Privacy Notice

Fuse Studios Ltd (we’, ‘us’ or ‘our’) know that you take the privacy of your information and how it is used and shared very seriously and we will only use your personal information in accordance with the current data protection law in the UK and this privacy policy. This notice describes our privacy policy and how we aim to repay the trust you have shown by sharing your personal data with us.
This policy applies to all the websites we operate, our use of emails and text messages for marketing purposes, and any other methods we use for collecting information. It covers what we collect and why, what we do with the information, what we won’t do with the information, and what rights you have.
This privacy policy only applies to personal information we hold about individuals. It does not apply to information we hold about companies and other organisations.
We may update this privacy policy from time to time by publishing the amended version on our website.

Who We Are

In this policy, whenever you see the words (‘we’, ‘us’ or ‘our’), it refers to Fuse Studios Limited, 8th Floor, West One, Wellington Street, Leeds, LS1 1BA West Yorkshire. Registered in England Company No: 7367196. For the purposes of UK Data Protection Law, we are a data controller in respect of the personal information that we collect and process about you as described in this privacy policy.
We are a privately owned architecture and interior design practice working nationally and internationally. We employ over 30 people at our design studio in Leeds.

Information We Collect

We will only ever collect the information we need – including data that will be useful to help improve our services.
We may collect and process the following data about you:

1. Personal information, such as name, phone number and email address, that you provide by filling in forms on our web site (www.fuse-studios.com) and when you contact us via telephone and includes information provided when you

•   subscribe to receive one of our e-communications;
•   order a brochure;
•   enquire about a specific product or service;
•   request information via telephone;
•   request a call back;
•   respond to a campaign;
•   enter a competition or promotion;
•   submit a question to us or provide us with feedback;
•   ask to be registered on our file-sharing platform

2. Details of your visits to our site including but not limited to, IP addresses (the location of the computer on the internet), pages accessed and files downloaded. This helps us to determine how many people use our sites, how many people visit on a regular basis, and how popular our pages are. This is statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual. It simply allows us to monitor and improve our service.

You are provided with an opportunity to opt out from receiving communications from us or our partners at the time that your details are submitted and on each occasion that you are contacted thereafter.

Our site uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our site. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our site and allows us to improve our site. For detailed information on the cookies we use and the purpose for which we use them please see our cookie policy below. If you want to disable cookies please refer to your browser help.

How We Use the information We Collect

We may process your personal data for our legitimate business interests. “Legitimate Interests” means the interests of our company in conducting and managing our business and providing you with the best services in the most secure way. These interests include:

•   To ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.
•   To provide you with information about our services or offers that you request from us or that may be similar to products and services that you have previously purchased from us.
•   To provide you with postal communications about our products, services or offers which we feel may interest you.
•   To contact you regarding your opinions on our products and services which may be used for research and analysis to help us to improve or modify those products and services.
•   To help us identify you when you contact or visit us.
•   For general administration purposes.
•   To help us improve the quality of our services.
•   To help us detect and prevent fraud and money laundering.
•   To help us recover debts.
•   To carry out analysis and customer profiling.
•   To comply with the requirements of health and safety and other legislation.
•   To meet our obligations and duties under building contracts and appointment documents.

When you communicate with us for customer service or other purposes (e.g., by emails, faxes, phone calls, tweets, etc.), we retain such information and our responses to you in the records of your account.
When we process your personal data for our legitimate business interests we always ensure that we consider and balance any potential impact on you and your rights under data protection laws.
If you have any concerns about the processing described above, you have the right to object to this processing. For more information on your rights please see “Your Rights” section below.

Choice / Opt-In and Opt-Out

Whenever the processing of your personal data requires your consent, then you will be given the opportunity to opt-in or opt-out to having your contact details used as set out above, at the time your details are submitted.
If you no longer wish to receive marketing emails or other promotional materials from us, you may opt-out of receiving these communications at any time by one of the following methods:

•   by replying to the email with ‘unsubscribe’ in the subject line;
•   by using the opt out boxes on the response form and submitting it;
•   by writing to Fuse Studios Ltd, 8th Floor, West One, Wellington Street, Leeds LS1 1BA, West Yorkshire;
•   by calling us on +44 (0) 113 88 00 770

Please be aware that if you opt out of marketing communications received from one of our partners, and your information is also held by other partners, you may continue to receive information from these other partners until you inform them that you wish to opt out of marketing communications as well.

Services Offered

The range of services offered by us include, but is not limited to:

•   architectural design
•   feasibility studies
•   masterplanning
•   urban design
•   interior design
•   space-planning
•   graphic design

and through sub-consultancy arrangements:

•   lighting design
•   cost consultancy
•   landscape design
•   wayfinding and signage design
•   principal designer and health & safety

Sharing Your Information

Just like most other organisations, we work with third-party service providers which provide important functions to us that allow us to be easier, faster, and friendlier in the way we deliver our services. We need to disclose user data to them from time to time, for any of the purposes set out above, so that the services can be performed.
For instance, your personal contact information may be shared with our IT support partners to ensure that your email domain is ‘white-listed’ and your emails are not blocked by our spam email filters. If you express an interest in becoming involved in some way in one of our projects (as a contractor, consultant or supplier) your details may be shared with client entities, other consultants and contractors already engaged on the project.
We may also disclose your personal information to third parties, if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data for legal or regulatory purposes, in relation to existing or future legal proceedings, for the prevention of fraud/loss or to protect the rights, property, safety of our group, our customers or others.

Data Security

Information is stored by us on computers located in the UK. We may transfer the information to other offices and to other reputable third-party organisations as explained above – they may be situated inside or outside the European Economic Area. We may also store information in paper files.
We have security protocols and policies in place to manage and record your data privacy and preferences correctly and that your data is stored securely to protect against its loss, misuse and alteration.
We take steps to ensure that any organisations that we share your data with will have security protocols and policies in place to manage and record your data privacy and preferences correctly and that your data is stored correctly.
Unfortunately, the transmission of data across the internet is not completely secure and whilst we do our best to try to protect the security of your information, we cannot ensure or guarantee that loss, misuse or alteration of data will not occur whilst data is being transferred.
We will keep your information only for as long as we need it to provide you with the goods, services or information you have required, to administer your relationship with us, to comply with the law, or to ensure we do not communicate with people that have asked us not to. When we no longer need information, we will always dispose of it securely, using specialist companies if necessary to do this work for us.

Job Applicants, Current and Former Employees

When individuals apply to work for us, we will only use the information they supply to us to process their application and to monitor recruitment statistics. Where we want to disclose information to a third party, for example where we want to take up a reference or obtain a ‘disclosure’ from the Criminal Records Bureau, we will not do so without informing them beforehand unless the disclosure is required by law.
Personal information about unsuccessful candidates will be destroyed or deleted.
Once a person has taken up employment with us, we will compile a file relating to their employment. The information contained in this will be kept secure and will only be used for purposes directly relevant to that person’s employment. Once their employment with us has ended, we will retain the file in accordance with the requirements of our retention schedule and then delete it.

Your Rights

Under the data protection legislation, you have the right to request copies of your data, request rectification of your data, request erasure of your data, object to us processing your data, the right to prevent your data being used for direct marketing, request us to restrict the processing of your data and where our systems allow, the right to access a copy of the information we hold about you (a subject access request).
If you wish to exercise any of these rights please contact us in writing at Fuse Studios Ltd, 8th Floor, West One, Wellington Street, Leeds LS1 1BA, West Yorkshire or by emailing info@fuse-studios.com
For more information about your rights under the Data Protection Act, contact the Information Commissioner’s Office here.