Privacy Policy

 

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Last modified October 20th, 2023

This Privacy Policy explains our practices regarding our collection, use, and disclosure of information about you or other individuals or information that could identify you or other individuals through www.naqsharchitecture.com, companion mobile apps, or related services and communications (collectively, NAQSH Architectural & Engineering Consultancy, “we,” “us,” or the “Site”). We refer to this information throughout this Privacy Policy as “Personal Information.” Personal Information does not include information that has been de-identified or aggregated such that an individual can no longer be identified.

The NAQSH Architecture Site is owned and operated by NAQSH Architectural & Engineering Consultancy, which will also be referred to herein as “NAQSH Architecture,” “our,” “we,” and “us.” The data controller of your Personal Information is NAQSH Architecture.

NAQSH Architecture can be reached at +971-4 329-5105 or connect@naqsharchitecture.com. If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us directly. Please also review our full Terms and Conditions, which govern your Site use. By using this Site, you are consenting to this Privacy Policy.

 

Naqsh architecture does not sell personal information to others.

Residents of the European Union (“EU”) should refer to section 10.1, Data Rights, for information regarding their rights under applicable law.

 

1.0 How information is collected

NAQSH Architecture typically collects personal information directly from the individual to whom it relates, except where that individual has consented to NAQSH Architecture collecting the personal information from a third party or the law otherwise permits NAQSH Architecture to do so.

NAQSH Architecture will collect and store your personal information when interacting with naqsharchitecture.com. We collect information, some of which may contain personal information, by online applications as follows: (i) limited information is automatically collected about you when you visit naqsharchitecture.com through the use of Google Analytics or Log Data (as discussed below); or (ii) you may voluntarily provide information, including personal information, to us by (a) emailing NAQSH Architecture about our services, employment or internship opportunities, marketing, media requests, and other business matters.

Google Analytics is a free third-party service that uses “cookies” to measure, collect, analyze, and report web data to optimize the experience of users of naqsharchitecture.com. Cookies are files with small amounts of data sent to your browser from a website and stored on your computer's hard drive. You can opt out and prevent your data from being used by Google Analytics with the Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-on.

Log Data is information your browser sends us whenever you visit naqsharchitecture.com. Log Data may include information such as your computer's browser type, the browser version, the pages of our site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other statistics.

NAQSH Architecture does not make any attempt to use Google Analytics or Log Data to find out the identities of those visiting naqsharchitecture.com. It is your responsibility to adjust your browser settings to accommodate your personal privacy preferences and, by your use of naqsharchitecture.com without configuring your browser to opt-out from Google Analytics or Log Data, you have consented to NAQSH Architecture’s collection of information as discussed above.

 

User-supplied personal information

NAQSH Architecture may request your name, email address, affiliated company, and other contact information upon your request to contact individuals within NAQSH Architecture. This information will be stored by NAQSH Architecture and may be used by us to respond to your inquiry or to inform you of NAQSH Architecture’s services or sponsored events. Users providing NAQSH Architecture with this information consent to using their personal information for marketing purposes.

 

2.0 Types of personal information collected

Personal information is any information relating to a person or their household that enables that person to be identified directly or indirectly. Personal information that we hold about you may include your contact details (e.g., name, phone number, address, and email address), IP address, language, gender, and geolocation.

If you are a client, vendor, or sub-consultant, personal information that we hold about you may include the same information listed above, along with your date of birth, social media/network accounts, business address, email address, phone number and fax number, function/job title, company, types of services provided, and financial compensation. NAQSH Architecture may request that you provide additional information such as your company’s legal status, date of incorporation, place of incorporation, your company’s related entities, your company’s shareholding details, your company’s tax identification numbers, country of origin, business and professional licenses, your company’s insurer, broker, and insurance policies, and other information you consent to provide us for purposes of performing contracts or services.

We will take reasonable steps to ensure the personal information we store is current, accurate, complete, and confidential.

 

3.0 How Personal information is used

We will use your personal information, and may share your personal information with other parties acting on our behalf, for one or more of the following: (i) to conduct research about the use of our website; (ii) to improve services provided by NAQSH Architecture; (iii) to assess and respond to a complaint you might make to us; (iv) for our own administrative purposes, including training our staff, conducting internal audits, improving our services or transferring assets as part of a sale, purchase or investment in the business; (v) if you are a client, vendor or subconsultant, to perform services or carry out our contract with you; (vi) for market research purposes; (vii) to make informed decisions about business relationships and to prevent inadvertent engagement in illegal or corrupt practices; (ix) to conduct investigations of suspicious or harmful activity; (x) to comply with NAQSH Architecture’s regulatory and legal obligations; (xi) to manage risks related to NAQSH Architecture’s contracts and services; and (xii) for marketing NAQSH Architecture's services or sponsored events. If we wish to use your personal information beyond what was initially provided, we will ask for your consent or seek to rely on another valid legal ground to process your personal information under the applicable law.

 

4.0 Information for marketing purposes

Where you have consented to us using your personal information for marketing purposes, we may use your information to conduct marketing and data analysis or to send you updates and news concerning NAQSH Architecture and its business partners. If at any time after you have consented to us using your information for marketing purposes and you wish us to stop using your information for these purposes, please contact us at +971-4 329-5105 or email at connect@naqsharchitecture.com.

 

5.0 Grounds for processing

To process your data lawfully, we will rely on one or more valid legal grounds. The grounds we may rely upon include:

  1. Your consent to a particular processing activity. For example, where you have consented to us using your information for marketing purposes;

  2. Our legitimate interests as a business (except where your interests or fundamental rights override these). For example, it is within our legitimate interests to use your information to prevent or detect fraud or abuses of our website;

  3. Our compliance with a legal obligation to which NAQSH Architecture is subject. For example, we have a duty to investigate and respond to complaints made against us and may need to process your personal information as part of such investigation; or

  4. If you are a client, vendor, or sub-consultant because, processing your personal information is necessary for the performance of a contract or services.

 

6.0 Disclosure of your personal information

There are circumstances where we may wish to disclose or are compelled to disclose your personal information to third parties. This will only take place in accordance with the applicable law, for the purposes listed above, and pursuant to terms consistent with NAQSH Architecture’s Third-Party Data Privacy Addendum. These scenarios include disclosure to: (i) NAQSH Architecture’s subsidiaries, branches or associated offices; (ii) outsourced vendors or subconsultants to facilitate the provision of our services (including other professional service providers); (iii) third-party service providers and consultants in order to protect the security or integrity of our business, including our databases and systems and for business continuity reasons (including cloud service providers); (iv) another legal entity, on a temporary or permanent basis, for the purposes of a joint venture, collaboration, financing, sale, merger, reorganization, change of legal form, dissolution or similar event; (v) attorneys in connection with negotiation of a contract, dispute resolution, and other legal advice; (vi) tax advisors for purposes of tax filings, obtaining tax credits, negotiating tax liabilities, and other tax advice; (vii) public authorities where we are required by law to do so; and (viii) any other third-party where you have provided your consent. Further, we may disclose your information to any person as required by law and specifically to any government agency if we believe in good faith that we must do so to comply with the law or that doing so is required to prevent, detect, investigate, or remedy improper conduct potentially affecting NAQSH Architecture.

 

7.0 Retention of personal information

Your personal information will be retained for as long as necessary to carry out the purposes set out in NAQSH Architecture’s Global Privacy Policy (unless longer retention is required by the applicable law). However, we will not retain any of your personal information beyond this period, and the retention of your personal information will be subject to periodic review. We may keep an anonymized form of your personal information, which will no longer refer to you, for statistical purposes without time limits, to the extent that we have a legitimate and lawful interest in doing so.

 

8.0 Confidentiality and security

NAQSH Architecture is committed to: (i) seeking to safeguard all personal information that you provide to us, (ii) seeking to ensure that it remains confidential and secure, and (iii) taking all reasonable steps to ensure that personal privacy is respected. We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect your personal information from misuse, unauthorized access or disclosure, and loss or corruption by computer viruses and other sources of harm. We restrict access to personal information to those staff members, subsidiary companies, and third parties who need to know that information for the purposes set out in NAQSH Architecture’s Global Privacy Policy.

 

9.0 Data rights

Your rights regarding data collected and used by NAQSH Architecture are subject to applicable law. NAQSH Architecture will comply with a verified request to exercise your rights or provide you with a lawful basis for not doing so when applicable.

 

10.01 EU Residents

The EU GDPR provides EU residents with certain rights, as discussed below. EU residents may contact NAQSH Architecture regarding any of these rights at +971-4 329-5105 or by email at connect@naqsharchitecture.com. NAQSH Architecture will respond within a reasonable time following receipt of a verified data subject request, in any event, within the time period specified by law. Persons exercising these rights will be required to submit a proof of identity and residency in the EU at the time the request is made. EU residents have the right to:

  1. Obtain a copy of your personal information. You have the right to obtain a copy of the personal information we hold about you by contacting us as directed above. NAQSH Architecture may deny a request to obtain a copy of your personal information when: (i) providing access to information would have an unreasonable impact on the privacy of others; (ii) the information relates to a legal proceeding or an investigation; (iii) we are required by law or contract not to disclose the information; (iv) we have an option under law not to disclose the information and have formed a good faith view that it would be inappropriate to provide access; (v) we are unable to verify your identity or residency at the time the request is made; or (vi) it is otherwise lawful to refuse the request.

  2. Correct your personal information. You may request that we rectify any inaccurate and/or complete any incomplete personal information by contacting us as directed above. If we disagree and believe the information to be accurate and complete, we will advise you and include a notation on the record that you dispute the information’s accuracy.

  3. Withdraw your consent to the processing. You may, as permitted by law, withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal information at any time by contacting us as directed above. Such withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of processing based on your previous consent. Please note that if you withdraw your consent, you may not be able to benefit from certain service features for which the processing of your personal information is essential.

  4. Object to processing. You may, as permitted by law, request that we stop processing your personal information by contacting us as directed above.

  5. Erasure. You may request that we erase your personal information by contacting us as directed above. We will comply unless there is a lawful reason for not doing so.

  6. Lodge a complaint. We suggest that you first contact us as directed above regarding any questions or complaints in relation to your rights or how we process your personal information. However, this does not limit your right to contact your local data protection authority directly.

NAQSH Architecture does not sell personal information as defined under the CCPA.

Consumers have the right to:

  1. Request to Know. You have the right to obtain a copy of the personal information and the categories of personal information we hold about you by contacting us as directed above.

  2. Request to Delete. You have the right to request that we delete your personal information by contacting us as directed above.

  3. You have the right to receive NAQSH Architecture’s products and services on equal terms regardless of whether you exercise your rights under the CCPA.

 

11.0 Links

Our website may provide hyperlinks to websites owned and controlled by others. NAQSH Architecture is not responsible for the privacy practices of any website that it does not own or otherwise control.

 

12.0 Third Parties

Where you submit information on behalf of another person, you confirm that you have made that person aware of how we may collect, use, and disclose their information, the reason you have provided it, how they can contact us, the terms of this policy and that they have consented to such collection, use, and disclosure.

 

13.0 Compliance with privacy laws

NAQSH Architecture complies with the data protection and privacy laws to which it is subject. You should satisfy yourself that you are familiar with those laws, including any exceptions which may apply under them. You should also be aware that privacy laws in various jurisdictions may change from time to time. Notwithstanding contrary terms in NAQSH Architecture’s Global Privacy Policy, NAQSH Architecture accepts no obligations with respect to the handling of personal information other than those mandated by law in the country which has, or counties which have jurisdiction over NAQSH Architecture in any given circumstances.

 

14.0 Changes to this policy

As we strive to improve our practices, we may review NAQSH Architecture’s General Privacy Policy from time to time. We reserve the right to change this policy at any time and to notify you of those changes by posting an updated version of this policy on our website. It is your responsibility to check our policy each time before you access our website for any changes.