Privacy Policy
Design Count values your privacy. Design Count does not digitally fingerprint you or track you.
Privacy at Design Count in Short
- You can read Design Count anonymously, without creating an account and without giving any personal information.
- Design Count does not track you, does not build a profile of you and does not digitally fingerprint your browser, your device or your connection.
- Design Count does not sell, rent, share or trade personal information, because Design Count does not collect personal information.
- Advertising on Design Count 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.
- Design Count does not place tracking cookies. The Design Count Cookies Policy explains more.
What Design Count Does Not Do
Design Count does not run analytics or behavioral tracking, does not use advertising, retargeting 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. Design Count does not make automated decisions about you and does not create a profile of you.
Technical Data Needed to Deliver designcount.com
Like virtually every website, the servers that host designcount.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. This processing delivers pages to you, keeps designcount.com secure and available and protects designcount.com against abuse, on the basis of our legitimate interest in operating a secure and reliable website. The data is not used to identify or profile you, is not combined with other data about you and is kept only for as long as these purposes make necessary.
Images and Content from Other Servers
Project images of the lighting and architectural lighting designs shown on Design Count, 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 have their own terms and conditions as well as privacy policies that may apply.
Advertising
To support the work that goes into Design Count, advertisements are displayed on designcount.com, delivered by Massive Outreach Ads Network, the advertising solution provider of Design Count. 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 Design Count are not based on profiles of you or of your browsing behavior.
Forms and Third-Party Services
When you use the Design Count Submit Design page, the Design Count Newsletter page or the Design Count Encyclopedia page, you type your details (for example a name, surname and e-mail address, or a search term) into a page of designcount.com, and Design Count 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. Design Count 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 encouraged to read. Moreover, each of these sites may have its own, additional terms and conditions.
Links to Other Websites
Design Count may potentially link to websites that Design Count 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
Design Count is a general-audience design publication and is not directed at children. Design Count does not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, let alone children.
Security
designcount.com can be accessed through the encrypted https://designcount.com address, which helps protect the communication between your browser and our servers. designcount.com may also remain accessible through the unencrypted http protocol, which may offer less protection, so you are encouraged to use the https address.
Design Count Publisher
The publisher of Design Count (designcount.com) is identified in our Impressum.
Your Rights
Because Design Count does not collect personal information about you, there is normally nothing for us to access, correct, port or delete. If you nevertheless believe that the publisher of Design Count 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 Design Count 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
Design Count 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 Design Count Impressum or the Design Count Contact page.
Last updated on 30 October 2026