PRIVACY POLICY

Last Updated: March 15, 2026

1. Introduction

BuildZo ("we," "our," or "us") respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you about how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from) or use our services, including software development, mobile application development, automation tools, and certificate generation services.

2. The Data We Collect

We may collect, use, store, and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:

• Identity Data: includes first name, last name, username or similar identifier, and title.
• Contact Data: includes billing address, email address, and telephone numbers.
• Technical Data: includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform.
• Usage Data: includes information about how you use our website and services (e.g., certificate generation logic, form progress saved securely via local storage).

3. How We Collect Your Data

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

• Direct interactions: You may give us your Identity and Contact by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise. This includes project inquiries and fellowship applications.
• Automated technologies: As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns.
• Local Storage: Certain tools on our website (like the Certificate Generator) utilize browser Local Storage to temporarily save your working progress. This data remains on your local machine and is not continuously transmitted to our servers unless submitted.

4. How We Use Your Data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

• Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you (e.g., executing a software development contract).
• Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
• Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.

5. Data Security

We process code with standard security expectations and handle your personal data similarly. We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed. Access to your personal data is limited to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

6. Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure, and whether we can achieve our purposes through other means.

7. Your Legal Rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. These include the right to:

• Request access to your personal data.
• Request correction of your personal data.
• Request erasure of your personal data.
• Object to processing of your personal data.
• Request restriction of processing your personal data.
• Request transfer of your personal data.
• Right to withdraw consent.

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us.

8. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, please contact us via email or via our phone numbers listed on the website.