Privacy Policy
We collect information either (i) directly from you, (ii) through third parties, or (iii) automatically when you use the website.
In general, we collect information as follows:
Account and Profile Information: When you create an account on the Ammar Designs platform, we collect certain information such as your name, contact details, and any other information you provide. You may be asked to create an account on the website, and if you do, the information you enter — such as your name, account name, current projects, demographic information, and any photo you upload — may be publicly visible on our website. If you believe someone has created an account on your behalf without your authorization, please contact us at info@ammardesigns.com
Public Content: We collect and store the information you post on the website, including photos, comments, reviews, projects, and personal information.
Contact Methods: When you contact us (via email, through the website, or any other method), we keep a record of that contact. Additionally, when you call a specialist registered on Ammardesigns using the number shown on that specialist's Ammardesigns page, we may collect certain data. Similarly, when you provide information to a specialist registered on Ammardesigns through their page, we may collect and store this information on the specialist's behalf; however, the use of information you provide through the specialist is subject to that specialist's own policies and practices, not Ammardesigns' privacy policy.
Messages: If you exchange messages through the website, and in accordance with applicable law, we may store those messages in order to process and deliver them, allow you to manage them, and check for possible violations related to the website. The Ammardesigns platform may allow you to contact third-party service and product providers directly outside the website, and any information you send to third parties through this method, including your personal email address, is not covered by the Ammardesigns privacy policy.
Information the Website Collects: At Ammardesigns, we collect and store information about your use of the website (including mobile apps), such as the searches you perform, the pages you visit, and the date and time of your visit. We also collect and store information about your computer or mobile device related to your use of the website, such as browser type, your computer or phone type, browser language, IP address, mobile network, device identifier, location, and the addresses of requested and referring pages.
Third Parties and Contacts: If you choose to link your profile on the Ammardesigns platform with another network or service provider such as Facebook or Google, you will be asked to allow the exchange of your contact information with Ammardesigns; if you agree to this sharing to enhance your experience, we will in turn send you notifications so that you and your contacts can find each other on the Ammardesigns platform.
Use of Information
We may use the information we collect about you on the Ammardesigns platform for specific purposes, such as: improving the quality of the website, making your experience on the website more personalized, determining suitable content and information to send or display to you, providing location features, offering you assistance and suggestions, tracking your usage information and data on the website, providing recommendations to businesses and specialists who showcase their work and products through the website, displaying relevant ads (on our website and on third-party websites), evaluating the success of our advertisements, providing customer support, contacting you about your use of the website or any requests, allowing third parties to contact you through the website, answering your inquiries and responding to your requests, sending you marketing messages, backing up our systems and allowing their restoration in case of any failure, enhancing website security, completing transactions you carry out through the website or that you have requested and agreed to, and complying with legal orders.
In addition, at Ammardesigns we use the information we collect to better understand how users access, use, and interact with our website and its services, both collectively and individually, in order to improve it, respond to user wishes and requests, develop the products displayed and services provided, and for other analytical and research purposes. From time to time we may run contests and promotions, using the information we collect to manage such contests and promotions and to analyze survey results for research purposes and to comply with the legal requirements related to these contests and promotions.
Sharing Your Information
We do not rent or sell your personal contact information (such as the email address linked to your account with us) to third parties for their own marketing purposes. However, Ammardesigns may, in certain cases, allow third parties — including other users and our partners — to contact you through the website for marketing purposes. Additionally, any information you share publicly through your account with us is available to third parties and other users as well, and we cannot control third parties' use of your information. We may share some of your information with third parties in connection with your use of the website. This sharing generally falls into the following purposes and categories:
Analysis and Use: We may share your personal information in a form determined or collected by third parties such as advertisers, specialists, or other companies. For example, we may disclose to a business owner the number of users who have viewed their products. Specialists and companies registered on the Ammardesigns platform can access analytics and data-processing platforms linked to your profile when you register with Ammardesigns (but not identified through your email or non-public personal information), which allow them to know whether you have added their products or designs to your design book on specific dates.
Third-Party Advertising Networks: We use third-party advertising companies to display ads on third-party websites, and we may work with them to display ads on our website, as well as to help us evaluate the effectiveness of our ads in accordance with applicable law. These companies use cookies, web beacons, and tracking technologies to collect information (not including your name, address, email address, or phone number) about your visits to this website and other websites in order to display targeted ads to you. Please see the Third-Party Advertising section below for more information.
Our Affiliates: We may share information about you with our affiliated companies or those under common management, in which case we will require them to comply with this privacy policy.
Other Users: Information you post publicly on the website (such as photos, comments, and your personal account) will be available to other users on the Ammardesigns platform; the information you post on the website and allow everyone to see — including your photos, comments, files, and account data — will be available to the public. By posting on the website, you agree to the disclosure of the materials you post publicly.
Investigations: We may investigate and disclose information about you as permitted by applicable law, where we believe such investigation or disclosure is necessary to comply with legal proceedings and enforcement instructions, such as a search warrant, legal subpoena, or any other legal process that may serve us, or if it helps prevent, investigate, or identify any potential violations on the website, or to protect our rights, reputation, and property, or even the rights of users, affiliates, or website visitors.
Ammardesigns Messages
When you join the Ammardesigns platform by signing up for an account or creating a profile as part of the service, you will receive the Ammardesigns newsletter, which shows you articles, offers, and features available on the website. As permitted by law, you choose whether you want to receive emails from us that may be of value to you as a member of the Ammardesigns community, and we may also ask for your consent to receive text messages from us. You can manage your email and choose to receive notifications from your account settings, but you should know that you cannot opt out of receiving administrative and legal notices from us. If you opt out of receiving emails containing suggestions or information that may interest you, we may continue sending you emails related to your account or any services you have requested or received from us. However, you can opt out of receiving text messages from us entirely, whether promotional, transactional, or otherwise. Additionally, by joining us, you agree to receive feedback and communications from third parties through the website, including third-party service or product providers who comment on your posts within the website. If you do not want third parties to see certain information about you, you should not post it on your profile or the website.
Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
At Ammardesigns, along with the third parties we work with, including service providers, we use cookies in connection with your use of the website and third-party websites (these are small text files that most websites visited by a user store on their computer, containing information about the user of that website, such as login-related data). We also use web beacons for similar purposes on our website and in emails sent to our customers (for example, to help us track email response rates, determine when they are viewed, and track whether those emails are forwarded). Additionally, we use local shared objects (sometimes called "Flash cookies"), JavaScript, log files, and similar technologies (collectively, along with cookies and web beacons, referred to as "cookies" in this policy) to track and analyze website usage and facilitate advertising on it and on third-party websites.
We also use cookies to collect or transmit information about you and your use of the website or third-party websites, such as your browser type, your preferred searches, data related to ads shown to you or that you clicked on, your interests on our website and others, and the time and date of your usage. When we use cookies, it is to enhance the website's features and approach, provide reliability and security for your transactions on the website, store your preferences, facilitate relevant advertising, help us understand user engagement on the website, and understand your activities after leaving the website. Our cookies may be persistent or stored for the duration of personal use.
You can opt out of tracking by third parties for certain advertising purposes (as mentioned above) to help you control targeted ads from third parties that track your activities on websites. It may be possible to disable certain cookies through your device or browser settings, which may vary depending on the browser or device but can usually be found in the favorites menu or security settings. However, disabling these files may affect your ability to use the website, and if you are not comfortable with the use of these cookies, please do not use this website.
Do Not Track Signals: Please note that we do not change our website's system in response to browser "Do Not Track" requests. However, you can disable certain specific tracking as mentioned earlier in this section (for example, by disabling cookies or disabling advertising networks).
Third-Party Analytics: We also use automated tools and applications, such as Google Analytics, to evaluate the use of our website and the services we provide, and you can disable the Google Analytics feature and review its privacy policy. We use these tools to collect non-personal information about users to help us improve our services, performance, and user experience. Providers of these analytics may use cookies to perform their services, and may combine the information they collect about you on the website with other information. This privacy policy does not cover third parties' use of data.
Third-Party Advertising
We have previously mentioned in this privacy policy that we may work with third parties such as advertising networks to display ads on external websites or other media, and that we evaluate the success of our advertising campaigns, including on Facebook, Google, and others (both Facebook and Google provide additional ways to opt out of certain advertising activities), while maintaining their own privacy policies that address their targeted advertising services. We may also work with third parties to display ads on our own website.
Advertising network providers, advertisers, sponsors, and/or traffic measurement services may use cookies, JavaScript, web beacons (including animated images), and other tracking technologies to measure the effectiveness of their ads and tailor ad content for you, which in turn allows us and third parties to target ads relevant to you for products and services, based on your activities on our website and others. Cookies and other technologies used by third parties are subject to their own privacy policies. We may also provide third-party advertisers with information about members or allow them to collect certain information through the website (such as IP address and demographic information), but we do not disclose your name, contact information, or any other personal information to them.
Opting out of one or more of these companies/entities will disable your subscription and stop you from receiving content or ads that interest you, based on your activities across various websites, but this does not mean you will not receive any ads through our website on other sites. You may continue to receive ads based on, for example, a particular website you are browsing (i.e., content-based ads). Also, if your browsers are configured to reject cookies or delete them afterward, your opt-out may not be effective.
Social Media Links and Pages
Our website includes social media features, such as the Facebook "Share This" button, as well as other interactive tools that operate on our website, our services, and third-party websites. We also provide certain functional features (such as blogs and comments). These features collect your IP address and the page you are visiting, and may set "cookies" to enable them to function properly and for other purposes. When these features are displayed on our website, they are provided by third parties and are subject to their own privacy policies. All your interactions with these features are subject to the privacy policy of the company that provides them.
Choices and Access to Your Personal Information
As a website user, you have certain choices regarding how you control your data, including your publicly displayed profile information, contact settings, network linking, and opting out of tracking by third parties for certain advertising purposes. These choices are described in the relevant sections of this privacy policy. Furthermore, you can edit any information on your personal account that you provided when logging in and update your profile information. Please note that copies of information you have updated, edited, or deleted may persist for some time, and we may retain such copies as part of our business activity records.
Security
We have implemented security safeguards to protect your personal information provided to us, both during transmission and once received. However, no method of transmitting information over the internet, mobile phone, or electronic storage is 100% secure — therefore, absolute security cannot be guaranteed. You should take certain steps to protect your account and personal information, such as choosing a strong password and keeping it private, and logging out of your account when you finish using the website.
Links to Other Websites
Our website contains links to other websites that are not controlled by us, so please note that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of those websites. We encourage you to be cautious when leaving our website and to read the privacy policies of any website you visit. This privacy policy applies only to information collected by our website.
Privacy Policy Modifications and Updates
We reserve the right to revise this privacy policy from time to time, and the most current version will govern our use of your personal information and will be posted on this page. If we make changes to this policy, we will send you a notice by email or post a notice on the website, and by continuing to access or use the website after these changes take effect, you as a user agree to be bound by the revised privacy policy.
Publishing Policy and Property Rights
The Ammardesigns website does not earn any direct profit from materials or content uploaded by users to the website, except in the case of paid advertisements. Ammardesigns is a social platform that connects homeowners with professionals specialized in all areas of home design. This platform expects its users to respect the property rights of others; users who upload their own content to the website provide assurances that they own the rights allowing Ammardesigns to use the content. If you violate any copyright or property rights of the website or the rights of others, your content will be deleted or partially or fully suspended. This is our policy for such cases, which may result in either freezing the account of a user who repeatedly violates the website's policy and the intellectual property rights of other users, or canceling their account.
If you believe there has been a genuine violation of your property rights through materials displayed on the Ammardesigns website, you can contact us and send a message requesting the removal of these materials. This message must include the following information:
A physical or electronic signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner, giving them the right to file an intellectual property infringement complaint.
Identification of the work or trademark that has been infringed.
Identification of the materials, topics, or content that infringe your intellectual property, and sufficient information to allow Ammardesigns administrators to locate them on the Ammardesigns platform.
Sufficient information for Ammardesigns administrators to easily contact the party reporting the infringement, such as: name, address, phone number, and email address.
A statement that the complainant has strong evidence that the material displayed on the website infringes their intellectual property, trademark, or the law.
A statement that the information contained in the notice is accurate and that the other party deserves to be penalized. The complainant must also be authorized to act on behalf of the exclusive owner of the intellectual property that has been infringed.
Please note that the Ammardesigns website will not consider complaints that do not meet all the requirements mentioned above. If the website administrators decide not to remove materials alleged to infringe a party's property or trademark rights, the website will not remove them, and they will only be removed upon a court order stating that the content of these materials is being used unlawfully.
Please note that infringement notices regarding property rights on the Ammardesigns platform must be sent to: info@ammardesigns.com