Privacy Policy
In short
- This website sets no tracking cookies and does not follow you — no Google Analytics, no ad networks, no social media buttons looking over your shoulder. How many visitors the site gets, we work out from the ordinary log files of our own server, without a cookie and without putting anything in your browser; see point 4.
- There is one form: the request form. What you put in it goes straight to our mailbox and past no other party. You can still just email us instead.
- Fonts, images and scripts are served from our own server, not from Google or any other external network.
- We sell nothing on and share nothing with third parties, unless the law obliges us to.
1. Who is responsible for your data?
Buining Design is the data controller for the personal data processed through this website and by email.
Buining Design
Van Kijfhoekstraat 198, 3341 SP Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, The Netherlands
Chamber of Commerce 42003642 · VAT NL005427403B27
Email: info@buiningdesign.com · Phone: +31 6 24314261
Buining Design also trades as AI d3signer, Havenmarks (formerly PIA), Receptify and bbqplanner. This policy covers the website buiningdesign.com; the individual products have their own terms.
2. What data do we process, and why?
Visiting this website
The server this website runs on keeps technical log files of every request. These contain your IP address, the time, the page requested, the referring page and the type of browser you use. This happens automatically and is necessary to keep the site running and to detect faults, abuse and attacks.
We also derive simple visitor statistics from these log files; point 4 explains how. We do not use them to follow visitors or build profiles. The log files are erased automatically after 15 days at most.
If you use the request form
On the request page we ask for your name, your email address, what your question is about and your message. Your phone number and your website address are optional — we ask for them because they usually make an answer a good deal more concrete.
What you fill in is not stored in a database or a file on the server: the form sends your message by email to info@buiningdesign.com and nothing of it remains on the website. There is no external form service involved; the script runs on the same server as the site. From that moment on your message is ordinary email correspondence, and the retention periods below apply.
The form contains one hidden field that only automated fillers complete, plus a check on how quickly it was submitted. Together those stop most spam. Nothing about your behaviour is recorded and there is no captcha.
If you email or call us
When you get in touch we process the data you provide yourself: your name, your email address or phone number, your company name, your website address and whatever else you put in your message. We use it to answer your question and, if it leads to an assignment, to carry that assignment out.
If you become a client
For a quotation, assignment or invoice we process your business and billing details: name, address, Chamber of Commerce and VAT number, bank details and the agreements we make.
| Data | Purpose | Legal basis (GDPR) | Retention |
|---|---|---|---|
| Server logs (IP address, time, page, browser) | Running and securing the website, and the visitor statistics in point 4 | Legitimate interest (art. 6(1)(f)) | 15 days at most, then erased automatically |
| Visitor statistics per day (counts, pages, referring domain) | Knowing which pages are being read | Legitimate interest (art. 6(1)(f)) — without IP addresses, not traceable to individuals | No end date; they are totals only |
| Request form (name, email, optionally phone and website, your message) | Answering your request | Steps prior to a contract (art. 6(1)(b)) | Not stored on the website; the message becomes email, see the row below |
| Email correspondence | Answering your question and staying in touch | Legitimate interest, or steps prior to a contract (art. 6(1)(b)) | For as long as the conversation runs, then two years at most |
| Quotations, assignments and invoices | Performing the assignment and keeping our books | Performance of a contract (b) and legal obligation (c) | 7 years — the Dutch statutory retention period for accounts |
3. Cookies and browser storage
This website sets no cookies. It does keep one technical preference in your own browser's local storage: your choice of the dark or light theme, stored under the name theme. That value stays on your device, is never sent to us or to anyone else, and says nothing about who you are. You can remove it by clearing the site data in your browser.
If you visited this site before, an old cookieConsent value may still be in your browser, left over from the consent banner we have removed. It no longer does anything and disappears as soon as you clear the site data.
So there are no analytics or marketing cookies to ask consent for. The visitor statistics in point 4 come from the server's log files; they need no cookie and put nothing on your device. Should we ever use a service that does, we will update this policy and ask for your consent beforehand.
4. Visitor statistics from the server logs
We would like to know whether our pages are being read. For that we do not use Google Analytics, a counting script in your browser or any other external service, but the log files from point 2. Once a night a program on our own computer fetches the log lines of the past few days over an encrypted connection and counts, per day: how many visitors there were (the same IP address with the same type of browser counts as one visitor that day), which pages were viewed, the domain name of the site someone clicked through from (for example google.com), and how many requests came from search engines, other automated programs and attackers.
Only those daily totals are kept. IP addresses and browser details are not stored with them, so nothing about you personally can be derived from the numbers. The log files themselves stay on the server and are erased there after 15 days at most.
Until 10 October 2026 we counted page views with a small script of our own in the browser, without a cookie and without an IP address. That script has been removed. The figures it collected — per day the pages viewed, the counts and the referring domains — are kept.
5. Who else sees your data?
Only we do, along with the parties that make our website and email technically possible:
- one.com — the server this website runs on, located in the Netherlands. We manage the server ourselves.
- STRATO AG (Germany) — our email and domain names. The servers are located within the European Union.
Beyond that we do not pass your data to third parties. We do not sell it and we do not use it for advertising. The only exception is a legal obligation, such as invoice records the Dutch tax authority is entitled to inspect.
Your data is not transferred to countries outside the European Economic Area.
6. Artificial intelligence
We build AI workflows, and the news articles on this site are put together automatically. No personal data of visitors is used in that process. No automated decisions are made about you on this site, and no profiling takes place.
If we work together on an assignment that involves third-party AI services, we agree in advance which data is involved and record that in the assignment.
7. Security
The website runs entirely over HTTPS, so traffic between your browser and our server is encrypted. Beyond that we store as little data as possible and keep it no longer than needed — which is the best security there is. Access to our email and our records is protected with strong passwords and two-factor authentication.
8. Your rights
You have the right to:
- see what data we hold about you;
- have data corrected if it is wrong;
- have data erased, insofar as we are not legally required to keep it;
- have the processing restricted, or object to it;
- receive your data in a portable file;
- withdraw any consent you gave, at any time.
Send your request to info@buiningdesign.com. You will have an answer within four weeks. To make sure we do not hand data to the wrong person, we may ask you to send your request from the email address we already know.
If you disagree with how we handle your data, please tell us first — we would rather put it right. You also always have the right to lodge a complaint with the Dutch data protection authority, the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens.
9. Changes
If something changes about the website or about the way we handle data, we will update this policy. The date of the last change is shown at the top. This version dates from 10 October 2026.