Privacy

Effective Date: September 23, 2025

We value your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy explains how we collect, use, and store your data when you interact with our website. By using our website, you agree to the collection and use of your data as described in this policy.

1. Data We Collect

When you use our website, we collect the following types of data:

Personal Data:

We collect personal information you provide through our contact form, comments, wishlist, or shoutbox, such as your name and email address.

For comments, wishlist entries, and shoutbox posts, we also record your IP address, which is pseudonymized (e.g., 192.168.1.123 → 192.168.1.0) to protect against spam and abuse.

Technical Data:

Our server automatically logs technical information each time the website is accessed (e.g., requested page, date/time, browser type, and operating system).

IP addresses are fully anonymized and the logs are deleted after 90 days. This data is used solely for maintaining the website and is not linked to any personal information.

We collect your data for the following purposes:

  • To respond to comments and messages submitted through our contact form.
  • To protect against spam and malicious activities.

2. Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data

We process your personal data based on the following legal grounds:

Consent: When you voluntarily provide your personal information (e.g., email address and name).

Legitimate Interests: We process your data to maintain our website's security, stability, and functionality. To protect your privacy, we do not combine this data with other user information and pseudonymize IP addresses for comments, wishlist, and shoutbox entries. You may object to this processing at any time.

3. Data Retention

We retain your personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected. The specific retention period depends on the type of data, the purpose of processing, and the associated risks.

Comments, wishlist entries, and shoutbox entries: These entries are generally retained indefinitely to preserve the history and context of discussions. However, we may periodically review and delete older, irrelevant, or outdated content at our discretion to ensure the website remains current and relevant. You can also manually delete your entries at any time using our data request tool.

Server Log Files: To comply with data minimization principles, our server log files are automatically deleted after 90 days.

4. Data Storage and Security

All data is stored on servers located in Germany. Our hosting provider, ALL-INKL.COM, operates data centers exclusively in Germany. You can find more information about their data centers here.

5. Your Rights

You have the following rights regarding your personal data:

  • The right to access your personal data.
  • The right to request correction of inaccurate data.
  • The right to request deletion of your data.
  • The right to restrict processing of your data.
  • The right to withdraw consent at any time.

To help you facilitate these rights, we provide a tool that allows you to request and delete your data.

Access the tool here:
https://designfreaks.net/request_data

How the data request tool works: Simply enter your email address to receive a link with a unique token, valid for one hour. Clicking the link will display all your entries (comments, shoutbox) in our database, where you can view the details and choose to delete them. Your email address will only be used for this purpose and will be deleted from our database once the token expires, ensuring your privacy.

If you have submitted data (e.g., comments, shoutbox messages) without providing your email address, you will need to contact us for assistance. Please reach out to us at team@designfreaks.net or use our Contact form. We will manually verify your identity and assist with deleting your data.

We understand the importance of your right to erasure and are committed to assisting you in deleting your data. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or require assistance.

6. Cookies and Local Storage

We use cookies and local storage only for essential functionality of our website. For example, local storage is used to track your progress in certain minigames (e.g., to determine winners in round-based games). Without this data, these games would not work properly. Cookies are also used to remember your selected theme and related preferences, including border-radius and other theme settings.

We also generate a random identifier for the reactions feature when you visit the site. This identifier is purely random, not linked to any personal data, and is used solely to let you add, change, or remove reactions without a login.

Additionally, a CSRF protection cookie may appear for some forms, which is necessary for the security of the site, helping protect against malicious form submissions. It expires after the session and is strictly neccessary for the security of our site. We do not use tracking cookies, and no cookie data is shared with third parties.

No cookies are currently set by this website. If this is your first visit, some cookies are set when you interact with the site. Refresh the page or visit other pages to see the cookies in action.

7. Affiliate Links

Our website includes an affiliate link to the web hosting provider ALL-INKL.COM. If you click this link and later purchase hosting or a domain, we may receive a small commission.

This commission is not a payout, but a credit that is directly applied to our own hosting costs at ALL-INKL.COM. We do not collect or process any personal data through this link.

However, the affiliate provider may use tracking mechanisms to record your visit for commission accounting. For details on how your data is handled, please refer to ALL-INKL.COM's privacy policy.

8. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our data practices, feel free to contact us:

Email: team@designfreaks.net

Contact Form: Contact Us

Last updated on September 23, 2025

Changes made: Improved the cookies section to show all currently set cookies and their contents for better transparency.