PRIVACY POLICY
Yates Desygn, and its current and future affiliates (together, “Yates Desygn, “We,” “Us,” “Our”) takes the security and privacy of your personal information very seriously. This Privacy (“Notice”) describes how we process personal information about you that we collect through the website or application operated and controlled by us from which you are accessing this Notice (the “Site”). This Notice does not apply to information that we collect offline, such over the telephone, in person, or by facsimile. By using the Site, you agree to the terms and conditions of this Notice.
This Notice is considered part of our Terms and Conditions.
1. Personal Information We Collect
1.1 “Personal Information” is information that identifies you as an individual, such as: name, postal address, telephone number, and email address.
1.2. We may collect and process the following Personal Information about you:
1.1.1. Information that you provide by filling in forms on the Site.
1.1.2. If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
1.1.3. Information that you provide in order to benefit from a particular feature or participate in a particular activity, such as when you sign up to receive emails from us.
1.1.4. Some areas of this Site may allow you to submit information related to job opportunities with Yates Desygn, in which case we collect the information that you submit to us to be considered for employment opportunities.
1.3. Through your use of the Site, we may also gather certain information about your use of the Site that does not identify you individually, but may identify your computer or device. Generally, this information is collected through what we refer to herein as “Traffic Data.” We may collect and store such Traffic Data automatically whenever you interact with the Site. For example, we may collect your IP address, the hostname of your computer, browser information and reference site domain name every time you visit the Site. We may also collect information regarding customer traffic patterns and site usage. This Traffic Data is used to analyze and improve the Site, to deliver offers to you on the Site that may be of interest to you, and to improve your experience on the Site. Please see the section below in this Notice regarding Passive Information Collection for more information about our use of cookies and other technologies.
1.4. We may combine your Personal Information with other information we have collected from you or from other sources, whether on- or offline, including, for example, your transaction history with Yates Desygn or Traffic Data about you. We treat the combined information as Personal Information.
2. How We Use Personal Information
2.1. We use Personal Information about you in the following ways:
2.1.1. To respond to your inquiries and fulfill your requests.
2.1.2. To ensure that content from the Site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.
2.1.3. To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
2.1.4. To deliver promotional materials to you, including on our Site and by email.
2.1.5. To notify you about changes to our Site, products, and services.
2.1.6. To prevent misuse or improper use of the Site.
2.1.7. Where you submit information through the careers link on our Site, we use such information to consider you for employment opportunities.
2.1.8. For our business purposes, such as data analysis, audits, developing new products and features, enhancing our website, improving our products and services, identifying Site usage trends, and determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns.
2.1.9. As we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities, including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; (d) to enforce our terms and conditions; (e) to protect our operations or those of any of our affiliates; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you, or others; and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.
2.1.10. For any other purpose specified at the point of collection.
2.2. We may use and share non-personal, non-individual statistics or demographic information in aggregate form without restriction.
3. Disclosure of Your Personal Information
3.1. We may disclose your Personal Information to our affiliates, who will use it in accordance with this Notice.
3.2. We may disclose your Personal Information to third parties:
3.2.1. Who are service providers that perform functions on our behalf. Examples include providing customer service, sending postal mail and e-mail, and analyzing data. These service providers have access to Personal Information needed to perform their functions but are contractually prohibited from using it for other purposes.
3.2.2. In the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer, or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets, or stock (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceeding).
3.2.3. If we are under a duty to disclose or share your Personal Information in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Yates Desygn or any affiliate, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
4. Your Rights and Choices
4.1. Opt Out From Direct Electronic Communications: Where it is in accordance with your preferences, Yates Desygn may send you direct electronic communications through email. You may “opt out” of receiving these electronic communications by following the instructions in the message that you receive, or by sending an e-mail to hello@yatesdesygn.com indicating which communications you no longer wish to receive. Note that we may still send certain administrative messages to you by email that relate to your use of the Site or transactions in which you have engaged with Yates Desygn.
4.2. Opt Out From Cookie-Related Processing: You can opt out from certain cookie-related processing as described in Sections 5 of this Notice.
5. Passive Information Collection, Use, and Choices
5.1. As you navigate the Site certain Traffic Data may be passively collected, meaning it is gathered without your actively providing it. This is done using the following technologies in the following ways:
5.1.1. IP Addresses: An IP address is a unique identifier that certain electronic devices use to identify and communicate with each other on the Internet. When you visit our Site, we may view the IP address of the device you use to connect to the Internet. We use this information to determine the general physical location of the device and understand from what geographic regions our website visitors come. We also may use this information to enhance our Site.
5.1.2. Through Your Browser: Certain information is collected by most browsers, such as your Media Access Control (MAC) address, computer type and operating system type and version screen resolution, and Internet browser type and version. Just as IP addresses, we may use this information to enhance our Site and user experience.
5.1.3. Using Monitoring Tools: The Site may utilize pixel tags, web beacons, clear GIFs, Flash Shared Objects, HTML5 Local Storage, HTML5 Mini Databases, and other similar technologies, both on certain aspects of the Site and in HTML-formatted e-mail messages to you. These monitoring tools are used for the purpose of, among other things, measuring the success of our marketing campaigns, compiling statistics about Site usage and response rates, and tracking the activities of users of the Site and e-mail recipients.
5.1.4. Cookies: Like many companies, our Site may use “cookies” to help make sure the Site is meeting the needs of its users and to help us make improvements. Cookies are bits of text that are placed on your computer’s hard drive when you visit certain websites. We may use cookies set by us on the Site to tell us, for example, whether you have visited us before or if you are a new visitor. We use third-party cookies set by our service providers to collect information about how visitors use the Site, including how long you spend on each page, and how you got to the Site. We also use cookies to select which of our advertisements or offers are most likely to appeal to you and display them while you are on the Site or deliver them to you by email.
The main cookies used by our Site are created from Squarespace Analytics, which track your IP address.
At any point in time, you can change your internet browser settings to prevent the use of cookies. Each browser has a different procedure for disabling the use of cookies. The Help function within your browser should tell you how. Alternatively, you may visit http://www.aboutcookies.org where you can review information on how to control cookies on a variety of browsers. You will also find details of how to delete cookies from your computer and other general information about cookies. If you use your browser settings to block all types of cookies, however, you may not be able to access all or parts of our Site or functionality may be limited.
We do not track your behavior across third party websites. Our Site currently does not respond to “Do Not Track” (DNT) signals and we operate as described in this Privacy Statement whether or not a DNT signal is received, as there is no consistent industry-standard for compliance.
6. Social Media
6.1. Some aspects of the Site may allow you to interface with other websites, social media, and other online services, such as Facebook, Instagram, and Houzz. We will diligently work to identify these aspects of the Site to you, for example, by identifying them with the applicable third-party logos or trade names. These interfaces may allow the social media or other service to automatically collect information about you, such as browser information and IP address. If you interface with the Site through your social media account, we may contact you or enable you to share your experience and content via your social media account, which information may be publicly viewed by other users of those services. For a description on how such social media services and other third-party platforms, plug-ins, integrations, and applications handle your information, please refer to their respective privacy policies and terms of use, which may permit you to modify your privacy settings with that service or platform.
7. Information Related to Minors
7.1. The Site is not intended for persons under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information online from persons in this age group. We reserve the right to delete any information identified as having been provided by such persons at our discretion.
8. Changes to Our Notice
8.1. We may change this Notice from time to time. When we do, we will let you know by posting the changed Notice on this page with a new “Last Updated” date. In some cases, we may also tell you about changes by additional means, such as by posting a notice on the Site or sending an e-mail to the e-mail address we have on file for you.
9. Links to Third Party Sites
9.1. The Site may contain links to other Web sites for the convenience of users in locating information, products, or services that may be of interest. If you access a third-party website from a link on the Site, any information you disclose on that website is not subject to this Privacy Notice. It is possible that these links may be used by third parties or others to collect personal or other information about you. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of such websites, advertisers, or third parties or the content of such websites and it is your sole obligation to review and understand the privacy practices and policies of these other websites. We do not control these third parties’ use of cookies, collection of information, or how they manage such information. It is solely your obligation to review and understand the privacy practices and policies of these other websites, advertisers and any third parties.
10. Contact
10.1. If you have any questions about this Notice, please contact us at:
Last updated: February 24, 2022