Privacy Policy

How zhbulbul.com collects, uses, and protects your information — in plain English, without the legal padding.

Last updated: 25 July 2026 · Effective: 25 July 2026

The Short Version

I collect only what I need: your name and email when you contact me or book a consultation, plus anonymous analytics about how this site is used.
I never sell your personal data. Not to advertisers, not to anyone.
This site uses cookies for analytics and advertising. You can switch the non-essential ones off — section 4 shows you how.
Some articles contain affiliate links. They cost you nothing extra and never change what I recommend.
Want your data removed? Email zhbulbulseo@gmail.com and I will delete it.

The full detail is below. Everything in this summary is repeated, in full, in the numbered sections.

1. Who I Am and What This Policy Covers

zhbulbul.com is owned and operated by Md. Zahidul Hassan Bulbul, an independent SEO content writer and SEO specialist based in Pabna, Bangladesh. In this policy, “I”, “me”, and “my” refer to Md. Zahidul Hassan Bulbul. “You” refers to anyone who visits this website, contacts me, or hires me.

This policy applies to zhbulbul.com and every page on it. It does not cover third-party websites I link to — each of those has its own policy.

2. Information I Collect

Information you give me directly

Name and email address when you use a contact form, book a consultation, or subscribe to updates.
Phone number, company name, and website URL, if you choose to share them.
Whatever you write in a message, a project brief, or a consultation booking.

Information collected automatically

IP address, browser type and version, device type, and operating system.
Pages you visit, time spent on each page, and the link or search that brought you here.
Cookie identifiers set by this site and by the third-party services described in sections 4 to 6.

I do not collect payment card details on this website. Client invoicing happens off-site through separate payment providers, each with its own privacy policy.

3. How I Use Your Information

To reply to your enquiry and deliver the consultation or service you asked for.
To send project updates, drafts, and deliverables you have requested.
To understand which articles are useful, so I can improve the site.
To display relevant advertising — see section 5.
To meet legal, tax, and accounting obligations.
To protect the site against spam, fraud, and abuse.

I do not use your information for automated decision-making or profiling that produces legal effects for you.

4. Cookies and Similar Technologies

A cookie is a small text file a website stores in your browser. This site uses three kinds:

Essential cookies — needed for the site to function and stay secure. These cannot be switched off.
Analytics cookies — anonymous measurement of how the site is used.
Advertising cookies — used by Google and its partners to serve and measure ads.

You can delete or block cookies in your browser settings — the help pages for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge all explain how. Blocking essential cookies may break parts of the site.

5. Advertising and Google AdSense

This site may display advertising served by Google AdSense and other third-party advertising networks. Where that happens:

Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or to other websites.
Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the internet.
You can opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings.
You can opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalised advertising at aboutads.info/choices or, in Europe, at youronlinechoices.com.
Other ad networks appearing on this site may set their own cookies. I do not control those cookies; their use is governed by each vendor’s own privacy policy.

If you are in the EEA, the UK, or Switzerland, a consent banner asks your permission before non-essential advertising cookies are set. You can change or withdraw that consent at any time.

Where ads appear: advertising is limited to blog articles. My home page, About page, and service pages stay ad-free.

6. Analytics

This site uses Google Analytics to understand how visitors find and use the content. Google Analytics sets cookies and records information such as pages viewed, session length, approximate city-level location, and device type. That data is aggregated — it does not identify you personally to me.

You can stop Google Analytics collecting your data entirely with the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

7. Affiliate Links and Disclosure

Some articles on this site contain affiliate links to software and tools I use in client work. If you buy through one of those links, I may earn a commission at no additional cost to you.

Affiliate links never change what I recommend or what I write. I only link to tools I have actually used. Every affiliate link is marked rel="sponsored", and any article containing one carries a disclosure at the top. Affiliate partners may set their own cookies to attribute a referral; those cookies are governed by the partner’s privacy policy, not this one.

8. How I Share Your Information

I do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information. I share it only in these situations:

Service providers that help run this business — website hosting, email delivery, consultation scheduling, and analytics — and only the data each one needs to do its job.
Advertising and analytics partners, as described in sections 5 and 6.
Legal requirements — where disclosure is required by law, court order, or a valid request from a public authority.
Protection of rights — where necessary to investigate fraud, enforce my terms, or protect the safety of others.

9. How Long I Keep Your Data

Enquiry and consultation messages: up to 24 months after our last contact.
Client project records and invoices: as long as tax and accounting law requires — currently up to 6 years.
Analytics data: per Google’s retention setting, currently 14 months.
Email subscription data: until you unsubscribe.

You can ask me to delete your data sooner at any time — see section 10.

10. Your Privacy Rights

Wherever you live, you can email me to ask for a copy of the data I hold about you, ask me to correct it, or ask me to delete it. I respond within 30 days.

If you are in the EEA or the UK (GDPR / UK GDPR), you also have the right to:

Access, correct, or erase your personal data.
Restrict or object to processing, including direct marketing.
Data portability — receive your data in a machine-readable format.
Withdraw consent at any time, without affecting processing already carried out.
Lodge a complaint with your national data protection authority.

My legal bases for processing are: your consent (marketing and non-essential cookies), performance of a contract (delivering the services you hired me for), and legitimate interests (site security, analytics, and replying to your enquiries).

If you are in California (CCPA / CPRA), you have the right to know what personal information is collected, to request its deletion, to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information, and not to be discriminated against for exercising these rights. I do not sell personal information. To exercise any of these rights, email zhbulbulseo@gmail.com.

11. Children’s Privacy

This website is written for business owners and marketing professionals. It is not directed at children under 16, and I do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 16. If you believe a child has given me personal data, email me and I will delete it promptly.

12. Third-Party Links

This site links out to other websites — tools I review, sources I cite, and my own social profiles. Once you follow a link away from zhbulbul.com, this policy no longer applies. Read the privacy policy of any site before sharing information with it.

13. Data Security

This site runs over HTTPS with a valid SSL certificate, sits behind server-level firewall and malware scanning, and is kept updated. Access to enquiry data is limited to me alone.

No method of transmitting data over the internet is completely secure, so I cannot promise absolute security. What I can promise: if a breach ever puts your personal data at risk, I will tell you without undue delay.

14. International Data Transfers

I work from Bangladesh with clients internationally. The service providers this site relies on — hosting, email, analytics, advertising — may process data in the United States, the European Union, and elsewhere. Where data leaves the EEA or the UK, those providers rely on Standard Contractual Clauses or an equivalent legal safeguard.

15. Changes to This Policy

I update this policy when the site, the law, or the services I use change. The “last updated” date at the top always reflects the current version, and material changes are flagged on this page. Continuing to use the site after an update means you accept the revised policy.

16. Contact Me

Questions about this policy, or want your data removed? Get in touch — I reply within one hour, usually sooner.

Md. Zahidul Hassan Bulbul
Email: zhbulbulseo@gmail.com
Phone: +880 1711 080117
Address: Pabna 6600, Bangladesh

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