DESIGNA

DESIGNA Privacy Policy

Last Updated: May 31, 2025

Welcome to DESIGNA. We are committed to protecting your privacy and handling your data in an open and transparent manner. This privacy policy will explain how our organization uses the personal data we collect from you when you use our website, designa.xyz, and engage with our services, which may include purchases and subscriptions.

DESIGNA (“we”, “us”, “our”) is a trusted leader and Partner provider of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and related services, with a relationship with Google since 2013. Our website address is: https://designa.xyz. We are the controller responsible for your personal data.

1. What Personal Data We Collect & Why We Collect It

  • Comments:
    When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection and for analytical purposes.
  • Media:
    If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
  • Contact Forms & Inquiries:
    If you use contact forms on our site or otherwise contact us, we collect the information you provide (such as name, email address, phone number, company information, and message content) to respond to your inquiries, provide support, and engage in business communications.
  • Account Registration & Purchases/Subscriptions:
    If you register for an account, purchase products, or subscribe to our software or services, we will collect information necessary to create and manage your account, process your payments, and deliver the services. This may include your name, email address, billing address, shipping address (if applicable), payment information (processed securely by our payment gateway providers), and purchase history.
  • Cookies and Tracking Technologies:
    Our website uses cookies and similar tracking technologies (e.g., pixels, web beacons) to enhance your experience, analyze site usage, and for marketing purposes. Cookies are small text files placed on your device.
    • Essential Cookies: Some cookies are necessary for the website to function properly (e.g., session cookies, login cookies, shopping cart cookies).
      • 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.
    • Performance & Analytics Cookies: We use these cookies (e.g., from Google Analytics) to collect information about how visitors use our website, such as which pages are visited most often, how users navigate the site, and if they encounter error messages. This data helps us improve website performance and user experience.
    • Marketing & Advertising Cookies: We and our third-party partners (including Google) may use these cookies to deliver advertisements that are more relevant to you and your interests, both on our site and on other websites. They may also be used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement and to measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. These cookies track your browsing habits and may be used to build a profile of your interests.
    • You can manage your cookie preferences through your browser settings and, where applicable, through cookie consent management tools on our website.
  • Embedded Content from Other Websites:
    Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, maps from Google Maps, 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.

2. How We Use Your Data

We use the data we collect for various purposes:

  • To provide, operate, and maintain our website, products, and services.
  • To process your transactions and manage your orders and subscriptions.
  • To manage your account and provide you with customer support.
  • To personalize your experience and to allow us to deliver the type of content and product offerings in which you are most interested.
  • To improve our website, products, and services based on your feedback and usage patterns.
  • To communicate with you, including responding to inquiries, sending service-related announcements, and providing information about products, services, and promotions that may be of interest to you (marketing communications), subject to your preferences and applicable law.
  • For advertising and marketing purposes, including targeted advertising and measuring the effectiveness of our campaigns, often with the use of tools like Google Marketing Platform and Google Ads.
  • To detect and prevent spam, fraud, and ensure the security of our website and services.
  • To comply with legal obligations.

3. Data Processing, Marketing, and Our Partnership with Google

As a trusted Google Cloud Partner since 2013, DESIGNA utilizes Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for hosting its website and for various data processing activities. Furthermore, we leverage Google Marketing Platform (GMP) and Google Ads for analytics, advertising, and marketing initiatives.

  • GCP Data Processing: When we use GCP services, Google acts as a data processor on our behalf for certain data. Google is committed to robust privacy and security protections for its cloud services. You can learn more about Google Cloud’s privacy and security practices here: https://cloud.google.com/privacy and https://cloud.google.com/security.
  • Google Marketing Platform & Google Ads: We use GMP (which includes tools like Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, etc.) and Google Ads to understand user behavior, optimize our website, measure advertising performance, and deliver targeted advertising. This may involve collecting data about your interaction with our website and ads, which is then processed by Google. Google may use this data to personalize ads across its network. You can learn more about how Google uses data when you use our partners’ sites or apps here: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites, and manage your Google ad settings here: https://adssettings.google.com.
  • Our Commitment: We make every commercially reasonable effort to protect your privacy and the information you provide to us. We select and configure services, including those from Google, with data protection and user choice in mind.

4. Who We Share Your Data With

  • Service Providers: We may share your data with third-party service providers who perform services on our behalf, such as payment processors, hosting providers (Google Cloud), email service providers, marketing and advertising partners (including Google), customer support tool providers, and analytics providers. These providers are authorized to use your personal information only as necessary to provide these services to us and are obligated to protect your information.
  • Google: As described above, data may be shared with and processed by Google as part of our use of GCP, GMP, and Google Ads.
  • Legal Requirements: If required by law, subpoena, or other legal process, or if we have a good faith belief that disclosure is reasonably necessary to (i) investigate, prevent, or take action regarding suspected or actual illegal activities or to assist government enforcement agencies; (ii) enforce our agreements with you; (iii) investigate and defend ourselves against any third-party claims or allegations; (iv) protect the security or integrity of our Service; or (v) exercise or protect the rights and safety of DESIGNA, our users, personnel, or others.
  • Business Transfers: In the event of a merger, acquisition, reorganization, bankruptcy, or other similar event, your personal information may be transferred as part of the transaction, subject to standard confidentiality arrangements.
  • We do not sell your personal data in the traditional sense. However, some data sharing with advertising partners for targeted advertising purposes might be considered a “sale” under certain data privacy laws (like CCPA). You can opt-out of such “sales” as described in “What Rights You Have Over Your Data.”

5. How Long We Retain Your Data

  • If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely for follow-up comment recognition, unless you request its deletion.
  • For users that register on our website, purchase products, or subscribe to services, we store the personal information they provide in their user profile and transaction history for as long as the account is active and for a reasonable period thereafter as necessary to provide services, maintain business records for audit purposes, comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
  • Data collected for analytics is typically retained in an aggregated or anonymized form. Data linked to cookies for marketing and advertising will be retained in accordance with the lifespan of those cookies or your consent preferences.
  • Temporary cookies have varying expiration dates as described in the “Cookies” section.

6. What Rights You Have Over Your Data

Depending on your location and applicable data protection laws, you may have certain rights regarding your personal data. These may include:

  • The right to access the personal data we hold about you.
  • The right to rectification if your personal data is inaccurate or incomplete.
  • The right to erasure of your personal data (“right to be forgotten”).
  • The right to restrict processing of your personal data.
  • The right to object to processing of your personal data (e.g., for direct marketing).
  • The right to data portability (receive your data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format).
  • The right to opt-out of the “sale” or “sharing” of personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising, if applicable under laws like CCPA/CPRA.
  • The right to withdraw consent at any time, where we rely on consent as the legal basis for processing.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at privacy@designa.xyz. We will respond to your request in accordance with applicable law.

7. Where Your Data Is Sent

  • Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
  • Our website is hosted on Google Cloud Platform, which has data centers globally.
  • Data processed by Google Marketing Platform, Google Ads, and other third-party service providers may be transferred to and processed in countries outside of your country of residence, including the United States. We take steps to ensure that any such transfers comply with applicable data protection laws, utilizing mechanisms like Standard Contractual Clauses where appropriate.

8. Data Security

We take the security of your personal data seriously and make every commercially reasonable effort to implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect it from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure.

9. Children’s Privacy

Our website, products, and services are not intended for use by individuals under the age of 18, as they may involve purchases and subscriptions. We do not knowingly collect personal data from individuals under 18. If we become aware that we have collected personal data from an individual under 18 without verification of parental consent (where applicable by law for specific services not involving purchases), we take steps to remove that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about an individual under 18, please contact us.

10. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the “Last Updated” date. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.

11. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the data we hold on you, or you would like to exercise one of your data protection rights, please do not hesitate to contact us:

Email: privacy@designa.xyz
Website: https://designa.xyz/contact