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Privacy Policy
American Design Awards is committed to protecting your privacy. You can visit some pages on our site without giving us any information about yourself. However, in order to fully utilize the system we do need information in order to provide services that you request, and this privacy statement explains data collection and use in those situations. This privacy statement only applies to www.americandesignawards.com; it does not apply to other online or offline American Design Awards sites, products or services. Please read the complete American Design Awards privacy statement.
Collection of Your Personal Information
We will ask you when we need information that personally identifies you (personal information) or allows us to contact you. Generally, this information is requested when you are entering a contest, ordering e-mail newsletters, or submitting to various awards programs. Personal information collected by American Design Awards is often limited to e-mail address, mailing address, basic contact information, web site url and/or artwork link(s), but may also include other information when needed to provide a service you requested.
American Design Awards also collects information about which pages our customers visit within our web site.
Use of Your Personal Information
We use your personal information for the following purposes:
To review and award submitted design work.
To communicate with winners and send awards.
To ensure our site is relevant to your needs.
To alert you to contests, and updated information.
We may merge site-visitation data with anonymous demographic information for research purposes, and we may use this information in aggregate to provide more relevant content. In some limited-entry sections of the site, we may combine site-visitation data with your personal information in order to provide you with personalized content.
American Design Awards may disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on American Design Awards or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of American Design Awards and its family of Web sites, or (c) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of American Design Awards employees, users of American Design Awards products or services, or members of the public.
Your information may be stored and processed in the United States or any other country in which American Design Awards or its affiliates, subsidiaries or agents maintain facilities, and by using this site, you consent to any such transfer of information outside of your country.
Control of your Personal Information
When you enter our contests, or otherwise give us personal information, American Design Awards will not share that information with third party companies or organizations.
American Design Awards may send out periodic e-mails informing you of upcoming contests or security issues related to a product or service you requested, or confirming you requested a product or service. You will not be able to choose to unsubscribe to these mailings, as they are considered an essential part of the service you have chosen.
Security of your Personal Information
American Design Awards is committed to protecting the security of your personal information. We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. For example, we store the personal information you provide in computer servers with limited access that are located in controlled facilities. When we transmit sensitive information over the internet, we take precautions to protect it.
Protection of Children's Personal Information
American Design Awards is a general audience site and does not knowingly collect any personal information from children.
Use of Cookies
When someone visits the site, a cookie is placed on the customer's machine (if the customer accepts cookies) or is read if the customer has visited the site previously. One use of cookies is to assist in the collection of the site visitation statistics described above.
Enforcement of this Privacy Statement
If you have questions regarding this statement, you should contact American Design Awards by email.
Changes to this Statement
American Design Awards will occasionally update this privacy statement. When we do, we will also revise the "last updated" date at the top of the privacy statement. For material changes to this statement, American Design Awards will notify you by placing prominent notice on the Web site.
Contact Information
American Design Awards welcomes your comments regarding this privacy statement. Please contact us by email, or postal mail.
American Design Awards
P.O. Box 927748
San Diego, CA 92192
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