Privacy Policy

This is an important notice about your privacy and how SHOP! Design Awards (referred to as "we", "us" or "our" in this policy) collects and uses your personal data. We want to be open and transparent with you, so please contact us if you have any questions about this policy or how we use your personal data.

This policy applies to our subscribers, award applicants, and general business contacts. We take our privacy responsibilities seriously and are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.


Privacy Policy:

The SHOP! Design Award respects individual identity and information and promotes the use of fair information practices. This Privacy Notice covers the https://www.shopdesignawards.com/ of the website and we are the sole owner of the information collected.


Information Collection:

The SHOP! Design Award respects the collection of information from users at multiple points on their website. We only collect information that is necessary to serve you, present your work to a panel of judges, notify you of your award, remind you of your deadline, or inform the public about your award, your company, and your work.

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


Information you provide to us:

For example, we collect information when you sign up for an account, or create a new submission, request customer support, or leave us a review. The types of information we collect directly from you include your name, email, company name, address, job title, and other contact information, among others.


Information collected through cookies, web analytics, and tracking technologies:

We may use technology that saves cookies to your computer or mobile terminal. Cookies are small data files stored on your hard drive or in your device's memory that help us improve your experience on the SHOP! Cookies are only used to understand the effectiveness of our advertising and collect very little information. Once you leave our website, we will not track and record your activity. We may also use web analytics services to collect information. These services, such as Google Analytics, help us understand how to improve the visitor experience on our website.


How we use your personal information:

The electronic version of your personal information is stored on our Supplier Platform in Hong Kong. The servers we use to provide services to you depend on where you or your organization are located; Make it user-friendly and faster. For example, if you or your organization chooses to provide our services in Asia, the servers used to provide the services to you or your organization will be located in Asia.

If 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 treat it in accordance with the law.


Utilization Information:

This information may be used to perform a variety of purposes, including: SHOP! Design Award winners, reminding registrants of upcoming deadlines, notifying winners, sending updates, and news about SHOP! Design Awards and SHOP! Awards related competitions, and selecting partners, answering and helping customer service support questions, monitoring and analyzing trends, use of marketing effectiveness, preventing illegal activities, spam, and other unauthorized use of the UN Design Awards website, and displaying relevant advertisements to visitors.


Right of access, deletion and to be forgotten:

Your Rights in Relation to Your Personal Information

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

Request correction of your personal information. This enables you to correct any incomplete or inaccurate personal information.

Request deletion of your personal information. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal information where there is no good reason for us to continue processing it. You also have the right to ask us to stop processing personal information because we are relying on legitimate interests and your particular situation makes you wish to object to processing on this ground.

The request is forgotten; We will delete all your personal data from our servers.

If you wish to review, verify, correct, or request deletion 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 service@shopdesignawards.com.


What we may need you to do:

We may need specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access the information (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal information is not disclosed to others who are not authorized to receive that information.


Right to withdraw consent:

In limited circumstances, you may have consented to t he collection, processing and transfer of your personal information for a specific purpose, and you have the right to withdraw your consent to that specific processing at any time. To withdraw your consent, please contact us at service@shopdesignawards.com.

You can also change your marketing preferences by using the unsubscribe button at the bottom of the marketing emails we send you when we provide you with marketing information. Once we receive notice of your withdrawal of consent, we will no longer process your personal information for the purposes for which you originally consented, unless we have another lawful basis to do so.


Sharing and Disclosure of Information:

To promote our winners, we share information about their projects with the media, partners, and press releases. We do not share any of your personal information, or information that is not used for public use. We require third parties and partners to respect the security of your personal information and to handle it in accordance with the law.


Opt-out:

You may opt-out of receiving reminders and newsletter emails from SHOP! Design Awards by following the opt-out instructions provided in the email. You can also opt-out of receiving promotional emails and other promotional communications from us at any time by sending an email to the SHOP! support team with your specific request. If you opt-out of the newsletter, we may still send you non-promotional communications, such as notifications of your winning award or other important information that is beneficial to you, but this may be affected if you unsubscribe from the SHOP! Design Awards listing.

Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually choose to set your browser to delete or reject browser cookies, or to prompt you before accepting such cookies. Please note that if you choose to delete or reject browser cookies, this may affect the usability or functionality of the SHOP!


Recommend:

We display the winners' personal testimonials on our website. With your consent, we may post your testimonials along your name and use those testimonials to provide you with more publicity and exposure.


Link:

This website contains links to other websites. The SHOP! Design Award encourages our users to be vigilant when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of every website that collects personally identifiable information. This Privacy Statement applies only to information collected by this website.


Payment Security:

This website uses 256-bit SSL encryption, and all payments are processed by Alipay or Visa, among others. The SHOP! Design Award does not directly access or store credit card information.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us service@shopdesignawards.com


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