This Privacy Policy explains how Optiarms, Inc., doing business as Connor Maze Enterprises (“we,” “us” or “our”), collects, uses and shares personal information through connormaze.com (the “Site”). The short version: we collect what you choose to send us and the minimum technical data needed to run and protect the Site. We don't use advertising or analytics trackers, and we don't sell your information.
1. Information we collect
Information you give us
When you use the contact form, we collect:
- your name and email address;
- your message;
- optionally, your project timeline and who referred you; and
- if the page link you followed carried a referral tag (a
?ref=code), that tag.
If you email us directly, we receive your email address, your message and anything else you choose to include. Please don't send payment card, bank account or government ID numbers; the contact form rejects messages that appear to contain them.
Information collected automatically
- Network and device data. Like most websites, our hosting provider receives your IP address, browser type, the pages you request and the time of each request, and records some of this in server logs. When you submit the contact form, we keep your IP address (for IPv6, only the network prefix) with the submission to prevent abuse.
- Spam signals. The contact form records how long it was open before you sent it and includes a hidden field that only automated bots fill in. We use these only to filter out spam.
Cookies
The public pages of the Site don't set cookies, and we don't use analytics, advertising or social-media tracking cookies or pixels. The only cookies the Site sets are strictly necessary sign-in and security cookies for the private area, which is used only by the site owner. Because we don't track visitors across sites, there is nothing for a browser's “Do Not Track” or Global Privacy Control signal to switch off, though we honor both.
2. How we use information
- to read and reply to your message and to follow up about a possible project you raised;
- to keep records of our business inquiries and correspondence;
- to operate, maintain, secure and troubleshoot the Site, including rate limiting and spam and abuse prevention; and
- to comply with the law and to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.
We won't add you to a mailing list or send you marketing because you contacted us. If you are in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, our legal bases are: taking steps at your request before entering into a contract, our legitimate interests in replying to inquiries and keeping the Site secure, and compliance with legal obligations.
3. How we share information
We don't sell personal information or share it for cross-context behavioral advertising. We share it only:
- With service providers who run the Site for us under contracts that limit how they may use the data, such as our hosting provider (Vercel), our database provider (Neon), our rate-limiting and caching provider (Upstash), our email provider and the push notification services that alert the site owner to a new message;
- With image hosts. Some images on the Site, such as the home page photograph, load from Unsplash, which receives your IP address and browser details when your browser fetches them;
- For legal reasons, when we believe in good faith that disclosure is required by law or legal process, or is needed to protect the rights, property or safety of us, our users or others; and
- In a business transfer, such as a merger, acquisition or sale of assets, in which case the information stays subject to this policy.
4. How long we keep it
We keep contact form submissions and email correspondence for as long as we need them to respond to you and to keep reasonable business records, and delete them when they are no longer needed or when you ask us to, unless the law requires us to keep them. Server logs are kept for about 90 days. Rate-limiting records expire automatically, typically within minutes to days. Deleted data may remain in encrypted backups for a short period until those backups expire.
5. How we protect it
The Site is served only over HTTPS. Contact form submissions are encrypted at rest, field by field, in addition to the encryption provided by our database host, and access to them is restricted to the site owner with multi-factor authentication. No method of transmission or storage is perfectly secure, but we work to protect your information and will notify you of a breach where the law requires it.
6. Your choices and rights
You can ask us to tell you what personal information we hold about you, to correct it, to delete it or to give you a copy of it. You can also object to or ask us to restrict our use of it. Depending on where you live, including in California, other U.S. states with comprehensive privacy laws, the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom, these may be legal rights. We honor such requests from anyone, wherever they live.
To make a request, email hello@connormaze.com. We may need to confirm your identity, usually by replying to the email address you used to contact us. You may use an authorized agent where the law allows. We won't discriminate against you for exercising these rights. If you are in the EEA or the UK, you may also complain to your local data protection authority.
7. Where we process it
We are based in the United States, and our service providers store and process data in the United States. If you contact us from elsewhere, your information will be transferred to and processed in the United States, where privacy laws may differ from those where you live.
8. Children
The Site is not directed to children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect personal information from them. If you believe a child has sent us personal information, contact us and we will delete it.
9. Other websites
The Site links to websites we don't control, such as LinkedIn, X, GitHub and the projects shown on the Site. Their privacy practices are governed by their own policies.
10. Changes to this policy
We may update this policy from time to time. When we do, we will post the new version here and change the effective date above. If a change materially affects how we use information you have already given us, we will take reasonable steps to let you know.
11. Contact us
Questions or requests about your privacy can go to hello@connormaze.com or by mail to:
Optiarms, Inc., operating as Connor Maze Enterprises
6545 Market Ave N, Ste 100
Canton, OH 44721
hello@connormaze.com
See also our Terms of Service.