Privacy

At Format Prints, a service operated by Ideaform Inc. (“Format Prints”, “we”, “our” or “us”), we have a few fundamental principles:

  • We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. (We can’t stand services that ask you for things like your gender or income level for no apparent reason.)
  • We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
  • We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of one of our services.
  • In our website products, we aim to make it as simple as possible for you to control what’s visible to the public, seen by search engines, kept private, and permanently deleted.

If you have questions about deleting or correcting your personal data, contact us.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Format Prints collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Format Prints’ purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Format Prints’ visitors use its website. From time to time, Format Prints may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Format Prints also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on Format Prints’ websites. Format Prints only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses and email addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Format Prints’ websites choose to interact with Format Prints in ways that require Format Prints to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Format Prints gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for a website at Format Prints to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with Format Prints – by purchasing access to the Basic, Professional or Agency plans, for example – are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Format Prints collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Format Prints. Format Prints does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

Format Prints may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Format Prints may monitor the most popular websites on the Format Prints site or use spam filtering services to help identify spam. Format Prints may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Format Prints does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Format Prints discloses potentially personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Format Prints’ behalf or to provide services available at Format Prints’ websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Format Prints’ websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Format Prints will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Format Prints discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Format Prints believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Format Prints, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Format Prints website and have supplied your email address, Format Prints may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Format Prints and our products. We primarily use our various product blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Format Prints takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

How Do We Use Your Personal Information?

We use the Order Information that we collect generally to fulfill any orders placed through the Site (including processing your payment information, arranging for shipping, and providing you with invoices and/or order confirmations). Additionally, we use this Order Information to:
Communicate with you;
Screen our orders for potential risk or fraud; and
When in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services.

We use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimize our Site (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the Site, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns).

Sharing Your Personal Information

We share your Personal Information with third parties to help us use your Personal Information, as described above. We use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site–you can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

In addition, we cooperate with law enforcement inquiries and demands for information that are made under force of law. We are also cognizant of the need to address emergencies. Therefore, we may disclose your Personal Information (a) to any governmental authority as part of an investigation to determine our compliance with any applicable law, rule, or regulation (including privacy laws, rules, and regulations), (b) in response to a court order, subpoena, discovery request, or other lawful judicial or administrative proceeding, (c) as otherwise required under any applicable law, rule, or regulation, and (d) in good faith, to protect or defend our rights or property or those of other users.

Behavioral Advertising

As described above, we use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you. For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.

You can opt out of targeted advertising by:

FACEBOOK – https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads
GOOGLE – https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous
BING – https://advertise.bingads.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/policies/personalized-ads

Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at: http://optout.aboutads.info/.

Do Not Track

Please note that we do not alter our Site’s data collection and use practices when we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser.

Your Rights

If you are a European resident, you have the right to access personal information we hold about you and to ask that your personal information be corrected, updated, or deleted. If you would like to exercise this right, please contact us through the contact information below.

Additionally, if you are a European resident we note that we are processing your information in order to fulfill contracts we might have with you (for example if you make an order through the Site), or otherwise to pursue our legitimate business interests listed above. Additionally, please note that your information will be transferred outside of Europe, including to Canada and the United States.

Data Retention

When you place an order through the Site, we will maintain your Order Information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information.

Minors

The Site is not intended for individuals under the age of 16.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Format Prints uses cookies to help Format Prints identify and track visitors, their usage of Format Prints website, and their website access preferences. Format Prints visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Format Prints’ websites, with the drawback that certain features of Format Prints’ websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Business Transfers

If Format Prints, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Format Prints goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Format Prints may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Ads

Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Format Prints and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Change log:

  • Feb 10, 2017: Initial publication