Last Updated April 29, 2025
Your privacy is valued and respected by Cornerstone Architects, PLC and its subsidiaries (“we” or “our” or “us”). We are an architecture and interior design firm that works hand-in-hand with facility managers, owners, developers, contractors and engineers who want to grow their business by creating outstanding facilities.
This Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) describes the types of information, including Personal Information, that we collect to provide goods or services to you, including when you use our website (www.csarch.com) (the “Site”), as well as your choices regarding use and disclosure of your Personal Information. As used in this Privacy Policy, the term “Personal Information” means information that identifies, relates to, describes, or is capable of being associated with, a particular individual, whether alone or in combination with other information available to us.
By providing information to us, including without limitation, by accessing the Site or communicating with us (such as by phone, email or other correspondence or communication) about our business or purchasing our products or services (“Interact” or” “Interacting”), you agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy.
We reserve the right to update or modify this Privacy Policy from time to time, so we encourage you to review it periodically. We will notify you of any changes by revising the “Last Updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy. In all cases, your continued use of our Site or our products and services constitutes consideration and your binding acceptance to any such changes. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy regularly to ensure that you are familiar with our current practices.
When you Interact with us, we collects information (i) that you knowingly and voluntarily provide (such as through email correspondence, “educational interest” requests, forms or profile screens), and (ii) that we are able to collect from your web browser, cookies and other similar technologies.
We collect such information to provide products and/or services to you, to help improve your customer experience, and to support our business functions. You can choose not to provide us with certain Personal Information, but then you may not be able to take advantage of the Site or obtain information from us. We may collect the following categories of Personal Information:
We may aggregate and/or anonymize all information that we collect from you, including Personal Information, for the purpose of market research on brands and products, marketing campaigns, and advertising.
We may also collect and store Personal Information about other people that you provide to us, as well as information about you provided by others. As a requirement to use our Site, you acknowledge that you have the appropriate consent(s) from any individual (or the parent of any child under the age of 13) to share their Personal Information with us.
We may use online Personal Information we collect about you on its own or combine it with other information we have about you to:
We may also disclose the categories of Personal Information listed under the section of this Privacy Policy titled “Information Collected By Us” to third parties for the reasons described below.
However, we may share your Personal Information with:
We do not sell your Personal Information and will not do so in the future without providing you with notice and an opportunity exercise your rights under applicable law.
Our Site is not directed to persons under the age of 18. If you are not 18 years or older, do not use our Site. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from persons under the age of 18.
Our Site may contain links to third party websites, applications and services not operated by us. These links are provided as a service and do not imply any endorsement by us of the activities or content of these sites, applications or services nor any association with their operators. Additionally, our Site may include social media features, such as the Facebook “Like” button, and widgets, such as the “Share This” button or interactive mini-programs that run on our Site. We are not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of any third party including websites or services directly linked to our Site. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third party site that you visit.
The security of your personal information is important to us. We have established and implemented, and maintain, reasonable administrative, technical, and physical data security practices to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of Personal Information that is consistent with industry best practices. We follow generally accepted standards to protect the Personal Information submitted to us through your Interacting with us. However, no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is one hundred percent secure and we cannot guarantee its absolute security. Please contact us if you have any questions about security on our site.
The Personal Information that you provide to us is generally stored on servers located in the United States. If you are located in another jurisdiction, you explicitly ACKNOWLEDGE AND CONSENT that once your Personal Information is submitted through our Site, it will be transferred to our servers in the United States and that the United States currently does not have uniform data protection laws in place.
We will retain your information for as long as your account with us is active or as needed to provide you with our services. If you wish to cancel your account or request that we no longer use your information to provide you service, contact us at archinfo@csarch.com. We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
You may have rights under applicable law (which may include the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA)). To the extent such rights apply to you, the following outlines your rights and the procedures for exercising those rights.
Your rights may be exercised free of charge up to two times per year, provided that in cases where the requests are manifestly unfounded, excessive, or repetitive, we may charge a reasonable fee to cover the administrative costs of complying with the request or decline to comply with the request.
You have the right to:
You also have the right to opt-out of: (i) the processing of your personal data for targeted advertising, (ii) the sale of your personal data, and (iii) profiling performed in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects. While we will certainly honor any such requests, please be aware that we do not use your Personal Information for targeted advertising, sell such information or use your Personal Information for the purposes of profiling.
We will respond within 45 days of receipt of your request, or extend the time for response for an 45 additional days by notice during the initial 45-day period. If we decline to take action regarding your request, we will notify you within 45 days of the receipt of the notice. We will provide justification and information on the appeal process within a reasonable time after the communication of the decision to decline.
If you would like to exercise any of your rights as described in this Privacy Policy, please email/write to us at archinfo@csarch.com. If your request is declined, you may appeal by contacting us by email via the Contact Us form on our site, with the designation “ATTN: President,” and note in your correspondence that this is an appeal of our declining your initial request.
If you choose to contact us directly by email at archinfo@csarch.com, you will need to provide us with:
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices please contact us as follows: