Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, process, and disclose personal information of consumers.  It applies to your use of the DesignsCanEmpower.com website. It also describes the choices available to you regarding our use of your personal information.

By using Designs Can Empower’s services, you accept the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you have questions or concerns about the Privacy Policy, please contact designer@designscanempower.com.

Information We Collect About Consumers.

Designs Can Empower may collect the following types of information:

Email addresses
Internet Protocol Addresses
Company Postal Addresses
Telephone Numbers
Information about the device the consumer is using to access our website or applications
Visitor browser settings
Visitor operating system
Visitor referring pages
Visitor exit pages
Visitor clickstream data
Visitor geolocation data
Information about how the visitor to our website interacts with the site
Information about how visitors that send us email interact with the email response sent to them

If consumers purchase a service from Designs Can Empower, our payment processor may also collect one of the following types of payment information:

Credit Card Numbers
Bank Account Numbers
Physical Addresses

During web conference meetings, Designs Can Empower may collect audio recordings and video recordings of meetings.

Where We Collect Information About Consumers

Designs Can Empower may collect information about consumers from the following sources:

Forms that consumers complete on the DesignsCanEmpower.com website
Web conferences that the consumer engages in with the Designs Can Empower web design consultant
Phone conversations that the consumer engages in with the Designs Can Empower web design consultant
Emails that the consumer sends to with the Designs Can Empower web design consultant
Cookies on the DesignsCanEmpower.com website
Other tracking technologies on the DesignsCanEmpower.com website

How We Use the Information We Collect About Consumers

Designs Can Empower collects information for use in marketing to current and prospective customers. Designs Can Empower also collects information for use in various types of analytics. This includes how website visitors interact with our website. Designs Can Empower does not share consumer information with third parties for the purposes of partner-based marketing.

How We Use Cookies and Similar Technologies

Designs Can Empower may use the standard cookie feature of major browser applications and third-party service providers, including Google Analytics features (Remarketing, Google Display Network Impression Reporting, the DoubleClick Campaign Manager Integration and Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting), that allow Designs Can Empower to store a small piece of data on a visitor’s computer, or any other device a visitor uses to access our website, about his or her visit to the website or use of other plug-ins exchanging information with DesignsCanEmpower.com. We also use similar technologies, such as JavaScripts or ETags, to analyze trends, administer the website, track users’ movements around the website, and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. You can remove persistent cookies by following directions provided in your Internet browser’s “help” directory. If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to use some areas of our site, such order forms, will be limited.

Our partners and affiliates, including Google Analytics (Remarketing, Google Display Network Impression Reporting, the DoubleClick Campaign Manager Integration, and Google Analytics and Interest Reporting), may use cookies and web beacons to collect information about your activities on this and other websites to provide you targeted advertising based upon your interests. This means that these partners and affiliates may show our ads on sites across the Internet based upon your previous visits to our website. Together with our partners and affiliates, we may use these cookies and web beacons to report how your ad impressions, other uses of ad services, and interactions with these ad impressions and ad services are related to your visits to our site. The use of tracking technologies by our service providers, technology partners or other 3rd party assets (such as social media links) on the site is not covered by our Privacy Policy. These 3rd parties may use cookies, clear gifs, images, and scripts to help them better manage their content on our site. We do not have access or control over these technologies.

If you would like to learn more or opt out of receiving online display advertising tailored to your interests, please visit the Networking Advertising Initiative at http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp or the Digital Advertising Alliance at http://aboutads.info/choices.

You may also learn more about Google Analytics uses your information by visiting Google’s page at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. You may also visit Google Analytics’ Ad Settings page at https://adssettings.google.com to opt out of Google’s use of cookies and customize Google Display Network ads. You can also learn more about Google Analytics’ browser add-on tool at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Designs Can Empower may maintain links to other websites and other websites may maintain links to DesignsCanEmpower.com. This Privacy Policy applies only to DesignsCanEmpower.com and not to other websites accessible from DesignsCanEmpower.com.

How You Can Control The Information Designs Can Empower May Have About You

This section describes how you can access and control the information that Designs Can Empower may have about you. If you are a resident of California, please review the sections “Information for California Residents” for more information about your rights.

Data Request

You may submit a request to verify the data we have about you. Upon a verified request, and subject to the privacy interests of others and technical limitations, Designs Can Empower will provide you with information about whether we hold any information related to you. At Designs Can Empower’s sole discretion, unless otherwise required by law, we may in some instances correct or delete information upon a verified request. Please note, however, that in certain circumstances we may be required by law to retain your Personal Information, or may need to retain your Personal Information in order to continue providing a product or service to you or another customer.

If you would like to submit a request about your data, email designer@designscanempower.com with your request details. After you submit the request, you will be asked to verify your email address and may also be asked to provide additional information in order to verify your identity.

Opting Out of Email

We send promotional emails and newsletters from time to time to consumers who have provided us with their email address or whose email addresses we have obtained through other sources. You can opt-out of promotional communications by using the “Unsubscribe” link and following the unsubscribe instructions in an email you receive from us.

Data Retention

At minimum, we will retain your information for as long as needed to provide you services, and as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

California Resident Rights

California law allows California residents, upon a verifiable consumer request, to request that a business that collects consumers’ Personal Information give consumers access to certain information. This includes the specific pieces and categories of Personal Information that the business has collected about the consumer, the categories of sources for that information, the business or commercial purposes for collecting the information, and the categories of third parties with which the information was shared.

California residents also have the right to submit a request for deletion of information under certain circumstances. This is not an absolute right and, in some circumstances, Designs Can Empower may decline to delete the information, such as when Designs Can Empower has an on-going business relationship with you, when we have a continued need to use the information for purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy, or when we are legally required to retain the information.

Consistent with California law, if you choose to exercise your rights, we will not charge you different prices or provide different quality of services unless those differences are related to your information

Learn more about how to opt out of the sell of personal information under the California Consumer Privacy Act.

How to Submit a Request for Access to Information or Deletion of Information

If you would like to submit a request about your data, we encourage you to do so by emailing designer@designscanempower.com. After you submit the request you will be asked to verify your email address and may also be asked to provide additional information in order to verify your identity. Designs Can Empower will attempt to verify your identity by asking for information that correlates with the information that we have previously collected about you. Where this is not possible, Designs Can Empower may request you submit additional information for verification, such as proof of residency or redacted government-issued identification. Please note that consistent with California law, we will be unable to satisfy your request until we have verified your identity.

Changes To This Policy

We may update this privacy policy to reflect changes to our information practices. If we make any material changes, a notice will be posted on this page along with the updated Privacy Policy prior to the change becoming effective. We encourage you to review this page periodically for the latest information on our privacy practices.

If you have any questions regarding our Privacy Policy, please contact designer@designscanempower.com.