Purpose
This Privacy Statement sets out Kintsugi Design’s policy relating to the collection and use of your personal information.
At Kintsugi Design, we have a few fundamental principles around privacy:
- We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it.
- We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products and services or protect our rights.
- We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of one of our services.
- In our mobile products, we aim to make it as simple as possible for you to control what’s visible to the public, seen by search engines, kept private, and permanently deleted.
- If you have questions about deleting or correcting your personal data please contact our support team at info@kintsugibydesign.com
Kintsugi Design LLC (“Kintsugi” or “Company”) operates the website kinstugibydesign.com (“Site”).
It is Kintsugi’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. The Site may contain links to other websites. The Company is not responsible for the privacy practices of those other websites.
Website Visitors
Like most websites, Kintsugi collects non-personally identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Kintsugi’’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Kintsugi’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Kintsugi may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g. by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Kintsugi also collects potentially personally identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged-in users and for users leaving comments on blogs. Kintsugi only discloses logged-in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.
Personally-Identifying Information
When you interact with Kintsugi, we may need to gather some personally identifiable information (PII) about you. Kintsugi will only gather the information necessary to support our interaction with you. Kintsugi complies with the Australian Privacy Act and the European General Data Protection Regulations. The following section provides information on what we gather, how we use it, and your rights in relation to that information.
What Information do we gather?
The specific information we gather will depend on how you wish to interact with us. When browsing the Kintsugi website, cookies are used to track usage. The usage data gathered is anonymised though it does include basic demographic information (such as country and web browser used). You may disable cookies in your browser if you do not want this information gathered.
If you make an enquiry via our website, email, or other means, Kintsugi may gather information about your contact details and your enquiry to service that request. If you purchase products or services from Kintsugi, we will gather a range of information for the purpose of delivering those products and services. This may include non-sensitive, personally identifiable information about people within your organisation.
If you apply for a job with Kintsugi, we will collect all information you provide us and store it in a file. We may gather additional information while assessing your application. If you are successful in your application, this information will become part of your employee record.
If you are unsuccessful, we will only retain this information with your permission, for the express purposes of assessing your suitability for any future opportunities that may become available.
What will we do with your information?
We will use it only for the purposes it was gathered. We will not sell your personal information. We will take all reasonable steps to protect your information.
We will only provide your information to a third party in the context of engaging with you and providing services (such as storing your contact information in a customer relationship management system). We will only use such service providers where we are confident they will protect your privacy.
What are your rights?
Kintsugi respects your rights under the Australian Privacy Act. Where relevant, we also support your rights under other regulatory schemes, such as the European General Data Protection Regulations.
You own your personally identifiable information. At a minimum, you may: request to review any of your personally identifiable information we possess; ask us to correct any errors in your personally identifiable information; ask us to “forget” your personally identifiable information, in which case we will take all reasonable steps to permanently delete any of your information we possess and which we are not legally required to retain. To request any of the above actions please contact Kintsugi on info@kinstugibydesign.com
Aggregated Statistics
Kintsugi may collect statistics about the behaviour of visitors to its website. For instance, Kintsugi may monitor the most popular requests or use spam screened by the 3rd party services to help identify spam. Kintsugi may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Kintsugi does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of certain Personally Identifying Information
Kintsugi discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organisations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Kintsugi’s behalf or to provide services available at Kintsugi’s website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organisations may be located outside of your home country; by using Kintsugi’s website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them.
Kintsugi will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organisations, as described above, Kintsugi discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Kintsugi believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Kintsugi, third parties or the public at large.
If you are a registered user of a Kintsugi website and have supplied your email address, Kintsugi may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Kintsugi and our services. We primarily use our various client account managers to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Kintsugi takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorised access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally identifying information.
Cookies
In some areas of the Site, Kintsugi employs ‘cookies’ (small data files that are sent to your computer) to improve your experience of the Site however, these are not used to track individuals or record information about you. The use of ‘cookies’ is now a fairly standard operating procedure for most websites. Please configure your browser accordingly to permit you to reject or disable the cookies if you wish. Please note however that certain parts of the website may not work properly if you decide to do so.
Adverts
Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognise your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Kintsugi and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers. Currently, Kintsugi does not use any advertising on its website.
Comments/Spam
Generic comments and other non-specific content (e.g. spam) submitted to our helpdesk service are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.
Privacy Policy Changes
All information is managed in line with Australian Privacy Principles and has been completed with compliance to the Privacy Act 1988 (Privacy Act) and the Privacy Amendment (Enhancing Privacy Protection) Act 2012.
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Kintsugi may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and at Kintsugi’s sole discretion. Kintsugi encourages visitors to frequently check with Kintsugi (info@kinstugibydesign.com) for any changes to its Privacy Policy.