Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

Production Pattern & Foundry ("we," "our," or "us") respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website (https://ppfco.com) or communicate with us.

This policy complies with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other applicable data protection laws. Please read this privacy policy carefully. If you do not agree with the terms of this privacy policy, please do not access our website.

2. Data Controller

For the purposes of the GDPR, Production Pattern & Foundry is the data controller responsible for your personal data.

3. Personal Data We Collect

We may collect the following types of personal data:

3.1 Information You Provide to Us:

• Identity Data: Name, title, company name
• Contact Data: Email address, telephone number, postal address
• Communication Data: Information provided in correspondence with us, including through our contact form
• Marketing Data: Your preferences regarding receiving marketing communications from us

3.2 Information Collected Automatically:

• Technical Data: IP address, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform
• Usage Data: Information about how you use our website, including page views, navigation paths, and time spent on pages

4. How We Use Your Personal 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
• 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

4.1 Purposes for Processing Your Data:

5. Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it, 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 unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data, and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

In some circumstances, we may anonymize your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes, in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

6. Data Sharing and Transfers

We may share your personal data with the following categories of recipients:

• Service Providers: IT and system administration services, cloud service providers, marketing service providers
• Professional Advisers: Lawyers, bankers, auditors, and insurers who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance, and accounting services
• Regulatory Authorities: Government bodies that require reporting of processing activities in certain circumstances

6.1 International Transfers

Some of our external third-party service providers may be based outside the European Economic Area (EEA), so their processing of your personal data may involve a transfer of data outside the EEA.

Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the EEA, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by implementing appropriate safeguards, including:

• Using specific contracts approved by the European Commission that give personal data the same protection it has in Europe
• Transferring data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data by the European Commission
• Where we use providers based in the US, transferring data pursuant to standard contractual clauses or other valid transfer mechanisms

7. Data Security

We have implemented appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know.

We have procedures in place to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

8. Your Legal Rights

Under the GDPR, you have the following rights regarding your personal data:

• Right to Access: You have the right to request access to your personal data.
• Right to Rectification: You have the right to request correction of any inaccurate personal data.
• Right to Erasure: You have the right to request erasure of your personal data under certain conditions.
• Right to Restrict Processing: You have the right to request restriction of processing of your personal data.
• Right to Data Portability: You have the right to request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party.
• Right to Object: You have the right to object to processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes or based on legitimate interests.
• Right to Withdraw Consent: You have the right to withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data.

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the contact information provided in Section 2.

You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data or to exercise any of the other rights. However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive, or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.

9. Cookies

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.

We use the following cookies:

• Strictly Necessary Cookies: Required for the operation of our website
• Analytical/Performance Cookies: To recognize and count visitors and analyze how visitors move around our website
• Functionality Cookies: To recognize you when you return to our website
• Targeting Cookies: To record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited, and the links you have followed

You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly.

10. Children's Privacy

Our website is not intended for children under 16 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children under 16. If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with personal data, please contact us, and we will take steps to delete such information.

11. Changes to the Privacy Policy

We may update this privacy policy from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated "Last Updated" date, and the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible. We encourage you to review this privacy policy frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information.

12. Contact Us

If you have questions or comments about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, please contact our Data Privacy Officer at:

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the supervisory authority for data protection issues in your country. However, we would appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the authority, so please contact us in the first instance.