Overview

This Privacy Policy describes how Samurai Venture SL (“we,” “us,” “our” or “Global Architect”) maintains, uses and shares information that we may collect when you use our websites (the “Sites”) or communicate with us. Please read all sections of the Legal Notice, Cookie Policy and this Privacy Policy before using this website.

We do not collect, use, or disclose any information about users of our Sites except as described in this Privacy Policy.

In accordance with the provisions of EU Regulation 2016/679, of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 (RGPD) and Organic Law 3/2018, of 5 December, on the Protection of Personal Data and guarantee of digital rights, Global Architect, informs you that, by accepting this Privacy Policy, you give your express, informed, free and unequivocal consent for the Data you provide, and on which the security, technical and organizational measures provided for in the current regulations are applied, to be processed by Global Architect as the data controller.

 

Who is responsible for this website?

Responsible Entity: Samurai Venture, S.L.

Trade name: Global Architect

VAT/CIF: ESB95986014

Address: Lubarrietaondo 48, 48110, Gatika

Email: support @globalarchitect.pro

Activity: Online marketing

Contact details of representative or data protection officer if applicable: support @globalarchitect.pro

 

What information we collect and how we use it

Some of the information you provide to us, such as your name, company name, postal address, email address, credit card information or telephone number, may allow you to be identified. We call this kind of information “Personally Identifiable Information.” We may use your Personally Identifiable Information for the purpose of communicating with you, responding to your inquiries, providing service updates, delivering promotions, sending you e-newsletters, and as otherwise detailed below in this Privacy Policy.

For the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, Global Architect collects and processes the Personal Data detailed below, which will depend on the different products or services you request on this website:

• Identifying data: name, surname.
• Contact data: postal address, e-mail address.
• Contractual data: data of contractual operations, DNI, products and services acquired, financial operations, payment data.
• Navigation data: IP address, type and identification of the device, type of browser, domain through which you access the Website, navigation data, activity on the Website.

 

When You Register: When you register to create an account on one of our Sites, you will be asked to provide your name and email address, along with a password. You will also have the opportunity, but will not be required, to answer certain survey questions (e.g., whether you are a professional builder, when you expect to start your project, and what Zip code you are building in).

When You Make a Purchase: When you make a purchase on any of the Sites, you will need to provide your name, phone number, postal address and the number, expiration date and CCV Code of your credit card. In addition, you may, but are not required to, provide the name of your company. We use this information to fulfill, and communicate with you regarding your order.

When You Choose to Provide Information: We may give you the opportunity to voluntarily provide us with your Personally Identifiable Information and other data for specified purposes. For example, if we receive your permission, we may provide this information to companies for the purpose of marketing products or services that may be of interest to you.

When You Respond to Surveys: We may ask you to complete surveys or opinion polls from time to time. Participation is voluntary. We only use the information that we collect from surveys in an aggregate manner, not in individually identifiable form.

When You Provide Your Phone Number: If you supply us with your telephone number, we may call you with information regarding orders you have placed online. We may also call you about new products and services or upcoming events. If you do not wish to receive such telephone calls, please let us know by sending an email with your name, phone number, and mailing address to us here.

When You Make an Inquiry: If you send us a comment or question or make an inquiry to customer support, we will retain the information that you provide to us for the purpose of responding to your communication, as well as for improving the Sites.

When You Make a Comment:  When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. If you submit a comment to a blog or other public forum on a Site, all the information you provide will be available to other users of the forums. We have no control over how others use that information and you should consider this when posting information.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

When You’re Just Visiting: If you are just visiting the Sites and not registering, requesting information, making a purchase or contacting us, we do not ordinarily collect any Personally Identifiable Information from you; however, we do collection information from all visitors through web logs, as described below.

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.

 

On what legal basis are these data processed? 

We process your personal data on the following legal bases:

• The execution of a contract with Global Architect for the contracting of services, publishing advertisements and managing the requested services.
• The consent of the user in relation to contact, subscription to content and sending commercial communications via email, cookies or messaging systems.
• The legitimate interest of the data controller to protect users of the Global Architect website from abuse and fraud in the use of our services.

 

Ways we collection information automatically

Web Logs: We maintain web logs that automatically record basic information about everyone who visits the Sites. We use web log information to help us design our Sites, to identify popular features, to improve our services, and for other managerial and analytic purposes. We may also use web logs to help identify someone who may be misusing the Sites. These logs contain:

• Your Internet Protocol (IP) address.
• The type of browser and operating system that you use.
• The date and time you visited a Site.
• The pages that you visited on a Site.
• The address of the website you linked from to get to a Site.

Cookies: We use HTML cookies, Flash cookies (also known as Local Shared Objects), web beacons and/or similar technologies to help you navigate the Sites, to allow us to learn how you use the Sites, and to improve the Sites.

Cookies are text files we place in your computer’s browser to store your preferences. Cookies, by themselves, do not reveal any Personally Identifiable Information unless you choose to provide this information to us by, for example, registering or making a purchase at our Sites. However, once you choose to provide Personally Identifiable Information to the Sites, this information may be linked to the data stored in the cookie. If you decide not to permit cookies on your computer, this may affect your ability to use the Sites.

We also use Flash cookies for fraud prevention and other purposes. Flash cookies are small data files that a website stores on your computer. These files may contain information about your online browsing activities and preferences. The Help feature on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. Flash cookies are not stored in the same manner as conventional cookies, and not all browser versions will delete Flash cookies when you clear conventional cookies from your browser. If you wish to block or delete Flash cookies, you should confirm whether your browser version supports this feature. You may also use Adobe’s Flash Player Settings Manager to control how your computer handles Flash cookies.

We partner with Microsoft Clarity and Microsoft Advertising to capture how you use and interact with our website through behavioral metrics, heatmaps, and session replay to improve and market our products/services. Website usage data is captured using first and third-party cookies and other tracking technologies to determine the popularity of products/services and online activity. Additionally, we use this information for site optimization, fraud/security purposes, and advertising. For more information about how Microsoft collects and uses your data, visit the Microsoft Privacy Statement.

Third-Party Cookies: We sometimes allow other companies to set and read cookies on our Sites. These cookies are used to track the effectiveness of ads, to permit companies to show you ads that are relevant to you and for other purposes. The use of cookies by our partners and service providers is not covered by our Privacy Policy. We do not have access to, or control over, these cookies.

Beacons: We use web beacons alone or in combination with cookies to compile information about how people use our Sites and interact with our emails. Beacons are clear electronic images that can recognize certain types of information on your computer, such as cookies, when you viewed a particular Site tied to the beacon, and a description of a Site tied to the beacon. For example, we may place beacons in marketing emails that notify us when you click on a link in the email that directs you to one of our Sites. We use beacons to operate and improve Global Architect’s websites and email communications.

 

How we share your information

In addition to the uses described above, we may also disclose Personally Identifiable Information to others under the following circumstances:

When You Consent: If you expressly request, or agree, that we may share Personally Identifiable Information, as in the case of sales of leads, we will do so in the specified manner.

When we Use Service Providers: We may contract with third party service providers to perform functions for us. These service providers may be given access to the information we collect for the purpose of performing those functions, but they will be contractually bound to maintain the confidentiality of the information and not to use it for any other purpose.

If We Transfer our Business or Assets: If we were to transfer all or substantially all of our assets to another company, one of the assets we would likely include in the transfer is our database of Personally Identifiable Information.

When we are Legally Required or in Order to Protect Rights, Persons or Property: We will disclose Personally Identifiable Information when we are required to do so by law, regulation or securities exchange requirement, for example in response to a court order or subpoena. We also may disclose such information in response to a law enforcement agency’s request or when we believe such disclosure is appropriate to protect our legal rights or to safeguard anyone’s property or safety. In the unlikely event of our bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, receivership, or assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the application of laws or equitable principles affecting creditors rights generally, we may not be able to control how your Personally Identifiable Information is treated, transferred, or used. Therefore, you should know that in such event, your Personally Identifiable Information may be treated like any other asset of Global Architect, and sold, transferred or shared with third parties, or used in ways not contemplated or permitted hereunder, without notice to you or your consent.

 

How you can manage information we collect

If, at any point after giving us your Personally Identifiable Information, you do not wish to continue to receive additional information or be contacted with updates about our services, or you would like to access your registration information to correct or delete it, please let us know by sending an email with your name, phone number, and mailing address to us here. In the case of our email newsletters, you also may follow the procedures included in the removal instructions in each newsletter, or by updating your Account Preferences. We will endeavor to satisfy such requests within a reasonable time. Note that we may not be able to provide you with our services if we delete your information. We take reasonable steps to ensure that the information we collect is reliable for its intended use, accurate, complete and current.

 

How We Safeguard Your Information

We maintain all Personally Identifiable Information with physical, electronic, and managerial safeguards to help ensure the security and confidentiality of the data against reasonably foreseeable risks. Security is designed to prevent unauthorized use, access, disclosure, destruction, and changes of data. For example, we restrict access to our computing facilities to individuals identified by management as needing access to perform their jobs. Be aware, however, that, even with reasonable safeguards, there is no way to guarantee the security of data.

 

Who May Use The Sites

The Sites are intended for use only by adults. We do not target, or knowingly collect any Personally Identifiable Information from, anyone under the age of 18.

 

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

Customer Data: The period of conservation of personal data will vary depending on the service that the Client contracts. In any case, it will be the minimum necessary, and may be kept up to:

• 4 years: Law on Infractions and Penalties in the Social Order (obligations regarding affiliation, registrations, cancellations, contributions, payment of salaries…); Arts. 66 et seq. General Tax Law (accounting books…).
• 5 years: Art. 1964 of the Civil Code (personal actions without special term).
• 6 years: Art. 30 of the Commercial Code (accounting books, invoices…).
• 10 years: Art. 25 of the Law for the Prevention of Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism.

 

Subscriber data: From the time the user subscribes until the user unsubscribes.

Data of potential customers: the data will be kept in any case for the duration of the business relationship established and, once concluded, two years, unless the user requests its deletion before.

 

Your Consent

By using any of the Company’s Websites you consent to our collection and use of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy.

 

Data Subject’s Rights

Any person has the right to obtain confirmation as to whether or not Global Architect is processing personal data concerning him/her.

Under the GDPR you can request:

• Right of information: you can request information about those personal data we have about you.
  
  
• Right of rectification: you can communicate any change in your personal data.
  
  
• Right to erasure and to be forgotten: you can request the prior blocking of the deletion of personal data.
  
  
• Right to limitation of processing: this is to restrict the processing of your personal data.
  
  
• Right to data portability: in some cases, you may request a copy of the personal data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format for transmission to another data controller.
  
  
• Right to object and automated individual decision-making: you may request that decisions based solely on automated processing, including profiling, that produce legal effects or significantly affect the data subject not be made.

 

If you have given your consent for any specific purpose, you have the right to withdraw the consent given at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of the processing based on the consent prior to its withdrawal. In case you feel that your rights concerning the protection of your personal data have been violated, especially when you have not obtained satisfaction in the exercise of your rights, you can file a complaint with the competent Data Protection Supervisory Authority through its website: https://www.aepd.es/es.

To exercise these rights, you can write to support @globalarchitect.pro

There is a form for the exercise of your rights, you can request it by email or if you prefer, you can use those prepared by the Spanish Data Protection Agency or third parties.

These forms must be signed electronically or be accompanied by a photocopy of your ID.

If you are represented by someone, you must attach a copy of your DNI, or it must be signed with your electronic signature.

The forms can be submitted in person, sent by letter or by mail to the address of the person responsible that appears at the beginning of this text.

In some cases, the request may be denied if you request the deletion of data necessary for compliance with legal obligations. Also, if you have a complaint about data processing, you can file a complaint with the competent data protection authority.

 

Choice / Opt-out

You may choose to stop receiving our newsletter or marketing emails at any time, by following the unsubscribe instructions included in any of our emails, by updating your communications preferences, or you can contact us via support @globalarchitect.pro

 

Testimonials

If you provide us with a testimonial, you give us your consent for the use of your name and the Service to be displayed on any of our Websites, or in our other marketing materials, together with the content of the testimonial that you provide.

 

When You Link to Other Websites

Articles 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.

Our Sites include links to other websites whose privacy practices may differ from our own. Collection and use of your information on those websites is not governed by this Privacy Policy. We encourage you to carefully read the privacy policies of any websites you visit.

 

Remarketing

GOOGLE ADS

Google Ads is a Google platform for ADVERTISERS who want to advertise on GOOGLE. Global Architect uses Google Ads, Google’s advertising platform that allows you to create campaigns and ads to display on other websites. When generating an ad, you can segment the audience by:

• Location
• Demographics (age, gender, etc.)
• Interests (activities, hobbies, etc.)
• What they buy online and through other channels.
• Etc.

 

The data obtained through Google Ads are subject to this privacy policy from the moment the user leaves their data in the form on this website to join the newsletter subscriptions. In no case will the information from Google be used for any other purpose.

FACEBOOK ADS

Facebook Ads allows you to segment the audience to target an ad. So yes, this website also uses Facebook Ads.
Thanks to Facebook’s Custom Audiences feature, an audience can be created from data of users and subscribers of this website, such as email addresses and phone numbers. To do this, databases need to be shared with Facebook to subsequently create custom audiences by targeting ads to people with similar profiles.

No sensitive personal information is used for the targeting of ads in accordance with Facebook Policies and will not be shared with third parties or other advertisers, and will be deleted by Facebook upon completion of this process. In addition, Facebook will be responsible for ensuring confidentiality.

The ad system designed by Facebook allows showing relevant and useful ads without revealing your identity to advertisers, being able to reach groups of people with specific profiles.

At any time as a user, you can revoke your consent through https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=ads, where you can configure the receipt of ads. You can also indicate that you do not want interest-based ads from Facebook, or other companies, through the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance (EDAA) of Your On Line Choices (https://www.youronlinechoices.com/es/) or in the settings of your computer or your mobile device.

To use the custom audiences feature, this website uses Facebook’s Website Custom Audience tool, which makes use of the Facebook pixel that tags the visitor of this website in an anonymized form. If you wish to object to the use of Facebook’s Website Custom Audiences, you have the possibility to do so at: https://www.facebook.com/ads/website_custom_audiences/.

For more information on the scope and purpose of data collection by Facebook and its further processing, as well as to configure your privacy you should go to the following links:
https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation.

Facebook conversion tracking pixel

For the optimization of the advertising campaigns of the ads that are published on Facebook, and for statistical purposes, the conversion tracking pixel of Facebook Inc. is used, 1601 s. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, which tracks users’ actions after clicking on an ad.

The data obtained through such pixel is anonymous and does not refer to identified natural persons, nor is it stored, nor are profiles created with your personal data.This data may be stored and processed by Facebook, and Facebook may link this data to your Facebook account and also use it for its own advertising purposes in accordance with Facebook’s data usage policy, which you will find at https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/, recently updated at https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update.

You may enable Facebook and its partners to insert advertisements on and off Facebook, and for these purposes a cookie may be stored on your computer.

TWITTER ADS

At Global Architect we use Twitter Ads, Twitter’s advertising platform, which allows us to create campaigns and ads. When generating an ad, you can segment the audience by:

• Location
• Demographics (age, gender, etc.)
• Interests (activities, hobbies, etc.)
• What they buy online and through other channels.
• Etc.

 

The data obtained through Twitter Ads are subject to this privacy policy from the moment the user leaves their data in the form on this website to join the newsletter subscriptions. In no case will the information from Twitter be used for a different purpose.

LINKEDIN ADS

We use LinkedIn Ads, the LinkedIn advertising platform that allows us to create campaigns and ads. When generating an ad, you can segment the audience by:

• Location
• Demographics (age, gender, etc.)
• Interests (activities, hobbies, etc.)
• What they buy online and through other channels.
• Etc.

 

The data obtained through LinkedIn Ads are subject to this privacy policy from the moment the user leaves their data in the form on this website to join the newsletter subscriptions. In no case will the information from LinkedIn be used for any other purpose.

 

Data breach

Security Notification and Breach Statement

Global Architect takes security measures appropriate to the level of risk to protect personal information from loss, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction, taking into account the risks involved in processing and the nature of the personal information; however, if Global Architect, determines that your service data has been misappropriated (including by a Global Architect employee) exposed by a security breach or improperly acquired by a third party, Global Architect will promptly inform you of such security breach, misappropriation or misacquisition.

In particular, the website is secured with a TLS certificate with RSA encryption, which means that all information sent to the website is encrypted with an HTTPS protocol.

 

To whom will your information be disclosed?

Many tools used on this website to manage data are contracted by third parties. To provide services strictly necessary for the development of the activity, Global Architect shares data with the following providers under their corresponding privacy conditions:

• ActiveCampaign, Inc. domiciled in the USA. ActiveCampaign, Inc. treats the data in order to perform its email marketing services to Global Architect according to its privacy policy. The electronic newsletters or Newsletter are managed by ActiveCampaign. When using the services of this platform to carry out email marketing campaigns, manage subscriptions and send newsletters, you should know that ActiveCampaing servers are hosted outside the EU, in the USA.
  
  
• Analysis service: Google Analytics: a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. a Delaware company whose principal office is at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View (California), CA 94043, United States (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help globalarchitect.pro analyze how users use the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of globalarchitect.pro (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States.
  
  
• Stripe, Inc. I use Stripe to handle payments on my website. Stripe provides services that enable platforms and merchants to operate businesses and conduct online payment transactions securely. The legal basis for the transfer of the data is Art. 6 para 1 letter a) GDPR (consent) and Art. 6 para 1 letter b) GDPR (processing for the performance of a contract) Stripe complies with applicable laws to provide an adequate level of data protection for the transfer of your Personal Data to the U.S. Stripe Inc. is certified under the EU-U.S. and Switzerland-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework. EU-US and Switzerland-US Privacy Protection Framework. USA. For more information, please see Stripe’s Privacy Protection Policy.
  
  
• Holded. We use Holded to manage invoices, accounting and taxation for our website. You can check their Privacy Policy here.

 

They are all third party service providers (e.g., payment processing services, order processing, analytics, marketing campaign management, website management, and email distribution and other similar service providers), so that they may perform business functions on behalf of Global Architect.

The web development and maintenance company, or the hosting company, may have occasional access to this site. They have signed a service provision contract that obliges them to maintain the same level of privacy that applies to the processing carried out on this website. These companies are:

• Hosting: Plesk.com, more information at https://www.plesk.com/
  
  
• Web platform: WordPress.org more information at https://wordpress.org/ treats the data with the purpose of carrying out its support services to globalarchitect.pro

 

Any international transfer of data derived from the use of tools or service providers, will be adhered to the Privacy Shield agreement, which guarantees that American software companies comply with European data protection policies regarding privacy, secrecy and data security.

 

Our Commitment to Accountability

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.

We are committed to adhering to our Privacy Policy and applicable laws and to making your online experience secure and useful. At any time you can exercise your rights of access, rectification, cancellation and / or opposition, in accordance with current legislation, by sending a written request to Samurai Venture SL, c/ Lubarrietaondo 48, 48110 Gatika (Bizkaia), or by writing an email to support @globalarchitect.pro; accompanying the request for a copy of your ID or any other official document that identifies you, in order to verify your identity and prevent third parties from having access to your personal data in an improper manner. We will work with you to obtain a prompt resolution of any issues you may have.

 

Modification of the Privacy Policy

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any such changes will be posted here. If we make a material change in the way we use your information, we will prominently note the change on our Sites.

This policy was last updated on June 16, 2023.