Privacy policy
Last Updated: July 2026
Alana Karin Designs (“AKD,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to handling your personal information responsibly and transparently.
This Privacy Policy explains how information may be collected, used, stored, and shared when you visit the Alana Karin Designs website, submit an inquiry, purchase a product or service, subscribe to communications, work with us as a client, or otherwise interact with our business.
By accessing or using this website, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
1. Information We Collect
We may collect information that you voluntarily provide as well as certain information automatically collected when you interact with our website.
1.1 Information You Provide
Depending on how you interact with Alana Karin Designs, you may provide information such as:
Your name
Email address
Phone number
Business or brand name
Website and social media information
Billing or transaction-related information
Project details, goals, preferences, and questionnaire responses
Files, photographs, logos, written content, or other materials submitted for a project
Messages submitted through contact or inquiry forms
Newsletter or email subscription information
Reviews, testimonials, surveys, or other feedback
Any other information you voluntarily provide
Please avoid submitting highly sensitive personal information unless it is specifically necessary for your project or transaction.
1.2 Payment Information
When you purchase a product or service, payment information may be processed through third-party payment providers.
Alana Karin Designs generally does not directly store complete credit or debit card numbers. Payment information is handled according to the security and privacy practices of the applicable payment processor.
1.3 Information Collected Automatically
When you visit our website, certain technical information may be collected automatically, including:
IP address
Browser and device type
Operating system
Pages viewed
Referring website or source
Date and time of visits
Website interactions
Approximate geographic information
Cookie and analytics data
This information may help us understand how visitors use our website and improve its functionality, performance, content, and user experience.
2. How We Use Your Information
Alana Karin Designs may use collected information to:
Respond to inquiries and consultation requests.
Communicate with current and prospective clients.
Provide branding, graphic design, website design, creative, or related services.
Manage client projects and project communications.
Process purchases and transactions.
Deliver digital products, resources, or services.
Provide customer support.
Send invoices, contracts, questionnaires, project updates, and other business communications.
Maintain business and transaction records.
Improve our website, services, products, and customer experience.
Analyze website traffic and performance.
Send newsletters, promotions, updates, or marketing communications when permitted.
Protect our website and business against fraud, misuse, security threats, or unlawful activity.
Comply with applicable legal, tax, accounting, and regulatory obligations.
We seek to collect and retain only information reasonably necessary for legitimate business purposes.
3. Client Information & Project Materials
When working with Alana Karin Designs, clients may provide business information, photographs, written content, brand materials, account information, project files, and other materials necessary to complete their project.
AKD will use these materials primarily for the purpose of providing the requested services, communicating with the client, maintaining business records, and fulfilling contractual obligations.
Clients are responsible for ensuring they have the appropriate rights and permissions to provide any personal information, photographs, copyrighted materials, or third-party content submitted to AKD.
Unless otherwise agreed in writing, clients should not provide passwords, Social Security numbers, financial account credentials, medical information, or other highly sensitive personal information through standard email or website forms.
4. Cookies & Tracking Technologies
Our website and third-party service providers may use cookies and similar technologies to operate the website, remember preferences, understand visitor behavior, measure website performance, and support marketing or analytics activities.
Cookies are small data files stored on your device when you visit certain websites.
Depending on our website configuration, cookies may include:
Essential Cookies: Necessary for basic website functionality, security, shopping carts, checkout, or account features.
Analytics Cookies: Help us understand how visitors interact with the website.
Preference Cookies: Remember certain settings or preferences.
Marketing or Advertising Cookies: May be used to measure marketing effectiveness or provide more relevant advertising, if such tools are enabled.
You may be able to control cookies through your browser settings or any cookie-consent tools provided on our website. Disabling certain cookies may affect website functionality.
5. Analytics
Alana Karin Designs may use website analytics services to better understand how visitors interact with our website.
These tools may collect information such as pages visited, traffic sources, device information, general location data, and website interactions.
Analytics information is used to evaluate website performance, understand audience behavior, improve content, and enhance the overall visitor experience.
6. Email Marketing & Communications
If you voluntarily subscribe to our email list, download a resource that includes consent to receive communications, or otherwise opt in to marketing emails, we may use your information to send:
Business updates
Design tips and educational content
Blog updates
New products or services
Promotions or special offers
Resources and announcements
You may unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time by using the unsubscribe link included in applicable emails.
Unsubscribing from marketing communications does not prevent us from sending necessary transactional or service-related communications, such as purchase confirmations, invoices, contracts, project updates, or responses to inquiries.
7. How We Share Information
Alana Karin Designs does not sell personal information in exchange for money.
We may share limited information with trusted third-party service providers when reasonably necessary to operate our business, website, or services.
These providers may include companies that assist with:
Website hosting and website functionality
E-commerce and online purchases
Payment processing
Email marketing
Scheduling or appointment management
Client relationship or project management
Forms and questionnaires
File storage and cloud services
Analytics
Accounting and bookkeeping
Business automation
Professional legal, financial, or technical services
These third parties maintain their own privacy policies and data-handling practices.
We may also disclose information when reasonably necessary to comply with law, enforce agreements, respond to valid legal requests, protect our rights or users, investigate fraud, or address security concerns.
8. Third-Party Websites & Services
Our website may contain links to third-party websites, social media platforms, booking systems, payment providers, or other external services.
Once you leave the Alana Karin Designs website or interact directly with a third-party service, your information may be governed by that third party’s privacy practices.
AKD is not responsible for the privacy practices, security, content, or policies of independently operated third-party websites or platforms.
We encourage visitors to review the privacy policies of any external services they use.
9. Artificial Intelligence & Personal Information
Alana Karin Designs may use AI-assisted tools as described in our separate AI Use & Disclosure Policy.
When AI tools are used within our business or creative processes, we aim to exercise reasonable care regarding the information submitted to those platforms.
AKD does not intentionally submit highly sensitive client information, confidential credentials, financial account information, or other unnecessary private information to public generative AI tools.
Client-provided materials may only be used with AI-assisted tools when reasonably related to the creative or business process and consistent with applicable project agreements, platform terms, and AKD policies.
For additional information regarding our use of artificial intelligence, please review our AI Use & Disclosure Policy.
10. Data Security
Alana Karin Designs takes reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures to protect personal information from unauthorized access, misuse, loss, alteration, or disclosure.
However, no website, email system, online transmission, or electronic storage method can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
Users should exercise care when transmitting sensitive information electronically.
The FTC recommends that businesses understand what personal information they hold, limit access appropriately, maintain reasonable safeguards, and securely dispose of information no longer needed.
11. Data Retention
We may retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to:
Complete and maintain client projects.
Provide purchased products or services.
Maintain transaction and accounting records.
Fulfill contractual obligations.
Resolve disputes.
Maintain appropriate business archives.
Comply with tax, legal, regulatory, or recordkeeping requirements.
Protect our legitimate business interests.
Project files and communications may be retained after a project has concluded for business recordkeeping, portfolio management, client support, or legal purposes where appropriate.
When information is no longer reasonably necessary, we may delete, anonymize, or securely dispose of it in accordance with our business practices and applicable law.
12. Portfolio & Client Work
Unless otherwise agreed in writing, Alana Karin Designs may retain copies of completed creative work for business records and may display eligible completed work in our portfolio, website, social media, marketing materials, or other promotional channels consistent with our client agreements.
We will not intentionally publish private client information, confidential business information, login credentials, payment information, or other sensitive personal data as part of a portfolio presentation.
Any portfolio rights are also subject to the applicable client agreement or service terms.
13. Your Privacy Choices & Rights
Depending on where you live and which privacy laws apply to Alana Karin Designs, you may have certain rights concerning your personal information.
These may include the right to request:
Access to certain personal information we maintain about you.
Correction of inaccurate information.
Deletion of certain personal information.
A copy or portability of certain personal data.
Information about how certain personal information is processed.
Withdrawal of consent where processing is based on consent.
Opt-out from certain forms of targeted advertising, profiling, or sale of personal data where applicable.
Not every right applies in every situation, and certain information may need to be retained for contractual, legal, tax, security, or legitimate business purposes.
Maryland has enacted the Maryland Online Data Privacy Act, which provides qualifying Maryland consumers with privacy rights and imposes obligations on businesses that meet the law’s applicability requirements.
To submit a privacy-related request, contact: alanakarindesigns@gmail.com
We may need to verify your identity before completing certain requests.
14. Children’s Privacy
The Alana Karin Designs website and services are intended for adults and business owners and are not directed toward children under the age of 18.
We do not knowingly collect personal information directly from children under 18 through our website.
If we become aware that personal information from a child has been collected in circumstances requiring parental consent, we will take appropriate steps consistent with applicable law.
The federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act provides specific protections regarding online collection of personal information from children under 18.
15. Social Media
If you interact with Alana Karin Designs through social media—including by commenting, messaging, tagging, sharing, or participating in promotions—the social media platform may collect and process information according to its own privacy practices.
Information you publicly post or share on social media may be visible to others.
We encourage users to review the privacy settings and policies of the social platforms they use.
16. Business Transfers
If Alana Karin Designs is involved in a merger, acquisition, sale, restructuring, transfer of business assets, or similar business transaction, information maintained by the business may be transferred as part of that transaction where permitted by law.
Any successor entity would be expected to handle applicable personal information in accordance with relevant privacy obligations.
17. Changes to This Privacy Policy
Alana Karin Designs may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in:
Our business practices
Website functionality
Services or products
Third-party platforms
Technology
Privacy laws or regulations
The updated policy will be posted on this website with a revised “Last Updated” date.
We encourage visitors to periodically review this page for updates.
18. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, how your information is handled, or would like to submit a privacy-related request, please email: alanakarindesigns@gmail.com