Privacy Policy
Effective Date: August 6, 2026 · Last Updated: August 6, 2026
Matt St. Jean ("we," "us," or "our") respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect information when you visit mattstjean.com (the "Website"), contact us, request information, or otherwise interact with us.
This Privacy Policy is a notice of our practices, not a contract requiring consent to every form of processing described below. Where applicable law requires consent, we will request it separately. If you do not want to provide personal information through the Website, you may contact us through another published method.
This Privacy Policy applies to information collected through the Website and through communications initiated through the Website. It does not govern information collected by third parties under their own policies.
1. Information We Collect
Information You Provide Directly
We may collect information you voluntarily provide, including:
- Name
- Email address
- Telephone number
- Company name and job title
- Information submitted through contact or inquiry forms
- Communications and customer-service messages
- Any other information you choose to provide
Please do not submit sensitive personal information through general website forms unless we specifically request it through an appropriate secure process. We do not intend to collect Social Security numbers, government identification numbers, account passwords, complete payment-card numbers, or similarly sensitive information through general contact forms.
Information Collected Automatically
When you visit the Website, we and our service providers may automatically collect certain information, such as:
- Internet Protocol address
- Browser and device type
- Operating system
- Referring and exit pages
- Pages viewed and links clicked
- Date, time, and duration of visits
- Approximate location derived from an IP address
- Website performance and diagnostic information
- Cookie identifiers and similar technical data
Information From Other Sources
We may receive information from third parties, including advertising and analytics providers, social media platforms, referral partners, and publicly available sources.
2. How We Use Information
We may use information to:
- Operate, maintain, secure, and improve the Website
- Respond to questions, requests, and inquiries
- Provide estimates, consultations, or services
- Process transactions and communicate about services
- Send administrative messages, confirmations, and service notices
- Send marketing communications where permitted by law
- Measure Website traffic, performance, and engagement
- Detect, investigate, and prevent fraud or unlawful activity
- Comply with legal, regulatory, accounting, and tax obligations
- Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims
- Complete a merger, acquisition, or transfer of business assets
We may also use information to maintain consent, security, and legal-compliance records. We may combine information collected through the Website with information obtained through other interactions with you.
3. Cookies and Similar Technologies
The Website may use cookies and similar technologies to support essential functions, remember preferences, understand Website performance, and improve user experience. Cookies may include:
- Essential cookies: support security, forms, navigation, and core Website functions
- Analytics cookies: help us understand Website traffic and usage
- Advertising cookies: may measure campaigns, support remarketing, or help deliver relevant advertising
You can control cookies through your browser settings. Blocking cookies may affect Website functionality. Because there is not a uniform industry response to browser-based "Do Not Track" signals, the Website may not respond to them. Where legally required, we will process supported universal opt-out preference signals, such as Global Privacy Control.
Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control
We recognize and honor the Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal. When we receive a GPC signal from your browser, we treat it as a request to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information and of targeted advertising for that browser, and we apply it to your account if you are signed in.
We do not respond to Do Not Track browser signals, because no common industry standard for interpreting them has been adopted. We do honor the Global Privacy Control signal as described above.
4. Analytics and Advertising
We may use third-party analytics services such as Google Analytics to measure Website traffic and engagement. These services may use cookies or related technologies to collect information about Website activity. You may manage preferences through the applicable provider or your browser settings.
5. How We Disclose Information
Service Providers
We may disclose information to vendors that perform services for us, including website hosting, analytics, email delivery, form processing, and technical support. These providers process information only as needed to perform services for us. Our website developer and marketing provider, 207 Marketing, may access Website data as a service provider when reasonably necessary to host, maintain, troubleshoot, or improve the Website and its forms.
Legal and Safety Reasons
We may disclose information when reasonably necessary to comply with law, protect our rights or the rights of others, or detect and prevent fraud or unlawful activity.
Business Transactions
Information may be disclosed or transferred as part of a merger, acquisition, financing, restructuring, or sale of assets.
With Your Direction or Consent
We may disclose information when you request, direct, authorize, or consent to the disclosure.
We do not sell personal information for money. However, certain advertising or analytics activities may be considered a "sale," "sharing," or use for targeted advertising under some state privacy laws. Where those laws apply, eligible individuals may have the right to opt out.
6. Data Retention
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including providing services, maintaining records, resolving disputes, enforcing agreements, preventing repeat unwanted communications, and satisfying legal, tax, accounting, and security obligations.
Retention periods vary based on the type of information, the reason it was collected, the sensitivity of the information, and applicable legal requirements. We may retain aggregated or deidentified information that cannot reasonably be linked to an individual, and we will not attempt to reidentify it except as permitted by law.
7. Data Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect personal information, which may include access controls, secure hosting, encrypted transmission, software maintenance, and service-provider review. No website or electronic transmission is completely secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security, and you provide information electronically at your own risk.
8. Your Privacy Choices
Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have the right to request access to, correction of, or deletion of personal information we maintain about you; receive a portable copy of certain information; opt out of certain sales, sharing, or targeted advertising; or appeal a privacy decision. These rights are not absolute and exceptions may apply.
To submit a privacy request, contact us using the information in the Contact Us section below. Please include your name, contact information, state of residence, and a clear description of your request. We will respond within the period required by applicable law.
9. Marketing Communications
You may unsubscribe from promotional emails by using the unsubscribe link in the message or by contacting us. You may continue to receive non-promotional communications relating to services, account activity, or legal notices. Consent to receive automated marketing calls or texts is not a condition of purchasing goods or services. You may opt out of marketing text messages by replying STOP, where applicable.
10. Third-Party Websites and Embedded Content
The Website may link to or include content from third-party websites, platforms, scheduling tools, payment providers, social networks, and similar services. Their privacy practices are governed by their own policies. We encourage you to review their policies before providing information.
11. Children's Privacy
The Website is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided such information, please contact us so we can review and, where appropriate, delete it.
12. Users Outside the United States
The Website is operated from the United States. If you access the Website from another country, your information may be transferred to and processed in the United States. Privacy laws there may differ from the laws where you live.
13. State-Specific Privacy Disclosures
Certain U.S. state privacy laws apply only to businesses that meet defined thresholds. If an applicable law covers us, residents of that state may exercise the rights described in Section 8. Categories of personal information we may collect include identifiers, commercial information, internet or electronic activity, approximate geolocation, professional information, and inferences from other information.
We do not knowingly sell or share for targeted advertising the personal information of individuals under 16. As of the Last Updated date, Maine does not have a generally applicable comprehensive consumer privacy statute in force for ordinary local service businesses.
14. Accessibility of This Notice
We seek to make this Privacy Policy and our privacy-request process accessible to people with disabilities. If you have difficulty accessing this notice or submitting a request, contact us using the information below and tell us the format or communication method that would be useful. We will make reasonable, good-faith efforts to provide an accessible alternative.
Our broader accessibility efforts are described in our Accessibility Statement.
15. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in our practices, technology, services, or legal requirements. The revised policy will be posted on this page with an updated "Last Updated" date. Your continued use of the Website after an update is subject to the revised Privacy Policy.
16. Contact Us
For questions about this Privacy Policy or to submit a privacy request, contact:
Matt St. Jean
Southern Maine, USA
Email: hello@mattstjean.com
Website: mattstjean.com