Architect Capital Corp. and its affiliates (“Architect,” “we,” “us” or “our”) recognizes the importance of protecting the privacy of our online visitors. It is our intent to balance our legitimate business interests in collecting and using information received from and about you with your reasonable expectations of privacy. The following privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) explains how we collect and use personal data (as defined below) from and about you through your interactions with us, including your interactions with this website (the “Site”). When you submit information to or through the Site, you consent to the collection and processing of your information as described in this Privacy Policy. By using the Site, you accept the terms of this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use, and consent to our collection, use, disclosure and retention of your information as described in this Privacy Policy. Please review this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use carefully.
Personal Information
Architect may collect personally identifiable information (“PII”) from you through the Site when you contact us through the Site’s contact links, including information such as your name, address, email address, phone number, or other information you choose to provide to us. This information is collected and stored electronically when you submit it to us.
How Information is Used
- to fulfil your requests; and
- to communicate with you.
Sharing of Information
With Third Party Service Providers Performing Services on Our Behalf. We share your personal information with our service providers to perform the functions for which we engage them. For example, we may use third parties to host the Site or assist us in providing functionality on the Site, provide data analysis and research Site, to send out email updates about the Site or remove repetitive information from our user lists.
For Legal Purposes. We also may share information that we collect from users as needed to enforce our rights, protect our property or protect the rights, property or safety of others, or as needed to support external auditing, compliance and corporate governance functions. We will disclose personal information as we deem necessary to respond to a subpoena, regulation, binding order of a data protection agency, legal process, governmental request or other legal or regulatory process. We may also share personal information as required to pursue available remedies or limit damages we may sustain.
Changes of Control. We may transfer information, including your personal information, in connection with a change of ownership or control by or of us or any affiliated entity (in each case whether in whole or in part).
Architect does not share your personal information with third parties for those third parties’ marketing purposes.
Security Used & Retention of Personal Information
Architect uses reasonable security measures designed to prevent unauthorized intrusion to the Site and the alteration, acquisition or misuse of personal information, however, we will not be responsible for loss, corruption or unauthorized acquisition or misuse of personal information that you provide through the Site that is stored by us, or for any damages resulting from such loss, corruption or unauthorized acquisition or misuse. Architect will retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected, or as required by applicable laws or regulation.
Links to External Websites
Our Site contains links to third party websites. Any access to and use of such third-party websites is not governed by this Privacy Policy, but instead is governed by the privacy policies of those third-party websites, and we are not responsible for the information practices of such third-party websites.
Cookies and Similar Technologies
Cookies are small text files that are stored in your computer’s memory and hard drive, in your mobile device or tablet when you visit certain web pages. They are used to enable websites to function or to provide information to the owners of a website, or other third parties which receive data obtained from that website. Currently, our website does not use cookies or similar tracking technologies. Please note that some of our third party service providers may use cookies and similar technologies to support our operations. These entities may be collecting such information in order to provide services to or for us. You should be aware that these third party services providers may have different privacy policies and information security practices, as such, we encourage you to read the privacy statements provided by other websites before you provide personal data to them.
Children
Our services are not directed at individuals under the age of 18. We do not knowingly solicit or collect personal data from children under the age of 18. If we become aware that a child under 18 has provided us personal data, we will delete such data from our files. As a parent or guardian, if you become aware that your child has provided us with personal data, please contact us at the email address or telephone number provided at the end of this Privacy Policy and we will delete your child’s personal data within a reasonable time.
Your Privacy Rights
Pursuant to various state laws, you may have the right, subject to certain limitations, to: (i) request access to PII we hold about you; and (ii) request that we delete your PII. You may also have the right request the categories of personal information we have collected about you, the categories of sources where we collected such personal information, the purpose for such collection, and the third parties (if any) with which we have shared such personal information.
All requests should be made using the contact details set out below. Please note that if you request that your PII be deleted, you may no longer be able to access or use certain parts of the Site. We will respond to your request in writing, or orally if requested, as soon as practicable and in any event not more than within one month after receipt of your request. We may extend this period by 45 days and we will tell you why. We may request proof of identification to verify your request. For more details in relation to your rights, including how to exercise them, please contact us using the contact details set out in the section below. We are committed to providing you with control over your personal information. If you exercise any of the rights explained in this Privacy Policy, we will not disadvantage you.
Questions and Changes in Information
If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy or to request changes to your personal data, please email us at info@architectcap.io.
FOR CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS ONLY
This PRIVACY NOTICE FOR CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS supplements the information contained in the Privacy Policy and applies solely to users who reside in the State of California (“you”). We adopt this notice to comply with the amended California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”), The California Privacy Rights Act (the “CPRA”) and other California privacy laws. Any terms defined in the CCPA and/or the CPRA have the same meaning when used in this notice.
Categories of Personal Information That We Collect
During our communication with you via texts, calls, emails we might collect the below mentioned categories of personal information. This information might also be collected if you visit our website. Note that the categories listed below are defined by California state law. Inclusion of a category in the list below indicates only that, depending on the services we provide you, we may collect some information within that category. It does not necessarily mean that we collect all information listed in a particular category.
- Identifiers. A real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, Social Security number, driver’s license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers.
- Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)). 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.
- Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law. 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).
- Commercial information. Records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.
- Internet or other similar network activity. Browsing history, search history, information on a consumer’s interaction with a website, application, or advertisement.
- Geolocation data. Physical location or movements.
- Professional or employment- related information. Current or past job history or performance evaluations.
- Inferences drawn from other personal information. Profile reflecting a person’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.
How We Use the Information We Collect
We may use the information we collect from you to:
- provide services to you;
- bill/invoice you;
- complete corporate transactions;
- manage any accounts that you may have with us;
- validate your identity;
- send personalized marketing messages via email, post and telephone to you. Where required by applicable law, we will send these messages with your consent, and you have the right to opt out of receiving marketing by contacting us;
- serve relevant advertising on our site and third-party sites related to our products and services which are personalized to your interests;
- provide you with notice of product releases, special events, trainings, promotions or other matters relevant to you;
- respond to your inquiries;
- improve the services you receive from us;
- solicit your feedback;
- prevent you from having to re-enter personal information about you on future visits to our websites or subsequent use of our applications;
- process your payments and purchases;
- operate, evaluate and improve our business (including developing new products and services; enhancing and improving our services; managing our communications; performing data analytics; and performing accounting, auditing and other internal functions);
- provide technical support/ answer your questions via Zoom calls;
- detect and prevent fraud and other unauthorized activity and enforce our terms of use; and
- comply with applicable legal requirements, relevant industry standards and our policies.
We will only use your personal information for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose.
How Long We Keep Personal Information
At a minimum, we will keep personal information about you for as long as we have a relationship with you, for example as long as you are a customer (and for a reasonable period thereafter). When determining how long to retain personal information after we no longer have a relationship with you, we take into account how long our customers usually want to continue hearing from us, our legal and regulatory obligations the expectations of regulators, as well as the length of time information is needed for internal audit purposes and to exercise or defend our legal rights.
- Retention in case of queries. We may retain your personal information for a reasonable period in case of follow up queries from you.
- Retention in case of claims. We may retain your personal information for the period in which you might legally bring claims against us (this means we will retain it in line with relevant limitation periods, which are applicable to your jurisdiction)
- Retention in accordance with legal and regulatory requirements. We will consider whether we need to retain your personal information after the period of retention in the case of queries or claims because of a legal or regulatory requirement.
- Retention permitted under applicable law. We will continue to retain personal information where necessary to provide our services to you and the retention of such personal information is necessary for the purposes of pursuing our legitimate interests or where it is necessary for public interest purposes.
We review our retention periods for Personal Information on a regular basis, and all data is retained in compliance with applicable data protection law. We will only permanently retain certain basic Personal Information, for limited purposes. This is in relation to retaining basic contact details, to keep a record that you were a customer, in case you return in future, or where you have asked us not to contact you again.
Your Rights
Subject to our regulatory and legal obligations, you may beentitled to certain rights, which can include:
- Where our use of your personal information requires consent, you may withdraw this consent at any time;
- You may request access to your personal information we hold about you and obtain information about how we process it. Depending on the applicable privacy laws, you may be entitled to request the categories and specific pieces of personal information that we have collected about you, the categories of sources from which the personal information was collected, the purposes of collecting the personal information, the categories of third parties we have shared the personal information with, and the categories of personal information that have been shared with third parties for a business purpose;
- You may update, correct or amend the personal information we hold about you if it is wrong;
- You may ask us to change, restrict or stop the way in which we communicate with you or process personal information about you;
- You may ask us to delete your personal information;
- You have rights in relation to automated decision making, including profiling which has a legal effect, or which causes a significant effect;
- You may ask us to move, copy or transfer your personal information;
- You may object to our processing of your personal information; and
- You may opt out of the sale of personal information—however, for purposes of California law, we do not sell your personal information to third parties, nor do we intend to, as those terms are defined by California privacy law. In addition, we have contracts with our service providers to prohibit any sale of the personal information we provide them; but if you have any concerns that our third parties might be selling your information, please contact us.
Disclosure
Architect is a Registered Investment Adviser with the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission. Registration does not imply a certain level of skill or training. Information presented is for informational purposes only and does not intend to make an offer or solicitation for the sale or purchase of any securities. Architect's website and its associated links offer news, commentary, and generalized research, not personalized investment advice. Nothing on this website should be interpreted to state or imply that past performance is an indication of future performance. All investments involve risk and unless otherwise stated, are not guaranteed. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Be sure to consult with a tax professional before implementing any investment strategy.
Last Updated; Notification of Changes
This Privacy Policy was last updated on September 16, 2024 and may change from time to time. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will be posted to this page so users are always aware of the information we collect and how we use it. Accordingly, please refer back to this Privacy Policy frequently as it may change.
