstances, by law you have the right to:

  • Request access to your Personal Data (commonly known as a “data subject access request”). This enables you to receive a copy of the Personal Data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.

  • Request correction of the Personal Data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate information we hold about you corrected.

  • Request the erasure of your Personal Data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove Personal Data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to stop processing Personal Data where we are relying on a legitimate interest and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground.

  • Request the restriction of processing of your Personal Data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of Personal Data about you, for example if you want us to establish its accuracy or the reason for processing it.

  • Request the transfer of your Personal Data to another party.

If you want to review, verify, correct, request erasure or have further questions about your Personal Data held by us, please contact us via email (dantierandbalogh@hotmail.com).

 

 

 
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