Legal
Thank you for visiting www.westonvula.com, referred to herein as (“Site”) and is owned, operated and/or controlled by Weston Vula Architects (collectively, "WV", "we", "us" or "our"), a Limited Partnership based in the United Kingdom and in Spain and whose registered office is located at Avenida Pais, Valencia 84, Local B, 03720 Benissa, Alicante, Spain (“España”).
Please read carefully the following terms and conditions of use and all other rules, policies, and guidelines that may be communicated from time to time through the Site (collectively, “Terms of Use”). By using this Site, you agree to be bound by and comply with the Terms of Use. If you do not agree to the Terms of Use, please do not use the Site.
In these terms and conditions, the phrase "the Service" shall mean any services and/or facilities made available through the “Site”.
Accessing the Site
You must be at least 14-years of age to use the Site. By agreeing to the Terms of Use, you represent and warrant that (a) you are at least 14, and (b) your use of the Site is in accordance with any and all applicable laws. If you are using the Site on behalf of an entity, organisation, or company, you represent and warrant that you have the authority to bind such organisation to these Terms of Use and you agree to be bound by these Terms of Use on behalf of such organisation.
Governing law
These terms and conditions of use, and your use of the Site and/or the Service, shall be governed by and construed in accordance with Spanish / EU and English law and the Spanish/English Courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction in connection with all matters relating thereto, comply with the applicable law in the UK/EU and in any country from which they are posted.
Legal Disclaimer
WV seeks to ensure that all the material on this Site is accurate and up-to-date. Nonetheless, the content of the Site is provided without any warranty or responsibility. You should not make significant decisions based on the information provided on this Site without obtaining appropriate independent advice.
Liability
WV to the extent permissible by law - excludes all liability which may arise from your use of or reliance on the content of this Site or any linked website.
Third Party Links
This Site may have links (“Third Party Links”) to other websites. WV is not responsible for any such Third Party Links or any content, services or materials available via any such Third Party Links. WV does not endorse or warrant the accuracy or reliability of any material appearing on any such Third Party Links. A link on this Site to another website does not imply a recommendation of that website or its contents.
Ownership; Proprietary Rights & Copyright
The copyright in the contents of this Site is owned by Weston Vula Architects except where explicitly stated otherwise. All rights, title and interest in and to this Site, including without limitation, all graphics, designs, photographs, compilations, information, and other intellectual property (“Content”) is owned or controlled by WV and our licensors and certain other parties and is protected by UK copyright, trade dress, patent, and trademark, or other intellectual property rights and laws to the fullest extent possible. Use of the Content is prohibited unless specifically permitted by these Terms of Use.
Cookies
By using our website, you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your device. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying the settings in your browser. However, you may not be able to use all the features of our site if cookies are disabled. For more information, please refer to our Cookie Policy.
Privacy Notice
WV is committed to ensuring that when we collect and use information about visitors to our website we do so in accordance with applicable data privacy laws. This Privacy Policy explains how we may use information that we obtain about you through your use of our website. You do not have to give us any information in order to use our website. However, we may need to collect certain details from you if, for example, you should want to use our services. This privacy policy is designed to aid compliance with GDPR or General Data Protection Regulation.
Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy sets out the basis on which WV processes your personal data.
How we collect your personal data
Your personal data maybe collected by us in a number of ways, including:
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Through our provision of services to you, your employer or the organisation you represent;
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During the course of dealings with you for or on behalf of a client;
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When you provide us with information in relation to your attendance at any hosted events;
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When you provide information to us by filling informs on this web site;
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When you contact us, for example, to enquire about our services or to apply for a job;
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When we collect publicly available information about you or your business (including through electronic data sources); and
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When we collect your personal data from our clients, consultants, suppliers and other advisers.
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The type of personal data that we may collect
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The categories of your personal data that we may collect includes the following:
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Contact details (including names, postal addresses, email addresses and telephone numbers);
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Professional information such as job titles, previous roles, and professional experience and qualifications;
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Where you provide the information to us, information concerning your interests both business and personal;
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Details of your visits to our website including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, and web logs;
Use of personal information
We process personal information about you for the following purposes:
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To provide you with information and services that you request from us or which we feel may interest you as permitted under applicable law;
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To improve the content and methods of delivery of our website;
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To maintain and develop our relationship with you;
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For research, planning, service development, security or risk management;
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To carry out services we have agreed to provide to you;
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To allow you to use or access secure areas of our website;
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To help us monitor our commitment to equality and diversity and to consider your application to join us;
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To comply with legal and professional obligations; and
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To disclose your information as set out below.
Marketing
You have the right to ask us not to process your personal information for marketing purposes. When we collect contact information from you (for example, when you provide us with your business card or when you are the person instructing us on behalf of your employer), we may add your details to our contacts database and to our mailing lists. You can exercise the right at any time by sending us an email to info@westonvula.com Ref. Data Protection
Transfer and use of your Personal Information
We are an international architectural firm, with our office in Spain, working in many jurisdictions. We may allow WV’s, branches and associated firms and companies, to access your information, and may allow access to your information, or parts of it, to our service providers required to obtain the services we need to operate our business. We do not sell on or rent out the information collected via our website, or otherwise provided to us. We may disclose your information to third parties in the following circumstances:
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We are under a legal, regulatory or professional obligation to do so (for example, in order to comply with anti-money laundering requirements);
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You have consented to us sharing your information in this way;
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It is relevant in the circumstances to disclose the information to our website service providers such as hosting, storage fulfilment and disaster recovery, subject to appropriate technical systems and on a limited use basis only;
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If we believe your use of our website has violated or may violate any law, regulation or if we believe you are or may be a threat to safety, security, property, interests or rights of us or others;
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In a merger, acquisition, change of control, joint venture or other business combination involving WV;
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If we use a third party service provider to provide services that involve data processing, translation, technology, research, banking and payment, client contact, data entry and processing, litigation support, marketing and security services and other similar services;
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In order to investigate or respond to or resolve problems or inquiries or defend our interests (including, but not limited to, professional indemnity insurers, brokers, auditors and other professional advisors).
WV, and some of the third parties with whom we share information, may be located outside your country or the country from which the data is provided. Those countries to which your data may be transferred may not have well developed data protection legislation. However, for the processing of your data we will at all times ensure a data protection level equal to the one in the European Economic Area.
The Internet
This Site may, from time to time, contain links to other websites which are outside of our control and are not covered by this Privacy Policy. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for other sites’ privacy policies. If you access other websites using the links provided, please check their policies before submitting any personal information.
Security
Using the internet to collect and process personal information necessarily involves the transmission of information on an international basis. The transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure; any transmission is at your own risk. Although we do our best to protect personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your information transmitted to this web site or otherwise sent to us electronically. Once we have received your information, we will use appropriate procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.
It is our policy to virus check documents and files before they are posted on any website. However, we cannot guarantee that documents or files downloaded from our website will be free from viruses and we do not accept any responsibility for any damage or loss caused by any virus. For your own protection, you should use virus-checking software when using our website. You must not post or provide to us via any website any document or file which you believe may contain a virus. You must virus check any document or file which you intend to post or provide to us via any website.
Your Consent
By submitting or providing to us your personal information you consent to the use of that information as set out in this Privacy Policy. If you apply online for a job or work placement you may need to provide in the course of your application information about your education, employment, right to work, and state of health and ethnicity. Your application will constitute your express consent to our use of this information to assess your application and to allow us to carryout any monitoring activities, which may be required of us under applicable law as an employer, and which we may undertake to assist us to monitor delivery of our own commitments to diversity and equality.
Access to, Updating and Correcting Your Information
The privacy laws of some countries give individuals the right to access and amend their personal information. If you would like to request a copy of your information or would like to change the information we hold about you, please contact us. We want to ensure that your information is accurate and up to date. If any of the information that you have provided to us changes, for example if you change your email address or name, please let us know the correct details by sending an email to your WV contact or info@westonvula.com Ref. Data Protection
You may ask us, or we may ask you, to correct information you or we think is inaccurate, and you may also ask us to remove information which is inaccurate.
This Privacy Policy
From time-to-time, we may need to revise this Privacy Policy. If we change our Privacy Policy, we will post the changes on this page so that you may be aware of the information we collect and how we use it at all times. This Privacy Policy was last updated in October 2020. You should therefore review this page regularly to ensure that you are aware of any changes to its terms. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact info@westonvula.com Ref. Data Protection
Cookies
Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognises that cookie.
Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognise a user’s device.
You can find more information about cookies at:
www.allaboutcookies.org
www.youronlinechoices.eu
www.google.com/policies/technologies/cookies/ (for video)
Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improve the user experience. They can also help to ensure that adverts you see online are more relevant to you and your interests.
By using our website, you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your device. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying the settings in your browser. However, you may not be able to use all the features of our site if cookies are disabled.
What cookies do we use?
Cookies in use on our site are Google Analytics and Cookie-Script.com. These are web analytics tools that help website owners understand how visitors engage with their website. Customers can view a variety of reports about how visitors interact with their website so that they can improve it.
Like many services, Google Analytics uses first-party cookies to track visitor interactions as in our case, where they are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We then use the information to compile reports and to help us improve our site. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. These cookies are used to store information, such as the time that the current visit occurred, whether the visitor has been to the site before and what site referred the visitor to the web page. Google Analytics collects information anonymously. It reports website trends without identifying individual visitors. You can opt out of Google Analytics without affecting how you visit our site – for more information on opting out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites you use. The other cookie we will be using is a basic Functionality cookie that will tell us whether a user has used the site within the past 24 hours.
Although care is taken to check and test material at all stages of production, WV cannot accept any responsibility or liability for any loss, disruption or damage to your data or your computer system which may occur whilst using material derived from this Site, howsoever caused.
Third Party websites
Our website links through to third party websites which may also use cookies over which we have no control. We recommend that you check the relevant third party's privacy policies for information about any cookies which may be used.
Consent to Cookies
If you continue to use our website, we will assume that you are happy to receive all cookies from our website. However, if you would prefer to change your cookie settings, you can do so at any time - see below ‘Control’.
Control
Most browsers automatically accept cookies unless you change your internet browser settings. If you wish to restrict, block or delete the cookies which are set by any of our websites, you can generally do this through your browser settings. These settings are usually found in the 'options' or 'preferences' menu of your internet browser. If you set your internet browser preferences to block all cookies, you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.
If you delete cookies relating to this website we will not remember things about you, including your cookie preferences, and you will be treated as a first-time visitor the next time you visit the site. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit:
www.allaboutcookies.org.
Changes
We may need to update this Cookie Policy in the future and so encourage you to review this Cookie Policy periodically to stay informed about how we are using cookies. This cookie policy was last updated June 2023.
Further Information
If you have any questions or comments regarding this Cookie Policy, please email the controller on info@westonvula.com Ref. Data Protection