Information about privacy and data
Buried Treasure is an artificial intelligence-powered document processing services that extracts 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.
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 below for more information about what Personal Information we collect and why.
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: legitimate interest of the business, shared with our processors Stripe and DigitalOcean.
Examples of Personal Information collected: name, email address, phone number.
Purpose of collection: to provide information or assistance to you in relation to our products or services.
Source of collection: collected from you.
Disclosure for a business purpose: legitimate interest of the business, shared with our processor DigitalOcean.
Examples of Personal Information collected: We collect information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. As you browse the Site, we collect information about the products you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site. We refer to this automatically-collected information as “Device Information”.
Purpose of collection: to load the Site accurately for you, and to perform analytics on Site usage to optimize our Site.
Source of collection: collected from you.
Disclosure for a business purpose: shared with our processors Stripe and DigitalOcean.
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
Your Document Data comprises:
We process 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.
Artificial intelligence is used to automatically extract text, data, and structured information from uploaded PDF documents. Our service uses an AI pipeline including external APIs and local models hosted on our servers.
AI extraction can make mistakes. It is the user’s responsibility to review the outputs.
We share personal data and Your Document Data with carefully selected third party service providers who process data on our behalf:
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 rights
You can read about the privacy policies of DigitalOcean, Llamaindex, Anthropic, Google and Stripe.
We do not sell or rent your Personal Data or Your Document Data to third parties.
Your personal data is stored and processed in the United Kingdom, in our hosting provider DigitalOcean's LON1 (London) data center. When we use third-party APIs for document processing, data may be transferred internationally including to the United States of America.
When you provide data to the Site, we, and therefore our cloud hosting service DigitalOcean, 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. In the event of closure of the Site, we will write to let you know the Site is closing and data will be deleted, and you will have three months notice prior to deletion of the data.
Your Document Data is deleted by Anthropic within 30 days and by Llamaindex 48 hours after processing completion.
Personal information relating to orders is retained by Stripe in accordance with their Privacy Policy
We are committed to the security of your Personal Information and Your Document Data. In order to prevent unauthorised access to, or disclosure of, your Personal Information or Your Document Data, we have implemented suitable physical, electronic and managerial techniques and procedures to safeguard and secure the Personal Information we collect via the website.
As a data subject whose personal data is being processed by LQM, you have the following rights:
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.
You have the right to request the following information from us:
This information has already been supplied to you in the form of this Privacy Notice.
You have the right to request that we rectify incorrect personal data and complete incomplete personal data that we hold about you.
You have the right, under certain circumstances, to request that we erase your personal data.
You have the right, under certain circumstances, to request that we restrict processing of personal data that we hold about you.
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.
You have the right, under certain circumstances, to object to our processing of your personal data.
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.
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.
A cookie is a small amount of information that’s downloaded to your computer or device when you visit our Site.
We use cookies in order to:
Cookies are classified as either “Performance” cookies or “Analytical” cookies. The former are essential for the safe and secure operation of the website, and the latter provide us with useful data about who is using the website. Some cookies are classified as both “Performance” and “Analytical”.
We use the following cookies on the Site:
| Cookie | Name | Purpose | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Web form security | __Secure-csrftoken | This cookie protects our web forms against a specific type of security attack. | Performance |
| Authentication | __Secure-sessionid | This allows our login functionality to work | Performance |
| Bot Management | __cf_bm | This is used by our CDN provider to prevent bots accessing their systems | Performance |
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.
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 them. 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.
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 protected] or by mail using the details provided below:
Land Quality Management Limited,
The Sir Colin Campbell Building,
Nottingham
NG7 2TU
United Kingdom
If you are not satisfied with our response to your complaint, you have the right to lodge your complaint with the ICO here: https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/
Last updated: 19 June 2025