Privacy Policy
OVER40CONNECT
Privacy Policy
Last Updated: March 19, 2025
At Over40CONNECT, we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal information. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, when we share it, how we protect it, and the choices available to you.
By using our website, joining our community, signing up for our newsletter, contacting us, registering for events, or purchasing a membership or program, you agree to the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
1. Who We Are
Over40CONNECT is a community designed to help adults over 40 build friendship, confidence, and meaningful connection through community experiences, events, courses, and related services.
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or about your personal information, please contact us at:
Email: privacy@over40connect.com
Support: support@over40connect.com
Mailing Address: 72 Union Street, Ottawa, Ontario K1M 1R8
Support: support@over40connect.com
Mailing Address: 72 Union Street, Ottawa, Ontario K1M 1R8
2. Information We Collect
Depending on how you interact with Over40CONNECT, we may collect the following information:
Information You Provide Directly
- Your name
- Your email address
- Your phone number, if you choose to provide it
- Billing and subscription details
- Profile details such as your biography, city, age range, interests, birthday, or photographs
- Information you submit through quizzes, forms, surveys, newsletters, and event registrations
- Messages, posts, comments, and other content you share within the community
- Information you provide when you contact us for support
Information Collected Automatically
When you visit our website, we may collect certain technical and usage information, including:
- IP address
- Browser type
- Device type
- Pages visited
- Time spent on the website
- Referring links
- Cookies and similar technologies
- General location information derived from your IP address
3. How We Use Your Information
We use personal information to:
- Create and manage your account
- Process memberships, subscriptions, purchases, and payments
- Provide access to Over40CONNECT services, events, courses, and community features
- Communicate with you about your account, purchases, events, support requests, and important updates
- Send newsletters, announcements, and promotional messages where permitted by law or where you have provided consent
- Personalize your experience and improve our website, services, and community experience
- Protect the safety, integrity, and security of our website and community
- Enforce our terms, policies, and code of conduct
- Meet legal, regulatory, and business obligations
4. Community Features and Member Visibility
Over40CONNECT includes community-based features. If you create a member profile or post within the community, some of the information you choose to share may be visible to other members, depending on the settings, features, and access rules in place at the time.
Please share only information, photographs, and messages that you are comfortable making available within the Over40CONNECT environment.
5. Payments
If you purchase a membership, event, course, or other paid service, payment information may be collected and processed by our third-party payment provider rather than stored directly by Over40CONNECT.
We encourage you to review the privacy practices of any payment provider used on our site.
6. Third-Party Services
We may use third-party service providers to help operate our website and services. These may include providers for:
- Payment processing
- Newsletter or email communications
- Contact forms and spam protection
- Community hosting
- Analytics
- Event registration
- Video embedding or social media integrations
These service providers may process personal information on our behalf in order to deliver services to us.
Current providers may include Stripe, AWeber, Google reCAPTCHA, Circle or Discourse/CDCK, Eventbrite or Meetup, and other tools used to operate the business.
7. Cookies and Similar Technologies
We use cookies and similar technologies to:
- Remember preferences
- Improve website performance
- Analyze traffic and usage
- Support security and fraud prevention
- Improve user experience
You can adjust your browser settings to refuse or limit cookies. However, some parts of the website may not function properly if you do so.
8. Consent
Where required, we obtain your consent to collect, use, or disclose your personal information. Consent may be express or implied, depending on the situation and the sensitivity of the information involved.
You may withdraw your consent to certain uses of your information at any time, subject to legal, contractual, and operational limitations. Withdrawing consent may affect our ability to provide certain services to you.
9. When We Share Information
We do not sell your personal information.
We may share personal information:
- With service providers who help us operate our website and services
- When necessary to process payments, registrations, or subscriptions
- When you choose to share information inside the community
- When required or permitted by law
- To protect our rights, users, website, or business operations
- In connection with a business transaction such as a merger, reorganization, or sale, where permitted by law
10. How Long We Keep Information
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including to provide services, maintain records, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce agreements.
Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information and the service involved.
11. Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards to protect personal information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, disclosure, or alteration. However, no website, platform, email system, or internet transmission is completely secure.
Please avoid sending highly sensitive information by unsecured email unless necessary.
12. Access and Correction
You may request access to the personal information we hold about you and request corrections if the information is inaccurate or incomplete, subject to legal exceptions.
To make a request, contact us at:
Email: privacy@over40connect.com
13. Newsletter and Marketing Choices
You can unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in the message or by contacting us directly.
Please note that we may still send service-related communications about your account, purchases, events, or memberships where necessary.
14. Children’s Privacy
Over40CONNECT is intended for adults and is not directed to children.
15. External Links
Our website or community may contain links to third-party websites, platforms, or services. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of those third parties. We encourage you to review their privacy policies before sharing personal information.
16. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The updated version will be posted on this page with a revised “Last Updated” date. Your continued use of Over40CONNECT after changes are posted means you accept the updated policy, to the extent permitted by law.
17. Contact Us
If you have questions, concerns, or requests relating to privacy or your personal information, please contact:
Over40CONNECT
Email: privacy@over40connect.com
Support: support@over40connect.com
Address: 72 Union Street, Ottawa, Ontario K1M 1R8