Your data, in plain language.

This site belongs to Ahmed Saad, a full-stack developer based in Cairo, Egypt. I’m responsible for the personal data described here. You can reach me at hello@amdsaad.com.

The homepage has a short form, “Have a project?”. When you send it, I save:

• your name and email address;
• the service you picked, if you pick one;
• your message;
• when the message arrived, when the email alert about it went out, and when I marked it handled.

I don’t save your IP address or your browser’s user agent with your message.

I use these details only to reply to you. I don’t sell them or use them for advertising.

The form doesn’t send you a confirmation email, so nobody can use it to email someone else. The “Message sent” screen is your confirmation.

While you type, your draft stays only in the page’s memory. It isn’t saved in your browser and is gone when you reload or close the tab.

The Work with me form and the Lab signup have no CAPTCHA. Instead, the server checks for signs of an automated sender and limits how often each IP address can send: 3 messages in 10 minutes and 10 a day, and, separately, 3 Lab signups in 10 minutes and 10 a day. To count them, the server reads your IP address and keeps it in its memory with the times of your recent attempts. This site never saves it in its database or writes it to its own logs, and it’s cleared whenever the server restarts.

Every night, messages older than 12 months are deleted automatically. I can delete a message sooner, along with the alert in my inbox, and I will if you ask: email hello@amdsaad.com.

Each message also reaches my inbox as an email alert, sent through Resend. Resend keeps its copy for 30 days. I delete the alert in my inbox after 12 months too.

If you book a call, you enter your details on Cal.com, my booking tool. If you email me, your email goes to my Zoho Mail inbox. If you ask for my resume, I send it by email myself.

Emails between us stay in my inbox as long as our conversation, or any project that comes out of it, needs them. After that, I delete them.

The Lab page and each entry have a form for getting new entries by email. When you sign up, I save:

• your email address;
• when you signed up;
• when I last sent you the confirmation email;
• when you confirmed your signup, once you do.

I don’t save your IP address or your browser’s user agent with your signup.

The Lab signup is for adults (18 and over).

Your address joins the list only after you confirm it. I send you an email through Resend with a link that works for 48 hours. The link opens a page where you press “Confirm signup”. Confirming is your consent to Lab emails. If you don’t confirm, your signup is deleted automatically within an hour after the latest link expires.

I use your address only for the Lab: to confirm your signup and, once entry emails start, to send you one email per new entry. Entry emails haven’t started yet. I don’t sell your address or use it for advertising.

I keep your address until you unsubscribe. To unsubscribe, email hello@amdsaad.com and I’ll delete your address within 2 days. When entry emails start, each one will also have an unsubscribe link. It opens a page with an “Unsubscribe” button, and pressing it deletes your address at once.

Some Lab entries and use case pages have a video from YouTube or Vimeo. The page loads nothing from YouTube or Vimeo until you press “Play video”. Without JavaScript, the video is a link to its page on YouTube or Vimeo instead.

When you press play, your browser loads the player from YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode (youtube-nocookie.com), or from Vimeo with its “do not track” setting on. From then on, that service sees your IP address and browser details, may store data in your browser, and its own policy applies: see Google’s privacy policy or Vimeo’s privacy policy.

None of this data is stored in Egypt. The site’s server is in the United States, its database is in Germany, and its emails go through the United States. The Work with me form and the Lab signup each have a checkbox to agree to this, and nothing is sent until you tick it.

• Supabase stores the site’s database, including your messages and Lab signups, in Frankfurt, Germany (EU).
• InterServer rents me the virtual private server the site runs on, in the United States. I manage it myself with Coolify. The server keeps no request logs, and the site’s own logs don’t record your IP address.
• Cloudflare, Inc. sits in front of the site. Every visit passes through its network, which sees your IP address and browser details so it can deliver the page and block attacks. If a page fails to load, your browser may send Cloudflare a short error report.
• Resend, Inc. sends me the email alert about your message and sends the Lab confirmation email. It stores all account data in the United States and keeps email content and logs for 30 days. See its data processing agreement and sub-processors.
• Zoho Mail runs my inbox at hello@amdsaad.com, in the United States. It receives the alerts and any email you send me. See its privacy policy.
• Cal.com, my booking tool, when you book a call. See its privacy policy.

Visits are counted with Cloudflare Web Analytics, which sets no cookies and doesn’t follow you to other sites. This site sets no cookies for visitors. Cloudflare may set a short-lived security cookie if it needs to check that you’re not a bot. A Lab video player you start yourself may set its own (see “Videos in Lab entries”). Fonts and images, including the images in Lab entries, are served from this site itself.

The only cookies are sign-in cookies for the admin area. They’re set when I sign in and are used only to keep me signed in.

Your browser stores one setting in local storage, “nuxt-color-mode”, which remembers the display theme. It isn’t a cookie, holds no personal data and never leaves your device.

Links to Cal.com, LinkedIn, GitHub, X, Fiverr, project websites and the sites linked from Lab entries take you to those services, where their own policies apply.

You can ask me to:

• tell you what personal data I hold about you and send you a copy;
• correct it, update it or add to it;
• delete it;
• withdraw your consent at any time, and I’ll delete the data it covers;
• limit how I use it to a purpose you name;
• stop using it in a way that goes against your rights and freedoms.

Email hello@amdsaad.com. It’s free, and I’ll reply within 6 working days.

If your data is ever exposed in a breach, I’ll report it to Egypt’s Personal Data Protection Center within 72 hours and email you within 3 working days of that report.

I’m based in Egypt, so this notice follows Egypt’s Personal Data Protection Law (Law No. 151 of 2020). You can complain to Egypt’s Personal Data Protection Center at portal.pdpc.gov.eg.