Privacy and Cookie Management Policy – Mozalami

Last updated: April 14, 2024

Introduction

Welcome to Mozalami (https://www.mozalami.com), my professional website where I present my SEO consulting services. Protecting your personal data is a priority for me. This policy aims to inform you about how I collect, use, share, and protect your personal data when you visit my site, in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and applicable French legislation.

The data controller for your personal data is Mohammed ALAMI, operating under the trade name Mozalami, located at Rue Jean-Talon E #6224, Montréal, QC H1S 1M8, Canada, and reachable at contact@mozalami.com.

Personal Data Collected

I may collect different types of personal data about you:

1. Identification and Contact Data: First name, last name, email address, phone number, company (if you contact me via a contact form or directly by email).
2. Connection and Navigation Data: IP address, browser type, pages visited on my site, duration of visit, server logs (collected via cookies and analytics tools like Google Analytics).
3. Communication Data: The content of the messages you send me.

Purposes and Legal Basis for Collection

I collect and process your data for the following purposes:

• Providing and managing my services: Responding to your contact requests, preparing quotes, communicating with you regarding my SEO services.
  • Legal Basis: Performance of pre-contractual measures or a contract.
• Improving my website and services: Analyzing the use of my site to understand how visitors interact with the content and improve the user experience (via Google Analytics).
  • Legal Basis: Your consent (for non-essential cookies) and my legitimate interest in improving my site.
• Ensuring the security of my website: Protecting my site against fraud and abuse.
  • Legal Basis: My legitimate interest in ensuring the security of my infrastructure.
• Complying with my legal obligations: Meeting legal and regulatory requirements.
  • Legal Basis: Legal obligation.

Cookie Management Policy

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small text file placed on your device (computer, tablet, mobile) when you visit a website. It allows user data to be stored to facilitate navigation and enable certain features.

Why do I use cookies?

I use cookies for:

• Strictly Necessary Cookies: Ensuring the basic functioning of the site and managing your consent via the cookie management tool. These cookies do not require your prior consent.
• Performance and Analytics Cookies: Measuring my site’s audience, understanding how visitors navigate, and improving the site (e.g., via Google Analytics 4, managed by Google Tag Manager). These cookies are only placed if you consent.
• Third-Party Cookies: Cookies may be placed by third-party services if I embed their content (e.g., embedded videos, social networks). Their placement is subject to your consent.

How to manage cookies?

During your first visit, a banner informs you about the presence of these cookies and asks for your choice. You can change your preferences at any time via the cookie management tool accessible via the floating button at the bottom of the page.

Cookies are only placed if you accept them, except for strictly necessary cookies essential for the site’s operation.

You can also configure your browser to refuse all cookies or to alert you when cookies are sent. Each browser offers different configurations:

• Internet Explorer™
• Safari™
• Chrome™
• Firefox™
• Opera™

However, refusing certain cookies may impair your browsing experience on my site.

Cookies used on this site:

• “GDPR Cookie Compliance” Plugin Cookies: Used to remember your consent preferences. (Strictly necessary)
• Google Analytics Cookies (via GTM): _ga, _gid, _gat_gtag_UA_XXXXXX_X (or similar for GA4). Used to collect anonymous information about how visitors use the site. (Subject to consent)
• Google Ads Cookies: _gcl_au, IDE, NID (or similar). Used to measure the effectiveness of Google Ads advertising campaigns, track conversions, and enable remarketing. (Third-party, subject to consent)
• Meta Pixel (Facebook) Cookies: _fbp, fr (or similar). Used to track interactions with Meta ads, measure campaign effectiveness, and create custom audiences. (Third-party, subject to consent)

Data Retention Period

I retain your personal data only for the time necessary for the purposes for which it is collected:

• Contact Data (prospects): 3 years after the last contact.
• Client Data: For the duration of the contractual relationship, then archived for the legal prescription period (generally 5 years).
• Navigation Data (cookies): The lifespan of cookies is specified above or in the cookie management tool (maximum 13 months generally for cookies subject to consent). Aggregated analysis data may be kept longer.

Sharing of Personal Data

I do not sell or rent your personal data. However, I may share it with:

• Processors (Subcontractors): Website host (IONOS), analytics tools (Google Analytics), communication tools, etc., who act according to my instructions and respect confidentiality and security.
• Legal Authorities: If required by law or to protect my rights.

Google Analytics may transfer data outside the European Union. Google adheres to recognized data protection frameworks (like the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework) offering appropriate safeguards.

Data Security

I implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data against loss, unauthorized access, disclosure, or alteration (e.g., HTTPS protocol, access management, etc.).

Your Rights

In accordance with regulations, you have the following rights regarding your personal data:

• Right of access
• Right to rectification
• Right to erasure (“right to be forgotten”)
• Right to restriction of processing
• Right to data portability
• Right to object (especially to processing for marketing purposes)
• Right to withdraw your consent at any time (for processing based on consent)
• Right to define directives concerning the fate of your data after your death
• Right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority (in France, the CNIL: www.cnil.fr).

To exercise your rights, you can contact me by email at: contact@mozalami.com or by mail at Rue Jean-Talon E #6224, Montréal, QC H1S 1M8, Canada. I may ask you for proof of identity to verify your request.

Changes to the Privacy Policy

I reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time. The most recent version will always be available on this page, with the last updated date indicated at the top. I encourage you to consult it regularly.

Contact

For any questions regarding this privacy policy or your personal data, please contact me:

Mohammed ALAMI (Mozalami) Email: contact@mozalami.com
Address: Rue Jean-Talon E #6224, Montréal, QC H1S 1M8, Canada