1. Who We Are
Welcome to Graphyfied, a graphic design training and education website. Our website address is https://graphyfied.com.
At Graphyfied, we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting the personal information you share with us. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, and protect your information when you visit our website, enquire about our courses, or interact with our services.
By using our website, you agree to the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
2. Information We Collect
We may collect the following types of information when you visit our website or contact us:
- Personal information: Your name, email address, phone number, and other details you provide through enquiry forms, registration forms, or contact forms.
- Course-related information: Details about the graphic design courses you are interested in, your learning preferences, and information you submit when enquiring about admission.
- Technical information: Your IP address, browser type, device information, operating system, and website usage data.
- Communication information: Messages, feedback, and other information you share with us through email, phone, WhatsApp, or website forms.
We collect only the information reasonably necessary to respond to enquiries, provide our services, and improve your experience.
3. How We Use Your Information
Graphyfied may use your information for the following purposes:
- To respond to enquiries about our graphic design courses and training programs.
- To provide course details, admission information, fees, and related updates.
- To communicate with you regarding your registration, course enquiries, or services.
- To send relevant educational updates, offers, and promotional information where permitted by law.
- To improve our website, content, courses, and user experience.
- To monitor website performance and prevent spam, fraud, or unauthorized activity.
- To comply with applicable legal and regulatory requirements.
You may request to stop receiving promotional communications from us at any time.
4. Comments
If visitors leave comments on our website, we collect the information displayed in the comments form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user-agent information to help detect spam.
An anonymized string generated from your email address may be shared with the Gravatar service to check whether you use it. Gravatar’s privacy policy is available at https://automattic.com/privacy/.
Once your comment is approved, your profile picture may be visible publicly alongside your comment.
5. Contact Forms and Enquiry Forms
When you submit an enquiry or contact form on Graphyfied, we use the information you provide to respond to your questions and share relevant information about our courses and services.
Please ensure that the information you provide is accurate. We do not intend for our website forms to collect sensitive personal information unless specifically required and appropriately protected.
6. Cookies
Our website may use cookies and similar technologies to improve functionality, remember preferences, understand website usage, and support security.
Cookies may be used for the following purposes:
- Essential cookies: To support basic website functionality and security.
- Preference cookies: To remember certain user preferences.
- Analytics cookies: To understand how visitors interact with our website, where analytics tools are enabled.
- Marketing cookies: To measure advertising performance or support relevant advertising, where applicable.
If you leave a comment, you may choose to save your name, email address, and website in cookies for convenience. These cookies may last for up to one year.
If you visit the login page, a temporary cookie may be set to check whether your browser accepts cookies. Login cookies and other website cookies may be used to maintain your session and save display preferences.
You can manage or disable cookies through your browser settings. Some website features may not function correctly if certain cookies are disabled.
7. Analytics and Advertising
We may use third-party tools, such as Google Analytics or Google Ads, if enabled on our website, to understand visitor behaviour, measure website performance, evaluate advertising campaigns, and improve our marketing activities.
These services may collect information through cookies, device identifiers, or similar technologies in accordance with their own privacy policies.
You can review Google’s privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy.
The tools actually used on our website may change over time. Where required, we will provide appropriate notices and consent options for analytics or advertising technologies.
8. Embedded Content from Other Websites
Our website may include embedded content from third-party websites, such as videos, images, social media posts, or other educational resources.
Embedded content behaves similarly to visiting the third-party website directly. These external websites may collect information about you, use cookies, track interactions, or monitor your activity according to their own privacy policies.
Graphyfied does not control the privacy practices of third-party websites. We recommend reviewing their privacy policies before interacting with their content.
9. Who We Share Your Data With
We do not sell your personal information to third parties.
We may share relevant information with trusted service providers when necessary to operate our website, manage enquiries, deliver communications, maintain security, or provide our services. These providers may include website hosting companies, email services, analytics providers, and spam detection services.
We may also disclose information when required by applicable law, a lawful request from an authority, or to protect our legal rights and website security.
If you request a password reset, your IP address may be included in the password reset email.
10. How Long We Retain Your Data
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.
- Comments and their metadata may be retained indefinitely to help identify and approve follow-up comments.
- Enquiry and communication records may be retained for as long as needed to respond to enquiries, manage our relationship with you, or maintain appropriate records.
- Website analytics and technical data may be retained according to the settings of the tools we use.
- If user accounts are available, personal information associated with those accounts may be retained while the accounts remain active and for any additional period required for legitimate operational or legal purposes.
When information is no longer needed, we will take reasonable steps to delete it or make it anonymous, where appropriate.
11. How We Protect Your Information
We take reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect personal information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.
However, no method of transmitting information over the internet or storing electronic data is completely secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security, but we aim to handle your information responsibly.
12. Your Rights Over Your Data
Depending on applicable law, you may have the right to:
- Request access to the personal information we hold about you.
- Request a copy of your personal information.
- Ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete information.
- Request deletion of your personal information, where legally permissible.
- Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.
- Opt out of promotional communications.
- Raise a concern about how your personal information is handled.
If you have an account on our website or have left comments, you may request an exported file of the personal information we hold about you.
These rights are subject to applicable legal, administrative, security, and record-retention requirements.
To exercise your rights, please contact us using the details provided below.
13. Children’s Privacy
Graphyfied provides educational information and graphic design training. Our website is not intended to knowingly collect personal information from children in violation of applicable law.
If you believe a child has provided personal information to us without appropriate authorization, please contact us so we can review the request and take suitable action where required.
14. Where Your Data Is Sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Depending on the services enabled on our website, information may also be processed by website hosting providers, analytics platforms, email service providers, or other service providers that support our operations. Such processing may occur in locations outside your state or country, subject to applicable law.
15. Third-Party Links
Our website may contain links to external websites, platforms, or educational resources. We are not responsible for the privacy practices, security, or content of those websites.
Visiting an external website is subject to that website’s own terms and privacy policy.
16. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our website, services, te
