Privacy Policy

ThinkDare respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit thinkdare.dev.

This Privacy Policy covers personal data collected from visitors to the Website, including through contact forms and consultation requests. It does not cover personal, business, or technical data handled by ThinkDare in the course of delivering client engineering services, such as source code, credentials, or project communications; that data is governed by the confidentiality and data-security provisions of the applicable Freelance Services Agreement.

We may collect personal data that you voluntarily provide to us when you fill out contact forms, request consultations, or communicate with us. This may include:

• Full name
• Email address
• Phone number
• Company name and project details
• Technical communications and correspondence

We also automatically collect technical data when you browse the Website, including your IP address, browser type, operating system, access times, and referring pages, as described in our Cookie Policy.

Where applicable data protection law requires a stated legal basis, we process your data based on: your consent (for example, non-essential cookies and marketing communications); the necessity of processing to take steps at your request before entering into a contract, or to perform a contract with you; and our legitimate interest in operating, securing, and improving the Website, provided that interest does not override your rights.

We use the collected information for the following purposes:

• To provide, operate, and maintain our engineering services and Website.
• To communicate with you regarding project inquiries, proposals, and support.
• To improve our Website performance, user experience, and service offerings.
• To comply with legal obligations and enforce our contractual agreements.

We retain personal data only for as long as necessary for the purposes described in this Policy. Contact form and consultation-request data is retained for [24] months from your last contact with us, unless a Freelance Services Agreement is signed, in which case retention follows the record-keeping requirements of that engagement. Technical and log data is retained for [X] months. We delete or anonymize data once these periods expire, unless a longer period is required by law.

We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal information to third parties. We may share your data with the following categories of trusted third-party service providers, each bound by confidentiality and data-protection obligations: our Hosting Provider, Analytics Provider, and/or our Email/CRM Provider. We may also disclose information when required by law.

Where your personal data is transferred to or processed in a country other than your own, we take reasonable steps to ensure it receives an equivalent level of protection, including through contractual safeguards such as standard contractual clauses where required by applicable law.

We implement appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal data against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. No method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is 100% secure. If we confirm a breach affecting your personal data that is likely to result in a risk to your rights, we will notify you and, where required, the relevant supervisory authority, without undue delay and consistent with applicable law.

Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have rights to access, correct, update, delete, restrict, or port your personal data, and to object to certain processing. In particular:

• Nigeria (NDPR / Nigeria Data Protection Act): you may request access to, correction of, or deletion of your data, and may lodge a complaint with the Nigeria Data Protection Commission.
• EU/UK (GDPR): you have the rights listed above plus the right to withdraw consent at any time and to lodge a complaint with your local supervisory authority.
• California (CCPA/CPRA): you have the right to know what personal information is collected, to request deletion, and to opt out of any sale or sharing of personal information; we do not sell or share personal information as defined by the CCPA.

To exercise these rights, contact us at [email protected]. We will respond within the timeframe required by applicable law.

The Website is not directed to children under 18, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from children. If you believe a child has provided us with personal data, contact us at [email protected] and we will take steps to delete it.

We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time. Changes will take effect immediately upon posting the revised policy on thinkdare.dev, with an updated Effective Date.