The security of the collected data is important to us, and we will implement appropriate security measures to prevent loss, alteration, and unauthorized access to this data.
General provisions.
The personal data processing policy has been developed in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and establishes the procedure for processing personal data, with measures to ensure the security of data obtained by MOA Architects and Engineers (hereinafter referred to as the operator) through the website.
1.1. The operator sets as its most important objective and condition the respect for human rights and freedoms when processing personal data, including the protection of the rights to privacy, personal, and family secrets.
1.2. The operator’s policy regarding the processing of personal data (hereinafter referred to as the policy) applies to all information that the operator may obtain about the users of the https://moalondon.com/ website.
2. Basic concepts used.
To ensure convenient and easy understanding, we would like to explain the terminology used first. In this policy, we use, among others, the following terms:
2.1. Website — a set of graphic and informational materials available on the internet at https://moalondon.com/;
2.2. User — any visitor of the https://moalondon.com/ website;
2.3. Data subject — any identified or identifiable natural person whose personal data is processed by the responsible controller;
2.4. Controller — a state body, a municipal body, a legal or natural person, acting alone or jointly with others, which organizes and / or processes personal data and determines the purposes of the personal data processing to be carried out;
2.5. Personal data information system — a set of personal data contained in databases that provide their processing;
2.6. Personal data — any information directly or indirectly related to a specific or identifiable user (“data subject”) of the https://moalondon.com/ website.
2.7. Processing of personal data — any action (operation) or set of actions (operations), whether obtained by automated means, such as collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, retrieval, consultation, disclosure by transmission, alignment or combination, updating or modification, extraction, use, transfer (distribution, provision, access), restriction, blocking, deletion or destruction of personal data;
2.8. Provision of personal data — actions aimed at disclosing personal data to a specific person or a specific group of people;
2.9. Blocking of personal data — the temporary cessation of processing personal data (except in cases where processing is necessary for clarifying personal data);
2.10. Deletion or destruction of personal data — actions by which personal data is irreversibly destroyed, with no possibility of restoring its content in the personal data information system.
2.11. Monitoring behavior — any form of automated processing of personal data that involves the use of personal data to evaluate certain personal aspects regarding an individual, especially to analyze or predict aspects related to the individual’s performance at work, economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behavior, location, or movements;
2.12. Pseudonymization — the processing of personal data in such a way that they can no longer be attributed to the data subject without the use of additional information, provided that such additional information is kept separately and is subject to technical and organizational measures to ensure that the personal data is not attributed to an identified or identifiable individual.
2.13. Data processing controller — a natural or legal person, public authority, agency, or other body that, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of processing personal data; where the purposes and means of such processing are determined by Union law or the law of a Member State, the controller or the specific criteria for its appointment may be provided for by Union law or the law of a Member State;
2.14. Data processor — a natural or legal person, public authority, agency, or other body that processes personal data on behalf of the controller;
2.15. Recipient — a natural or legal person, public authority, agency, or other body to whom personal data is disclosed, whether it is a third party or not.
However, public authorities that may receive personal data in the course of an investigation in accordance with Union or Member State law are not considered recipients; the processing of such data by the respective public authorities must comply with applicable data protection rules in accordance with the purposes of the processing;
2.16. Third party — a natural or legal person, public authority, agency, or body, apart from the data subject, controller, processor, and persons who, under the direct authority of the controller or processor, are authorized to process personal data;
2.17. Consent — the data subject’s consent is any specific, informed, and unambiguous indication of the data subject’s wishes by which he or she, by a statement or by a clear affirmative action, agrees to the processing of personal data relating to him or her.
3. Legal data of the operator and data protection officer.
The operator in the sense of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and other data protection laws applicable in the Member States of the European Union, as well as other provisions relating to data protection, is:
3.1. Legal name: MOA Architects and Engineers;
3.2. Address: Bellerive House, Office 5.06, 3 Muirfield Cres, E14 9SZ;
3.3. Phone: 020 7537 3788;
3.4. Email: info@moalondon.com;
3.5. Website: https://moalondon.com/;
3.6. Data protection officer: Ovidiu Radu.
Any data subject can contact our data protection officer with questions and suggestions regarding data protection.
4. Collection of general personal data and information.
Through the website https://moalondon.com/, the operator collects a series of data and general information (including cookies) when a subject or an automated system uses the website. The data we collect depends on the context of your interactions with our website and the decisions you make (including cookie settings). The data we collect may include:
4.1. First and last name;
4.2. Email address;
4.3. Phone number;
4.4. Demographic information such as age, gender, country, and preferred language;
4.5. Date and time of access to the website;
4.6. Types of browsers and versions used;
4.7. Operating system used;
4.8. The website from which the transition to our website is made (the so-called referrer);
4.9. Internet Protocol (IP) address.
The Internet service provider of the accessing system and any other similar data that may be used in the event of attacks on our processing systems.
5. How and when we collect personal data?
5.1. When visiting the website; 5.2. Based on consent (e.g., subscribing to the Newsletter); 5.3. When contacting us directly or through contact forms.
This website uses third-party online services that collect data. Such services include: Google Analytics, Google AdSense, Facebook Pixel. The data collected by these services may be provided to other services within these organizations. They may use the data for personalized advertising. You can find information about the user agreements of these organizations on their websites.
You can also refuse the collection of your personal data. For example, the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-On can be found here. We do not transmit personal data to other organizations or services that are not listed in this Privacy Policy. Unless legally required by state authorities, who are authorized to request such information, the collected data may be provided upon request.
6. Purpose of processing personal data.
When processing personal data, we do not draw conclusions about the data subject. Rather, this information is necessary to:
6.1. Provide accurate content on our website;
6.2. Optimize the content of the website, as well as its advertising;
6.3. Ensure the long-term viability of our systems and provide authorities with the necessary information for criminal prosecution in the event of a cyber attack.
7. Storage of personal data.
The security of personal data processed by the controller is ensured by implementing the legal, organizational, and technical measures necessary to fully comply with the requirements of current legislation in the field of personal data protection. The controller ensures the security of personal data and takes all possible measures to prevent unauthorized access to this data.
In case of providing inaccurate information in personal data, the user can independently update them by sending a notification to the controller at the email address of the controller info@moalondon.com, mentioning “updating personal data.”
The processing period of personal data is 24 months. The user can withdraw their consent for the processing of personal data at any time by sending a notification to the controller via email at the address of the controller info@moalondon.com, with the mention “revocation of consent for the processing of personal data.”
8. Period for which personal data will be stored.
The criteria used to determine the storage period of personal data are the respective legal retention periods. After the expiration of these periods, the corresponding data is deleted, as long as it is no longer necessary for the fulfillment of the contract or the initiation of a contract.
9. Cookies.
https://moalondon.com/ uses cookies. Cookies are text files that are stored in a computer system through an internet browser.
All websites and servers use cookies. Many cookies contain a cookie ID, which represents a unique identifier of the cookie. It consists of a string of characters through which web pages can be attributed to the internet browser in which the cookie was stored. This allows visited websites to differentiate the individual’s browser from other browsers that contain different cookies. A specific internet browser can be recognized and identified using the unique cookie ID.
By using cookies, MOA Architects and Engineers can provide users of this site with more user-friendly services that would not be possible without setting cookies. Through a cookie, the information and offers on our website can be optimized based on the user. Cookies allow us, as mentioned before, to recognize users of our website. The purpose of this recognition is to facilitate the use of the site.
A user of the site who uses cookies, for example, does not have to enter access data every time the site is accessed because they are taken over by the site, and the cookie is thus stored in the user’s computer system. Another example is the cookie of a shopping cart in an online store. The online store remembers the items that a customer has placed in the virtual shopping cart through a cookie module.
The data subject can prevent the setting of cookies at any time through the corresponding setting of the internet browser used, and can thus permanently refuse the setting of cookies. Furthermore, cookies that have already been set can be deleted at any time through an internet browser or other software programs. This is possible in all popular internet browsers. If the data subject deactivates the setting of cookies in the internet browser used, not all functions of our website may be usable.
10. Instructions regarding data protection through the application and use of Google Analytics (with anonymization function).
On this website, the operator has integrated the Google Analytics component (with anonymization function). Google Analytics is a web analytics service. Web analytics involves collecting and analyzing data about the behavior of visitors on websites. A web analytics service collects, among other things, data about the website visited by a person (called a referrer), the pages that have been visited, how often, and how long a page has been viewed. Web analytics is primarily used to optimize a website and to conduct a cost-benefit analysis of online advertising.
The operator of the Google Analytics component is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland.
For web analytics through Google Analytics, the operator uses the application “_gat._anonymizeIp”. Through this application, the IP address of the person’s internet connection is abbreviated and anonymized by Google when accessing our website from a member state of the European Union or from another contracting state of the European Economic Area Agreement.
The purpose of the Google Analytics component is to analyze website traffic. Google uses the collected data and information, among other things, to evaluate the use of the website and to provide online reports showing activities on the site.
Google Analytics places a cookie module in the user’s computer system. The definition of cookies is explained above. By setting the cookie, Google can analyze the usage of our website. When accessing any individual page on this site, which is managed by the operator and in which a Google Analytics component has been integrated, the internet browser in the user’s computer system will automatically send data through the Google Analytics component for online advertising and commission settlement purposes at Google. During this technical procedure, the company Google obtains information about personal data, such as the IP address of the user, which is used by Google, among other things, to understand the origin of visitors and clicks and to subsequently create commission settlements.
The cookie is used to store personal information, such as access time, location from where it was accessed, and frequency of visits to the website by the user. With each visit to the site, such personal data, including the IP address of the user, will be transmitted to Google in the United States of America. Google may transmit these personal data collected through the technical procedure to third parties.
As mentioned above, the person concerned can prevent the setting of cookies through the website at any time by making the appropriate settings in the web browser used, and may thus permanently refuse the setting of cookies. Such a setting of the browser used would also prevent Google Analytics from placing a cookie module on the person’s computer system. In addition, cookies already used by Google Analytics can be deleted at any time through a web browser or other software programs.
Furthermore, the person concerned has the possibility to object to the collection of data generated by Google Analytics related to this website, as well as the processing of this data by Google and to exclude such data. For this purpose, the person concerned must download a browser add-on from the link google gaoptout and install it. This browser add-on transmits to Google Analytics through a JavaScript that any data and information about visits to web pages may not be transmitted to Google Analytics. The installation of browser add-ons is considered an objection by Google. If the person’s computer system is subsequently deleted, formatted or reinstalled, then the person concerned must reinstall the add-ons to deactivate Google Analytics. If the browser add-on has been uninstalled by the person concerned or by any other person attributable to their sphere of competence, or is disabled, it is possible to reinstall or reactivate the browser add-ons.
Additional information and relevant provisions regarding data protection by Google can be found at the link google.com policies privacy and google analytics terms. Google Analytics is further explained at the following link google analytics.
11. Protection of data regarding the application and use of Facebook pixel.
On this website, the operator integrates components of the company “Meta”, specifically the social network “Facebook”. The social network is an online space for social meetings on the internet, an online community that usually allows users to communicate and interact in a virtual environment. A social network can serve as a platform for the exchange of opinions and experiences, or can allow the online community to provide personal or commercial information. Facebook allows users of social networks to create private profiles, upload photos, and connect through friend requests.
The company operating is Facebook, Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States of America. If a person resides outside the United States or Canada, the operator is Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland.
Each time one of the individual pages of this website, managed by the data protection officer and in which a Facebook plugin has been integrated, is accessed, the web browser of the person concerned will automatically display the Facebook component. An overview of all Facebook plugins can be accessed at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/. In the course of this technical procedure, Facebook is informed about which specific subpage of our website was visited by the person concerned.
If the person concerned is simultaneously logged into Facebook, Facebook detects each time the person concerned accesses our website – and for the entire duration of their visit to our site – which specific subpage of our website was visited by the person concerned. This information is collected through the Facebook component and associated with the Facebook account of the person concerned. If the person concerned clicks on one of the Facebook buttons integrated into our website, for example the “Share” button, or if the person concerned submits a comment, then Facebook associates this information with the personal Facebook user account of the person concerned and stores the personal data.
Facebook always receives, through the Facebook component, information about a visit made to our website by the targeted person, whenever the targeted person is logged into Facebook at the same time as accessing our website. This happens regardless of whether the targeted person uses the Facebook component or not. If such transmission of information to Facebook is not desired by the targeted person, then he or she could prevent this by logging out of their Facebook account before accessing our website.
The data protection guide published by Facebook, which is available at https://facebook.com/about/privacy/, provides information about the collection, processing, and use of personal data by Facebook. Additionally, it explains what setting options Facebook offers to protect the privacy of the targeted person. Various configuration options are also available to allow the removal of data transfer on Facebook. These applications can be used by the targeted person to remove a data transfer on Facebook.
12. Legal basis for processing.
According to Article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR, consent is the legal basis for processing operations for which we obtain consent. If the processing of personal data is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is a party, for example, in the case where processing operations are necessary for the provision of goods or services, the processing is based on Article 6(1)(b) of the GDPR.
The same applies to processing operations necessary for the performance of pre-contractual measures, for example, in the case of inquiries regarding our products or services. In rare cases, the processing of personal data may be necessary to protect the vital interests of the data subject or another natural person.
This would be the case, for example, when a visitor is injured in our company and the name, age, health insurance information, or other vital information needs to be transmitted to a doctor, hospital, or another third party. In this case, the processing will be based on Article 6(1)(d) of the GDPR. Finally, processing operations can be justified based on Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR.
This legal basis is used for processing operations that are not covered by any of the aforementioned legal grounds and that are necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by our company or by a third party, except where such interests are overridden by the fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject which require the protection of personal data.
Such processing operations are particularly allowed because they have been explicitly mentioned by the European legislator, who considered that a legitimate interest could be assumed when the data subject is a customer of the controller (Recital 47, Sentence 2 of the GDPR).
13. Legitimate interests pursued by the controller or a third party.
In case the processing of personal data is based on Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR, our legitimate interest is to conduct our business in favor of the well-being of all our employees and shareholders. The provision of personal data may be required by legal or contractual requirements; it may be necessary for the performance of a contract; it represents the data subject’s obligation to provide the personal data; and it may have consequences in case of failure to comply with this obligation.
We clarify that the provision of personal data may be partially required by law (e.g., tax regulations) or may also result from contractual provisions (e.g., information regarding the contractual partner). Sometimes, it may be necessary for us to conclude a contract in which the data subject provides us with personal data, which will subsequently be processed by us.
The data subject is obliged to provide us with personal data when our company enters into a contract with them. The lack of personal data would result in the impossibility of concluding the contract with the data subject.
Rights of the data subject.
14. Right to confirmation
Every data subject is entitled to obtain from the controller confirmation whether personal data concerning them is being processed. If the data subject wishes to exercise this right to confirmation, they may contact the controller at any time.
15. Right of access.
Every data subject is entitled to obtain from the controller, at any time, free of charge, information about the personal data stored about them and a copy of this information. In addition, European directives and regulations grant data subjects access to the following information:
15.1. The purposes of the processing;
15.2. The categories of personal data concerned;
15.3. The recipients or categories of recipients to whom the personal data have been or will be disclosed, in particular recipients in third countries or international organizations;
15.4. Where possible, the envisaged period for which the personal data will be stored, or, if not possible, the criteria used to determine that period;
15.5. The existence of the right to request from the controller rectification or erasure of personal data or restriction of processing concerning the data subject, or to object to such processing;
15.6. The existence of the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority;
15.7. Where the personal data is not collected from the data subject, any available information as to its source;
15.8. The existence of automated decision-making, including profiling, referred to in Article 22(1) and (4) of the GDPR and, at least in those cases, meaningful information about the logic involved, as well as the significance and the envisaged consequences of such processing for the data subject.
In addition, the data subject is entitled to obtain information about the transfer of personal data to a third country or to an international organization. In this case, the data subject is entitled to be informed of the appropriate safeguards relating to the transfer.
If a data subject wishes to exercise this right of access, they may contact the controller at any time.
16. Right to rectification.
Every data subject is entitled to obtain from the controller, without undue delay, the rectification of inaccurate personal data. Considering the purposes of the processing, the data subject is entitled to have incomplete personal data completed, including by providing a supplementary statement.
If a data subject wishes to exercise this right to rectification, he/she can contact any employee of the controller at any time.
17. The right to erasure (“the right to be forgotten”).
Every data subject is entitled to obtain from the data controller the erasure of personal data concerning them without undue delay, and the data controller has the obligation to erase them immediately if one of the following grounds applies:
17.1. The personal data is no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed;
17.2. The data subject withdraws consent on which the processing is based according to Article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR or Article 9(2)(a) of the GDPR, and where there is no other legal ground for the processing;
17.3. The data subject objects to the processing pursuant to Article 21(1) of the GDPR, and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for the processing, or the data subject objects to the processing pursuant to Article 21(2) of the GDPR;
17.4. The personal data has been unlawfully processed;
17.5. The personal data must be erased for compliance with a legal obligation in Union or Member State law to which the data controller is subject;
17.6. The personal data has been collected in relation to the offer of information society services referred to in Article 8(1) of the GDPR.
If one of the above-mentioned grounds applies and the data subject requests the erasure of personal data stored by MOA Architects and Engineers, he/she can contact the data controller at any time. An employee of MOA Architects and Engineers must ensure that the request for erasure is complied with immediately.
Where the data controller has made the personal data public and is obliged, pursuant to Article 17(1) of the GDPR, to erase the personal data, the data controller, considering the available technology and the costs of implementation, shall take reasonable steps, including technical measures, to inform other data controllers processing the personal data that the data subject has requested the erasure by such controllers of any links to, copies or replication of those personal data, as far as the processing is not necessary. An employee of MOA Architects and Engineers shall organize the necessary measures on a case-by-case basis.
18. Right to restriction of processing.
Every data subject is entitled to obtain from the controller the restriction of processing in the following situations:
18.1. The accuracy of personal data is contested by the data subject, for a period, enabling the controller to verify the accuracy of the personal data.
18.2. The processing is unlawful, and the data subject opposes the erasure of the personal data and requests instead the restriction of their use.
18.3. The controller no longer needs the personal data for the purposes of the processing, but they is required by the data subject for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims.
18.4. The data subject has objected to processing pursuant to Article 21(1) of the GDPR, pending the verification whether the legitimate grounds of the controller override those of the data subject.
If any of the above conditions are met and the data subject wishes to request the restriction of processing of personal data stored by MOA Architects and Engineers, they can contact the controller at any time. Employee of MOA Architects and Engineers will arrange the restriction of processing.
19. Right to data portability.
Each data subject is entitled to receive personal data that has been provided to an operator in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format. They are entitled to transmit this data to another operator without hindrance from the operator to whom the personal data has been provided, as long as the processing is based on consent provided under Article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR or Article 9(2)(a) of the GDPR, or on a contract pursuant to Article 6(1)(b) of the GDPR, and the processing is carried out by automated means, as long as the processing is not necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the operator.
Furthermore, in exercising their right to data portability in accordance with Article 20(1) of the GDPR, the data subject is entitled to have personal data transmitted directly from one operator to another, where technically feasible and when doing so, does not adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others.
To exercise the right to data portability, the data subject may contact any employee of MOA Architects and Engineers at any time.
20. Right to object.
Every data subject has the right, at any time, for reasons related to their particular situation, to object to the processing of personal data concerning them, based on Article 6(1)(e) or (f) of the GDPR. This also applies to profiling based on these provisions.
MOA Architects and Engineers will no longer process personal data if the objection is not possible, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that override the interests, rights, and freedoms of the data subject or for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims.
If MOA Architects and Engineers processes personal data for direct marketing purposes, the data subject is entitled to object at any time to the processing of personal data concerning them for such marketing purposes. This also applies to profiling, insofar as it is related to such direct marketing. If the data subject objects to the processing of personal data by MOA Architects and Engineers for direct marketing purposes, MOA Architects and Engineers will no longer process the personal data for these purposes.
Furthermore, the data subject has the right, for reasons related to their particular situation, to object to the processing of personal data concerning them by MOA Architects and Engineers for scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes, in accordance with Article 89(1) of the GDPR, unless the processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest.
To exercise the right to object, the data subject can contact any employee of MOA Architects and Engineers. Additionally, the data subject is free to exercise their right to object by using technical specifications, in the context of the use of information society services, without prejudice to Directive 2002/58/EC.
21. Automated individual decision-making, including profiling.
Every data subject has the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning them or significantly affects them, provided that the decision (1) is not necessary for the conclusion or performance of a contract between the data subject and a data controller or (2) is not authorized by Union or Member State law to which the data controller is subject and which also provides for suitable measures to safeguard the data subject’s rights and freedoms and legitimate interests or (3) is not based on the explicit consent of the data subject.
Where the decision (1) is necessary for the conclusion or performance of a contract between the data subject and a data controller or (2) is based on the data subject’s explicit consent, MOA Architects and Engineers shall implement suitable measures to safeguard the data subject’s rights, freedoms, and legitimate interests, at least the right to obtain human intervention for the controller, to express their perspective, and to contest the decision.
If the data subject wishes to exercise their rights regarding automated individual decision-making, they may at any time contact any employee of MOA Architects and Engineers.
22. Right to withdraw consent for data protection.
Every data subject has this right and if they wish to exercise it, they can contact any employee of MOA Architects and Engineers at any time.
23. Existence of automated decision-making.
As a responsible company, MOA Architects and Engineers does not use an automated decision-making system or any other form of profiling.
24. External links.
The https://moalondon.com/ website may contain links to other websites that are not operated by MOA Architects and Engineers. This policy has no relation to the policies and practices of other websites.
We recommend that you review the personal data processing policies of any other websites you visit. We have no control and do not assume responsibility for the content, personal data processing policies, and practices of other websites.
Final provisions.
25.1. The user can receive any clarification regarding the processing of their personal data by contacting the data controller via email or another method.
25.2. This policy will present any changes to the personal data processing policy by the data controller. The current policy is valid until a new version replaces it.
25.3. The current version of the policy is available for free at https://moalondon.com//privacy-policy.