Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how the Ridgebind Systems website handles information when you browse the site, send a project or audit enquiry, or submit a career application.

It covers the public website only. A separate project agreement may explain additional data handling for client work.

The website collects information that you choose to submit through its forms. The hosting and delivery infrastructure may also process basic request information needed to serve and protect the website.

Depending on the form you use, you may provide:

• Your name, email address and optional phone number.
• Your company or business name and optional website address.
• Your project goal, budget range and message.
• For career enquiries, your area of interest, portfolio or profile link, and message.

When you visit a website, its hosting infrastructure may process technical request details such as an IP address, browser or device type, requested page, date and time, referring page, and error or security logs. Ridgebind Systems does not add its own browser tracking code to collect this information in the current website source.

Information submitted through the website may be used to:

• Review and respond to your enquiry or application.
• Understand the requested project, audit or support need.
• Prepare for a conversation, proposal or possible working relationship.
• Operate, secure and improve the website and enquiry process.
• Meet legal obligations or protect the website and its users where necessary.

The current Ridgebind Systems website source does not set analytics, advertising or preference cookies, and it does not use localStorage or sessionStorage. Hosting or security infrastructure may use strictly necessary technical mechanisms outside the public source code.

The current website source does not include a third-party analytics platform, advertising tracker, external media embed, newsletter service, authentication service or payment collection tool.

The site contains links to external websites. If you follow one, that website handles information under its own privacy terms.

Website forms send their details to Ridgebind Systems through a server-side form route. If email delivery is unavailable, the form reports that the message was not sent and directs the visitor to email Ridgebind Systems instead.

When email delivery is configured, the submitted details are delivered to Ridgebind Systems through its selected email service. That service may process the details so the enquiry or application can be delivered and managed.

Information may be shared with service providers that are needed to host the website, deliver a form submission or help Ridgebind Systems respond to your request. Information may also be disclosed when required by law, to protect rights or safety, or as part of a business reorganisation where permitted.

Service providers should receive only the information needed for their role and may have their own privacy responsibilities.

Ridgebind Systems uses reasonable technical and organisational steps appropriate to the website and the information being handled. No internet transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

Form integration credentials, when configured, remain on the server and are not included in browser code.

Information is kept only for as long as reasonably needed for the enquiry, possible project or application, record-keeping, security, and legal obligations. The repository does not define a fixed retention period, so the exact period depends on the purpose and any systems used to handle the submission.

You may ask Ridgebind Systems to provide, correct or remove information you submitted, subject to applicable law and any information that must be kept for legitimate business, security or legal reasons.

You can also choose not to submit a form and instead use any contact method made available by Ridgebind Systems.

This website and Ridgebind Systems services are intended for business and professional enquiries. They are not directed to children, and the website does not knowingly request information from children.

We may update this Privacy Policy when the website, services or legal requirements change. The date at the top of this page shows when the policy was last updated.

For a privacy question or request, use the Ridgebind Systems contact page and clearly state that your message concerns privacy. This helps route the request correctly.