Privacy Policy

Welcome to MRVA.com, the personal website of Morteza Riahi. This Privacy Policy describes how this website collects, uses, and discloses information about you when you visit or interact with it.

By using this site, you agree to the collection and use of information as described in this policy. We are committed to being transparent about what data is collected and why.

This website may use cookies — small text files stored in your browser — to function properly and to help us understand how visitors use the site. Cookies we may set or encounter include:

• Essential cookies: Required for basic site functionality. These do not collect personal information and cannot be disabled.
• Analytics cookies: Used to understand visitor behaviour, such as which pages are visited most, how long visitors stay, and where they come from (e.g. Google Analytics). These are anonymous and aggregated.
• Preference cookies: May remember settings such as language or display preferences, if applicable.
• Third-party cookies: Services embedded on the site (such as Google Fonts or social media links) may set their own cookies. We do not control these — please refer to those services' own policies.

When you visit MRVA.com, our web server and any analytics services we use automatically record your IP address along with other standard log data. This may include:

• Your IP address (which may indicate your approximate geographic location)
• Browser type and version
• Operating system
• Referring URL (the page you came from)
• Pages visited on this site and timestamps
• Device type (desktop, tablet, mobile)

This data is used for security, to diagnose technical problems, and to understand how the site is being used. IP addresses are not used to personally identify you unless required by law or in response to a legal request.

This website uses Google Fonts, a free web font service provided by Google LLC. When your browser loads a page on this site, it may make a request directly to Google's servers to download the fonts used in the design (Playfair Display and Inter).

As a result of this request, Google may receive and process:

• Your IP address
• The URL of the page you are visiting
• Browser and device information (user-agent string)
• The date and time of the request

Google states that it uses font data to operate and improve the Google Fonts service. It does not use this data for advertising or user profiling.

We may use web analytics tools — such as Google Analytics — to collect aggregated, anonymised data about how visitors use MRVA.com. This helps us understand which content is most useful and how to improve the site.

Analytics data we may collect includes:

• Pages viewed and time spent on each page
• Traffic sources (search engines, direct, referrals)
• General geographic location (country/city level, derived from IP)
• Device and browser type
• New vs. returning visitor status

Analytics data is aggregated and does not identify you personally. We do not share this data with third parties beyond the analytics provider's standard data processing.

MRVA.com may contain links to external websites such as LinkedIn, GitHub, or other professional platforms. When you click these links, you leave our site and are subject to those platforms' own privacy policies. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of external sites.

Third-party services that may process your data when you use this site include:

• Google LLC — Google Fonts, Google Analytics
• Hosting provider — Standard server log data
• LinkedIn — If you click through to a LinkedIn profile

We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party services you interact with through this site.

Depending on your location, you may have certain rights regarding your personal data. These may include:

• Right of access: Request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
• Right to rectification: Request correction of inaccurate data.
• Right to erasure: Request deletion of your personal data ("right to be forgotten").
• Right to object: Object to certain types of processing, including analytics.
• Right to data portability: Receive your data in a structured, machine-readable format.
• Right to withdraw consent: Where processing is based on consent, you may withdraw it at any time.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at [email protected]. We will respond within 30 days.

We retain data only for as long as necessary for the purposes described in this policy:

• Server log data (including IP addresses) is typically retained for up to 90 days for security and diagnostic purposes, after which it is deleted or anonymised.
• Analytics data is retained in aggregated, anonymised form for up to 26 months, as per Google Analytics default settings. You can request deletion at any time.
• Contact form or email data, if you contact us directly, is retained only for the duration of our communication and any follow-up, and deleted upon request.

MRVA.com is not directed at children under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us at [email protected] and we will take steps to delete it promptly.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, technology, or legal requirements. When we do, we will update the "Last Updated" date at the top of this page.

We encourage you to review this policy periodically. Your continued use of MRVA.com after any changes constitutes your acceptance of the updated policy.