PRIVACY POLICY

Last updated September 29, 2024

Textures & Backgrounds Store (“Textures.World”) (“we,” “us,” or “our”) values the privacy of our users. Please be aware that the practices of Textures.World (including any entities or brands under the Textures.World name) regarding your access to and use of the https://www.textures.world/ website, as well as any related media formats, media channels, mobile websites, or mobile applications, whether directly linked, connected, or otherwise (collectively referred to as the “Site”), with respect to personal information, are governed by this Privacy Policy, which may be updated, amended, or supplemented. We encourage you to read this Privacy Policy thoroughly. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THE TERMS OUTLINED IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY, PLEASE REFRAIN FROM ACCESSING THE SITE.

We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time and for any reason. We strongly recommend that visitors and users of our https://www.textures.world/ website review this Privacy Policy on a regular basis. To manage or update your information and preferences, please visit your Account Settings.

PRIVACY POLICY UPDATES

All “Personal Information” (defined as any information that can be used to identify, contact, or locate the individual to whom such information pertains) that we collect and retain is governed by this Privacy Policy, regardless of any modifications that may occur over time.

This Privacy Policy was most recently updated on the date shown at the top of the document. As we continuously strive to enhance our Service, we may need to revise this Privacy Policy periodically. When changes are made, we will notify you by updating the date at the top of the Policy, sending you an email, and/or utilizing other communication methods.

COLLECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

Personal information on this Site is collected by Textures.World, located at: 197372 Russia, St. Petersburg, Bogatyrsky Prospect, 28, office 213, phone +7 (921) 797-9030.

As a visitor to the Site, you can engage in many activities without providing any personal information.

However, when you create an online account with us or purchase products/services as a customer, we may collect Personal Information from you. We may gather information about you through various means. The information we collect on the Site includes:

Personal Data

Personal details such as your name, telephone and fax numbers, address, and email address; billing information like your credit card number, expiration date, card type, and billing address; and demographic data including your job title, job description, company name, and company type.

You may be familiar with the European Union regulation known as the General Data Protection Regulation or “GDPR.” This regulation provides individuals with certain rights regarding their personal data. We understand and adhere to the EU-US Privacy Shield Principles and the Swiss-US Privacy Shield Principles. We have updated our Privacy Policy to assist users in exercising their rights.

In accordance with applicable law and where not restricted, individuals are granted the following rights:

Right of Access – the right to obtain information and request access to your Personal Data.
Right to Rectification – the right to request changes and updates to your Personal Data.
Right to Erasure – the right to request the deletion of your Personal Data if it is inaccurate or incomplete.
Right to Restriction – the right to request the temporary or permanent cessation of processing some or all of your Personal Data.
Right to Object –
- The right to object at any time to our processing of your Personal Data based on your particular situation;
- The right to object to the processing of your Personal Data for direct marketing purposes.
Right to Data Portability – the right to request a copy of your personal data in electronic format and the right to transfer that personal data for use in another party’s services.
Right Not to Be Subjected to Automated Decision-Making – the right not to be subjected to a decision based solely on automated decision-making, including profiling, if such a decision would have legal consequences for you or similarly significant effects.

These rights ensure that you have control over your personal data while using our services.

Derived Data

Information that our servers automatically gather when you access the Site, such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, access times, and the pages you viewed immediately before visiting the Site.

Financial Data

Financial information, such as data related to your payment and deposit details, including but not limited to your payment method (e.g., a valid credit card number, card brand, expiration date), and payment email. This information may be collected by us when you purchase, order, return, exchange, or request information about our services on the Site. We store only a minimal amount of financial information, if any at all. Otherwise, all financial information is securely stored by our payment processors, YooKassa or PayPal. You are encouraged to review the privacy policies of these payment processors and contact them directly for any questions.

Facebook Permissions

By default, the Site may access basic details about your Facebook account, including your name, email, gender, birthday, current city, and profile picture URL, along with other information that you have opted to make public. We might also request access to additional permissions tied to your account, such as friends lists, likes, and more, which you can choose to grant or deny individually. For further details on Facebook permissions, please refer to the Facebook Permissions Reference page.

Social Media Data

The Site incorporates social media features from platforms like Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter, Vkontakte, LinkedIn, and Dribbble, including widgets that enable you to share content from the Site. These features may collect your IP address, the pages you visit on our site, and may use cookies to ensure proper functionality. Social media features and widgets are hosted either by third parties or directly on our Site. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing them.

User Information from Social Media Sites

Data from social media sites like Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter, Vkontakte, LinkedIn, and Dribbble, including your name, social media username, location, gender, date of birth, email address, profile picture, and public contact information if you have linked your account to such social media platforms.

SHARING OF YOUR INFORMATION

We may disclose the information we collect about you under certain circumstances. Your information may be shared in the following ways:

Legal Requirements or to Protect Rights

If we believe that sharing your information is necessary to comply with legal processes, investigate or address potential violations of our policies, or safeguard the rights, property, and safety of others, we may share your information as allowed or required by applicable laws, rules, or regulations. This includes sharing information with other organizations to prevent fraud and minimize credit risk.

Third-Party Service Providers

We may share your information with third parties who provide services on our behalf. These services may include payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting, customer service, and marketing assistance.

Marketing Communications

With your consent, we may share your information with third parties for marketing purposes, where permitted by law.

Interactions with Other Users

If you interact with other users on the Site, those users may see your name, profile picture, and a description of your activity, such as sending invitations, communicating with others, liking posts, or following blogs.

Public Posts

When you post comments, materials, or other content on the Site, your posts may be visible to all users and could be publicly distributed outside the Site at any time.

Third-Party Advertisers

We may use third-party advertising companies to display ads when you visit the Site. These companies may use information about your visits to the Site and other websites, collected through web cookies, to serve ads for goods and services that may interest you.

Affiliates

We may share your information with our affiliates, provided that we require those affiliates to adhere to this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include our parent company, subsidiaries, joint venture partners, or other companies that we control or that are under common control with us.

Business Partners

We may share your information with our business partners to offer you specific products, services, or promotions.

Social Media Connections

If you connect to the Site through a social media platform, your social media contacts may see your name, profile picture, and descriptions of your activities on the Site.

Other Third Parties

We may share your information with advertisers and for general business analytics. We may also share your information with third parties for marketing purposes, where permitted by law.

Sale or Bankruptcy

In the event of a reorganization, sale, merger, or acquisition involving all or part of our assets, we may transfer your information to the succeeding entity. If we cease operations or declare bankruptcy, your information may be transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur and that the acquiring party may not honor the commitments outlined in this Privacy Policy.

We are not responsible for the actions of third parties with whom you choose to share personal or sensitive data, and we have no authority over or control of third-party offers. If you wish to stop receiving correspondence, emails, or other communications from third parties, you should contact them directly.

COOKIES AND TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES

The Site may automatically gather information as you navigate, including details such as your Internet Service Provider, browser type and version, operating system, device type, average time spent on our site(s), pages viewed, information accessed, the Internet Protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, and other relevant statistics. This type of data is often referred to as web analytics and/or clickstream data.

We may merge this automatically collected log information with other data we collect about you. This is done to enhance the services provided to you, improve marketing and analytics efforts, and ensure website functionality.

Cookies, web beacons, and site analytics

The Site, along with our affiliates and analytics services like Google Analytics, may utilize technologies such as cookies, beacons, tags, and scripts to enhance and deliver the features, functionality, and overall quality of the Site. These technologies and services are employed during your visit and are used for purposes such as analyzing trends, managing the site, tracking user mouse and/or page movements, determining the popularity of specific content, and collecting demographic information about our user base as a whole. We may receive reports from these companies regarding the use of these technologies, both on an individual and aggregate level.

Cookies are small text files that websites can send to your computer while you browse. We may use cookies to better understand our user base and improve our site(s). Most web browsers can either alert you about the presence of cookies or block them entirely.

THIRD-PARTY SITES

Our website may include links to other third-party websites, including advertising platforms and external services, that are not associated with our site and do not follow the same privacy practices outlined on our platform. If you choose to provide personal information to any of these third-party sites, your data will be subject to their respective privacy policies. We strongly advise you to thoroughly review the privacy policy of any website you visit.

Online Advertising

We may collaborate with third-party partners to display advertisements on our Site. These third parties may utilize technologies such as cookies to gather information about your activities on our Site and other websites in order to deliver ads tailored to your interests and browsing behavior. For more details on how to opt out of online advertising, please visit the Network Advertising Initiative Opt-Out Tool or the Digital Advertising Alliance Opt-Out Tool.

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SECURITY OF YOUR INFORMATION

We implement administrative, technical, and physical security measures to safeguard your personal information. While we take reasonable steps to protect the personal data you provide, please be aware that no security measures are flawless or completely impenetrable. Additionally, no method of transmitting data can be guaranteed to be free from interception or misuse. Any information sent over the Internet could potentially be intercepted and used by unauthorized individuals. As a result, we cannot ensure absolute security when you share personal information.

You have the right to access, correct, or delete your personal information and adjust your privacy settings at any time. This can be done by clicking on the “Settings” link, where you can review and immediately update most of your personal details. If you’re an author or user, you can modify your profile by navigating to “Account Settings.” For further inquiries about your settings or personal information, you may reach out to our support team via email. We will respond to your request within a reasonable timeframe.

CHILDREN’S POLICY

We do not intentionally gather, solicit, or request information from children, nor do we target our marketing efforts toward children under the age of 16. If you discover that we have inadvertently collected data from a child under the age of 16, please contact us using the information provided below.

HANDLING OF “DO NOT TRACK” FEATURES

Many web browsers and some mobile operating systems come equipped with a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) feature or setting, which can be enabled to signal your preference not to have your online activities tracked or recorded. However, a universal technology standard for recognizing and acting on DNT signals has yet to be established. As a result, we currently do not respond to browser DNT signals or any other automated mechanism that communicates your wish to opt out of online tracking. Should an industry-wide Internet tracking standard emerge in the future that we are required to adhere to, we will update you on such changes through a revised version of this Privacy Policy.

Subprocessors

In accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Textures & Backgrounds Store utilizes specific subprocessors to deliver our services. A subprocessor refers to a third-party data processor engaged by Textures.World, who may have access to your personal information in order to assist in supporting our services.

Entity Name	Entity Type	Corporate Headquarters
Google SDK, Inc.	Cloud Service Provider – Infrastructure and Storage	United States, Ireland
Better Stack	Log Management	Czech Republic
Cloudflare, Inc.	DNS, Content Distribution, and Security Provider	United States
Facebook	Login Authentication & Advertising Analytics	United States
Google, Inc.	Analytics & Advertising	United States
FirstVDS	Hosting Provider	Russian Federation
Microsoft	Session Recording & Advertising Analytics	United States
PayPal	Payment Processing	United States
Persona	Identity Verification	United States
Pinterest	Advertising Analytics	United States
Stripe	Payment Processing	United States

What You Can Do with Your Personal Information

Account Information

You can review, modify, or terminate your account at any time by reaching out to us using the contact information provided below.

Upon your request to close your account, we will deactivate or delete your account and associated information from our active databases. However, certain information may be retained in our files for purposes such as fraud prevention, troubleshooting, aiding investigations, enforcing the Terms of Use, and/or complying with legal obligations.

Requesting a Copy of Your Data

You have the right to request a copy of the information we hold about you (known in Europe as an access request). If you wish to obtain a copy of some or all of your data, please visit our contact page and specify the information you need, including any account numbers or references if available. A reasonable fee may be charged for handling the access request to cover the costs associated with providing the details of your information.

Request for Data Portability

You have the right to receive a copy of certain personal data we hold about you and to reuse it or share it for your own purposes (“data portability right”).

This right to data portability applies only:

To the Personal Information you have provided to us (not to any other types of information),
When we are processing your Personal Information based on your consent or as part of a contract with you, and
When the processing is carried out through automated means.

We may deny your request for data portability if the processing does not meet the above conditions. Additionally, if the Personal Data involves more than one individual, we may be unable to transfer it to you if doing so would infringe upon the rights of another person.

Request to Stop Processing Your Information

You can ask us to cease processing your personal information. If you submit such a request, we will retain only the minimum amount of your personal information necessary to ensure that no further processing occurs.

Emails and Communications – Unsubscribing

You may opt out of receiving updates, newsletters, and/or affiliate emails from Textures.World by clicking on the “Notifications” link on the Site and making the appropriate selection. This option to unsubscribe is also typically available during the registration process.

Textures.World will continue to notify you of any changes to the Terms of Service, where applicable. Furthermore, we will continue to send service-related communications, including but not limited to enrollment letters, benefit notifications, automatically triggered correspondence based on your actions on the Site, and account-related notices. Generally, you cannot opt out of these communications as they are not promotional in nature. If you wish to stop receiving them, you can deactivate your account. To request the removal of your personal data from our systems and/or opt out of further processing of your personal data, please contact us via the “Contact Us” page.

Exceptions

We may keep certain personal information associated with financial transactions for the purposes of preventing fraud and maintaining accurate financial records.

Location of Your Personal Information

While your Personal Information is under our control, it will mainly be stored at hosting facilities located in the Russian Federation. These facilities are either managed by Textures & Backgrounds Store or by our third-party service providers. By using the Service, you agree to allow your Personal Information to be stored, transferred, and processed within the Russia.