Summary
Guest Visitors: We do not use cookies to track you by default. We collect IP addresses for the purpose of securing and maintaining our website against bot and hacking attacks. Third party embedded content may place cookies on your device or use other tracking methods, but this content requires interaction from you to engage this behavior. Our web analytics software does not use cookies or unique identifiers to track your interaction on the website, and is not tied into any personal or demographic information about you as an individual in any way.
Partner Visitors: We may use cookies to track engagement with our contact form. This is to prevent spamming and misuse by the form. The information you submit in the form is shared internally for business development purposes.
Employees: We use cookies for security purposes to ensure restricted access to the website. Activity like edits and posts are logged for the purpose of collaboration and convenience (e.g. Undo).
1. General Privacy Statement
This Privacy Policy outlines the types of information Designworks, A BMW Group Company, its subsidiaries, affiliates, service providers, authorized third parties and its agents (collectively referred to herein as ‘Designworks’) may collect through your use of any Designworks website, or that you provide to Designworks through other means; how Designworks may collect, use, or share information related to your use of the Sites; steps Designworks takes to protect this information; and choices you are provided with respect to the use of this information.
By visiting the Sites you understand and agree to the terms as outlined in this Privacy Policy. As business conditions change, we will update this policy to reflect changes in our business practices. We reserve the right to change our Privacy Policy at any time, but we will post revisions to our policy on our Sites and/or provide other notification before we do so as appropriate.
2. Online Privacy and Security
We appreciate the trust you place in Designworks and would not want to jeopardize your trust in any way. Your privacy on the Internet is important and Designworks believes in an active approach to safeguarding your privacy online.
3. Confidentiality
In certain areas of the Sites you may choose to share personal information with us, such as your name, address or location information. We may use this information for marketing research and other marketing and service related purposes like sending brochures you request and keeping in touch by email. We may share generic aggregated demographic information not linked to any personal information regarding visitors and users with our business partners, service providers, trusted affiliates and advertisers. With the limited exceptions below, we will not disclose any personal information you choose to share with us with anyone outside Designworks or outside our related companies or business partners all of whom are contractually obligated to keep personal information confidential:
We reserve the right to disclose your personal information to respond to authorized information requests from government authorities, subpoenas or other litigation process or to protect the interests or safety of the Sites’ visitors, customers, employees, or others, to address national security situations, or when otherwise required by law. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
Without your specific permission, we will never transfer your personal information to any third party for that third party’s marketing purposes.
A. What information does Designworks collect?
As part of providing you with our products and services, we obtain ‘personal information’ about you, such as your name, address, email and phone number, when you submit such information to us. We also may obtain such information from third parties. ‘Personal information’ means information that identifies you or could reasonably be used to identify you. We also may collect other information about your visits to our Sites. This information may include, for example: your browser type and language, your operating system, your Internet Protocol (IP) address, the URLs of websites you visited before and after visiting our Sites, the web search that landed you on our Sites, the web pages and advertisements you view, and the links you click on within our Sites. For more information, see Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies below.
B. How does Designworks use my personal information?
Our primary goal is to use your personal information to improve the Sites and for internal business analysis or other business purposes consistent with our mission and to carry out other purposes that are disclosed to you and to which you consent. Designworks will not do anything to jeopardize your trust, including renting or selling your personal information, except as specifically described in our policies.
C. What information does Designworks share?
We share personal information with Designworks’ affiliated companies as well as non-affiliated companies that provide services on our behalf. All of these companies are contractually obligated to keep the personal information that we provide to them confidential and to use such information only to provide the services we ask them to perform.
D. Is my personal information secure?
We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards designed to protect personal information. We also employ encryption technologies and user authentication procedures that are designed to keep your data secure. We limit access to personal information to authorized personnel, contractors and business partners who need access to perform their job and are contractually required to keep your information secure.
E. Privacy of Children
We do not knowingly collect or use any personal information from children (we define ‘children’ as minors younger than 13) on our Sites without prior, verifiable parental consent. We do not knowingly allow children to order our products, communicate with us, or use any of our online services.
If you become aware that a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us at contact@bmwgroupdesignworks.com or write:
Designworks, A BMW Group Company,
1601 Olympic Blvd
Santa Monica, CA 90404.
We will take all reasonable measures to delete the information as soon as possible and to not use such information for any purpose, except where necessary to protect the safety of the child or others as required by law.
- Links to Other Sites
Though our Sites contain links to other sites, we are not responsible for the content, links or privacy on any of those sites. We recommend that you review the Privacy Policy applicable to those sites before accessing them. - Email Links
We use email links throughout the Sites to allow you to contact us directly with any questions or comments you may have. We read and try to reply promptly to everyone. Information in the message is used to respond directly to your comments or questions. We may also file your comments to improve the Sites and programs, or review and discard the information. Your personal information is not shared with third parties except as noted in Section 3 of this policy without your express permission. - Communication Preferences
You will only receive emails, mailings or app notifications from Designworks if you have requested or agreed to be on our correspondence list. If you are currently on our email list and do not wish to receive further emails from us, simply click the ‘unsubscribe’ link in any Designworks email. - Phishing Scams
There is a type of e-mail solicitation commonly known as a ‘phishing’ scam, with the primary objective being to obtain one’s personal information. This information can then be used to steal a person’s identity. Examples of these types of scams are: requests for you to send passwords, login names, Social Security numbers, or other personal information through email, U.S. mail, fax or text message. Designworks does not participate in this type of solicitation. Recipients of suspicious email like this should delete the message from their inbox and, if possible, update their e-mail filter settings to block emails from the e-mail address being used. The Federal Trade Commission and the Antiphishing Workgroup are also good sources of information about these types of security threats and how they may be reported to the authorities. - Fraud Warning
Get more details about recent fraudulent emails that you may have received. Learn More. - Sites Traffic Monitoring
We collect information about visits to our Sites by tracking Internet Protocol (IP) addresses or other identifiers. We use this information to determine how to make future visits more convenient and productive for all users. We may also collect device type, browser type, access time, and the URL where a user is entering or exiting the Sites. - Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
Cookies and similar technologies save you the trouble of reentering certain information in some areas, help to deliver content-specific information to you, and track which sections of the Sites are most popular. A ‘cookie’ is actually a file that our webserver or the webserver of one of our third-party partners may send to your computer when you access one of our Sites. This file is then stored on your computer.- Why do we use cookies and other tracking technologies?
We use cookies and related technologies for the following purposes:i. After you have entered personal information into a form or data field on our Sites, cookies enable the Sites to ‘remember’ that information, should you so choose. For example, in the registration area, cookies allow us to fill in your Login ID (email address) for you.ii. Cookies and other passive information collection technologies enable us to deliver content that is tailored to your interests and preferences based on your past activity on the Sites.iii. Cookies and other passive information collection technologies enable us to compile aggregate statistics concerning use of the Sites, analyze trends, and otherwise administer and improve the Sites. - What types of cookies and other tracking technologies do we use?
Our Sites may use the following types of cookies and tracking technologies, among others:i. ‘Session’ cookies: Session cookies are temporary bits of information that are erased once you exit your web browser window or otherwise turn your computer off. Session cookies are used, for example, to improve navigation on our Sites, block visitors from providing information where inappropriate (e.g., the website may remember previous entries of age that are outside the permitted parameters and block subsequent changes) and to collect aggregated statistical information.ii. ‘Persistent’ cookies: Persistent cookies are more permanent bits of information that are placed on the hard drive of your computer and stay there unless you delete the cookie. Persistent cookies store information on your computer for a number of purposes, such as retrieving certain information you have previously provided (e.g., Login ID), helping to determine what areas of the website visitors find most valuable, and customizing the website based on your preferences on an ongoing basis.iii. ‘Web beacons’ (also known as internet tags, single-pixel GIFs, clear GIFs, and invisible GIFs): A web beacon is a tiny graphic on a web page or in an email message that is used to track pages viewed or messages opened. Web beacons tell the Sites server information such as the IP address and browser type related to the visitor’s computer. Web beacons may be placed on online advertisements that bring people to our Sites and on different pages of our Sites. Web beacons provide us with information on how many times a page is opened and which information is consulted.We use services from 3rd parties to embed rich media content on our website. Wherever possible, we request that content be delivered without 3rd party cookies. However, in some circumstances it may not be possible to embed content without the possibility of the 3rd party placing a cookie.
By default, we do not enable these experiences without specific interaction by the user.
- What choices do I have regarding the delivery of targeted advertisements on third-party sites?The Digital Advertising Alliance maintains a website where consumers can opt out from receiving interest-based advertising from some or all of the network advertising companies participating in the program (https://www.AboutAds.info/choices).In addition, most internet browsers allow you to change your browser settings to notify you when you receive a cookie, which lets you choose whether or not to accept it, or to automatically refuse all cookies. Please be aware that some functionality of our Sites that relies on the use of cookies may not be available should you choose to refuse all cookies. In addition, because Designworks does not control these management tools, we cannot guarantee their effectiveness.
- Why do we use cookies and other tracking technologies?
8. Do Not Track
Do Not Track (DNT) is a privacy preference that users can set in some web browsers, allowing users to opt out of tracking by websites and online services. At the present time, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has not yet established universal standards for recognizable DNT signals and therefore, Designworks and the Sites do not recognize DNT.
9. Questions and Comments
Please feel free to send your privacy-related comments or questions to contact@bmwgroupdesignworks.com or write:
Designworks, A BMW Group Company, 1601 Olympic Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90404. We will do our best to respond to all reasonable inquiries in a timely manner.