Who We Are

Structural Drafting Group provides structural steel detailing, engineering drafting, BIM, mechanical, piping, MEP, rebar and related technical documentation services. This Privacy Policy applies to information collected through structural-drafting.com and associated business communications.

For personal information collected directly through this website, Structural Drafting Group generally determines why and how that information is used. When processing information solely on behalf of a client under a service agreement, Structural Drafting Group may instead act as a service provider or processor, and the client’s instructions and privacy obligations may apply.

Scope of This Privacy Policy

This policy applies when you:

• visit or use this website;
• submit an enquiry, quotation request or contact form;
• send project specifications, drawings, models or supporting files;
• communicate by email, telephone or another business channel;
• apply for a job or submit professional information;
• interact with website comments, embedded content or online forms where enabled; or
• otherwise engage with Structural Drafting Group as a prospective client, client, supplier, applicant or business contact.

This policy does not automatically govern an independent third-party website, platform or service, even when that service is linked from this website.

Personal Information We May Collect

The information collected depends on how you interact with the website and the services requested.

Sensitive or restricted information

Please do not send personal information that is unnecessary for the enquiry or service. Do not submit government identification numbers, financial-account credentials, medical information, personal passwords, export-controlled data or other highly sensitive material unless a secure and authorised process has been agreed in advance.

How We Collect Information

Information may be collected:

• directly from you through website forms, email, telephone, meetings or uploaded files;
• from your employer, colleague, consultant, contractor or another authorised project participant;
• automatically through server logs, cookies, security tools, analytics or tag-management technology;
• from publicly available professional or business sources where appropriate; and
• from service providers supporting hosting, communications, recruitment, accounting, security or project delivery.

Where another person provides your information, that person should have authority to do so and should provide any notice required by applicable law.

How We Use Personal Information

Structural Drafting Group may use information to:

• respond to enquiries and prepare quotations, proposals or statements of work;
• evaluate project requirements, technical inputs, schedules and resource needs;
• provide engineering, drafting, detailing, BIM and related services;
• manage contracts, projects, deliverables, revisions, invoices and client support;
• communicate about services, meetings, project updates and requested information;
• maintain website functionality, analyse usage and improve content or user experience;
• protect systems, investigate misuse, prevent spam and maintain security logs;
• assess job applications and communicate with applicants;
• meet accounting, tax, record-keeping, legal and regulatory obligations;
• establish, exercise or defend legal claims; and
• send business-development or marketing communications where permitted, subject to available opt-out rights.

Lawful Grounds for Processing

Depending on the applicable law and context, Structural Drafting Group may process personal information because:

• the processing is necessary to respond to a request or perform a contract;
• the processing supports legitimate business interests, such as operating the website, delivering services, maintaining security and developing client relationships;
• consent has been provided for a particular purpose;
• the processing is necessary to meet a legal, tax, accounting or regulatory obligation; or
• the processing is necessary to establish, exercise or defend legal rights.

Where processing relies on consent, consent may generally be withdrawn for future processing. Withdrawal does not affect processing already completed lawfully.

Client, Project and Technical Files

Project enquiries and engineering assignments may involve confidential technical and commercial information, including CAD files, BIM models, structural drawings, specifications, mark-ups, quantities and project correspondence.

Such information may be reviewed by authorised personnel and approved service providers only to the extent reasonably necessary to evaluate the enquiry, prepare a quotation, deliver the contracted service, maintain quality, manage revisions, protect systems or comply with legal obligations.

Project confidentiality, ownership, permitted use, subcontracting, retention, return or deletion obligations may also be governed by a quotation, non-disclosure agreement, purchase order or service contract.

Cookies, Tag Management and Analytics

The website may use cookies, local-storage technologies, server logs and similar tools to operate pages, remember preferences, protect forms, understand website activity and improve performance.

Types of cookies or technologies

• Strictly necessary: required for security, page operation, session management or form functionality.
• Preference: used to remember settings or choices.
• Analytics: used to understand page visits, traffic sources, devices and website performance.
• Marketing or embedded-media: may be used when advertising, social-media or third-party media services are enabled.

The website may use Google Tag Manager to manage website tags. Tag-management technology can cause analytics or other configured services to load; those services may collect usage, device or cookie information according to their own configurations and privacy terms.

Where a cookie-consent tool is provided, you can use it to manage non-essential cookies. You may also control cookies through browser settings, although blocking some technologies may affect website functionality.

Comments, Media and Embedded Content

Comments

Where comments are enabled, the website may collect the information entered in the comment form, the visitor’s IP address and browser information for moderation and spam prevention. A hashed form of an email address may be sent to the Gravatar service to determine whether a profile image is associated with that address.

Uploaded media

Avoid uploading public images containing embedded location information, such as EXIF GPS data, because visitors may be able to download and extract that information.

Embedded content

Pages or articles may contain embedded videos, maps, images, documents or other third-party content. The third party may collect information, set cookies or track interaction as though you had visited its service directly.

When We Share Information

Personal information may be shared only where reasonably necessary for a legitimate purpose, contractual performance or legal obligation. Recipients may include:

• authorised employees, engineers, drafters, project managers and administrative personnel;
• approved subcontractors or specialist partners involved in project delivery;
• hosting, cloud-storage, file-transfer, email, CRM, analytics, cybersecurity and IT-support providers;
• accounting, banking, payment, tax, insurance, audit and professional advisers;
• recruitment, background-check or applicant-management providers where applicable;
• clients, consultants, contractors or project participants where authorised and necessary;
• government, regulatory, judicial or law-enforcement bodies where legally required; and
• a successor, purchaser or adviser involved in a legitimate corporate transaction.

Structural Drafting Group does not rent personal information. It does not sell personal information for monetary consideration as part of its ordinary engineering-service business.

Service providers should be authorised only for defined purposes and expected to protect the information in accordance with applicable obligations and contracts.

International Processing and Transfers

Structural Drafting Group serves international clients and may operate, use personnel or engage service providers in more than one country. Personal information and project communications may therefore be accessed, processed or stored outside the country in which they were originally collected.

Privacy and data-protection laws differ between countries. Where required, appropriate contractual, organisational or legal safeguards should be used for international transfers.

How Long We Retain Information

Information is retained only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose collected, contractual requirements, project history, quality control, legal compliance, security, accounting, dispute resolution or legitimate business records.

Retention periods may vary by category:

• unsuccessful or inactive enquiries may be retained for a limited business-development and record period;
• client, contract, invoice and project records may be kept for the contract term plus applicable legal or limitation periods;
• technical files may be retained according to the client agreement, project status and approved document-retention requirements;
• recruitment records may be retained for the hiring process and a reasonable period afterward, subject to local requirements; and
• security, server and analytics logs may be retained for shorter operational periods unless required for investigation.

Information may be deleted, anonymised or securely archived when it is no longer reasonably required, subject to backup cycles and legal holds.

How We Protect Information

Structural Drafting Group uses reasonable administrative, technical and organisational measures designed to protect personal and project information against unauthorised access, loss, alteration, misuse or disclosure.

• role-based or need-to-know access where appropriate;
• password, account and device-security controls;
• security monitoring, backups and malware or spam protection;
• confidentiality obligations and personnel awareness;
• controlled file-transfer and project-document practices where agreed;
• vendor assessment and contractual safeguards where appropriate; and
• incident review and response procedures.

No website, email system, network or storage method can be guaranteed completely secure. Users should avoid sending sensitive credentials or unprotected confidential data through ordinary email or public forms.

Your Privacy Rights and Choices

Depending on your location and the applicable law, you may have some or all of the following rights:

How to submit a request

Send a request to info@structural-drafting.com with the subject line “Privacy Rights Request.” Describe the request and the interaction through which the information was provided.

Reasonable identity verification may be required before information is disclosed, corrected or deleted. A request may be limited or refused where permitted by law, including where records must be retained for contractual, legal, security or claims purposes.

Children’s Privacy

The website and engineering services are intended for business and professional audiences, not children. Structural Drafting Group does not knowingly solicit personal information from children through the website.

A parent or guardian who believes that a child has submitted personal information may contact Structural Drafting Group to request appropriate review and deletion, subject to legal obligations.

Third-Party Websites and Services

The website may link to mapping, social-media, software, file-transfer, embedded-media or other external services. Structural Drafting Group does not control the privacy practices, security or content of independent third parties.

Review the privacy notice and settings of each third-party service before providing information or enabling optional cookies.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

This policy may be updated to reflect changes in website functions, business practices, service providers, legal requirements or privacy controls. The “Last updated” date at the top of the page will be revised when material changes are published.

Where required, additional notice or consent may be provided for significant changes affecting how personal information is used.

Contact Structural Drafting Group

Questions, privacy requests and concerns about this policy may be submitted through the contact details below.