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Last Updated: 25 April 2018<\/em><\/p>\n Design Shack takes data privacy very seriously and recognises the importance of protecting and respecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy describes the information we collect, how we use that information, to whom we pass the information, your rights and key contact information.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n To provide you with a Design Shack membership, we need to collect information about you. Our aim is not to be intrusive, and we won\u2019t ask you unnecessary questions. Any information we receive about you will be subject to strict controls to minimise the risk of misuse \u2013 including unauthorised access to, or disclosure of, your personal data.<\/p>\n Please read this notice carefully, and any other documents referred to in it. Here we set out the basis on which any information we collect about you or from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us and other parties in providing you with the services accessed through the website. Design Shack (\u201cour\u201d, \u201cus\u201d and \u201cwe\u201d) commits to using your information only in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy.<\/p>\n For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, the term \u201cinformation\u201d means any confidential and\/or personal data or other information related to users of Design Shack \u2013 including, but not limited to, corporate and individual customers and their connected parties.<\/p>\n By visiting this website or providing your personal information to one of our employees, for example by telephone or email, you accept and expressly consent to our use and disclosure of your personal information and direct us to do so in the manner described in this Privacy Policy. <\/p>\n This includes information you provide when you browse our website, register for an account, enter a competition, promotion or survey, purchase from us, and when you contact us for other reasons.<\/p>\n If you have concerns about any of the terms of this Privacy Policy, please email us so that we can provide further information. <\/p>\n We may collect and process the following information about you:<\/p>\n You may provide us with information by filling in forms on our website, our partners\u2019 websites or by talking with us by over the phone or corresponding with us via email or otherwise.<\/p>\n This includes information you provide when you browse our website, register for an account, purchase from us, and when you contact us for other reasons.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\tInitial Information<\/strong><\/p>\n To open a free Design Shack account, you must provide your email address. You then have the option to enter additional information to your profile: your name, website URL, biography, and social media account usernames.<\/p>\n To submit a design to our gallery, you must provide a URL, screenshot, name, and description.<\/p>\n When you communicate with us for customer service or other purposes, including by phone, email or using other methods, we retain that information and our responses to you.<\/p>\n When you arrive at or leave the Design Shack website, whether connected by a fixed line or wirelessly, we receive the web address of the site that you came from or are going to.<\/p>\n While you are using our site we collect information on the services you search for or view, page response times and length of visits to specific pages, how you interacted with each page (including scrolling, clicks and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page.<\/p>\n We collect information about the device you are using, such as the type of device, operating system and platform, the type and version of browser, browser plug-in types and versions, the times you access our website\/app and the time zone setting, mobile network information and unique device identifier.<\/p>\n Our primary purpose in collecting your information is to provide you with a safe, smooth, efficient and customised experience. By submitting your information to Design Shack, you agree that we may use your information for the following purposes:<\/p>\n We will use your information to:<\/p>\n We communicate with our users on a regular basis via email to provide requested services and help you manage your account. These activities include:<\/p>\n We use your email address to:<\/p>\n Users cannot opt out of these communications, but they will be primarily service-oriented rather than promotional. <\/p>\n As we are obligated to send these communications to current customers, if you do not wish to receive these communications at all, then, unfortunately, you must close your account.<\/p>\n We also use your email address to send you other types of communications that you can control, including information about the Design Shack membership, customer surveys and special promotions. These communications are to:<\/p>\n You can choose whether to receive these communications when you make a purchase, or create an account (or at any time thereafter) by logging in to your account on the Design Shack website, visiting your profile page and changing your preferences.<\/p>\n We will use your information to deliver and improve Design Shack services and manage your account, including:<\/p>\n From time to time we may offer you optional questionnaires, surveys, and competitions. If you choose to answer these questionnaires, surveys or competitions, we may use your information to improve Design Shack, send you marketing or advertising information, manage the competitions and for such purposes as collecting demographic information or assessing users’ interests and needs.<\/p>\n You will be given notice of how the information will be used prior to your participation in the survey, questionnaire or competition.<\/p>\n You can review the information you have provided to us and make any desired changes to your information or to the settings on your Design Shack account at any time by logging in to your account on the Design Shack website, visiting the profile page and changing your details.<\/p>\n Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site and to provide interest-based advertising.<\/p>\n You may adjust the settings on your browser to refuse cookies but some of the services on our website(s) may not work if you do so.<\/p>\n1. Overview<\/h2>\n
2. What Information We Collect<\/h2>\n
Information You Provide to Us<\/h3>\n
When We Communicate<\/h3>\n
Information We Collect When You Use Our Website<\/h3>\n
3. How We Use Your Information<\/h2>\n
Fulfilling Your Requests<\/h3>\n
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Communication and Customer Service<\/h3>\n
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Marketing<\/h3>\n
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Service Improvements and Account Management<\/h3>\n
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Questionnaires, Surveys, Competitions and Profile Data<\/h3>\n
Accessing and Changing Your Information<\/h3>\n
4. Cookies<\/h2>\n
5. Public Information and Sharing with Third Parties<\/h2>\n
Blog Comments<\/h3>\n