Who we are
AI Architectured organisers of AI Architecture & Design Competitions with website address at: https://aiarchitectured.com. AI Architectured is committed to protecting your privacy and aware how important it is to you. All information collected on our site is only used to process and administer your competition entry registration, proposal submission and to provide you with a more personalised visit and experience to the site. The data controller, AI Architectured can be contacted at [email protected].
This Privacy Policy governs the collection, storage and use of the personal data collected on our website or platform. It also provides information on how the AI Architectured collects and processes the personal data of visitors to the competition website.
We undertake to respect your right to lawful processing and protection of your personal data as well as to comply with the applicable laws and regulations on the protection of personal data as set by the law of the United Kingdom and those set out by General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and others relating to the process of data.
By accessing our website, you confirm that you have read, understood and agreed to this Privacy Policy.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Contact Form
When visitors contact us using the contact form provided we collect the data shown on the contact form, and also the visitor’s IP address, browser user agent string to help spam detection and device screen size.
Device information
When you visit the Portal, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, device model, screen size, time zone, possibly geographic location and some of the cookies that are installed on your device.
Log Files
Log files track actions occurring on our website and systems and may collect data about your IP address, date and time of visit, referring page, device type, operating system, browser type and Internet service provider.
Competition Registration
When you register to enter a competition, we collect certain personal information you as an individual including your first name, surname, email address, and sometimes phone number.
Payment
As part of payment transaction process, we collect certain personal information from you or through our third-party payment gateway providerwho may collect information such as your first name, surname, email address, phone number and address and transaction detail.
Prize Winners
As part of the administration and processing of winners prize allocation to you as winner, we collect certain personal information from you to confirm and satisfied our legal obligation which may including your first name, surname, email address, official government identification number, phone number and address.
Behavioural Advertising
Our website does not use any behavioural cookies or algorithms to target your with marketing communication or advertisements.
Why we collect any personal data
We collect your personal data in on the website in order to:
- Process your competition entry fee payments.
- Perform communications realting to competition result and winners notification.
- Process administer your entry registration for a competition.
- Confirm eligibility for competition entry.
- Confirm identity and eligibility for prizes and fund distribution.
- Provide you with the latest update on competition and other marketing information from us (not from any third-parties).
- Publication of selected and winning project details which may include full name, team name, company, instituition, country on our website, with selected publications and on our various social media accounts.
- Comply and satisfy certain legal and government requirements by law.
- Comply legal law enforcement request.
Do Not Track Requests
We do not track you outside the website and should any ‘Do Not Track’ indicators from your browser.
Legal Basis for Collecting Your Personal Data
We collect and otherwise processes your personal data through our data controller on the following legal bases:
Registering to enter a competition and submitting a design proposal based on our Competition Terms and Conditions as required to administer your entry and participation in the competition.
We may be required to collect and retain certain information about you and your interactions with us where it is necessary for tax, law enforcement, security or other statutory compliance requirements purposes.
We may collect your personal data for our Legitimate interests which may include our business development, expansion, promotion and marketing activities.
Analytics
Google Analytics
These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our Website and Services. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve our website. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors or users to the website, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited on our website. Please see overview of privacy policy on google analytics service.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across other websites or mobile apps visit: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
Who we share your data with
We DO NOT share or sell your personal data we collect with any third-parties other than within our organisation. We may share non-personal data on our website and services with third parties such as contest sponsors, winners details with selected publications and for promotional and marketing purposes.
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
How we protect your data
Our website and services are deployed within a secure layer to increase security of data transfer between your web browser and our website. You will see the (HTTPS) and padlock symbol in your web browser web address bar to protect your information against loss, modification or malicious use.
Although such security measures are applied by us to protect confidential information and ensure appropriate security, we can not guarantee that the information transmitted over the internet or your network connection is safe.
Payment Security
All debit/credit transactions are handled using secure gateway providers. And we employ administrative, physical, and electronic controls designed to protect any of your data we have from unauthorised access and abuse.
What data breach procedures we have in place
Where a data security breach occurs or we suspect a system compromise, we may contact you to advice a change of any passwords and we may install additional preventive protective measures.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data
We do not perform any automated decision making or profiling from user data you provide to us.
Minors
Our Website and Services are not directed at or for use by anyone under the age of 18 years (eighteen). Should we become aware that any personal information has been collected on the Website from a minor under age of 13, the registration account will be immediately terminated and deleted. If you suspect or believe that we have collected information from a minor or a user is under the age of 13 on the website, please contact us at [email protected] or through the contact form available on our website.
Changes
As this Privacy Policy change from time to time to reflect regulatory, legal or operational requirements, we will notify you through our website or other means as required by the applicable law. We recommend that you regularly check and review this Privacy Policy.
