Legal Notice
Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy explains how Sanctuary Architects & Designers collects, uses, stores and shares personal information when you request information about our practice, services or projects, or use our website.
Last Updated: August 14, 2026
Introduction & Personal Data Collection
Sanctuary may collect personal data when you request information about our practice, services or projects. Information may be provided voluntarily by you through:
- Website forms
- Social media platforms
- Phone
- Other correspondence
Technical information may also be collected automatically when you visit our website, including:
- Anonymous statistical information
- IP address
- Browser type and version
- Time-zone settings
- Browser plug-in types and versions
- Operating system
- Platform
- Public-profile information you permit to be shared through third-party social networks
Legal Bases for Processing
Sanctuary processes personal information where one or more of the following legal bases applies.
Where You Have Provided Consent
Sanctuary may contact you through email or text with marketing information where you have provided your consent, including through newsletter registration or refreshed marketing preferences.
Where It Is in Your Vital Interest
Your personal information may be used where it is necessary to communicate urgent safety or critical notices to you, or where processing is reasonably believed to prevent or reduce potential harm.
Where There Is a Legitimate Interest
Sanctuary may process personal information where there is a legitimate interest in doing so. These purposes include:
- Marketing activities where consent is not the relied-upon basis
- Analysis to inform marketing strategy
- Enhancing and personalising customer experience
- Corresponding and communicating with you
- Verifying the accuracy of information held
- Understanding customers better
- Network and information security
- Protection against loss, damage, theft or unauthorised access
- Fraud and criminal-activity prevention
- Managing data-rights requests
- Managing queries, complaints and claims
- Establishing and defending legal rights
Where There Is a Legal Requirement
Sanctuary may use your personal information to comply with legal obligations, including:
- Assisting relevant authorities
- Identifying users when they contact Sanctuary
- Verifying the accuracy of information held
Where It Is Required to Complete a Contract
Your personal information may be processed where necessary to provide services or products, to arrange third-party services or products, or to enter into discussions regarding services or products.
Data Anonymisation and Aggregated Information
Your personal information may be converted into statistical or aggregated information in a manner that does not identify you as an individual. Such aggregated data may be used by Sanctuary for analytical and research purposes.
Who May Access Personal Information
Your personal information may be shared with the following categories of recipients, where applicable.
Group Companies
Where applicable, personal information may be shared with Sanctuary's group companies for the purposes described in this policy.
Suppliers and Service Providers
Information may be disclosed to:
- Cloud service providers
- Hosting providers
- Email-management providers
- Marketing agencies
- Administrative service providers
- Agents
- Subcontractors
- Other service providers
Only the information necessary to provide the relevant service should be shared. Such providers are expected to keep your information secure and to process it only in accordance with applicable instructions.
Third Parties Providing Products and Services
Relevant third parties may process your personal information when you enquire about or purchase complementary services or products through Sanctuary.
Other Ways Personal Information May Be Shared
Sanctuary may also share personal information in connection with:
- Business sales
- Business restructuring
- Reorganisation
- Legal obligations
- Crime detection or reporting
- Enforcement of contractual terms
- Protection of visitors and customers
- Protection of rights, property and safety
Where you have provided consent to third-party marketing, your information may be shared with the relevant third party. Once your information has been shared with that third party, their own privacy policy will apply.
Where Personal Information Is Stored
Sanctuary uses leading technologies and encryption software to safeguard your information and maintains security standards intended to prevent unauthorised access.
Data Retention
How Long We Keep Your Personal Information
Your personal information is retained only for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected, including any legal, accounting and reporting requirements.
The following factors are taken into account when determining retention periods:
- Amount of data
- Nature of data
- Sensitivity
- Potential risk of harm
- Processing purposes
- Alternative ways of achieving those purposes
- Applicable legal requirements
Security
Sanctuary applies appropriate security measures to protect personal information. We seek to protect against:
- Accidental loss
- Unauthorised use
- Unauthorised access
- Alteration
- Disclosure
Access to personal information is restricted on the basis of business need, and those with access are subject to confidentiality obligations.
Marketing
Where you provide your marketing preferences and consent, Sanctuary may contact you for marketing purposes through:
- Post
- Telephone
- Targeted online advertising
- Social media or platform advertising
Your personal information may be used to make marketing more relevant to you unless you object.
Access to Information
You may request access to the personal information Sanctuary holds about you by contacting us using the contact details provided at the end of this policy. We may require you to provide proof of identity before responding to such a request.
Please note that access may be limited where the information concerns other individuals, or where information may lawfully be withheld.
Withdrawing Consent
Where processing is based on your consent, you may withdraw that consent at any time. You may also opt out of direct marketing at any time, including through any unsubscribe mechanism provided in our communications where applicable.
Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
Objecting to Processing
Where Sanctuary relies on legitimate business interests to process your personal information, you have the right to object. You may raise an objection by email or in writing.
Where applicable, processing may be temporarily stopped while your objection is investigated, and processing will be permanently stopped where the objection is justified. Where Sanctuary has a lawful basis for processing, processing may continue. You may also object to direct marketing at any time.
Erasing or Restricting Personal Information
You may request that Sanctuary erase or restrict the processing of your personal information. Sanctuary will make reasonable efforts to comply with such requests, subject to any legal exceptions that apply.
Processing may be restricted where the lawfulness of the processing is in question, while an objection is under investigation, or where required in connection with legal proceedings. Where legally permitted, information may continue to be stored, and where consent is required for a particular processing activity, processing will only take place with your consent.
If this Privacy Policy changes, an updated version will be placed on this page.
Third-Party Websites
Sanctuary's website may contain links to other websites. Other websites may have their own privacy policies. Sanctuary does not accept responsibility or liability for the privacy policies or practices of those websites.
A link to another website does not imply endorsement or recommendation by Sanctuary.
Photography
Sanctuary regularly photographs its projects and activities. Photographs may include members of the public. Photography may be used on:
- Website
- Social media
- Print publications
- Press
- Online publications
- Client marketing
- Supplier marketing
- Third-party marketing
Photography is stored indefinitely in a secure cloud-service library. If you would like Sanctuary to remove a photograph of you that Sanctuary holds, you may contact Sanctuary using the contact details provided at the end of this policy.
Legal Disclaimer
Sanctuary endeavours to keep the material on its website accurate and current. However, errors and omissions may occur, and the content of this website is provided without warranty or liability.
Sanctuary does not warrant that use of the website will not infringe third-party rights, nor that use of the website or materials downloaded from it will not cause computer-virus infection or other damage to property. The website and its materials are used at the user's own risk, and liability limitations apply as stated in this policy.
Contact Us
Sanctuary Architects & Designers
31, 4th Cross Road, 8th A Main Rd,
Vinayaka Nagar, Sadashiva Nagar,
Bengaluru, Karnataka 560080
Phone: +91 98450 03452
Email: anshul@sanctuaryarch.com
Business Hours: Monday to Friday, 9:30 AM – 6:30 PM
