Privacy notice

Last updated: 18 December 2021

I, Ashish Sareen, thank you for reading through my website https://ashishsareen.com. I am committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy notice, or the practices with regards to your personal information, please contact me at info@ashishsareen.com. When you visit the website https://ashishsareen.com (the “website“), and more generally, use any of my services (the “services“, which include the website), I fully appreciate that you are trusting me with your personal information. I take your privacy very seriously. In this privacy notice, I seek to explain to you in the clearest way possible what information gets collected, how it is used and what rights you have in relation to it. I hope you will take some time to read through it carefully, as it is important. If there are any terms in this privacy notice that you do not agree with, please discontinue use of my services immediately. This privacy notice applies to all information collected through my services (which, as described above, includes my website), as well as, any related services, sales, marketing or events. Please read this privacy notice carefully as it will help you understand what I do with the information that gets collected.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. WHAT INFORMATION DO I COLLECT?

2. HOW DO I USE YOUR INFORMATION?

3. WILL YOUR INFORMATION BE SHARED WITH ANYONE?

4. DO I USE COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES?

5. HOW LONG DO I KEEP YOUR INFORMATION FOR?

6. HOW DO I KEEP YOUR INFORMATION SAFE? WHAT HAPPENS IF THERE IS A DATA BREACH?

7. WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?

8. CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES

9. DO I MAKE UPDATES TO THIS NOTICE?

10. HOW CAN YOU CONTACT ME ABOUT THIS NOTICE?

11. HOW CAN I REVIEW, UPDATE OR DELETE THE DATA I COLLECT FROM YOU?

1. WHAT INFORMATION DO I COLLECT?

Personal information you disclose to me

In Short:  I collect personal information that you provide to me. I collect minimal personal information that you voluntarily provide to me when you express an interest in obtaining information about me or my services, or otherwise when you contact me. The personal information that I collect depends on the context of your interactions with me and the website, the choices you make and the services you use.

The personal information I collect may include the following:

Personal Information Provided by You. I may collect names, phone numbers, email addresses, job titles, business names, contact preferences and other similar information.

Information collected from other sources

In Short:  I may collect limited data from other outside sources. In order to enhance my ability to provide relevant services to you and to update my records, I may obtain information about you from other sources, such as social media sources, as well as from other third parties. This information includes job titles, email addresses, phone numbers, intent data (or user behaviour data), social media profiles, social media URLs and custom profiles.

2. HOW DO I USE YOUR INFORMATION?

In Short:  I process your information for purposes based on legitimate business interests, the fulfilment of my contract with you, compliance with my legal obligations and/or your consent. I will not sell or trade your personally identifiable data with anyone. I use personal information collected via my website for a variety of business purposes described below. I process your personal information for these purposes in reliance on my legitimate business interests, in order to enter into or perform a contract with you, with your consent and/or for compliance with my legal obligations. I indicate the specific processing grounds I rely on next to each purpose listed below. I may use the information I collect or receive:

  • To post testimonials. I may post testimonials on my website that may contain personal information. Prior to posting a testimonial, I will obtain your consent to use your name, company name and the content of the testimonial. If you wish to update or delete your testimonial, please contact me at info@ashishsareen.com and be sure to include your name, testimonial location and contact information.
  • Request feedback. I may use your information to request feedback and to contact you about your use of my website.
  • To send administrative information to you. I may use your personal information to send you service information and/or information about changes to our terms, conditions and policies.
  • To protect my services. I may use your information as part of my efforts to keep my website safe and secure (for example, for fraud monitoring and prevention).
  • To enforce my terms, conditions and policies for business purposes, to comply with legal and regulatory requirements or in connection with our contract.
  • To respond to legal requests and prevent harm. If I receive a court order or other legal request, I may need to inspect the data I hold to determine how to respond.
  • To deliver and facilitate delivery of services to the user. I may use your information to provide you with the requested service.
  • To respond to user inquiries/offer support to users. I may use your information to respond to your inquiries and solve any potential issues you might have with the use of my services.
  • For other business purposes. I may use your information for other business purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve my website, services, marketing and your experience. I may use and store this information in aggregated and anonymised form so that it is not associated with individual end users and does not include personal information. I will not use identifiable personal information without your consent.

3. WILL YOUR INFORMATION BE SHARED WITH ANYONE?

In Short:  I will only share information with your consent, to comply with laws, to provide you with services, to protect your rights or to fulfill business obligations. I will never sell it or trade it to third parties. I may process or share your data that I hold based on the following legal basis:

  • Consent: I may process your data if you have given me specific consent to use your personal information for a specific purpose.
  • Legitimate Interests: I may process your data when it is reasonably necessary to achieve my legitimate business interests.
  • Performance of a Contract: Where I have entered into a contract with you, I may process your personal information to fulfill the terms of our contract.
  • Legal Obligations: I may disclose your information where I am legally required to do so in order to comply with applicable law, governmental requests, a judicial proceeding, court order or legal process, such as in response to a court order (including in response to public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements).
  • Vital Interests: I may disclose your information where I believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding potential violations of my policies, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person and illegal activities or as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.

4. DO I USE COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES?

In Short:  I may use cookies to collect and store your information. I may use cookies to access or store information. Specific information about how I use such technologies and how you can refuse certain cookies is set out in the Cookie Notice.

5. HOW LONG DO I KEEP YOUR INFORMATION FOR?

In Short:  I keep your information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this privacy notice unless otherwise required by law. I will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy notice, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting or other legal requirements). When I have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, I will either delete or anonymise such information, or if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then I will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.

6. HOW DO I KEEP YOUR INFORMATION SAFE? WHAT HAPPENS IF THERE IS A DATA BREACH?

In Short:  I aim to protect your personal information through a system of organizational and technical security measures. I have implemented appropriate technical and organisational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information I process. My website uses https/SSL security. However, despite these safeguards and efforts to secure your information, no electronic transmission over the Internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so I cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals or other unauthorised third parties will not be able to defeat my security, and improperly collect, access, steal or modify your information. Although I will do my best to protect your personal information, transmission of personal information to and from my website is at your own risk. You should only access the website within a secure environment. If there is a data breach, which is when an outsider gains access to an individual’s data without permission, the GDPR requires companies to notify the appropriate data protection authorities within 72 hours of first becoming aware of the breach. The company must also inform the affected individuals as quickly as possible. It is important to note that the GDPR’s main goal is to protect users’ private information.

7. WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?

In Short: In the UK, you have the right (i) to request access and obtain a copy of your personal information, (ii) to request rectification or erasure; (iii) to restrict the processing of your personal information; and (iv) to data portability. In certain circumstances, you may also have the right to object to the processing of your personal information. To make such a request, please email me at info@ashishsareen.com. I will consider and act upon any request in accordance with applicable data protection laws. If I am relying on your consent to process your personal information, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. Please note however that this will not affect the lawfulness of the processing before its withdrawal, nor will it affect the processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent. If you are a resident in the UK, and you believe I am unlawfully processing your personal information, you can make a complaint here: https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint. Cookies and similar technologies: Most Web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually choose to set your browser to remove cookies and to reject cookies. If you choose to remove cookies or reject cookies, this could affect certain features or services of my website.

8. CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES

Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems and mobile applications include a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. At this stage no uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized. As such, I do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online. If a standard for online tracking is adopted that I must follow in the future, I will inform you about that practice in a revised version of this privacy notice.

9. DO I MAKE UPDATES TO THIS NOTICE?

In Short:  Yes, I will update this notice as necessary to stay compliant with relevant laws. I may update this privacy notice from time to time. The latest version will be indicated by an updated date and the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible. If I make material changes to this privacy notice, I may notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes or by directly sending you a notification. I encourage you to review this privacy notice frequently to be informed of how I am protecting your information.

10. HOW CAN YOU CONTACT ME ABOUT THIS NOTICE?

If you have questions or comments about this notice, you may email me at info@ashishsareen.com

11. HOW CAN YOU REVIEW, UPDATE, OR DELETE THE DATA YOU COLLECT FROM ME?

You may have the right to request access to the personal information I collect from you, change that information or delete it in some circumstances. To request to review, update or delete your personal information, please email me at info@ashishsareen.com. I will respond to your request within 30 days.

Cookie policy

Last updated: 18 December 2021

This cookie policy explains how cookies are used when you visit my website at https://ashishsareen.com, (“Website“). It explains what these technologies are and why they are used, as well as your rights to control them.

What are cookies? Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners in order to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information. Cookies set by the website owner (in this case, me) are called “first party cookies”. Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called “third party cookies”. Third party cookies enable third party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g. like analytics). The parties that set these third party cookies can recognise your computer both when it visits the website in question and also when it visits certain other websites.

My website may use first and third party cookies for certain reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for the website to operate. Other third party cookies may be used for analytics and other purposes, although I do not use cookies as a means to collect individually identifiable information.

How can I control cookies? You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. Essential cookies cannot be rejected as they are strictly necessary to provide you with services. If you choose to reject other cookies, you may still use this website although your access to some functionality and areas of the website may be restricted. You may also set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser-to-browser, you should visit your browser’s help menu for more information. 

What about other tracking technologies, like web beacons?

Cookies are not the only way to recognize or track visitors to a website. This website may use other similar technologies from time to time, like web beacons (sometimes called “tracking pixels” or “clear gifs”). These are tiny graphics files that contain a unique identifier that enable me to recognise when someone has visited my website or opened an e-mail including them. This would allow me, for example, to generate statistics about how my site is being used and to improve site performance. In many instances, these technologies are reliant on cookies to function properly, and so declining cookies will impair their functioning.