Privacy notice and business information

How RAVOA handles your information.

Last updated: 6 October 2026

Who we are

RAVOA is a trading name of Tahir Ali, a sole trader. Tahir Ali is the controller of the personal information described here and decides how it is used.

Business correspondence address:
5 Cobden Avenue
Southampton
SO18 1FY

Email: partnerships@ravoa.co.uk

What this website collects

The website has no form, sets no cookies and runs no analytics, and we have not set up any other tool to collect visitor data. If you click an email link, your own email app opens, and nothing is sent until you send it.

The website is hosted by Netlify, which acts as our processor. When you visit, Netlify’s servers keep access logs that include your IP address, browser type, the page requested and the page that referred you. Netlify has told its customers it keeps these logs for about 30 days. We use this only because it is needed to deliver and secure the website, and our lawful basis is legitimate interests in running a secure website.

What we receive when you email us

Whatever you choose to send: usually your name, email address, organisation, and details of a brief or a publication. Please do not send more personal information than is needed.

Why we use it, and our lawful basis

• To reply to you and discuss a brief or a sponsored-content enquiry. Legitimate interests (running the business and responding to enquiries) and, where you ask us to, taking steps before an agreement.
• To arrange and record a placement we agree. Performance of the agreement and our legitimate interests, and legal obligation for the financial records we must keep.
• To keep a short do-not-contact record so that we honour requests to stop contact. Legitimate interests in respecting your wishes; the Information Commissioner’s Office advises keeping such a record.

Who sees it, and who processes it for us

Tahir Ali reads and manages enquiries personally. Two providers process information on our behalf:

• Namecheap supplies our domain and our business email, so it holds the mailbox where your emails arrive.
• Netlify hosts the website and holds the visitor logs described above. It does not receive your enquiry emails.

Transfers outside the UK

Both providers are based in the United States, so information may be processed there. Namecheap states that it processes customer data in the United States and that its Data Processing Addendum provides for the UK standard contractual clauses for transfers from the UK. Netlify states in its privacy statement that it complies with the UK Extension to the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework and refers to standard contractual clauses.

When we share it

• We never sell personal data.
• We share a brand’s brief with a publisher only for a specific placement enquiry the brand has agreed we can discuss, and only the information that is needed, not whole email conversations or unnecessary personal details.
• We share a publisher’s rates and requirements with the relevant buyer only where the publisher permits it. If information is confidential, we clarify what may be shared before passing it on.
• We do not publish private rate cards or contact details without permission.

How long we keep it

• Enquiries that do not lead to an agreement are deleted 12 months after the last message.
• Agreed placements: we keep only the agreement, invoices, payment records and the correspondence needed to evidence the transaction, for at least five years after the 31 January submission deadline of the tax year they relate to, as the record-keeping rules for sole traders require.
• Do-not-contact record: if you ask us to stop contacting you, we keep only your email address, the date and the fact that you asked, and use them only to check that we do not contact you again. We review the record once a year and keep an entry for as long as we contact businesses about placements. If you ask us to delete it, we will explain that we could then no longer check future contact lists against it. If we stop contacting businesses altogether, we will delete our contact lists and this record with them.

Your rights

You can ask what we hold about you, ask us to correct or delete it, or object to how we use it, by emailing partnerships@ravoa.co.uk. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office.