Privacy Policy
Designeers Privacy & Cookie Policy
Last updated: August 2026
This Privacy & Cookies Policy explains how Style Ventures Ltd, trading as Designeers, collects, uses, shares and protects personal information in connection with the Designeers website, editorial platform, BlackBook, Club membership, Members Lounge, newsletters, events, Design Journeys, applications, brand partnerships and related activities.
Style Ventures Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales under company number 12995398, with registered office at Unit 2.02 High Weald House, Glovers End, Bexhill, East Sussex, England, TN39 5ES. For the purposes of UK data protection law, Style Ventures Ltd is generally the controller of the personal information described in this policy.
Contact: contact@designeersclub.com.
We process personal information in accordance with applicable UK data protection law, including the UK GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018, and where relevant the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR).
Who This Policy Applies To
This policy applies to people who visit our website; subscribe to our newsletters; apply for, hold or trial Designeers Club membership; use the Members Lounge; apply for or appear in the BlackBook; submit editorial material; attend or apply for events, Salons, Experiences or Design Journeys; enquire about or enter into brand partnerships; participate as Industry Partners; contact us; or otherwise interact with Designeers.
It also applies where we receive professional information about a designer, studio, maker, brand, journalist, photographer, PR representative or other industry contact from public professional sources or from another person.
Personal Information We Collect
Depending on how you interact with us, we may collect:
identity and professional information, such as your name, job title, studio or company, biography, professional category and city or country;
contact information, such as email address, telephone number, business address and social-media handles;
application and membership information, including your answers to application questions, portfolio or project materials, membership tier, status, renewal information, trial status and community profile;
editorial and BlackBook information, including biographies, interviews, project descriptions, photographs, credits, portfolio information, press materials and information about your practice;
community information, including profile details, posts, comments, messages, event participation and other information you choose to share within the Members Lounge;
event and Experience information, including applications, attendance, preferences and information reasonably required to organise participation;
commercial and partnership information, including enquiries, proposals, campaign correspondence, invoicing information, deliverables and performance reporting;
payment and transaction information. Payments may be processed by third-party payment providers; we do not ordinarily receive or store full payment-card details;
newsletter and marketing information, including subscription status, preferences and engagement information such as opens or clicks where available and lawful;
technical and usage information, such as IP address, browser/device information, pages viewed, referral information and cookie or analytics identifiers;
communications you send to us, including email correspondence and enquiries; and
any other information you voluntarily provide to us.
Where We Obtain Personal Information
We obtain personal information directly from you when you submit a form, subscribe, apply, join, contact us, participate in the community, attend an event, submit editorial material or enter into a commercial relationship with us.
We may also receive professional information from your studio or employer, PR representatives, photographers, collaborators, nominators, other members, publicly available professional websites and social-media profiles, press releases, media databases or other legitimate professional sources.
Where we obtain personal information from someone other than you, we will provide privacy information where required by law.
How and Why We Use Personal Information
We use personal information for the following purposes and lawful bases:
Website and enquiries
To operate the website, respond to enquiries and provide requested information. We generally rely on legitimate interests in operating Designeers and responding to professional enquiries, or steps taken at your request before entering a contract.
Membership applications and administration
To assess applications, administer membership, provide the Members Lounge, manage trials, renewals and benefits, and communicate with members. We generally rely on performance of a contract or steps requested before entering a contract. Curatorial assessment may also involve our legitimate interests in maintaining a relevant and trusted community.
BlackBook and editorial activity
To assess potential editorial subjects, commission or publish content, maintain profiles, manage credits and communicate with contributors. We generally rely on legitimate interests in operating an independent design publication and directory, contractual arrangements where applicable, and consent where it is specifically required.
Members Lounge and community
To provide community functionality, facilitate participation, enforce community standards and protect the integrity and security of the community. We generally rely on performance of the membership contract and our legitimate interests in operating a safe, useful professional network.
Newsletters and marketing
To send newsletters, membership news, invitations, editorial updates, event information and relevant promotional communications. We rely on consent where required by PECR and, in appropriate business-to-business circumstances, legitimate interests where lawful. You can unsubscribe at any time.
Events, Experiences and Design Journeys
To process applications and bookings, administer attendance, communicate logistical information and deliver the relevant Experience. We generally rely on performance of a contract or steps requested before entering a contract, and legitimate interests for associated administration.
Brand partnerships and Industry Partners
To develop, negotiate, administer and report on advertising, sponsorship, editorial-commercial collaborations, Member Privileges and other business relationships. We generally rely on contract, steps before contract and our legitimate interests in developing and managing Designeers' commercial relationships.
Payments, accounting and legal compliance
To process payments, maintain financial records, manage invoices, prevent fraud and comply with tax, accounting and other legal obligations. We rely on contract, legal obligation and legitimate interests as appropriate.
Analytics, security and improvement
To understand use of our services, protect our systems, diagnose problems and improve the website and membership experience. We rely on legitimate interests for strictly necessary or non-cookie processing and consent where required for non-essential cookies or similar technologies.
Legal claims and protection
To establish, exercise or defend legal claims, enforce our terms, protect our rights and respond to lawful requests. We rely on legal obligations and legitimate interests as appropriate.
Our Legitimate Interests
Where we rely on legitimate interests, those interests may include operating and improving Designeers; maintaining editorial independence and a curated professional community; developing professional and commercial relationships; communicating with relevant industry contacts; preventing misuse and fraud; protecting our systems, members and business; and understanding engagement with our services.
We consider whether those interests are necessary and balanced against the rights and reasonable expectations of the people concerned. You may have a right to object to processing based on legitimate interests.
Editorial, BlackBook and Public Professional Information
Designeers is an editorial platform and professional design directory. Some information about designers, studios, makers, brands and other professionals may be intended for publication and therefore visible publicly.
Where you provide information for a published feature, BlackBook profile or other editorial purpose, the resulting published content may remain part of the Designeers editorial archive even if our underlying working files are later deleted, subject to applicable law and legitimate editorial considerations.
If you believe published personal information is inaccurate or raises a privacy concern, contact us at contact@designeersclub.com.
Membership and Members Lounge Data
Membership information is used to administer your relationship with Designeers and provide access to the Members Lounge and relevant benefits.
Information you choose to include in your community profile or posts may be visible to other authorised community participants according to the settings and structure of the Members Lounge.
Please do not post personal information that you do not want other authorised participants to see. Other members are subject to our community rules, but we cannot control every action taken by another participant after information has legitimately been viewed.
Payments
Payments may be handled by third-party payment processors or membership platforms. Those providers process payment information under their own privacy terms and applicable data-protection responsibilities.
Designeers may receive transaction information such as your name, billing contact details, payment status, amount, subscription or renewal information and limited payment-method information, but we do not ordinarily store full card numbers or security codes.
Who We Share Personal Information With
We may share personal information where reasonably necessary with categories of recipients including:
website, hosting, community and technology service providers, including Squarespace for our public website and Circle for the Members Lounge where applicable;
payment processors and subscription-management providers;
email, newsletter, forms, scheduling and communications providers, including Flodesk for email marketing and related integrations where applicable;
analytics, security and IT-support providers, including Google in connection with Google Analytics 4;
professional advisers such as accountants, lawyers and insurers;
event venues, travel or Experience providers where necessary to deliver something you have booked or requested;
contractors and team members who support Designeers and require access for their role;
Industry Partners or other third parties where you have requested an introduction, benefit or interaction, or where sharing is otherwise clearly explained;
regulators, courts, law-enforcement bodies or other authorities where required by law; and
a buyer, investor or successor organisation in connection with a genuine corporate transaction, subject to appropriate safeguards.
We do not sell personal information to advertisers.
International Transfers
Some of our service providers, including technology providers such as Squarespace, Google, Flodesk and Circle where applicable, may process personal information outside the United Kingdom, including in the United States or other countries.
Where UK data-protection rules on restricted international transfers apply, we take steps intended to ensure an appropriate transfer mechanism is in place, such as UK adequacy regulations or recognised contractual safeguards, as applicable.
You may contact us if you would like further information about the safeguards relevant to your personal information.
How Long We Keep Personal Information
We keep personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, including legal, accounting, contractual, editorial and dispute-resolution requirements.
Retention periods vary by category. In general, we may retain:
membership and transaction records for the membership relationship and an appropriate period afterwards for legal, tax and accounting purposes;
unsuccessful or inactive application information for a limited period where useful for managing future applications or invitations, unless you ask us to delete it sooner and we have no overriding reason to retain it;
newsletter subscription records until you unsubscribe, plus suppression information needed to respect your opt-out;
commercial contracts, invoices and related records for the periods required by law and normal business record-keeping;
event and Experience records for as long as needed to administer the event and deal with legal or accounting matters;
general correspondence for as long as reasonably relevant to the relationship or enquiry; and
published editorial and BlackBook material as part of our editorial archive, subject to applicable law.
We periodically review information and delete or anonymise it when it is no longer needed.
Marketing Communications
You can unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time by using the unsubscribe link in an email or contacting us.
Unsubscribing from marketing does not prevent us from sending service messages that are necessary for an active membership, booking, transaction or other relationship.
We may retain a minimal suppression record after you unsubscribe so that we can respect your preference.
Cookies and Similar Technologies
Our website uses cookies and similar technologies. Squarespace uses cookies that are necessary to operate the website and may also support analytics and other functionality. We also use Google Analytics 4 to help us understand how visitors use the Website. Non-essential cookies are restricted unless and until the visitor makes the relevant choice through our cookie-consent mechanism.
Where PECR requires consent, non-essential cookies and similar technologies are not intended to be activated until you have made the relevant choice through our cookie-consent mechanism. Visitors can accept all cookies, decline non-essential cookies or manage their preferences.
Our cookie controls allow visitors to manage their preferences and to change those preferences later. Strictly necessary cookies cannot generally be disabled through the consent tool because they are required for core website functionality.
The particular cookies and technologies used may change as we update our website and service providers. We will keep our cookie disclosures and consent settings under review so that they reflect the technologies we use.
You can also control cookies through your browser, although blocking strictly necessary cookies may affect website functionality.
Analytics and Email Engagement
We use Google Analytics 4 to understand how visitors interact with the Website. Depending on your consent choices and the configuration of the service, this may involve information such as device and browser information, approximate location derived from technical data, referral source, pages viewed and interactions with the Website. We also use Squarespace Analytics and its activity-log functionality for website measurement and administration. Flodesk may provide engagement information relating to our newsletters, such as opens and clicks, where available and lawful.
Where consent is legally required for a particular tracking technology, we rely on consent. You can decline non-essential cookies or change your cookie preferences through the Website. Where a technology does not require cookie consent, any personal-data processing will still require an appropriate lawful basis under data-protection law.
Social Media and Third-Party Links
Our website and communications may link to third-party websites and social-media platforms. Those organisations process information under their own privacy policies, and we are not responsible for their privacy practices.
If you interact with Designeers through a social-media platform, both Designeers and the platform may process information relating to that interaction according to their respective roles.
Security
We take reasonable technical and organisational measures designed to protect personal information against unauthorised access, loss, misuse, alteration or disclosure.
No internet or information-storage system is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
Your Data Protection Rights
Depending on the circumstances, UK data-protection law may give you rights to:
request access to personal information we hold about you;
ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete information;
ask us to erase personal information in certain circumstances;
ask us to restrict processing in certain circumstances;
object to processing based on legitimate interests and object to direct marketing at any time;
receive certain information in a portable format where the right to data portability applies;
withdraw consent at any time where processing is based on consent, without affecting processing already carried out before withdrawal; and
raise concerns about how we use your personal information.
These rights are not absolute and may be subject to exemptions or conditions under applicable law.
To exercise a right, contact contact@designeersclub.com. We may need to verify your identity before acting on a request.
Complaints
If you have a concern about our use of your personal information, please contact us first so we can try to resolve it.
You also have the right to complain to the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection. Information about making a complaint is available on the ICO's official website.
Automated Decision-Making
We do not currently intend to make decisions about individuals based solely on automated processing that produce legal or similarly significant effects.
If this changes, we will provide the information required by applicable law.
Children
Designeers is directed primarily at adult design professionals, businesses and design audiences and is not intended as a service for children.
We do not knowingly seek to collect personal information directly from children through membership or professional application processes. If you believe a child has provided personal information to us inappropriately, please contact us.
Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy & Cookies Policy as our services, technologies or legal obligations change. The latest version will be published on our website with its effective date.
If we plan to use personal information for a materially different purpose, we will provide additional information or notice where required.
Contact Us
Style Ventures Ltd
trading as Designeers
Company Number: 12995398
Registered office:
Unit 2.02 High Weald House
Glovers End
Bexhill
East Sussex
England
TN39 5ES
Privacy enquiries: contact@designeersclub.com