Privacy Policy

Effective date: July 1, 2021
Utmost Studio (“us”, “we”, “our” or “ourselves”) operate the http://utmost-studio.com  (the “Website”).
This page provides for our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of your personal data when you use our Website and the Services provided and the choices you have associated with that data. This Privacy Policy applies to any Utmost Studio website, application, service, or tool (individually “Service” and collectively “Services”) where this Privacy Policy is referenced, regardless of how you access or use them, including through your mobile devices.

We use your data to provide and improve the Services. Please read this Privacy Policy and be informed of our data collection practices and your rights to any of your data that we may collect. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms of Service.

By using our Website and Services, you acknowledge and agree that you accept our practices and policies as outlined in this Privacy Policy and you hereby consent to us collecting, using, disclosing and/or processing your personal data as described herein. If you do not consent to the use of your personal data as described in this Privacy Policy, please do not continue to use our Website and Services. 

We reserve the right to make changes and to amend our Privacy Policy at any time. If we do make any changes or amendments, we will notify you by posting those changes on our platform. It is your responsibility to check on this Privacy Policy page for changes from time to time. Your continued use of this Website and its Services following the changes and amendments shall constitute your acknowledgement and acceptance to such  changes and amendments made to this Privacy Policy.


DEFINITIONS
Personal Data
Personal Data means information relating to an identified or identifiable individual, whether the information is true or not, or from that data and other information to which an organisation has or is likely to have access. 
An identifiable individual is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, by reference to an identifier such as a name, a device identification number, location data, an online identifier, or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.


Usage Data
Usage Data is data collected automatically either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).

 

Cookies
Cookies are small pieces of data stored on a User’s device.


Data Controller and Data Protection Officer
Data Controller means a person who (either alone or jointly or in common with other persons) determines the purposes for which and the manner in which any personal data are, or are to be, processed.
For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, we are a Data Controller of your data.

Where we have a legal obligation to do so, we have appointed data protection officers (DPOs) to be responsible for our privacy program. You can contact our DPO via the Contact Us information detailed below in this Privacy Policy.

 

Data Processor (or Service Providers)
Data Processor (or Service Provider) means any person (other than an employee of the Data Controller) who processes the data on behalf of the Data Controller.

We may use the services of various Service Providers in order to process your data more effectively.

 

Data Subject
Data Subject is any living individual who is the subject of Personal Data.

 

User
The User is the individual using our Service. The User corresponds to the Data Subject, who is the subject of Personal Data.

 

INFORMATION, COLLECTION AND USE
We collect different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our Services to you.

 

TYPES OF DATA COLLECTED
Personal Data
While using our Services, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Data”).
Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:-

(a)Email address;
(b)First name and last name;
(c)Phone number;
(d)Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City;
(e)Cookies and Usage Data;
(f)Bank account and payment information;
(g)Telephone number;
(h)Any government issued identification or other information required for our identity verification or fraud prevention purposes;
(i)Gender;
(j)Information sent by or associated with the devices used to access our Website and Services;
(k)Information about the accounts you interact with;
(l)Any media, information, contents or data shared by you with us.
We may use your Personal Data to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to you. You may opt in to receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the subscribe link or instructions provided in any email we send.

 

Usage Data & Transaction Data

We may also collect information concerning your access and use of the Services (“Usage Data”). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data. We may collect information including details about your searches, orders, the advertising and contents you interact with on the platform and other product services related to you.

 

Location Data
We may use and store information about your location if you give us permission to do so (“Location Data”). We use this data to provide features of our Service, to improve and customize our Service. You can enable or disable location services when you use our Service at any time, through your device settings.

 

Marketing and Communications Data
We also collect information such as your preferences in receiving marketing or promotional materialsfrom us and third parties, your communication preference and history of communications with us, our service providers, and other third parties.

 

Tracking Cookies Data
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service and hold certain information.
Cookies are files with small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Service.
You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Website and Services.

Examples of Cookies we use:-

  • Session Cookies. We use Session Cookies to operate our Service.
  • Preference Cookies. We use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.
  • Security Cookies. We use Security Cookies for security purposes.

 

Use of Data
We use your personal information to fulfil a contract with you and to provide you with our Services, to comply with our legal obligation, to protect your vital interest, or for the public good as may be required. This includes but not limited to the following:-
(a)To provide and maintain our Services;
(b)To notify you about changes to our Services;
(c)To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Services when you choose to do so;
(d)To provide customer support; 
(e)To prevent, detect, mitigate, and investigate fraud, security breaches or other potentially prohibited or illegal activities;
(f)To contact or communicate with you through voice call, text message, email or postal mail for purposes of administering and/or managing our relationship with you and your use of our Website and Services.
(g)For identification, verification and our due diligence;
(h)To respond to, process, complete a transaction and/or to fulfil your requests for certain products and services and notify you of service issues and unusual account actions; 
(i)To prevent and investigate any actual or suspicious  violations of our Terms of Service, unlawful or illegal transaction or activity, omission and misconduct;
(j)To respond to any threatened or actual claims asserted against us; and
(k)To respond to legal processes or to comply with or as required by any applicable law, governmental or regulatory requirements of any relevant jurisdiction, or where we have a good faith believed that such disclosure is necessary including, without limitation, meeting the requirements to make disclosure under the requirements of any applicable laws or on its related corporations or affiliates (including where applicable, the display of your name, contact details and/or any other personal details.

We also use your personal information to pursue our legitimate interests where your rights and freedoms do not outweigh these interests. We have implemented controls to balance our interests with your rights. This includes to:-

  • gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our Service;
  • monitor the usage of our Service; and
  • detect, prevent and address technical issues.

With your consent, we may use your personal information to:-

  • provide you with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless you have opted not to receive such information; and 
  • Customize third party advertising you might see on third party websites.

You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time by writing to us.

 

Retention of Data
Utmost Studio will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.
Utmost Studio will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Services, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.
We will destroy or anonymize your personal data as soon as it is reasonable to assume that (i) the purpose for which that personal data was collected is no longer being served by the retention of such personal data; and (ii) retention is no longer necessary for any legal or business purposes. If you cease using our Website, or your permission to use the Website and/or the Services is terminated or withdrawn, we may continue storing, using and/or disclosing your personal data in accordance with this Privacy Policy and our obligations under the Privacy Laws. Subject to applicable law, we may securely dispose of your personal data without prior notice to you.

 

Transfer Of Data
Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.

Utmost Studio will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information. The transfer of such data is typically for the purpose of fulfilling our contract with you, as specified above. Therefore, any request to delete or modify such Personal Data may result in the termination or interruption of our Services with respect to your usage of such Services.

 

Disclosure Of Data 
Disclosure for Law Enforcement 
Under certain circumstances, Utmost Studio may be required to disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).Legal Requirements
Utmost Studio may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:-
(a)comply with a legal obligation;
(b)protect and defend the rights or property of Utmost Studio;
(c)prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service;
(d)protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public; and
(e)protect against legal liability.

 

Change of Control
If we are subject to a merger or acquisition with/by another company, we may share information with them in accordance with our privacy standards. Should such an event occur, we will require that the new combined entity follow this privacy policy with respect to your Personal Data. If we intend to handle your Personal Data for any purposes not covered in this privacy notice, you will receive prior notification of the processing of your Personal Data for the new purposes.

 

Security Of Data
We protect your Personal Data using technical and administrative security measures to reduce the risks of loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure and alteration. Some of the safeguards we use may include firewalls and data encryption, physical access controls to our data centres, and information access authorization controls. The security of your Personal Data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security such as but not limited to when unauthorised disclosure arises from malicious and sophisticated hacking by malcontents through no fault of ours.
“DO NOT TRACK” SIGNALS
We do not support Do Not Track (“DNT”). Do Not Track is a preference you can set in your web browser to inform websites that you do not want to be tracked. You can enable or disable Do Not Track by visiting the Preferences or Settings page of your web browser.

 

YOUR RIGHTS
Utmost Studio aims to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Data.
Whenever made possible, you can update your Personal Data directly within your account settings section. If you are unable to change your Personal Data, please contact us to make the required changes.
If you wish to be informed what Personal Data we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us.

You have the right:-

  • to know what personal information we maintain about you
  • to receive a copy of your personal information in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable or commonly used electronic format on request
  • to update and modify personal information is incorrect or incomplete
  • to object to our processing of your personal information when collection is based on a legitimate interest
  • to delete or restrict how we use your personal information, but this right is determined by applicable law and may impact your access to some of our Services

Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests.

 

SERVICE PROVIDERS
We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Services (“Service Providers”), to provide the Services on our behalf, to perform Service-related services or to assist us in analyzing how our Services are used.

These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

 

ANALYTICS
We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service.

• Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.

For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy Terms web page:http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/ 

 

BEHAVIOURAL REMARKETING
Utmost Studio intends to use remarketing services to advertise on third party websites to you after you visited our Services. We and our third-party vendors use cookies to inform, optimize and serve ads based on your past visits to our Service. To the extent that any such collection or use of your Personal Data involves automated decision-making, we and our third parties have implemented appropriate safeguards to ensure your legal and personal rights are not affected. You have the right to access and review such safeguards, and opt in or opt out as may be required, through the links provided to our third-party vendor privacy policies and notices below.

• Google AdWords
Google AdWords remarketing service is provided by Google Inc.
You can opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customize the Google Display Network ads by visiting the Google Ads Settings page: http://www.google.com/settings/ads

Google also recommends installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on – https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout – for your web browser. 
Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on provides visitors with the ability to prevent their data from being collected and used by Google Analytics.
For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy Terms web page:
http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/

• Pinterest
You can learn more about the privacy practices and policies of Pinterest by visiting their Privacy Policy page: https://policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy

• Facebook
Facebook remarketing service is provided by Facebook Inc.

You can learn more about interest-based advertising from Facebook by visiting this page: https://www.facebook.com/help/164968693837950

To opt-out from Facebook’s interest-based ads follow these instructions from Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/help/568137493302217

Facebook adheres to the Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising established by the Digital Advertising Alliance. You can also opt-out from Facebook and other participating companies through the Digital Advertising Alliance in the USA http://www.aboutads.info/choices/, the Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada in Canada http://youradchoices.ca/ or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance in Europe http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/, or opt-out using your mobile device settings.

For more information on the privacy practices of Facebook, please visit Facebook’s Data Policy: 
https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation

4cite
More details can be found at: https://www.4cite.com/4cite-marketing-llc-privacy-policy/

 

PAYMENTS
We may provide paid products and/or services within the Service. In that case, we use third-party services for payment processing (e.g. payment processors).

We will not store or collect your payment card details. That information is provided directly to our third-party payment processors whose use of your personal information is governed by their Privacy Policy. These payment processors adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of payment information.

The payment processors we work with are:-

• Razer Pay
Their policies can be viewed at https://www.razer.com/eu-en/legal/razer-pay-my-privacy-policy

• PayPal
Their policies can be viewed at https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full

 

LINKS TO OTHER SITES
Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.
MINOR Our Services are intended for a general audience and are not intended for minor those below the age of Majority or the legal age of their respective jurisdictionn. We do not knowingly collect personal information from users deemed to be a minor under their respective national laws.  Any access to the Website or subscription of our Services by the Minor shall subject STRICTLY to the surveillance and with the express consent of their legal guardian .. If you  are aware of any unauthorized access by the Minor without the legal guardian’s express consent  please contact us promptly. If we become aware of any unauthorised access to the Website or subscription of our services by the Minor without the express consent of their legal guardian, we shall terminate their account promptly without any notification. 

 

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.
We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the “effective date” at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

 

Disclaimer
Utmost Studio does not guarantee the security of personal data and/or other information that you provide on any link connecting to the third party sites. We shall hold no responsibility or liability for the contents, security arrangements (or lack thereof) and activities of these such third party sites. These third party sites are only for your convenience and you therefore access to them at your own risk.
 
Utmost Studio also cannot guarantee the absolute security of all your personal data with us at all times. 

 

CONTACT US
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:
• Reach our Data Protection Officer by email: [email protected]

 

TERMS OF SERVICE
Please also read our Terms of Service governing the use of this Website and the Services provided herein including but not limited to the permitted and prohibited use, our disclaimers as well as our limitations of liability.