Privacy Policy
The Design Gazette honors your privacy. The Design Gazette does not digitally fingerprint you or track you, and does not build a profile of you.
Privacy at The Design Gazette in Short
- You can read The Design Gazette anonymously, without creating an account, without signing in and without giving any personal information.
- The Design Gazette does not track you, does not build a profile of you and does not digitally fingerprint your browser, your device or your connection.
- The Design Gazette does not sell, rent, share or trade personal information, because The Design Gazette does not collect personal information.
- Advertising on The Design Gazette is provided by Massive Outreach Ads Network, a privacy-first advertising solution provider. Massive Outreach Ads Network does not track you, does not collect your personal information and honors your privacy.
- The Design Gazette does not place tracking cookies. The The Design Gazette Cookies Policy explains more about this.
What The Design Gazette Does Not Do
The Design Gazette does not run analytics, session recording or behavioral tracking, does not use advertising or social media tracking pixels, does not follow you from one website to another and does not try to recognize you or your devices through fingerprinting techniques, such as combining browser, screen, font, graphics or hardware characteristics. The Design Gazette does not make automated decisions about you and does not create a profile of you.
Technical Data Needed to Deliver thedesigngazette.com
Like every website, the servers that host thedesigngazette.com process the technical information that your browser sends with each request, for example your IP address, the page requested, the date and time and the type of browser and device. This processing delivers pages to you, keeps thedesigngazette.com secure and available and protects thedesigngazette.com against abuse, on the basis of our legitimate interest in operating a secure website. The data is not used to identify you or build a profile of you, is not combined with other data about you and is kept only for as long as these purposes require.
Images and Content from Other Servers
Project images of the building components, smart living, architectural lighting and other designs shown on The Design Gazette, as well as other images, visuals and data, may be loaded directly from external third-party servers, such as content delivery networks and image servers. Such third-party services may potentially have their own terms and conditions as well as privacy policies that may apply.
Advertising
To support the work that goes into The Design Gazette, advertisements are displayed on thedesigngazette.com, delivered by Massive Outreach Ads Network, the advertising solution provider of The Design Gazette. Massive Outreach Ads Network is privacy-first and does not track you, does not collect your personal information and respects your privacy. As a result, advertisements on The Design Gazette are not based on profiles of your browsing behavior.
Forms and Third-Party Services
When you use the The Design Gazette Submit Design page, the The Design Gazette Newsletter page or the The Design Gazette Encyclopedia page, you type your details (for example a name, surname and e-mail address, or a search term) into a page of thedesigngazette.com, and The Design Gazette then forwards you automatically to the website of the relevant service, passing along what you typed so that you do not have to type it again. The Design Gazette uses this information only to forward you and for no other purpose. From the moment you arrive on the destination website, that service processes your information under the privacy notice of that service, which you are strongly encouraged to read. In addition, each of these sites may have its own, additional terms and conditions.
Links to Other Websites
The Design Gazette may potentially link to websites that The Design Gazette does not operate, such as websites of designers, brands, partners, institutions and award platforms. The privacy practices and the content of such websites remain the responsibility of the respective website operators.
Children
The Design Gazette is a general-audience design publication and is not directed at children. The Design Gazette does not knowingly collect personal information from anyone at all, let alone children.
Security
thedesigngazette.com can be accessed through the encrypted https://thedesigngazette.com address, which helps protect the communication between your browser and our servers. thedesigngazette.com may also remain accessible through the unencrypted http protocol, which may offer less protection, so you are strongly encouraged to use the https address.
The Design Gazette Publisher
The publisher of The Design Gazette (thedesigngazette.com) is identified in our Impressum.
Your Rights
Because The Design Gazette does not collect personal information about you, there is normally nothing for us to access, correct, port or delete or restrict. If you nevertheless believe that the publisher of The Design Gazette holds or processes personal information about you, or if you wish to exercise any right under applicable data protection law (such as the rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability and objection, or the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority), you can use the contact details in the The Design Gazette Impressum. For information processed by third parties that you reach through links or forms, please contact those third parties directly.
Changes to the Privacy Policy
The Design Gazette Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time, and the date shown at the bottom of this page indicates the latest revision. If we update our policies, the new policies will be reflected on this page.
Contact
If you have a privacy question, you can use the details in the The Design Gazette Impressum or the The Design Gazette Contact page.
Last updated on 30 October 2026