PRIVACY POLICY

Sightline Design ("we", "us", "the studio") is a visual merchandising practice operating from [Registered Address], [Jurisdiction]. For the purposes of applicable data protection law, we act as the data controller for information described in this policy. Data protection enquiries: admin@aethelis.store.

• Contact details you send us by email: name, business email address, company or store name, and job title.
• Project information: store addresses, glazing dimensions, trading hours, lighting specifications, photographs of retail spaces, and merchandising plans.
• Commercial records: quotations, purchase orders, invoices, and payment references required to administer an engagement.
• Technical data collected automatically when you visit this site, such as IP address, browser type, referring page, and pages viewed.

• To respond to enquiries and prepare scopes, quotations, and schedules.
• To design, fabricate, install, and audit visual merchandising schemes.
• To issue invoices and maintain accounting and tax records.
• To maintain a portfolio of completed work, subject to the consent section below.
• To operate, secure, and improve this website.

We process personal data on the basis of performance of a contract (delivering agreed services), our legitimate interests (responding to enquiries, running and securing the studio's operations), compliance with legal obligations (tax and accounting records), and consent where required — for example, publishing identifiable client photography or sending marketing communications. Where consent applies you may withdraw it at any time by emailing admin@aethelis.store.

Installed schemes are photographed for quality control and for the studio's portfolio. We will not publish images that identify a client's premises, unreleased product, or confidential floor plans without written permission. Clients may request that a published image be withdrawn at any time.

• Fabricators, print suppliers, lighting suppliers, and installation contractors engaged for your project, limited to what they need to perform their work.
• Professional advisers such as accountants and legal counsel.
• Service providers who host our website, email, and file storage.
• Authorities where disclosure is required by law in [Jurisdiction].

Where personal data is transferred outside [Jurisdiction], we require appropriate safeguards from the recipient, such as standard contractual clauses or an equivalent mechanism recognised under [Applicable Data Protection Law].

Enquiry correspondence that does not lead to an engagement is retained for [Retention Period, e.g. 24 months]. Project files and commercial records are retained for [Retention Period, e.g. 7 years] to meet accounting and limitation-period requirements in [Jurisdiction], after which they are deleted or anonymised.

We apply access controls, encrypted storage and transmission where available, and least-privilege sharing with suppliers. No system is entirely secure; if a breach affects your personal data we will notify you and any relevant regulator as required by [Applicable Data Protection Law].

Subject to the law of [Jurisdiction], you may request access to your personal data, correction of inaccuracies, deletion, restriction of processing, portability, or object to processing based on legitimate interests. Send requests to admin@aethelis.store; we respond within [Response Period, e.g. 30 days]. You may also lodge a complaint with [Supervisory Authority].

This site uses only the cookies necessary to serve pages and remember basic preferences. If analytics or marketing cookies are introduced, this policy and a consent notice will be updated before those cookies are set.

We may update this policy to reflect changes in our services or the law. The effective date at the top of this page indicates the latest version. Material changes affecting active clients will be communicated by email.