Last updated: October 07, 2025 12:30
The Worxshop Athens Privacy Policy
Effective Date: 10/07/2025
This Privacy Policy describes how The Worxshop Athens ("Company," "we," "us," or "our") collects, uses, processes, and shares the personal information of users, clients, and visitors ("you") through our website, mobile application, and services (collectively, the "Services").
1. Contact Information
Data Controller & Owner: The Worxshop Athens Address: 1000 Winterville Rd Athens, GA 30605 Email for Privacy Questions: office@theworxshopathens.com Phone Number: 7066219335
2. Information We Collect
We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you register for the Services, express an interest in obtaining information about us or our products and Services, or otherwise contact us.
A. Personal Information Provided by You
The specific categories of information we collect depend on how you interact with our Services, but may include:
Identity & Contact Data: Name, email address, phone number, physical address, business name, and job title.
Professional Data: Trade specialization (e.g., plumber, electrician, HVAC technician), years of experience, certifications, licenses, skills, desired collaboration projects, and work availability.
Profile Data: Profile photo, biography, and any other information you choose to provide to populate your public profile.
Payment Data: Information necessary to process payments, such as bank account details or payment card information (often collected and processed directly by a third-party payment processor).
B. Information Collected Automatically
When you use our Services, we automatically collect certain information, which may include:
Log and Usage Data: IP address, browser and device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, device name, country, and information about how you use our Services (e.g., time spent, pages viewed, and coworker profiles you interact with).
Location Data: General location information (based on your IP address) or precise geolocation data if you have enabled location services on your device and the application requires it for coworker matching.
Cookies and Tracking Technologies: We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to access or store information. Specific details are in our Cookie Policy [Link to Cookie Policy].
3. How We Use Your Information (Purpose of Processing)
We use your personal information for the following purposes:
Purpose
Description
To Facilitate Account Creation and Log-In
To allow you to register and manage your account.
To Provide and Manage the Services
To operate and maintain our platform, including coworker/trades matching, project listing, and profile management.
To Connect You with Coworkers
The primary purpose is to process your Professional Data to generate and facilitate matches with other tradespeople based on skill, location, and project needs. This involves displaying certain Profile Data to potential matches.
To Process Payments
To handle subscription fees or transaction charges for using our services.
To Send Administrative Information
To send you service announcements, security alerts, and support messages.
To Enforce our Terms, Conditions, and Policies
To ensure compliance with our legal and contractual obligations.
To Respond to User Inquiries
To respond to your questions and requests and to resolve any potential issues you might have with the use of our Services.
For Marketing and Promotional Communications
To send you marketing and promotional communications, if this is in accordance with your preferences. You can opt-out at any time.
4. Disclosure and Sharing of Your Personal Information
We will only share your information with third parties in the following situations:
With Other Users for Matching: Your Professional Data and Profile Data (e.g., name, trade, location, profile description, and photo) are shared with other users to facilitate the coworker matching and connection process. We do not share your email address or phone number with a matched coworker until you specifically decide to share it through the platform's communication tools.
Service Providers: We share your data with third-party vendors and service providers who perform services for us or on our behalf and require access to such information to do that work (e.g., payment processing, hosting, analytics, and customer service).
Business Transfers: In connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
Legal Requirements and Harm Prevention: If we believe it is necessary to comply with a legal process, governmental request, enforce our agreements, or protect the rights, property, or safety of our users, our company, or others.
With Your Consent: We may disclose your personal information for any other purpose with your consent.
5. Security of Your Information
We use technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, despite our safeguards and efforts to secure your information, no electronic transmission over the Internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. You are responsible for keeping your password and profile information secure.
6. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have the right to:
Request Access to your personal information.
Request Correction of inaccurate or incomplete information.
Request Deletion of your personal information (right to be forgotten).
Object to Processing of your personal information.
Request Restriction of processing of your personal information.
Request Data Portability to another service.
Withdraw Consent at any time where we rely on consent to process your personal information.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at [Your Dedicated Privacy Email Address]. We will respond to your request in accordance with applicable law.
7. Data Retention
We will only retain your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting, or other legal requirements).
When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize it, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.
8. Updates to This Policy
We may update this privacy policy from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated "Effective Date" and the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible. We encourage you to review this privacy policy frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information.
