Privacy Policy (Draft)

SAMPLE / DRAFT — pending final legal review. This Privacy Policy explains what information this website collects through the franchise enquiry form, how it is used, and the choices available. It applies to this enquiry website only.

1. Introduction

This policy describes our data practices for visitors and Applicants using this franchise enquiry website.

2. Information We Collect

We collect information you actively submit through the enquiry form, plus limited technical information collected automatically, as described below.

3. Contact Information

Full name, email address, and phone number submitted in the enquiry form.

4. Business / Profile Information

Any business background details you choose to share, including free-text notes in the message field.

5. Franchise-Interest Information

The category selected (Dealership, Distributorship, Service Center, or EV Charging), and your selected illustrative investment range.

6. Location / Business-Location Information

City, province, and preferred business location as entered in the form.

7. Technical Information

Limited technical data associated with your form submission, collected automatically by the web server.

8. IP Address / User Agent

Your IP address and browser user-agent string are recorded with each enquiry for security, spam-prevention, and rate-limiting purposes.

9. UTM / Campaign Attribution Data

If you arrive via a marketing link, UTM parameters (source, medium, campaign, term, content) are recorded to understand which channel referred your enquiry.

10. Cookies

An essential session cookie is used to operate the form (security tokens, language preference). Additional cookies are set only by analytics or advertising tools described below, and only when enabled.

11. Analytics

If enabled by the site administrator, Google Analytics may be used to understand aggregate visitor behaviour. It is inactive unless separately enabled and configured.

12. Advertising Pixels

If enabled by the site administrator, Google Ads and/or Meta (Facebook) Pixel may be used to measure marketing campaign performance. Inactive unless separately enabled and configured.

13. How Information Is Used

Submitted information is used to evaluate and respond to your enquiry, prevent abuse of the form, and, where analytics/advertising tools are enabled, to measure marketing performance in aggregate.

14. Lead Evaluation and Follow-up

Authorised administrators may review your enquiry and its status internally as part of evaluation.

15. Communication

We may contact you using the email or phone number you provided, if follow-up is appropriate.

16. Data Storage

Enquiry data is stored in a secured database, accessible only to authorised administrators.

17. Data Security

Technical safeguards used on this website include CSRF protection, rate limiting, hashed admin passwords, and role-restricted admin access. No method of transmission or storage is 100% secure.

18. Data Retention

[REQUIRES CONFIGURATION — a specific retention period for enquiry data has not yet been confirmed. This will be set by the site administrator/legal counsel and reflected here before go-live.]

19. Third-Party Services

Where enabled, this website may use third-party analytics and advertising services described in Sections 20–21. No other third-party data sharing occurs.

20. Analytics Providers

Google Analytics (Google LLC), only if enabled in the site's tracking settings.

21. Advertising Providers

Google Ads (Google LLC) and/or Meta Pixel (Meta Platforms, Inc.), only if enabled in the site's tracking settings.

22. Cookie / Consent Handling

[REQUIRES CONFIGURATION — depending on the applicable jurisdiction and the specific analytics/advertising tools enabled, a cookie-consent banner may be legally required in addition to this policy. None is currently implemented beyond the essential session cookie described in Section 10; this should be reviewed by legal counsel before enabling analytics/advertising in a live jurisdiction that requires prior consent.]

23. Applicant Rights Where Applicable

Subject to applicable law, you may have rights to access, correct, or request deletion of your submitted information.

24. Data Correction / Deletion Request Process

To request correction or deletion, contact us using the details published in the Contact section of this website. [REQUIRES CONFIGURATION — a dedicated privacy contact or data protection officer should be designated here if required by applicable law.]

25. Contact Information

See the Contact section on the homepage and footer of this website for current contact details, as configured by the site administrator.

26. Policy Updates

This policy may be updated from time to time. Continued use of the enquiry form after an update constitutes acknowledgement of the revised policy.

27. Effective Date / Policy Version

Version: see the version label shown at the bottom of this page. This policy was last updated on the date shown at the bottom of this page.