Privacy & Cookie Notice
Introduction
This notice describes how personal information may be processed in connection with the techiedavid website in its current version.
Operator identity
This website is operated by David Samson under the brand name techiedavid. techiedavid is a brand name and not a separate legal entity, unless that position changes before publication.
Privacy contact: david@techiedavid.com
Personal information
For this version of the website, personal information may include:
- Information voluntarily included in emails sent to the branded email address
- Information supplied directly to Calendly when visitors choose to book (processed primarily under Calendly’s terms and privacy notice)
- Technical request, security, and diagnostic information generated by the hosting infrastructure (Vercel), where applicable
Purposes
- Responding to enquiries
- Scheduling consultations
- Assessing possible consultancy engagements
- Operating and securing the website
- Meeting applicable legal obligations
Legal grounds where applicable
Where applicable law requires a legal basis, processing may occur because it is necessary to:
- Respond to a visitor’s request
- Take steps requested before entering a consultancy contract
- Operate and secure the website
- Maintain legitimate business records
- Meet a legal obligation
Ordinary enquiry handling is not treated as consent-based processing unless consent is genuinely the applicable basis under the law that applies.
Third-party services
- Vercel — Website host. Hosting, TLS, and related infrastructure operated by Vercel that delivers the website and may generate technical request, security, and diagnostic logs.
- Next.js application — First-party website delivery. First-party application that renders and serves the website.
- Calendly — External scheduling. Ordinary external link. Booking information is supplied directly to Calendly when a visitor chooses to book.
- Google Workspace (Gmail) — Email / mailbox provider. Processes messages visitors voluntarily send to the branded email address via their own mail client. Inbox hosting for david@techiedavid.com is provided by Google Workspace (Gmail).
- LinkedIn — External profile link. Ordinary external profile link; no embed.
- GitHub — External profile link. Ordinary external profile link; no embed.
Visitors should review the privacy notices of third-party services they choose to use. Enquiries occur through email and Calendly as an ordinary external link; the website itself does not collect enquiry messages on-site.
International processing
Some service providers may process information outside the visitor’s country. Provider locations, contractual safeguards, and applicable transfer restrictions are described in those providers’ own notices and contracts.
Retention
Different categories of information are retained according to their purpose. Owner-approved retention criteria for this notice are:
- Enquiries that do not become engagements — Deleted after 3 months
- Active-client and former-client correspondence — Kept for the engagement
- Legal, tax, contractual, or dispute records — Kept as required by law / until the dispute ends
- Hosting and security logs — Per Vercel’s log retention
- Calendly-held data — Governed by Calendly’s settings and policies
Rights and requests
Depending on applicable law and its commencement, individuals may have rights concerning access, correction, deletion, grievance redressal, objection, restriction, or withdrawal of consent.
Requests may be sent to david@techiedavid.com. Similar reasonable requests may be considered voluntarily even where a specific statutory right is not applicable.
Not every listed right applies identically to every visitor in every country.
Security
Reasonable safeguards appropriate to a small professional website and email enquiry workflow are used. No method of transmission or storage is absolutely secure.
Children
This consultancy website is not directed to children and does not intentionally solicit children’s personal information.
Changes
Changes become effective when the revised notice is published with an updated date. Where applicable law requires additional notice or consent for a material change, that notice or consent will be obtained before the changed processing begins.