Personal information we collect

When you visit designprovince.com the following information is collected automatically:

IP-Address (e.g. 10.192.15.124)

It is used in our statistics reports to create summaries of visitors, hits, page views, and where our readers come from (geographically). We also collect IP-numbers in case of misuse - so that we can either report this to the authorities or prevent future access.

Browser and Operating System

It is used for statistics, to provide summaries of how many use each browser and how many use a particular operating system. It is also used as a way to tailor the pages. Today there is a slight difference in how the site is displayed if you use a newsreader vs. a browser. In future we might create special versions of this site for visual impaired or for people using mobile devices. We can do this automatically by collecting this kind of information - hopefully giving you a better experience.

The Referral Site

This is solely used to learn what external sites that link to us, thus providing visitors to this site. With this we can learn how many visitors Google provides, how many Yahoo provides or how many one of the many other sites provides.

We also collect information in these situations

Commenting

When you write a comment to an article or project, your name and website is stored in the comment database. Neither needs to be supplied in order to make a comment, but if you do it will be displayed with your comment in public.

When you write to us

If you write to us, it will be logged in our correspondence system. The information we collect is, your name, time of contact and a short description of what we talked about. If you contact us by email, the entire email and your email address will be included.

Newsletters

If you signup to receive newsletters, your name, email address and what newsletter you have subscribed to, will be collected. This information will only be used for sending the specific newsletter and will be deleted if you unsubscribe.

Cookies

Some global cookies are set when you visit this site. This is used in relation to our statistic system and enables us to distinguish between a visit and a hit (hits are the number of times a page is viewed).

Policy Changes

designprovince.com holds the right to change the terms of this privacy policy at any point of time. Any changes will be posted in advance. If you feel uncomfortable with the changes you are always free to have your personal information deleted.