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Privacy Policy

Last updated: 19 October 2026

Who we are

WeDevelop is a trading name operated by Lance Connolly in South Africa. WeDevelop helps small and growing businesses improve their websites, customer journeys, and everyday operations. You can contact us at lance@wedevelop.co.za.

What information we collect

We collect the information you provide when you:

  • Contact us on WhatsApp or by email — typically your name, contact details, business name, website address, and the details of your enquiry.
  • Send us a project enquiry through the form on our Contact page: your name, the email address or WhatsApp number you would like us to reply to, the service you are interested in, and, if you choose to add them, your website address and a short description of the project.
  • Request a free Website Review — your website address, name, business name, and email address, plus an optional WhatsApp number and any context you choose to add.
  • Work with us on a project — information reasonably required to scope and deliver the work.

This website can use Google Analytics to produce reports about how visitors find and use the site, but only if you accept analytics — see “Cookies and your analytics choice” below. No Google Analytics tag is loaded, and no analytics data is sent to Google, before you accept analytics.

The Contact and Website Review pages also load forms from Tally, our form provider (see “Our forms” below). Our hosting provider may retain standard technical logs for security, reliability, and fraud prevention.

Cookies and your analytics choice

Analytics on this website is optional and switched off until you choose otherwise. The first time you visit, a small banner asks whether you are willing to allow analytics. No Google Analytics tag is loaded, and no analytics data is sent to Google, before you accept analytics, and no analytics cookie is created before then either. The website’s core functionality remains available whether or not you accept analytics, including our forms and our WhatsApp links.

If you accept analytics, we load Google Analytics 4 and it reports which pages are viewed, which buttons that request a Website Review or start an enquiry are clicked, and that one of our forms was submitted, but never what was entered in it. Google Analytics uses first-party cookies, including the _ga cookie, to distinguish visitors and sessions. Google may receive technical information such as browser and device details, IP address, and approximate location. We do not intentionally send names, email addresses, phone numbers, form responses, or other contact details to Google Analytics.

We never enable Google's advertising features on this website. Advertising storage, advertising user data and advertising personalisation are switched off permanently and are not affected by your choice.

Your choice is stored in your own browser, not on our servers, under the key wedevelop_analytics_consent_v1. It records only your choice, the version of this notice it was given against, and the date and time. Clearing your browser storage removes it, and the banner will ask again.

You can change your mind at any time. Choosing “Essential only” after previously accepting stops any further analytics for the rest of that visit, removes the Google cookies we are able to remove from your browser, and prevents analytics loading on future visits.

How we use your information

  • To review and respond to your enquiry.
  • To prepare recommendations, proposals, and quotations.
  • To deliver and support agreed project work.
  • To keep reasonable business and accounting records.
  • To understand how people find WeDevelop.

We do not sell personal information, and we do not send marketing you have not asked for.

Our forms

The forms on our Contact and Website Review pages are provided and hosted by Tally BV, a form provider registered in Belgium. When you open either page, its form is loaded from Tally, which means Tally may receive technical information such as your IP address and may set cookies necessary to operate the form. No other page on this website loads them.

When either form loads, we pass Tally the current form page’s address, without its query string or fragment, as referral_url, and any campaign parameters in that page’s address: utm_source, utm_medium, utm_campaign, utm_content and utm_term. These fields are included with your submitted answers and privacy acknowledgement. This happens whether or not you accept Google Analytics.

Both forms use Tally’s Save for later feature, which saves unfinished answers locally in your browser so you can return using the same browser. This is separate from Tally’s Partial submissions feature, which is disabled on both forms.

When you submit either form, Tally stores your response on servers in the European Union and emails it to us. Tally’s email notification provider, SendGrid, may process the notification in the United States. Your information is therefore processed outside South Africa. Tally’s Data Processing Agreement describes its data-protection commitments and safeguards for international transfers. You can read Tally's own privacy notice at tally.so/help/privacy-policy.

If you would prefer not to use a form, you can contact us or request a review by email or WhatsApp instead. Both options are offered on the same pages.

We use your answers to reply to your enquiry or carry out the Website Review you asked for. We use the page and campaign information to understand which pages and campaigns lead to enquiries. If you answer the optional question about how you found us, we also use that answer to understand how people find WeDevelop. A Website Review covers only the publicly accessible pages of the website you give us. We will never ask for passwords, hosting logins, analytics access, or customer data in order to complete a review.

WhatsApp and email

If you contact us on WhatsApp, your messages are also processed by WhatsApp (Meta) under its own terms and privacy policy. Email is processed by our email service provider. Please avoid sending information that is sensitive or confidential until a project agreement is in place.

Sharing

We only share personal information with service providers who help us operate (currently our hosting provider, our email provider, Tally BV for our contact and Website Review forms, and, where you have accepted analytics, Google Analytics for website usage measurement) or with specialists supporting a project where you are aware of their involvement. We may also disclose information where the law requires it.

Retention

We keep enquiry and project information for as long as it is reasonably needed for the purposes above, or as required for legal and accounting record-keeping, and then delete it.

Your rights

You may ask us what personal information we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it where we are not required to keep it. We aim to handle personal information in line with applicable South African data-protection law, including the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA). To exercise any of these rights, email lance@wedevelop.co.za.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. The latest version will always be published on this page with the date above.