Privacy Policy

In order to register on the Platform and identify yourself, we will request your email. To create your profile on the Platform you may include personal information such as your country or city of residence, a photograph, first and last names, education, work experience, and any other additional information you might want to share in your profile. The profile information helps you make the most out of our Services, like helping other professionals find you and finding business opportunities or projects you might be interested in. However, if you do not want this information to be published, you may leave the profile information fields blank or delete the information already provided.

When you visit or use our Services, We register data such as frequency of use, date and time Services were accessed, when you see or click a specific content, your content preferences. We use information when you log in, when you read our emails, and Internet protocol ("IP") addresses to identify you and register your use in the Platform.

We may use your activity on the Platform to personalise the content and offers we show you and to prevent fraud, as explained in section 4.

We obtain information through other platforms, for example, when you register via Facebook or similar technologies. This might include personal texts or images available in an external website.

Data controller: Awwwards Online, S.L.U., C/ Marqués de Monteagudo 19, 28028 Madrid, Spain – awwwards@awwwards.com.

Awwwards Online, S.L.U., as data controller, processes your personal data for the following purposes:

1. To manage your registration as a Platform user, identify you and give you access to the Services available to registered users. Legal basis: performance of the contract between you and Awwwards (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR).

2. To contact you by e-mail with updates or information about features, products or services, as long as they are needed or reasonable. Legal basis: our legitimate interest in keeping our users informed about our Services (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). You can opt out at any time through the link in each e-mail or in your account settings.

3. To respond to any request or inquiry you make through the customer service channels available on our Platform. Legal basis: performance of the contract or, if you are not yet a user, the steps taken at your request before entering into it (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR).

4. To generate aggregated, non-identifying data, such as statistics about our users, their jobs or areas of expertise, the number of impressions or clicks on a specific project, or visitor demographics. Legal basis: our legitimate interest in understanding and improving the Services (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).

You may have to provide a credit card to buy products and services on our website. Card payments are processed by our payment service providers, who apply industry-standard encryption to protect your credit card number from unauthorised use. Awwwards does not store full card details; we only keep the transaction reference, amount and status. If you pay with PayPal, we will request the e-mail address associated with your account. If you request an invoice, we will request your invoicing details. You can modify or delete your credit cards or PayPal account at any time in the purchase form or in the payment settings of your profile; for security reasons, this may require you to change your password. Remember that the safety of the Platform also depends on the correct use and storage of your password.

We may analyse your activity on the Platform (such as the content you view or click, your purchases, interests and preferences) to personalise the content, offers and advertising about our own products and services that we show you, to carry out market analysis and quality surveys, and to improve the Services. This profiling is based on our legitimate interest in offering you relevant content (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR); we also use your activity data to prevent fraud. We do not make decisions with legal or similarly significant effects on you based solely on automated processing.

We will only send you advertising from third-party collaborators with your prior consent.

You can object to profiling for marketing purposes at any time, and manage which e-mail communications you receive, in the Settings section of your User Profile, through the unsubscribe link in each communication, or by writing to awwwards@awwwards.com.

We will retain your personal data for as long as we have a valid contractual relationship, and after that, for the period determined by any obligations arising from the treatment of the data or as established by law.

To comply with the purposes indicated in this Privacy Policy, it might be necessary to report or release your personal data to third parties for the following reasons:

Business Transfers: regarding any reorganization, restructuring, merge or sale, or any other transfer of assets, including personal, provided that the receiving party accepts to handle your personal information in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

Service Providers: to render services in our name or to help us provide our services. For example, we contract service providers to render marketing, advertising, communication, infrastructure and IT services, to customize and improve our service, to process credit card transactions or other methods of payment, provide customer service, collect debts, analyze and improve data (such as data regarding user interaction with our services), and process and manage satisfaction surveys.

Some of our providers are located outside the EEA (for example in the United States). We rely on the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework or the Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission; you may request a copy at awwwards@awwwards.com

As data controller, we are committed to respecting the confidentiality of your personal data and to guaranteeing the exercise of your rights. At any time you have the following rights:

Right to access. to confirm whether we process your personal data and, if so, to obtain a copy of the data and information about the processing.

Right to rectification to correct inaccurate data and complete incomplete data.

Right to erasure to request the deletion of your data without undue delay where it is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or is being processed unlawfully.

Right to restriction of processing to request that we suspend the processing of your data where its lawfulness or accuracy is contested.

Right to object to object to the processing of your data for direct marketing purposes at any time, or on grounds relating to your particular situation where we rely on our legitimate interest, unless we have compelling legitimate grounds or the processing is necessary for the exercise or defence of legal claims.

Right to data portability to receive the data you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and to have it transmitted to another controller where technically feasible.

Right to withdraw consent where processing is based on your consent, to withdraw it at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of the processing carried out before withdrawal.

Right not to be subject to automated decisions not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects on you or similarly significantly affects you, except where necessary for the performance of a contract, permitted by law or based on your explicit consent.

To exercise these rights, send an e-mail to awwwards@awwwards.com indicating (i) your full name and the e-mail address you used to register or make a purchase, and (ii) the right or rights you wish to exercise; if we have reasonable doubts about your identity, we may ask you for additional information to confirm it. You may also lodge a complaint with the data protection supervisory authority of your country of residence if you consider that your rights have not been respected.

We use cookies, small files with information regarding your navigation in this Platform, mainly to enable a better user experience. Please, read our Cookies Policy to know more about the cookies we use, their purpose, and other useful information.

We will update this Privacy Policy occasionally and as required by legal, regulatory or operational modifications. We will notify such changes (including the effective date) as required by law.