# Privacy Canonical page: https://vikrammohan.com/privacy ## Who I am Vikram Mohan ("I", "me") is the controller of the personal data collected through vikrammohan.com. I am a sole practitioner based in London, United Kingdom. Contact: through the [contact form](https://vikrammohan.com/contact) on this site. ## What this site collects ### The contact form The form sends me your email address and your message, and your name if you give it. The service that handles the form may also record the time and your IP address to filter spam. You do not have to contact me, but I cannot reply without an email address. ### Website analytics If you accept analytics cookies, an analytics service records the pages you view, the site that referred you, your device and browser, and your approximate location. It does not tell me who you are. Before you accept, or if you choose "Essential only", no analytics cookies are set. Limited data that is not linked to a cookie, such as the page viewed, may still be sent to the analytics service. ### Site improvement analytics Some functionality that helps me improve the site is switched on by default. A site improvement analytics service records how visitors use the pages, such as clicks, scrolling, mouse movement and the pages visited, so that I can see where the site works well and where it can be improved. It may set cookies in your browser, including cookies set by its provider, to link the pages you view into one visit and to recognise a return visit. You can switch it off at any time, as explained under "Cookies and your choices". ### Security and hosting The providers that host and protect this site process your IP address, browser details and the pages you request, in order to deliver the site and keep it safe. A bot-protection check runs on the contact form. The site's font is loaded from a third-party font service, which receives your IP address when it serves the font. ## Why I use it and the lawful basis - **Contact form:** to answer your enquiry. This is based on my legitimate interests in replying or, if you ask about working with me, on taking steps at your request before a contract. - **Analytics:** to improve the site. Analytics cookies rely on your consent, which you can withdraw at any time. The limited cookieless data relies on my legitimate interests. - **Site improvement analytics:** to understand how the site is used and to improve it. This is based on my legitimate interests in running and improving the site. You can opt out at any time. - **Security and hosting:** to deliver the site and keep it safe from abuse, based on my legitimate interests. I do not make automated decisions about you that have legal or similarly significant effects. ## Who receives it Your data is handled by the service providers I use to run this site and reply to you. They act on my instructions as processors: - a form-handling service, which passes your message to my mailbox; - my email and office platform, where your message is stored; - the website hosting, security and bot-protection provider; - an analytics provider, whose cookies are set only with your consent; - a site improvement analytics provider, which runs by default unless you opt out. Information may also be processed by other services I use for the purpose of delivering this site and responding to you. Details of the providers in use at any time are available on request through the contact form. No one else receives your data unless the law requires it. ## Where it is stored and international transfers Some of these providers are based in the United States or process data there. Where a provider is certified under the UK Extension to the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, the transfer from the UK relies on that certification. Otherwise it relies on the UK International Data Transfer Agreement or the UK Addendum to the EU standard contractual clauses. Ask through the contact form for details. ## How long I keep it - **Enquiries:** as long as I need to deal with them, and up to 24 months after our last contact. - **Analytics:** up to 14 months. - **Site improvement analytics:** up to 13 months. - **Hosting and security logs:** the provider's own short retention period. ## Cookies and your choices This site uses essential storage, which is strictly necessary and does not need your consent: - the hosting and bot-protection provider may set short-lived technical cookies for security; - `vm_consent`, in your browser's local storage, remembers your cookie choice for 12 months. After that, I ask again. Site improvement analytics is switched on by default and may set cookies, including `_clck` and `_clsk` and cookies set by its provider, which last up to 13 months. Analytics cookies are set only after you select "Accept" in the banner: - `_ga` tells visitors apart. It lasts 2 years. - `_ga_*` keeps the state of your visit. It lasts 2 years. This site does not use cookies for advertising and does not sell personal data. The site improvement analytics provider may also use its own cookies across its other services. **How to opt out.** Use the "Cookie settings" link in the footer of any page and choose "Essential only". This switches off site improvement analytics, deletes its cookies on this site and keeps analytics cookies off. Your choice is remembered for 12 months. You can also block or delete cookies in your browser settings. ## Your rights You have the right to: - access your personal data; - have it corrected (rectification); - have it erased; - restrict how I use it; - object to my use of it where I rely on legitimate interests; - receive it in a portable format (portability). Some rights apply only in certain circumstances. To use them, send a message through the [contact form](https://vikrammohan.com/contact). I will normally reply within one month. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) at [ico.org.uk](https://ico.org.uk/) or on 0303 123 1113. ## Changes to this notice I may update this notice; the current version is always on this page. Last updated: 6 October 2026. Vikram Mohan is not a solicitor or barrister. Nothing on this site is legal advice. For legal advice, speak to a regulated legal professional. © Vikram Mohan - All rights reserved. No liability accepted for content on this website. 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