1. INTRODUCTION
Welcome to designhousemaker.com. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
As a premier destination for house plans, structural detailing, and interior/exterior design services, Design House Maker (“the Company”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) collects specific information to provide a seamless architectural experience. This policy explains our data processing practices and your options regarding the use of your personal information.
2. THE DATA WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU
Personal data, or personal information, 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).1
We may collect, use, store, and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:2
Identity Data: Includes first name, maiden name, last name,3 username or similar identifier, and title.
Contact Data: Includes billing address, delivery address, email address, and telephone numbers.
Financial Data: Includes bank account and payment card details (processed through secure third-party gateways).
Technical Data: Includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
Project Data: Information regarding your property, plot size, soil reports, or architectural preferences uploaded for detailing services.
Profile Data: Includes your username and password, purchases or orders made by you, your interests, preferences, feedback, and survey responses.
Usage Data: Includes information about how you use our website, products, and services.
Marketing and Communications Data: Includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.4
3. HOW IS YOUR PERSONAL DATA COLLECTED?5
We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:6
A.7 Direct Interactions
You may give us your Identity, Contact, and Financial Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email, or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:
Apply for our architectural or structural detailing services;
Create an account on our website;
Subscribe to our newsletter;
Request marketing to be sent to you;
Enter a competition, promotion, or survey;
Give us feedback or contact us.
B. Automated Technologies or Interactions
As you interact with our website, we will automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs, and other similar technologies.
C. Third Parties or Publicly Available Sources
We may receive personal data about you from various third parties such as:
Analytics providers (like Google Analytics);
Advertising networks;
Search information providers;
Contact, Financial, and Transaction Data from providers of technical, payment, and delivery services.
4. HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
Performance of Contract: Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you (e.g., delivering a house plan).
Legitimate Interests: Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
Comply with Legal Obligation: Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.
Purposes for which we will use your personal data:
To register you as a new customer.
To process and deliver your order including managing payments, fees, and charges.
To manage our relationship with you which will include notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy.
To administer and protect this website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting, and hosting of data).8
To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you.9
To use data 10analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships, and experiences.
5. DISCLOSURE OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We may share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes set out in Section 4 above.
Internal Third Parties: Technical staff, architects, and detailers within the Design House Maker organization.
External Third Parties: Service providers acting as processors who provide IT and system administration services, professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors, and insurers.
Payment Gateways: To ensure secure financial transactions.
Regulators and other authorities: Who require reporting of processing activities in certain circumstances.
We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
6. DATA SECURITY
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed.
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.
We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
7. DATA RETENTION
How long will you use my personal data for?
We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, or reporting requirements.
In some circumstances, you can ask us to delete your data: see Your Legal Rights below for further information.
8. YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. These include the right to:
Request access to your personal data.
Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you.
Request erasure of your personal data.11
Object to processing of your personal data.12
Request restriction of processing of your personal data.13
Request the transfer of your personal data.14
Right to withdraw consent.15
If you wish to exercise an16y of the rights set out above, please contact us at
info@designhousemaker.com
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9. COOKIE POLICY
Designhousemaker.com uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small pieces of text sent by your web browser by a website you visit. A cookie file is stored in your web browser and allows the Service or a third-party to recognize you and make your next visit easier and the Service more useful to you.17
How we use cookies:18
Essential Cookies: Necessary for the19 operation of the site.
Analytical Cookies: To recognize and count the number of visitors and see how visitors move around our website.
Functionality Cookies: Used to recognize you when you return to our website.
Targeting Cookies: Record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited, and the links you have followed.
10. THIRD-PARTY LINKS
This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins, and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.
11. CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
Our website is not intended for children under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect data relating to children. If we learn that we have collected personal data from a child under 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible.
12. INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS
If you are visiting from outside the country where our servers are located, please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in a country other than your own. By using our services, you consent to any transfer of this information.
13. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We keep our privacy policy under regular review. Any changes we make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by email. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy policy.20
It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.21
14. VASTU AND ARCHITECTURAL DATA
Given that designhousemaker.com provides Vastu-compliant designs and structural detailing, we may request specific geographical and directional data regarding your property. This data is treated with the same level of confidentiality as Identity Data and is used solely for the technical generation of your architectural plans.
15. CONTACT US
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, please contact our data privacy manager in the following ways:
Full name of legal entity: Design House Maker Pvt. Ltd
Email address: info@designhousemaker.com
Postal address: Giriyak Road Rajgir Bihar Pin-803116
Telephone number: +91-8789740806
Conclusion of Policy
By using designhousemaker.com, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy. Your continued use of the site following the posting of changes to this policy will be deemed your acceptance of those changes.
