INTRO

Effective date: May 3^rd 2019

Neema Shah (“I” “us”, “we”, or “our”) operates the https://neemashah.com website (the “Website”).

This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data when you use our website and the choices you have associated with that data.

We use your data to provide and improve the website. By using the website, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. 

DEFINITIONS

Personal Information
Personal Information means data about a living individual who can be identified from those data (or from those and other information either in our possession or likely to come into our possession).

Usage Information

Usage Information is data collected automatically either generated by the use of the Website or from the website infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).

Cookies

Cookies are small pieces of data stored on a User’s device.

Data Controller

Data Controller means a person who (either alone or jointly or in common with other persons) determines the purposes for which and the manner in which any personal information is, or will be, processed. For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, we are a Data Controller of your information.

Data Processor (or Service Providers)
Data Processor (or Service Provider) means any person (other than an employee of the Data Controller) who processes the data on behalf of the Data Controller. We may use the services of various Service Providers in order to process your data more effectively.

Data Subject

Data Subject is any living individual who is the subject of Personal Data.

User

The User is the individual using our Website. The User corresponds to the Data Subject, who is the subject of Personal Information.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT & USE

Types of Information Collected

Personal Information

While using our Website, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Information”). Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

• Email address
• First name and last name
• Cookies and Usage Data

We may use your Personal Information to respond to your queries or comments but it will not be used for other marketing or promotional purposes.

Usage Data

We may also collect information how the website is accessed and used (“Usage Data”). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Website that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

Tracking Cookies Data

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Website and hold certain information.

Cookies are files with small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Website.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Website.

Examples of Cookies we use:

• Session Cookies.We use Session Cookies to operate our Website.
• Preference Cookies.We use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.

Use of Information

Neema Shah uses the collected data for various purposes:

• To provide and maintain our Website
• To notify you about changes to our Website
• To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Website when you choose to do so
• To gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our Website
• To monitor the usage of our Website
• To detect, prevent and address technical issues
• To alert you to new blog posts on this site if you provide your email address to subscribe to the blog

Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data Under General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

If you are from the European Economic Area (EEA), Neema Shah’s legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described in this Privacy Policy depends on the Personal Data we collect and the specific context in which we collect it.

Neema Shah may process your Personal Data because:

• You have given us permission to do so
• The processing is in our legitimate interests and it’s not overridden by your rights
• To comply with the law

Retention of Information

Neema Shah will retain your Personal Information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

Neema Shah will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Website, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

Transfer Of Information

Your information, including Personal Information, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.

Neema Shah will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Information will take place to an organisation or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.

DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION

Disclosure for Law Enforcement

Under certain circumstances, Neema Shah may be required to disclose your Personal Information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

Legal Requirements

Neema Shah may disclose your Personal Information in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

• To comply with a legal obligation
• To protect and defend the rights or property of Neema Shah
• To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
• To protect the personal safety of users of the Website or the public
• To protect against legal liability

Your Data Protection Rights Under General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)Rights

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. Neema Shah aims to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Data.

If you wish to be informed what Personal Data we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us.

In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:

The right to access, update or to delete the information we have on you. Whenever made possible, you can access, update or request deletion of your Personal Data directly within your account settings section. If you are unable to perform these actions yourself, please contact us to assist you.

The right of rectification. You have the right to have your information rectified if that information is inaccurate or incomplete.

The right to object. You have the right to object to our processing of your Personal Data.

The right of restriction. You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information.

The right to data portability. You have the right to be provided with a copy of the information we have on you in a structured, machine-readable and commonly used format.

The right to withdraw consent. You also have the right to withdraw your consent at any time where Neema Shah relied on your consent to process your personal information.

Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests.

You have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about our collection and use of your Personal Data. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority in the European Economic Area (EEA).

WEBSITE SERVICE PROVIDERS

Blog subscription

When you subscribe to receive new blogposts, your email address will be used to send updates. It will not be used for any other marketing purpose. You can unsubscribe via the unsubscribe’ link at the bottom of each email. 

Email subscription

We use Convertkit and Woocommerce to process email subscriptions and orders that are managed by this site. Your data will be used in accordance with GDPR and you have the option to unsubscribe at any time via the emails that are sent to you. 

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to monitor and analyse the use of our Website.

Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Website. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualise and personalise the ads of its own advertising network.

You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service also apply.

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

Our Website may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

Some of the links on our Website are affiliate links (Amazon Associates and Hive). This means that our affiliates can identify that you clicked through from our site and we may get commission if you decide to purchase anything from the affiliated companies. 

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

CONTACT US

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us.