Privacy policy
Introduction
dg3 design is committed to safeguarding and preserving your privacy, protecting your personal information and being transparent about what information we hold about you. This Privacy Policy explains what personal data we may collect about you, how we use it, and the steps we take to ensure that it is kept secure. We also explain your privacy rights, and how we comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
What Information we collect
Personal data means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data which has been anonymised so that a person’s identity has been removed. We collect various types of information and in a number of ways. For example:
- Information provided voluntarily by you. For example, when you request details about our design services via email, telephone or the request form on our website.
- Information about you if you are a supplier, including where appropriate bank details to facilitate payment.
- Information that you provide when you communicate with us by any means.
How and why we use your data
We may process personal data of anyone who interacts with the company. This may include, but is not limited to:
- Individuals, businesses, organisations and other freelance associates.
- Job applicants.
We may retain any information that you provide which is relevant and necessary for us to deliver our work producing design, graphics, web-design and other related activities, to issue invoices, and to contract suppliers for print, photography and other related services. This data will include contact email addresses, telephone numbers, job titles, a history of your working relationship with dg3 and your requirements/interests in future areas of work.
We may use examples of your work for promotional purposes – for example on our website, Facebook page, to email other clients to provide them with information on our services.
The legal basis on which we process your personal data:
We process your data on the following legal bases:
CONTRACT PURPOSES
When you engage dg3 to work for you, you are entering into a contract with us. In order to fulfil this contract we need to process and store your data. For example we may need to contact you by email or telephone, to discuss a job progress, amends, print purchase and payment etc.
LEGITIMATE BUSINESS INTERESTS
Producing design is a collaborative process which involves effective communication between all those, engaged in seeing a project through to completion: designer, photographers, web designers, printers, delivery companies and other professionals.
We therefore collect and process your personal data for purposes that are in our legitimate organisational interests to ensure service delivery. However we only do this if there is no overriding prejudice to you by using your personal information in this way.
Sharing your Data:
Occasionally we need to communicate by email with large numbers of existing professional contacts. We would either do this directly, or we may on occasion use a bulk email service provider who processes your data on our behalf – the only data we would pass on would be your email address and preferred salutation. Our chosen bulk email provider is Mailchimp, who are compliant with data processing requirements. Their privacy policy can be viewed here.
This is currently the only scenario in which we share data with an external data processor. All such email messages contain an unsubscribe option and you have the right to opt out of any marketing messages.
We may also share bank account details with our bank to facilitate supplier payment.
We will put in place appropriate safeguards (both in terms of our procedures and the technology we use) to keep your personal information as secure as possible. We will ensure that any third parties we use for processing your personal information do the same. This includes secure online back up with Code 42 Crash Plan. Their privacy policy can be viewed here.
Cookies
Cookies are small text files that are automatically placed onto your device by some websites that you visit. They are widely used to allow a website to function as well to provide website operators with information on how the site is being used.
You can manage the cookies stored on your computer or turn them off completely through your browser settings. Be aware that this may affect your browsing experience or even prevent you from using parts of our site which require a login.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
We use Google Analytics. Google Analytics gathers information about the use of our website by means of cookies. The information gathered is used to create reports about the use of our website. You can find out more about Google’s use of information by visiting https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/ and you can review Google’s privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy.
We use the Yoast plug-in to optimise our site ranking and visibility in search engines. This service uses cookies for. You can view the privacy policy of this service provider at https://yoast.com/privacy-policy/.
Vimeo
Our website uses features provided by the Vimeo video portal. This service is provided by Vimeo Inc., 555 West 18th Street, New York, New York 10011, USA.
If you visit one of our pages featuring a Vimeo plugin, a connection to the Vimeo servers is established. Here the Vimeo server is informed about which of our pages you have visited. In addition, Vimeo will receive your IP address. This also applies if you are not logged in to Vimeo when you visit our plugin or do not have a Vimeo account. The information is transmitted to a Vimeo server in the US, where it is stored.
If you are logged in to your Vimeo account, Vimeo allows you to associate your browsing behavior directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your Vimeo account.
For more information on how to handle user data, please refer to the Vimeo Privacy Policy at https://vimeo.com/privacy.
Google Web Fonts
For uniform representation of fonts, this page uses web fonts provided by Google. When you open a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache to display texts and fonts correctly.
For this purpose your browser has to establish a direct connection to Google servers. Google thus becomes aware that our web page was accessed via your IP address. The use of Google Web fonts is done in the interest of a uniform and attractive presentation of our plugin. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO.
If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font is used by your computer.
Further information about handling user data, can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google’s privacy policy at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
Your rights
Under the GDPR you have the right:
- To opt out of any marketing activities.
- To ask for a copy of any data we hold on you.
- To ask us to delete your data
- Please use the contact details at the end of this policy if you would like to exercise these rights.
Updates to this Privacy Statement
We regularly review and update this privacy policy to reflect changes in our services, feedback from you, and to comply with changes to the law.
Contact details and further information
Please get in touch with us if you have any questions about any aspect of this privacy policy.
dg3 design
9 Abbey Avenue
Leeds
LS5 3DH
richard@dg3.co.uk
0113 228 5500
Updated 17 February 2021