This is an important notice regarding your privacy and the way in which the Design Discovery Awards (D&A) (referred to as “we”, “our” or “us” in this policy) collects and makes use of your personal data. We want to be open and transparent with you and therefore encourage you to contact us if you have any questions about this privacy policy or the ways in which we use your personal data.

This policy applies to our award applicants, subscribers and general business contacts.

As the person responsible for this website, we take the protection of your personal data very seriously. In particular, we treat your personal data confidentially in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations. The use of this website leads to the collection of various personal data. Personal data is data that can identify you personally. This data protection declaration describes what data we collect and the purposes for which we use it. It also explains how and for what purpose this is done.

The Design Discovery Awards (D&A) respects personal identity and information by promoting the use of fair information practices. This privacy statement covers the website www.designdiscoveryawards.com.

Design Discovery Awards (D&A) is the sole owner of any information collected on www.designdiscoveryawards.com

Design Discovery Awards (D&A) collects user information in multiple locations on its website. We only collect information that is necessary to serve you, present your work to a jury, notify you of your award, remind you of deadlines, or promote your award, your company, and your work to the public.

Any personal information collected on the forms is for our private use only. Phone numbers, mailing addresses and email addresses will not be sold or distributed to third parties or posted online.

We collect information when you register at Design Discovery Awards (D&A) for an account, or create a new submission, request customer support, leave us your feedback, or subscribe to our newsletter.

The type of information we collect directly from you include your name, email, company name, address, position, and other contact information. We also require information about your entry / work that is being submitted into the Design Discovery Awards (D&A) program.

This includes:

· Entry Title

· Designer name and/or team members

· Company / Studio Name

· Company / Studio Website

· Client Name

· Name of photography and/or series

· Photographer name

· Email address

· Project Location

· and other informations related to the award entry

The information you provide to us, may be used to perform a variety of purposes, including:

· Promote winners of the Design Discovery Awards (D&A)，

· Remind registrants of upcoming deadlines or submissions timeframe

· Notify winners of their winning results，

· Send updates, and news regarding Design Discovery Awards (D&A)，

· Respond, and help with customer service support questions，

· Monitor and analyze trends, usage of marketing effectiveness，

· Prevent illegal activities, spamming and another unauthorized usage of Design Discovery Awards (D&A) website，

· Present relevant advertising to visitors.

To promote Design Discovery Awards (D&A) winners, we share information about their projects with media, partners, and in press releases. We will not share any of your personal information, or information that is not intended for publicity. We require third parties and partners to respect the security of your personal information and to treat it in accordance with the law.

We may use technologies that save cookies to your computer or mobile device. Cookies are small data files stored on your hard drive or in device memory that help us to improve your experience on the Design Discovery Awards (D&A) website. The cookie-related information is not used to identify you personally. Cookies are only to understand our website performance with minimal information collected. We will not follow and record your activity once you leave our website. We may also collect information using web analytics services. These services, such as Google Analytics help us understand how to improve visitor experience on the website.

Data are also processed by a third-party provider that we have engaged to render hosting and website presentation services on our behalf. This provider processes on its servers all data that are collected in the manner specified below when you visit our website or fill in forms made available for this purpose in our online shop. Data are processed on other servers only in the scope described herein.

Where we use third party service providers to assist us, your personal information may also be stored in accordance with their practices and procedures. We require third parties to respect your personal information and to treat it in accordance with the law

Your rights in connection with your personal information:

· Request access to your personal information (commonly known as a "data subject access request"). This enables you to receive a copy of your personal information and to check we are lawfully processing it.

· Request correction of your personal information. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate personal information corrected.

· Request the erasure of your personal information. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal information where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to stop processing personal information where we are relying on a legitimate interest and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground.

· Request to be forgotten; we will delete all your personal data from our servers.

If you want to review, verify, correct or request erasure of your personal information, object to the processing of your personal information or request that we transfer a copy of your personal information to another party, please contact us at info@designdiscoveryawards.com.

We may use technologies that save cookies to your computer or mobile device. Cookies are small data files stored on your hard drive or in device memory that help us to improve your experience on the Design Discovery Awards (D&A) website. The cookie-related information is not used to identify you personally. Cookies are only to understand our website performance with minimal information collected. We will not follow and record your activity once you leave our website. We may also collect information using web analytics services. These services, such as Google Analytics help us understand how to improve visitor experience on the website.

In the limited circumstances where you may have provided your consent to the collecting, processing, and transfer of your personal information for a specific purpose, you have the right to withdraw your consent for that specific processing at any time. To withdraw your consent, please contact us at info@designdiscoveryawards.com.

Where we are providing you with marketing information, you can also change your marketing preferences by using the unsubscribe button at the bottom of our marketing e-mails to you. Once we have received notification that you have withdrawn your consent, we will no longer process your personal information for the purpose or purposes you originally agreed to, unless we have another legitimate basis for doing so.

Newsletter Communications

You may opt out of receiving reminder and newsletter emails from Design Discovery Awards (D&A) by following the opt-out instructions provided in those emails. You may also opt-out of receiving promotional emails and other promotional communications from us at any time by emailing the Design Discovery Awards (D&A) support team with your specific request. If you opt out from the newsletters, we may still send you non-promotional communications, such as notifications of your winning or other important information that benefits you, but this may be affected if you unsubscribed from the Design Discovery Awards (D&A) list.

Cookies

Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you would like, you can usually choose to set your browser to remove or reject browser cookies or to prompt you before accepting such a cookie. Please note that, if you choose to remove or reject browser cookies, this could affect the availability or functionality of Design Discovery Awards (D&A) website.

We display personal testimonials of happy winners on our website. With your consent, we may post your testimonial along with your name and use these testimonials to provide you with even more publicity and exposure.

This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that Design Discovery Awards (D&A) is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. Design Discovery Awards (D&A) encourages our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this website.

This site uses 256-bit SSL encryption and all payments are processed by Paypal or Alipay and WeChat. Design Discovery Awards (D&A) does not directly access or store credit card information.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at info@designdiscoveryawards.com.

We never collect or maintain information at our website from those we actually know are under 13, and no part of our website is structured to attract anyone under 13.

If a parent or guardian believes that this site has collected the Personally Identifiable Information of a child under the age of 13, please contact info@designdiscoveryawards.com. 

We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time. We do not undertake to provide you with personal notice of any changes. In the event of material changes, we will provide notice by means that are reasonable under the circumstances, such as by posting a notice on the Websites. Your continued use of the Websites following the posting of changes to this Privacy Policy means you accept those changes.