Privacy Policy & Client Confidentiality

1. Overview

This Privacy Policy applies to the website suleman-zaheer.vercel.app operated by Suleman Zaheer (founder of SAMStack Studio), located in Shahdara Town, Lahore, Pakistan. We value the privacy of our website visitors, prospective clients, and business partners.

2. Information We Collect

We collect only the minimum personal data necessary to respond to your inquiries and deliver software engineering services:

• Contact Information: When you submit our contact form, we collect your name, email address, phone/WhatsApp number, and project details.
• Technical Logs: Basic server request logs including IP address, browser type, and operating system collected by Vercel for security, rate-limiting, and error diagnosis.
• Direct Communications: Any messages, project specifications, or documents you share via email (samstacktechs@gmail.com) or WhatsApp (+92 328 5778715).

3. Client Project Data & NDA Commitments

For all contracted software development, web engineering, POS, and AI consulting engagements:

• Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDA): We routinely execute mutual NDAs before reviewing sensitive business records, source code, or proprietary datasets.
• Proprietary Code Ownership: Upon full payment of milestone fees, intellectual property and source code rights transfer to the client as stipulated in the project contract.
• AI Privacy Protections: When building AI/RAG solutions, we configure zero-data-retention APIs and private vector stores. Your proprietary company data is never used to train public foundation models.

4. Third-Party Services & Infrastructure

Our website utilizes vetted, industry-standard infrastructure providers:

• Vercel Inc. (Hosting & CDN): Edge routing and secure SSL delivery.
• Google Firebase / Cloud Firestore: Encrypted metadata storage for portfolio content.
• EmailJS: Relaying contact form inquiries to our business inbox.

We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal or contact information to any third parties for advertising or commercial marketing.

5. Cookies & Local Storage

This website uses only essential session state and local storage necessary for technical functionality (such as photo gallery pagination and theme rendering). We do not deploy invasive third-party cross-site tracking cookies.

6. Your Rights

Under applicable Pakistani laws (including the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act / PECA) and international privacy frameworks (GDPR for European and UK remote clients, CCPA for US clients), you have the right to request access to, correction of, or deletion of any personal data we hold about you.

7. Contact & Data Officer

For privacy inquiries, NDA requests, or data deletion requests, contact Suleman Zaheer directly: