Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy for Tech Trend Connect

Effective Date: June 22, 2026

Tech Trend Connect (“Tech Trend Connect,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) operates www.techtrendconnect.com and related services, including our business directory, business profiles, listing pages, forms, newsletters, advertising opportunities, sponsored content, affiliate links, promotions, events, and other services that link to this Privacy Policy (collectively, the “Site”).

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, store, and protect information when you visit or use Tech Trend Connect, submit a business profile, purchase a listing, subscribe to communications, interact with business profiles, click links, participate in promotions, or otherwise use our website and related services.

This Privacy Policy should be read together with our Terms of Use, which explain the general rules for using Tech Trend Connect.

By accessing or using Tech Trend Connect, you acknowledge that you have read and understand this Privacy Policy.

1. Information We Collect

We may collect information that you provide directly to us, information collected automatically when you use the Site, and information from third-party services.

Information You Provide to Us

We may collect information when you:

1. Submit a contact form;
2. Submit a business profile request;
3. Purchase a business profile, listing, advertising placement, sponsorship, or related service;
4. Submit business information for a listing;
5. Subscribe to a newsletter or email list;
6. Register for or attend an event;
7. Enter a giveaway, promotion, or campaign;
8. Communicate with us by email, website form, social media, or other electronic means;
9. Submit reviews, comments, images, logos, descriptions, website links, or other content.

This information may include:

• Name;
• Email address;
• Phone number;
• Company name;
• Job title;
• Website URL;
• Social media links;
• Business category;
• Business description;
• Business location or service area;
• Logo, images, screenshots, graphics, or media;
• Products, services, features, or business details;
• Payment-related information;
• Billing information;
• Advertising or sponsorship interests;
• Newsletter preferences;
• Event registration information;
• Messages, comments, reviews, or inquiries;
• Any other information you choose to provide.

Business Profile and Listing Information

Tech Trend Connect is designed to publish business information. If you submit information for a business profile, listing page, sponsored placement, directory feature, article, promotion, event, or visibility opportunity, certain information may be displayed publicly on the Site.

Public listing information may include:

• Business name;
• Business description;
• Website link;
• Logo;
• Images;
• Business category;
• Products or services;
• Location or service area;
• Contact links;
• Social media links;
• Promotional descriptions;
• Sponsored or featured placement information;
• Other business information submitted or approved for publication.

Please do not submit confidential, private, sensitive, or third-party information unless you have the right and permission to do so.

Information Collected Automatically

When you visit or interact with the Site, we may automatically collect certain information, including:

• IP address;
• Browser type;
• Device type;
• Operating system;
• Referring website;
• Pages viewed;
• Time spent on pages;
• Links clicked;
• Search activity;
• Date and time of visit;
• General location information;
• Site interaction data;
• Cookie and tracking technology data.

We may use analytics tools, cookies, pixels, tags, scripts, plugins, embedded content, affiliate tracking links, advertising technologies, and similar tools to understand how visitors use the Site, improve the Site, measure performance, track referrals, prevent fraud, and support marketing or advertising efforts.

Information From Third Parties

We may receive information from third-party services, platforms, tools, or partners, including:

• Payment processors;
• Newsletter and email platforms;
• Analytics providers;
• Advertising or affiliate partners;
• Social media platforms;
• Event or promotion partners;
• Business partners;
• Publicly available business sources.

This information may include transaction confirmations, payment status, referral data, campaign data, newsletter activity, analytics information, or business related information.

2. Google Analytics and Website Analytics

Tech Trend Connect uses Google Analytics and may use similar analytics tools to help us understand how visitors use the Site, measure website performance, improve user experience, analyze traffic sources, understand popular pages, and evaluate the effectiveness of our listings, content, advertising, affiliate links, and promotional efforts.

Google Analytics may collect information such as your IP address, browser type, device type, operating system, pages visited, links clicked, referral source, time spent on the Site, and other usage information. Google may process this information according to its own privacy policies and terms.

You may be able to limit or disable certain analytics tracking through your browser settings, privacy controls, cookie settings, or tools made available by Google.

3. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

Tech Trend Connect uses Google Analytics and may use cookies, pixels, tags, scripts, affiliate tracking technologies, advertising technologies, embedded content, and similar tools to operate the Site, improve performance, analyze traffic, understand visitor behavior, measure marketing effectiveness, track affiliate referrals, measure clicks and conversions, support advertising or retargeting, prevent fraud or abuse, and improve user experience.

You can usually adjust your browser settings to block, delete, or limit cookies. However, some parts of the Site may not function properly if cookies are disabled.

Some browsers, extensions, or privacy tools may allow you to send privacy preference signals, such as Global Privacy Control. Where required by applicable law, recognized opt-out preference signals may be treated as a request to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information.

If we provide a cookie banner, cookie settings tool, or cookie preferences link on the Site, you may use that tool to manage certain tracking preferences.

4. Affiliate Links, Advertising, and Sponsored Content

Tech Trend Connect may include affiliate links, sponsored links, advertisements, paid placements, sponsored content, newsletter mentions, business profile promotions, event promotions, partner offers, or other promotional opportunities.

If you click an affiliate link, sponsored link, advertisement, or partner link, we or our partners may collect information about your click, referral source, device, browser, and related activity. If you make a purchase or take another qualifying action through certain links, Tech Trend Connect may receive a commission, referral fee, sponsorship fee, advertising fee, or other compensation, at no additional cost to you.

We may use affiliate, advertising, analytics, and tracking technologies to measure clicks, conversions, campaign performance, and partner activity. Third-party partners may also use cookies, pixels, tags, or similar technologies according to their own privacy policies.

Sponsored, affiliate, or paid content may be identified where appropriate. However, you should assume that links, placements, promotions, business profiles, recommendations, or mentions may involve a paid, affiliate, sponsored, or business relationship.

5. Payment Information

Tech Trend Connect uses Stripe to process payments for business profiles, listings, advertising placements, sponsorships, event opportunities, and other paid services.

We do not intentionally collect or store your full credit card number on our own servers. Stripe may collect payment card details, billing information, transaction information, fraud prevention information, and other details needed to process your payment.

Your use of Stripe is subject to Stripe’s own terms, privacy policy, and security practices.

We may receive limited payment-related information from Stripe, such as your name, email address, billing details, payment status, transaction amount, and confirmation details.

6. How We Use Your Information

We may use information we collect to:

1. Operate, maintain, and improve Tech Trend Connect;
2. Create, publish, update, and manage business profiles;
3. Review business profile submissions;
4. Respond to inquiries;
5. Process purchases, payments, transactions, and service requests;
6. Send invoices, receipts, payment confirmations, and purchase confirmations;
7. Send profile-related messages;
8. Send newsletters, updates, promotional messages, and marketing communications;
9. Manage advertising, sponsorship, affiliate, and partnership opportunities;
10. Promote businesses, listings, categories, sponsored placements, events, or editorial opportunities;
11. Personalize user experience;
12. Analyze website traffic and performance;
13. Measure clicks, referrals, conversions, and campaign performance;
14. Improve our content, services, categories, listings, and business offerings;
15. Prevent fraud, spam, misuse, or unauthorized activity;
16. Protect the Site, users, and our business;
17. Enforce our Terms of Use;
18. Comply with legal obligations;
19. Resolve disputes;
20. Maintain business records.

7. Email Communications and Newsletters

If you provide your email address, submit a form, purchase a profile, subscribe to a newsletter, register for an event, enter a giveaway, communicate with us, or otherwise interact with Tech Trend Connect, we may send you electronic communications.

These communications may include:

• Newsletter content;
• Business visibility updates;
• Profile-related messages;
• Payment confirmations;
• Receipts;
• Service updates;
• Advertising opportunities;
• Sponsorship opportunities;
• Affiliate or partner offers;
• Event updates;
• Promotional messages;
• Administrative messages;
• Legal notices;
• Transactional communications.

You may unsubscribe from promotional or newsletter communications where an unsubscribe option is provided. However, we may still send transactional, administrative, legal, payment-related, profile-related, or service-related communications when necessary.

8. How We Share Your Information

We may share information in the following ways:

With Service Providers

We may share information with vendors, contractors, and service providers who help us operate our business, including:

• Website hosting providers;
• Website development and maintenance providers;
• Email marketing platforms;
• Newsletter platforms;
• Payment processors;
• Analytics providers;
• Advertising and marketing tools;
• Affiliate tracking providers;
• CRM and form tools;
• Spam prevention tools;
• Security providers;
• Event management tools;
• Business operations providers.

These service providers may access information only as needed to perform services for us.

With Payment Processors

Payment information may be shared with payment processors, such as Stripe, to process transactions, confirm payments, prevent fraud, and manage payment-related activity.

Through Public Business Listings

Information submitted for business profiles, listing pages, sponsored content, directory placements, promotional features, or event features may be displayed publicly on Tech Trend Connect.

With Advertising, Affiliate, Sponsorship, and Promotional Partners

If you click affiliate links, advertisements, sponsored links, partner offers, or promotional links, certain information may be shared with advertising, affiliate, sponsorship, analytics, or promotional partners to measure clicks, referrals, conversions, and campaign performance.

If you participate in advertising, sponsorship, event, partnership, or promotional opportunities, we may use or share information as needed to create, manage, publish, promote, or report on those opportunities.

For Legal, Safety, and Compliance Purposes

We may disclose information if we believe it is necessary to:

• Comply with law, regulation, subpoena, court order, or legal process;
• Enforce our Terms of Use;
• Protect our rights, property, business, users, or the public;
• Prevent fraud, abuse, security issues, or unauthorized activity;
• Respond to claims that content violates the rights of others;
• Investigate potential violations of our policies.

In Connection With Business Transfers

If Tech Trend Connect is involved in a merger, acquisition, sale, transfer, reorganization, financing, bankruptcy, or similar business transaction, information may be transferred as part of that transaction.

If you unsubscribe from promotional emails, we may retain a limited record of your email address and unsubscribe status to help ensure you are not re-added to promotional communications without your consent.

9. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information

Tech Trend Connect does not sell personal information for money.

However, we may use analytics, affiliate, advertising, marketing, retargeting, and tracking technologies provided by third parties. These tools may collect or receive information about your activity on the Site, such as pages visited, links clicked, device information, browser information, IP address, referral source, and interactions with business profiles, listings, advertisements, affiliate links, sponsored content, newsletters, or promotional materials.

Under certain privacy laws, these activities may be considered a “sale,” “sharing,” “targeted advertising,” or similar disclosure of personal information, even if no money is exchanged for your personal information.

Where required by applicable law, you may opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information by contacting us or by using any cookie preferences tool, privacy settings, browser controls, or recognized opt-out preference signals made available through the Site or your browser.

To submit a request, contact us at:

Email: Contact@techtrendconnect.com
Subject Line: Do Not Sell or Share Request

10. Reviews, Comments, Messages, and User-Submitted Content

If the Site allows reviews, comments, ratings, messages, profile submissions, or other user-submitted content, the information you submit may be visible to others.

We may review, moderate, edit, remove, reject, or refuse user-submitted content at our discretion. However, we are not responsible for information you choose to make public or for how others may use that information.

You should not submit personal, confidential, sensitive, or private information in public areas of the Site.

11. Third-Party Links and Websites

Tech Trend Connect may contain links to third-party websites, platforms, tools, payment processors, advertisers, sponsors, affiliate partners, business websites, social media platforms, or other external services.

We are not responsible for the privacy practices, security, content, policies, or actions of third-party websites or services. When you leave Tech Trend Connect, your activity is governed by the privacy policy and terms of the third party.

We are not responsible for how third parties use information you choose to provide to them.

12. Social Media and Embedded Content

The Site may include social media links, embedded content, videos, widgets, plugins, share buttons, or third-party tools.

These third parties may collect information about your interaction with their services, including your IP address, browser information, device information, and activity on the Site.

Your interactions with social media platforms or embedded third-party content are governed by the privacy policies of those third parties.

13. Data Retention

We may retain information for as long as reasonably necessary to:

• Provide services;
• Maintain business profiles and listings;
• Process transactions;
• Manage communications;
• Maintain business records;
• Resolve disputes;
• Enforce agreements;
• Comply with legal obligations;
• Protect our business, users, and services;
• Prevent fraud or abuse.

Business profile and listing information may remain visible until the listing is removed, expired, updated, replaced, or no longer needed.

We may retain certain records even after a profile is removed where necessary for legal, accounting, compliance, security, or business purposes.

14. Data Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures to help protect information.

However, no website, platform, database, payment system, email system, or internet transmission is completely secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security.

You submit information at your own risk.

15. Your Choices and Rights

Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have certain rights and choices regarding your information.

These may include the right to:

• Access the personal information we have about you;
• Request correction of inaccurate information;
• Request deletion of certain information;
• Request a copy of certain information;
• Opt out of promotional emails;
• Opt out of certain sales or sharing of personal information;
• Limit certain uses of sensitive personal information, where applicable;
• Object to certain processing activities, where applicable;
• Withdraw consent, where applicable.

To make a privacy request, contact us using the information in the “Contact Us” section below.

We may need to verify your identity before responding to certain requests.

16. Your Choices and Privacy Rights

Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information. These rights may include the right to access, correct, delete, or receive a copy of certain personal information, opt out of promotional emails, opt out of certain sales, sharing, targeted advertising, or profiling, limit certain uses of sensitive personal information where applicable, object to certain processing activities, withdraw consent where applicable, or appeal a denied privacy request.

California residents may have additional rights under California privacy laws, including the right to know what personal information is collected, used, shared, or disclosed, and the right to request deletion or correction of certain personal information.

To make a privacy request, contact us at:

Email: contact@techtrendconnect.com
Subject Line: Privacy Request

We may need to verify your identity before responding to certain requests.

17. Children’s Privacy

The Site is not intended for individuals under 18 years old. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children or minors. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child or minor, we will take reasonable steps to delete it.

18. Sensitive Information

Please do not submit sensitive personal information to Tech Trend Connect.

Sensitive information may include Social Security numbers, government identification numbers, financial account numbers, health information, passwords, precise personal location information, or other private personal details that are not intended for publication.

Tech Trend Connect is a business discovery and visibility platform. We do not need sensitive personal information to create business profiles, process listing requests, respond to inquiries, send newsletters, or provide our services.

If you choose to submit sensitive information voluntarily, you do so at your own risk, and we may delete or disregard that information where appropriate.

19. Information Submitted on Behalf of a Business

If you submit information on behalf of a business, company, client, employer, partner, or third party, you represent that you have the authority and permission to provide that information. You are responsible for ensuring that submitted information is accurate, lawful, and does not violate any third-party rights.

20. Accuracy and Updates

You are responsible for ensuring that any information you provide to Tech Trend Connect is accurate, complete, current, and lawful.

If your business profile, listing, or submitted information needs to be updated, corrected, or removed, you may contact us.

We may request verification before making changes to a business profile, listing, or submitted content.

21. Events, Giveaways, and Promotions

If you register for an event, attend an event, check in at an event, enter a giveaway, participate in a campaign, or provide information at a booth, table, panel, networking event, webinar, conference, or activation, we may collect and use your information to:

• Administer the event, giveaway, or promotion;
• Contact you about your participation;
• Send event updates;
• Send business visibility or promotional communications;
• Add you to a relevant email or newsletter list, where permitted;
• Measure event or campaign performance;
• Follow up regarding partnerships, sponsorships, listings, or services.

Additional rules may apply to specific giveaways, promotions, campaigns, or events.

22. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update, modify, or replace this Privacy Policy at any time. When we make changes, we may update the Effective Date at the top of this page. Your continued use of Tech Trend Connect after any changes are posted means you accept the updated Privacy Policy.

23. Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, your information, or your privacy rights, you may contact us at:

Tech Trend Connect
Website: www.techtrendconnect.com
Email: contact@techtrendconnect.com

For privacy requests, please use the subject line:

Privacy Request