Privacy Policy

Last Updated: February 6, 2025

Virts Creative (“we,” “us,” or “our”) is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your personal data when you visit our website and when you engage with our web design services. By using our website or services, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

1. Information We Collect

We may collect personal information from you in various ways, including:

1. Information You Provide Directly
   • Contact Details: such as your name, email address, phone number, and mailing address (e.g., through contact forms, email inquiries).
   • Project Information: any details you provide about your project requirements, objectives, or deliverables when you request a quote or contact us for services.
2. Information Collected Automatically
   • Usage Data: such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, and browsing behavior on our website (pages visited, time spent on pages, etc.).
   • Cookies and Similar Technologies: we may use cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies to collect information about your interaction with our website. You can choose to disable cookies in your browser settings, but this may affect certain features of our website.
3. Information from Third Parties
   • We may receive information from third-party services (e.g., analytics providers) to help us understand how visitors use our website.

2. How We Use Your InformationWe use the information we collect for purposes including, but not limited to:

1. Providing and Improving Our Services
   • Respond to your inquiries, provide quotes, and fulfill your requests.
   • Improve and customize our website, products, and services to better serve you.
2. Communication
   • Send you updates, marketing communications, and information about our services if you have opted to receive such information.
   • Communicate with you about changes to our terms, policies, or services.
3. Analytics and Marketing
   • Analyze usage of our website to understand and improve user experience.
   • Serve relevant advertisements and measure the performance of our marketing campaigns (where applicable).
4. Legal Compliance
   • Comply with applicable laws, regulations, or legal processes.
   • Enforce our agreements, policies, and Terms of Service.

3. Legal Bases for Processing (GDPR/EEA Visitors)If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA), we only process your personal data when we have a valid legal basis, including:

• Consent: You have given your consent for us to process your personal data for one or more specific purposes.
• Contract: Processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you, such as delivering our web design services.
• Legitimate Interests: Processing is necessary for our legitimate interests, including to improve our services, market our offerings, and prevent fraud, provided our interests are not overridden by your data-protection rights.
• Legal Obligation: We have a legal obligation to process your data (e.g., compliance with tax or business regulations).

4. Sharing and Disclosure of InformationWe may share your personal information under the following circumstances:

1. Service Providers and Partners
   • We may engage third-party companies or individuals to facilitate and enhance our services (e.g., hosting providers, analytics services, payment processors). These third parties will only access your personal data to perform tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for other purposes.
2. Business Transfers
   • If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, asset sale, or other transaction, your personal data may be transferred as part of that deal.
3. Legal Requirements
   • We may disclose your personal data if required by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or government agency).
4. Protection of Rights
   • We may disclose your personal data when necessary to protect our rights, property, or safety, or that of our users or employees, or to enforce our contractual terms.

5. Data Retention

We retain your personal data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy and to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. When we no longer require your personal data, we will take reasonable steps to securely delete, destroy, or de-identify it.

6. Data Security

We take reasonable and appropriate measures to protect your personal data against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure, or access. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

7. International Data Transfers

Your personal data may be transferred to, and maintained on, servers located outside of your state, province, or country where the data protection laws may differ from those in your jurisdiction. If you reside outside of the country in which we operate, please note that we may transfer personal data to our service providers and process it in that country. We will take reasonable measures to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

8. Your Rights and Choices

Depending on your location and applicable data protection laws, you may have certain rights regarding your personal data, such as:

• Access, Correction, and Deletion: You can request access to your personal data and ask to correct or delete it.
• Withdraw Consent: Where the processing is based on your consent, you can withdraw that consent at any time.
• Object to Processing or Request Restriction: You can object to or request that we restrict the processing of your personal data.
• Data Portability: You can request a copy of your personal data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us a. We will respond to your request in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

9. Third-Party Links

Our website or communications may include links to third-party websites or services that we do not operate or control. This Privacy Policy does not apply to those third-party sites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party websites you visit or services you use to understand their practices regarding your personal data.

10. Children’s Privacy

Our website and services are not directed to individuals under the age of [13 or 16, depending on jurisdiction]. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children. If you become aware that a child has provided us with personal data, please contact us immediately. If we become aware that we have collected personal data from a child without verification of parental consent, we will take steps to remove that information.

11. Updates to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The “Last Updated” date at the top of this page indicates when it was last revised. Any changes will become effective when we post the revised Privacy Policy on our website. We encourage you to review this page periodically to stay informed about how we are protecting your personal information.