Privacy Policy: How Design Scaling Handles Your Data

Who we are

This site is published by Julien Mouttet, sole trader (EI), trading as Design Scaling, 1 bis sente de la Mare Neuve, 78770 Autouillet, France, SIREN 898 820 840, who is the data controller for the information described below. Design Scaling is a referral service: it forwards the requests sent through this site to its partner design studio, Design Elite, which delivers and invoices the work. For any privacy request, write to [email protected] or use the contact page.

What we collect

Information you give us through our forms

What you need designed and roughly how much design you need each month
Your name, work email, company or website and, if you choose to give it, your phone number
Anything else you write in the message box
Your consent to be contacted, with the date and time you gave it and the wording you agreed to

Information collected automatically

Standard server and analytics data: pages viewed, approximate location derived from your IP address, device and browser type, referring source
UTM parameters and advertising click identifiers (such as gclid, gbraid, wbraid or fbclid) showing which page or campaign brought you here. They are kept in your browser's session storage until you close the tab and sent with your request if you submit one

Why we use it

To forward your request. We send your answers and contact details to the partner studio so that it can reply, schedule a scoping call and recommend a plan, and we may contact you about the request ourselves. The legal basis is the consent you give in the form.

To measure our campaigns. Campaign parameters and conversion events tell us which pages and adverts bring requests, in aggregate.

We do not sell your data, we do not build advertising profiles from it, and we do not add you to a newsletter unless you separately ask us to.

Who receives it

Recipient	What they receive	Why
Our partner design studio, Design Elite	Your request, your answers and your contact details	To contact you, scope your plan, and contract with you, deliver and invoice the work if you go ahead
Our form provider (Formspree)	Your form submission, as a processor	Form handling and delivery to us
Google (Tag Manager, Analytics, Ads)	Usage data, click identifiers, conversion events	Site and advertising measurement

Once it receives your request, the partner studio processes your information as a separate controller, under its own privacy policy, for the contract, delivery and invoicing.

Some of these recipients may process data outside the European Union, notably in the United States. Where they do, transfers rely on the safeguards provided by the GDPR, such as the European Commission's adequacy decision for certified companies or standard contractual clauses.

How long we keep it

Design Scaling keeps your request for 24 months after your last contact with us, then deletes it. The partner studio keeps the data it needs for a plan under its own policy.

Your rights

If you are in the European Union or the United Kingdom, the GDPR gives you rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability and objection, the right to withdraw your consent at any time, and the right to complain to your supervisory authority (in France, the CNIL).

If you are in California, the CCPA and CPRA give you the right to know what we collect, to request deletion, to correct inaccurate information, and to opt out of sale or sharing. We do not sell or share personal information as those terms are defined.

To exercise any of these rights, write to [email protected] or use the contact page. We answer within 30 days.

Cookies

This site loads Google Tag Manager, which runs Google measurement and advertising tags. They record page views, clicks on calls to action and form submissions so we can measure which campaigns bring requests.

If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, a cookie banner asks for your choice on your first visit, with "Accept all" and "Reject all" given equal weight. Until you choose, and if you refuse, Google tags run in Google Consent Mode with advertising and analytics storage denied: no advertising or analytics cookie is set.

Elsewhere, measurement and advertising cookies may be set by default, and you can refuse them at any time.

You can change your choice whenever you like through the Cookie settings link in the footer of every page. Your choice is stored in a cookie named cc_cookie, valid on designscaling.com and its subdomains, for 6 months; we then ask again.

Category	Used for	Cookies set by
Strictly necessary	Remembering your cookie choice	Design Scaling (`cc_cookie`)
Audience measurement	Pages viewed and campaign performance, in aggregate	Google Analytics, via Google Tag Manager
Advertising	Measuring which adverts lead to a request	Google Ads, via Google Tag Manager

Changes

We update the date at the top of this page when this policy changes. Material changes to how we share your information are flagged at the top of the page for 30 days.