Last updated: 12 October 2026
1. Who controls your personal information
The controller for gizaverma.com is Alan Victor Services Ltd, trading as GizaVerma.
Company number: 12477923.
Registered office: 27 Old Gloucester Street, London, United Kingdom, WC1N 3AX.
Privacy contact: support@gizaverma.com.
This policy explains how we use personal information in connection with GizaVerma, including the website, customer enquiries, affiliate links, accounts where available, and direct GizaVerma sales when those sales launch.
2. The two shopping routes
GizaVerma operates two different shopping routes.
Amazon products. If you click an Amazon affiliate link, you leave our Site and deal with Amazon or the seller identified on Amazon. GizaVerma does not receive your Amazon password or payment-card details. Amazon’s own privacy information applies to its services.
GizaVerma products. When our own products are available, information entered into our checkout is handled by us and by the service providers needed to process the order, payment and delivery.
3. Personal information we collect
Depending on how you use the Site, we may collect:
- contact information, such as your name, email address and the contents of messages you send us;
- account information, if account features are enabled, such as your name, email address, login/account identifiers and account preferences;
- order information for GizaVerma products, once direct sales launch, such as your name, billing and delivery addresses, contact details, items ordered, order value, delivery choice, returns and refund history;
- payment-related information needed to reconcile a transaction, such as payment status, transaction reference and limited payment metadata supplied by the payment provider; we do not intend to store full card numbers on our systems;
- technical and security information, such as IP address, browser/device information, timestamps, requested pages, logs and security events;
- cookie and similar technology information, as explained in our Cookie Policy;
- affiliate referral information, such as the fact that a link to Amazon was clicked and reporting connected with our Associates account; and
- complaint, support, fraud-prevention and legal correspondence where relevant.
Amazon may provide affiliate reporting connected with qualifying activity. We do not use Amazon affiliate reporting to identify individual Amazon shoppers unless information lawfully supplied to us specifically identifies a person.
4. Why we use personal information and our legal bases
We use personal information for the following purposes:
- To operate and secure the Site – legitimate interests in running a secure, reliable shopping website and preventing abuse, or legal obligation where applicable.
- To answer enquiries and complaints – legitimate interests and, where the message relates to an existing or proposed GizaVerma purchase, steps connected with a contract.
- To create and manage accounts – performance of a contract or steps requested before entering a contract, where account services are offered.
- To process GizaVerma orders, delivery, returns and refunds – performance of a contract and legal obligations relating to consumer, tax and accounting records.
- To prevent fraud and protect legal rights – legitimate interests in protecting customers and the business, and legal obligation where applicable.
- To keep accounting and transaction records – legal obligation and legitimate interests in maintaining accurate business records.
- To use non-essential cookies or similar technologies – consent where the law requires consent. Where a specific legal exception applies to a storage/access technology, we may rely on that exception instead, as explained in the Cookie Policy.
Where we rely on legitimate interests, we consider whether our interests are overridden by your rights and interests.
5. Amazon affiliate links
GizaVerma participates in the Amazon Associates programme. When you select a qualifying Amazon link, information may be sent to or collected by Amazon so that Amazon can operate its service and attribute qualifying purchases or other activity.
We do not control Amazon’s processing on amazon.co.uk. Review Amazon’s privacy information before using its services.
Our Site also displays the required Amazon Associate disclosure and link-level affiliate wording so that the commercial nature of eligible links is clear.
6. Who receives personal information
We disclose personal information only where there is a lawful reason to do so. Recipients may include:
- Hostinger, for website hosting and related hosting services used by the Site;
- Cloudflare, for DNS services used to direct traffic to the Site;
- professional advisers, insurers, accountants or auditors where reasonably necessary;
- regulators, courts, law-enforcement bodies or other authorities where disclosure is required or legally justified; and
- a buyer or successor if the business or relevant assets are sold or reorganised, subject to appropriate safeguards.
WordPress and WooCommerce are software used to operate the Site. If optional third-party services, plugins or external processors are added, we will update this policy where required.
We do not sell personal information.
7. International transfers
Some service providers may process personal information outside the United Kingdom.
Where a transfer is a restricted international transfer under UK data protection law, we will use an approved lawful transfer mechanism or another permitted basis, and we will take the steps required by law to ensure an appropriate level of protection. This may include reliance on UK adequacy regulations or approved contractual safeguards, as applicable.
You can contact support@gizaverma.com for more information about the safeguards relevant to a particular transfer.
8. How long we keep information
We keep personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, including legal, accounting, security and dispute-resolution needs.
Our current working retention approach is:
- ordinary customer enquiries: normally up to 24 months after the enquiry is closed, unless a longer period is needed for a dispute or legal reason;
- account information: while the account is active and for a reasonable period afterwards for security, fraud and dispute purposes, subject to deletion rights;
- GizaVerma order, payment, refund and accounting records: normally up to 6 years from the end of the relevant accounting period where needed for tax, accounting or legal-claim purposes, and longer where the law or an active enquiry requires it;
- security logs: for the shortest reasonable period consistent with security and incident investigation; and
- cookie/consent records: for the period reasonably needed to respect and evidence your choice.
Actual infrastructure log periods may vary by provider. We will not keep identifiable information longer than reasonably necessary.
9. Cookies and similar technologies
Our Cookie Policy explains the storage and access technologies used on the Site.
Where consent is required, non-exempt technologies must not be used before valid consent. Where we rely on a statutory exception, such as a qualifying strictly necessary, statistical or appearance/functionality exception, we will meet the conditions that apply to that exception, including information and objection requirements where relevant.
10. Your data-protection rights
Depending on the circumstances, UK data protection law may give you rights to:
- receive information about how your data is used;
- obtain access to your personal information;
- correct inaccurate information;
- ask for deletion of information in certain circumstances;
- restrict processing in certain circumstances;
- object to processing based on legitimate interests;
- receive certain information in a portable format; and
- withdraw consent where we rely on consent.
These rights are subject to legal conditions and exceptions. To exercise a right, email support@gizaverma.com. We may need reasonable information to confirm your identity.
We will respond within the period required by law. The standard UK GDPR response period is one month, subject to lawful extensions for certain complex or multiple requests.
11. Complaints about privacy
Please contact us first at support@gizaverma.com so we can try to resolve your concern.
You also have the right to complain to the UK data-protection regulator, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), through ico.org.uk.
12. Data protection fee
Alan Victor Services Ltd will assess and maintain its data-protection fee obligations with the ICO. Any ICO registration or fee reference will be published where appropriate once confirmed. We do not publish an ICO number unless one has actually been issued to us.
13. Security
We use reasonable technical and organisational measures designed to protect personal information, including HTTPS, access controls, software updates, provider security controls and appropriate account/password protections.
No online system can be guaranteed completely secure. If a personal-data breach occurs, we will assess and handle it in accordance with applicable law.
14. Children
The Site is a general shopping website and is not designed to collect personal information from children unnecessarily. If direct purchasing is offered, the person entering the contract must have legal capacity to do so or appropriate authority.
If you believe a child has provided personal information inappropriately, contact support@gizaverma.com.
15. Changes to this policy
We may update this policy when our services, providers or legal obligations change. The latest version will be posted on the Site with a revised “Last updated” date.