Data protection requests
For questions about personal data held by this site, and for requests to see, correct or delete what is held about you.
Before you write
If you have written in before, the quickest way to be found is to use the same email address you used then, because that is what the message is filed under.
Say what you would like done: to see what is held, to correct something, to have it deleted, or simply to ask a question. A request to delete is acted on rather than argued with.
Everything sent through the contact form is deleted automatically after one hundred and eighty days in any case, so if your enquiry is older than that, it is already gone.
No identity documents are needed and none should be sent. This site holds very little, and asking for a passport scan to prove who you are would collect more sensitive data than the request is about.
Send it
Direct and secure channels
- Not published, to keep it out of the hands of address harvesters. The form above reaches the same person.
- PGP
- Public key, with its fingerprint, a way to check it against the mail provider rather than against this site, and the four commands that do the job. Encrypt to it and paste the whole block, header and footer lines included, into the form above. Keep the message under about two thousand words: a field holds twenty thousand characters and an encrypted block is larger than what it encrypts.
- Signal
- Available on request through the form.
- Profile on LinkedIn
What happens to what you send
Messages are stored in a private database, readable only by Mohd Atasha, and are deleted once dealt with, or automatically after one hundred and eighty days, whichever comes first. Only the fields on the form are kept.
No cookies are set and no analytics are collected. Nothing you type here is sent to any third party: the form posts to this site and the message goes straight into its database.
One thing does leave. So that a message is not missed, an email service is told that an enquiry of this kind arrived, and when. It is not told your name, your address, your organisation, or any part of what you wrote. If the sensitivity of your enquiry makes even that insufficient, use PGP or Signal instead.