We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors and clients. We do not use cookies, nor do we collect any data other than for the purpose of setting up projects. 

The personal data that we use is the data you willingly supply to us, should we need to contact you to discuss your project.

For general enquiries through the contacts page, details will be kept for three months and then if the project does not come to fruition, those contact details will be destroyed.

The personal data that we collect.

We will retain data enabling us to get in touch with you. The contact data may include your name, email address, telephone number, postal address. 

Record keeping 

We may process your personal data for the purposes of creating and maintaining our databases, back-up copies of our databases and our business records generally. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests and ensuring that we have access to all the information we need to run our business properly and efficiently in accordance with this policy.

Legal compliance and vital interests 

We may also process your personal data where such processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject or to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.

Providing your personal data to others

We do not disclose your data to any third parties without your express permission. Third parties relate to consultants required to carry out your project. In the first instance you would only be referred to as “the client” as soon as the appointment is made, only then would your details be given for the purposes of professional appointments.

In addition to the specific disclosures of personal data as set out, we may disclose your personal data where such disclosure is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person. We may also disclose your personal data where such disclosure is necessary for the establishment, exercise, or defence of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure.

We will retain your personal data as follows:

• contact and project data will be retained for six years from the date of completion if the contract of engagement is executed under hand and twelve years if it is executed under seal. 

Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section, we may retain your personal data where such retention is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.

 Your rights

 Your principal rights under data protection law are:

(a) the right to access - you can ask for copies of your personal data.

(b) the right to rectification - you can ask us to rectify inaccurate personal data and to complete incomplete personal data.

(c) the right to erasure - you can ask us to erase your personal data.

(d) the right to restrict processing - you can ask us to restrict the processing of your personal data.

(e) the right to object to processing - you can object to the processing of your personal data.

(f) the right to data portability - you can ask that we transfer your personal data to another organisation or to you.

(g) the right to complain to a supervisory authority - you can complain about our processing of your personal data.

(h) the right to withdraw consent - to the extent that the legal basis of our processing of your personal data is consent, you can withdraw that consent.

You may exercise any of your rights in relation to your personal data by written notice to us, using the contact details set out below.

Our details

This website is owned and operated by Inicio Architecture and Design.

Our principal place of business is at 

1 Buncombe Cottages, 

Buncombe Hill, 

Broomfield 

Bridgwater, 

Taunton TA5 1AY.

You can contact us, by using any of the following:

Post, to the postal address given above.

Our website contact form.

Telephone, on the contact number published on our website. 

Email, using the email address published on our website.

 Amendments

We reserve the right to appropriately update this policy from time to time and will publish any new version on our website.

You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are satisfied with any changes to this policy.