Privacy Notice
Effective Date: August 31, 2026
This privacy policy for Kept Co. Designs (“We”, “Us” or “Our”) tells you how we may collect, use and share your information when you visit our website KeptCoDesign.com.
We appreciate your decision to use our website KeptCoDesign.com and to trust us with your valuable personal information. In this document, we seek to explain in the clearest terms possible our privacy practices. We strongly encourage you to read this document (and any other related documents) carefully before using the website. If there are any terms or conditions in this document that you do not agree with, please do not use the website, or in case you are already using it, please discontinue the use immediately. By using the website, you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
What information do we collect about you?
When we collect information, we do so to ensure that you get to experience our service seamlessly. For that, we collect the following information. Some are your personal information and some are your sensitive personal information.
The personal information that we collect about you are the following:
- Name
- Address
- Email address
- Professional or employment related information
Sometimes, we also collect sensitive personal information from you, which includes the following:
- Genetic information
How do we collect such information?
We may use any of the following three ways to get information about you.
- The information that you give us
- The information that we automatically collect from you
- Information that we collect from third parties
Before going into the reasons why we collect the information that we do, we want you to understand what the above three terms mean.
a. The information that you give us
When you sign up for an account to use our service/product we will ask you certain questions like your name or email address. These are the information that you give us. This may not be limited to what we have mentioned and can change according to the nature of the service/product that we provide.
b. The information that we automatically collect from you
When you access our service from a device, we may automatically collect information from your device, such as through the use of cookies. You will know more about automatic collection of personal information in the next section.
c. Information that we collect from third parties
These third parties can be data aggregators, online directories, data marketplaces or exchanges, etc from where we may collect information about you.
Cookies and Similar Technologies
Cookies are small text files that a site or its service provider store on your computer through your web browser, if you allow. Like the vast majority of websites, we use ‘cookies’ in order to provide you with the best possible experience on our website. Cookies can have many purposes and, among other things, may be used to save your preferences or to collect visitor statistics – e.g. finding out how many users viewed the site and the pages they accessed.
We use cookies to compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interactions in order to offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We may also use trusted third-party services that track this information on our behalf.
We use a cookie consent plugin (CookieYes) to manage user preferences for cookie usage.
Cookie List
Necessary
Necessary cookies are required to enable the basic features of this site, such as providing secure log-in or adjusting your consent preferences. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable data.
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| __cf_bm | 1 hour | This cookie, set by Cloudflare, is used to support Cloudflare Bot Management. |
| rc::a | Never Expires | This cookie is set by the Google recaptcha service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. |
| rc::c | session | This cookie is set by the Google recaptcha service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. |
| cookieyes-* | 1 year | CookieYes sets this cookie for consent solution management. |
Analytics
Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics such as the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| _ga | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Google Analytics sets this cookie to calculate visitor, session and campaign data and track site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognise unique visitors. |
| _ga_* | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page views. |
| _clck | 1 year | Microsoft Clarity sets this cookie to retain the browser’s Clarity User ID and settings exclusive to that website. This guarantees that actions taken during subsequent visits to the same website will be linked to the same user ID. |
| _clsk | 1 day | Microsoft Clarity sets this cookie to store and consolidate a user’s pageviews into a single session recording. |
| SM | session | Microsoft Clarity cookie set this cookie for synchronizing the MUID across Microsoft domains. |
| MR | 7 days | This cookie, set by Bing, is used to collect user information for analytics purposes. |
| _scor_uid | 1 year 24 days | Stores a unique identifier to measure audience size, analyze browsing behavior, and improve advertising relevance and content performance across websites. |
| SRM_B | 1 year 24 days | Used by Microsoft Advertising as a unique ID for visitors. |
Advertisement
Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with customized advertisements based on the pages you visited previously and to analyze the effectiveness of the ad campaigns.
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| _fbp | 3 months | Facebook sets this cookie to store and track interactions. |
| MUID | 1 year 24 days | Bing sets this cookie to recognise unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites. This cookie is used for advertising, site analytics, and other operations. |
| ANONCHK | 10 minutes | The ANONCHK cookie, set by Bing, is used to store a user’s session ID and verify ads’ clicks on the Bing search engine. The cookie helps in reporting and personalization as well. |
- Internal Cookies: We use PHP session cookies (e.g., PHPSESSID for maintaining user sessions and anti-spam purposes, such as verifying form submissions). These help prevent automated abuse without storing personal data beyond what’s needed for session management. Additionally, login cookies are set on our admin pages to authenticate authorized users and maintain secure access. We also employ obfuscated form fields (honeypots) as a non-cookie-based method to detect and prevent spam submissions. For spam protection in forms, we use Google reCAPTCHA, which may set cookies like _GRECAPTCHA (used to distinguish humans from bots).
Third-party vendors, including Google, Facebook, SharpSpring, and LiveChat, may use cookies to serve ads based on prior visits to our site. We use remarketing with Google Analytics, Google Ads, and Facebook Pixel to advertise online.
Do not track requests
We respond to “do not track” requests in the following manner:
We do not honor ‘Do Not Track’ requests.
Why do we collect information about you?
We collect information about you for a variety of reasons. It helps us, among other things, to serve you better. The following are the ways in which we use the information that we collect about you.
- To provide and maintain service
- To perform a contract with us
- To send marketing and promotional communications
- To evaluate and improve our products/services
- To contact the user
- To manage your account
- targeted advertising
- To examine the usage trends
- To manage user requests related to business transfers, such as when our business is acquired, amalgamated, merged, restructured, or otherwise sold or transferred to another entity, in whole or in part
How long do we retain your information?
We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting, or other legal requirements). No purpose in this notice requires us to retain your personal information for longer than the period during which users have an account with us.
When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymise such information, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.
Sale/sharing of information
We do not sell or share the information we collect from our users.
Disclosure of personally sensitive information
We do not disclose personally sensitive information for purposes other than the following:
- To perform services or deliver goods.
- To prevent, detect, and investigate security incidents that compromise the availability, authenticity, integrity, or confidentiality of stored or transmitted personal information.
- To resist malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal actions directed at the business and to prosecute those responsible for those actions.
- To ensure safety of natural persons.
- For short-term, transient use, including, but not limited to, non personalised advertising shown as part of a consumer’s current interaction with the business.
- To perform services on behalf of the business
- To verify or maintain the quality or safety of a product, service, or device and to improve or upgrade them.
- To collect or process sensitive personal information where such collection or processing is not for the purpose of inferring characteristics about a consumer.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Policy; changes will be posted here with the new effective date. Significant changes will include prominent notice. Prior versions are archived for review upon request. Any privacy policy changes will be reflected on this page, and the date at the top of the page will inform visitors of when the latest changes were made.
If you have additional questions, contact us at the addresses above.
COPPA (Children Online Privacy Protection Act)
We do not specifically market to or collect personal information from children under 13.
Security of your personal information
We take reasonable measures to ensure that the information we collect from you is stored securely and protected to the best extent possible. However, no method of internet transmission or digital storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security. While we use commercially reasonable and appropriate security measures to protect your information, we cannot promise that it will be 100% secure.
Links to other websites or apps
On our website, we may provide links to external websites, apps, or services. These are not operated by us and therefore are not governed by our Privacy Policy or practices. We strongly recommend that you review the privacy policies of such websites or services before engaging with them to ensure that you do not provide personal information that you do not wish to share.
Contact us
For any questions or concerns regarding your privacy, or to exercise any of your rights, you may contact us using the following details:
Address: 4030 Wake Forest Road STE 349 Raleigh, NC, 27609, USA
Email address: compliance@KeptCoDesign.com