Privacy Policy

Last updated: July 6, 2020

The Designer’s Creative Studio, LLC (“DCS”, “us”, "we", or "our") operates 

http://www.designerscreativestudio.com (the “Site”). This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of Personal Information we receive from users of the Site. 

The site, DCS and its designates respect the privacy concerns of the users of its website, www.kajabi.com and the services provided therein. DCS thus provides this privacy statement to explain what information is gathered during a visit to the Site and how such information may be used. We use your Personal Information only for providing and improving the Site. By using the Site, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. 

Your use of DCS's services and this site are also governed by those of Kajabi, LLC, a California limited liability company. Please also review the Kajabi® website Terms of Use at https://newkajabi.com/policies/terms/ and Privacy Policy which also govern use of this Site. By using the Site, you accept the policies and restrictions set forth in this Online Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use the Site. This Online Privacy Policy may be revised from time to time by updating this posting. You are bound by any such revisions and should therefore periodically visit this page to review the then current Online Privacy Policy to which you are bound.

Information Collection And Use

As a general policy, no personally identifiable information, such as your name, address, or e-mail address, is automatically collected from your visit to the Site. However, certain non-personal information is recorded by the standard operation of the Company’s internet servers. Information such as the type of browser being used, its operating system, and your IP address is gathered in order to enhance your online experience. The Site’s various mailing lists, downloads, special offers, contests, registration forms, and surveys may request that you give us contact information such as your name, mailing and/or e-mail address, demographic information such as your age and gender, and personal preference information such as your preferred software and interests. Information submitted at the time of submission will be used by DCS only as necessary for our legitimate business interests, including without limitation the improvement of our products, services and the contents of the Site. DCS may also share such information with our business and promotional partners to further those interests. Personally identifiable information is never sold or leased to any third parties. With your permission, we may use your contact information to send you information about our company and products. We may also record sessions such as public webinars for use with marketing, promotion and/or content development. The images of individuals that may be recorded will not be used by DCS without their express, written consent. We collect personal information directly when you provide it to us, automatically as you navigate through the site, or through other people when you use services associated with the site. We collect your personal information when you provide it to us when you complete membership registration and buy services on our site, subscribe to a newsletter/blog, email list, submit feedback, enter a contest (if applicable), fill out a survey, or send us a communication. We will use your personal information to fulfill a contract/sale, or take steps linked to a contract/sale: in particular, in facilitating and processing transactions that take place on the site, like where you purchase an item from our services/content page(s). You will have the opportunity to opt-out of receiving future emails.

Where this is necessary for purposes which are in our, legitimate interests. These interests include:

• operating the site;
• providing you with services described on the site;
• verifying your identity when you sign in to the site;
• responding to support tickets, and helping facilitate the resolution of any disputes;
• updating you with operational news and information about our site and services (e.g. to notify you about changes to our site, website disruptions or security updates as well as new services available on the site);
• carrying out technical analysis to determine how to improve the site and services we provide;
• monitoring activity on the Site, (e.g. to identify potential fraudulent activity and to ensure compliance with the user terms that apply to the Site);
• managing our relationship with you, (e.g. by responding to your comments or queries submitted to us on the site or asking for your feedback or whether you want to participate in a survey);
• managing our legal and operational affairs (including, managing risks relating to content and fraud matters);
• training DCS staff about how to best serve our user community;
• improving our products and services;
• providing general administrative and performance functions and activities; and
• verifying your identity (if necessary) by multiple means including recognition technology (as is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims).

DCS does not store any credit card information it may receive in regard to a specific transaction and/or billing arrangement except as necessary to complete and satisfy its rights and obligations with regard to such transaction, billing arrangement, and/or as otherwise authorized by a user. DCS may disclose user information in special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference (either intentionally or unintentionally) with DCS’s rights or property, other users of the Site, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities. DCS may also be required to disclose personal information in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements. 

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. If you wish to be informed what personal data we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please refer to the details listed below on how you can access your personal information. If you have any questions, please contact us. In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:

• The right to access, update or to delete the information we have on you
• The right of rectification
• The right to object
• The right of restriction
• The right to data portability
• The right to withdraw consent

It may help to refer to the “termination” definition in the terms of use policy.

Choice/Opt-Out 

The Site may provide you the opportunity to opt-in to receive communications from us at the point where we request information about you. You always have the option of removing your name from any e-mail list in order to discontinue any such future communications. In order to ensure immediate removal from any list, please follow the specific instructions set forth within the communications you receive from DCS which you no longer wish to receive. If you are unsuccessful in completing the instructions specified in any such communication, please e-mail us at the contact information below, including a copy of the undesired email attached to the request, and state you wish to be removed from the mailing list.

Third Party Content

Please also note that third-parties who provide and/or publish content via the Company’s Kajabi® Service shall be deemed the data controllers for any personal data contained in the content uploaded by any such party to the Company’s Kajabi® Service (“Third-Party Content”) and any other personal data processed in relation to such Third-Party Content. This privacy policy only concerns the processing for which the Company is data controller. If you have any questions regarding personal data contained in the Third-Party Content, please contact the third-party provider responsible for such Third Party Content. 

DCS is not responsible for the content or practices of third party websites that may be linked to the Site. DCS is also not responsible for any information that you might share with such linked websites. You should refer to each website’s respective privacy policy and practices prior to disclosing any information.

 Transfer of Information Across National Borders: Our site and various information we collect are operated on servers located in various jurisdictions, including the United States. When you access or use the Site and/or our services, personal information about you may be transferred outside the country in which you are situated to these other locations. DCS and Kajabi's policies ensure that such personal information is protected to the same standard when processed by any Company entity or office around the world. We also ensure that appropriate contracts containing standard data protection clauses approved by the European Commission to protect that information and the rights of individuals are in place with any and all third-party service providers we may use.

Children Age 16 and Under

DCS and the Site recognizes the special obligation to protect personally identifiable information obtained from children age 16 and under. AS SUCH, IF YOU ARE 16 YEARS OLD OR YOUNGER, THE COMPANY REQUESTS THAT YOU NOT SUBMIT ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION TO THE SITE OR TO THE COMPANY. If DCS discovers that a child age 16 or younger has signed up on the Site or provided us with personally identifiable information, we will delete that child’s identifiable information from our records.

DCS and Kajabi nonetheless encourages parents to go online with their kids. Here are a few tips to help make a child’s online experience safer:

• Teach kids never to give personal information, unless supervised by a parent or responsible adult. Includes name, address, phone, school, etc.
• Know the sites your kids are visiting and which sites are appropriate.
• Look for Website privacy policies. Know how your child’s information is treated.
• Check out the FTC’s site for more tips on protecting children's privacy online.

.Access user's personal information

You can access some of the personal information that we collect about you by logging in to your account. At any time, but only once per calendar year, or as otherwise required under applicable law, users may contact DCS to review the personally identifiable information that it has collected about you. If you discover any errors, please notify DCS and the information will be corrected. To review the personally identifiable information that DCS has collected about you, please send an email to [email protected] with the subject line: “Personal Information Review Request.” Users may also request that DCS delete a user account(s) or, if you have not established a user account, your email address, and any related data at any time. If you wish to delete your user account(s), please email us at the above listed email address with the words “Delete Account” in the subject line. If you do not have a user account and wish to delete your email address or other personally identifiable information that you might have provided through your use of the Site, any Games, and/or any Services, please email us at the contact email listed in this text or below with the words “Delete My Information” in the subject line.

You may also choose to confirm that DCS does not use your personal information in certain ways and/or to otherwise “opt out” of certain uses of that personal information, including without limitation (i) when your personal may to be disclosed to a third party unrelated to the Company and/or parties directly related to providing your Services and/or (ii) when your personal information may be used for a purpose that is materially different from the purpose(s) for which it was originally collected or subsequently authorized by you. If you wish to limit your personal data in either such way, or have other questions about how DCS may use your personal data, please contact us at the contact email listed below with the words “Privacy Request” in the subject line.

Your California Privacy Rights 

California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits California residents to request from companies conducting business in California a list of third parties to which the company has disclosed personally identifiable information during the preceding year for direct marketing purposes. DCS has not and will not share your personally identifiable information with third parties for their direct marketing purposes; accordingly, it will not maintain such a list of third parties. If you are a resident of California and want additional information confirming how DCS does not share your personally identifiable information with third parties for their direct marketing purposes, you may contact us at the contact email address listed below with the words “California Privacy” in the subject line of your email.

Log Data

Like many site operators, we collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Site ("Log Data”). This Log Data may include information such as your computer's Internet Protocol ("IP") address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other statistics. In addition, we may use third party services such as Google Analytics that collect, monitor and analyze this information. This information will be used in accordance with the above described policy for “information collection and use”.

Communications

Where we have your consent to do so (e.g. if you have subscribed to one of our email lists, provided us with your contact information or have indicated that you are interested in receiving offers or information from us), we send you marketing communications by email about products and services that we feel may be of interest to you. You can “opt-out”of such communications if you would prefer not to receive them in the future by using the “unsubscribe” facility provided in the communication itself.

Cookies

Cookies are files with small amounts of data, which may include an anonymous, unique identifier. Cookies are sent to a User’s browser from a web site and stored on a User’s computer hard drive to recognize them and make their next visit easier and the Services more useful for them.

Like many sites, we use "cookies" to collect information and to enable certain functions of the Service, to provide analytics, to store User's preferences and to enable advertisements delivery. Users can instruct their browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if Users do not accept cookies, they may not be able to use some portions of our Site. The specific cookies used by our Site are listed by the host company (Kajabi) as:

_kjb_session “Kajabi session cookie” Tracks your active admin sessions so you don’t need to re-login

kjba “Kajabi affiliate token” Tracks which affiliate has referred an offer purchase

_abv “Admin bar hidden” Tracks whether the user wishes their admin previewing bar to be hidden

Security

The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. We have implemented technical, administrative and physical security measures to attempt to protect your personally identifiable information from unauthorized access and improper use. We also protect your personally identifiable information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, customer service) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment. We continually review all such measures and update them when appropriate. Personal information that we store or transmit is protected by up to date security and access controls, including username and password authentication and data encryption where appropriate. While we strive to protect your personal information, DCS cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit via the internet. By transmitting any such information to DCS, you accept that you do so at your own risk.

Malware/Spyware/Viruses: Neither the Company nor the Site knowingly permit the use of malware, spyware, viruses, and/or other similar types of software.

Changes To This Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is effective as of July 6, 2020 and will remain in effect except with respect to any changes in its provisions in the future, which will be in effect immediately after being posted on this page. We reserve the right to update or change our Privacy Policy at any time and you should check this Privacy Policy periodically. Your continued use of the Service after we post any modifications to the Privacy Policy on this page will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy.

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.

Complaints or Concerns: If you have any complaints or concerns about DCS and/or this privacy statement, please contact: [email protected] Attn: Privacy Policy/Legal 

Information provided by you via general e-mail inquiries to DCS such as your e-mail address is used only to respond to your inquiries in the ordinary course of business, and is never shared with third parties.

If you are a resident of the EU and have an unresolved data privacy concern or personal information collection, use, or disclosure concern, you may file a complaint/inquiry with us at the contact email listed below.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at the following email address: [email protected]