Your privacy is important to us. Design-4-Sustainability.com has prepared these privacy and security policies (“Statement”) so you may better understand how DESIGN-4-SUSTAINABILITY.com (“our Website”) may use your personal information in connection with our Website and services, as well as how it protects your information against unauthorized use. Please take the time to review this Statement and contact us with any questions or concerns.
COLLECTION OF INFORMATION
Personal Information
DESIGN-4-SUSTAINABILITY.com may ask you to register and provide personal information in certain instances, such as when you choose to personalize your use of our Website, when you ask a question, or when you contact us. Personally identifiable information that we may collect includes your name, e-mail address, and your country, your profession or your age.
If you choose not to register, you can still use most of our Website. But you won’t have full access to tools or post an article.
Website Usage Information
DESIGN-4-SUSTAINABILITY.com tracks navigational data (log files, server logs, click-stream) and information about how our Website is used by you (through cookies, Internet tags, or web beacons). We do so to improve our website and services we do NOT sell this information nor share it with third parties. You can set your browser to notify you when a cookie is sent, or to refuse or delete cookies altogether, but in such cases certain features of our Website might not function as expected.
HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
Personal Information
DESIGN-4-SUSTAINABILITY.com collects, integrates, and uses your personal information to help enhance and personalize your use of our Website and the services that we may offer. We also use anonymous and aggregated data to create statistics and reports for various business purposes.
DESIGN-4-SUSTAINABILITY.com may also use your information to communicate directly with you via so called “service e-mails,” which we use to communicate with you regarding the system itself or your use of the system. Examples include: responses to customer service enquires, and messages regarding the completion of transactions you have initiated.
Website Usage Information
The website usage information we collect (e.g., cookies, Internet tags, web beacons, etc.) is used by DESIGN-4-SUSTAINABILITY.com to monitor the operation, technical functions, and quality of our Website and services. We may also use such information for research or improvements of our Website and the services we offer you. We use Google Analytics, have not given permission to resell our information and our data is kept for the minimum period (at 24 May, 2018 this is 14 Months).
Disclosure of Data
DESIGN-4-SUSTAINABILITY.com keeps your personally identifiable information confidential. We do not disclose it to third parties or others that do not have a need to know such information, except under certain circumstances. Set forth below are various circumstances under which DESIGN-4-SUSTAINABILITY.com may share your personal information:
Certain of our employees and independent contractors have access to your personally identifiable information for the sole purpose of helping us run our business. These employees and contractors have confidentiality and security obligations.
We may disclose your personally identifiable information in the event that we sell this Website or substantial parts of our business, provided that the buyer agrees to comply with this Statement.
If you post any information in public areas of our Website, such as blogs or article-commenting, it will be available to the public and we may reuse and republish such information at our discretion and in accordance with our Terms of Use.
We may also share your personally identifiable information to respond to law enforcement requests, court orders, or other legal processes; or if we believe that such disclosure is necessary to investigate, prevent, or respond to illegal activities, fraud, physical threats to you or others; or as otherwise required by any applicable law or regulation.
Before we disclose your personally identifiable information for other reasons, we will first obtain your consent, via e-mail, click-through, an online opportunity to enter your preference, or some other manner.
In the event that we disclose your personally identifiable information as set forth above, we will require third party organizations to protect and maintain your personally identifiable information in compliance with the terms and conditions of this Statement.
Prohibited Disclosures
Except as set forth above, DESIGN-4-SUSTAINABILITY.com will not disclose your personally identifiable information to any third party, including advertisers, without your explicit consent. In addition, DESIGN-4-SUSTAINABILITY.com will not sell, rent, or otherwise disclose DESIGN-4-SUSTAINABILITY.com’s e-mail list or address list except as explicitly set forth in this Privacy Policy.
CONTROL OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
DESIGN-4-SUSTAINABILITY.com offers its users choices for the collection, use, and sharing of personally identifiable information at the time a user decides to register. In addition, users may stop the delivery of future communications from DESIGN-4-SUSTAINABILITY.com by unsubscribing at any time. For instance, each e-mail you receive (aside from “service e-mails”) contain instructions explaining how to stop receiving such e-mails.
If your personally identifiable information changes (such as zip code, phone, or e-mail or postal address), or if you no longer desire our service, we provide a way for you to correct, update, or delete/deactivate your personally identifiable information. This can be done by visiting your account page on our Website or by e-mailing our Customer Support service at [email protected].
PROTECTION OF INFORMATION — SECURITY
DESIGN-4-SUSTAINABILITY.com is committed to protecting the security of your personal information. We use a variety of up-to date security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure.
You should keep in mind that no Internet communication is ever completely secure or error-free.
CHANGES TO THIS STATEMENT
We may periodically update this Statement to reflect changes in our services and policies. When we post changes to this Statement, we will revise the “last updated” date at the top of this Statement.
CONTACT INFORMATION
If you have questions or complaints regarding this Statement, you should first write us at [email protected] with any questions or concerns. All customer requests will be formally reviewed by our staff.
Privacy officer
DESIGN-4-SUSTAINABILITY.com
[email protected]
