This website and publication are operated by JS Design Works, LLC. Our website address is: https://designworks.app
This Privacy Policy explains how JS Design Works collects, uses, stores, discloses, and protects personal information when you visit our website, read publication content, register as a reader, subscribe to a newsletter, complete a survey, purchase a subscription, make a contribution, submit a form, leave a comment, or interact with related services.
Depending on how you interact with the website, you may provide your name, email address, telephone number, business name, website address, mailing address, professional role, content preferences, survey responses, account details, comments, messages, or other information you choose to submit.
If you register as a reader, subscribe, or make a contribution, we may receive information associated with your publication membership, including your name, email address, registration status, subscription plan, contribution amount, billing frequency, membership status, transaction date, renewal date, cancellation status, refund status, and order identifier.
Do not submit confidential, regulated, or highly sensitive personal information through comments, surveys, standard contact forms, or email unless we specifically request it through an appropriate process.
When you visit or use the website, we and our service providers may automatically collect your IP address, browser type, device type, operating system, approximate geographic location, referring website, pages viewed, articles read, links selected, visit dates and times, session activity, engagement information, cookie identifiers, registration events, subscription events, and diagnostic information.
This information may be collected through server logs, cookies, pixels, scripts, analytics platforms, security systems, and Reader Revenue Manager technologies.
JS Design Works uses or may use Google Reader Revenue Manager to provide reader registration, newsletter signup, reader surveys, metered content access, paid subscriptions, voluntary contributions, membership management, and related publication features.
When you interact with these features, Google may collect and process information according to Google’s own terms and privacy notices.
Depending on the feature used, JS Design Works may receive or access information through Reader Revenue Manager, including your name, email address, reader status, membership status, plan, transaction amount, billing frequency, transaction date, order identifier, cancellation information, refund information, newsletter signup information, registration information, and survey responses.
Google’s Privacy Policy is available at https://policies.google.com/privacy and Google’s Terms of Service are available at https://policies.google.com/terms.
The publication may allow or require you to register or sign in using a Google Account.
When you use Sign in with Google, Google may provide JS Design Works with account information needed to authenticate or register you, such as your name, email address, account identifier, or other profile information authorized during the sign-in process.
JS Design Works does not receive your Google Account password. Your Google Account and your relationship with Google remain governed by Google’s own terms, privacy notices, and account controls.
Payments for publication subscriptions or contributions may be processed through Google Payments or another payment provider.
Payment card numbers, bank account information, and other payment credentials may be collected directly by the payment provider. JS Design Works may receive transaction and membership records but may not receive your complete payment card number.
The Google Payments Privacy Notice is available at https://payments.google.com/payments/apis-secure/get_legal_document?ldo=0&ldt=privacynotice.
We may use Reader Revenue Manager or another service to present surveys concerning your interests, professional role, website needs, business needs, publication preferences, or experience with the website.
Survey responses may be used to understand our audience, create relevant content, improve reader experience, develop services, personalize publication prompts, and support audience-development or advertising strategies.
Unless otherwise disclosed, participation is voluntary. Some content may require completion of a disclosed survey before access is provided.
If you subscribe to a newsletter or request publication updates, we may use your name, email address, signup source, signup date, preferences, and engagement information to deliver and improve those communications.
Publication emails may include new articles, educational resources, digital marketing guidance, website information, product announcements, service announcements, or promotional content from JS Design Works.
You may unsubscribe from marketing emails by using the unsubscribe link included in the message. We may continue to send administrative or transactional messages concerning an active account, payment, subscription, contribution, security matter, or requested service.
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 with spam detection, moderation, and website security.
An anonymized string created from your email address, also called a hash, may be provided to the Gravatar service to determine whether you use it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available at https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture may be visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Information you include in a public comment may be viewed, copied, or used by other visitors. Do not include confidential information, login credentials, private client information, or sensitive personal information in a comment.
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images that contain embedded location data, including EXIF GPS information. Visitors to the website may be able to download images and extract location information from them.
The website and its service providers may use cookies and similar technologies to operate the publication, maintain reader sessions, remember preferences, provide Reader Revenue Manager features, process registrations, manage subscriptions, measure website traffic, analyze engagement, maintain security, prevent fraud, and support marketing or advertising.
If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These cookies are provided for convenience so that you do not have to enter the information again when leaving another comment. These cookies may last for one year.
If you visit a login page, the website may set a temporary cookie to determine whether your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, the website may set cookies to save your login information and screen display choices. Login cookies may last for two days, and screen option cookies may last for one year. If you select “Remember Me,” your login may persist for two weeks. Login cookies are removed when you log out.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie may be saved in your browser. This cookie contains no personal data and indicates the post ID of the article you edited. It normally expires after one day.
Google and other third-party providers may set their own cookies when you interact with registration, newsletter, survey, subscription, contribution, analytics, embedded content, or advertising features.
You may control cookies through the website’s consent controls, your browser settings, Google Account settings, or provider-specific privacy controls. Blocking certain cookies may affect reader registration, login, subscriptions, content access, analytics, or other website functions.
We may use Google Analytics or another analytics provider to understand how visitors interact with the website and publication.
Analytics information may include page views, traffic sources, device information, approximate location, session activity, article engagement, registration events, newsletter signups, survey interactions, subscription activity, contribution activity, and conversion events.
We use this information to evaluate publication performance, improve website usability, understand audience interests, develop content, diagnose problems, and measure publication growth.
Articles on this site may include embedded content such as videos, images, maps, social media posts, articles, forms, or interactive tools. Embedded content from another website behaves in substantially the same way as if you visited that website directly.
These websites may collect information about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content. This may include tracking your interaction when you have an account with the third-party service and are logged in to that service.
We may use personal information to operate the website and publication, deliver articles, register readers, authenticate accounts, provide subscriber content, process subscriptions and contributions, manage memberships, send newsletters, respond to inquiries, administer surveys, provide requested resources, analyze publication performance, improve content, personalize reader prompts, prevent fraud, maintain security, diagnose technical problems, enforce our terms, maintain business records, comply with law, and protect legal rights.
We may also use information to market JS Design Works products or services when you have provided consent or when the communication is otherwise permitted by applicable law.
We may disclose personal information to service providers that help us operate, host, secure, monitor, analyze, maintain, or communicate through the website and publication.
These providers may include Google, website hosting providers, email delivery providers, analytics providers, content delivery networks, spam detection services, payment processors, security services, backup providers, and professional advisers.
If you request a password reset, your IP address may be included in the reset email.
We may disclose information when reasonably necessary to comply with law or legal process, respond to a lawful government request, investigate fraud or abuse, protect readers or the public, enforce our agreements, protect the rights or security of JS Design Works, or establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.
Information may also be transferred or disclosed in connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, restructuring, sale, bankruptcy, or transfer of some or all of the business or publication.
Google independently controls certain information associated with your Google Account, Google Payments profile, payment methods, Google service activity, and Google privacy settings.
Requests concerning information controlled solely by Google may need to be submitted directly through your Google Account, Google Payments account, or Google privacy controls. JS Design Works cannot access, correct, export, or delete information that Google does not make available to the publication.
JS Design Works does not sell personal information in exchange for money.
Certain analytics, advertising, or marketing technologies may involve disclosures that some privacy laws define as “sharing,” “targeted advertising,” or a “sale,” even when no money is exchanged for the information.
Where required, you may use our cookie controls or contact us to exercise an applicable opt-out right.
We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to operate the publication, provide requested services, maintain transaction and business records, resolve disputes, maintain security, comply with legal obligations, and protect our rights.
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata may be retained indefinitely. This allows us to recognize and approve follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users who register on the website, we store the personal information provided in their user profiles. Users may be able to view, edit, or delete certain profile information, although some account identifiers may not be editable. Website administrators may also view and edit account information.
Newsletter information may be retained until you unsubscribe or request deletion. Membership and transaction records may be retained for accounting, tax, fraud-prevention, dispute-resolution, and legal purposes.
Google and other service providers determine their own retention periods for information processed under their respective privacy policies.
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards intended to protect personal information. These may include access restrictions, account authentication, encrypted connections, software updates, backups, security monitoring, and limited administrative access.
No website, payment platform, email system, storage system, or method of electronic transmission is completely secure. You are responsible for maintaining the security of your Google Account, email account, devices, passwords, and authentication credentials.
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to request access to personal information, request correction, request deletion, obtain a portable copy of certain information, object to certain processing, restrict certain processing, withdraw consent, or opt out of certain targeted advertising, sharing, or sales.
If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you may request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including information you provided to us. You may also request that we erase certain personal data we hold about you.
This does not include information that we are required or permitted to retain for administrative, transactional, security, tax, accounting, fraud-prevention, or legal purposes.
We may need to verify your identity before completing a privacy request. Authorized agents may be required to provide documentation establishing their authority to act on your behalf.
You may unsubscribe from marketing emails, adjust cookie preferences, block cookies through your browser, cancel a publication subscription, cancel a recurring contribution, update information in your Google Account, manage payment information through Google, or contact us about information maintained directly by JS Design Works.
Some privacy choices may affect your ability to use registered, metered, paid, personalized, or account-based publication features.
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Personal information may be processed in the United States or other countries where JS Design Works and its service providers operate. Privacy and data-protection laws in those locations may differ from the laws where you live.
The publication is not directed to children under 13 years of age, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.
If you believe that a child has submitted personal information to the website, contact us so we can review the matter and take appropriate action.
The publication may link to third-party websites, products, plugins, software services, social platforms, or other resources. We are not responsible for the privacy, security, or data practices of third parties.
You should review the privacy policy of a third-party service before providing it with personal information.
The publication may include affiliate links, sponsored content, advertisements, videos, social media embeds, or other third-party content.
These providers may collect information through cookies, pixels, scripts, account integrations, and similar technologies. Their collection and use of information are governed by their own privacy policies.
We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in publication features, Reader Revenue Manager, payment systems, analytics, service providers, business practices, technology, or legal requirements.
The updated policy will be posted with a revised effective date. When required, we will provide additional notice of material changes.
Questions and privacy requests may be directed to JS Design Works, LLC.
Website: https://designworks.app
Email: support@designworks.app
Please include “Privacy Request” in the subject line and describe the nature of your request.
Effective date: July 24, 2026