Online Privacy Policy Agreement

Material Culture Design Studio (MCDS) values its users’ privacy. This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) will help you understand how we collect and use personal inforamtion from those who visit our website or make use of our online facilities and services, and what we will and will not do with the information we collect. Our Policy has been designed and created to ensure those affiliated with MCDS of our commitment and realization of our obligation not only to meet, but to exceed, most existing privacy standards.

We reserve the right to make changes to this Policy at any given time. If you want to make sure that you are up to date with the latest changes, we advise you to frequently visit this page. If at any point in time MCDS decides to make use of any personally identifiable information on file, in a manner vastly different from that which was stated when this information was initially collected, the user or users shall be promptly notified by email. Users at that time shall have the option as to whether to permit the use of their information in this separate manner.

This Policy applies to Material Culture Design Studio, and it governs any and all data collection and usage by us. Through the use of https://www.materialculture.studio, you are therefore consenting to the data collection procedures expressed in this Policy.

Please note that this Policy does not govern the collection and use of information by companies that Material Culture Design Studio does not control, nor by individuals not employed or managed by us. If you visit a website that we mention or link to, be sure to review its privacy policy before providing the site with information. It is highly recommended and suggested that you review the privacy policies and statement of any website you choose to use or frequent to better understand the way in which websites garner, make use of and share the information collected.

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.

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.
These necessary and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you. 
These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

Visitor Data - Form Submission

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. 

Visitor Data - General

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 analyzes the data in a de-personalized 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