Evolution Architects is committed to respecting your privacy. This notice explains how we use any personal information we collect about you and your rights in relation to it. Please read it carefully.

Who we are

We are: Sustainable Evolution Ltd
Trading as: Evolution Architects

Our website address: evolutionarchitecture.co.uk

Registered address:
6 St John’s Place
Hove BN3 2FJ

Company number: 5108451

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Contact forms

We keep contact form submissions for a certain period for customer service purposes, but we do not use the information submitted through them for marketing purposes.

Forms are sent via email and their content is encrypted in transit.

No personal data from these forms is stored in the website database unless otherwise stated here.

Cookies

Our website, like most, uses cookies. You can manage or withdraw consent for their use via the Cookie Notice bar or via our Cookie Policy page. If you prevent their use you will not be able to use all the functionality of our website.

We provide more information about the cookies we use in our Cookie policy page.

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.

Embedded content from other websites

Pages 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.

The website uses web fonts provided by Google but these are hosted locally so no personal data is collected by Google’s content delivery network.

Security measures

Some data (including username, IP address, hostname, location) is temporarily stored in security logs on the server and database, and may be sent via email to alert the website administrator of critical problems or suspicious activities on the site.

To secure our website, we use the Wordfence and SiteGround Security Optimizer plugins.

The Wordfence Security plugin, provided by Defiant, Inc., protects against malicious attacks, brute force attempts, and malware. In doing so, Wordfence may process personal data, including IP addresses, login attempt information, and browser data, for the purpose of securing our site. This processing is based on our legitimate interest in maintaining a secure online environment (GDPR Art. 6(1)(f)). Wordfence may transfer this information to servers in the USA, adhering to standard contractual clauses to ensure data protection. Data is retained only as long as necessary to identify and mitigate threats.

SiteGround Security Optimizer may collect technical data, including IP addresses, in order to identify malicious attacks and prevent unauthorized logins. These security logs are stored for 8 days. For more information on how SiteGround processes this data, please visit their Plugins Privacy Notice.

To protect our contact form from spam and bot abuse, we use Cloudflare Turnstile. Turnstile is a security service from Cloudflare, Inc. that verifies that requests to our website are made by humans and not automated programs. This service collects certain visitor signals (such as IP address, browser type, and device info) to distinguish human users from malicious bots. This processing is necessary to ensure the security of our website and services. For more information, please refer to Cloudflare’s Turnstile Privacy Addendum.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics 4 to track how our site is being used: how users find our website, how they move around on it, how long they stay for. No Remarketing or Advertising features are set and IP addresses are anonymised while tracking.

See also our Cookie policy page.

Who we share your data with

Except as set out here, we do not share, or sell, or disclose to a third party, any information collected through our website.

How long we retain your data

For users that are registered on our website, we store the personal information they provide in their user profile indefinitely. All users can see, edit, or delete their own 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.

Where we send your data

The website is hosted at SiteGround in datacentres located in London (UK), and backed up in Eemshaven (NL). It is protected by 256-bit encryption. SSL certificate provided by Let’s Encrypt from the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG).

Siteground security details: siteground.com/datacenters/
Let’s Encrypt privacy policy: letsencrypt.org/privacy/

Website administrator emails from the website reside in the data centres of Zoho.com, which adhere to GDPR: www.zoho.com/mail/help/zoho-mail-gdpr-compliance.html

Website database backups are encrypted and stored at Amazon S3 – server located in London – and at Microsoft’s OnDrive – data centres located in GB – for up to 1 year.

AWS data privacy statements: aws.amazon.com/compliance/data-privacy/
Microsoft’s privacy commitment: microsoft.com/en-gb/trust-center/privacy

Contact information

If you have any privacy-specific concerns, please contact us.

Additional information

How we protect your data

We have various measures in place to protect the website from malicious attack, including firewall protection, malware scanning, bot/spam blocking and encryption.

What data breach procedures we have in place

The website has internal reporting systems and contact mechanisms to alert us to any malicious activity on the site.

Last updated: 10 March 2023