Privacy Policy
This document outlines how Design by Global collects, utilises, and safeguards your corporate and personal data across our marketplace infrastructure.
1. Introduction
Welcome to Design by Global. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your professional data. This privacy policy will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
We require all marketplace participants, including enterprise clients and freelance contractors, to review this policy comprehensively to understand our strict data governance standards.
2. Data We Collect
To provide a premium matchmaking and deployment service, we must collect and process specific categories of information. This includes but is not limited to:
- Identity Data: First name, last name, username or similar identifier, title, and professional portfolio links.
- Contact Data: Billing address, email address, and telephone numbers.
- Financial Data: Encrypted payment gateway details and transaction histories (processed securely via our certified third-party providers).
- Technical Data: Internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting, and operating system.
Note: We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, or political opinions).
3. How We Use Your Data
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will utilise your data in the following circumstances:
- To register you as a new client or premium contractor.
- To process and deliver your project engagements, including managing payments, fees, and charges.
- To manage our relationship with you, which will include notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy.
- To administer and protect our business and this website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, and support).
4. Security Measures
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered, or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a strict business need to know.
They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a strict duty of confidentiality.
5. Contact Information
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, please contact our data governance team.
Email: info@designbyglobal.com
Response Time: Within 24-48 business hours.