Legal
Privacy Policy
Last updated: 25 October 2026 · Terms of Service
1. Who we are
This policy explains how The Pleinair Studio — the trading name of Emil Sayasatovich Alekperov, a self-employed individual in the Russian Federation (“we”, “us”) — handles personal data when you visit thepleinair.space or contact us. We are the controller of the personal data described here. We follow the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the UAE Personal Data Protection Law (Federal Decree-Law No. 45 of 2021, “PDPL”) where they apply.
- Studio
- The Pleinair Studio
- Controller
- Emil Sayasatovich Alekperov, self-employed individual (professional income tax payer), Russian Federation
- Taxpayer ID (INN)
- 391707496990
- Location
- Kaliningrad, Russia
- Privacy contact
- admin@thepleinair.space
2. The short version
- The website does not store your personal data on our servers. The contact form and the price calculator prepare a message in your browser and open the channel you choose — WhatsApp, Telegram or email. When you send the contact form, a copy of the same details is also delivered to the studio’s private Telegram chat, so your enquiry is not lost if the message is never sent. The calculator sends nothing to us by itself.
- We use no advertising or tracking cookies. To count visits on the English and Arabic versions we use Vercel Web Analytics: it sets no cookies, does not identify you and shows us only aggregated statistics.
- We only use the details you send us to reply to you and, if you become a client, to deliver your project.
3. What we process and why
| Purpose | Data | Legal basis (GDPR) | How long |
|---|---|---|---|
| Replying to your enquiry and preparing a quote | Your name, phone number, messenger username or email address, the service you are interested in, your project details and anything else you choose to send | Steps taken at your request before entering into a contract (Art. 6(1)(b)); our legitimate interest in answering enquiries (Art. 6(1)(f)) | Up to 12 months after our last contact if no project follows |
| Delivering a project and invoicing | Name, contact details, billing details, project communication and materials | Performance of a contract (Art. 6(1)(b)); legal obligations such as bookkeeping (Art. 6(1)(c)) | For the duration of the project and afterwards as long as required by accounting and tax laws |
| Running the website securely | Technical data processed by our hosting provider: IP address, browser type, requested pages, time of the request | Legitimate interest in a secure and working website (Art. 6(1)(f)) | Short-lived server logs, kept by the hosting provider under its retention policy |
| Visit statistics (English and Arabic pages) | Page visited, referring site, country, device type, browser and operating system, processed by Vercel Web Analytics without cookies; a visitor is told apart by a hash of the request that changes every day and is not stored | Legitimate interest in understanding how the website is used (Art. 6(1)(f)) | Only aggregated figures are kept, under Vercel’s retention policy |
| Remembering your cookie choice, language and currency | The “pl_consent” cookie with your choice and the date it was made, and the language and currency you picked, kept in your browser — no personal identifiers | Strictly necessary and requested by you; consent for optional storage (Art. 6(1)(a)) | 6 months for the cookie; language and currency until you clear them in your browser |
We do not sell personal data, do not use it for automated decision-making or profiling, and do not process special categories of data. Our services are not directed at children under 16.
4. Cookies and local storage
When you first visit, we ask for your cookie choice. The necessary cookie “pl_consent” only remembers that choice for 6 months. The page also keeps the language and currency you picked in your browser, so the site opens in them next time. The optional functional category may store page content in your browser for faster loading; the current version of the website does not store any content, and it is never used for tracking. You can change your choice at any time with “Cookie settings” at the bottom of the home page.
The Russian version of the site (thepleinair.space/ru) is made for the Russian market: it uses Yandex Metrica analytics only after you accept it there, and has its own privacy policy in Russian.
The demo websites in our portfolio are concepts. Their booking forms, carts and similar features keep data only in your own browser (local storage) and never send it to us or anyone else. Some demos load fonts from Google Fonts and maps from Google Maps, which receive your IP address when those pages are opened.
5. Who receives data
- Hosting and statistics: the website is hosted by Vercel Inc., which processes technical request data to deliver the site and, on the English and Arabic pages, to produce cookieless visit statistics (Vercel Web Analytics).
- Messaging and email: when you contact us, your message is transmitted by the service you choose — WhatsApp (Meta), Telegram or your email provider — under that provider’s own privacy terms. The copy of your enquiry described in section 2 passes through our hosting provider and is delivered to the studio by Telegram (Telegram Messenger Inc.); it is not saved on the website’s servers.
- Translation: so that the studio can read it in Russian, the service name and the message text of that copy are machine-translated by MyMemory (Translated S.r.l., Italy). Your name and contact details are not sent for translation.
- Third-party services for your project (for example a domain registrar or hosting provider) receive data only when needed to deliver the work you ordered.
- Authorities, only where we are legally required to disclose information.
6. International transfers
Some of these providers process data outside the UAE, the EU or the EEA, for example in the United States. Where the GDPR or the PDPL require it, such transfers rely on appropriate safeguards, such as the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses or an adequacy decision.
7. Your rights
Depending on the law that applies to you, you have the right to:
- access the personal data we hold about you and receive a copy;
- have inaccurate data corrected and incomplete data completed;
- have your data erased or its processing restricted;
- object to processing based on our legitimate interests;
- receive your data in a portable format;
- withdraw your consent at any time, without affecting earlier processing;
- lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority — in the EU, the data protection authority of your country; in the UAE, the UAE Data Office.
To exercise your rights, email admin@thepleinair.space. We reply within one month. We may ask you to confirm your identity first.
8. Security
The website runs over HTTPS with strict security headers and does not keep enquiries on its servers: the copy of an enquiry is passed straight to the studio’s Telegram chat. Access to our messaging and email accounts is limited to the studio and protected with strong passwords and two-factor authentication.
9. Changes
We may update this policy when our services or the law change. The current version is always available at thepleinair.space/privacy, with the date of the last update at the top.