Privacy Policy — Formovian

Last updated: 1 January 2025

Formovian ("we", "our", or "us") is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website at formovian.com and its subpages. Please read this policy carefully. By using our website, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this policy.

Important Notice: This website does not offer paid services. All content and information provided is strictly for informational purposes only.

1. Information We Collect

1.1 Information You Provide Voluntarily

We may collect personal information that you voluntarily provide when you:

Complete and submit contact or enquiry forms on our website
Send us an email directly at info@formovian.com
Request a consultation or portfolio

This information may include your name, email address, telephone number, and any details you choose to share about a potential project.

1.2 Information Collected Automatically

When you visit our website, certain information may be collected automatically by our servers and analytics tools, including your IP address, browser type and version, pages visited, time and date of your visit, and referring website. This information is used in aggregate form to understand how visitors use our website and to improve the user experience.

2. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect for the following purposes:

To respond to your enquiries and communicate with you about your questions
To provide you with information about our studio and design services
To improve and optimise our website
To comply with applicable legal obligations
To protect the rights and safety of our studio and website users

We do not use your information for unsolicited marketing communications, and we do not sell or rent your personal information to any third parties.

3. Legal Basis for Processing

Where applicable under data protection legislation (including the General Data Protection Regulation, GDPR), we process your personal data on the following legal bases:

Consent: Where you have given explicit consent (e.g. by ticking the consent checkbox on our forms)
Legitimate interests: Where we have a legitimate interest in responding to your enquiries and managing our business communications
Legal obligation: Where we are required by law to process certain information

4. Data Retention

We retain personal data submitted through our contact forms for a maximum of 24 months from the date of receipt, unless you request earlier deletion or unless a longer retention period is required by applicable law. Website analytics data is retained for 26 months.

5. Sharing of Information

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your personal information to third parties except in the following limited circumstances:

Service providers who assist us in operating our website (e.g. web hosting), subject to confidentiality agreements
Where required by law, regulation, or legal process
Where necessary to protect the rights, property, or safety of Formovian, our users, or others

6. Cookies

Our website uses cookies to improve your browsing experience. Please refer to our Cookie Policy for detailed information about the cookies we use and how you can control them.

7. Your Rights

Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have the following rights in relation to your personal data:

Right of access: To request a copy of the personal data we hold about you
Right to rectification: To request correction of inaccurate or incomplete data
Right to erasure: To request deletion of your personal data, subject to certain conditions
Right to restriction: To request that we restrict the processing of your data
Right to data portability: To receive your data in a structured, machine-readable format
Right to object: To object to processing based on legitimate interests
Right to withdraw consent: Where processing is based on consent, to withdraw it at any time

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at info@formovian.com. We will respond to your request within 30 days.

8. Security

We implement reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect your personal information from unauthorised access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. However, no method of transmission over the internet is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

9. Third-Party Links

Our website may contain links to external websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of those sites and encourage you to review their privacy policies before providing any personal information.

10. Children's Privacy

Our website is not directed at children under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe we have inadvertently received information from a child, please contact us so we can delete it promptly.

11. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in our practices or applicable law. We will indicate the date of the latest revision at the top of this page. Continued use of our website after any changes constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.

12. Contact Us

If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us:

Email: info@formovian.com
Website: formovian.com