Data protection is of a particularly high priority for dwsThemes.com. Personal data processing, including your name, address, email, or phone number, will always be in line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other data protection regulations applicable to dwsThemes.com.
Using our website, you automatically agree to the following terms. If you do not agree with any of this document's statements, please contact us before using our website, any of its pages, folders, and subdomains. We have the right to change our privacy policy without prior notice. Therefore, we advise all users to regularly check this page and stay aware of its latest version.
Via this data protection statement, we inform the general public of the nature, scope, and purpose of the personal data we collect, use, and process. Furthermore, this data protection declaration contains information on the website users' rights.
As the data controller and processor, dwsThemes.com has implemented numerous technical and organizational measures to ensure your data's complete protection throughout the website. Since Internet-based data transmissions may have security gaps, absolute protection is not guaranteed. Moreover, every data subject is free to transfer personal data to us via direct and indirect means, e.g., email or phone support.
We collect certain information about visitors and users of our websites. The type and scope of information differ according to the referral source and user status.
We can collect author name, company name, physical address, email address, phone number(s), social media account URLs, payment details (like credit card and billing information), survey responses initiated for research purposes.
We use this information to provide authors with support or improve our services. E.g., this data is necessary to pay commissions, verify authors' identities, deliver advertising and marketing services, contact, support, and invoice them.
We collect a buyer’s name, username, email address, phone number(s), physical location, and contact details. Moreover, we can collect, store, and use information about a buyer’s devices used to visit and interact with our websites. It includes information about the browser, referring source, and buyer's IP address. We can also collect responses to the surveys initiated for research purposes, payment details (like credit card and billing information), transaction details, support queries, web analytics data, and data buyers provide when filling in forms on our websites.
We may use this information to respond to buyers` requests or correspondence, to provide customer service, to administer the website, improve products/services, send technical notices/updates, security alerts, changes in policy notifications, administrative messages. We can also use this data for statistical, analytical, and management purposes and prevent fraud, breach of policies/terms, including threats and harm.
We collect partner name, company name, website URL, phone number(s), physical address, business type, email, and information from merchant processors like PayPal, Paytm, etc. We use this information to work with partners, confirm their identity, contact, pay, support, screen for risk, fraud, or other similar issues. Moreover, we use this data to send technical notices, updates, security alerts, administrative messages, and information regarding our policies' changes.
We collect the visitors` device type and browser, network connection, IP address, cookies, and other web analytics data. We may also collect personal information submitted by visitors via any forms available on our websites, i.e., chat, ticket system, subscription, and contact forms.
We collect names, emails, information about the device and browser they use, chat transcript, and other personal information they provide during the chat or call. We may request additional details from the users during our conversation to verify their identity or for technical support purposes.
In addition to the data we get from the visitors, we may collect, store, and analyze users` personal information from other sources.
We require users' personal information mainly when we need to define their identity for accurate order processing on any of our websites, e.g., when they purchase items and services from our marketplace.
We can use your personal information when you give us consent:
If necessary, we can handle personal user information for purposes required by the law. E.g., for granting court of law, law enforcement authorities, government requests, or any other occasions that may relate to judicial investigations.
Personal information of our users may be accessed by:
We may share a user's personal information with third parties in the following cases.
Users` information is stored on our servers as long as it is needed to provide them with our services and comply with legal obligations.
If users don’t want us to store their personal information, they have the right to get it deleted, but in this case, we’ll have to deactivate their dwsThemes accounts.
All information about deleted accounts stays on our servers to use for our legitimate business interests: comply with the law, prevent fraud, resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, assist with investigations, enforce the service terms or take other actions permitted by law. We handle the information we retain following this Privacy Policy.
To keep user information secure, we apply certain measures to protect it against unauthorized or illegal use, accidental loss, or destruction.
We are not responsible if users try to circumvent privacy settings on our websites. If we provide users with access to certain parts of our website, they are responsible for keeping them safe. Users must not share access details with third parties.
Due to obvious reasons, we cannot control all users' actions on our websites, e.g., in public comments, forums, etc. Therefore, we recommend customers share their information in public areas wisely, as we cannot guarantee that unauthorized parties will not view the data, which users publish to the web.
When users choose to share their information via a third-party website, they need to check that website's privacy policy to be aware of its information management and protection practices.
All personal information that we collect about users is available in their accounts. Users have the right to make all the necessary edits and changes to this data.
Users can receive personal information in a structured, machine-readable format, edit, erase, or restrict its processing. They can also object to their data processing for a set of company interests, such as profiling for direct marketing and other cases when we need their consent to data processing.
There are several situations when these rights can be limited, and we can retain user information after they withdraw the consent. Those are cases where we may require personal data to be compliant with legal or contractual obligations. If users do not provide us with such data, we can not complete the service. In all other cases providing requested information can be optional.
If users have some unresolved concerns, they have the right to complain to the data protection authorities. If you believe that our company violates your privacy rights, please contact us at privacy@dwsthemes.com.
If we have users' consent, we can send them marketing materials with information about products, services, or discounts. If they decide not to receive such email notifications, they can easily opt-out using the unsubscribe option or contact us at unsubscribe@dwsthemes.com.
dwsThemes and all our websites and projects use cookies to analyze user behavior and gather demographic info and other general information about our user base. A cookie is a small file that is placed on users' devices when they visit any website. Using the device's browser settings, users can eliminate cookies, but they can limit certain features on our websites if they disable those.
We are using functional and analytical cookies; for further information on cookies, please see our cookies policy or visit allaboutcookies.org.
Another technology we use is web beacons. It is a means to track the website's use on occasions, like promotions or newsletters. The data we collect via web beacons allow us to track the number of users who opened our newsletters. Also, web beacons help us to understand user behavior and improve UX.
dwsThemes websites use Google Analytics, a web analytics service created by Google, Inc. Google Analytics software uses cookies to analyze user behavior. All data (i.e., user activity on dwsThemes websites) is gathered by cookies and stored on Google cloud data centers, most of which are in the U.S.
In turn, Google uses this data to evaluate user behavior in general, compile reports for site managers, and provide data to services related to website activity and Internet usage. Google may transfer various data to third parties when required to do so by law or when such third parties process the information on Google's behalf.
In no way will Google associate user IP addresses with any other data held by Google. If users do not want to provide Google with the browsing data, they can block cookies via browser settings. Users can find more information on Google opt-out, Privacy, and Google Analytics.
In addition to various endorsements, we display testimonials on our website. We publish testimonials only after receiving users' consent to specify their names. If users want to delete or modify their existing testimonials, they can contact us via email reviews@dwsthemes.com.
All dwsThemes websites have embedded social media features, e.g., Facebook `Like` button. These features may collect users' data like IP address or place a cookie in their browser to gather statistical information about their interactions with our websites. Social media features are hosted both on our website and servers of a specific social media network.
Apart from these features, we maintain profiles on major networks, including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, LinkedIn, etc. Any information users submit on these networks in public areas, like comments, can be easily read, collected, or stored by all users of these networks. We cannot control the actions of other social media users or the actions of these platforms. According to their privacy policies, only the related social media platforms manage user activity and interaction with those features.
If users click on a link to a third-party site, they leave our site. Since we cannot control third parties' activities, we do not bear responsibility for any use of your personal information by those parties. Users should review the privacy policy of any other website they visit.
Children under 13 years old should not use dwsThemes websites, products, and services. No one under the age of 13 (thirteen) years old can provide personal information to or on our websites. We are not collecting information from children under 13 years old. Users under 13 years old cannot use any of our websites, buy products from the marketplace, comment on blog posts, social media posts, or provide personal information about themselves, including their name, address, phone number, and email. If we learn that users violated this term, we will immediately delete their accounts and all information. If you believe that we may have some information provided by your child, please contact us at privacy@dwsthemes.com.
As the data controller and data processor, we reserve the right to change or modify this Privacy Policy at any time. We publish the changes on this Privacy Policy page and notify users via email.
Depending on the context of personal information users provide, dwsThemes can be a data controller and processor. dwsThemes is a processor of personal information submitted to the services or collected through the related services.
If users have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, including their information collection, storage, and processing, or if they believe that we violate their privacy rights, they can contact us at privacy@dwsthemes.com. We respond to all requests, inquiries, or concerns within fifteen (15) days.
