Legal notice
The company information is:
BLUEPRINT PARTNERS LLC
34 N FRANKLIN AVE STE 687 #5043, PINEDALE, Wyoming, 82941. +1(307)-527-0667
Welcome to this page where we want to inform you about all the details relating to your personal data : what it is, why it is collected, what is done with it and where it is stored.
Furthermore, as authors of a popular site that attempts to promote the use of the Internet as a support for architecture, especially at a professional level, we are very sensitive to this issue .
We cannot agree more with the need to strengthen transparency in the use of personal data. Websites must be 100% transparent in this matter and illegal and unethical conduct must be penalized. This is in everyone’s interest.
With this page, together with our legal notice and cookie policy pages, we are trying to serve you as best as possible in this regard.
Applicable legal framework
The activity of this website is subject to the US legal framework.
CCPA Privacy
This privacy notice section for California residents supplements the information in Our Privacy Policy and applies solely to all visitors, users, and others who reside in the State of California.
Categories of Personal Information Collected
We collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular Consumer or Device. The following is a list of categories of personal information which we may collect or may have been collected from California residents within the last twelve (12) months.
Please note that the categories and examples provided in the list below are those defined in the CCPA. This does not mean that all examples of that category of personal information were collected by Us, but it reflects our good faith belief to the best of our knowledge that some of that information from the applicable category may be and may have been collected. For example, certain categories of personal information would only be collected if you provided such personal information directly to Us.
- Category A: Identifiers.
Examples: A real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, driver’s license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers.
Collected: Yes. - Category B: Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)).
Examples: A name, signature, Social Security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, driver’s license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information. Some personal information included in this category may overlap with other categories.
Collected: Yes. - Category C: Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law.
Examples: Age (40 years or older), race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, sex (including gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy or childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, veteran or military status, genetic information (including familial genetic information).
Collected: No. - Category D: Commercial information.
Examples: Records and history of products or services purchased or considered.
Collected: Yes. - Category E: Biometric information.
Examples: Genetic, physiological, behavioral, and biological characteristics, or activity patterns used to extract a template or other identifier or identifying information, such as, fingerprints, faceprints, and voiceprints, iris or retina scans, keystroke, gait, or other physical patterns, and sleep, health, or exercise data.
Collected: No. - Category F: Internet or other similar network activity.
Examples: Interaction with our Service or advertisement.
Collected: Yes. - Category G: Geolocation data.
Examples: Approximate physical location.
Collected: No. - Category H: Sensory data.
Examples: Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information.
Collected: No. - Category I: Professional or employment-related information.
Examples: Current or past job history or performance evaluations.
Collected: No. - Category J: Non-public education information (per the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. Section 1232g, 34 C.F.R. Part 99)).
Examples: Education records directly related to a student maintained by an educational institution or party acting on its behalf, such as grades, transcripts, class lists, student schedules, student identification codes, student financial information, or student disciplinary records.
Collected: No. - Category K: Inferences drawn from other personal information.
Examples: Profile reflecting a person’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.
Collected: No.
Under CCPA, personal information does not include:
- Publicly available information from government records
- Deidentified or aggregated consumer information
- Information excluded from the CCPA’s scope, such as:
- Health or medical information covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (CMIA) or clinical trial data
- Personal Information covered by certain sector-specific privacy laws, including the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FRCA), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) or California Financial Information Privacy Act (FIPA), and the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act of 1994.
Your Rights under the CCPA
The CCPA provides California residents with specific rights regarding their personal information. If You are a resident of California, You have the following rights:
- The right to notice. You have the right to be notified which categories of Personal Data are being collected and the purposes for which the Personal Data is being used.
- The right to request. Under CCPA, you have the right to request that we disclose information to you about our collection, use, sale, disclosure for business purposes and share of personal information. Once we receive and confirm your request, we will disclose to you:
- The categories of personal information we collected about you.
- The categories of sources for the personal information we collected about you.
- Our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling that personal information.
- The categories of third parties with whom we share that personal information.
- The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you.
- If we sold your personal information or disclose your personal information for a business purpose, we will disclose to you:
- The categories of personal information categories sold.
- The categories of personal information categories disclosed.
- The right to say no to the sale of Personal Data (opt-out). You have the right to direct us to not sell Your personal information. To submit an opt-out request please contact us.
- The right to delete Personal Data. You have the right to request the deletion of your Personal Data, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your request, We will delete (and direct Our Service Providers to delete) your personal information from our records, unless an exception applies. We may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or Our Service Providers to:
- Complete the transaction for which we collected the personal information, provide a good or service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with You, or otherwise perform our contract with you.
- Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities.
- Debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
- Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law.
- Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 1546 et. seq.).
- Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when the information’s deletion may likely render impossible or seriously impair the research’s achievement if you previously provided informed consent.
- Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on your relationship with us.
- Comply with a legal obligation.
- Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it.
- The right not to be discriminated against. You have the right not to be discriminated against for exercising any of your consumer’s rights, including by:
- The right not to be discriminated against.
- Charging different prices or rates for goods or services, including the use of discounts or other benefits or imposing penalties.
- Providing a different level or quality of goods or services to you.
- Suggesting that you will receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.
Children’s privacy
Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If We become aware that We have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from Our servers.
If we need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your information and your country requires consent from a parent, we may require Your parent’s consent before we collect and use that information.
Processing of personal data
Let’s now talk about the «meat» of the matter, personal data, and what is done with it.
What is personal data?
Article 3 of the LOPD defines personal data as “any information concerning identified or identifiable natural persons.”
In addition, there is the various pieces of information that, when collected, can lead to the identification of a specific person. These also constitute personal data.
More obvious examples are a person’s name or ID, but email or even an IP address used at a given time are also considered personal data (although this last example is more debated as to whether it can really be considered personal data).
Why is this data collected?
The collection of personal data on the Internet is simply inevitable on any interactive site (with comments, contact forms, etc.).
That is to say, a simple comment on the blog, by storing your name (so that we can address each other in the comments) on the blog, we are collecting personal data for the purposes of the law. With that alone we are already fully in compliance with the corresponding legal obligations.
The purposes for which this data is collected here are three :
- Make a blog commenting system possible.
- Allow you to contact us through our contact forms .
- Acquire products or services from pfg architecture .
What types of data are collected? Purpose and legitimacy
In general terms, the personal data collected is stored in a file with the exclusive purpose of sending electronic communications related to the website’s own activity.
The data collected are identifying data and correspond to a reasonable minimum to be able to carry out the activity carried out. In particular, no specially protected data is collected at any time.
This means that they will be used for issues such as notifications of new articles and new comments on the blog, commercial offers, events and, in general, any information that pfg arquitectura considers of interest to its users.
Specifically, in this blog we collect four different types of personal data:
- Your name and surname : in comments and contact forms.
- Your email : in comments and contact forms. Essential to be able to communicate with you.
- Your IP address : This data is collected by WordPress itself. It is also useful data for combating spam. Unless you also have a highly visible blog, you can’t even imagine the spam we receive every day.
- Specific interests : In our email list we try to segment the members as best as possible to find out your specific interests within the global theme of architecture. This allows us to offer you information that is much better tailored to what you really want to receive and to avoid you receiving emails of little interest, while providing us with valuable statistical information to find out what pfg architecture readers are asking for .
How long is this data retained?
There is no predetermined expiration date for the data collected. Personal data is deleted at the request of the interested parties .
Anti-spam policy
We would also like to express from here our absolute rejection of the sending of unsolicited commercial communications or any type of conduct or manifestation known as «spam» and we declare ourselves committed to the fight against this type of practice.
Therefore, we guarantee the user that under no circumstances will the personal data collected on the website be transferred, shared, or sold to any third party, unless expressly desired by the interested party (see rights below).
In the event that a user still receives communications from this website without having registered, or without having given their express consent to said registration, they can unsubscribe with a simple click from any email received (all include the unsubscribe button).
Security Measures
PFG arquitectura has adopted technical, organizational and security measures that guarantee the confidentiality, integrity and quality of the information contained therein, in accordance with the provisions of current data protection regulations.
In particular, on all pfg arquitectura websites, communication between the user and the server is carried out using encrypted data using the HTTPS protocol, which represents the highest level of protection for user confidentiality that can be implemented at the present time.
User rights and how to exercise them
In accordance with the provisions of the European GDPR and the Spanish LOPD, the user may at any time exercise their rights of access , rectification , cancellation , and opposition to the provider .
To facilitate the exercise of these rights, an unsubscribe button is provided in all communications, which will result in the immediate elimination of the user’s personal data from the email marketing provider’s database.
You can request to unsubscribe from our account, as well as any other actions, through the contact form on the website, both to communicate what happened and to request the immediate deletion of your data from our system.
We do not undertake to exercise all of these rights within the maximum legal period established of 10 business days . In practice, we will do so much sooner, since we have no interest in having your data if you do not want us to.
1. Access
The right of access is the right of the affected party to obtain information on whether their own personal data are being processed, the purpose of the processing that, if applicable, is being carried out, as well as the information available on the origin of said data and the communications made or planned thereof.
2. Rectification
The right to rectification means that the interested party can request that data that is found to be inaccurate or incomplete be modified.
3. Cancellation
This is the right of the affected party to have data that is found to be inadequate or excessive deleted and is closely related to the so-called “right to be forgotten” (see below).
4. Opposition
The right to object refers to the right of the interested party to prevent the processing of their personal data or to stop the processing in cases where their consent is not necessary for the processing, in the case of commercial prospecting files or in the case of files intended to make decisions regarding the interested party and based solely on the automated processing of their data.
5. Portability and non-limitation of processing
This right means that you can request your data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, provided that it is technically possible to satisfy your request.
It is Spanish, this means that you can ask us for your data in common office formats such as Excel or CSV, for example.
In the case of this website, the data is so few and trivial that you probably won’t see the point. However, you can do it if you want.
6. Right to be forgotten
The right to be forgotten is a new, somewhat more complex concept in the GDPR that primarily affects websites that publicly display your data, i.e. websites such as social networks and various Google platforms.
Applied to our case, it is specified in the right to the cancellation of your data (in the case of the mailing list) and the deletion of your comments in the comments area if you so wish.