Privacy Policy

1. What is this?
At AVA Design Media (referred to as “AVA”, “we”, “us”, “our”) we take privacy seriously and we are committed to protecting it. Our website is intended to give clients and potential clients a clear overview of the business, its outlook and the types of advice given by AVA Design Media . It is an important aim of the website to provide visitors with a service that can trust. A central part of achieving such trust is this privacy policy.

This policy explains when and why we collect personal information about individuals, how this information is used, the conditions under which it may be disclosed to others, and how it is kept secure.

This policy may change from time to time so please check this page occasionally to ensure that you’re happy with any changes.

2. Data we collect and how we collect it
When you use this website, our products or services, the categories of information that we may collect about you and the way in which we collect it are as follows:

Personal information you give to us. This is information about you that you give to us by entering information via our website, social media platforms, or corresponding with us by phone, email or otherwise, and is provided entirely voluntarily.

This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our site, submitting a contact form on our website, registering interest to use our services/products, posting material or requesting further services, (including accessing documentation and engaging in correspondence with us by phone, email or otherwise). Such information may consist of, but is not limited to, your title, name, email address, telephone numbers, information relating to the sale of service/products to you, and correspondence and communication details.

3. Data anonymisation and use of aggregated information
Your information may be converted into statistical or aggregated data in such a way as to ensure that you are not identified or identifiable from it. Aggregated data cannot be linked back to you as a natural person. We may use this data for analytical and research purposes.

4. Others who may receive or have access to your personal information
Our suppliers and service providers

We may disclose your information to our third party service providers, agents, subcontractors and other organisations for the purposes of providing services to us or directly to you on our behalf. Such third parties may include providers of information technology, printing press, cloud service providers (such as hosting and email management).

When we use third party service providers, we only disclose to them any personal information that is necessary for them to provide their service and we have a contract in place that requires them to keep your information secure and not to use it other than in accordance with our specific instructions.

Other ways we may share your personal information

We may transfer your personal information to a third party as part of a sale of some or all of our business and assets to any third party or as part of any business restructuring or reorganisation. We may also transfer your personal information if we’re under a duty to disclose or share it in order to comply with any legal obligation, to detect or report a crime, to enforce or apply the terms of our contracts or to protect the rights, property or safety of our visitors and clients.

5. Security and links to other sites
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your information transmitted to our website and any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your personal information, we put in place reasonable and appropriate controls to ensure that it remains secure against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, or unauthorised access.

Our website may contain links to other websites run by other organisations. This policy does not apply to those other websites‚ so we encourage you to read their privacy statements. We cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of other websites even if you access them using links that we provide. In addition, if you linked to our website from a third party website, we cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of the owners and operators of that third party website and recommend that you check the policy of that third party website.

6. Our marketing
We may collect your preferences to receive marketing information directly from us by email in the following ways:

if you sign up to our mailing list via our website or other medium where available, we will ask you if you would like to provide your consent to receive marketing information directly from us; or from time to time, we may ask you to refresh your marketing preferences by asking you to confirm that you consent to continue receiving marketing information from us.

You have the right to opt-out of our use of your personal information to provide marketing to you in any of the ways mentioned above.

Please see Withdrawing your consent and Objecting to our use of your personal information and automated decisions made about you above for further details on how you can do this.

7. Your rights
You have a number of rights in relation to your personal information under data protection law. In relation to certain rights, we may ask you for information to confirm your identity and, where applicable, to help us to search for your personal information. Except in rare cases, we will respond to you within one month from either (i) the date that we have confirmed your identity or (ii) where we do not need to do this because we already have this information, from the date we received your request.

Accessing your personal information. You have the right to ask for a copy of the information that we hold about you by emailing or writing to us at the address at the end of this policy. We may not provide you with a copy of your personal information if this concerns other individuals or we have another lawful reason to withhold that information.

Correcting and updating your personal information. The accuracy of your information is important to us and we are working on ways to make it easier for you to review and correct the information that we hold about you. In the meantime, if you change your name or address/email address, or you discover that any of the other information we hold is inaccurate or out of date, please let us know by contacting us in any of the details described at the end of this policy.

8. Changes to this policy
We may review this policy from time to time and any changes will be notified to you by posting an updated version on our website and/or by contacting you by email. Any changes will take effect 7 days after the date of our email or the date on which we post the modified terms on our website, whichever is the earlier. We recommend you regularly check for changes and review this policy whenever you visit our website. If you do not agree with any aspect of the updated policy you must immediately notify us and cease using our services.

9. Contact us
If you have any questions or concerns about our privacy when using this Site, please contact us using the form on our website.