Privacy Policy

In short: I use the details you send me to reply to you and, if we work together, to provide the agreed service. I do not sell personal information, I do not use advertising or analytics tools on this site, and the only cookie set for ordinary visitors stores your light or dark theme choice.

Who I am

SalmanWP is a personal website and professional services brand operated by Salman Sarwar, an independent professional based in Pakistan. In this document, “SalmanWP”, “I”, “me” and “my” refer to Salman Sarwar. SalmanWP is not a registered company.

This policy applies to salmanwp.com. You can reach me about privacy at hello@salmanwp.com.

Information you give me

Project inquiry form. When you send the form on the Contact page, I receive your name, email address, the type of help you need, your timeline if you choose one, your project description and your confirmation that I may use these details to reply.

Email and WhatsApp. If you write to me directly, I receive your email address or phone number and whatever you include in your message.

Call booking. Booking a call on the Book a Call page collects your name, email address, the time you choose, your time zone and any notes you add. The booking is stored in the site’s own booking system (FluentBooking, on this website’s server). I use it to confirm the call, send reminders and share the meeting details by email.

Comments. Comments are turned off on this site, so there is no comment form and visitors cannot post comments. If comments are turned on later, this policy will be updated first to explain what the comment form collects.

Information collected automatically

• Form submissions: together with your answers, the form records your IP address, browser and device type, and the page you sent it from. This helps me spot spam and abuse.
• Hosting logs: like most websites, the hosting and content delivery network record technical data for each request, such as IP address, browser, requested page and time, to deliver the site and keep it secure.

Spam on the contact form is filtered with a hidden field inside the form itself. No external spam or CAPTCHA service receives your data.

Analytics

This site does not currently use analytics. If I add Google Analytics 4 in the future, it will only run after you agree to it, and I will update this policy and the Cookie Policy before it starts.

How I use your information

• To reply to your inquiry or message.
• To prepare a proposal and, if we agree to work together, to provide the service.
• To schedule and hold calls you request.
• To keep the website secure and protect it from spam and abuse.
• To meet legal, tax or accounting obligations that apply to me.

I do not add you to a mailing list, and I do not use your information for automated decisions or profiling.

Legal grounds

Where the law that applies to you requires a legal basis for using personal information, I rely on your consent (for example, the checkbox on the inquiry form), on steps you ask me to take before we enter into an agreement, on my legitimate interest in replying to messages and keeping the site secure, and on legal obligations where they apply. You can withdraw consent at any time; this does not affect anything done before you withdraw it.

Who receives your information

I do not sell or rent personal information. It is shared only with services that are needed to run this website and to communicate with you:

• Hostinger hosts the website, its database and its content delivery network, and relays the emails the site sends: inquiry notifications and booking confirmations, reminders, cancellations and changes.
• My email provider stores the messages I receive at hello@salmanwp.com.
• WhatsApp (Meta) processes messages if you choose to contact me on WhatsApp, under its own privacy policy.

I may also disclose information when the law requires it, or to protect my rights or the safety of others.

These providers may process data in countries other than your own, including outside Pakistan.

How long I keep information

• Inquiries and bookings (form entries, booking records and related emails) are kept until you ask me to delete them, unless I need to keep them longer for legal, contractual or record-keeping reasons.
• Email delivery logs on the website are deleted automatically after 14 days.
• Backups: deleted information can remain in website backups until those backups are replaced in the normal backup cycle.

Security

The site is served over HTTPS, and I am the only person with an administrator account. No website or email system is completely secure, so please do not send passwords or other sensitive information through the form.

Your choices and rights

You can ask me to tell you what personal information I hold about you, to correct it, to delete it, or to stop using it. Email hello@salmanwp.com from the address you used, or tell me how to confirm that the request comes from you.

When I receive a deletion request, I delete the form entry from the website, delete the related emails and messages I hold, and let you know when that is done. Copies in backups are removed when those backups are replaced. If I must keep something for a legal, contractual or record-keeping reason, I will tell you what and why.

Depending on where you live, you may also have the right to complain to your local data protection authority.

Children

This website is not directed at children, and I do not knowingly collect personal information from them.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new “Last updated” date.

Contact

Questions about this policy: hello@salmanwp.com.