Privacy Policy

Who we are

BuildsFirst (buildsfirst.com) is a trading name of Neobotic Studio Limited, a company registered in England and Wales under company number 17030531, with its registered office at 71–75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2H 9JQ, United Kingdom ("we", "us", "our"). We are the controller of the personal data described in this policy. You can contact us about privacy at leon@neoboticstudio.com.

What this policy covers

This policy explains how we handle personal data collected through this website, including when you register interest, book a call, or apply to our partner programme. BuildsFirst is in an early stage. This website is used to understand interest in the product and to arrange conversations with hiring teams and recruitment partners.

The data we collect

When you register interest or apply as a partner, we collect the information you give us:

• your work email address
• your name (partner form)
• your company or agency name
• the type of role you are hiring for, or the roles you place
• your team size
• your preferred call time, if you choose one

When you visit the site, our hosting providers may automatically process limited technical data, such as your IP address, browser type and pages requested. They use it to deliver the site securely and to prevent abuse.

Please do not send us sensitive information (special category data) or information about candidates through this website.

How we use it and our lawful basis

• To respond to your enquiry, arrange and hold a call, and follow up about BuildsFirst. Lawful basis: our legitimate interests in responding to business enquiries and developing our product. Where you ask us to, this is also taking steps at your request before entering into a contract.
• To understand demand and improve our product, using aggregated or anonymised insights where possible. Lawful basis: legitimate interests.
• To keep the website secure and working. Lawful basis: legitimate interests.
• To comply with legal obligations where they apply.

We will only send you marketing emails where the law allows it. You can opt out at any time by replying "unsubscribe" or contacting us. We do not sell your personal data, and we do not use it for automated decision-making that has legal or similarly significant effects on you.

Who we share it with

We share personal data only with service providers who help us run the website and our business, under contracts that require them to protect it. These are: Lovable (website hosting), Supabase (database hosting, where your registration details are stored), Cal.com (for booking calls) and Google Workspace (email and calendar). We may also disclose data where required by law, or in connection with a sale or reorganisation of our business.

International transfers

Some of our providers may process data outside the UK. Where they do, we rely on appropriate safeguards, such as UK adequacy regulations or the UK International Data Transfer Agreement / Addendum to the EU Standard Contractual Clauses.

How long we keep it

We keep enquiry and registration data for up to 36 months from our last contact with you, unless you become a customer or partner (in which case our agreement with you will apply), or you ask us to delete it sooner.

Your rights

Under UK data protection law you have rights to:

• access your data
• have it corrected or erased
• restrict or object to our use of it, including objecting at any time to processing based on legitimate interests and to direct marketing
• data portability, where it applies

To exercise any of these rights, email leon@neoboticstudio.com. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ico.org.uk). We would appreciate the chance to address your concerns first.

Cookies

This website uses only cookies and similar technologies that are strictly necessary for it to work. If we introduce analytics or other non-essential cookies, we will update this policy and ask for your consent first.

Changes

We may update this policy from time to time. The "last updated" date shows when it last changed.