Privacy notice

Who we are

Maikaza is run by Yinka Aderibigbe, working remotely from Mauritius. You can reach us at admin@maikaza.com.

What we collect and why

Work contact details that businesses make public, for example on company websites, in business directories and on professional profiles. We use them to send one specific finding to the right person at a business.

Public technical records about a business, such as DNS records and public web pages. These are the raw material of our findings.

Anything you send us, so that we can reply, deliver work and invoice.

When someone opens a page or an evidence card on this site, we record the time, the page, the country, the site that linked to it and the first 160 characters of the user agent line the browser sends. That line names the browser and the device type. We do not store IP addresses.

The free Tech Plan

Every answer in the Tech Plan is optional; skipping one leaves that part of your plan blank. To see where people stop, we count which question each visit reaches, under a random number made for that visit; it holds none of your answers and is never sent to Meta. Your answers stay in your browser until you choose a next step: email me this plan, send to a colleague, copy the link, ask for a build, ask a question or book a call.

If you type your website, we read its public DNS records and load its homepage once. We keep only the findings: for two days, or with your plan when you choose a next step.

When you choose a next step, we keep your answers, your website findings and the page you started on. If the link you came through carries a click code from Meta, such as a link in one of our ads or in a Facebook or Instagram post, we also keep that code and the time you arrived. All of it lives at a private link that cannot be guessed. When you give your email, we also keep your first name and your email address, and, when you tick the box, your consent with its exact wording and time. When you ask a question, ask for a build or book a call, we keep what you wrote and any phone number you give. We use all of this to send your plan, your follow up emails if you asked for them, and our replies.

The box you can tick says: “Also email me up to three follow ups over the next ten days about builds Maikaza offers. I can unsubscribe at any time.” It stays unticked unless you tick it, and your plan is emailed either way.

When you send your plan to a colleague, we email them once, from Maikaza, with your first name, your email address, the role you picked for them and the plan link. We check their address against our unsubscribe list first. We keep their address for 30 days so we can answer a reply. After that we keep only a scrambled code made from their address; the code lets us block a second email to them for as long as this site runs.

Your plan lives at a private link that cannot be guessed. Anyone who has the link can open it, so share it only with people you trust. When you change a number on it, we save the change with your plan.

When you book a call, we add it to our Google Calendar with your first name, your email address, your plan link, the idea you picked and any note or phone number you gave. We send you the Google Meet link for the call from there.

The emails are your plan with its PDF, then, when you ticked the box, up to three follow up emails over ten days, plus a confirmation of anything you ask for or book. The follow ups stop as soon as you ask for a build, book a call or unsubscribe. Every email has an unsubscribe link, and it works at once.

To stop abuse, the Tech Plan counts requests from each visitor with a code made from the IP address and a random value that changes every day. The code and the random value are deleted after two days. The IP address itself is never stored.

Send me your job

On the job page (Send me your job, at maikaza.com/job) you describe the work in your own words and can give your budget as one fixed amount or as an hourly rate. What you type stays in your browser until you ask for your proposal or choose another next step. To see where people stop, we count how far each visit gets, under a random number made for that visit; it holds none of your words and is never sent to Meta.

When you ask for your proposal on the screen, your words and your choices go to our server, where Cloudflare's text service drafts the plan's words on Cloudflare's own network; every line is checked and every price is set by our own rules before you see it. We keep your words and your choices with the proposal, without your name or email address, and delete them after 30 days unless you ask for a copy, tell us you're ready or ask for it by email.

When you ask for a copy of your proposal, tell us you're ready, ask for your proposal by email or book a call, we keep your words, your choices, your first name, your email address, any phone number or note you give, your time zone and the page you sent it from. We use them to send what you asked for and to reply. When you book a call, we add it to our Google Calendar with your first name, your email address and the kind of job you described, and send you the Google Meet link from there. The job page sends no follow up emails and tells Meta nothing. Every email it sends has an unsubscribe link, and it works at once. To stop abuse, it counts requests the same way the Tech Plan does, with a code that is deleted after two days.

Ads on Facebook and Instagram

This site loads no Meta pixel and sets no advertising cookies. When you use the Tech Plan, our server can tell Meta four things: that a plan was started, that it was finished, that you gave us your own email address on your plan, and that a call was booked. We send them only when you came through a link that carried a click code from Meta, such as a link in one of our ads, and only within 90 days of that click. Each message carries that click code with the time you arrived, the address of the page it came from and the user agent line your browser sends, so Meta can match it to the ad or post you clicked. From a plan page we send only maikaza.com/plan as the address, so your private link never reaches Meta. We never send Meta your name, email address, phone number, answers or IP address.

We use these messages to see which ads work, and to ask Meta not to show our ads to people who already asked for a Tech Plan. Meta can also use them under its own terms, for example to improve how it delivers ads and to choose the ads and content it shows people, and can keep them for up to two years. Meta’s privacy policy is at facebook.com/privacy/policy.

If your browser sends Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track, we send Meta nothing at all. You can also decide whether Meta uses your activity on other websites to pick the ads and content it shows you: in Facebook or Instagram, go to Settings, then Accounts Center, then Your information and permissions, then Activity from other businesses. You can see other choices at optout.aboutads.info.

Spam check

When our spam check is on, the steps where you send your plan, send it to a colleague, ask a question, ask for a build or book a call, and on the job page the steps where you ask for your proposal, a copy of it or your proposal by email, tell us you're ready or book a call, run Cloudflare Turnstile. It reads signals from your browser to tell people from bots, under Cloudflare’s privacy policy.

What we never do

We do not sell or rent personal data. We put no tracking pixels and no tracked links in our emails. This site sets no cookies and loads no advertising scripts or tracking pixels. The only information this site sends to an advertising company is the server messages to Meta described above. Every file it loads comes from maikaza.com itself, except Cloudflare’s spam check on the Tech Plan and the job page when it is on.

Stopping contact

Reply “stop” to any email from us, or write to admin@maikaza.com. Within two business days we add you to a suppression list so you are never contacted again. The unsubscribe link in a Tech Plan or job page email works at once. If you later ask a question, ask for a build or book a call, we answer that one request.

Stopping emails does not delete a Tech Plan. It stays for the time shown below, and its link keeps working, unless you ask us to delete it sooner. If you use the Tech Plan again with the same address, you still see your plan on screen, but we send no email to that address. If we found your details in public sources, we keep only what the suppression list needs.

How long we keep data

If we wrote to you about a finding and you never replied, we delete your details twelve months after our last message.

Tech Plans, requests and bookings are deleted 24 months after our last contact with you. Jobs and calls from the job page are deleted 24 months after they were sent or booked. A proposal written on the job page is deleted 30 days after it was written, unless you asked for a copy, told us you're ready or asked for it by email; then it is kept with that job and deleted with it. Plans saved without any contact details are deleted 12 months after they were last opened. A colleague’s address is deleted 30 days after the one email we send them, unless they reply; after that we keep only the scrambled code described above. Website findings that never became part of a plan, and the visitor codes with their daily random values, are deleted after two days. Our log of emails sent, ad messages and step counts, which holds record numbers and outcomes but no names or addresses, is deleted after 90 days. Records of page visits and evidence card opens are deleted after 13 months.

The suppression list keeps a scrambled code made from your email address, so an unsubscribe keeps working. Client records are kept for as long as tax and accounting law requires.

Evidence cards

An evidence card is an unlisted page about one company’s public records. Cards are hidden from search engines and removed on request.

Who processes data for us

Cloudflare hosts this site and its database, sends the Tech Plan and job page emails from plan.maikaza.com, forwards email sent to admin@maikaza.com to our mailbox and runs the spam check when it is on. Cloudflare's text service also drafts the words of the proposals on the job page. Our database runs on Cloudflare in eastern North America, so your data is stored outside Mauritius, under Cloudflare’s data processing terms. The provider of our mailbox holds the emails we send and receive there. Google holds booked calls in Google Calendar and runs the Google Meet calls, under its own terms. Meta receives the Tech Plan messages described above, under its Business Tools Terms.

Your requests

Write to admin@maikaza.com to see, correct or delete what we hold about you. You can also review your answers and numbers at any time through your plan link. We answer within 30 days. You can also complain to the Data Protection Office of Mauritius.

Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control

This site runs no tracking scripts. Apart from Cloudflare, which hosts the site, Meta is the only company that learns about your visit, and only through the four Tech Plan events above. They carry the click code from the link you came through, so Meta can link them to the ad or post you clicked. When your browser sends Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control, we send Meta nothing. We still keep the visit record described above, which holds no name and no IP address and never leaves our database. No other party collects information about your activity over time and across other websites through this site.

Children

This site and the Tech Plan are for businesses. They are not meant for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their data.

Changes to this notice

When this notice changes, we update the date at the top. If a change affects how we use data you already gave us, we email you before it applies.