Privacy Policy

Effective Date: February 24, 2026

Last Updated: August 14, 2026

Sharkitect Digital LLC ("Sharkitect Digital," "we," "us," or "our") operates the website sharkitectdigital.com. This policy explains what we collect, what we do with it, who else sees it, and what you can do about it.

We wrote it in plain language on purpose. If any part of it is unclear, email us and we will fix the wording.

1. What we collect

What you type in

We collect what you enter on our forms and booking pages. Which fields appear depends on the form. Across the site they include:

• Your name
• Your email address
• Your phone number, on the forms that ask for it, and only if you choose to give it
• Your company name and your industry
• Your written answers to our questions — what is slowing your business down, or which task you would most like to stop doing by hand

Those written answers go to us exactly as you type them. Nothing strips them or checks them first. Do not type anything into those boxes you would not want us to have.

What your browser sends

Some information arrives automatically when you visit:

• Your IP address. We and the services in Section 3b use it to estimate your city or region. We do not collect precise or GPS location.
• Pages you visit, how long you stay, and which site sent you here
• Your browser and device type
• Marketing tags in the link you clicked, if there were any. These tell us which post brought you here.

Section 6 lists the specific cookies. Section 7 explains how to turn the optional ones off.

What we do not collect

We do not collect government ID numbers, health information, or precise location. We do not collect card or bank details through this website. If you become a client, we invoice you separately and that billing does not run through this site. We never buy lists of personal information about you.

2. What we do with it

• To answer you. When you fill out a form, we use your contact details to reply.
• To deliver what you asked for. If you requested a guide or a report, we send it.
• To build your report. On two of our forms, your answers go to an AI service that drafts a response for us. Section 3a names it.
• To schedule and coordinate. Meetings, reminders, and project updates.
• To follow up by email. A short sequence about the topic you asked about. You can leave at any time.
• To text you, but only if you asked us to. See Section 4.
• To see what works. Which pages help, which posts bring people in, which forms confuse people.
• To keep bots out. Every form runs an automated spam check. Some also use Cloudflare Turnstile.

What we do not do with it

We do not sell your personal information. Not to data brokers, not to advertisers, not to anyone, for money or for anything else of value.

We do not hand your contact details to another company so that company can market to you. Nobody buys them from us.

We do not make automated decisions about you that produce legal or similarly significant effects. Our forms do run an automated spam check, and when it flags a submission a person reviews it rather than throwing it away.

There is one thing we do share, and we would rather explain it than bury it — see Section 3.

3. Who else sees your information

Two different things happen here, and lumping them together is how privacy policies mislead people. So we separate them.

3a. Companies that handle your data for us

These are our service providers. Each one gets only what it needs to do its job. Their contracts with us limit them to providing that service. Some may also use the data in aggregated or anonymous form to improve their own products. Their standard terms allow that.

Our current providers are:

Provider	What it does for us
HubSpot	Website hosting, our CRM, and email to you
Cloudflare (Turnstile)	Checks that a human, not a bot, submitted the form (on some forms — see Section 2)
Airtable	Stores the record of your inquiry
n8n	Moves your form submission between the systems above
Anthropic (Claude)	On our Speed-to-Lead demo and CRM Blueprint forms, drafts a reply from the answers you gave
Brevo	Sends the guide you requested and the follow-up emails
PDFShift	Builds your PDF report at the moment you request it
Telnyx	Delivers our text messages, if you opted in
Slack	Notifies our team internally that you got in touch

We update this table when our providers change.

3b. Analytics and advertising services that also use the data themselves

Two services receive a record of your activity on our site: Google Analytics and the Meta pixel. Unlike the providers above, their own terms let them use that data for their own purposes, including improving their products and personalizing ads.

Service	What it receives	What it may do with it
Google Analytics 4	Pages you viewed, your rough location, your device	Uses it to give us site statistics, under the Google Privacy Policy
Meta pixel	That you visited, and which pages	May use it for its own product development and ad personalization, under the Meta Business Tools Terms

Under California law this may count as "sharing" for advertising purposes. That is true even though no money changes hands, so we describe it plainly rather than leaning on the technicality.

You control both. Here is exactly what each choice does:

• The Meta pixel does not load at all unless you accept. Choose "Essential only" and it is never placed on your device.
• Google Analytics loads on every page, because our website platform includes it. Until you accept, it runs in a restricted mode: it sets no analytics cookies, and it does not build a profile of you or share data for advertising.

You can also switch Google Analytics off everywhere you browse, not just here, with Google's own browser add-on.

This stays true whether or not we are running ads at the time. Accept, and this section applies. Choose "Essential only," and it does not.

4. Text messages

If you tick the SMS consent box, you are allowing us to text you appointment reminders at the mobile number you gave us.

• What we send: appointment reminders and rescheduling links only — your appointment date and time, and a link to reschedule. We will never send marketing or promotional texts.
• Consent is not required to purchase any service from us.
• How often: message frequency varies, typically 1–4 messages per month.
• Cost: message and data rates may apply, depending on your mobile carrier and plan.
• To opt out: reply STOP to any text message from us.
• To get help: reply HELP to any text message from us, or contact us using the details in Section 12.

No mobile information, phone numbers, or SMS opt-in or consent data collected through our forms will be shared with or sold to third parties or affiliates for their marketing or promotional purposes.

We do not pass your phone number or your SMS consent to the analytics and advertising services in Section 3b.

We follow the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) and the federal and state rules for SMS. In practice that means one thing: if you did not tick the box, we do not text you.

5. Emails

When you give us your email address to request a guide or report, we send you what you asked for. Then we send a short educational sequence on that topic — currently five emails over about two weeks. It ends on its own.

Once you reply and we start working together, email switches to one-to-one messages from Christopher Sharkey directly. You are not added to a newsletter or a permanent marketing list.

Your email rights:

• Unsubscribe at any time using the link in any email.
• Or contact us directly and ask (Section 12).
• Unsubscribing takes effect immediately. The law allows us up to 10 business days; we do not use them.
• Emails about work already underway are not marketing. Unsubscribing from the sequence does not stop them.

We comply with the CAN-SPAM Act. Every email from us identifies our company, includes our postal address, and gives you a clear way out.

6. Cookies and similar technology

Cookies are small files a website stores on your device. Some run on every visit. Others are optional, and we ask before using those.

Always on

These run whether or not you accept optional cookies. Two of them recognize you if you come back, which is how we know which page first brought you to us.

HubSpot (hosting and CRM):

• __hssc — tracks the current session. Expires after 30 minutes of inactivity.
• __hssrc — notes whether you restarted your browser. Deleted when you close it.
• __hstc — recognizes returning visitors. Stays on your device for 13 months.
• hubspotutk — connects a form you submit to the visit it came from. Stays 13 months.

Cloudflare Turnstile may set a short-lived cookie while it confirms you are human. Without it, our forms are open to bots.

Your cookie choice is saved in your browser under the name shk_consent. It stays on your device, it is never sent to us or anyone else, and it is how we avoid asking you the same question on every page.

Only after you accept

Google Analytics: _ga and _ga_<id>, up to 2 years.

Meta pixel: _fbp, about 3 months, plus _fbc if you arrived from a Facebook or Instagram link.

Choose "Essential only" and none of these are set.

7. Your cookie choices, and how to change your mind

The first time you visit, a banner asks you to choose:

• Accept — the optional cookies load, and Section 3b applies in full.
• Essential only — they do not. The Meta pixel never loads, and Google Analytics stays in restricted mode.

We remember your answer so you are not asked again on every page.

To change your answer: select Cookie settings at the bottom of any page. The banner comes back, and your new answer replaces the old one.

Changing to "Essential only" later stops Google Analytics immediately. The Meta pixel stops on your next page load. Cookies already saved on your device stay there until they expire or you clear them in your browser.

If you never answer, nothing optional loads. We treat silence as "Essential only," not as consent.

Do Not Track, and tracking across other sites

Some browsers can send a "Do Not Track" signal. There is no agreed standard for what a website should do with one, so we do not respond to Do Not Track signals.

If you accept optional cookies, the services in Section 3b may collect information about what you do over time and across other websites you visit. Choose "Essential only" and they do not.

8. How long we keep it

• While we are working together: for as long as we are working together, plus 24 months.
• Inquiries that did not become work: we delete or anonymize these within 24 months of your last contact, and sooner once we no longer need them.
• Analytics data: Google Analytics deletes the visit-by-visit records automatically, after 14 months at the most. That is the longest window Google allows on our plan. Summary counts — how many people opened a page last March — have no time limit, and they are not tied to you. The _ga cookie on your own device can outlast those records; Section 6 gives its lifespan.
• Your activity in our CRM: HubSpot keeps this for as long as your contact record exists. Ask us to delete the record and the activity goes with it.

You can ask us to delete your information sooner at any time (Section 10). We will, unless a law requires us to keep a specific record.

9. How we protect your information

Here is what we actually do:

• We encrypt connections (HTTPS/TLS) across the site.
• We limit access to people who need it.
• We keep your data with providers that publish independent SOC 2 Type II audits, including HubSpot and Cloudflare.

No method of sending or storing data online is completely secure. We protect your information, but we cannot promise absolute security, and neither can anyone who tells you otherwise.

10. Your rights

Wherever you live, you can ask us to:

• Tell you what we hold about you
• Correct anything wrong
• Delete it
• Stop emailing you (unsubscribe link in any email)
• Stop texting you (reply STOP)
• Stop the optional cookies (Section 7)

Contact us using Section 12. We acknowledge requests within 10 business days and respond within 45 days. If we need longer, we will tell you why. We may need to confirm who you are first.

If you live in California

Some privacy laws apply only to companies above a certain size, and we are smaller than those thresholds. Rather than work out which rights you are owed, we extend all of these to everyone who asks, wherever you live:

• Right to know what we collected, where it came from, why, and who else received it.
• Right to delete what we collected from you, with the usual legal exceptions.
• Right to opt out of sale or sharing. We do not sell your personal information. We do share activity data with the services in Section 3b, but only if you accept cookies. To opt out, choose "Essential only."
• Right not to be treated differently for exercising any of these.

You may name an authorized agent to ask on your behalf.

California's privacy law sorts data into categories. Ours fall into three: who you are (name, email, phone), what you do for work (company, industry), and how you used our site (pages visited, IP address). Plus anything you typed into a box yourself.

11. Your business, and our marketing

If you become a client, we do not publish your name, your company's name, or your logo without your written permission. When we describe results from work we have done, we describe them anonymously — the industry and the outcome, never the company.

12. Contact us

Questions about this policy, or want to exercise any right above:

Sharkitect Digital LLC
8924 E. 74th St
Kansas City, MO 64133, United States
Email: solutions@sharkitectdigital.com
Website: sharkitectdigital.com

13. Changes to this policy

We update this policy when our practices change, and we change the "Last Updated" date above when we do. That includes updating the provider table in Section 3a when our providers change.

If we make a significant change — a new category of data, or a new advertising service — we will post a notice on the site. If we have your email address, we will send you a note too.

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This policy describes our practices. It is not legal advice for your own situation.