Last modified: March 11, 2022

This Privacy Policy sets out how The Design Shack Private Limited ("us", "we", or "our") collect, store, and use personal data when you use or interact with our website, https://thedesignshack.lk/ (“Site”, "Service") and the choices you have associated with that data.

By using the Site, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. Unless defined otherwise, the terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as our Terms and Conditions.

If there are any terms in this privacy notice that you do not agree with, please discontinue using our Site immediately.

Personal Data

When you use or interact with our Site, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you ("Personal Data"). Personal Data may include, but is not limited to:

• First name and last name
• Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City
• Phone number
• Email address
• Cookies and Usage Data

Your personal Data may be used to contact you with newsletters, promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to you. You may opt-out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email we send.

Web Beacons & Cookies

We use cookies and web beacons to track the activity on our Site and hold certain information.

Cookies are files with small amount of data sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Cookies may include an anonymous unique identifier. Web beacons, are small pieces of code that we and our service providers may place on the Site to monitor and collect data about user behavior within the Site.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Site.

Usage Data

We may also collect information how the Site is accessed and used ("Usage Data"). Usage Data is data collected automatically either generated by the use of the Site or from the Site infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).

This Usage Data may include information such as your computer's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

Subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy, we may use your contact information to process our promotional newsletters and/or email campaigns and to send you updates, or administrative messages relating to The Design Shack, unless if you have opted not to receive such information. Your contact information will allow us to handle and/or route your customer support questions and issues.

Other purposes for which the collected data may be used:

• To notify you about changes to our Site
• To maintain and improve our Site
• To monitor the usage of our Site
• To detect, prevent and address technical issues

We keep your information for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes outlined in this privacy policy unless otherwise required by law.

We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting or other legal requirements).

When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize such information, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.

The Design Shack Private Limited will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Site, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

All data, including personal data, is processed and maintained on computers and servers located in Sri Lanka. If you are located outside Sri Lanka, please note that your information, including personal data, may be transferred to computers located outside of your province, state, country or other jurisdictions where the data protection laws may differ from those in your jurisdiction.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

We may disclose your data that we hold in the good faith belief that such action is necessary based on the following basis:

Legal Obligations: We may disclose your information where we are legally required to do so in order to comply with applicable law, governmental requests, a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process, such as in response to a court order or a subpoena (including in response to public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements).

Vital Interests: We may disclose your information where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding potential violations of our policies, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person and illegal activities, or as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.

More specifically, we may need to share your personal information in the following situations:

Third Party Marketplaces and Service Providers: We may disclose your personal information to third party companies, marketplaces, and individuals ("Service Providers") that we may employ to perform services for us, to provide a service on behalf of us or to facilitate our services. Such services include but not limited to, credit card processing, collecting and analyzing data, providing search results and links and providing advertising and marketing assistance, including serving ads on our behalf on third party websites and mobile applications.

These third parties may have access to your Personal Data as necessary to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

Business Partners: We may share your information with our business partners to offer you certain products, services or promotions.

Our Site does not address to persons under the age of 18 (“Children”).

We do not knowingly contact or collect personal information from anyone under the age of 18. The Design Shack respects the privacy of parents and children. If you are a parent or guardian who believes that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us (Email: customerservices@thedesignshack.lk). If we become aware that the personal information we have collected relates to a child under the age of 18, we will take steps to promptly delete the information.

We recognize the importance of safeguarding the privacy of children and encourage parents to check and monitor their children's use of online activities regularly.

We may modify this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we post changes to this Privacy Policy, we will revise the "Last modified” date at the top of this page.

We advise you to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page and you agree that the last modified version of the Privacy policy shall be governing between you and us.

If there are any queries or concerns regarding this privacy policy, you may contact us at customerservices@thedesignshack.lk