VW Creative & Strategy Privacy Policy
Effective date: January 2026
Last updated: September 2026
Vanessa Wedderburn, doing business as VW Creative & Strategy (“we,” “us,” or “our”), respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect information when you visit www.vwcreativestrategy.com (the “Website”), contact us, or otherwise interact with us through the Website.
By using the Website, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
1. Information We Collect
Information You Provide
We may collect information that you voluntarily provide through our contact or inquiry form, including:
* Your name
* Your email address
* Your telephone number, if requested
* Your company, organization, or job title, if provided
* Information included in your message or inquiry
* Any other information you choose to provide
Please do not submit sensitive personal information through the Website unless we specifically request it.
Information Collected Automatically
When you visit the Website, we and our service providers may automatically collect certain information about your device and use of the Website, such as:
* Internet Protocol address
* Browser and device type
* Operating system
* Referring and exit pages
* Pages viewed and features used
* Dates, times, and duration of visits
* General geographic location derived from an IP address
* Cookie identifiers and similar technical information
We use SQUARESPACE ANALYTICS to help us understand how visitors use the Website. This provider may collect information through cookies or similar technologies according to its own privacy practices.
2. How We Use Information
We may use collected information to:
* Respond to messages, questions, and service inquiries
* Communicate with prospective and current clients
* Provide information about our services
* Operate, maintain, and improve the Website
* Understand website traffic and visitor interactions
* Diagnose technical or security issues
* Prevent fraud, misuse, or unlawful activity
* Maintain business and administrative records
* Comply with legal obligations
* Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims
We will not use information submitted through the contact form to add you to a marketing email list unless you separately agree to receive those communications.
3. Cookies and Analytics
The Website may use cookies and similar technologies. Cookies are small files stored on your device that help websites operate, remember preferences, measure usage, and understand visitor activity.
We may use:
Essential cookies, which support the Website’s basic operation and security.
Analytics cookies, which help us understand how visitors find and use the Website.
You can control or delete cookies through your browser settings. Blocking certain cookies may affect how the Website functions.
For more information about how Squarespace processes information, please review its privacy documentation at www.squarespace.com/privacy.
4. How We Disclose Information
We may disclose information to third parties in the following circumstances:
Service providers: We may provide information to companies that host or maintain the Website, provide analytics, process contact-form submissions, supply email services, or perform related business functions.
Professional advisers: We may disclose information to attorneys, accountants, insurers, or other advisers when reasonably necessary.
Legal and safety purposes: We may disclose information when required by law or when we reasonably believe disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, investigate wrongdoing, prevent harm, or respond to a lawful request.
Business transactions: Information may be transferred in connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, sale of assets, reorganization, or similar business transaction.
With your direction or consent: We may disclose information for another purpose when you direct us or consent to the disclosure.
We do not sell personal information for money. We do not knowingly share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.
5. Data Retention
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, maintain appropriate business records, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, and comply with legal obligations.
Contact-form inquiries are generally retained for two years after our last communication, unless a longer period is necessary for an ongoing or prospective business relationship, recordkeeping, or legal compliance.
Analytics information is retained according to the settings and practices of Squarespace.
6. Your Choices
You may choose not to submit information through the contact form and may instead contact us using the information provided below.
You may also:
* Adjust your browser settings to block or delete cookies
* Use available cookie controls on the Website
* Request access to or correction of information you previously provided
* Ask us to delete information, subject to legal and business-record exceptions
* Ask questions about our privacy practices
To make a request, contact us at vanessa@vwcreativestrategy.com. We may need to verify your identity before completing certain requests.
Depending on where you live and which privacy laws apply to our business, you may have additional privacy rights. We will respond to applicable requests as required by law.
7. California Do Not Track Disclosure
Some web browsers allow users to send a “Do Not Track” signal. There is no universally accepted standard governing how websites should respond to these signals.
The Website does not currently respond to browser-based Do Not Track signals.
8. California Privacy Rights
California’s principal comprehensive privacy law, the California Consumer Privacy Act, applies only to businesses meeting certain statutory requirements. We do not currently believe that we are subject to the CCPA.
We nevertheless welcome questions and reasonable requests concerning personal information you have provided directly to us. You may contact us using the information below.
We do not discriminate against individuals for making a privacy-related request.
9. Data Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect personal information. However, no website, transmission method, or storage system is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
10. Children’s Privacy
The Website is intended for a general audience and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 through the Website. If you believe a child has provided personal information to us, please contact us so we can take appropriate action.
11. Third-Party Websites
The Website may contain links to websites or services operated by third parties. We do not control and are not responsible for those parties’ privacy or security practices. We encourage you to review their privacy policies before providing information.
12. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes to our practices, technology, services, or legal obligations. When we make changes, we will revise the “Last updated” date at the top of this page. Material changes may also be communicated through an additional notice on the Website.
13. Contact Us
For questions, concerns, or requests relating to this Privacy Policy or our handling of personal information, contact:
Vanessa Wedderburn
VW Creative & Strategy
2300 San Miguel PL, Santa Rosa, CA 95403
Email: vanessa@vwcreativestrategy.com
Website: www.vwcreativestrategy.com
This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal information when you visit this website, including:
Information about your browser, network and device
Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
Web pages you view while on this website
Your IP address
Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. You can read more about how Squarespace uses your data (site usage information of end users) for its own purposes in their Privacy Policy.