Rizwan Yousaf respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal information you provide while visiting rizwanysf.com.
This Privacy Policy explains what information may be collected, why it is collected, how it may be used or shared, how long it may be retained, and the privacy choices available to you.
In this Privacy Policy, “I,” “me,” and “my” refer to Rizwan Yousaf, and “website” refers to rizwanysf.com.
By accessing or using this website, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
1. Information You Provide
Personal information may be collected when you voluntarily:
- Submit a contact or project inquiry form
- Request a quote or consultation
- Contact me by email or telephone
- Ask about WordPress, WooCommerce, or Shopify services
- Provide project requirements, feedback, or supporting information
- Subscribe to updates or marketing communications, where available
The information you provide may include:
- Full name
- Email address
- Phone number
- Company or business name
- Website URL
- Project requirements
- Preferred budget or timeline
- Services you are interested in
- Files or information included with your inquiry
- Any other details included in your message
Please do not submit passwords, payment-card details, medical information, financial records, government identification numbers, or other highly sensitive information through a general contact form.
2. Information Collected Automatically
When you visit this website, limited technical information may be collected automatically through hosting logs, cookies, analytics tools, security services, or website plugins.
This information may include:
- Internet Protocol address
- Browser type and version
- Device type
- Operating system
- Referring website or search engine
- Pages visited
- Approximate visit date and time
- General geographic area
- Website interactions
- Error logs
- Security and spam-detection information
This information may be used to maintain website security, identify technical problems, measure performance, understand how visitors use the website, and improve the user experience.
3. How Your Information Is Used
Information collected through this website may be used to:
- Respond to questions and project inquiries
- Communicate about requested services
- Prepare estimates, proposals, or project plans
- Provide WordPress, WooCommerce, Shopify, or related website services
- Deliver customer and technical support
- Schedule consultations or project discussions
- Maintain project and communication records
- Improve website content, performance, and usability
- Detect spam, fraud, security threats, or misuse
- Protect the website and its visitors
- Meet legal, accounting, tax, or regulatory obligations
- Send marketing communications where permission or another lawful basis exists
Personal information will not intentionally be used for unrelated purposes without an appropriate legal basis, business reason, or permission.
4. Legal Basis for Processing
Depending on your location, the nature of your request, and applicable law, personal information may be processed on one or more of the following grounds:
- Consent: Where you have agreed to a specific use of your information.
- Contract: Where processing is necessary to provide requested services or take steps before entering into an agreement.
- Legitimate interests: Where information is reasonably required to operate the website, respond to inquiries, improve services, maintain records, or protect against misuse.
- Legal obligations: Where information must be retained or disclosed to comply with applicable laws.
- Protection of legal rights: Where processing is reasonably necessary to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.
Privacy notices should explain processing purposes, retention, sharing, rights, and the applicable lawful basis where required.
5. Contact and Project Inquiry Forms
When you submit a form, the information entered may be:
- Sent to my business email address
- Stored within WordPress or the form plugin
- Processed by the website-hosting provider
- Retained within email or project-management systems
- Reviewed for security and spam prevention
Form information is used to respond to your request and manage potential or active business relationships.
Submitting a contact form or requesting a quote does not automatically create a contractual relationship.
To ask a question without using a form, email info@rizwanysf.com.
6. Cookies and Similar Technologies
This website may use cookies, local storage, tracking pixels, or similar technologies to:
- Maintain website functionality
- Remember visitor preferences
- Understand how website pages are used
- Measure website traffic and performance
- Support security features
- Prevent spam and automated submissions
- Maintain sessions or form functionality
Cookies may be classified as:
- Essential cookies: Required for website functionality, security, or form processing.
- Analytics cookies: Used to understand traffic and website performance.
- Preference cookies: Used to remember visitor choices.
- Marketing cookies: Used only where advertising or marketing tools are enabled.
You can control or delete cookies through your browser settings. Blocking certain cookies may affect some website functions.
Where required by applicable law, a cookie-consent notice may be displayed before non-essential cookies are activated.
7. Google Analytics
Where enabled, this website may use Google Analytics to understand how visitors find and use the website.
Google Analytics may process information such as:
- Pages viewed
- Session activity
- Browser and device information
- Approximate geographic area
- Referring sources
- Website interactions
- Technical performance information
This information is used to evaluate website performance, identify useful content, and improve visitor experience. It is not intentionally used by me to identify individual visitors directly.
Google requires websites using Google Analytics to disclose its use and explain how data is collected and processed.
You can learn more by reading:
Where required, Google Analytics will be activated only after the visitor provides appropriate cookie consent.
8. Google reCAPTCHA
Where enabled, contact forms may use Google reCAPTCHA to help protect the website from spam, abuse, fraudulent activity, and automated submissions.
reCAPTCHA may analyze technical and interaction information to determine whether an action is being performed by a person or an automated system.
Use of reCAPTCHA is subject to:
9. Comments and Pingbacks
If comments are enabled on blog posts, information entered in the comment form may be collected along with the visitor’s IP address and browser information to support spam detection.
An anonymized string created from an email address may be provided to an avatar service, where enabled, to determine whether the commenter uses that service.
The website may also receive pingbacks or trackbacks when another website links to its content. These notifications may include information provided by the referring website.
Comments may be reviewed, approved, rejected, marked as spam, or deleted.
10. Embedded Content and External Media
Pages or blog posts may contain embedded content, including:
- Videos
- Images
- Maps
- Social-media posts
- Code samples
- External website previews
Embedded content may behave in the same way as visiting the third-party website directly.
Those third parties may collect data, use cookies, embed additional tracking, or monitor interactions with their content, particularly when you are signed in to an account with that provider.
Visitors should review the privacy policies of the relevant third-party services.
11. How Information May Be Shared
Personal information is not sold or rented.
Information may be shared only when reasonably necessary with service providers that assist with operating the website or delivering requested services, including:
- Website-hosting providers
- Domain and infrastructure providers
- Email service providers
- Form-processing services
- Analytics providers
- Security and spam-prevention services
- Cloud-storage or backup providers
- Project-management and communication tools
- Professional or technical contractors
- Legal, accounting, or professional advisers
These providers may process only the information reasonably required to perform their services, subject to their own contractual and privacy obligations.
Information may also be disclosed when reasonably necessary to:
- Comply with applicable law or legal process
- Respond to a valid government or regulatory request
- Protect legal rights
- Investigate fraud, abuse, or security incidents
- Protect website visitors or other individuals
- Enforce an agreement
12. Sale or Sharing of Personal Information
I do not sell personal information in exchange for money.
I also do not knowingly share personal information for cross-context behavioural advertising as those terms may be defined under applicable privacy laws, unless clearly disclosed and appropriate choices are provided.
If website practices change in the future, this Privacy Policy and any required privacy controls will be updated.
13. International Data Processing
Website visitors, hosting providers, email services, analytics providers, or other technical services may be located in different countries.
As a result, personal information may be processed or stored outside your country of residence. The privacy and data-protection laws of those countries may differ from the laws in your location.
Where required, reasonable contractual, organizational, or technical safeguards will be used for international processing or transfers.
14. Data Retention
Personal information is retained only for as long as reasonably necessary to:
- Respond to an inquiry
- Prepare a quote or proposal
- Provide requested services
- Maintain project and business records
- Complete financial, tax, or accounting obligations
- Resolve complaints or disputes
- Maintain security records
- Establish or defend legal rights
- Comply with applicable law
General inquiries that do not lead to a business relationship may be deleted when they are no longer reasonably required.
Project, contract, payment, invoice, or transaction records may be retained for longer periods where necessary for legal, accounting, tax, or business-record purposes.
Backup copies may remain temporarily within secure backup systems before being overwritten or deleted.
15. Data Security
Reasonable administrative, organizational, and technical measures are used to protect personal information from:
- Unauthorized access
- Accidental loss
- Misuse
- Alteration
- Destruction
- Unauthorized disclosure
These measures may include secure hosting, access controls, software updates, backups, spam protection, security monitoring, and encrypted website connections.
However, no internet transmission, website, email service, or electronic storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
Visitors should avoid sending confidential passwords or highly sensitive information through standard website forms or email.
16. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have the right to:
- Request access to personal information held about you
- Request correction of inaccurate information
- Request deletion of eligible personal information
- Object to certain processing
- Request restriction of certain processing
- Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
- Request a portable copy of eligible information
- Opt out of marketing communications
- Ask for information about how your data is used or shared
- Submit a complaint to an applicable privacy or data-protection authority
These rights may be subject to legal limitations, exemptions, identity verification, and record-retention requirements.
To submit a privacy request, email info@rizwanysf.com.
Please include enough information to identify your request. Additional information may be requested to verify your identity before personal information is accessed, corrected, or deleted.
17. California Privacy Rights
If the California Consumer Privacy Act or another California privacy law applies to the website and your information, eligible California residents may have rights relating to:
- Accessing categories or specific pieces of personal information
- Requesting deletion
- Requesting correction
- Learning how information is collected, used, or disclosed
- Opting out of qualifying sales or sharing
- Receiving equal service when exercising privacy rights
The CCPA applies only to businesses that meet its legal requirements and thresholds. California regulations also address consumer notices, request handling, identity verification, and minors.
A privacy request may be submitted to info@rizwanysf.com.
18. Marketing Communications
Marketing emails will be sent only where appropriate permission or another lawful basis exists.
You may unsubscribe from marketing communications at any time by:
- Using the unsubscribe link provided in the message, where available
- Emailing info@rizwanysf.com
Unsubscribing from marketing emails will not prevent necessary service-related messages, including project communications, invoices, support responses, or security notices.
19. Third-Party Links
This website may contain links to:
- Client websites
- Portfolio projects
- Social-media profiles
- Development platforms
- External tools
- Educational resources
- Third-party services
I am not responsible for the privacy, security, availability, content, or practices of external websites.
Visitors should review the privacy policy of each third-party website before submitting personal information.
20. Children’s Privacy
This website and its professional website-development services are not directed toward children.
I do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe that a child has submitted personal information through this website, contact info@rizwanysf.com so the information can be reviewed and deleted where appropriate.
21. Changes to This Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy may be updated when:
- Website functionality changes
- New plugins or services are introduced
- Business practices change
- Legal or regulatory requirements change
- Analytics, advertising, or security tools change
The latest version will be posted on this page with a revised “Last Updated” date.
Visitors are encouraged to review this Privacy Policy periodically.
22. Contact Information
For questions, privacy requests, or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, contact:
Rizwan Yousaf
WordPress and Shopify Developer
Website: rizwanysf.com
Email: info@rizwanysf.com
Phone: +92 304 9888065