Privacy Notice

This website is operated by Md Samsudduha Shawon under the Meet Shawon name. For questions about this privacy notice or your personal information, email contact@meetshawon.com.

Depending on how you use the website, information may include:

• Account details, profile information, authentication records, and account preferences.
• Information submitted through the contact form, including your name, email address, subject, and message.
• Newsletter email address, consent record, confirmation status, and unsubscribe status.
• Comments, reactions, saved articles, moderation records, and other community activity.
• Technical and security information such as browser details, request information, error reports, service logs, and authentication events.

Personal information is used only where there is an appropriate reason, including:

• Providing website accounts, profiles, security controls, community features, and requested services.
• Responding to contact messages and professional enquiries.
• Sending newsletter emails after explicit consent and confirmation.
• Protecting the website, preventing abuse, investigating errors, and maintaining reliable operations.
• Meeting applicable legal, security, and record-keeping responsibilities.

Newsletter emails rely on consent. Website security, abuse prevention, service reliability, and appropriate administrative records may rely on legitimate interests or legal obligations.

Newsletter subscriptions use a double-confirmation process. Entering an email address does not complete the subscription until the confirmation link is opened.

Newsletter messages cover occasional cybersecurity projects, technical articles, qualifications, and platform-development updates. Every newsletter will provide an unsubscribe option.

Unsubscribed addresses may be retained on a suppression record where necessary to ensure that the opt-out continues to be respected.

Appropriate technical and organisational safeguards are used to protect information. The website uses specialist service providers for hosting, authentication, database services, security, email, monitoring, and infrastructure operations.

These services may include Vercel, Supabase, Cloudflare, Resend, Sentry, and uptime-monitoring providers. They process information only as required to provide or secure their respective services.

Some providers may process information outside the United Kingdom. Where applicable, information is handled using the provider's relevant contractual and transfer safeguards.

Information is kept only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, website security, dispute resolution, or applicable legal requirements.

• Account information is generally retained while the account remains active and is removed or anonymised through applicable account deletion processes.
• Contact messages are retained only while they remain relevant to the enquiry or professional relationship.
• Confirmed newsletter records remain active until the subscriber unsubscribes.
• Unconfirmed newsletter records may be removed when they are no longer operationally necessary.
• Security, moderation, backup, and operational records may be kept for an appropriate limited period.

The website may use cookies or browser storage that are necessary for authentication, account sessions, preferences, security, and core website functionality.

Browser settings can be used to restrict cookies, although blocking essential storage may prevent sign-in and account features from working correctly.

Depending on the circumstances, you may have rights to request access, correction, deletion, restriction, objection, portability, or withdrawal of consent concerning your personal information.

To make a request, email contact@meetshawon.com. You may also have the right to raise a concern with the UK Information Commissioner's Office.