Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy will explain how our organization uses the personal data we collect from you when you are browsing DAA - Design Award Agency on www.designawardagency.com website and Arch Design Award on www.archdesignaward.com and use the services of DAA and ARCH.
This is an important notice regarding your privacy and the way in which the Arch Design Award powered by DAA - Design Award Agency (referred to as “we”, “our” or “us” in this policy) collects and makes use of your personal data. We want to be open and transparent with you and therefore encourage you to contact us if you have any questions about this policy or the ways in which we use your personal data.
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This policy applies to our subscriber, applicants, and business contacts generally. We take our privacy responsibilities seriously and are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
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The Arch Design Award powered by DAA - Design Award Agency respects the personal identity and information by promoting the use of fair information practices. This privacy statement covers the site www.designawardagency.com and www.archdesignaward.com and DAA - Design Award Agency is the sole owner of any information collected on these websites.
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What data do we collect?
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How do we collect your data?
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How will we use your data?
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How do we store your data?
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Marketing
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What are your data protection rights?
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The information may be used
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What we may need from you
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Right to withdraw consent
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Sharing and Disclosure of Information
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Newsletter Communications
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How to contact us
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Changes to our Privacy Policy
What data do we collect?
Arch Design Award powered by DAA - Design Award Agency collects the following data:
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Personal identification information (name, e-mail address, phone number, postal address)
How do we collect your data?
You directly provide Arch Design Award powered by DAA - Design Award Agency with most of the data we collect. We collect data and process data when you:
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Register online or place an order for any of our products or services.
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Voluntarily complete a customer survey or provide feedback on any of our message boards or via e-mail.
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Use or view our website via your browser’s cookies.
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How will we use your data?
Arch Design Award powered by DAA - Design Award Agency collects your data so that we can:
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Process your registration and manage your account.
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E-Mail you with special offers on other products and services we think you might like.
When DAA - Design Award Agency processes your order, it may send your data to, and also use the resulting information from, credit reference agencies to prevent fraudulent purchases.
How do we store your data?
Electronic versions of your personal information are stored on our supplier platform located in the EU. The servers which we use to provide our services to you depends on the location that you or your organization is based; to make it user-friendly and faster. For example, if you or your organization elects for our services to be provided within Europe, then the server used to provide our service to you or your organization will be based in Europe. Where we use third party service providers to assist us, your personal information may also be stored in accordance with their practices and procedures. We require third parties to respect your personal information and to treat it in accordance with the law.
Marketing:
If you have agreed to receive marketing, you may always opt out at a later date. You have the right at any time to stop Arch Design Award powered by DAA - Design Award Agency from contacting you for marketing purposes or giving your data to other members of the DAA - Design Award Agency.
What are your data protection rights?
Arch Design Award powered by DAA - Design Award Agency would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:
The right to access – You have the right to request Arch Design Award powered by DAA - Design Award Agency for copies of your personal data.
The right to rectification – You have the right to request that Arch Design Award powered by DAA - Design Award Agency correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request Arch Design Award powered by DAA - Design Award Agency to complete the information you believe is incomplete.
The right to erasure – You have the right to request that Arch Design Award powered by DAA - Design Award Agency erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that Arch Design Award powered by DAA - Design Award Agency restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to Arch Design Award powered by DAA - Design Award Agency’s processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to data portability – You have the right to request that Arch Design Award powered by DAA - Design Award Agency transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
The information may be used to perform a variety of purposes, including to:
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• Promote Winners of the Arch Design Award program,
• Remind registrants of the upcoming deadlines,
• Notify Winners of their win,
• Send updates, and news regarding Arch Design Award and DAA - Design Award Agency
• Respond, and help with customer service support questions,
• Monitor and analyze trends, usage of marketing effectiveness,
• Prevent illegal activities, spamming and another unauthorized usage of the ARCH and DAA websites
• Present relevant advertising to visitors.
Rights of access, erase and be forgotten
Your rights in connection with your personal information
• Request access to your personal information (commonly known as a “data subject access request”). This enables you to receive a copy of your personal information and to check we are lawfully processing it.
• Request correction of your personal information. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate personal information corrected.
• Request the erasure of your personal information. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal information where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to stop processing personal information 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 to be forgotten; we will delete all your personal data from our servers.
What we may need from you:
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We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access the information (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal information is not disclosed to another person who has no right to receive it.
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Right to withdraw consent:
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In the limited circumstances where you may have provided your consent to the collecting, processing, and transfer of your personal information for a specific purpose, you have the right to withdraw your consent for that specific processing at any time. To withdraw your consent, please contact us at info@archdesignaward.com. Where we are providing you with marketing information, you can also change your marketing preferences by using the unsubscribe button at the bottom of our marketing E-Mails to you. Once we have received notification that you have withdrawn your consent, we will no longer process your personal information for the purpose or purposes you originally agreed to, unless we have another legitimate basis for doing so.
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Sharing and Disclosure of Information:
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To promote the Winners of Arch Design Award, we share information about their projects with media, partners, and in press releases. We will not share any of your personal information, or information that is not intended for publicity. We require third parties and partners to respect the security of your personal information and to treat it in accordance with the law.
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Newsletter Communications:
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You may opt out of receiving reminder and newsletter emails from Arch Design Award and DAA - Design Award Agency by following the opt-out instructions provided in those emails. You may also opt-out of receiving promotional emails and other promotional communications from us at any time by contact the Arch Design Award support team with your specific request. If you opt out from the newsletters, we may still send you non-promotional communications, such as notifications of your winning or other important information that benefits you, but this may be affected if you unsubscribed from the Arch Design Award and DAA - Design Award Agency list.
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If you want to review, verify, correct or request erasure of your personal information, object to the processing of your personal information or request that we transfer a copy of your personal information to another party, please contact us at info@archdesignaward.com
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at our email: info@archdesignaward.com
How to Contact Us:
If you have any questions about Arch Design Award powered by DAA - Design Award Agency's Privacy Policy, the data we hold on you, or you would like to exercise one of your data protection rights, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Call us at: +358 44 944 7802
Or write to us: info@archdesignaward.com
Changes to our Privacy Policy:
DAA - Design Award Agency (Business ID: 3148527-4, VAT ID: FI31485274) as the organizer of Arch Design Award keeps its Privacy Policy under regular review and places any updates on www.archdesignaward.com. This privacy policy was last updated on 01. March 2022.
Cookie Policy
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Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behavior information. When you visit our websites, we may collect information from you automatically through cookies or similar technology. Arch Design Award powered by DAA - Design Award Agency uses cookies on the Arch Design Award cloud software and the Arch Design Award website (the "Service"). By using the Service, you consent to the use of cookies. Our Cookies Policy explains what cookies are, how we use cookies, how third-parties we may partner with may use cookies on the Service, your choices regarding cookies and further information about cookies.
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What are cookies?
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How do we use cookies?
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What types of cookies do we use?
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How to manage your cookies
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What are your choices regarding cookies
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Where can you find more information about cookies
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What are cookies?
Cookies are small pieces of text sent to 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 recognise you and make your next visit easier and the Service more useful to you. Cookies can be "persistent" or "session" cookies. Persistent cookies remain on your personal computer or mobile device when you go offline, while session cookies are deleted as soon as you close your web browser.
How do we use cookies?
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We use both session and persistent cookies on the Service and we use different types of cookies to run the Service:
A) Essential cookies. We may use essential cookies to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts.
B) Preferences cookies. We may use preferences cookies to remember information that changes the way the Service behaves or looks, such as the "remember me" functionality of a registered user or a user's language preference.
C) Analytics cookies. We may use analytics cookies to track information how the Service is used so that we can make improvements. We may also use analytics cookies to test new advertisements, pages, features or new functionality of the Service to see how our users react to them.
D) Third-party cookies. In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-parties cookies to report usage statistics of the Service, deliver advertisements on and through the Service, and so on
What types of cookies do we use?
There are a number of different types of cookies, however, our website uses:
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Functionality – Our Company uses these cookies so that we recognize you on our website and remember your previously selected preferences. These could include what language you prefer and location you are in. A mix of first-party and third-party cookies are used.
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Advertising – Our Company uses these cookies to collect information about your visit to our website, the content you viewed, the links you followed and information about your browser, device, and your IP address. Our Company sometimes shares some limited aspects of this data with third parties for advertising purposes. We may also share online data collected through cookies with our advertising partners. This means that when you visit another website, you may be shown advertising based on your browsing patterns on our website.
How to manage cookies:
You can set your browser not to accept cookies, and the above website tells you how to remove cookies from your browser. However, in a few cases, some of our website features may not function as a result.
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What are your choices regarding cookies:
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If you'd like to delete cookies or instruct your web browser to delete or refuse cookies, please visit the help pages of your web browser. Please note, however, that if you delete cookies or refuse to accept them, you might not be able to use all of the features we offer, you may not be able to store your preferences, and some of our pages might not display properly.
• For the Chrome web browser, please visit this page from Google:
https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/32050
• For the Internet Explorer web browser, please visit this page from Microsoft:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835
• For the Firefox web browser, please visit this page from Mozilla:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/delete-cookies-remove-info-websites-stored
• For the Safari web browser, please visit this page from Apple:
https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411?locale=en_US
• For any other web browser, please visit your web browser's official web pages.
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Where can you find more information about cookies:
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You can learn more about cookies and the following third-party websites:
AllAboutCookies: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/
Network Advertising Initiative: http://www.networkadvertising.org/
How to Contact Us:
If you have any questions about Arch Design Award powered by DAA - Design Award Agency's Cookie Policy, the data we hold on you, or you would like to exercise one of your data protection rights, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Call us at: +358 44 944 7802
Or write to us: info@archdesignaward.com
Changes to our Privacy Policy:
DAA - Design Award Agency (Business ID: 3148527-4, VAT ID: FI31485274) as the organizer of Arch Design Award keeps its Cookie Policy under regular review and places any updates on www.archdesignaward.com. This Cookie Policy was last updated on 01. March 2022.