By using this website you agree to comply with and be bound by the following privacy policy terms, which together with our Terms Of Service govern our relationship with you in relation to this website. If you do not agree with any part of these terms, you should not use our website.

The term ‘Destei’ or ‘Destei.com’ or ‘us’ or ‘we’ or ‘our’ refers to the owner of the website. The term ‘you’ refers to the user or viewer of our website.

Who We Are

Our website address is: http://destei.com and it is owned and edited by Destei.

Information We Collect

Voluntarily Provided Information

You can voluntarily provide Destei personal data should you choose to engage with our services. For example, this may occur when you communicate with us through our e-mail contact form or when you enter information on our website i.e. by leaving a comment on our blog.

Personal information provided by you may include data such as your name, e-mail address and other similar information.

Automatically Collected Information

Certain information may be collected or received automatically by us or the third-party services we use when you visit, use or navigate Destei.com. Such information may include information such your IP address, the browser you used, the operating system you used etc. The information is collected for our analytics and reporting purposes.

Like many other websites, we may also collect information through cookies and similar technologies.

How We Use The Information We Collect

Along with our legitimate interest, we may use the collected data for the following reasons:

  • to be able to provide our services and to comply with our obligations.
  • to operate, improve and maintain our website.
  • to protect our services.
  • to respond to comments or inquiries.
  • to analyze site statistics.
  • to promote our services.
  • to comply with our legal obligations, if necessary.

Data Sharing Policy

We may need to process or share your data that we hold about you to third-parties for the following reasons:

  • We are required to do so in order to provide you our services.
  • We are required to do so by law.
  • We sell or merge our business with another company. Destei reserves the right to transfer all information that we have collected from our users.
  • You have voluntarily interacted with our public services, for example, by posting a comment on Destei.com. Publicly available comments may include your name or other personal information that may be viewed by and interacted with by other users and visitors of Destei.com

How Long We Retain Your Data

Please refer to each section under “Specific Use Cases” to learn how long certain data is stored.

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.

How We Protect Your Data

Destei.com has SSL certificate encryption.

Cookies

What Are Cookies?

Cookie is a small text file stored on your computer by web browsers when you visit some websites. Cookies can help remember your site preferences and tailor your user experience. Cookies can also provide web publishers information regarding to how their service is being used and statistics to analyze site data. Many web browsers have cookies enabled, but allow you to change your settings to refuse cookies.

How Do We Use Cookies?

As most of the online services, our website uses first-party and third-party cookies for several purposes. First-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data.

The third-party cookies used on our website are mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.

Cookie Types

Some cookies are essential for you to be able to experience the full functionality of our site. They allow us to maintain user sessions and prevent any security threats. They do not collect or store any personal information.

Some cookies store information like the number of visitors to the website, the number of unique visitors, which pages of the website have been visited, the source of the visit, etc. These data help us understand and analyze how well the website performs and where it needs improvement.

The information stored in these cookies may also be used by the third-party ad providers to show you ads on other websites on the browser as well.

Privacy_embeds Cookie

Cookie name: privacy_embeds
Duration: 30 days
Description: Used to manage and store user consent to load the different third party embeds and tracking scripts.

Google Analytics Cookies

We use Google Analytics to track and analyze our website statistics and visitor behavior. In order to track your session usage, Google may drop a cookie in your browser. ‘_ga’ is the main cookie used by Google Analytics. ‘_ga’ enables a service to distinguish one user from another and lasts for 2 years.

Data collected by Google Analytics about your website visits is subject to the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy. You can choose to opt out of Google’s use of cookies by visiting the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. Also please delete your _ga cookies that may have been placed in your browser. Learn more about how Google uses cookies?

Cookie name: _ga
Duration: 2 years (default expiration time)
Description: Used to distinguish users.

Cookie name: _ga_ZN4G6Q6JP4
Duration: 2 years (default expiration time)
Description: Used to persist session state.

Google ReCAPTCHA

Our website uses Google ReCAPTCHA on our contact form page to prevent spam. The reCAPTCHA API works by collecting hardware and software information, such as device and app data, and sending it to Google for analysis. reCAPTCHA sets a necessary cookie (_GRECAPTCHA) when executed for the purpose of providing its risk analysis.

Google may also set other marketing / tracking cookies should you visit our contact page including, but not necessarily limited to:

Cookie name: NID
Duration: 6 Months
Purpose: Marketing / Tracking
Description: Used to provide ad delivery or retargeting, store user preferences.

Cookie name: 1P_JAR
Duration: 1 Month
Purpose: Marketing / Tracking
Description: Used to provide ad delivery or retargeting.

Cookie Name: ACE
Cookie Name: DV
Cookie Name: Consent

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.

Comments

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 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.

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.

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Third-Party Affiliate Link Cookies

Destei.com displays and promotes products Destei has designed on third-party print on demand companies’ platforms. When you click a third-party shop link or click to buy a product, the link will take you to the third-party company’s website from where you can purchase the item. Such link may be an affiliate marketing link and clicking such link may set a cookie on your device. Destei has no control over these cookies or access to this data set by a third-party. Please refer to the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Social Media Buttons And Features

Our website may include services, features, buttons and/or widgets provided by third-party social media companies. This may include features such as, but not limited to, social media share buttons. The said social media companies may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking and monitor your interactions with their features. Should you interact with such features on our website, your actions are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing the feature.

How Can You Control Your Cookie Preferences?

Different browsers provide different methods to block and delete cookies used by websites. You can change the settings of your browser to block/delete the cookies.

Specific Use Cases

E-mail Contact Form

Destei.com provides an e-mail contact form for you to be able to contact us. Should you choose to e-mail Destei, you will provide us with your name, e-mail address and the content of your message. You may also choose to provide us with other personal information such as your website address. Submitting a form requires sender’s consent.

If you choose to send Destei an e-mail through our contact form, the submitted data will remain in the service provider’s servers Destei uses until it is deleted. The data is stored only for purposes of communication with the applicable person / company. Typically this data is deleted once our assistance is no longer needed.

Registered Users

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.

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.

Third-Party Websites

Destei.com provides links to third-party websites. Destei’s privacy policy does not apply when you access said third-party websites. The linked websites operate independently and therefore Destei is not responsible for the content nor policies of said websites. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Contact Information

You can contact Destei through our contact form.

Changes To The Privacy Policy

Destei reserves the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy at all times. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. Destei encourages visitors to frequently check this page for changes to our Privacy Policy.

Last modified: May 13, 2022