AHQENZA LIMITED PRIVACY POLICY
(Effective March 29TH,, 2025)
Introduction
Thank you for choosing the Amna Zaidi site accessible at https://academy.amnazaidi.com (the "Site"), operated by AZ Strategic Solutions Limited When this Policy mentions AZ Strategic Solutions Limited, referred to as 'we', 'us', or 'our', will act as your Data Controller.
Our privacy promises:
We value your privacy & data security
We do not use your data for commercial purpose
We comply with the EU GDPR
We will never sell your data
You control your data.
After that, you’re all set to use our Service. By accessing the website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to the terms described herein. If you are not comfortable with any aspect of this Privacy Policy, you should immediately discontinue use of the site.
Data Controller
AHQENZA LIMITED, a company duly incorporated under the laws of the United Kingdom, bearing company registration number 15284802 | United Kingdom, with registered address at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx(hereinafter refer to as “Amna Zaidi”, “Service Provider”, “us”, “we”, or “our”), is responsible for the collection of personal data via our site https://academy.amnazaidi.com/, (“our site”).
When this Policy mentions Amna Zaidi or AHQENZA LIMITED it refers to your Data Controller. Our data privacy officer may be contacted at [email protected]
General Information
The terms “We”, “Us”,” Our” mean Amna Zaidi. The terms “You” and “Your” refer to you, as a user, Purchaser or visitor of our website provided Services. The term “personal data” refers to all information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (hereinafter referred to as “data subject”); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or one or more specific characteristics expressing the physical, physiological, genetic, psychological, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person, as set out in the GDPR. In addition, personal data comprises data of legal persons.
Data Collection
When you access and use the Amna Zaidi website, we may collect and process various types of personal data, depending on how you interact with our services. This information will be considered "personal data" when it can directly identify or allow us to identify a natural person. The categories of personal information we collect depend on how a User interact with our Service and the requirements of applicable law.
To access and use the Amna Zaidi service, we will request that you signup an account with us and provide us important information about yourself, i.e., email address, Full name etc. If you choose not to share certain information with us, we may not be able to serve you effectively or offer you our Service. Any information you provide to us that is not required but voluntary;
Identifiers, such as your name, email address, telephone number, unique online identifier, IP address, device ID, or similar identifier.
Your Usage Data. We may automatically collect certain details of your access to and use of the site, including traffic data, logs and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on or through the site.
Device Data. We may collect data about your computer device and internet connection, including the IP address, operating system, browser type, network data, etc.
Communication: we use your data to send you offers and other communications such as product updates, notices, support, and administrative communication that may be of interest to you.
Location based data – If you access the site with a mobile device, your location can only be collected if you, the ‘user’ has the location service activated in his/her mobile device. When the app is installed it will ask for permission to allow the app to access your location service, you can accept or deny. You can also go into your settings on your phone and disable this at any time. Website: When you visit our Websites or interact with our online services, we may receive information about your location and your device, including a unique identifier for your device. Location information allows us to provide location-based services, such as advertising and other personalised content.
Transaction Data: These includes details of purchases, payments, and related order history.
Personalisation: We use your personal data to develop and conduct our services. Some examples of how we use personal data include: improving our products and services; personalising our communication with you; conducting market research; conducting customer surveys; engaging in more targeted, -based advertising;
Updates, Promotions: Based on your consent, your personal data also may be used to keep you informed about new products, product upgrades, patches, special offers, and other products and services of Amna Zaidi website and selected third parties if you have consented to receive such communications;
Activity
When you use the platform, we receive and store certain information which may include your activities on the website, your personal Information and anonymous information, regarding your use of the Services. Examples include the course contents you purchase and viewed, IP addresses, browser types, domain names, and other statistical data regarding your use of the Services. We may use this data in a way that does not disclose any of your personally identifiable information, including, but not limited to, for purposes of developing new product and service offerings
Basis we use your Information
We process personal data based on our legitimate interests as a data controller, contractual necessity, and compliance with legal obligations. The processing may be based on Art. 6, para. 1, b) of the GDPR. We process and use the information we collect in various ways, in addition, we may also collect, hold and use your personal information for:
| Providing our services | (e.g., course access, account creation) | Contractual necessity (Art. 6(1)(b)) |
|---|---|---|
| Processing payments and orders | Contractual necessity | (Art. 6(1)(b)) |
| Sending customer support messages | Legitimate interest | (Art. 6(1)(f)) |
| Sending promotional emails (marketing) | Consent | (Art. 6(1)(a)) |
| Personalising website content | Legitimate interest | (Art. 6(1)(f)) |
| Preventing fraud and ensuring security | Legal obligation | (Art. 6(1)(c)) |
We also process data that cannot be assigned to any person. These are data that do not personally identify you, including anonymous information and aggregated data. This information helps us better understand how our visitors use the Services, analyze demographics, interests and behaviors of our visitors, improve the Services, provide customized services and information to visitors, and similar purposes. You hold the right to opt out of receiving any of these communications as described under "Your Rights" section below.
Third Parties we may share you data with
Amna Zaidi uses services of third parties, that act as independent contractors on behalf of us to provide our services. We only share your personal data with third-party service providers who comply with UK GDPR and have signed data processing agreements (DPAs) with us. These agreements ensure that they process your data securely and only for the purposes we have defined
We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal data. However, we share data with third-party providers who assist in delivering our services, including: Payment processors (e.g., Stripe, PayPal) Cloud storage and hosting providers (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud) Marketing platforms (e.g., Mailchimp, HubSpot) Analytics providers (e.g., Google Analytics, Meta Pixel).
Cookies
When you visit our site, we ask for your consent to store cookies, except those necessary for website functionality. You can manage your preferences or withdraw consent at any time via our Cookie Settings page
Advertising & Analytics Partners
We may include an ad-supported service. Subject to your settings, we provide certain Information to advertisers who will use them to serve you with ads within the app or website, and we measure who sees and clicks on their ads. We also share advertising identifiers, along with the interests or other characteristics of a device or the person using it, to help partners decide whether to serve an ad to that device or to enable them to conduct marketing, brand analysis, personalise advertising, or similar activities. For more information on how to limit or opt-out from personalized advertisement, please see our Cookie Policy
We also work with a number of analytics, segmentation and mobile measurement service providers who help us understand our user base.
Legal & Compliance Obligations
We may share your information with law enforcement agencies, who are public authorities or other judicial bodies and organizations. We disclose Information if we are legally required to do so, or if we have a good faith belief that such use is reasonably necessary to comply with a legal obligation, process or request; enforce our terms of service and other agreements, policies, and standards, including investigation of any potential violation thereof; detect, prevent or otherwise address security, fraud or technical issues; or protect the rights, property or safety of us, our users, a third party or the public as required or permitted by law (including exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection).
Should we are involved in a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, re-organisation, partnership, asset sale or other transaction, we may disclose your Information as part of that transaction.
Feedback
If you provide feedback, submit a complaint, or request information, we will process your personal data as necessary to respond and improve our services. We reserve the right to use this information in any manner permitted by law, to respond to your communication. The processing of your personal data for feedback processing is based on Art. 6, para. 1, d) or f) of the GDPR.
Data Retention
For the sake of the GDPR, we retain personal data only for as long as necessary for legitimate business purposes and to comply with legal obligations. Once data is no longer needed, it will be securely deleted in accordance with our retention policies. We will take reasonable steps to erase any Data that we hold from you, where:
| Data Type | Retention Period |
|---|---|
| Account Data | Stored until the user requests deletion or is inactive for 2 years |
| Transaction Data | Retained for 6 years (for legal and tax compliance) |
| Marketing Data | Retained until user withdraws consent |
| Analytics Data | 12-24 months, depending on provider policies |
If certain data has been provided to third parties in accordance with this Privacy policy, retention of that data will be subject to the policies of the relevant third party.
Data Security
We implement technical, organisational, and physical safeguards to protect your personal data. However, no online service is completely secure.
Your Rights
Under the United Kingdom privacy laws and General Data Protection Regulation {GDPR}, you are entitle to the choices below;
Exercise of Rights: To exercise your rights under GDPR, including access, rectification, or deletion of your personal data, please contact us at [email protected]
Revocation of Consent: You hold right to revoke your consent for processing of your data in the future at any time. However, this does not affect the lawfulness of Data processing based on the consent before the revocation.
Right of Access: You have the right to obtain (i) confirmation as to whether or not your Data is being processed by us and, if so, (ii) request for more specific data on the Data.
Right to Rectification: You have the right to obtain from us the rectification of inaccurate Data concerning you. In case the Data processed by us is not correct, we will rectify these without undue delay and inform you of this rectification.
Right to Erasure: Should you decide that you do not want us to process your data any further, please send a request via e-mail to [email protected] We will erase your Data immediately and inform you of this process. Should mandatory provisions of law prevent such erasure, we will inform you without undue delay thereof.
Right to Restriction of Processing: You have the right to obtain from us a restriction of processing of your Data;
Right to Data Portability: You have the right to (i) receive your Data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and (ii) transmit those Data to another controller without hindrance from us.
Right to Object: You have the right to object at any time to the processing of Data.
Right to Lodge a Complaint: You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, if you think that the processing of Data infringes applicable law, especially the GDPR")
You can opt out of marketing communications by clicking the ‘unsubscribe’ link in our emails or by emailing us at [email protected] Opting out will not affect essential service emails.
To exercise your rights, please email us at [email protected] with the subject line 'Data Request.' We will respond within 30 days, in accordance with UK GDPR.
European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland
If you are a data subject in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, you have certain rights with respect to your personal data pursuant to the General Data Protection Regulation of the European Union (“GDPR”) and similar laws. This section applies to you. References to “personal information” in this Privacy Policy are equivalent to “personal data” as defined under GDPR.
When transferring data outside the UK or EEA, we use Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) approved by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) or other legally recognised safeguards to ensure your data remains protected
Please note that, we process your personal data in reliance on the legal bases below. Where the purpose of processing is:
To provide and improve our Services and the Site: We process your personal data as necessary to perform the contract under which we provide our Services to you or to allow you to access our Site.
To comply with the law: We process your personal data as necessary to comply with applicable laws and our legal obligations.
For compliance, fraud prevention, and safety: We have a legitimate interest in processing your personal data, as described in this Privacy Policy, and our reasons for doing so outweigh any prejudice to your data protection rights. We also process your personal data as necessary to comply with our legal obligations.
To send marketing communications; or for research and analytics: We have a legitimate interest in processing your personal data, as described in this Privacy Policy, and our reasons for doing so outweigh any prejudice to your data protection rights.
With your consent: We process certain of your personal data with your consent. You may withdraw your consent at any time in the manner indicated when you provided consent to the collection of your personal data through your interactions with the Services or the Site.
United Kingdom Brexit Notice
Under current UK-EU agreements, data transfers from the EU to the UK are not considered transfers to a third country until at least 2025. We comply with all UK GDPR requirements for international data transfers. For the transfer from the UK to the EU, UK finds this transfer as transfer with adequate protection, so currently there are no additional requirements needed for such personal data transfers.
USA or the California Notice of Collection
This section applies only to users based in California, USA. UK and EEA users should refer to the GDPR sections above.
In the past 12 months, we may have collected the following categories of personal information enumerated in the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The categories of personal information about you we disclosed for business operations, compliance, and service provision (but not for financial gain or third-party sale, in compliance with UK and EU data protection laws).
Right to Know and Delete
If you are a California resident, you have rights to delete your personal information we collected and know certain information about our data practices in the preceding 12 months. In particular, you have the right to request the following from us:
The categories of personal information we have collected about you;
The categories of sources from which the personal information was collected;
The categories of personal information about you we disclosed for a business purpose or sold;
The categories of third parties to whom the personal information was disclosed for a business purpose or sold;
The business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling the personal information; and
The specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details provided in this privacy policy.
Commitment
We take the responsibility to protect the security and privacy of our users seriously. We have established effective policies that define our commitment to data security and the information technology we manage. We are continually reviewing policies and procedures to assure that they are appropriate and effective in meeting our commitments to our community, our users, customers and ourselves. Any suspicious attempt to breach our terms and policies, or to engage in any type of unauthorized action involving our information systems, is regarded as potential criminal activity. All suspicious computer mischief will be reported to the appropriate authorities.
Changes to our Privacy Policy
Changes to this privacy policy may be made by us from time to time. In no event will these changes result in the degradation of any security measures designed to protect you from unauthorized disclosure.
Contact Us
We hope that we can satisfy any queries you may have about the way in which we process your personal information, so we encourage you to submit your claim to our Data Protection Officer at; [email protected]
However, if this does not satisfy you, you also have the right to complain to the data protection authority in the location in which you live, work or believe a data protection breach has occurred.
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