Your data & privacy

John Bennett, trading as Inspiring Connections / Rethinking Work, is the person responsible for your data. For any privacy question, email john@rethinkingwork.life.

Name, work email address, phone number, and LinkedIn profile.

Job title, employer, sector, seniority, and public professional history.

Notes and summaries from real calls and meetings — kept so context is never lost between conversations.

A log of when someone was last reached, and how — so nobody is contacted twice by mistake, and so an opt-out is always respected.

Packs, decks, notes and spreadsheets you add stay in your own workspace and nowhere else. CIS reads them so you can ask about them, and every answer names the page it came from. Anything Ask could do because of a document (a follow-up, an email draft, a calendar hold) is only ever a suggestion until you confirm it. Delete a document and it is gone for good: the file, what was read from it, the people found in it and the quotes kept in past answers.

Your workspace has a spend page showing this month's AI usage by feature, your included allowance, and how much every workspace saves through shared caching — nothing hidden, nothing metered you can't see.

A LinkedIn network export (yours, or a partner's, only ever imported with their agreement), publicly available professional information, and enrichment from reputable public and commercial sources. CIS does not deliberately collect sensitive personal information — health, political views, and the like. It is built for professional, business contact data only.

CIS never sells your data and never pools your network with anyone else’s. Other members never see your contact details or your notes, and they see anything about you only if you, or the owner or an admin of your workspace, have switched on Introductions. When it is on, they see your name and how many people in your network fit what they are looking for, grouped by role. They see a person’s name only after you say yes to that person. When it is off, other members do not see you at all. Inside your own workspace, everyone sees the workspace’s shared contacts. On a team connections map, a colleague’s contacts show only as totals unless that colleague chooses to be named.

An introduction only happens when the person making it, the person asking and the person being introduced have all said yes, and John signs off every introduction (see the connection partner guide). CIS never sends a message on its own: a real person always decides, and a real person always sends.

A workspace owner or admin can separately choose to share a bare signal with a named partner workspace: that a route to someone exists, nothing more. No name, no note, no contact detail, and no list ever crosses with it; it never happens without that wording being shown and confirmed first, and it can be switched off at any moment.

In your account settings, "Introductions" is the one switch for the introduction channel. When it is on, other members can see your name and how many people in your network fit what they are looking for, grouped by role, and ask you about them. They see a person's name only after you say yes to that person. They never see anyone's contact details or your notes, and nobody is introduced until that person has agreed too. When it is off, other members do not see you on their Introducers page, nobody can see your network and no new asks reach you. The owner or an admin of the account can change it at any time.

By default your teammates in the same workspace don't see your name on contacts you've added. In your account settings you can turn on "Share with your team" so your teammates see your name on the contacts you contribute. This is entirely your own choice: nobody else can switch it on for you, and you can turn it off again at any time — your name stops showing straight away.

In your account settings, "Ask me first" is on by default (today's normal behaviour — we already ask before every introduction). It only changes the order we ask people in: switching it off tells us to only bring you strong matches, rather than usually asking you first. Whatever it's set to, you are always asked to confirm before any introduction goes ahead — this setting never skips that step.

Your team list shows each teammate as either "Owner" (whoever set up the workspace) or "Member" (everyone else). This is just how roles are shown to you; nothing about what a colleague can already do has changed.

You can ask what CIS holds about you, ask for anything inaccurate to be corrected, or ask for your record to be erased entirely — the "right to be forgotten".

You can ask CIS to stop processing your data, object to it altogether — including an absolute right to object to marketing — or ask for your data in a portable, readable format.

Email john@rethinkingwork.life. Requests are honoured and you'll get a response within one calendar month.

Every email carries a genuine one-click unsubscribe that takes effect immediately. You can also just say “stop” — by reply, on a call, or in the website chat. Once you're opted out, you're opted out everywhere across CIS, for every partner and every workspace, permanently — not just with whoever last messaged you. Opting out of contact is separate from erasing your record; you can ask for either, or both.

Your data sits in a single, access-controlled database. Passwords and API keys are never stored in plain sight, and each workspace is kept apart from every other.

A short list of trusted providers help run CIS — hosting, email/telephony, and enrichment. None receive more than they need to do their specific job. Where a provider is based outside the UK, recognised legal safeguards apply to the transfer.

If you're unhappy with how your data has been handled, email john@rethinkingwork.life first. You also have the right to complain to the UK Information Commissioner's Office — ico.org.uk — 0303 123 1113.