Who we are
Zip Creative (“Company”, “we”, “us” or “controller”) respects your privacy and the security of the information you provide us voluntarily and the data which is collected automatically as you use our site and receive our products, services and communications.
This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we secure it, what we use the information for, and what third-party vendors we might share some of your information with in order for us to provide the information, products or services you requested to you. This information also helps us provide more personalized information, communication and services to you that connects with your interests. We are committed to protecting your information through this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy governs how you access and use ZipCreative.net website including any content, functionality and services offered on or through ZipCreative.net (the “Website”), whether as a guest or a registered user. This policy applies to information we collect on the Website and through email, text, or other electronic messages between you and the Website.
Before you start to use the Website, please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By using the Website or by clicking to accept or agree to the Terms of Use when this option is made available to you, you accept and agree to be bound and abide by the Privacy Policy. If you do not want to agree to the Privacy Policy, you must not access or use the Website.
CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 13
This Website is not intended for use by children under the age of 13. If you are under the age of 13, you may not interact, add or provide any information to this site, such as registering or using its features, adding comments, making purchases or provide any information about you, such as your name, address, screen names, or phone numbers.
We do not knowingly collect any information from children under age 13. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. Please contact support@zipcreative.net if you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
INFORMATION WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU
When you visit this Website, the Company will learn certain information about you.
Information You Provide To Us. When you visit this Website, there are various opportunities for you to provide information, such as filling out forms to subscribe to our newsletter, to contact us, to leave comments and feedback or to purchase a product or service. The information you provide to us enables us to deliver the requested product and/or service, to communicate with you, to provide you with offers and promotions, and to improve our overall performance.
Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technology. The information we collect automatically is used for statistical data and will not include personal information. As you navigate through our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies including Google Analytics to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. This will generally include information about your location, your traffic pattern through our website, and any communications between your computer and our Website. Among other things, we will collect data about the type of computer you use, your Internet connection, your IP address, your operating system, and your browser type. This can include the pages and articles you and others visit on the site, the types of devices you are using, such as a smartphone, table or desktop computer, which browser you use, your IP address and your location.
We use this information to help us improve the content and design of our website, products and services and to provide a better user experience for our visitors and customers. This also enables us to notify you of events and services happening in your area. When you voluntarily provide your personal information to us, our systems will associate the automatically collected information with your personal information. We use this to specifically improve our user experience for you.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
USE OF COOKIES AND PIXELS
A cookie is a very small text document, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier. When you visit a website, that site’s computer asks your computer for permission to store it’s cookie file in a part of your hard drive specifically designated for cookies. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a website to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites.
Why use Cookies? In general, cookies are a standard technology websites use, along with logs on servers, to collect information about how sites are being used. The information cookies gather can include which pages are viewed, how much time people spend on certain pages or on the site in general, the date and time of visits to the site, your IP address as well as which sites were visited right before or after visiting ours.
The Company reserves the right to use cookies and technological equivalents of cookies, including social media pixels. These pixels allow social media sites to track visitors to outside websites and enables social media sites to tailor advertising messages to specific users while people are visiting their social media sites. Social media sites have compliance policies for the use of their pixels. The Company reserves the right to use these pixels in compliance with the policies of the various social media sites.
THIRD PARTY USE OF COOKIES
Some content, applications, or advertisements on the Website are served by third-parties. These may include advertisers, ad networks, servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use tracking technologies, such as cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies, to collect information about you when you use our website. The information collected by third parties may be either associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with content or advertising that is associated with your interests.
We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible third-party provider directly.
EMAIL INFORMATION
If you choose to communicate with us through email, we may retain your email address, the content of your email messages, and our responses. We provide the same protections for these electronic communications as we do for the information you provide when you sign up through any of our forms, register for the website, make a purchase on the site or any information we receive online or through the telephone or mail. For further information see the email policies below.
EMAIL POLICIES
We keep your e-mail address confidential. We do not sell, rent, or lease our subscription lists to third parties, and will not disclose your email address to any third parties except as allowed in the section titled Disclosure of Your Information.
We will maintain the information you send via e-mail in accordance with applicable federal law.
We are in compliance with the CAN-SPAM Act which mandates that all e-mails sent from our organization clearly state who the e-mail is from, how to contact the sender, and simple, specific instructions on how to remove yourself from our mailing list so that you receive no further e-mail communication from us.
Users who no longer wish to receive our newsletter or other promotional matters can opt-out of receiving communications from us and our partners by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any e-mail they receive from us at any time.
HOW AND WHY WE COLLECT INFORMATION
The Company collects your information in order to record, support and provide the activities, products or services you select. If you register to sign up for our newsletter, download resources such as an e-book or book, and/or purchase a product from us, we collect your information. We use this information to track your preferences, to keep you informed about the products and services you have selected to receive and to update you about related products and/or services.
If you are outside the European Union and opt to receive any free resources, register to receive our member-only newsletter editions, participate in any free training programs, register for a webinar, register for a live event, register for a seminar, or purchase any products sold by the Company on this Website, we will automatically enroll you to receive periodic updates, news and time-sensitive offers. If you do not wish to receive these updates, news and time-sensitive offers, you can unsubscribe anytime. We include an “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of every email we send. If you ever have trouble unsubscribing, you can send an email to support@zipcreative.net requesting to unsubscribe from future emails.
If you are in the European Union and opt to receive any free resources, sign up for our member-only newsletter editions, participate in any free training programs, register for a webinar, register for a live event, register for a seminar, or purchase any products sold by the Company on this Website, we will only enroll you to receive our periodic updates, news and time-sensitive offers if you affirmatively consent to it. If you do not wish to receive these periodic updates, news and time-sensitive offers, you can unsubscribe anytime. We include an “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of every email we send. If you ever have trouble unsubscribing, you can send an email to support@zipcreative.net requesting to unsubscribe from future emails.
HOW WE USE THE INFORMATION THAT YOU PROVIDE TO US
The information you provide to us, and the information that is collected automatically, is used to present our Website and its contents to you, and to provide you with information along with offers for products and services we believe might be of interest to you. It is also used to provide you with information about your subscriptions and products, to provide customer service and to carry out our business activities. We collect as little personal information as possible to accomplish these objectives.
Periodically, we may use the information you provide to us to offer you the opportunity to purchase products or services from trusted third parties that we believe might interest you. In exchange, a commission is paid to us by these third parties. If you choose to take part in such promotions, the third parties will receive your information.
We may also use the information you provide to us to periodically display advertisements to you that are tailored to your personal characteristics, interests, and activities.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION
As a general rule, we do not sell, rent, lease or otherwise transfer any information you voluntarily submit or any information collected automatically.
In order to provide our services to you, we may disclose your personal information to our subsidiaries, affiliates, and service providers.
To enforce our terms of service or any other agreement between you and the Company, we may disclose your personal information to a third party, including a lawyer or collection agency, when necessary.
In the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of the Company’s assets and/or business, we may provide your information to any successor involved in said events.
When we, in good faith, believe that the law requires us to share your information for the protection of our legal rights or when compelled by a court or other governmental entity to do so, we may release your information.
HOW WE PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION AND SECURE INFORMATION TRANSMISSIONS
To ensure the security of the information you provide to us and the information we collect automatically, we employ commercially reasonable methods such as standard security protocols and working only with reputable third-party vendors. Some of the information you may enter on our website may be transmitted securely via a Secure Sockets Layer, or SSL, which is a secure medium.
Email is not a secure medium of communication. For this reason, please do not send private information to us by email. However, doing so is allowed, but at your own risk. Credit Card information and other sensitive information is never transmitted via email.
For further site security, the Company uses software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or to otherwise cause damage. The Company may use software programs to create summary statistics, which are used for assessing the number of visitors to different sections of our site, what information is of most and least interest, determining technical design specifications, and identifying system performance or troubleshooting problem areas.
POLICY CHANGES
We will post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. Should we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you by email to the email address specified in your account and/or through a notice on the Website home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the bottom of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.
VISITORS’ GDPR RIGHTS
If you are within one of the 32 countries affected by the GDPR (the EU, EEA and Switzerland), you are entitled to certain information and have certain rights under the General Data Protection Regulation. Those rights include:
We will store any information you choose to provide us until, whichever is earlier: (a) you ask us to delete the information, (b) we decide to stop using our existing data providers, or (c) the Company decides that there is no need to retain your data and value of retaining the data is outweighed by the costs of retaining it.
You have the right to request access to your data that the Company stores and the rights to either correct or erase your personal data.
You have the right to seek restrictions on the processing of your data.
You have the right to object to the processing of your data and the right to the portability of your data.
The right to portability means you have the right to transfer the personal data you provided to the Company to another controller without hindrance from the Company, whether you request the Company send you your personal data in a structured, commonly-used, machine-readable format and you transfer it to the new controller or whether you request a controller-to-controller transfer provided it is technically feasible and does not infringe on the rights and freedoms of others.
To the extent that you provided consent to the Company’s processing of your personal data, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing based upon consent that occurred prior to your withdrawal of consent.
You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority that has jurisdiction over issues related to the General Data Protection Regulation.
We require only the information that is reasonably required to enter into a contract with you. We will not require you to provide consent for any unnecessary processing as a condition of entering into a contract with us.
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Your contact information
Additional information
What third parties we receive data from
1. Data protection provisions about the application and use of functions of the Amazon Partner program
On this website, the Company has integrated Amazon components as a participant in the Amazon partner program. The Amazon components were created by Amazon with the aim to mediate customers through advertisements on various websites of the Amazon group, in particular Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Local.Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.de, BuyVIP.com, Amazon.fr, Amazon.it and Amazon.es in return for the payment of a commission. By using the Amazon components, the Company may generate advertising revenue.
The operating company of this Amazon component is Amazon.com, Inc., P.O. Box 81226, Seattle, WA 98108-1226 UNITED STATES. For privacy matters outside of the United States, Amazon EU S.Ã .r.l, 5 Rue Plaetis, L-2338 Luxembourg, Luxembourg is responsible.
Through your browser, Amazon sets a cookie, a very small text file containing a unique personal identifier, on a part of your computer’s hard drive designated for cookies, provided your browser preferences enables the acceptance of cookies. When you visit individual pages of this website, which is operated by the Company, and into which an Amazon component was integrated, Amazon will collect personal information that is used to trace the origin of orders from Amazon, and as a result, to allow the accounting of a commission to the Company. Among other things, Amazon may understand that you have clicked on an affiliate link on our website.
You can prevent the collection of this personal data by Amazon by changing your browser’s preferences to permanently deny the setting of cookies. Cookies already in use by Amazon may be deleted at anytime via a web browser or other software programs.
2. Data protection provisions about the application and use of Facebook
On this website, the Company has integrated components of the enterprise Facebook. Facebook is a social network.
A social network is a place for social meetings on the Internet, an online community, which usually allows users to communicate with each other and interact in a virtual space. A social network may serve as a platform for the exchange of opinions and experiences, or enable the Internet community to provide personal or business-related information. Facebook allows social network users to include the creation of private profiles, upload photos, and network through friend requests.
The operating company of Facebook is Facebook, Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States. If a person lives outside of the United States or Canada, the controller is the Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland.
When you are logged into Facebook while visiting individual pages on our website into which a Facebook component (Facebook plug-ins) was integrated, Facebook collects technical information about which pages and sections of our website you visit, the Facebook buttons you click on our website, (e.g. the “Like” button), and if you submit a comment, and that information is associated with your Facebook account. This occurs regardless of whether you click on the Facebook component or not. If such a transmission of information to Facebook is not desirable, you can prevent this by logging off of your Facebook account before visiting our website.
An overview of all the Facebook Plug-ins may be accessed by clicking here to view the developers document on Facebook Plug-ins.
Click here to view the data protection guideline published on the Facebook Privacy Policy It provides information about the collection, processing and use of personal data by Facebook. In addition, it is explained there what setting options Facebook offers to protect your privacy. In addition, Facebook provides you with different configuration options to elimination data transmission to Facebook.
3. Data protection provisions about the application and use of Google Analytics (with anonymization function)
On this website, our Company has integrated the component of Google Analytics (with the anonymizer function). Google Analytics is a web analytics service. Web analytics is the collection, gathering, and analysis of data about the behavior of visitors to websites. A web analysis service collects, inter alia, data about the website from which a person has come (the so-called referrer), which sub-pages were visited, or how often and for what duration a sub-page was viewed. Web analytics are mainly used for the optimization of a website and in order to carry out a cost-benefit analysis of Internet advertising.
The operator of the Google Analytics component is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, United States.
For the web analytics through Google Analytics the controller uses the application “_gat. _anonymizeIp”. By means of this application your IP address is abridged by Google and anonymised when accessing our websites from a Member State of the European Union or another Contracting State to the Agreement on the European Economic Area.
The purpose of the Google Analytics component is to analyze the traffic on our website. Google uses the collected data and information, inter alia, to evaluate the use of our website and to provide online reports, which show the activities on our websites, and to provide other services concerning the use of our website for us.
If your browser preferences allow the setting of cookies, Google Analytics places a cookie on your information technology system. With the setting of the cookie, Google is enabled to analyze the use of our website. As you visit individual pages of this website into which a Google Analytics component was integrated, your browser being used will automatically submit data through the Google Analytics component for the purpose of online advertising and the settlement of commissions to Google. During the course of this technical procedure, the enterprise Google gains knowledge of personal information, such as your IP address, which serves Google, inter alia, to understand the origin of visitors and clicks, and subsequently create commission settlements.
The cookie is used to store personal information, such the time you spend on our site, the location from which the access was made, and the frequency of your visits to our website. With each visit to our website, such personal data, including your IP address, will be transmitted to Google in the United States of America. These personal data are stored by Google in the United States of America. Google may pass these personal data collected through the technical procedure to third parties.
You can prevent the setting of cookies through our website at any time by changing your browser settings to permanently deny the setting of cookies. This would prevent Google Analytics from setting a cookie on your information device. Cookies already in use by Google Analytics may be deleted at any time via a web browser or other software programs.
In addition, you can object to a collection of data that are generated by Google Analytics, which is related to the use of this website, as well as the processing of this data by Google and to prevent such collection and processing in the future. For this purpose, you must download this Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-on and install it. This browser add-on tells Google Analytics through a JavaScript, that any data and information about the visits of Internet pages may not be transmitted to Google Analytics. The installation of the browser add-ons is considered an objection by Google. If you delete, format or newly install your information technology system on your information device, you must reinstall the browser add-ons to disable Google Analytics. If you or any other person uninstall the browser add-on, or it is disabled, you can reinstall or reactivate the browser add-ons.
Further information and the applicable data protection provisions of Google may be viewed by clicking here to see the Google Privacy Policy and clicking here to see the Google Terms of Service.
Click here to learn more about Google Analytics.
4. Data protection provisions about the application and use of Jetpack for WordPress
On this website, the controller has integrated Jetpack. Jetpack is a WordPress plug-in, which provides additional features to the operator of a website based on WordPress. Jetpack allows the Company, inter alia, an overview of the visitors of the site. By displaying related posts and publications, or the ability to share content on the page, it is also possible to increase visitor numbers. In addition, security features are integrated into Jetpack, so a Jetpack-using site is better protected against brute-force attacks. Jetpack also optimizes and accelerates the loading of images on the website.
The operating company of Jetpack Plug-Ins for WordPress is the Automattic Inc., 132 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 94107, UNITED STATES. The operating enterprise uses the tracking technology created by Quantcast Inc., 201 Third Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, UNITED STATES.
Jetpack sets a cookie on your information technology system. As you visit individual pages of this Internet site and on which a Jetpack component was integrated, your browser is automatically prompted to submit data through the Jetpack component for analysis purposes to Automattic.
During the course of this technical procedure Automattic receives data that is used to create an overview of website visits. The data obtained in this way serves the analysis of your visits and actions on the website which is analyzed with the aim to optimize the website. The data collected through the Jetpack component is not used to identify you, personally, without obtaining prior separate express consent from you. The data comes also to the notice of Quantcast. Quantcast uses the data for the same purposes as Automattic.
You can prevent the setting of cookies through our website at any time by changing your browser preferences to deny the setting of cookies used and thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. This would also prevent Automattic/Quantcast from setting a cookie on your information technology system. In addition, cookies already in use by Automattic/Quantcast may be deleted at any time via a web browser or other software programs.
You can object to a collection of data relating to a use of this website that are generated by the Jetpack cookie as well as the processing of these data by Automattic/Quantcast and the chance to preclude any such. For this purpose, you must click here and then switch the button from ‘opt-in’ to ‘opt-out’ which sets an opt-out cookie. The opt-out cookie set with this purpose is placed on your information technology system. If the cookies are deleted on your system, then you must call up the link again and set a new opt-out cookie.
With the setting of the opt-out cookie, however, the possibility exists that our website is not fully usable anymore by the data subject.
Click here to view the applicable data protection provisions of Automattic on their Privacy Policy.
Click here to view the applicable data protection provisions of Quantcast at their Privacy Policy.
5. Data protection provisions about the application and use of Twitter
On this website, the Company has integrated components of Twitter. Twitter is a multilingual, publicly-accessible microblogging service on which users may publish and spread so-called ‘tweets,’ e.g. short messages, which are limited to 280 characters. These short messages are available for everyone, including those who are not logged on to Twitter. The tweets are also displayed to so-called followers of the respective user. Followers are other Twitter users who follow a user’s tweets. Furthermore, Twitter allows you to address a wide audience via hashtags, links or retweets.
The operating company of Twitter is Twitter, Inc., 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, UNITED STATES.
When you visit individual pages of this website on which a Twitter component (Twitter button) was integrated, your browser is automatically prompted to download a display of the corresponding Twitter component of Twitter. Click here to learn more information about the Twitter buttons. During the course of this technical procedure, Twitter gains knowledge of what specific sub-page you visited on our website. The purpose of the integration of the Twitter component is to retransmit the contents of this website to allow our users to introduce this web page to the digital world and increase our visitor numbers.
If you are logged in at the same time on Twitter, Twitter detects when you visit an individual page, and for the entire duration of your stay on our website, which specific sub-page you visited and your clicks of Twitter buttons the Company has integrated into the website. This personal information is collected through the Twitter component and is associated with your Twitter account.
Twitter receives information via the Twitter component that you have visited our website, provided that you are logged in on Twitter at the time you visit our website. If such a transmission of information to Twitter is not desirable to you, then you can prevent this by logging off from your Twitter account before you visit our website.
Click here to view the applicable data protection provisions of Twitter on their Privacy Policy.
13. Data protection provisions about the application and use of YouTube
On this website, the Company has integrated components of YouTube. YouTube is an Internet video portal that enables video publishers to set video clips and other users free of charge, which also provides free viewing, review and commenting on them. YouTube allows you to publish all kinds of videos, so you can access both full movies and TV broadcasts, as well as music videos, trailers, and videos made by users via the Internet portal.
The operating company of YouTube is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, UNITED STATES. The YouTube, LLC is a subsidiary of Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, UNITED STATES.
With each visit to individual pages on our website and on which a YouTube component (YouTube video) was integrated, your browser is automatically prompted to download a display of the corresponding YouTube component. Click here to learn more about YouTube. During the course of this technical procedure, YouTube and Google gain knowledge of what specific sub-page of our website you visited.
If the data subject is logged in on YouTube, YouTube recognizes with each visit to a sub-page that contains a YouTube video, which specific sub-page of our website was visited by the data subject. This information is collected by YouTube and Google and assigned to your YouTube account.
If you are logged into YouTube when you visit our website, YouTube and Google will receive information through the YouTube component that you have visited our website. This occurs regardless of whether the person clicks on a YouTube video or not. If such a transmission of this information to YouTube and Google is not desirable to you, you can prevent the transmission of this data by logging off from your YouTube account before visiting our website.
Click here to view YouTube’s data protection provisions, available at their Privacy Policy, which provides information about the collection, processing and use of personal data by YouTube and Google.
CONTACT US
Zip Creative welcomes your questions or comments regarding the Privacy Policy:
Zip Creative
Email Address: support@zipcreative.net
Effective as of September 26, 2021