Privacy Policy

The Designest, (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates the https://thedesignest.net website (the “Service”).
The Designest is the data controller for processing personal data provided to us through the Service. Our registered office is at Georgia, City Batumi, 0177, Shalva Nutsubidze Street, N1.
This page states our policies in terms of collecting, using and disclosing the Personal Data when you use our Service and/or our and digital resources (“Resources”). It concerns personal data and other information collected by us from or about: visitors (“Visitors”) and newsletter subscribers (“Subscribers”) of our Service. The personal information will not be shared or used with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy.
Your Personal Data is used to provide and improve the Service and Resource(s). By using the Service, you allow to collect and use the data, according to this policy. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meaning as in our Terms and Conditions, accessible at https://thedesignest.net

Definitions

  • Personal Data: information relating to an identified or identifiable real person. An identifiable real person is any real person who can be identified directly or indirectly.
  • Processing: any operation or a set of operations performed on personal data or on sets of it, whether or not by automated means, such as collecting, recording, transmission, storage, conservation, extracting, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission and so on.
  • Controller: the natural or legal person, agency, public authority or other alone body or a body jointly with others which determines the purposes and means of personal data processing.
  • Processor: the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body processing personal data on behalf of the controller.
  • Third-party: a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or body other than the data subject, controller, processor and persons who, under the direct authority of the controller or processor, are authorized to process personal data.
  • Permission: permission of the data subject means any freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of the data subject’s wishes by which he or she, by a statement or by a clear affirmative action, implies agreement to the processing of personal data relating to him or her.

Communications

Any of the following means can be used to contact us:
  • E-mail, via info@thedesignest.net for general communication, informing, product issues, support or any other commercial or non-commercial inquiry as well as for any privacy-related information or request.
  • Contact Form for general communication, product information, support or any other commercial or non-commercial inquiry.
If you are an unregistered person and initiate a communication, your contact information will be used to respond to your requests.
When the Service’s new content, Resources or other promotions are released, we may inform you by email. We will send you such information only with your permission, which was given when you provided us with the Personal Data for the first time.
It must be noted, that we will send transactional triggered messages, but not limited by opt-ins, opt-outs, Resource(s) downloads and any Personal Data requests.
We will deliver Product Bulletins and Service Bulletins concerning the provision of our Service to our Service Customers unless a contract termination and/or an account deletion request is made.
A Service Bulletin is non-marketing and non-commercial communication including but not limited to updates to the Terms and Conditions, Privacy Policy, Business Transactions, Cookie Policy and any other contractual communication.
A Product Bulletin is a non-marketing and non-commercial communication, including but not limited to security notifications, Product(s) updates, Product(s) security patches or data breach notifications.

Information Use And Collection

When you request a Resource or subscribe to email newsletter on our Service, we collect the following Personal Data:
  • Submitted Name;
  • Email address.
When you subscribe to our service newsletter (“Newsletter Subscriber”), we collect the following Personal Data from you:
  • Submitted Name;
  • Email address.
When you initiate a contact with our Service via the contact form located at the following contact page, without creating a contact on our Service, we collect the following Personal Data from you:
  • Submitted Name;
  • Email address.
When you request a Resource or subscribe to email newsletter in addition to the Personal Data mentioned above, we collect the following Personal Data from you:
  • Submitted Name;
  • Email address.
We collect this information to provide the Service and the Resource(s), identify and communicate with you, responding to your requests/inquiries, maintaining your purchase orders, and improving our services.

Automatically Collected Data

We may automatically collect information your browser sends whenever you visit our Service. This Log Data may contain information such as browser type and its version, your computer’s IP address (“Internet Protocol”), the pages of our Service you visit, the time, date of your visit and the time spent on the pages and other statistics.
In addition, we may use third-party services that collect, monitor and analyze this type of information in order to increase our Service’s functionality. These third-party services possess their own privacy policies stating the use of such information.
When we process Automatically Collected Personal Data we do not use your submitted Personal Data in association with any Automatically Collected Data.

How We use Your Information

We use Personal Data you submit to assist your support request and inquiries, to provide access to the Service and to Resources, and to inform you of important changes to the Services. This use is necessary for having the contract between you and us.
We will use your contact information to respond to your requests when you ask for information about the Service or about the Resources. This use is necessary for responding to your request prior to initiating a contract with us. The Personal Data acquired from this type of communication will never be freely used for purposes connected with marketing.
We will use your Personal Data for marketing purposes only with the limits permitted by applicable law. Your Personal Data may be used to send you information by email on our Service’s new content, our Resources, or other promotions.
We will obtain your permission before doing so where it is required by the applicable law. We will send you such information only with your permission, which was given when you provided us with the Personal Data. If you do not provide us with your permission to process your Personal Data for this purpose, this information won’t be sent.
You are empowered to withdraw your permission at any time, including by following the instructions contained in each promotional communication we send you allowing you to “opt-out” of receiving future promotional information. Additionally, if you wish not to receive any future communications, to have your name deleted from our mailing lists, or to have your Personal Data removed from our Service, please contact us at email: info@thedesignest.net
After your Personal Data has been removed we will continue contacting you via email only to respond to your requests and inquiries and to deliver transactional messages, triggered, but not limited by opt-ins, opt-outs, account changes, and any Personal Data requests. This use is necessary for performing the contract between you and us.
We will continue to deliver Product Bulletins and Service Bulletins regarding the provision of our Service to our Service Customers unless an account deletion and/or termination request is made. This use is necessary for providing the contract between you and us.
If you wish not to receive any communication from our service at all, you can terminate the contract between the Service and you and upon an email request.
Your Automatically Collected Personal Data may be used to administer, analyze, improve and support the use of the Service. We may use data relating to your use of Service, without identifying you, to administer, analyze, improve and support your access to and use of the Services.
Your Personal Data and other data may be collected, anonymized and/or aggregated and used for our business purposes. This aggregate information does not identify you, and such data may be shared with affiliates and business partners. Such use of your Personal Data is necessary for our legitimate interests in understanding how the Service is being used by you and to improve your experience on it.
Your Personal Data may be used for other purposes only after providing a specific notice at the moment of collection, and only after an explicit opt-in.

Cookies

A cookie is a piece of information sent to your browser from a website and stored on your computer’s hard drive. Cookies help a website recognize repeat users and allow a website to track web usage behavior. Cookies work by assigning a random number to the user and has no meaning out of the assigning website.
For all professional websites cookies is a common practice. We use cookies to collect information about your device, such as IP address, operating system, and browser type in order to make your experience better. More information on how we use and disable cookies, the type of cookies we set and how cookies relate to your privacy can be found in our Cookie Policy. If you have any questions about the Cookie Policy, please contact us at email: info@thedesignest.net
When you’re connected to our Service for the first time, you will have to confirm whether you agree to the use of cookies and similar technologies.
Session cookies expire at the end of your visit to our website, but persistent cookies remain on your computer (or terminal device) for a long time.

Disclosure And Sharing

We may share your Personal Data and other information without further notice to you with certain third parties, as set forth below:
  • Service Providers and/or Vendors: to perform certain functions and services: payment providers processing and fraud prevention, web analytics, marketing, email communication and customer support services, hosting, and recruiting services and to assist us in meeting our operational needs and business processes. 
    Pursuant to our instructions, these parties may process, store or access Personal Data in performing their duties to us as data processors. These third-parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform specific tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use your information for other purposes.
  • Legal Requirements: if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to (I) comply with lawful requests by public authorities, including meeting national security or law enforcement requirements and applicable law, rule, order, or regulation or a legal obligation, (II) defend and protect the rights or property of the Service, (III) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public, or (IV) protect against legal liability.

Information update

If you need to change or correct your Personal Data provided to us or wish to remove your Personal Data from our systems, you can use the built-in functionality, or you may contact us at email: info@thedesignest.net We will address your requests as required by applicable law.

EU And EEA Data Subjects

This section applies if you are an EU data including the European Economic Area countries of Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway and, where applicable, Switzerland. Subject to the applicable law, you have the following rights in relation to your Personal Data:

  • Access: if you ask us, we will confirm whether we are processing your Personal Data and, if so, provide you with a copy of that Personal Data (along with certain other details).
  • Rectification: you can rectify or complete your Personal Data upon an email request if it is inaccurate or incomplete.
  • Erasure: You may remove your Personal Data upon an email request. You may ask us to delete or remove your Personal Data and we will do so.
  • Data portability: you have the right to obtain your Personal Data from us that you consented to give us or that is necessary to perform a contract with you. Your Personal Data will be given in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. You may reuse it.
  • Objections: You may ask us to stop processing your Personal Data at any time, and we will do so:
    • If we are relying on a legitimate interest to process your Personal Data — unless we demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing; or
    • If your Personal Data is processed for direct marketing.
  • Automated decision-making and profiling: You have the right to be free from decisions based only on automated processing of your Personal Data, including profiling, unless such profiling is necessary for entering, or performing of the contract between you and us.
  • Consent withdrawal: You have the right to withdraw that permission at any time if we rely on your permission to process your Personal Data. This will not affect the lawfulness of processing based on your prior permission.
  • Lodging a complaint with the data protection authority: You can report to the data protection authority that is authorized to hear the concerns about our privacy practices, including the way we have handled your Personal Data.
You may use your rights by contacting us as at email: info@thedesignest.net

Transfer of Personal Data

The Personal Data collected by the Service is transferred and stored in Russian Federation, where we are located. Your Personal Data may be transferred outside of your country, province, state or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction. For EU and EEA users, the Service will transfer your data only via a Privacy Shield certified third-party. Your data will be stored by the service only to a Privacy Shield certified storage provider. The data will be transferred and processed in accordance with the Privacy Shield Principles of Notice, Choice, Accountability for Onward Transfer, Security, Data Integrity and Purpose Limitation, Access, and Recourse, Enforcement and Liability as seen below:

Retention of Personal Data

We only retain the Personal Data collected from you for the duration of the contract between you and us or, for a limited period of time as long as we need it to fulfill the purposes for which we have initially collected it unless otherwise required by law. We will retain and use information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. We may automatically remove, at our own discretion, the following information:
  • Name;
  • Email address.

Security

We strive to implement and maintain reasonable, commercially acceptable security procedures and practices appropriate to the nature of the information we store, in order to protect it from unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification, or disclosure. The security of your Personal Data is important to us.
 
Please be aware that no method of electronic storage or method of transmission over the internet is 100% secure. We are unable to guarantee the absolute security of the Personal Data we have collected from you.
 
We will inform you and the authorities of the occurrence of the security systems breach in accordance with applicable law if we learn of any.

Limitations

Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third-party’s site. We strongly recommend you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.
 
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third-party services.
 
Through our Service, you can choose to access certain social media websites and services that are owned and/or controlled by third-parties, such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and YouTube (“Social Media Services”). When you choose to access and use Social Media Services, including interacting with our pages on those sites, you will be sharing your Personal Data and other information with them.
 
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third-party services.

Children’s Privacy

Our service is intended for persons age 16 or older only and does not address anyone under the age of 16 (“Children”).
 
We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 16. Please contact us, if you are a parent or guardian and you learn that your Children have provided us with Personal Data. We will remove Personal Data from our data base if we become aware that we have collected this information from a child under age 16 without verification of parental permission.

This Privacy Policy Changes

This Privacy Policy is effective as of June 25, 2018, and will remain in effect. The exception is any changes in its provisions in the future, which will be in effect immediately after being posted on this page.
 
We will notify you either through the email address you have provided us or by placing a prominent notice on our website if we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy.
 
We will notify you either through the email address you have provided us or by placing a prominent notice on our website if we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy.

Contact Us

Please contact us if you have any questions about this Privacy Policy.
 
The Designest
Shalva Nutsubidze Street, N1
0177, City Batumi, Georgia
Email: info@thedesignest.net