Privacy Policy
Effective Date: February 22, 2026
Last Updated: February 15, 2026
Welcome to AtharMehar.com (“Website”, “Site”), operated by Muhammad Athar, in short Athar Mehar (“I”, “me”, “my”, “Mehar”). This Privacy Policy explains how I collect, use, store, and protect your personal information when you visit this Website, purchase digital products, or engage my professional services. By using this Website, you agree to the practices described in this policy.
1. Information I Collect
1.1 Information You Provide Directly
When you interact with this Website, you may voluntarily provide personal information including your full name, email address, phone number, billing and payment details, company or business name, project details submitted through the contact form, and any other information you include in messages or service inquiries.
1.2 Account Information
When you create an account on this Website to purchase digital products or access downloads, I collect your name, email address, username, and password. Your payment card details are processed directly by the third-party payment gateway and are never stored on my servers.
1.3 Order & Transaction Data
When you make a purchase through the WooCommerce-powered shop, I collect your billing name and address, email address, order details (products purchased, order total, date), and transaction identifiers provided by the payment processor.
1.4 Automatically Collected Information
When you visit this Website, certain information is collected automatically, including your IP address, browser type and version, operating system, referring URL, pages visited and time spent on each page, and device type (desktop, tablet, mobile). This information is collected through cookies, server logs, and analytics tools.
2. How I Use Your Information
I use the information collected for the following purposes:
To process orders and deliver digital products — fulfilling purchases, providing download access, and sending order confirmation and receipt emails.
To provide professional services — communicating about project scope, deliverables, timelines, and invoicing related to consulting and development engagements.
To respond to inquiries — replying to messages submitted through the contact form, including questions about services, products, or general inquiries.
To manage your account — maintaining your user account, providing access to order history, downloads, and account settings.
To improve the Website — analyzing usage patterns to enhance Website performance, content, navigation, and user experience.
To ensure security — protecting against fraudulent transactions, unauthorized access, and other malicious activity.
To comply with legal obligations — meeting applicable legal, regulatory, and tax requirements.
3. Cookies & Tracking Technologies
3.1 What Are Cookies
Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit a website. They help the Website function properly, remember your preferences, and provide analytics data.
3.2 Cookies This Website Uses
Essential Cookies — required for the Website to function, including WooCommerce session cookies, cart contents, login authentication, and CSRF protection tokens. These cannot be disabled.
Analytics Cookies — used to understand how visitors interact with the Website, including pages visited, time on site, and traffic sources. This Website may use Google Analytics or similar services for this purpose.
Preference Cookies — used to remember your settings and choices, such as currency preference or login state.
3.3 Managing Cookies
You can control and delete cookies through your browser settings. Please note that disabling essential cookies may affect the functionality of the Website, including the ability to make purchases and maintain a shopping cart.
4. How I Share Your Information
I do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information to third parties. Your information may be shared only in the following limited circumstances:
Payment Processors — your payment details are shared with the third-party payment gateway (such as Stripe or PayPal) to process transactions securely. I do not store your full credit card or payment details on my servers.
Hosting & Infrastructure Providers — this Website is hosted on servers provided by third-party hosting companies that may process your data as part of delivering the Website to you.
Analytics Services — anonymized or aggregated usage data may be processed by analytics providers (such as Google Analytics) to help me understand Website traffic and usage patterns.
Email Services — your email address may be processed by a third-party email service provider to deliver transactional emails such as order confirmations, download links, and account notifications.
Legal Requirements — I may disclose your information if required by law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request, or to protect my rights, property, or safety.
5. Data Retention
I retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this policy. Specifically:
Account data is retained for as long as your account remains active. You may request account deletion at any time.
Order and transaction data is retained for a minimum of 6 years to comply with tax and accounting obligations.
Contact form submissions are retained for up to 12 months, after which they are deleted unless they are part of an ongoing service engagement.
Analytics data is retained in anonymized or aggregated form and does not identify you personally.
Server logs containing IP addresses are retained for up to 90 days for security purposes.
6. Data Security
I take reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. These measures include SSL/TLS encryption for all data transmitted between your browser and this Website, secure password hashing for user accounts, regular software updates and security patches, restricted access to personal data on a need-to-know basis, and secure hosting infrastructure with firewall protection.
However, no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is 100% secure. While I strive to protect your personal information, I cannot guarantee its absolute security.
7. Your Rights
Depending on your location and applicable laws, you may have the following rights regarding your personal information:
Right to Access — you may request a copy of the personal data I hold about you.
Right to Rectification — you may request correction of any inaccurate or incomplete personal data.
Right to Erasure — you may request deletion of your personal data, subject to legal retention requirements.
Right to Restrict Processing — you may request that I limit how I use your personal data in certain circumstances.
Right to Data Portability — you may request your personal data in a structured, machine-readable format.
Right to Object — you may object to the processing of your personal data for certain purposes, such as direct marketing.
Right to Withdraw Consent — where processing is based on your consent, you may withdraw that consent at any time.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact me by filling the contact form. I will respond to your request within 30 days.
8. Children’s Privacy
This Website is not intended for use by individuals under the age of 16. I do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If I become aware that I have inadvertently collected personal data from a child under 16, I will take steps to delete that information promptly. If you believe a child has provided me with personal information, please contact me immediately.
9. International Data Transfers
This Website is operated from Punjab, Pakistan. If you are accessing this Website from outside Pakistan, please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in Pakistan or other countries where my hosting and service providers operate. By using this Website, you consent to the transfer of your information to these locations.
10. Third-Party Links
This Website may contain links to third-party websites, including GitHub, LinkedIn, and client project websites. I am not responsible for the privacy practices or content of these external sites. I encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party websites you visit through links on this Website.
11. WooCommerce & WordPress Specific Disclosures
This Website is built on WordPress and uses WooCommerce for its online shop. The following platform-specific data practices apply:
WooCommerce stores order data, customer details, and session information in the Website’s database to process and manage orders. WooCommerce may also set cookies to track cart contents and session state.
WordPress may store logged-in user cookies, comment cookies (if applicable), and session tokens. If you have an account, WordPress stores your username, email, and hashed password in the database.
Gravatar — if you create an account, your email address may be sent to the Gravatar service to check if you have a profile image. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available at https://automattic.com/privacy/.
12. Changes to This Privacy Policy
I reserve the right to update this Privacy Policy at any time. Changes will be effective immediately upon posting the revised policy on this page with an updated “Last Updated” date. Your continued use of the Website after changes are posted constitutes your acceptance of the updated policy. For material changes, I will make reasonable efforts to notify registered users via email.
13. Contact
If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or how your personal data is handled, please fill the contact form!