Company Connecting Privacy Policy

Category: Blog

By Janice

14/05/2018

Who We are
At Company Connecting we are committed to maintaining the trust and confidence of our visitors to our web site. In particularly, we want you to know that Company Connecting is not in the business of selling, renting or trading email lists with other companies and businesses for marketing purposes.
We do help companies and organisations collaborate with one another. We will do this by contacting you directly and asking if we can connect you with another person or company.

What we collect
Companies and people can register with Company Connecting. On registering you will be asked to provide an
e-mail address
Username
These are the only two pieces of information that we require, and we advise all registered users to use an anonymised username, and where possible a generic e-mail such as info@. If you provide us with a non-generic e-mail, you are giving us explicit permission to use it to contact you. (The website will have a check box for you to tick, to provide us with this permission)
If you are an IT, telecoms or tech company we also ask for the following pieces off information:
Company Name
Website
This is to enable us to provide you with access to update your company details
Once registered, you can also enter the following optional pieces of information
Company Role
Name
Phone
LinkedIn details
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What we do with the information we gather
We require the e-mail address and username for:
managing access to the search facility on our database
managing access to update their company profile
maintaining the security of our database
We use the optionally supplied information to connect you with another person or company where there is a potential common interest. We will do this by contacting you personally via e-mail or LinkedIn and asking if we can connect you with the person or company.
Website Cookies
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good browsing experience when you visit our website and allows us to make our website more efficient. By continuing to browse our website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.
How cookies work
Cookies are small data files that are sent to and stored on your computer, smartphone or other device used to access the internet, whenever you visit a website. We use cookies to enable and improve certain functions on our website and gain feedback on how our website is used. If you choose to switch certain cookies off, it may affect how our website works.
The browsers of most computers, smartphones and other web–enabled devices are usually set up to accept cookies. If your browser preferences allow it, you can configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, or notify you when cookies are set. Each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn about how to change your cookie preferences.
However, please remember that cookies are often used to enable and improve certain functions on a website. If you choose to switch certain cookies off, it may affect how our website and certain functionality works.
Our use of cookies
We use analytics cookies to collect information on website activity (such as the number of users who visit our website, the date and time of visits, the number of pages viewed, navigation patterns, what country and what systems users have used to access the site and, when entering our website from another website, the address of that web site). This information on its own does not identify an individual but it does provide us with statistics that can be used to analyse and improve our website.
We also use a cookie to recognise when you return to our website. This ensures that we will only show you our cookie notice the first time that you visit our website.
You can find more information about the individual cookies that we use and the purposes for which use them in the table below:

Name

Purpose

More information

Have Javascript

has_js

Confirms that your web browser has Javascript enabled.

See http://www.enable-javascript.com/ for further details.

Google Analytics

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Allow us to collect information on activity on our website (including number of visitors, date and time of visitors, number of pages viewed, etc.)

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Analytics for further details.

Google Analytics
When someone visits www.companyconnectingg.com we use a third-party service, Google Analytics, to collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of the site. This information is only processed in a way which does not identify anyone. We do not make, and do not allow Google to make, any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting our website.
Mailing Lists
As part of the registration process described above we collect personal information. We use that information for a couple of reasons: to tell you about stuff you’ve asked us to tell you about; to contact you if we need to obtain or provide additional information; to check our records are right and to check every now and then that you’re happy and satisfied. We don't rent or trade email lists with other organisations and businesses.
We use a third-party provider, MailChimp, to deliver our occasional newsletter. We gather statistics around email opening and clicks using industry standard technologies to help us monitor and improve our e-newsletter. For more information, please see MailChimp’s privacy notice. You can unsubscribe to general mailings at any time of the day or night by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any of our emails or by emailing our data protection officer Janice Grant Shaw
Access to your personal information
You are entitled to view, amend, or delete the personal information that we hold. Email your request to our data protection officer Janice Grant Shaw at support@companyconnecting.com
Changes to this Privacy Notice
We prepared our privacy policy in May 2018. We will review the policy annually, or more frequently when changes in law mean we need to carry out a review
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