Privacy Policy
Thank you for thinking about or choosing to be part of our community at Connection Works, LLC and/or choosing to do business with us. We are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy notice or our practices with regard to your personal information, please contact shannon@connectionworks.com
Our Privacy Policy is intended to help you understand how we collect, use and safeguard the information you provide to us and to assist you in making informed decisions when engaging with us. This privacy policy describes how Connection Works uses and protects the information you give us if you:
Visit our website at http://www.connectionworks.com
Engage with us in other related ways ― including any sales, marketing, or events
We may update this policy from time to time. The latest version will always be published on this page. This version was published on 20 November 2022.
For website visitors
In general, the Personal Information you provide to us is used to help us communicate with you. For example, we use Personal Information to contact users in response to questions, solicit feedback from users, provide technical support, and inform users about promotional offers.
We gather and use limited information about individuals who use this website. We use this information to provide products and services; to enable certain website functions; to better understand how visitors use this website; and to present timely and relevant information to visitors.
This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:
Information about your browser, network and device
Information about this site and the page you’re viewing on it
Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
Web pages you view while on this website
Your IP address
Squarespace needs the data to run this website and to protect and improve its platform and services. This website serves font files from and renders fonts using Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, these third parties may receive personal information about you. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form. Read their Privacy Policy here.
How we use this data:
For our own internal records
To improve our products and services
To contact you in response to a specific enquiry
To customize the website for you
To send you promotional emails about products, services, offers and other things we think might be relevant to you
To contact you via email or telephone for market research purposes
We will not share your personal information with or sell it to third-party marketers. We do not sell, trade, rent or otherwise share for marketing purposes your Personal Information with third parties without your consent. We do share Personal Information with service partners who are performing services for Connection Works.
Our service partners
We use the following third-party service providers named below to process and store your data:
Microsoft as we use their MS Office 365 and its products to perform our work and engage with you via email and scheduling services. Read their Privacy Policy here.
Google as we use Google Drive and its products to perform our work and at times, engage with you directly through their forms, documents, spreadsheets, slides and more. We also use Google Analytics service to measure the performance of this website. Read their Privacy Policy here.
LinkedIn as we host regular events on their platform and use their event registration feature. Read their Privacy Policy here.
Mailchimp (The Rocket Science Group, LLC), which we use to manage email marketing subscriber lists and send emails to our subscribers. Read their Privacy Policy here (they are owned by Intuit).
We will not share your personal information with any other third-party unless we have your permission or the law requires us to.
Using Our Forms
When you submit information to this website via a form, provided either as a feature of Squarespace or by using a hyperlink to Google products (forms, document, spreadsheet, slides) we collect the data requested in the form to track and respond to your submissions. We share this information with Squarespace, so that they can provide website services to us. We also share this information with Google for storage.
When you register or purchase a service or program on this website, we collect personal information from you to respond to your inquiries and communicate with you about the services or events you have indicated interest in. We may collect information like your:
Billing and shipping address
Email address
Name
Phone number
Other written information related to your enquiry that you provide (position or title, company name, company website, etc.)
We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us.
Links to external websites
Our website may contain links to other websites. We have no control of websites outside of connectionworks.com. We are not responsible for the content of other websites, or for the protection or privacy of data you submit to them.
How to make a request about your data
You can contact us to ask us what data we hold about you, who has access to it and how it is being used. We will also delete any data about you that we hold if you ask us to. To make a request please contact Shannon Patterson at shannon@connectionworks.com
Analytics
This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:
Information about your browser, network, and device
Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
Your IP address
This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:
Clicks
Internal links
Pages visited
Scrolling
Searches
Timestamps
We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.
Cookies
This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. These functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you. We may use cookies to:
Record website usage data
Identify whether you are signed into our website
Test content on our website
Recognise when you return to our website
Cookies do not provide us with access to your computer. You can use your web browser’s settings to refuse cookies if you wish.
These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.
Share Buttons
This website includes or will include share buttons which enable you to share pages or other content from this site to the following third party services: Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram. If you click a share button, these third parties may receive your personal data, including:
Information about your browser, network and device
Details about the web page or content you shared or proposed to share
Your IP address
Blog Comments and Likes
This website includes or will include commenting functionality on some pages which enables you to post a comment. This website collects personal data when you post a comment, including:
Your name (which will be displayed as part of your posted comment)
Your email address (optional, to let you know if someone replies to your comment)
Your website URL (optional)
This website includes “likes” functionality on some blog posts which enables you to “like” a post. This website collects personal data when you like a post to try to prevent the same person from liking the same post during the same visit, including:
Information about your browser, network and device
Details about the web page or content you shared or proposed to share
Your IP address
Changes to our privacy policy
Connection Works reserves the right to change this policy and our Terms of Service at any time. We will notify you of significant changes to our Privacy Policy by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account or by placing a prominent notice on our site. Significant changes will go into effect 30 days following such notification. Non-material changes or clarifications will take effect immediately. You should periodically check the site and this privacy page for updates.
Contact us
If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy or the practices of this site, please contact us by sending an email to shannon@connectionworks.com