Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how Blappe Digital Agency (“Blappe,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, shares, and protects your information when you visit blappe.com(the “Site”), submit an inquiry or partnership request, or create a career profile to apply for a role. By using the Site or submitting information through it, you agree to the practices described below.

1. Information We Collect

Information you provide to us

We collect the information you choose to submit through our forms and communications, including:

• Contact and project inquiries: your first and last name, email address, contact number, inquiry type (such as a general inquiry, quote request, a specific service, or a partnership/collaboration request), and the contents of your message.
• Partnership and collaboration requests: the same contact details above, along with any company, project, or partnership details you choose to include.
• Career profiles and job applications: when you apply through one of our role-category career profile forms, we collect the information requested on that form, which may include your name, email address, contact number, the role category or position you are interested in, your skills and work experience, and any supporting details, links, or files you provide.

Information collected automatically

When you visit the Site, certain information may be collected automatically through cookies and similar technologies, including your device and browser type, approximate location, pages visited, and how you interact with the Site. We use Google Analytics for this purpose (see Section 4).

Cookies and your choices. When you first visit, we show a cookie banner so you can accept all cookies, allow only necessary ones, or customize your choice by category:

• Necessary cookies are always on and support core functionality and security.
• Functional cookies remember your preferences and improve non-essential features.
• Performance cookies let us measure site usage through analytics.
• Targeting cookies support relevant communications and campaign measurement.

Non-necessary cookies (including Google Analytics) stay disabled until you consent, and you can change your choice at any time using the “Cookie Settings” link in our footer. We also honor the Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal: if your browser sends it, we automatically decline optional cookies without prompting you.

2. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect to:

• Respond to your inquiries, prepare quotes, and communicate with you about our services.
• Evaluate and pursue partnership or collaboration opportunities you initiate.
• Review career profiles and applications, match applicants with suitable client projects and open roles, and manage our hiring and staffing process.
• Operate, maintain, improve, and secure the Site and our services.
• Detect and prevent spam, fraud, and abuse (for example, through bot verification).
• Comply with legal obligations.

3. Legal Bases and the Data Privacy Act

Blappe is based in the Philippines, and our handling of personal information is governed by the Data Privacy Act of 2012 (Republic Act No. 10173), its Implementing Rules and Regulations, and the issuances of the National Privacy Commission (NPC). In line with the Act, we process personal information fairly and lawfully, for specified and legitimate purposes, and we uphold your rights as a data subject.

Where applicable, we process your information based on your consent (which you give by submitting a form), our legitimate interests in operating and growing our business and evaluating applicants, the performance of a contract or steps taken at your request before entering into one, and compliance with legal obligations.

A note for international clients and partners:The Data Privacy Act creates obligations for us as the organization processing data in the Philippines. It does not impose compliance duties on you as an overseas client, partner, or visitor. If you are located outside the Philippines, your own country’s data protection laws (such as the EU/UK GDPR) may separately apply to you; this policy describes only how we, as a Philippine-based agency, handle the information you share with us.

4. Third-Party Services We Use

We rely on trusted third-party providers to operate the Site and process submissions. Your information may be processed by these services, each under its own privacy policy:

• Email delivery: contact and career inquiries are delivered to our team by email through our email/SMTP provider.
• Google Forms: career profile applications are collected through Google Forms. Information you submit there is processed by Google under its privacy policy.
• Cloudflare Turnstile:we use Cloudflare’s bot verification to protect our forms from spam and abuse.
• Google Analytics: we use Google Analytics 4 to understand how visitors use the Site. This may involve cookies and collection of usage data.
• Google Maps: our contact page embeds Google Maps to show our location.

We do not sell your personal information. We share it only with the service providers above as needed to operate our business, or when required by law.

5. Data Retention

We keep your information for as long as needed to fulfill the purposes described in this policy — for example, to respond to your inquiry, maintain a business relationship, or consider you for current and future roles — and thereafter as required to meet legal, accounting, or reporting obligations. You may ask us to delete your information at any time (see Section 7).

6. How We Protect Your Information

We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect your information against unauthorized access, loss, or misuse. However, no method of transmission or storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

7. Your Rights and Choices

Under the Data Privacy Act of 2012, data subjects have rights including the right to be informed, to access, to object, to correct or rectify inaccurate information, to erasure or blocking, to data portability, to damages, and to lodge a complaint with the National Privacy Commission. More generally, depending on your location, you may have the right to access, correct, update, or delete the personal information we hold about you, to object to or restrict certain processing, and to withdraw consent.

To exercise any of these rights, contact us at contact@blappe.com. You can also control cookies through your browser settings and opt out of Google Analytics using Google’s available tools. If you believe your data privacy rights have been violated, you may also file a complaint with the National Privacy Commission.

8. Children’s Privacy

The Site is not directed to children under 16, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us so we can remove it.

9. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will revise the “Last updated” date above. Significant changes may be communicated through the Site.

10. Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or how we handle your information, contact us at contact@blappe.com or through our contact page.