ricardodias.co

Privacy Policy

Date wey e take start: 6 September 2026

1. Who I be (Data Controller)

My name na Ricardo Dias, and na me dey run this website ricardodias.co (wey be the “Site”).

Dis na my personal website wey dey stand on im own. Even though say I dey work for Spotware Systems, Spotware no get, operate, sponsor, or endorse dis Site, dem no be the data controller, and dem no dey receive personal data wey you submit through dis Site unless I tell you differently when you dey submit am.

Address: Limassol, Cyprus

Email for privacy matters: ricardo@ricardodias.co

Dis privacy policy dey explain how I dey collect, use, and protect your personal data when you visit dis Site and use the contact form.

2. Which personal data I dey collect and why

2.1 Contact form

When you use the contact form for dis Site, I fit collect:

  • Your Name
  • Your Email address
  • The message wey you write and any other information wey you choose to provide

Wetin I dey use am do: To answer your message and communicate with you about wetin you ask.

Legal reason: Legitimate interest and/or steps wey dey necessary to take based on your request before entering contract (Article 6(1)(f) and/or 6(1)(b) GDPR).

I no dey use your contact-form data for marketing unless you clearly agree somewhere else (for example, if you sign up for newsletter).

2.2 Information on how you take dey use the website (Google Analytics 4)

Dis Site dey use Google Analytics 4 (“GA4”), wey be web analytics service from Google Ireland Limited (“Google”).

GA4 fit collect and process:

  • Pages wey you visit and how you take move around the site
  • Time wey you spend for pages and wetin you click or do
  • Device type, browser, operating system
  • Rough rough location where you dey (country/city)
  • Where you follow come the site and campaign parameters
  • Special visitor identifier through the _ga cookie (and other cookies wey relate to am)

Wetin I dey use am do: To understand how visitors dey use the Site, and to make the content, performance, and user experience better.

Legal reason: For where the law require am (like for visitors wey dey EU/EEA), I dey rely on your consent for cookies wey no be compulsory and for analytics. For other places, I fit rely on legitimate interest, based on wetin local law talk.

Google fit transfer data go servers outside European Economic Area, including United States, under proper safeguards (like Standard Contractual Clauses and/or EU-US Data Privacy Framework).

More information:

3. Cookies and other technology like dat

Dis Site dey use cookies and similar technologies through Google Analytics 4 to separate you from other visitors and to collect statistics on how people dey use the site.

  • _ga and related cookies: dem dey use am to identify each unique visitor and check how people dey use the site.

You fit control and/or delete cookies through your browser settings. If you turn off cookies, some features for the Site (including analytics) fit no work the way dem suppose work.

For visitors wey dey EU/EEA, I dey use cookie-consent banner to get your permission before non-essential cookies start to work. You fit withdraw or change your consent anytime through the banner or your browser settings.

4. Who I dey share your data with

I no dey sell your personal data at all. I fit share your data with:

  • Email, hosting, and CRM providers wey dey process contact-form messages on my behalf under proper data-processing agreements.
  • Google Ireland Limited (for GA4 analytics), as I don explain on top.

Dis providers dey act as data processors and dem must protect your data and use am only for the reasons wey I tell dem.

5. How long I dey keep your data

  • Contact-form data: I dey keep your messages and contact details for 12 months after the last time wey we communicate, unless the law say make I keep am longer or e dey necessary for legal claims.
  • Google Analytics data: GA4 data dey stay for the period wey I set for my GA4 property (2 months), after dat Google go delete am automatically.

6. Your rights under GDPR

If you dey inside European Economic Area (EEA) or GDPR cover you, you get the right to:

  • Access your personal data
  • Request correction of data wey no correct
  • Request say make I delete your data (“right to be forgotten”)
  • Restrict or object to certain processing
  • Collect your data in structured, commonly used format (data portability)
  • Withdraw consent anytime (for processing wey rely on your consent)
  • Report matter give data-protection authority

To use any of dis rights, abeg contact me for: ricardo@ricardodias.co.

I go respond within the timeframe wey the law require.

7. Security

I dey put reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data make e no scatter, lost, change, or enter wrong hand without permission. But make you know say no method to send data over internet dey 100% secure, and I no fit guarantee complete security.

8. Changes to dis privacy policy

I fit update dis privacy policy from time to time. The latest version go always dey dis page, with the “Effective date” for the top.

9. Contact

If you get any question about dis privacy policy or how I dey handle data, abeg contact me for:

Email: ricardo@ricardodias.co

Address: Limassol, Cyprus