Buried Treasure Privacy

Introduction

Buried Treasure is an artificial intelligence-powered document processing services that extract data from PDF documents. Buried Treasure is provided by Land Quality Management Limited (LQM). Buried Treasure is available via LQM’s subdomain bt.lqm.co.uk (the “Site”).

This Privacy Policy describes how LQM  (the “Site” or “we”) collects, uses, and discloses your Personal Information when you visit or make a purchase from bt.lqm.co.uk.  Some information relating to bt.lqm.co.uk is made available via our main website www.lqm.co.uk which has its own privacy policy.

The Site also contains links to other websites.  Once you have used these links to leave the Site, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information that you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this Privacy notice.

The Buried Treasure website bt.lqm.co.uk

Collecting Personal Information

When you visit the Site, we collect certain information about your device, your interaction with the Site, and information necessary to process your purchases. We may also collect additional information if you contact us for customer support. In this Privacy Policy, we refer to any information that can uniquely identify an individual (including the information below) as “Personal Information”. See the list below for more information about what Personal Information we collect and why.

Order information

  • Examples of Personal Information collected: name, billing address, payment information (including credit card numbers, email address, and phone number).
  • Purpose of collection: to provide products or services to you to fulfill our contract, to process your payment information,  and provide you with invoices, communicate with you, screen our orders for potential risk or fraud, and when in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services.
  • Source of collection: collected from you.
  • Disclosure for a business purpose: shared with our processor Stripe.

Minors

The Site is not intended for individuals under the age of 18. We do not intentionally collect Personal Information from children. If you are the parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with Personal Information, please contact us at the address below to request deletion.

Sharing Personal Information

We share your Personal Information with service providers to help us provide our services and fulfill our contracts with you, as described above. For example:

  • We use Stripe to collect your payment. You can read more about how Stripe uses your Personal Information here: 
  • We may share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our right

Your Document Data

Your Document Data comprises

·         Documents you upload for processing

·         Extracted data viewable on the Site

·         Downloadable data

We process your Your Document Data solely to provide the extracted data to you. Your Document Data are not used for AI model training by LQM or by the external APIs we use to assist with processing.

How Our AI Systems Work

Artificial intelligence is used to automatically extract text, data, and structured information from uploaded PDF documents. Our service uses as AI pipeline including accessing external APIs and local models hosted on our servers.

AI Limitations

AI extraction can make mistakes.  It is the user’s responsibility to review the outputs.

Data Sharing and Third Parties

Third-Party Service Providers

We share personal data with carefully selected third party service providers who process data on our behalf:

·         Digital Ocean (London data centre) provides servers for cloud hosting, secure data storage and service delivery

·         Llamaindex and Anthropic provide APIs used as part of our AI pipeline to process Your Document Data.

·         Stripe provides credit card and billing services

International Data Transfers

Your personal data is primarily stored and processed in the United Kingdom through our hosting provider Digital Ocean's London data center. When we use third-party APIs for document processing, data may be transferred internationally.

Data Retention

When you provide data to the Site, we, and therefore our cloud hosting service Digital Ocean, will retain your Personal Information and Your Document Data for our records indefinitely unless and until you ask us to erase this information or closure of the Site.

Your Document Data is stored by Anthropic, for as long as it takes to extract the data and by Llamaindex for 48 hours after processing completion. 

Personal information relating to orders is retained by Stripe in accordance with their privacy policy.

Your Document Data will remain available in your account until you close / delete the account or the Site closes.  You will be able to access Your Document Data even if you have no credits or your subscription is inactive.

Cookies

A cookie is a small amount of information that’s downloaded to your computer or device when you visit our Site.

When you visit the Site, no cookies are used.  This may change in the future at which point this section would be updated to reflect the change.

Your rights in relation to your personal data

As a data subject whose personal data is being processed by LQM, you have the following rights:

  1. The right to be informed
  2. The right of access
  3. The right to rectification
  4. The right to erasure
  5. The right to restrict processing
  6. The right to data portability
  7. The right to object
  8. Rights in relation to automated decision-making and profiling

The right to be informed

You have the right to be informed about the collection and use of your personal data. We have fulfilled our responsibilities in this regard by giving you this Privacy Notice.

The right of access

You have the right to request the following information from us:

  • Confirmation that we are processing your personal data
  • A copy of your personal data that we are processing
  • Supplementary information about our processing of your personal data
    • This information has already been supplied to you in the form of this Privacy Notice

The right to rectification

You have the right to request that we rectify incorrect personal data and complete incomplete personal data that we hold about you.

The right to erasure

You have the right, under certain circumstances, to request that we erase your personal data.

The right to restrict processing

You have the right, under certain circumstances, to request that we restrict processing of personal data that we hold about you.

The right to data portability

You have the right to request personal data that you have provided to us. We have to provide it to you in a structured, commonly used and machine readable format, and you can also request that we transmit it directly to another data controller on your behalf.

The right to object

You have the right, under certain circumstances, to object to our processing of your personal data.

Rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling

You have rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling. However, we do not carry out automated decision making or profiling on your personal data in this context. As such, these rights do not apply to this personal data.

Do Not Track

Please note that because there is no consistent industry understanding of how to respond to “Do Not Track” signals, we do not alter our data collection and usage practices when we detect such a signal from your browser.

Changes

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons.

Contact

For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail at [email address] or by mail using the details provided below:

Land Quality Management Ltd, The Sir Colin Campbell Building, Nottingham NG7 2TU, United Kingdom

Last updated: 19 June 2025

If you are not satisfied with our response to your complaint, you have the right to lodge your complaint with the relevant data protection authority. You can contact your local data protection authority, or our supervisory authority here: : https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/]

In most cases, there will be no fee charged for making a request to us. We will act on requests received without undue delay and in any event within one month of receiving it. If your request is complex, or you have made a number of requests to us, we may extend our response time by up to two months. We will inform you within one month of receiving your original request if this applies. We might need to ask you to prove your identity to us before we start to respond to your request. If we consider your request to be manifestly unfounded or excessive we may request a reasonable fee from you to deal with it.

Last updated: 19TH June 2025