Detroit Design Awards is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Detroit Design Awards site and governs data collection and usage. By using the Detroit Design Awards site, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

Detroit Design Awards collects personally identifiable information, such as your email address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Detroit Design Awards also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests, and favorites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Detroit Design Awards. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by Detroit Design Awards for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Detroit Design Awards site.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Detroit Design Awards public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Detroit Design Awards does not read any of your private online communications.

Detroit Design Awards encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from Detroit Design Awards so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use, and share your information. Detroit Design Awards is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the Detroit Design Awards and Detroit Design Awards family of Web sites.

Use of your Personal Information

Detroit Design Awards collects and uses your personal information to operate the Detroit Design Awards Web site and deliver the services you have requested. Detroit Design Awards also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Detroit Design Awards and its affiliates. Detroit Design Awards may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

Detroit Design Awards does not sell, rent, or lease its customer lists to third parties. Detroit Design Awards may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Detroit Design Awards may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Detroit Design Awards, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Detroit Design Awards does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

Detroit Design Awards keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within Detroit Design Awards, in order to determine what Detroit Design Awards services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Detroit Design Awards to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Detroit Design Awards Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only 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 Detroit Design Awards or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Detroit Design Awards; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Detroit Design Awards, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The Detroit Design Awards Web site use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Detroit Design Awards pages, or register with Detroit Design Awards site or services, a cookie helps Detroit Design Awards to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Detroit Design Awards Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Detroit Design Awards features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Detroit Design Awards services or Web sites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

Detroit Design Awards secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Detroit Design Awards secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this Statement

Detroit Design Awards will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Detroit Design Awards encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Detroit Design Awards is protecting your information.

Contact Information

Detroit Design Awards welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Detroit Design Awards has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Detroit Design Awards at JSvagr@hour-media.com. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.