Terms and Conditions
Welcome to our website. If you continue to browse and use this website, you are agreeing to comply with and be bound by the following terms and conditions of use, which together with our privacy policy govern Astudio Limited’s relationship with you in relation to this website. If you disagree with any part of these terms and conditions, please do not use our website.
Terms of Use
This page (together with the documents referred to on it) explains the terms of use on which you may make use of our website A studio Ltd (our “Site”).
Please read these terms of use carefully before using the Site. By using our Site, you accept these terms of use and you agree to abide by them at all times. If you do not accept them, please do not use our Site.
Information About Us
The Site is operated by A studio Ltd. We are a limited company registered in England and Wales under company number 05987909 and have our registered office at 31-33 Bondway, London, SW8 1SJ
Description of Site
We provide architectural services. You may use the Site for your personal use or for internal business purpose in the organisation that you represent. You may connect to the Site using any Internet browser supported by the Site. You are responsible for obtaining access to the Internet and the equipment necessary to use the Site.
Acceptance of terms
By using this Site, you confirm that you accept these terms of use and will comply with them. If you do not agree to these terms, you must not use this Site. We may amend these terms from time to time. Every time you wish to use this Site, please check these terms to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time.
By accessing our Site, you confirm that you are over 18 years of age.
Availability of our Site
Although we aim to always keep our Site available, we do not guarantee that our Site, or any content on it, will always be available or that access to it will be uninterrupted. We will not be liable to you if, for any reason, you are unable to access our Site or any of its content.
Intellectual Property Rights
We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our Site, and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright, database rights and other laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved, and no rights are granted to you except for those expressly granted in these terms.
Astudio, Amodular and Aframe and the names of individual services advertised on the Site are trademarks of Us. You agree not to display or use, in any manner, our trademarks, without our prior written permission.
Disclaimers
The content on our Site is provided for general information only. Furthermore, we do not warrant or represent that the content on our Site is accurate, complete or up to date.
In the circumstances, we do not accept any responsibility for, and all liability is excluded in relation to, any loss which may arise from reliance on information or materials published on our Site.
Links to other websites
Where our Site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. Such links should not be interpreted as approval by us of those linked websites or of any information you may obtain from them. We have no control over the contents of such websites or resources.
Viruses, Hacking and Other Offences
We do not guarantee that our Site will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.
You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform to access our Site. You should use your own virus protection software.
You must not misuse our Site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our Site, the server on which our Site is stored, or any server, computer or database connected to our Site. You must not attack our Site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our Site will cease immediately.
Limitation of Liability
Nothing in these terms shall operate so as to limit or exclude our liability for fraud, for death or personally injury caused by our negligence or for anything else for which our liability cannot, by law, be limited or excluded.
Subject to this, we will not be liable to you for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with your use of, or inability to use, our Site or your use of, or reliance on, any content displayed on our Site.
Governing Law and Jurisdiction
The English courts will have exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arising from, or related to, a visit to our Site although we retain the right to bring proceedings against you for breach of these conditions in your country of residence or any other relevant country.
These terms of use and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or their subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of England and Wales.
Contact Us
Please email us at info@astudio.co.uk to contact us about any issues.
Privacy policy
Introduction
This Privacy Policy (together with our terms and conditions and any other documents referred to in it) describes the type of information that we collect from you ("you/your") through our website A studio limited ("Website"), how that information may be used or disclosed by us and the safeguards we use to protect it.
Who we are
Here are our details:
- Our Website address is https://www.astudio.co.uk/
- Our company name is A studio Limited
- Our registered address is 31-33 Bondway, London, SW8 1SJ
- Our nominated representative is: Alison Stevenson
- Contact details: call us on 0207 401 4100 or email us info@astudio.co.uk
We respect your right to privacy and will only process personal information about you or provided by you in accordance with the Data Protection Legislation which for the purposes of this Privacy Policy shall mean: (i) the retained EU law version of the General Data Protection Regulation ((EU) 2016/679) (UK GDPR), the Data Protection Act 2018 and any other national implementing laws, regulations and secondary legislation, as amended or updated from time to time, in the UK and then (ii) any successor legislation to the UK GDPR or the Data Protection Act 2018 and other applicable privacy laws.
Acceptance of this Privacy Policy
Please check back regularly to keep informed of updates to this Privacy Policy. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully and ensure that you understand it. Your acceptance of our Privacy Policy is deemed to occur upon your first use of our Website. If you do not accept and agree with this Privacy Policy, you must stop using our Website immediately.
What personal data we may collect & how we may use it
What type of personal data are we collecting?
Your name, email address and any other personal data you supply to us
Purpose of processing
To provide you with updates on our activities, services and products, to record your marketing preferences and any feedback or responses for the purposes of improving our services
What lawful basis do we rely on to use your personal data?
With your consent
What type of personal data are we collecting?
Any personal data we collect as part of your Cookies settings, namely online identifiers (such as your cookie identifier, IP address, browser type and version, time zone settings and location)
Purpose of processing
To allow us to operate our Website and ensure that its operation runs as smoothly as possible
What lawful basis do we rely on to use your personal data?
With your consent
How we may collect your personal data
We may collect your personal data from the following sources:
· Through cookies or similar tracking technologies that we have set on our Website; and/or
· When you provide us with personal information through our contact form.
For more information on our use of cookies and/or similar tracking technologies, see the “Cookies” section below.
How long we may keep your personal data
We will not keep your personal data any longer than we think is necessary. When deciding how long to keep your personal data, we consider factors such as:
· Our contractual rights and obligations in relation to the personal data involved;
· Legal obligations under applicable law to retain data for a certain period of time;
· Whether we relied on your consent to use the personal data, but you have since withdrawn your consent;
· Statute of limitation under applicable law(s);
· Our legitimate interests;
· Fraud and risk management;
· Potential disputes; and
· Guidelines issued by relevant data protection authorities.
Cookies
When you browse our Website, we automatically receive your computer’s internet protocol (IP) address. We may collect data about how you interact with our Website through the use of Cookies, or other similar tracking technologies (collectively referred to as “Cookies”). A cookie is a small file of text that is stored on your browser or the hard drive of your computer.
We use Cookies to distinguish you from other users of our Website. It helps us to remember your preferences. When you visit our Website Cookies allow us to keep track of how many times you’ve visited us, how long you’ve visited us for and what you’ve done whilst you’ve been on our Website.
None of the Cookies we use are used to identify you as an individual. They typically collect anonymous identifiers associated with your device, browser, referring site URLs, time or usage information.
We use the following types of cookies:
Strictly necessary Cookies that are required for the operation of our Site, Tools and/or Services. These include Cookies that tell us if you’ve consented to the placement of functionality or analytical /performance Cookies, let you log into secure areas of our website, let us authenticate you when you sign-on to use any of our Services, and help us distinguish you from other users of our Site, Tools and/or Services. The functionality of our Services would be affected if these cookies are disabled.
Functionality or preference Cookies, that are used to recognise you when you return to our website so we can personalise our content for you (such as your country or language preferences).
Analytical or performance Cookies, that enable us to count the number of unique visitors to our Site and/or Tools and to see how users interact with our Site, Tools and/or Services by collecting information such as network requests, console logs, text entered and mouse movements.. We use this information to help improve our Site Tools and/or Services and your experience. For example, we can use these Cookies to understand what areas of our website are not being used by users and make improvements.
More details regarding how we use Cookies can be found in our Cookies Policy at [INSERT].
International transfers of personal data
Any personal data that you provide will not generally be transferred to, or outside of the UK. We will take reasonable steps to ensure that your personal data is handled securely and in accordance with our Privacy Policy. If we do need to transfer outside of the UK, we will only do so if:
· It is to a country that has been deemed to provide an adequate level of protections for personal data by the ICO; or
· We have entered into a standard contractual clause approved by the ICO, which gives the personal data the same protection it has in the UK, with the recipient of the data.
Sharing your personal data
We may be required to share your personal data in the following circumstances:
· If we reasonably consider that we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data to comply with any legal obligation;
· We need to enforce or apply or terms and conditions and/or other agreements with you; and/or
· With third parties to whom we may sell, transfer or merge parts of our business or assets. If a change like this happens to our business, the new owners may use your personal data in the same way as set out in this privacy policy.
Links to other sites
Please note that our Privacy Policy will not apply to other websites that you get to via a link from our Website. 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.
Changes
If we change our Privacy Policy, we will post the changes on this page so please check this page for our current policy. Your continued use of our Website will be interpreted as your express acceptance of any changes to our Privacy Policy.
Right of access
You have the right to ask us to provide any personal data we have collected about you. Should you wish to do so, please email us at [INSERT] to make a subject access request.
Other rights
You have the following additional rights under UK data protection law:
· request access to, deletion of or correction of your personal data held by us at no cost to you;
· request that your personal data be transferred to another person (data portability);
· be informed of what data processing is taking place;
· restrict processing;
· to object to processing of your personal data; and
· complain to a supervisory authority.
Making a complaint to a supervisory authority
Should you be dissatisfied with the service we provide, you have the right to file a formal complaint to the Information Commissioner's Office at www.ico.org.uk, or to the relevant data protection supervisory authority in your country of residence.
Contact Us
Should you have any questions about GDPR compliance or want to exercise any of your data subject rights, for now just drop us an email at info@astudio.co.uk and keep an eye out for platform improvements that make it even easier to manage your data with us.
Click here for an overview of privacy at Google.
We use ‘share’ buttons on some of our pages to enable you to share the content on websites like Facebook, Twitter and Google+ social networks. We also provide links to our social media pages on Facebook and Twitter. These websites may set cookies when you are logged in to their service. We do not control the settings of these cookies, so please check the relevant third-party websites for more information about their cookies and how to manage them. Our ‘share page’ widget is provided by AddThis. You can opt out of AddThis cookies at addthis.com/privacy/opt-out
We may embed things like video, audio and pictures from other websites such as Vimeo. This means it looks like one of our web pages but the video is being fed through from another site. Every time you visit one of our pages with this sort of embedded content, those other sites may use their own cookies to record that you have watched or views the content. We have no control over these cookies, so please check the relevant third–party website for more information about their cookies and how to manage them.
Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies 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, visit www.allaboutcookies.org
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
We also use Strictly Necessary Cookies, which are essential in order to enable you to move around the website.
Security
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over other websites. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites, and these sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question. The inclusion of any links does not necessarily imply a recommendation or endorse the views expressed within them.
Controlling your personal information
You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:
1. Whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, indicate that you do not want the information to be used for direct marketing purposes.
2. If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by writing to us or emailing info@astudio.co.uk
We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties, unless we are required by law to do so.
You may request details of personal information that we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998. To cover our administration costs a small fee of £12 will be payable. If you would like a copy of the information held on you, please write to , Astudio Limited. Registered Office: Astudio Limited, 10th Floor, The Tower Building, 11 York Road SE1 7NX. If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please either write to us or send an email to info@astudio.co.uk We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.
Copyright notice
Any redistribution or reproduction of part or all of the contents in any form is prohibited other than the following:
1. You may print, or download to a local hard disk, extracts for your personal and non-commercial use only.
2. You may copy the content to individual third parties for their personal use, but only if you acknowledge the website as the source of the material.
You may not, except with our express written permission, distribute or commercially exploit the content. Nor may you transmit it or store it in any other website or other form of electronic retrieval system.
Intellectual Property (IP) Policy
Purpose
The purpose of this Intellectual Property (IP) section of the Company Employment Handbook is to clarify the rights and responsibilities of employees regarding the protection, creation, and use of intellectual property. Company values creativity and innovation and is committed to fostering an environment where employees can freely develop and contribute ideas. This policy seeks to provide a framework to ensure that both the employee and the company are treated fairly when it comes to the ownership and use of intellectual property.
1. Scope
This policy applies to all employees of Company, including full-time, part-time, temporary, and contract employees, as well as interns and consultants who create, develop, or contribute to intellectual property during the course of their work for the company.
2. Definitions
Intellectual Property (IP): IP refers to creations of the mind, such as inventions, literary and artistic works, designs, symbols, names, and images used in commerce. IP is protected by law, for example, through patents, copyrights, and trademarks.
3. Ownership of Intellectual Property
Employee-Created IP: Any intellectual property created, developed, or conceived by an employee during the course of their employment with Company, and which is related to the company's business, products, or services, shall be considered the exclusive property of Company. The employee shall disclose and assign all rights, title, and interest in such IP to the company.
Pre-Existing IP: Any intellectual property created by the employee prior to their employment with Company, and which is not related to the company's business, products, or services, shall remain the property of the employee. If the employee wishes to use any pre-existing IP in their work for the company, they must obtain written permission from Company and disclose any relevant rights or restrictions associated with the pre-existing IP.
4. Protection and Disclosure of IP
Employees are responsible for promptly disclosing any IP they create, develop, or conceive during their employment with Company to their supervisor or the designated IP officer. This disclosure should be made in writing and include a description of the IP, its potential uses, and any relevant dates or deadlines.
Company will take appropriate steps to protect its IP rights, which may include registering for patents, copyrights, or trademarks, and/or entering into confidentiality or licensing agreements.
5. Confidentiality
Employees are required to maintain the confidentiality of Company's IP and any confidential information related to the company's business, products, or services. This obligation continues even after the termination of employment with Company.
6. IP Training and Education
Company is committed to providing employees with the necessary training and resources to understand and comply with this IP policy. Employees are expected to participate in any relevant training programs and to familiarize themselves with the company's policies and procedures related to IP.
7. Violations of IP Policy
Violations of this IP policy, including the unauthorized use or disclosure of Company's IP or confidential information, may result in disciplinary action, up to and including termination of employment. In some cases, legal action may also be taken to protect the company's IP rights and interests.