Privacy Policy

We collect information you provide directly and information generated as you use HandyLinked, including:

• Account details — your name, email, phone number, and address when you create an account or post a project.
• Project information — descriptions, photos, budgets, and timelines you share to get matched with professionals.
• Messages and quotes — communications exchanged with professionals through the platform.
• Usage data — device, browser, pages visited, and interactions, collected automatically.

We use your information to operate and improve the marketplace, specifically to:

• Match your project with relevant, vetted professionals in your area.
• Facilitate messaging and quotes.
• Verify professional credentials and run background checks where applicable.
• Send transactional notifications and, with your consent, marketing updates.
• Detect fraud, enforce our terms, and keep the platform safe.

We share your information only as needed to provide our services. When you post a project, relevant details are shared with matched professionals so they can prepare a quote. We also work with trusted service providers — such as background-check partners — who process data on our behalf under contract.

We do not sell your personal information. We may disclose information when required by law or to protect the rights and safety of our users.

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct, delete, or export your personal information, and to opt out of certain processing. You can manage most preferences directly in your account settings, or contact us to exercise any of these rights.

We use administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect your information. We retain personal data for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide services, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce agreements.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we make material changes, we will notify you by email or through the platform and update the “last updated” date above.