PRIVACY POLICY
4 STEP STUDIO INC (OriginalBookCoverDesigns.com) PRIVACY POLICY
Privacy Disclaimer
We at OriginalBookCoverDesigns.com, division of 4 Step Studio, Inc. consider the protection of our users' personal data (privacy) extremely important. The following document describes in detail the type of information that the site collects and the purposes of the treatment.
This site respects and protects the privacy of visitors and users, putting in place every effort possible and proportionate to not infringe the rights of users.
Privacy policy
This site respects and protects the privacy of visitors and users. This privacy policy applies only to the online activities of this site and is valid for visitors / users of the site. It does not apply to information collected through channels other than this website.
Consent
By accessing this site, visitors and users explicitly accept and approve our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use, and consent to our collection, storage, use and disclosure of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy.
We receive, collect and store any information visitors / users enter on our website or provide us in any other way. In addition, we collect the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; login; e-mail address; password; computer and connection information and purchase history. We may use software tools to measure and collect session information, including page response times, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information, and methods used to browse away from the page. We also collect personally identifiable information (including name, email, phone number, communications about your books and other work-related information); comments, feedback, product reviews, recommendations, and personal profile.
When you conduct a transaction on our website, as part of the process, we collect personal information you give us such as your name, address and email address. Your personal information will be used for the specific reasons stated below only.
The design created for you may be used in our portfolio and promotional material, but none of your personal information will be shared in the process.
We collect such Non-personal and Personal Information for the following purposes:
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To provide and operate the Company Services;
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To provide our Users with the best quality of service possible
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To be able to contact our Visitors and Users with general or personalized service-related notices and promotional messages;
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To create aggregated statistical data and other aggregated and/or inferred Non-personal Information, which we may use to provide and improve our respective services;
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To comply with any applicable laws and regulations.
How we protect information
Our company is hosted on the Wix.com platform. Wix.com provides us with the online platform that allows us to sell our products and services to you. Your data may be stored through Wix.com’s data storage, databases and the general Wix.com applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall.
All direct payment gateways offered by Wix.com and used by our company adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers.
We may contact you to notify you regarding your service request or questions, to resolve a dispute, to collect fees or monies owed, to poll your opinions through surveys or questionnaires, to send updates about our company, or as otherwise necessary to contact you to enforce our User Agreement, applicable national laws, and any agreement we may have with you. For these purposes we may contact you via email, telephone, text messages, and postal mail.
We implement reasonable precautions and follow industry best practices in order to protect your Personal Information and ensure that such Personal Information is not accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed. However, these measures do not guarantee that your information will not be accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed by breach of such precautions. By using our Service, you acknowledge that you understand and agree to assume these risks.
Your rights regarding the use of your personal information
You have the right at any time to prevent us from contacting you for marketing purposes. When we send a promotional communication to a user via email, the user can opt out of further promotional communications by following the unsubscribe instructions provided in each promotional e-mail. Please note that notwithstanding the promotional preferences you indicate by either unsubscribing or opting out of our email list, we may continue to send you administrative emails regarding requested services.
Cookies
As on many other websites, this site also uses cookies, small text files that allow you to store information on visitor preferences, to improve the functionality of the site, to simplify navigation by automating the procedures and for the analysis of the use of the site. Session cookies are essential to be able to distinguish between connected users and are useful to avoid that a required feature can be provided to the wrong user, as well as for security purposes to prevent cyber-attacks on the site. Session cookies do not contain personal data and last only for the current session, ie until the browser is closed. No consent is required for them. The functional cookies used by the site are strictly necessary for the use of the site, in particular they are linked to an express request of functionality by the user for which no consent is required. By using the site, the visitor expressly consents to the use of cookies.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us via the settings in your web browser.
How to disable cookies
You can choose 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. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of websites.
Instructions on how to disable cookies can be found right here:
Google Chrome
https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en
Apple Safary
https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac
Microsoft Edge
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
Third-party cookies
This site also acts as an intermediary for third-party cookies, used to provide additional services and features to visitors and to improve the use of the site. This privacy policy does not apply to services provided by third parties, and this site has no control over their cookies, entirely managed by third parties. The data transfer agreement takes place directly between the user / visitor and the third parties, so the acquisition of consent for these cookies is, of course, borne by the third parties, while this site does not participate in any way in this transfer. As a consequence, the information on the use of these cookies and their purposes, as well as on how to disable them, are provided directly by the third parties on the pages indicated below.
In particular, this site uses cookies of the following third parties:
• Google (Google Analytics cookie): Google Analytics is a Google analysis tool that through the use of cookies (performance cookies), collects anonymous browsing data for the purpose of examining the use of the site by users, compiling reports on the activities on the site and provide other information, including the number of visitors and pages visited.
Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google Analytics cookies can also be used to show more relevant results in Google properties (such as Google search). Google will not associate the IP address with any other data held by Google. Data transmitted to Google are stored on Google's servers in the United States.
Contact us and withdrawing consent
If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy or If you don’t want us to process your data anymore and wish to withdraw your consent for the continued collection, please contact us by sending an email info@4StepStudio.com.
Privacy Policy Updates
We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.