Privacy Policy

Introduction

Kene Bell (“Kene Bell,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy.

This Privacy Policy explains how personal information is collected, used, disclosed, retained, and protected when you visit kenebell.com (the “Site”), submit a project inquiry, schedule a meeting, communicate with us, or otherwise interact with the Site.

This Policy applies to information processed through this Site. Third-party websites, platforms, and services may have their own privacy practices and policies.

Privacy questions or requests may be sent to:

1. Information We Collect

2. Sources of Information

We generally obtain information:

• Directly from you
• Automatically from your interaction with the Site and its infrastructure
• From service providers involved in scheduling, communications, hosting, security, or delivery of Site functionality

3. How We Use Information

We may use personal information to:

• Receive, evaluate, and respond to project inquiries
• Determine whether a potential engagement may be a fit
• Schedule and administer meetings
• Communicate about inquiries or scheduled meetings
• Send requested transactional or service-related communications
• Maintain business records
• Operate, secure, troubleshoot, and improve the Site
• Detect or prevent fraud, abuse, security incidents, and unlawful activity
• Protect our rights and the rights of others
• Comply with legal obligations
• Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims
• Complete a business transaction such as a reorganization or transfer if applicable

Submitting an inquiry or scheduling a meeting does not automatically subscribe you to a marketing newsletter.

We will not add a person to promotional email marketing solely because they submitted a project inquiry or scheduled a meeting.

4. Legal Bases for Processing

Where laws such as the GDPR or UK GDPR apply, personal information may be processed on one or more of the following bases:

• Taking steps at your request before entering into a potential contract
• Performance of a contract where one exists
• Our legitimate interests in responding to inquiries, operating our business, maintaining and securing the Site, preventing abuse, and communicating with prospective or existing clients
• Compliance with legal obligations
• Consent where consent is required by applicable law

Where processing is based on consent, you may withdraw consent as permitted by applicable law.

5. How Information Is Disclosed

We may disclose personal information only as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Policy, including to:

6. Calendly and Embedded Scheduling

The Booking page contains an embedded Calendly scheduling experience.

When you interact with that embedded service, Calendly may collect information directly from your browser and may use cookies or similar technologies according to Calendly’s own privacy notice and cookie settings.

Calendly’s privacy/cookie controls remain available in the embedded scheduling experience.

Booking information may also be processed through connected services such as Google Calendar and Google Meet for the purpose of creating and administering the meeting.

If you prefer not to use the embedded scheduler, you may contact Kene Bell directly instead.

7. Sale, Advertising, and Profiling

We do not sell project-inquiry information to data brokers or advertisers for monetary consideration.

We do not use information submitted through the Contact form to build behavioral advertising profiles.

We do not currently use personal information under our control for automated decision-making that produces legal or similarly significant effects.

Third-party embedded services may process information for their own purposes under their own privacy policies and privacy controls.

8. Data Retention

Personal information is retained only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, including:

• Evaluating and responding to inquiries
• Administering prospective or actual business relationships
• Maintaining appropriate business and communication records
• Resolving disputes
• Enforcing agreements
• Protecting legal rights
• Complying with applicable legal, tax, accounting, or regulatory requirements

Retention duration may therefore vary depending on whether an inquiry develops into an ongoing business relationship and whether a legal obligation requires longer retention.

When personal information is no longer reasonably necessary, we may delete, anonymize, or otherwise dispose of it consistent with applicable law and operational requirements.

Third-party providers may maintain information according to their own retention policies and contractual obligations.

9. Data Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures designed to protect personal information against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, loss, or misuse.

No website, network, transmission method, or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

Users should therefore avoid sending unnecessary sensitive information through public website forms or ordinary email.

Where required by applicable law, appropriate notifications will be made following a qualifying data-security incident.

10. International Data Transfers

Kene Bell operates from the United States.

Personal information may therefore be transferred to, stored in, or processed in the United States or other countries in which our service providers operate.

Those jurisdictions may have data-protection laws different from the laws where you live.

Where applicable law requires specific safeguards for international transfers, appropriate legal or contractual transfer mechanisms may be used by us or our service providers.

11. Your Privacy Rights

Depending on where you live and subject to applicable law, you may have rights to:

• Know or access personal information
• Obtain a copy of personal information
• Correct inaccurate information
• Request deletion
• Request portability
• Restrict or object to certain processing
• Withdraw consent where processing relies on consent
• Opt out of certain sales, sharing, targeted advertising, or qualifying profiling where applicable
• Appeal certain decisions concerning a privacy-rights request
• Receive equal service without unlawful discrimination for exercising privacy rights

To submit a privacy request, email:

We may request information reasonably necessary to verify the identity of the requester and protect against fraudulent requests.

Where applicable law permits use of an authorized agent, appropriate authorization or identity verification may be required.

We will respond within the time required by applicable law.

12. Privacy Appeals

If applicable law provides a right to appeal a decision concerning a privacy request, submit the appeal to:

Include enough information to identify the original request and the decision being appealed.

The appeal will be reviewed and answered as required by applicable law.

13. Additional Rights for EEA, UK, and Other International Users

Where applicable data-protection law provides additional rights, individuals may have rights including:

• Access
• Rectification
• Erasure
• Restriction
• Objection
• Portability
• Withdrawal of consent

Individuals may also have the right to lodge a complaint with the data-protection authority or supervisory authority responsible for their jurisdiction.

Nothing in this Policy limits rights that cannot lawfully be waived.

14. United States State Privacy Disclosures

Depending on applicable law and whether statutory coverage thresholds are met, residents of certain U.S. states may have additional privacy rights.

Categories of personal information potentially processed through this Site include:

• Identifiers and contact information
• Professional or business-related information
• Commercial/project-interest information
• Internet, network, browser, and device information
• Communications and scheduling information
• Other information voluntarily submitted in an inquiry or communication

Sources, purposes, and recipients are described elsewhere in this Policy.

We do not intentionally collect sensitive personal information through the public inquiry form and ask users not to provide it.

We do not discriminate unlawfully against individuals for exercising applicable privacy rights.

15. Children’s Privacy

The Site is intended for a general professional audience and is not directed to children under 13.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 through the Site.

If you believe a child has provided personal information through the Site, contact:

We will take appropriate steps consistent with applicable law.

16. Third-Party Websites and Services

The Site may contain links to or integrations with third-party websites and services.

Their privacy practices are governed by their own policies.

We are not responsible for the privacy practices, security, content, or policies of independent third parties.

Users should review the policies of services they choose to use.

17. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in law, technology, service providers, Site functionality, or business practices.

The updated version will be posted on this page with a revised “Last Updated” date.

Where applicable law requires additional notice or consent for a material change, we will provide it.

18. Contact

Questions, privacy requests, or concerns regarding this Policy may be directed to: