This statement relates only to our privacy practices in connection with this website.
This website collects personal information to power our site analytics, including:
Information about your browser, network, and device
Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
Your IP address
This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:
Clicks
Internal links
Pages visited
Scrolling
Searches
Timestamps
We provide this information to Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.
Cookies
This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.
These necessary and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.
These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.
Form Submission
When you submit information to this website via webform, we collect the data requested in the webform in order to track and respond to your submissions. We provide this information to Squarespace, our website hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us and help us manage our relationship with you. We also provide this information with Acuity Scheduling for storage.
When you contact us or agree to a service, we collect information necessary to negotiate, draft, and execute the service agreement.
This information may include your:
Enquiry details (for example, current situation)
Email address
Name Phone number
This information is processed and stored securely through our use of the Squarespace platform.
Website Visitors
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.
GDPR Policy
For the purposes of the GDPR, the Data Controller is:
Business Name: Future Connect
Contact Person: Jane Weighton
Email Address: jane@futureconnect.ie
Website: www.futureconnect.ie
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or how we handle your data, please contact us using the email address above.
The Data We Collect
To provide our career guidance, subject selection, and interview preparation services, we collect and process the following types of personal data:
Contact Information: Parent/guardian name, student name, email address, phone number, and billing address.
Educational & Academic Data: Junior Cycle subjects and results, school year (e.g., 3rd Year, Transition Year, 5th/6th Year), current school name, and academic goals and aspirations.
Aptitude & Psychometric Data: Responses, scores, and generated reports from our third-party career interest and psychometric testing platforms.
Payment Data: Standard transaction details (Note: All payments are processed securely via our third-party payment processor Stripe, and we do not store your credit card information).
How We Collect Your Data
We collect data through several direct channels:
Forms you fill out on our website (including booking, contact, and pre-consultation forms).
Direct communication with us via email, phone, or video call.
Completed psychometric and career interest assessments hosted on our partner testing platforms.
Our Legal Basis for Processing Your Data
Under the GDPR, we must have a valid legal reason to process your personal data. We rely on the following bases:
Contractual Necessity: We require your contact information and educational background to fulfil the contract of delivering our career guidance strategy services and interview coaching strategies
Explicit Consent (Aptitude & Psychometric Testing): We require explicit consent to run psychometric profiling.
Note on Minors: Because we work with students under the age of 18, explicit parental or guardian consent must be provided before we issue access to any psychometric testing platforms or conduct 1:1 sessions.
Legitimate Interests: To reply to inquiries, improve our services, and manage our business operations securely.
How We Use Your Data
We use the collected information solely to:
Arrange and conduct your 1:1 consultation or interview preparation sessions.
Analyse academic history and psychometric profiles to draft your personalized 40-page career strategy report.
Communicate scheduling, updates, and deliverables to you.
Process payments for your booking.
Data Retention (How Long We Keep Your Data)
We do not hold onto personal data longer than necessary.
General Enquiries: If you contact us but do not book a service, your data is deleted within 12 months.
Active Clients: We retain student reports and academic profiles for 5 years after our service concludes. This is to support the student through their subsequent Leaving Certificate years and any transition to higher education. After this period, all personal files are securely and permanently deleted.
Data Security
We take the security of your family's personal data very seriously. We protect it using:
Secure, password-protected cloud storage environments (Google Workspace) utilizing Two-Factor Authentication (2FA).
End-to-end encrypted third-party software for bookings, video consultations, and psychometric assessments.
Secure physical storage for any paper-based notes, which are shredded immediately once digitized.
Your Data Rights
Under the GDPR, you (and your child) have the following legal rights:
The Right of Access: You can request a copy of all personal data we hold about you.
The Right to Rectification: You can request that we correct any inaccurate or incomplete data.
The Right to Erasure ("Right to be Forgotten"): You can request that we delete your data (subject to our legal or tax obligations).
The Right to Withdraw Consent: Where processing is based on consent (such as psychometric testing), you can withdraw that consent at any time.
To exercise any of these rights, please email us at jane@futureconnect.ie.
If you believe we have not processed your data in compliance with the GDPR, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) at www.dataprotection.ie.