Design Consulting Group
Privacy Policy

 

Effective Date: January 1, 2020

Overview

This privacy policy is for this website https://www.dcg19.com, & being served by Design Consulting Group and governs the privacy of its users who choose to use it. We value the trust our users and customers place in us when they give us access to their personal data. This website and its owners take a proactive approach to user privacy and ensure the necessary steps are taken to protect the privacy of its users throughout their visiting experience.

The policy sets out the different areas where user privacy is concerned and outlines the obligations & requirements of the users, the website and website owners. Furthermore, the way this website processes, stores and protects user data and information will also be enumerated within this policy. We will act in accordance with current legislation and aim to meet current Internet best practice.

The following statement explains our policy regarding the personal information we collect about you; how we work to maintain that trust and protect that information. By providing us your details, you enable us to provide you with the services you select. Whenever you provide such personal information, we will treat that information in accordance with this policy. Our services are designed to give you the information that you want to receive.

By accessing, or using our website, you expressly consent to our collection, use and disclosure of your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Information We Collect

We may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal/non-personal information:

  • Information that you provide for the purpose of registering with us for availing our services, attending our company’s event, subscribe to a newsletter or for submission of an employment application in response to a job posting on our website or any other website or social media platform;
  • Information about your computer and about your visits to and use of this website (including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system type and version, referral source, length of visit, page views, website navigation paths and service usage);
  • Information that you send to us in order to obtain a quotation/offer/proposal for our services;
  • Information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our website email notifications; and
  • Any other information that you voluntarily choose to send to us.

Usage of Information We Gather

We require this information to understand your needs, expectations and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:

  • To help us develop, customize, deliver, support and improve our services.
  • For our internal purposes (such as auditing, data analysis, and research to improve our services and communications).
  • When you enter your contact information or send an email or other communication to Design Consulting Group, we may retain those communications in order to process your inquiries and respond to your requests.
  • We may periodically send promotional emails about our achievements, special offers or any other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided.
  • From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by email, phone or fax.
  • Any information gathered by us may be shared, if appropriate, with our Design Consulting Group offices.
  • We may use the information provided to us to customize the website according to your interests.
  • Design Consulting Group may share some or all of your personal information with another business entity should we plan to reorganize, spin out, merge with, acquire, or be acquired by that business entity. Should such an event occur, we will require that the new or combined entity follow this Privacy Policy with respect to your personal information.
  • It is possible that we might be forced to disclose your personally identifiable information in response to legal process or when we believe in good faith such disclosure is required by law, such as in response to a court order, a law enforcement agency request, in response to a subpoena, or in response to an administrative agency's request.

Information Security

Design Consulting Group strives to protect your personal information. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, and to protect your Personal Information against loss or theft, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic, procedural, technical, administrative and managerial procedures & security measures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. We also make commercially reasonable effort to ensure the security of your information on our system. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot warrant or guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us.

Social Media Platforms

This website may use social sharing buttons which help share web content directly from web pages to the social media platform in question. Users are advised before using such social sharing buttons that they do so at their own discretion and note that the social media platform may track and save your request to share a web page respectively through your social media platform account.

Further, this website and its owners through their social media platform accounts may share web links to relevant web pages. Users are advised to take caution and good judgement before clicking any shortened URLs published on social media platforms by this website and its owners. Despite the best efforts to ensure only genuine URLs are published many social media platforms are prone to spam and hacking and therefore this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any shortened links.

Cookies

Like all the professional websites, this website uses cookies to better the users' experience while visiting the website. Cookies are small text files saved to the user's computer’s hard drive that track, save and store information about the user's interactions and usage of the website. This allows the website, through its server to provide the users with a tailored experience within this website.

During the course of any visit to our website, the pages you see, along with something called a cookie, are downloaded to your computer. Cookies identify your computer to our server. Cookies in themselves do not identify the individual user, just the computer used. When you visit any website, it may store or retrieve information on your browser, mostly in the form of cookies. This information might be about you, your preferences or your device and is mostly used to make the site work as you expect it to. The information gathered can give you a more personalized web experience.

Websites do this, because cookies allow the website publisher to do useful things like find out whether the computer (and probably its user) has visited the site before. This is done on a repeat visit by checking to see, and finding, the cookie left there on the last visit. Many sites do this whenever a user visits their site in order to track traffic flows.

Any information that is supplied by cookies can help us to provide you with a better service and assists us to analyze the profile of our visitors. For example, if on a previous visit you went to, say, Digital Product Strategy, then we might find this out from your cookie and highlight new information covering your interests on a second visit. Cookies themselves only record those areas of the site that have been visited by the computer in question, and for how long.

Users have the opportunity to set their computers to accept all cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies at any time. If they wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this website on to their computers hard drive they should take necessary steps within their web browsers security settings to block all cookies from this website. Blocking all cookies means that certain personalized services cannot then be provided to that user.

Children’s Privacy

We do not knowingly collect or solicit information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are under 18, please do not use our website. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under the age of 18, we will delete that information as quickly as possible.

Terms of Use

Thank you for using our website, and we're proud of the trust you placed in us. In exchange, we trust you to use our services responsibly.

You agree not to misuse the Design Consulting Group services or help anyone else to do so. For example, you must not do any of the following in connection with use of our website:

  • Probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of any system or network.
  • Breach or otherwise circumvent any security or authentication measures.
  • Interfere with or disrupt any user, host, or network, for example by sending a virus, overloading, flooding, spamming, or mail-bombing any part of the Services.
  • Access, search, or create accounts for the Services by any means other than our publicly supported interfaces (for example, "scraping" or creating accounts in bulk).
  • Send unsolicited communications, promotions or advertisements, or spam.
  • Send altered, deceptive or false source-identifying information, including "spoofing" or "phishing".
  • Promote or advertise products or services other than your own without appropriate authorization.
  • Reverse engineer, copy or alter Design Consulting Group website for your own use or public use or commercial use.
  • Publish or share materials that are unlawfully pornographic or indecent, or that contain extreme acts of violence or terrorist activity, including terror propaganda.
  • Advocate bigotry or hatred against any person or group of people based on their race, religion, ethnicity, sex, gender identity, sexual preference, disability, or impairment.
  • Harass or abuse Design Consulting Group personnel or representatives or agents performing services on behalf of Design Consulting Group.
  • Violate the law in any way, including storing, publishing or sharing material that's fraudulent, defamatory, or misleading.
  • Violate the privacy or infringe the rights of others.

How to Contact Us

You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information. If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.

We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about Design Consulting Group.

You can direct questions regarding this Privacy Policy to Design Consulting Group by emailing us at riskandcompliance@dcg19.com. Please include your name and postal address in email requests. You may also reach out to us toll free at 1 800 31 DCG19 (1-800-313-2419).

Changes to This Privacy Policy

If this Privacy Policy is amended, revised or replaced then such policy will be posted on this site. Please check back periodically; especially before you provide any personally identifiable information.

Thank you for using Design Consulting Group.

Note: This privacy policy may be updated from time to time and any changes will be at our sole discretion.