1. USER CONSENT AND DISCLAIMERS

1.1. USER CONSENT
By sending personal information with contact form on this site or by email and thereby agreeing to TZGROUP DESIGN STUDIO Terms and Conditions of Use document of which this Data Privacy Policy document is a part, the User hereby consents to the collection, use and disclosure of his Personal Data and Non-personal Data, as required by work process, in accordance with this Data Privacy Policy document.

1.2. TYPES OF DATA
A User's Content can comprise two types of User data: "Personal Data" is used herein to refer to any data that allows someone to identify or contact an individual User; whereas "Non-personal Data" is used herein to refer to any data which does not, of itself, directly identify the individual User.

1.3. MINIMUM AGE REQUIREMENT
Access to the Site and its services, products and contents are expressly forbidden to any persons under the age of 13; if any Personal Data (and/or Non-personal Data) is collected, used or disclosed by the Site on persons under the age of 13, then it is not done so intentionally. In the European Union, the age limitation is 16. Thus, if this jurisdiction applies to you, TZGROUP DESIGN STUDIO will not knowingly collect, maintain, or use personal information from children under age 16.

1.4. DATA PERMISSION
In submitting any User Content to the Site, including Personal Data and Non-personal Data, the User hereby confirms that he has the authority to (and is further willing to): post the User Content on the Site; share the User Content with other (relevant) Users; and, where applicable, such as in the instance of Images, transfer the ownership of User Content to another User through the use of an Image Transfer Agreement. Where the User Content (both Personal Data and Non-personal Data) posted by a User in any way belongs to a third party, the User must absolutely comply with the first paragraph of provision 1.4. of this Data Privacy Policy document (above); unless the User Content which in any way belongs to a third party is being used by an Artist within his portfolio, in which case this is not allowed under any circumstances whatsoever, regardless of whether the Artist has complied with the first paragraph of provision 1.4. of this Data Privacy Policy document (above). Any loss in whatsoever form arising from the use of User Content in any way belonging to a third party will fall fully and solely on the User who posted that User Content.

1.5. DATA STORAGE
Although all reasonable care will be taken by TZGROUP DESIGN STUDIO in the protection of the Site's contents, including its Personal Data and Non-personal Data, TZGROUP DESIGN STUDIO can not guarantee their absolute security, and TZGROUP DESIGN STUDIO is not liable for any loss of Personal Data and/or Non-personal Data and any loss in whatsoever form arising to any party(s) as a result of the loss of Personal Data and/or Non-personal Data. TZGROUP DESIGN STUDIO is not obligated to backup any User Content, including Personal Data and Non-personal Data, and User Content may be deleted and/or lost at any time; the User should note that the responsibility to create backup copies of a User's own Content, including any Images, rests solely with the User himself. Following project closure, its files, messages, marks and images are deleted. All work files will be accessible by the Client by mail request, but only for a finite period of time as deemed reasonable exclusively by TZGROUP DESIGN STUDIO. It is fully and solely the User's responsibility to ensure he has obtained and made backups of the final high resolution images.

1.6. DATA MAINTENANCE
All Users are fully and solely responsible for the entirety of their User Content, including their Personal Data and Non-personal Data; it is the User's responsibility to ensure that all their User Content, including their Personal Data and Non-personal Data is: accurate, complete, reliable, useful, appropriate, true and integral.

1.7. DATA DELETION
TZGROUP DESIGN STUDIO may keep some or all of the User Content and not delete it until a later stage (if ever), when all possible requirements linked to that User Content have been fulfilled (for example, with regards to the provision of services, for fraud prevention, to comply with any legal obligations, to resolve disputes, to help enforce agreements, etc.). When TZGROUP DESIGN STUDIO deletes any User Content, including Personal Data and/or Non-personal Data, this User Content will be deleted from the active database but may remain in TZGROUP DESIGN STUDIO archives; this archived version is in no way and under no circumstances intended to act as a backup, and is not available to any User, including the author (User) of the archived User Content.

1.8. GENERAL DISCLAIMERS
All provisions made under section 5 (on liability and disclaimers) of the Terms and Conditions of Use document apply, where relevant, to all the Supporting Documentation, including this Data Privacy Policy document.

1.9. ACCESS
At your request, we will provide you with reasonable access to your personal information, so that you can review what we have stored and, if you choose, request corrections to it. You may request access by writing to us at the email address listed in the Contact section. After you request access, we will provide the personal information that you request as soon as practically possible and generally no later than thirty days following the request. If you wish to correct your personal information, please send us a written explanation of the particular information that you believe should be corrected. Where information will not or cannot be accessed or amended, we will tell you the reasons.
If you are residing in the European Union/ the European Economic Area, you have the right to:
– access your personal information, rectify it, restrict or object to its processing, or request its deletion,
– to receive the personal information you provided to TZGROUP DESIGN STUDIO or to transmit it to another company. More specifically, based on the European Union laws, you may request and receive copies of the personal information that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and/or request us to transmit this information to another service provider (where technically feasible).
– to withdraw any consent provided,
– to opt out of some collection or uses of your personal information, including the use of cookies and similar technologies, the use of your personal information for marketing purposes, and the use for data analyses,
– where applicable, to lodge a complaint with your supervisory authority.
We encourage to contact us and we will respond in due time to settle all your questions and requests to the extent permitted by law.

2. PERSONAL DATA

2.1. COLLECTION OF PERSONAL DATA
"Personal Data" is used herein to refer to any data that allows someone to identify or contact an individual User; in the case of the Site, Personal Data is likely to include a User's: name, surname, address, email, telephone number, bank details and is largely collected when the User buy the service and make the payments by invoices. TZGROUP DESIGN STUDIO accepts no responsibility or liability whatsoever for any loss in any way related to such Personal Data; the User should familiarise themselves with the relevant third party professional payment platform's data privacy policy which applies in this instance, and not this Data Privacy Policy document, which would cease to apply. The Site uses technology to automatically collect information from the User which does not, of itself, directly identify the individual User. Such information could include: data on the User's visit to the Site (such as browser type, operating system, internet protocol address, domain name, location, language, time spent on site, date and time stamp of visit, etc.), which may be used by the Site to administer the Site, analyse User trends, track User movements around the Site, gather demographic information on Users, etc.; and also data on the User's performance (such as sales and conversions data, Image prices, Image completion date and time stamp, job completion and closure data, etc.), which may be used by the Site to improve a User's experience with the Site. TZGROUP DESIGN STUDIO reserves the right to link such automatically collected information to a User's Personal Data for the purpose of security and protecting the Site against fraudulent and/or non-professional activity on behalf of any User. The Site uses Google Analytics to collect data on Users, including the collection of cookies and user IDs; Users should refer to the following link for information on the data collected by Google Analytics: http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/
We will not upload any data that allows Google to personally identify an individual (such as name, Social Security Number, email address, or any similar data), or data that permanently identifies a particular device (such as a unique device identifier if such an identifier cannot be reset).

2.2. USE OF PERSONAL DATA
Personal Data is, in general, used by TZGROUP DESIGN STUDIO to allow and subsequently improve the User's and/or other Users' experience with the Site. TZGROUP DESIGN STUDIO uses Personal Data to: allow the creation of a single, secure User account which will allow the User access to the Site and its services; identify a User's movements and interactions within the Site; inform internal research and development that could improve the Site and its services; customise the Site to match a User's preferences; respond to a User's request; send administrative notifications and promotional materials to Users; block Site access to suspended Users; marketing and surveys; sending service update notices; enabling sales and other transactions; processing payments and settlement; sending payouts; handling orders; providing receipts; providing customer service; providing dispute resolution, chargebacks, refunds, or related issues; recovering debt and collections; detecting and preventing fraud; detecting and preventing violations of our legal agreements; measuring, improving, and customizing our services; fulfilling other technical, financial, legal, compliance, administrative, or back office functions.

2.3. DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL DATA
The disclosure of Personal Data to other Users is kept to a minimum. The more sensitive elements of a User's Personal Data (such as the User's name, surname, address, email, telephone number, bank details and/or credit card details) are visible solely to the User himself and TZGROUP DESIGN STUDIO.
TZGROUP DESIGN STUDIO may have to disclose some or all of a User's Personal Data to third party service providers so that TZGROUP DESIGN STUDIO may, with the assistance of these third party service providers, deliver the Site's services to the User. These third party service providers are required to use a User's Personal Data solely to provide the services requested by TZGROUP DESIGN STUDIO; any Personal Data in the possession of a third party service provider will be subject to that third party service provider's own data privacy policy, and not TZGROUP DESIGN STUDIO Data Privacy Policy document. Disclosures of Personal Data may occur where TZGROUP DESIGN STUDIO believes, in good faith, that such a disclosure is necessary, for example: in conjunction with any disputes, investigations and/or legal proceedings; in compliance with any relevant laws and regulations; in defence of TZGROUP DESIGN STUDIO or any other Users' rights and property; etc.

2.4. STORAGE OF PERSONAL DATA
TZGROUP DESIGN STUDIO is committed to protecting the security of the Site's contents, including a User's Personal Data; whilst credit card details are stored off-Site by a third party professional payment platform.

2.5. MODIFYING PERSONAL DATA
Where a User intends to delete the entirety of his User Content by deleting his User account, then provision 1.7. of this Data Privacy Policy document applies in its entirety.

2.6. TESTIMONIALS AND FEEDBACK
TZGROUP DESIGN STUDIO have rights to share clients feedback on the site. Once submitted, all feedback and endorsements belong to TZGROUP DESIGN STUDIO, but may be modified, updated and/or deleted by the author (User) by emailing or calling TZGROUP DESIGN STUDIO.

2.7. THIRD PARTIES, LINKED SITES AND ADVERTISEMENTS
When a User follows a linked Site or advertisement from the Site and/or in any way leaves the Site, the User may end up on another Site and/or in contact with an entity other than TZGROUP DESIGN STUDIO, which may decide to collect their own data from the User, including Personal Data. TZGROUP DESIGN STUDIO Data Privacy Policy document will cease to apply the instant the User navigates away for the Site, including those instances where the User leaves the Site by following any link found on the Site and/or any prompt received by the Site; and the User will then be subject to that Site's and/or entity's own data privacy policy (whether or not that Site and/or entity has one), which TZGROUP DESIGN STUDIO has in no way vetted or approved, and for which TZGROUP DESIGN STUDIO accepts no responsibility in whatsoever form.

3. NON-PERSONAL DATA

3.1. NON-PERSONAL USER DATA
In order to make full use of the Site and its services, the User will have to submit Non-personal Data, examples of which could include: any task details as required by the Site's task form; any detailed project files; any information shared on the collaboration page; etc. The Non-personal Data entered in the Site's task form by a User or sent by email will be visible solely to TZGROUP DESIGN STUDIO, but not to any other Users.

3.2. DATA OWNERSHIP
All User Content, including both Personal Data and Non-personal Data, as posted by a User belongs fully and solely to that User, including any intellectual property rights associated with that User Content and all the possible liabilities and/or responsibilities that come with such ownership of that User Content; nonetheless, the User hereby agrees that any images present within an TZGROUP DESIGN STUDIO portfolio and can be used by TZGROUP DESIGN STUDIO, at TZGROUP DESIGN STUDIO full and sole discretion, for advertising purposes. The only transfer of intellectual property rights allowed on the Site occurs through the Image Transfer Agreement document, where the intellectual property rights of those Images marked as completed by the User on the relevant collaboration page are transferred from the TZGROUP DESIGN STUDIO, who created said Images, to the User, who commissioned said Images, as evidenced in the relevant User/TZGROUP DESIGN STUDIO Agreement; whilst still allowing for the use of said Images by the TZGROUP DESIGN STUDIO, within his portfolio, and for advertising purposes.

3.3. STORAGE OF NON-PERSONAL DATA
Following project closure, all working files of this project are deleted. The high resolution images will be accessible by the Client by email, but only for a finite period of time as deemed reasonable exclusively by TZGROUP DESIGN STUDIO. It is fully and solely the User's responsibility to ensure he has obtained and made backups of the final high resolution images.

4. COOKIES AND RELATED TECHNOLOGY

This Site's pages or e-mail messages may contain cookies, web beacons (also known as clear gifs), or similar technologies as they become available. Cookies are information files that this Site may place on your computer to provide extended functionality. The TZGROUP DESIGN STUDIO may use cookies for a number of purposes, such as tracking usage patterns on the Site, measuring the effectiveness of advertising, limiting multiple responses and registrations, facilitating your ability to navigate the Site and as part of a verification or screening process. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. Most browsers will allow you to erase cookies from your computer hard drive, block acceptance of cookies, or receive a warning before a cookie is stored. You should refer to your browser instructions, "Help" screen, or similar such resource to learn more about how to manage cookies and possibly reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent by indicating this in the preferences, options, or similar such menu in your browser. However, it is possible that some parts of this Site will not operate correctly if you disable cookies and you may not be able to take advantage of some of this Site's features. You should consult with your browser's provider/manufacturer if you have any questions regarding disabling cookies.

The TZGROUP DESIGN STUDIO web pages may include advertisements for third parties and their products, and those third-party advertisements may include a cookie or web beacon served by the third party. The TZGROUP DESIGN STUDIO does not control cookies in such third party ads, and visitors are encouraged to check the privacy policies of advertisers and/or ad services to learn about their use of cookies and other technology. The TZGROUP DESIGN STUDIO Privacy Policy does not cover the use of information collected from you by third party ad servers. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, e-mail address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Site's in order to provide advertisements on this site and other sites about goods and services that may be of interest to you.

A web beacon is a small graphic image that allows the party that set the web beacon to monitor and collect certain information about the viewer of the web page, web-based document or e-mail message, such as the type of browser requesting the web beacon, the IP address of the computer that the web beacon is sent to and the time the web beacon was viewed. Web beacons can be very small and invisible to the user, but, in general, any electronic image viewed as part of a web page or e-mail, including HTML based content, can act as a web beacon. The TZGROUP DESIGN STUDIO may use web beacons to count visitors to the web pages on the Site or to monitor how our users navigate the Site, and the TZGROUP DESIGN STUDIO may include web beacons in e-mail messages in order to count how many messages sent were actually opened, acted upon or forwarded.

5. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

TZGROUP DESIGN STUDIO reserves the right to make changes to this privacy policy at any time by giving notice to its Users on this page. It is strongly recommended to check this page often, referring to the date of the last modification listed at the bottom. If a User objects to any of the changes to the Policy, the User must cease using this Site and can request that the TZGROUP DESIGN STUDIO removes the Personal Data. Unless stated otherwise, the then-current privacy policy applies to all Personal Data the TZGROUP DESIGN STUDIO has about Users.

6. Nondisclosure agreement (NDA) for TZGROUP DESIGN STUDIO® client

TZGROUP DESIGN STUDIO respects your professional artwork as well as other intellectual property shared with us and will only use it to assist you with your goals. Your copyrights will remain yours.

TZGROUP DESIGN STUDIO will not take your artwork and other intellectual property for use on any other site, resell it, or give it to anyone under any circumstance.

TZGROUP DESIGN STUDIO guarantees that all information that you share with us, including artwork and other intellectual property, contact information, and client notes, will remain confidential.

TZGROUP DESIGN STUDIO will never contact your clients or the clients of your clients. We respect your business.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, TZGROUP DESIGN STUDIO may disclose any such information in response to a valid order of a court or other government body or as required by law, but only that portion of the Confidential Information which is legally required to be disclosed, or such information as may be required to resolve any dispute between you and TZGROUP DESIGN STUDIO.