Who we are
Obizworks (SMC-Private) Limited is the controller of personal information collected through obizworks.com. We decide what is collected and why.
- US: 708 Quincy St., Hampton, VA 23661, USA
- Email: [email protected]
This notice covers obizworks.com only. Our other properties — dm.obizworks.com, hr.obizworks.com, nhcc.obizworks.com, mgmt.obizworks.com and hsimis.obizworks.com — publish their own notices.
What we collect
Information you give us
When you submit the contact form or the early-access signup, we receive:
- Your name, email address and company name
- The inquiry type you select and the message you write
- Your IP address and browser user-agent string, recorded with the submission
We do not ask for payment details, government identifiers, or special-category data through this website. Please do not include them in a message.
Information collected automatically
Like most websites, we receive technical information on every visit: IP address, browser and device type, referring page, pages viewed, and approximate location derived from IP. This happens through the analytics and advertising services listed below.
Why we use it
- To respond to you. A submission is used to answer your inquiry and, where relevant, to continue a business conversation.
- To operate and secure the site. Traffic and abuse signals — including the anti-spam checks on our forms.
- To understand what works. Aggregate analytics on which pages and sources bring visitors.
- To measure advertising. Attributing visits to campaigns and building audiences on Meta platforms.
Where UK or EU data-protection law applies, we rely on legitimate interests for responding to inquiries and securing the site, and on consent for analytics and advertising. See Cookies and tracking below for how to withdraw it.
Who processes it
We do not sell or rent personal information. We do share it with the service providers below, who process it on our behalf:
| Provider | Purpose | What it receives |
|---|---|---|
| Google Analytics 4 | Page views, IP address, device and browser data, referral source | |
| Meta | Meta Pixel — advertising measurement and audiences | Page views, IP address, user agent. With automatic advanced matching enabled, a hashed copy of an email address entered into our forms |
| Brevo | Delivering form submissions to us by email | The contents of your submission |
| Cloudflare | Content delivery, security, privacy-preserving web analytics | IP address, request metadata |
| GoDaddy | Web hosting | Everything stored on the server, including submission records |
We may also disclose information where the law requires it, or to establish or defend legal claims.
Cookies and tracking
The services above set cookies and similar identifiers — including Google Analytics
(_ga), the Meta Pixel (_fbp), and Cloudflare's security cookie.
Being straight with you: analytics and advertising tags on obizworks.com are off until you turn them on. Nothing but the strictly necessary is set when a page loads. The banner you saw on your first visit is the gate: choose Reject all and no analytics or advertising cookie is written at all — not a reduced set, none. Declining costs you no functionality, and we do not ask again on every page.
You can change your answer at any time from Cookie settings, which also lists every cookie in each category and what it does. The gate applies to every visitor in every country; we do not vary it by region.
What Meta receives when you submit a form
If — and only if — you accepted advertising cookies, the Meta Pixel uses a feature called Automatic Advanced Matching. When you submit one of our forms, it takes the details you typed, converts them to a one-way hash in your browser, and sends those hashes to Meta so Meta can tell whether you already have an account there and attribute the visit to an ad. In practice that means your email address on any of our forms, and additionally your name on the contact form. We do not collect phone numbers, gender or dates of birth anywhere on this site, so none are sent.
Meta receives the hashes, not the plain text. A hash is still information about you — we are telling you rather than filing it under "analytics". If you decline advertising cookies, the pixel never loads and none of this happens. We also record a generate_lead event when a form succeeds, so we can tell which pages produce enquiries; it carries no personal details, only which form was used.
- Reopen cookie settings and withdraw consent — this alone is sufficient.
- Block or delete cookies in your browser settings.
- Install the Google Analytics opt-out add-on.
- Adjust what Meta may use for advertising in your Meta ad preferences.
- Enable Global Privacy Control or a tracker-blocking extension.
How long we keep it
- Form submissions: retained while a business relationship or its prospect is live, and reviewed periodically. Spam is discarded and never stored.
- Analytics data: retained according to the Google Analytics 4 retention setting on our property.
- Advertising data: retained by Meta under its own retention rules.
- Server and security logs: short-lived, kept only for abuse prevention.
Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to:
- Ask what personal information we hold about you, and get a copy
- Have inaccurate information corrected
- Have your information deleted
- Object to, or ask us to restrict, how we use it
- Withdraw consent for analytics and advertising at any time
- Ask us not to sell or share it — we do not sell or rent personal information
- Complain to your data-protection authority
Email [email protected] and we will respond within 30 days. We will not treat you differently for exercising any of these rights.
International transfers
Obizworks and its service providers operate internationally, including outside the United States. Information you submit may be processed in the countries where our team and those providers run their infrastructure. Where transfers are subject to UK or EU rules, we rely on the safeguards our providers put in place, including standard contractual clauses.
Children
This is a business-to-business website. It is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 16. If you believe a child has submitted information, email us and we will delete it.
Changes to this notice
If we add, remove or change a tracker or processor, we update this page and its version number. The effective date at the top always reflects the current version.
Contact
Questions, requests, or complaints about privacy: [email protected], or write to either address at the top of this page.