M Arch Studio is a privately owned architectural design Studio established in 2021, and fully owned by Majed K. A. Safa (Full name as per legal documents). The studio is privately owned and does not of associated or influenced by any governmental entity or political party, as well as the owner (never was and never will be). M Arch studio uses contracts that developed based on the American Institute of Architects AIA. The studio uses a direct approach when it comes to design and does not accept the use of coding of any kind or any hidden messages in the design.
Privacy Notice
Last updated April 15,2024
This Privacy notice for M Arch Studio ("we", "us" or "our"), describes how and why we might collect, store, use and/or share ("process) your information when you use our services ("services") such as when you:
-Visit our website, or any website of ours that links to this privacy notice
-Engage with us other related ways, including ant sales, marketing, or events
Questions or concerns? reading this privacy notice will help you understand your privacy rights and choices. if you do not agree with our policies and practices, you have the right to contact us at contact@m-arch.studio or please do not use our services.
Summary of Key Points
What personal information do we process? when you visit our website and contact us or follow us on social media platforms, we may process personal information depending on how you interact with us and the services, the choices you make, and the products and features you use.
Do we process any sensitive personal information? we do not process any sensitive personal information.
Do we receive any information from third parties? we do not usually receive any information from third parities, and in case we received it will be strictly about clients who may have potential work or looking for architectural design solution or looking to hire an architect.
How we process your information? we process your information and communicate with you as a potential client who is looking for architectural design solution or looking to hire an architect. we may also process your information for security and fraud prevention, to comply with law, and other purposes with your consent. We process your information only when we have a valid legal reason to do so.
Questions or concerns? reading this privacy notice will help you understand your privacy rights and choices. if you do not agree with our policies and practices, you have the right to contact us at contact@m-arch.studio or please do not use our services.
In what situations and with which parties do we share personal information? we may share information in specific situation and with specific third parties such as our sub consultants, and the use of information will be strictly for work purposes.
How we keep your information safe? we have organizational and technical processes and procedures in place to protect your personal information. However, no electronic transmission over the internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cyber criminals, or other unauthorized third parties will not be able to defeat our security and improperly collect, access, steal, or modify your information. Nevertheless we will stand with you in any procedures and legal measures you may take against those unauthorized third parties.
What are your rights? Depending on where you are located geographically, privacy law may mean you have certain rights regarding your personal information.
how do you exercise your rights? The easiest way to exercise your rights is by visiting our website www.m-arch.studio, or contact us at contact@m-arch.studio. we will consider and act upon any request in accordance with applicable data protection laws.
Table of contents
1.What information do we collect?
2.How do we process your information?
3.What legal bases do we rely on to process your information?
4.When and with whom do we share your personal information?
5.How long do we keep your information?
6.How do we keep your information safe?
7.What are your privacy rights?
8.Controls for Do-not-track features
9.Do United States residents have specific privacy rights?
10.Do Australia and New Zealand have specific privacy rights?
11.Do Republic of South Africa have specific privacy rights?
12.Do we make updates to this notice?
13.How can you contact us about this notice?
14.How can you review, update, or delete the date we collect from you?
1.What information do we collect?
In short: We collect personal information you provide to us.(Personal information you disclose to us)
We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you express an interest in obtaining information about us or our architectural design solutions, when you participate in activities on the services, or otherwise when you contact us.
Personal information provided by you. the personal information that we collect depends on the context of your interactions with us and the services, the choices you make, and the products and features you use. the personal information we collect may include the following:
-Names
-Phone numbers
-Email addresses
-Any other information you may send such as information related to projects
Sensitive information? we do not process sensitive information.
All personal information you provide to us must be true, complete, and accurate, and you must notify us of any changes to such personal information.
Information automatically collected
In Short: Some information-such as your internet protocol(IP) address and/or browser and device characteristics is collected automatically when you visit our website.
We automatically collect certain information when you visit, use or navigate our website or social media, this information does not reveal your specific identity(like your name or contact information) but may include device and usage information,such as your IP address, browser and device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, device name, country, location information about how and when you visited our website or social media, and other technical information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our website and social media, and for our internal analytic and reporting purposes.
The information we collect includes:
Location Data. We collect location data such as information about your device's location,which can be either precise or imprecise. How much information we collect depends on the type and setting of the device you use to access the website or our social media. For example, we may use GPS and other technologies to collect geolocation data that tells us your current location (based on your IP address). You can opt out of allowing us to collect this information either by refusing access to the information or by disabling you Location setting on your device. However, If you chose to opt out, you may not be able to use certain aspects.
2.How do we process your information?
In Short: we process your information and communicate with you as a potential client who is looking for architectural design solution or looking to hire an architect. we may also process your information for security and fraud prevention, to comply with law, and other purposes with your consent. We process your information only when we have a valid legal reason to do so.
We process your personal information for a variety of reasons, depending on how you interact with our website or social media, including:
-To respond to user inquiries/offer support to users. we may process your information to respond to your inquiries and solve any potential issues you might have with requested services:
-To enable user-to-user communication. We may process your information if you choose to use any of our offerings that allow for communication with another user.
-To save or protect an individual's vital interest. We may process your information when necessary to save or protect an individual's vital interest, such as to prevent harm.
3.What legal bases do we rely on to process your information?
In short: We only process your personal information when we believe it is necessary and we have a valid legal reason (i.e., legal basis) to do so under applicable law, like with your consent, to comply with laws, to provide you with services to enter into or full fill our contractual obligations, to protect your rights, or to full fill our legitimate business interests.
If you are located in the EU or UK, this section applies to you.
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and UK GDPR require us to explain the valid legal bases we rely on in order to process your personal information. As such, we may rely on the following legal bases to process your personal information.
Consent. We may process your information if you have given us permission(i.e, consent) to use your personal information for a specific purpose. You can withdraw your consent at any time.
Performance of a Contract. We may process your personal information when we believe it is necessary to full fill our contractual obligations to you, including providing our services or at your request prior to entering into a contract with you.
Legal Obligations. We may process your information where we believe it is necessary for compliance with our legal obligations, such as to cooperate with a law enforcement body or regulatory agency, exercise or defend our legal rights, or disclose your information as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.
Vital Interests. We may process your information where we believe it is necessary to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of a third party, such as situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person.
If you are located in Canada, this section applies to you.
We may process your information if you have given us specific permission (i.e, express consent) to use your personal information for a specific purpose or in situations where your permission can be inferred(i.e,. implied consent). you can withdraw your consent at any time.
In some exceptional cases, we may be legally permitted under applicable law to process your information without your consent, including, for example:
-If collection is clearly in the interests of an individual and consent cannot be obtained in a timely way.
-For investigations and fraud detection and prevention.
-For business transactions provided certain conditions are met.
-If it is contained in a witness statement and the collection is necessary to assess, process, or settle an insurance claim.
-For identifying injured, ill, or deceased persons and communicating with next of kin.
-If we have reasonable grounds to believe an individual has been, is, or may be victim of financial abuse.
-If it is reasonable to expect collection and use with consent would compromise the availability or the accuracy of the information and the collection is reasonable for purposes related to investigating a breach of an agreement or a contravention of the laws of Canada or a province.
-If disclosure is required to comply with a subpoena, warrant, court order, or rules of the court relating to the production of records.
-If it was produced by an individual in the course of their employment, business, or profession and the collection is consistent with the purposes for which the information was produced.
-If the collection is solely for journalistic, artistic, or literary purposes.
-If the information is publicly available and is specified by the regulations.
4.when and with whom do we share your personal information?
In Short: We may share information in specific situations described in this section and/or with the following third parties.
We may need to share your personal information in the following situations:
-Business Transfers. We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger,sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
-When we use Google analytics. We may share information with Google Analytics to track and analyze the use of the Services. To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across the Services, visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms Page.
-When we use sub consultants. We may share your information with our sub consultants to provide a quotation for the work or work proposals.
5.How long do we keep your information?
In Short: We keep your information for as long as necessary to full fill the purpose 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 requirement).
We may keep your information as a potential client which we may invite to a marketing campaign or we may send you a marketing information and updates about our work.
When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonyms 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.
To delete your information, please contact us at contact@m-arch.studio.
6.How do we keep your information safe?
In Short: We aim to protect your personal information through a system of organizational and technical security measures.
We have implemented appropriate and reasonable technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, despite our safeguards and efforts to secure your information, no electronical transmission over the internet storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, se we cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cyber criminals, or other unauthorized third parties will not be able to defeat our security and improperly collect, access, steal, or modify your information. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, transmission of personal information to and from our services is at your own risk. You should only access the services within a secure environment.
we will stand with you in any procedures and legal measures you may take against those unauthorized third parties.
7.what are your privacy rights?
In Short: In some regions, such as European Economics Area(EEA), United Kingdom (UK), Switzerland, and Canada, you have rights that allow you greater access to and control over your personal information. You may review, change, or terminate your account at any time.
In some regions like the EEA, UK, Switzerland, and Canada), you have certain rights under applicable data protection laws. These may include the right (i) to request access and obtain a copy of your personal information, (ii) to request rectification or erasure; (iii) to restrict processing of your personal information; (iv) if applicable, to data portability, and (v) not to be subject to automated decsion-making. In certain circumstances, you may also have the right to object to the processing of your personal information. You can make such a request by contacting us by using the contact at contact@m-arch.studio about this notice.
We will consider and act upon any request in accordance with applicable data protection laws.
If you are located in the EEA or UK and you believe we are unlawfully processing your personal information, you also have the right to complain to your Member state date protection authority or UK data protection authority.
If you are located in Switzerland, you may contact the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner.
Withdrawing your consent: if we relying on your consent to process your personal information, which may be express and/or implied consent depending on the applicable law, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. You can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us at contact@m-arch.studio.
However, please note that this will not affect the lawfulness of the processing before its withdrawal nor, when applicable law allows, will it affect the processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.
Opting out of marketing and promotional communications: You can unsubscribe from our marketing and promotional communications at any time by contacting us at contact@m-arch.studio. You will then be removed from the marketing lists. However, we may still communicate with you - for example, to send you sevice-related messages that are necessary for the administration and use of your account, to respond to service requests, or for other non-marketing purposes.
8.Controls for do-not-track features
Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems and mobile applications include Do-Not-Track ("DNT") feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. At this stage no uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized as such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online. If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the future, we will inform you about that practice in a revised version of this privacy notice.
You can use a various of application that can hide your location such as VPN applications.
9.Do United States residents have specific privacy rights?
In Short: If you are resident of California, you are granted specific rights regarding access to your personal information.
what Categories of personal information do we collect?
Category: A. Identifiers
Examples: Contact details, such as real name, alias, postal address, telephone or mobile contact number, unique personal identifier, online identifier, internet protocol address, email address, and account name.
Collected: Some of them
Category: B. Personal information as defined in the California Customer Records statute
Examples: Name, contact information, education, employment, employment history, and financial information.
Collected: Yes in form of CV for the purpose of employment
Category: C. Protected classification characteristics under state or federal law
Examples: Gender and date of birth
Collected: No unless its provided in the CV
Category: D. Commercial information
Examples: Transaction information, purchase history, financial details, and payment information
Collected: No
Category: E. Biometric information
Examples: Fingerprints and voiceprints
Collected: No
Category: F. Internet or other similar network activity
Examples: Browsing history, search history, online behavior, interest data, and interactions with our and other websites, applications, systems, and advertisements
Collected: No
Category: G. Geolocation Data
Examples: Device location
Collected: Yes (when you visit the website this data automatically through Google analytics)
Category: H. Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information
Examples: Image and audio, video or call recordings created in connection with our business activities
Collected: Yes (in form of portfolio, and with potential client)
Category: I. Professional or employment-related information
Examples: Business contact details in order to provide you our services at a business level or job title, work history, and professional qualifications if you apply for a job with us
Collected: Yes (in form of CV)
Category: J. Education information
Examples: Student records and directory information
Collected: Yes (for employment purposes)
Category: K. inferences drawn from collected personal information
Examples: inferences drawn from any of the collected personal information listed above to create a profile or summary about, for example, an individual's preferences and characteristics
Collected: No
Category: L. Sensitive personal information
Collected: No
We may also collect other personal information outside of these categories through instances where you interact with us in person, online, or by phone or mail in the context of:
-Receiving help through our customer support channels;
-Participation in customer surveys or contest; and
-Facilitation in the delivery of our services and to respond to your inquiries.
How do we use and share your personal information?
Learn about how we use your personal information in the section, "How do we process your information?"
Will your information be shared with anyone else?
We may disclose your personal information with our service providers pursuant to a written contract between us and each service provider. Learn more about how we disclose personal information to in the section, "When and with whom do we share your personal information?"
We may use your personal information for our own business purposes, such as for undertaking internal research for technological development and demonstration. This is not considered to be "selling" of your personal information.
We have not disclosed, sold, or shared any personal information to third parties for a business or commercial purpose in the preceding twelve (12) months. We will not sell or share personal information in the future belonging to website visitors, users, and other consumers.
California Residents
California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the "Shine The Light" law permits our users who are California residents to request and obtain from us, once a year and free of charge, we don't share your personal information or any information from any category to a third party. We may share information with our sub consultants to provide a quotation for services, this will be with the knowledge of the person and with his approval. If you are a California resident and you would like to make a request about your personal information usage, please submit your request to us in writing at our email address contact@m-arch.studio.
CCPA Privacy Notice
This section only to California residents. under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), you have the rights listed below.
The California Code of Regulations defines a "residents" as:
(1)every individual who is in the State of California for other than a temporary or transitory purpose and
(2)every individual who is domiciled in the State of California who is outside the State of California for a temporary or transitory purpose
all other individuals are defined as "non-residents."
If this definition of "resident" applies to you, we must adhere to certain rights and obligations regarding your personal information.
Your rights with respect to your personal data
Right to request deletion of the data-Request to delete
You can ask for the deletion of your personal information. if you ask to delete your personal information, we will respect your request and delete your personal information, subject to certain exceptions provided by law, such as (but not limited to ) the exercise by another consumer of his or her right to free speech, our compliance requirements resulting from a legal obligation, or any processing that may be required to protect against illegal activities.
Right to be informed-request to know
Depending on the circumstances, you have a right to know:
-whether we collect and use your personal information;
-the categories of personal information we collect;
-the purposes for which the collected personal information is used;
-whether we sell or share personal information to third parties;
-the categories of personal information that we sold, shared, or disclosed for a business purpose;
-the categories of third parties to whom the personal information was sold, shared, or disclosed for a business purpose;
-the business or commercial purpose for collecting selling, or sharing personal information, and
-the specific pieces of personal information we collected about you.
In accordance with applicable law, we are not obligated to provide or delete consumer information the is de-identified in response to a consumer request or to re-identify individual data to verify a consumer request.
Right to Non-Discrimination for the Exercise of a Consumer's Privacy Rights
We will not discriminate against you if you exercise your privacy rights.
Right to Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information
We do not process consumer's sensitive personal information.
Verification process(in unclear cases)
Upon receiving your request, we will need to verify your identity to determine you are the same person about whom we have the information in our system. These verification efforts require us to ask you to provide information so that we can match it with information you have previously provided us. For instance, depending on the type of request you submit, we may ask you to provide certain information so that we can match the information you provide with the information we already have on file, or we may contact you through a communication method(e.g., phone or email) that you have previously provided to us. We may also use other verification methods as the circumstances dictate.
we will only use personal information provided in your request to verify your identity or authority to make the request. To the extent possible, we will avoid requesting additional information from you for the purposes of verification. However, if we cannot verify your identity from the information already maintained by us, we may request that you provide additional information for the purposes of verifying your identity and for security or fraud-percention purposes. We will delete such additionally provided information as soon as we finish verifying you.
Other privacy rights
-You may object to the processing of your personal information.
-You may request correction of your personal data if it is incorrect or no longer relevant, or ask to restrict the processing of the information.
-You can designate an authorized agent to make a request under the CCPA on your behalf. We may deny a request from an authorized agent that does not submit proof that they have been validly authorized to act on your behalf in accordance with the CCPA.
-You may request to opt out from future selling or sharing of your personal information to third parties. Upon receiving an opt-out request, we will act upon the request as soon as feasibly possible, but no later than fifteen (15) days form the date of the request submission.
To exercise these rights, you can contact us by submitting a data subject access request, or by referring to the contact details at contact@m-arch.studio. If you have a complaint about how we handle your data, we would like to hear from you.
Colorado Residents
This section applies only to Colorado residents. Under the Colorado Privacy Act (CPA), you have the rights listed below. However, these rights are not absolute, and in certain cases, we may decline your request as permitted by law.
-Right to be informed whether or not we are processing your personal data
-Right to access your personal data
-Right to correct inaccuracies in your personal data
-Right to request deletion of your personal data
-Right to obtain a copy of the personal data you preciously shared with us
-Right to opt out of the processing of your personal data if it is used for targeted advertising, the sale of personal data, or profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects ("profiling")
To submit a request to exercise these rights described above, please submit a data subject access request.
If we decline to take action regarding your request and you wish to appeal our decision, please email us at contact@m-arch.studio. within forty-five (45) days of receipt of an appeal, we will inform you in writing of any action taken or not taken in response to the appeal, including a written explanation of the reasons for the decisions.
Connecticut Residents
This Section applies only to Connecticut residents. Under the Connecticut Data Privacy Act (CTDPA), you have the rights listed below. However, these rights are not absolute, and in certain cases, we mat decline your request as permitted by law.
-Right to be informed whether or not we processing your personal data
-Right to access your personal data
-Right to correct inaccuracies in your personal data
-Right to request deletion of your personal data
-Right to obtain a copy of the personal data you previously shared with us
-Right too opt out of the processing of your personal data if it is used for targeted advertising, the sale of personal data, or profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects("profiling")
To submit a request to exercise these rights described above, please submit a data subject access request.
If we decline to take action regarding your request and you wish to appeal our decision, please email us at contact@m-arch.studio. within sixty (60) days of receipt of an appeal, we will inform you in writing of any action taken or not taken in response to the appeal, including a written explanation of the reasons for the decisions.
Utah Residents
This section applies only to Utah residents. Under the Utah Consumer Privacy Act (UCPA), you have the rights listed below. However, these rights are not absolute, and in certain cases, we may decline your request as permitted by law.
-Right to be informed whether or not we are processing your personal data
-Right to access your personal data
-Right to request deletion of your personal data
-Right to obtain a copy of the personal data you previously shared with us
-Right to opt out of the processing of your personal data if it is used for targeted advertising or the sale of personal data
to submit a request to exercise these rights described above, please contact us at contact@m-arch.studio.
Virginia Residents
Under the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA)
"Consumer" means a natural person who is resident of the commonwealth acting only in an individual or household contact. It does note include a natural person acting in a commercial or employment context.
"Personal Data" means any information that is linked or reasonably linkable to an identified or identifiable natural person. "personal data" does not include de-identified data or publicly available information.
"Sale of personal data" means the exchange of personal data for monetary consideration.
If this definition of "consumer' applies to you, we must adhere to certain rights and obligations regarding your personal data.
Your rights with respect to your personal data
-Right to be informed whether or not we are processing your personal data
-Right to access your personal data
-Right to correct inaccuracies in your personal data
-Right to request deletion of your personal data
-Right to obtain a copy of the personal data you previously shared with us
-Right to opt out of the processing of your personal data if it is used for targeted advertising, the sale of personal data, or profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects ("profiling")
Exercise your right provided under the Virginis VCDPA
You may submit a data subject access request.
If you are using an authorized agent to exercise your rights, we may deny a request if the authorized agent does not submit proof that they have been validly authorized to act on your behalf.
Verification process
We may request that you provide additional information reasonably necessary to verify you and your consumer's request. if you submit the request through an authorized agent, we may need to collect additional information to verify your identity before processing your request.
Upon receiving your request, we will respond without undue delay, but in all cases, within forty-five (45)days of receipt. The response period may be extended once by forty-five (45)additional days when reasonably necessary. We will inform you of any such extension within the initial 45-day response period, together with the reason for the extension.
Right to appeal
If we decline to take action regarding your request, we will inform you of our decision and reasoning behind it. If you wish to appeal our decision, please email us at contact@m-arch.studio. Within sixty (60) days of receipt of an appeal, we will inform you in writing of any action taken or not taken in response to the appeal, including a written explanation of the reasons for the decisions. If your appeal is denied, you may contact the Attorney General to submit a complaint.
10.Do Australia and New Zealand have specific privacy rights?
We collect and process your personal information under the obligations and conditions set by Australia's Privacy Act 1988 and New Zealand's Privacy Act 2020 (Privacy Act).
This privacy notice satisfies the notice requirements defined in both Privacy Acts, in particular: what personal information we collect from you, from which sources, for which purposes, and other recipients of your personal information.
If you do wish to provide the personal information necessary to full fill their applicable purpose, it may affect our ability to provide our services, in particular:
-Offer your products or services that you want
-Respond to or help with your requests
At any time, you have the right to request access to or correction of your personal information, you can make such a request by contacting us at contact@m-arch.studio.
If you believe we are unlawfully processing your personal information, you have the right to submit a complaint about a breach of the Australian Privacy Principles to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner and a breach of New Zealand's Privacy Principles to the Office of New Zealand Privacy Commissioner.
11.Do Republic of South Africa have specific privacy rights?
At any time you have the right to request access to or correction of your personal information. You can make such a request y contacting us at contact@m-arch.studio.
If you are unsatisfied with the manner in which we address any compliant with the regard to our processing of personal information, you can contact the office of the regulator, the details of which are:
The information regulator (south Africa)
General enquiries: enquiries@inforegulator.org.za
Complaints(complete POPIA/PAIA form 5): PAIAComplaints@inforegulator.org.za & POPIAComplaints@inforegulator.org.za
12.Do we make updates to this notice?
In Short: Yes, we will update this notice as necessary to stay compliant with relevant laws.
We may update this privacy notice from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated "Revised" date and the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible. if we make material changes to this privacy notice, we may notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to review this privacy notice frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information.
13.How can you contact us about this Notice?
If you have questions or comments about this notice, you may email us contact@m-arch.studio.
14.how can you review, update, or delete the date we collect from you?
You have the right to request access to the personal information we collect from you, change that information, or delete it. To request to review, update, or delete your personal information, please contact us at contact@m-arch.studio.