PRIVACY POLICY

This Privacy Policy details how Fashion Innovation Center (FIC) collects, stores, uses, and discloses your personal data when you interact with us. FIC is committed to the protection of the confidentiality and privacy of Personal Data. 

Information We Collect and How We Use It 

Contact Form Submissions 

When you submit information to this website via webform, we collect the data requested in the webform in order to track and respond to your submissions. We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us. 

Usage Data 

Website visitors 

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including: 

  • Information about your browser, network and device 

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website 

  • Web pages you view while on this website 

  • Your IP address 

Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyses the data in a de-personalised form. 

Fonts 

This website serves font files from and renders fonts using Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, these third parties may receive personal information about you, including: 

  • Information about your browser, network, or device 

  • Information about this site and the page you’re viewing on it 

  • Your IP address 

Cookies 

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses. 

Analytics 

This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including: 

  • Information about your browser, network, and device 

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website 

  • Your IP address 

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including: 

  • Clicks 

  • Internal links 

  • Pages visited 

  • Scrolling 

  • Searches 

  • Timestamps 

We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity. 

Legal Basis for Processing 

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

  • Consent: When you provide your information voluntarily. 

  • Legitimate interests: To enhance our services and improve user experience. 

Data Sharing  

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your personal information to outside parties without your consent, except as required by law. Your information may be shared with trusted third-party service providers who assist us in operating our website and providing our services. 

Security of Your Personal Data 

We ensure that personal data are processed in compliance with policies and procedures in accordance with the purposes of processing. We take appropriate security measures to protect your personal information from unauthorised access, use, or disclosure. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. 

How Long We Store Data 

We store personal data as long as required by the respective processing purpose and any other permitted linked purpose. We retain your information for as long as necessary to achieve the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.   

Your Rights as a Data Subject 

You have the right to request access to your personal data, correction/deletion of your personal data, restriction of processing, right to object to the processing and/or exercise your right to data portability. If data processing is based on your consent, you may withdraw your consent at any time, with effect for the future. 

Update the Privacy Policy 

This policy is reviewed when there is a significant change. This review will be available on our website. 

How to Contact Us 

If you have any question or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy or want to exercise your rights, please contact us at info@fashioninnovationcenter.org or via the form below.

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