Hejlskov, 30/12/2024, Ref. March 25, 2020

DESIGNERS TRUST
PRIVACY POLICY

Sign-up, profile creation and platform engagement

At Designers Trust A/S we value your privacy, and we are committed to protecting your personal data.

When you access our website, sign-up to our platform (Designers Trust) and create your profile either as a:
• Brand to launch a Design Pitch, or view our Trust,
• Designer to submit design concepts to our Trust, or to a Design Pitch,
we receive and process personal information about you which we use for the purposes described in this document.

The information and data we process when you access our website, sign-up, create a profile and following engage with the platform (e.g. by submitting concepts to the Trust as a designer, or launch a Design Pitch as a brand) are necessary for us in order to validate you, contact you, support the features you use, handle payment for any potential sold/acquired concepts and projects, or to evaluate and assess a submitted concepts or a design pitch.

For Brands:
• The information you provide us will be used to evaluate and provide feedback on design pitches, create Ideation groups, identify relevant content and concepts on Designers Trust, and create personalized profile pages and dashboards.

For Designers:
• The information you provide us will be used in our assessment of your skillsets, experience, your concepts, to create a personalized profile pages and content on Designers Trust, and to invite you for specific design pitches or other creative assignments.
• We evaluate each submission of a concept (to either a pitch or our Trust) in relation to our internal guidelines and quality framework, and this is done by manual assessment. Once we have reviewed the submitted concept, we choose what concepts can be submitted to a pitch or showcased on the Trust. Concepts that are not accepted will be notified.

1 WHO WE ARE
Designers Trust connects the creatives of the world with the brands who need them – for the benefit of both. We provide brands with access to the world of creativity while making sure all the fine print is handled and taken care of – allowing everyone to focus on what they do best.

Designers Trust is the brainchild of Chief Designer Timothy Jacob Jensen and is based on his family’s century-old design tradition, a Scandinavian approach to fairness and an undeniable eye for quality and aesthetics. His name and legacy is a guarantee that both brands and designers will benefit optimally from Designers Trust.

Company name: Designers Trust A/S. The company is registered under the Danish law and has its residence at: Hejlskovvej 106, 7840 Højslev, Denmark. You can always contact us on the following email addresses: info@designerstrust.com for general inquires and legal@designerstrust.com for legal matters.

2 WHO WE TRANSFER YOUR DATA TO
Your personal data may be transferred or otherwise shared with Designers Trust affiliates. It may also be transferred in case of a reorganization of Designers Trust, including merger, takeover, de-merger, and in general any reorganization operation.

We may transfer personal data to third parties when and only when it is necessary to provide the product or service to you. In such cases, these third parties are prohibited to use these data beyond what is necessary to provide those product or service to you. In any case where cross-border transfer is done, we ensure that adequate protection is guaranteed for personal data. You may request access to a copy of these safeguards by contacting us.

3 THE PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU
For brands:
In order to process your sign-up, profile creation, creation and submission of a design brief to launch a design pitch, viewing of concepts, and for us to conduct our business we process the information about you, the design brief and other attached documents, and your activity on our site.

In the process of sign-up, profile creation, creation and submission of a design brief to launch a pitch, and viewing of concepts we may setup a call to learn more about your companies and your needs. We will note the information provided during these calls, to ensure a better personalized service for you. We only note relevant information which is used in assessing your design brief or create personalized content for you

During the sign-up, profile creation, creation and submission of a design brief to launch a pitch, and viewing of concepts we collect:

1. Contact data which includes details such as postal address, email address and/or telephone numbers

2. Identity data which includes details such as first, last name(s), personal title(s), job title(s)

3. Company background incl. history and focus of your company

4. Legal and payment data which includes CVR/VAT number, Billing address and name of your company

5. Design brief information for the Design Pitch such as, project name and description alongside with files and documents created by you

6. Your activities on our platform

Grounds for processing: Designers Trust’s processing is based on Article 6 (1) (b) of the Data Protection Regulation and the interest balancing rule in Article 6 (1) (f) as a processing basis because it is necessary for us to process the information in order for us to assess whether you and your project is right candidate for our website. We may also, as appropriate, use Article 6 (1) (a), 9 (2) (a) of the Data Protection Regulation, cf. Articles 6 (1) (b) or 6 (1) (f), or the Data Protection Act section 11, par. 2, no. 2, because these are personal data that you yourself have submitted to us for the purpose of submitting the project. Our processing of the information you submit to us as part of the submission process is considered to be with your consent.

For designers:
In order to process your sign-up, profile creation and concept submission, and for us to conduct our business, we process the information about you and the project that appears on your submission, your university degree and other attached documents.
In the sign-up, profile creation and concept submission process, we may setup a call focusing on both your professional and personal skills, the content of the concept and subsequent finalization thereof, and our company as a marketplace. We note some of the information provided during the call (s) for the final evaluation of the concept and your profile. It is only relevant information that we use in assessing whether a.) a concept will be accepted on Designers Trusts’s website or b.) whether your profile would be a match for other creative assignments .

During the sign-up, profile creation and submission process we collect:

1. Contact data which includes details such as postal address, email address and/or telephone numbers.

2. Identity data which includes details such as first, last name(s), personal title(s), job title(s)

3. Educational background incl. diploma, professional qualifications, career history, linguistic and other relevant competencies and written recommendations / references

4. Legal and payment data which includes CVR/VAT number, Billing address and name of your company

5. Project (Creation) information such as, project name and description alongside with files and documents created by you of the designs and works submitted

Grounds for processing: Designers Trust’s processing is based on Article 6 (1) (b) of the Data Protection Regulation and the interest balancing rule in Article 6 (1) (f) as a processing basis because it is necessary for us to process the information in order for us to assess whether you and your project is right candidate for our website. We may also, as appropriate, use Article 6 (1) (a), 9 (2) (a) of the Data Protection Regulation, cf. Articles 6 (1) (b) or 6 (1) (f), or the Data Protection Act section 11, par. 2, no. 2, because these are personal data that you yourself have submitted to us for the purpose of submitting the project. Our processing of the information you submit to us as part of the submission process is considered to be with your consent.

As a designer your “Profile” (name, profile picture, biography, and portfolio) may be publicly promoted on our landing page under “Our Designers”. The purpose of this page is to promote the designers on Designers Trust, and attract Brands. Note, that we will NEVER publicly display any of your concepts submitted to “the Trust” or to a “Design Pitch” without your direct consent. You can manage whether you want to be displayed or not under your “Profile”.

4 DATA SECURITY
We have taken technical and organizational measures to prevent your information being accidentally or illegally deleted, shared, published, lost or impaired or to end up in the hands of unauthorized persons, misused or otherwise treated in violation of the Danish, European and International laws. In addition to this, we limit access to your personal data to those employees and associated professionals (designers, brand ambassadors) who are in the need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and with the utmost care and respect to the letter of the law and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality

5 HOW LONG WE KEEP YOUR DATA
For Brands:
Information about your design pitch and underlying design brief will be kept during our collaboration and interaction.

If a design pitch is not launched within 1 year, whilst not having any further interaction with Designers we will assume that you have no intention of launching said specific design pitch, and we will delete the information we have registered.

If your profile has been inactive 5 years i.e. not having viewed any design concepts, had any active design pitches, acquired projects that has resulted in active royalty payment we will assume the profile to be inactive, and accordingly will delete the information we have registered about you.

The data is stored in three different location, all within the EU:
- On local units in Denmark
- On Amazon servers in Ireland
- On Microsoft European servers

For designers:
If we do not accept your concept submission, we will delete the information we have registered about your concept within 1 month.

If we accept your submission, we will keep the information during you in order to document the history of our collaboration. You will receive separate information on this in should your project be accepted.

If your profile has been inactive 5 years i.e. no concept submissions, active approved and published submissions, log-in activities, sold projects that has resulted in active royalty collections we will assume the profile to be inactive, and accordingly will delete the information we have registered about you.

The data is stored in three different location, all within the EU:
- On local units in Denmark
- On Amazon servers in Ireland
- On Microsoft European servers

6 YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS
You are always welcome to request insight into what information we collect and how we process this information as well as to either update, correct ask for deletion or disclose information. You can also ask us to stop processing your personal data, for the case in which we rely on your consent and do not have another legal basis to continue processing your data.

All requests of this sort need to be sent over to the following address: legal@designerstrust.com.

Please note that the processing time for your request can vary and it may take up to 30 days.

If you are a citizen of the European Union, you of course have the right to make a complaint at any time to a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your residence, place of work or place where the alleged data protection infringement took place. We would however appreciate the chance to deal with any of your concerns or comments or suggestions before contacting your local supervisory authority. So in this respect please contact us first and we will do our best to handle any occurring issues, concerns or problems.

Please note that we reserve the right to update this Privacy Policy at any time to keep up with current regulations. This Privacy Policy was last updated on October the 21st, 2021.
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Hejlskov, 30/12/2024, Ref. March 1st, 2021

DESIGNERS TRUST
TERMS AND CONDITIONS

LEGAL NOTICE
This website is constructed, owned and maintained by Designers Trust A/S . The company is registered under Danish law and having its seat in Hejlskovvej 106, 7840 Højslev, Denmark. The main purpose of this website is to provide general information about Designers Trust, its services, access to the services provided by Designers Trust, its clients, business partners and the opportunities that visitors might have at Designers Trust. When entering or browsing this site or otherwise using its content you should take necessary precautions to ensure that whatever you choose to use is free of viruses and may not otherwise damage or interfere with the operations of your computer.

DISCLAIMER
Except where otherwise expressly provided, this site and all materials and content therein are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. Designers Trust hereby expressly disclaims all warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for any particular purpose, or non infringement.

Designers Trust makes no warranty that the site, materials and content will meet your requirements, will be available on an uninterrupted or secure basis, or that the quality of any materials or content obtained by you on or through the site will meet your expectations and Designers Trust will not be liable for any bugs, viruses, trojan horses, which may be transmitted through the website.

Please note that if you download any material or content from this site, you do so at your own discretion and risk. You are responsible for any damage to your computer system or loss of data that results from the download of any such material or content.

YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE
All content on this site (including but not limited to, code and software, text, designs, graphics, logos, icons, images, audio clips, downloads, interfaces) is the exclusive property of and owned by Designers Trust, its licensors, and/or its content providers, and is protected by copyright, trademark and other applicable laws worldwide.

You may access, download, store, display on your computer, view, listen to, copy, and print the materials and content that Designers Trust publishes or broadcasts on this site or makes available for download through the site for your personal, informational and non-commercial use, provided you do not modify or delete any copyright, trademark or other proprietary notice appearing on the material you access, copy, download or print, and further provided that you do not distribute or transfer such materials and content.

Any other use of content on the site, including but not limited to the modification, distribution, transmission, uploading, licensing, or the creation of derivative works from, any material, information, software, products or services or portions thereof obtained from the site, is expressly prohibited. Designers Trust, its licensors and/or content providers currently retain and shall retain full and complete ownership and title in and to the materials provided on this site. Designers Trust neither warrants nor represents that your use of materials on this site will not infringe the rights of third parties.

As a condition of your use of the site, you will not use the site for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms of Use or any applicable laws.

Signing up to Designers Trust is free. You need to be 18 years or over to sign-up as either a designer or a brand.

If you no longer wish to have a registered account, you may terminate your account by sending an email to
info@designerstrust.com. If you no longer accept these terms and conditions, or any future modification of these terms and conditions, you must cease using Designers Trust. Continued use of Designers Trust indicated your continued acceptance of these terms and conditions.

If, for any reason, we believe that you have not complied with these terms and conditions, we may at our sole description, cancel your access to Designers Trust without prior notice. We may terminate your registered account, at our sole discretion, by emailing you at the address you have registered stating that the account has been terminated.

ACCURACY AND COMPLETENESS OF INFORMATION
Whilst reasonable effort is made to assure that the content of this site is complete, accurate and updated, no warranty or representation, neither express nor implied, is given.

As a user, you promise that information you give us is true, accurate and complete and, if you sign up for a Designers Trust account, that you will keep your account information up-to-date (including a current email address). Your membership is not transferable, that means you cannot sell your account.

You are responsible for any use of the Designers Trust sites including any activity that occurs in conjunction with your username and password, if you have an Designers Trust account, so keep your password secure and don’t let any other person use your username or password. If you realise there’s any unauthorized use of your password or any breach of security you need to let us know immediately. You must not use a virtual private network or VPN or any other means to avoid compliance with these terms and conditions, or for any fraudulent or illegal reasons.

Designers Trust does not accept any kind of liability for direct or indirect damage, including, but not limited to, any consequential damage, resulting from entering or browsing this site or using its content.

The material on this site is provided for general information only, and should not be relied upon or used as the sole basis for making decisions without consulting primary, more accurate, more complete or more timely sources of information. We reserve the right to modify the contents of this site at any time, but we have no obligation to update any information on the site. You agree that it is your responsibility to monitor changes to the site.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
All used images, text or other content on this site may be subject to copyright, and is either owned or used by Designers Trust, its users, its clients and/or business partners. Products shown may also be subject to other intellectual property rights, including designs, patents and corresponding applications owned by directly by Designers Trust or its users and/or clients.

No license is given to use any of these intellectual property rights, or materials found on this website without specific consent given by Designers Trust and/or its users and/or clients. Designers Trust and its business partners are also entitled to and take the right to constantly monitor and instantly prosecute any infringement of its intellectual property rights.

LINKS TO THIRD PARTY WEBSITES
As a convenience to visitors and users, this website or app may link to other sites owned and operated by third parties and not owned or maintained by Designers Trust. However, even if such third parties are directly affiliated with Designers Trust, Designers Trust has no control over these linked sites, all of which have separate privacy and data collection practices and legal policies independent of Designers Trust. Therefore Designers Trust is not and shall not be responsible for the materials or content of any linked sites and does not make any representations regarding the content or accuracy of materials or content on such sites. Accessing and using such third party sites is entirely at your own risk.

PRIVACY POLICY
Designers Trust respects your Privacy, and has developed a policy to address privacy concerns. For more information, please see Designers Trust’s Privacy Policy. Any personal information collected on this site will be treated in accordance with Designers Trust Privacy Policy.

ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS
By using or visiting a Designers Trust website (the “Website”), you agree to these terms and conditions (the “Terms”). Designers Trust may, in its sole discretion, revise these Terms at any time without advance notice to you. You are bound by such revisions by continuing to use or visit the Website after they are posted online.

CHOICE OF LAW AND VENUE
The Agreement is governed by and shall be interpreted in accordance with Danish law, excluding, however, the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG), and without regard to any conflict of law principles leading to the application of the laws of any other jurisdiction.
Any dispute arising out of or in connection with the Agreement, including any disputes regarding the existence, validity or termination thereof, shall be submitted to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Danish Courts, with The City Court of Copenhagen as first instance.

CONTACT
If you have any questions regarding these Terms of Use, please contact Designers Trust at legal@designerstrust.com If you have any other questions, contact information is available at www.designerstrust.com
These Terms of Use were last updated on October 21st, 2021.