Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

Welcome to Behdad Banian (“we,” “our,” or “us”). We are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. If you have any questions or concerns about our policy or our practices with regard to your personal information, please contact us.

This privacy policy describes how we collect, use, and disclose your personal information when you visit our website https://behdadbanian.com/ (the “Site”) and use our services.

2. Information We Collect

Personal Information You Disclose to Us

We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you express an interest in obtaining information about us or our products and services, when you participate in activities on the Site, or otherwise when you contact us.

The personal information that we may collect includes:

• Name
• Email Address
• Phone Number
• Any other information you choose to provide

Information Automatically Collected

We automatically collect certain information when you visit, use, or navigate the Site. This information does not reveal your specific identity (like your name or contact information) but may include device and usage information, such as your IP address, browser and device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, device name, country, location, information about how and when you use our Site, and other technical information.

This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our Site, and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes.

3. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect or receive:

• To facilitate account creation and logon process.
• To send you marketing and promotional communications.
• To send administrative information to you.
• To fulfill and manage your orders.
• To respond to user inquiries/offer support to users.
• To request feedback.
• To protect our Site.
• To enforce our terms, conditions, and policies.
• To respond to legal requests and prevent harm.
• For other business purposes.

4. How We Share Your Information

We only share information with your consent, to comply with laws, to provide you with services, to protect your rights, or to fulfill business obligations.

We may process or share data based on the following legal basis:

• Consent: We may process your data if you have given us specific consent to use your personal information for a specific purpose.
• Legitimate Interests: We may process your data when it is reasonably necessary to achieve our legitimate business interests.
• Performance of a Contract: Where we have entered into a contract with you, we may process your personal information to fulfill the terms of our contract.
• Legal Obligations: We may disclose your information where we are 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 or a subpoena (including in response to public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements).
• Vital Interests: We may disclose your information where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding potential violations of our 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.

5. Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

We use a GDPR-compliant cookie consent banner to manage the use of cookies and tracking technologies on our Site. When you first visit our Site, a banner will appear requesting your consent to use non-essential cookies for analytics purposes. You may choose to accept or deny these cookies.

• Cookie Consent: We store your consent choice (accept or deny) in a cookie named gdpr_consent. This cookie is set to expire after 30 days, after which the consent banner will reappear to request your preference again. This ensures you have control over your data and can revisit your choice periodically.
• Hotjar: If you provide consent by clicking “Accept” on the cookie consent banner, we may use Hotjar to collect anonymized data about how you interact with our Site, such as clicks, mouse movements, and scrolling behavior. This information helps us improve the user experience and optimize our Site’s functionality. Hotjar does not collect personally identifiable information unless explicitly provided by you. For more details, please review Hotjar’s privacy policy at https://www.hotjar.com/legal/policies/privacy/.
• Google Tag Manager: With your consent, we use Google Tag Manager to manage and deploy analytics and tracking scripts on our Site. This tool may collect anonymized data about your interactions with our Site to support our internal analytics and reporting efforts. For more information, please see Google’s privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy.
• Essential Cookies: We may use cookies that are technically required for the operation of our Site (e.g., to maintain security or functionality). These cookies are anonymized and do not require your consent under GDPR.

If you choose to deny non-essential cookies, no tracking or analytics cookies (including those for Hotjar and Google Tag Manager) will be set, and no related data will be collected. You can manage your preferences at any time by clearing your browser cookies, which will cause the consent banner to reappear on your next visit.

6. Data Retention

We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting, or other legal requirements). No purpose in this policy will require us keeping your personal information for longer than the period of time in which users have an account with us.

When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize it, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.

7. Security of Your Information

We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the personal information you provide to us, please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse.

8. Third-Party Tools and Websites

Our Site may contain links to third-party websites and applications of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our Site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy policy. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy policy applicable to the website in question.

This privacy policy applies to the use of our Site, which is built with WordPress and hosted with Hostinger. We use Contact Form 7 for our contact form, the Salient theme and WPBakery for our site design, and LiteSpeed Cache for caching purposes. These third-party services may collect and process your personal information in accordance with their own privacy policies. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of these third-party services for more information.

9. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this privacy policy from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated “Effective Date” and the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible. If we make material changes to this privacy policy, we may notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to review this privacy policy frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information.

10. Contact Us

If you have questions or comments about this policy, you may contact us.

By using our Site, you consent to our privacy policy.