Privacy Policy
Last updated: August 6th, 2024
Houman Khalaj (“us”, “we”, or “our”) uses cookies on https://www.houmankhalaj.com (the “Service”). By using the Service, you consent to the use of cookies.
Our Cookies Policy explains what cookies are, how we use cookies, how third parties we may partner with may use cookies on the Service, your choices regarding cookies, and additional information about cookies.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small pieces of text sent by your web browser when you visit a website. A cookie file is stored in your web browser, allowing the Service or a third party to recognize you and make your next visit easier and more useful.
Cookies can be either “persistent” or “session” cookies.
How Houman Khalaj uses cookies
When you use and access the Service, we may place a number of cookie files in your web browser.
We use cookies for the following purposes: to enable certain functions of the Service, provide analytics, store your preferences, and enable advertisement delivery, including behavioral advertising.
We use both session and persistent cookies on the Service, employing different types to run the Service:
Essential cookies: We may use essential cookies to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts.
Cookie policy
This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.
These necessary and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.
These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.
Third-party cookies
In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-party cookies to report usage statistics of the Service, deliver advertisements on and through the Service, and more.
What are your choices regarding cookies?
If you’d like to delete cookies or instruct your web browser to delete or refuse cookies, please visit the help pages of your web browser.
Please note, however, that if you delete cookies or refuse to accept them, you might not be able to use all of the features we offer, store your preferences, and some of our pages might not display properly.
Analytics
This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:
Information about your browser, network, and device
Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
Your IP address
This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:
Clicks
Internal links
Pages visited
Scrolling
Searches
Timestamps
We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.
Visitor data
When you buy something on this website, we collect personal information from you to fulfill the order. We may collect information like your:
Billing and shipping address
Details relating to your purchase (for example, your shirt size)
Email address
Name
Phone number
We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us.
Our payment processor(s) [payment processor name(s) Stripe , PayPal , Square] will also collect payment information from you. You can read their privacy policy at [ payment processor privacy policy URL].
As you go through checkout, this site may auto-complete your shipping and billing address by sharing what you type with the Google Places API and returning suggestions to you to improve your checkout experience.
For form block submissions
When you submit information to this website via webform, we collect the data requested in the webform in order to track and respond to your submissions. We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us. We also share this information with [Google Drive, Google Forms, Mailchimp] for storage and [with Zapier for data porting].
For member site subscribers
When you subscribe and purchase a membership on this website, we collect personal information from you to enable your member sites access. We may collect information like your:
Billing and shipping address
Details relating to your subscription
Email address
Name
Phone number
We share this information with Squarespace, our website hosting provider, so that they can provide exclusive member site hosting services to us.
As you go through checkout, this site may auto-complete your shipping and billing address by sharing what you type with the Google Places API and returning suggestions to you to improve your checkout experience.
For website visitors
This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:
Information about your browser, network and device
Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
Web pages you view while on this website
Your IP address
Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.
For use of share buttons We don’t use it.
This website includes share buttons which enable you to share pages or other content from this site to the following third party services: [LIST SERVICES]. If you click a share button, these third parties may receive your personal data, including:
Information about your browser, network and device
Details about the web page or content you shared or proposed to share
Your IP address
For use of blog comments We don’t use it.
This website includes commenting functionality on some pages which enables you to post a comment. This website collects personal data when you post a comment, including:
Your name (which will be displayed as part of your posted comment)
Your email address (optional, to let you know if someone replies to your comment)
Your website URL (optional)
This website includes “likes” functionality on some blog posts which enables you to “like” a post. This website collects personal data when you like a post to try to prevent the same person from liking the same post during the same visit, including:
Information about your browser, network and device
Details about the web page or content you shared or proposed to share
Your IP address
Customer accounts
If you create a customer account on this website, we collect personal information to improve our checkout experience and customer service.
This information may include your:
Billing and shipping address(es)
Details about your orders (for example, your shirt size)
Email address
Name
Phone number
We share this information with Squarespace, our website hosting provider, so they can provide website services to us.
Emails
You’ll receive an automated email within 24 hours after you abandon your shopping cart, if all of the following occur:
You enter your email address at checkout, or are logged into your customer account.
You add a product which is in stock to your shopping cart.
You close your browser or leave this website without completing your purchase.
You can unsubscribe from these messages at the bottom of the email.
The email will link back to this website, where you can pick up where you left off and complete your purchase.
Marketing emails
We may send you marketing emails, which you can unsubscribe from by clicking the link at the bottom of the email. We share your contact information with Squarespace, our email marketing provider [https://mailchimp.com/?currency=EUR or Google], so they can send these emails on our behalf.
Order and account emails
We may email you with messages about your order or account activity. For example, we may email you to tell you that:
You’ve created a customer account
Your customer account password has been reset or updated
You’ve made a purchase
Your order has shipped
It’s not possible to unsubscribe from these messages.
We share your contact information with Squarespace, our website hosting provider, so they can send these emails to you on our behalf.
Fonts
This website serves font files from and renders fonts using Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, these third parties may receive personal information about you, including:
Information about your browser, network, or device
Information about this site and the page you’re viewing on it
Your IP address
Scheduling
When you schedule an appointment by booking on this website, we collect personal information from you to complete the booking. We may collect information like your:
Name
Email address
Phone number
Details relating to your appointment (for example, who referred you)
Files you uploaded
We share this information with Squarespace, our scheduling service provider, so that they can provide online booking services to us.
Squarespace Payments
When you make a purchase from us on this website, we use Squarespace Payments as our payment solution. Squarespace Payments is a fully integrated, native payment solution provided to us by our online store service provider Squarespace. Squarespace Payments makes use of the following third party service providers which will also receive your personal information and process it in accordance with their privacy policies:
Stripe - payment processing services. You can read Stripe’s privacy policy at https://stripe.com/privacy.
Sift - fraud monitoring and detection services. You can read Sift’s privacy policy at https://sift.com/service-privacy.
Data Retention (store information)
How Long We Store Your Information
We retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including for the purpose of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. The retention periods for personal data are as follows:
Account Information: We retain your account information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you with services. If you choose to delete your account, we will retain your information only for as long as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements, typically up to 10 years after account deletion.
Transaction Data: We retain transaction data for as long as required by applicable tax and financial regulations, generally up to 10 years.
Marketing Data: We retain information used for marketing purposes until you opt out of receiving these communications. After you opt out, we will keep a record of your preference not to receive communications from us, which we will retain indefinitely to ensure compliance with your request.
Legal Obligations and Disputes: We may retain your data for a longer period if necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. This period will be determined based on the applicable legal requirements.
If you have any questions about our data retention practices, please contact us via our Contact Page.