Privacy Policy

Last updated: 22 June 2026

At Deb Nambiar Designs, your privacy matters. This Privacy Policy explains how personal information may be collected, used, stored, and protected when you visit this website, submit an enquiry, subscribe to the Drop of Colour mailing list, request design services, or interact with Deb Nambiar Designs online.

Deb Nambiar Designs is based in Melbourne, Australia. This Privacy Policy has been written with Australian privacy expectations in mind and also aims to provide clear information for international visitors, including visitors from the European Union, United Kingdom, United States, Canada, New Zealand, and other locations.

By using this website, you agree to the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

Who We Are

Deb Nambiar Designs is a Melbourne-based surface pattern design studio creating original artwork, pattern collections, licensing collections, print-on-demand product links, and creative services for fabric, wallpaper, home decor, interiors, makers, retailers, and licensing partners.

Information We Collect

We may collect personal information when you:

  • Submit a contact form

  • Send a general enquiry

  • Submit a licensing enquiry

  • Submit a regional retailers enquiry

  • Request a resize or recolour service

  • Subscribe to the Drop of Colour mailing list

  • Contact Deb Nambiar Designs by email

  • Click through to third-party platforms such as Spoonflower

  • Interact with this website through cookies, analytics tools, or embedded services

The information collected may include:

  • Name

  • Email address

  • Phone number, if provided

  • Business name, if provided

  • Website or social media links, if provided

  • Postal address, if required for a specific service or correspondence

  • Project details

  • Design links or URLs

  • Enquiry details

  • Newsletter signup preferences

  • General website usage information

We only collect information that is reasonably necessary for responding to enquiries, providing services, managing communications, improving the website, and operating Deb Nambiar Designs.

How We Collect Information

  • Personal information may be collected when you voluntarily provide it through:

  • Website forms

  • Email correspondence

  • Newsletter signup forms

  • Direct communication with Deb Nambiar Designs

  • Service or licensing enquiries

  • Third-party platforms linked from this website

Some information may also be collected automatically through cookies, analytics tools, website hosting services, or similar technologies.

How We Use Your Information

Your information may be used to:

  • Respond to enquiries

  • Provide requested information or services

  • Manage licensing, collaboration, retailer, resize, or recolour enquiries

  • Send occasional email updates if you have subscribed

  • Improve the website and visitor experience

  • Understand which website pages are useful to visitors

  • Maintain business records

  • Comply with legal, administrative, tax, or record-keeping requirements

  • Protect the security and integrity of this website

We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information.

Legal Basis for Using Personal Information

Where required by applicable privacy laws, including international privacy laws, we rely on one or more lawful bases to collect and use personal information, including:

  • Your consent, such as when you subscribe to a mailing list

  • The need to respond to your enquiry or provide a requested service

  • Legitimate business interests, such as improving the website, managing communications, and protecting website security

  • Compliance with legal or administrative obligations

For Australian visitors, Deb Nambiar Designs aims to handle personal information in a fair, transparent, and secure way, guided by the Australian Privacy Principles where applicable. The Australian Privacy Principles cover collection, use, disclosure, transparency, access, correction, and security of personal information.

Newsletter Communications

If you subscribe to Drop of Colour, your email address will be used to send occasional notes about colour, pattern, nature, new work, studio updates, collections, and related creative news.

You can unsubscribe at any time using the unsubscribe link included in each email.

Deb Nambiar Designs aims to comply with Australian email marketing requirements, including consent, clear sender identification, and functional unsubscribe options. ACMA guidance states that commercial electronic messages must include an unsubscribe option.

Website Analytics

This website may use analytics tools, including Squarespace Analytics and/or Google Analytics, to understand general website traffic and visitor behaviour.

  • Analytics information may include:

  • Pages visited

  • Time spent on the website

  • Browser or device type

  • Referring website or search source

  • General location information

  • Website interactions

Analytics information is generally used in an aggregated way to help improve the website and understand visitor interests.

Where Google Analytics is used, Google requires website owners to disclose the use of Google Analytics and explain how data is collected and processed. Google Analytics also has rules about not sending personally identifiable information to Google Analytics.

Cookies

This website may use cookies and similar technologies to help the site function, improve visitor experience, understand website traffic, and support analytics.

Cookies may be used to:

  • Enable website functionality

  • Remember visitor preferences

  • Understand website traffic

  • Improve website performance

  • Support analytics and reporting

  • Help protect website security

You can manage or disable cookies through your browser settings or through any cookie banner or cookie settings provided on this website.

For more information, please see the separate Cookie Policy.

Third-Party Services

Deb Nambiar Designs may use trusted third-party services to operate this website and business, including:

  • Squarespace for website hosting, forms, analytics, and website tools

  • Email marketing software, such as Squarespace Email Campaigns or Flodesk

  • Google Analytics or similar analytics tools, if connected

  • Spoonflower for print-on-demand fabric, wallpaper, and home decor products

  • Pinterest, Instagram, or other social media platforms

  • Payment, fulfilment, communication, or administrative services where relevant

These third-party services may collect, store, or process information according to their own privacy policies and terms.

When you click through to an external platform, your interaction with that platform is governed by that platform’s own privacy policy, terms, and settings.

Spoonflower and External Purchases

Some Deb Nambiar Designs products may be available through Spoonflower or other third-party platforms.

When you click through to Spoonflower, purchases, payments, shipping, fulfilment, returns, customer accounts, and customer service are handled by Spoonflower according to Spoonflower’s own privacy policy and terms.

Deb Nambiar Designs does not receive or control your full payment details from Spoonflower purchases.

International Visitors

This website may be accessed by visitors from outside Australia.

If you are located outside Australia, please be aware that information you provide may be processed in Australia or through third-party service providers located in other countries.

Where applicable, international visitors may have privacy rights under local laws, such as the right to access, correct, delete, restrict, or object to certain uses of personal information. The European Commission explains that the GDPR protects personal data and applies to both automated and manual processing of personal data.

If you wish to make a privacy-related request, please contact Deb Nambiar Designs using the contact details below.

Access, Correction, and Removal

You may contact Deb Nambiar Designs to request access to, correction of, or deletion of personal information held about you, where appropriate.

You may also request that Deb Nambiar Designs stop sending you marketing communications.

Some information may need to be retained for legal, administrative, tax, record-keeping, dispute resolution, or legitimate business purposes.

Data Security

Reasonable steps are taken to protect personal information from misuse, loss, unauthorised access, modification, or disclosure.

However, no method of electronic transmission or storage is completely secure, and absolute security cannot be guaranteed.

Data Retention

Personal information is kept only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.

This may include retaining information for business records, tax purposes, service history, licensing enquiries, customer support, dispute resolution, or legal obligations.

When information is no longer required, reasonable steps will be taken to delete, de-identify, or securely manage it.

External Links

This website may include links to external websites, including Spoonflower, Pinterest, Instagram, email signup platforms, or other third-party services.

Deb Nambiar Designs is not responsible for the privacy practices, security, content, or policies of external websites. Please review the privacy policies of those websites before providing personal information.

Children’s Privacy

This website is intended for adults, business users, makers, designers, retailers, decorators, interior designers, and people interested in surface pattern design.

Deb Nambiar Designs does not knowingly collect personal information from children.

If you believe a child has provided personal information through this website, please contact Deb Nambiar Designs so it can be reviewed and removed where appropriate.

Your Privacy Choices

You can:

  • Choose not to submit personal information through website forms

  • Unsubscribe from marketing emails

  • Manage cookies through your browser or cookie banner settings

  • Contact Deb Nambiar Designs to request access, correction, or removal of your personal information

  • Avoid clicking external links if you do not wish to interact with third-party platforms

Changes to This Policy

This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time to reflect changes to the website, services, technology, business practices, or legal requirements.

The latest version will be published on this page with the updated date.

Contact

For questions about this Privacy Policy or how personal information is handled, please contact:

Deb Nambiar Designs
Melbourne, Australia
E: info@debnambiardesigns.com