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What is this Privacy Policy for?

This privacy policy is for this website [designsprintx.com] and served by Design Sprint X Ltd and governs the privacy of its users who choose to use it.

The policy sets out the different areas where user privacy is concerned and outlines the obligations & requirements of the users, the website and website owners. Furthermore the way this website processes, stores and protects user data and information will also be detailed within this policy.

The Website

This website and its owners take a proactive approach to user privacy and ensure the necessary steps are taken to protect the privacy of its users throughout their visiting experience. This website complies to all UK national laws and requirements for user privacy.

Use of Cookies

This website uses cookies to better the users experience while visiting the website. Where applicable this website uses a cookie control system allowing the user on their first visit to the website to allow or disallow the use of cookies on their computer / device. This complies with recent legislation requirements for websites to obtain explicit consent from users before leaving behind or reading files such as cookies on a user’s computer / device.

Cookies are small files saved to the user’s computers hard drive that track, save and store information about the user’s interactions and usage of the website. This allows the website, through its server to provide the users with a tailored experience within this website.

Users are advised that if they wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this website on to their computers hard drive they should take necessary steps within their web browsers security settings to block all cookies from this website and its external serving vendors.

This website uses tracking software to monitor its visitors to better understand how they use it. This software is provided by Google Analytics which uses cookies to track visitor usage. The software will save a cookie to your computers hard drive in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the website, but will not store, save or collect personal information. Read Google’s privacy policy.

Other cookies may be stored to your computers hard drive by external vendors when this website uses referral programs, sponsored links or adverts. Such cookies are used for conversion and referral tracking and typically expire after 30 days, though some may take longer. No personal information is stored, saved or collected.

Contact & Communication

Users contacting this website and/or its owners do so at their own discretion and provide any such personal details requested at their own risk. Your personal information is kept private and stored securely until a time it is no longer required or has no use, as detailed in the Data Protection Act 1998. Every effort has been made to ensure a safe and secure form to email submission process but advise users using such form to email processes that they do so at their own risk.

This website and its owners use any information submitted to provide you with further information about the products / services they offer or to assist you in answering any questions or queries you may have submitted. This includes using your details to subscribe you to any email newsletter program the website operates but only if this was made clear to you and your express permission was granted when submitting any form to email process. Or whereby you the consumer have previously purchased from or enquired about purchasing from the company a product or service that the email newsletter relates to. This is by no means an entire list of your user rights in regard to receiving email marketing material. Your details are not passed on to any third parties.

Newsletter and free downloads

When you sign up to Design Sprint Xpress, ask for one of our free resources (such as the HyperSprint deck or the five-day design sprint slides), or complete the AI maturity scorecard, we collect your email address (and, for the scorecard, your first name and job role if you choose to give them). We use Mailchimp, our email provider, to store it and to send you the newsletter and the resource you asked for. We also record which form you used, so we know which resource to send.

Mailchimp may process this information outside the UK, under its own privacy policy and safeguards. Every email we send includes an unsubscribe link, and you can unsubscribe at any time. We do not sell or share your email address with anyone else.

AI maturity scorecard

When you finish the AI maturity scorecard, we save your answers and scores, without your name or email, in a private Google Sheet. We use them to improve the scorecard, to show anonymous averages (“How you compare”) and to publish aggregated findings. No single organisation is ever identified.

If you ask us to email you your results, we add your first name, work email and (if you give it) job role to that record, email you the results from our Google Workspace account and add you to Design Sprint Xpress, as described above.

Website chat and contact form

Our chat box and contact form let you send a message to our team. Messages from the contact form are sent to the same private Slack channel described below and to our team’s Google Workspace email inbox, so we can reply quickly.

The chat box lets you send a message to our team. When you send a message, we receive your email address, your message and the page you were on. These are sent to a private channel in our team’s Slack workspace so that one of the team can reply to you by email.

Chat messages are not stored on this website. They are kept in Slack under its own privacy policy and our workspace settings, and we only use them to reply to you and follow up on your enquiry.

External Links

Although this website only looks to include quality, safe and relevant external links, users are advised adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout this website.

The owners of this website cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website despite their best efforts. Users should therefore note they click on external links at their own risk and this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.

Adverts and Sponsored Links

This website may contain sponsored links and adverts. These will typically be served through our advertising partners, to whom may have detailed privacy policies relating directly to the adverts they serve.

Clicking on any such adverts will send you to the advertisers website through a referral program which may use cookies and will track the number of referrals sent from this website. This may include the use of cookies which may in turn be saved on your computers hard drive. Users should therefore note they click on sponsored external links at their own risk and this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.

Social Media Platforms

Communication, engagement and actions taken through external social media platforms that this website and its owners participate on are custom to the terms and conditions as well as the privacy policies held with each social media platform respectively.

Users are advised to use social media platforms wisely and communicate / engage upon them with due care and caution in regard to their own privacy and personal details. This website nor its owners will ever ask for personal or sensitive information through social media platforms and encourage users wishing to discuss sensitive details to contact them through primary communication channels such as by telephone or email.

This website may use social sharing buttons which help share web content directly from web pages to the social media platform in question. Users are advised before using such social sharing buttons that they do so at their own discretion and note that the social media platform may track and save your request to share a web page respectively through your social media platform account.

Shortened Links in Social Media

This website and its owners through their social media platform accounts may share web links to relevant web pages. By default some social media platforms shorten lengthy urls [web addresses] (this is an example: http://bit.ly/zyVUBo).

Users are advised to take caution and good judgement before clicking any shortened urls published on social media platforms by this website and its owners. Despite the best efforts to ensure only genuine urls are published many social media platforms are prone to spam and hacking and therefore this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any shortened links.

Using this website

This website is run by Design Sprint X Ltd (DSX). By using it, you agree to these terms. You are welcome to browse, share and link to our pages.

Our content and free resources

The content on this website, including articles, images, slide decks, templates and tools, belongs to Design Sprint X Ltd unless stated otherwise. You may use our free resources, such as the HyperSprint deck and the five-day design sprint slides, for your own work and with your own team. Please do not resell them, or republish them as your own.

Client names, logos and case studies are shown with permission and remain the property of their owners.

No advice or offer

The information on this website is general and is not professional advice for your situation. Nothing on this website is a binding offer. The scope, fees and terms of any work with us are agreed separately in writing before it begins.

Liability

We do our best to keep this website accurate and available, but it is provided as it is. To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for any loss arising from your use of this website or anything on it. This does not affect any liability that cannot be excluded by law.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms and this privacy policy from time to time. The version on this page is the one that applies.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales.

Contact

Questions about this page: hello@designsprintx.com.