This page explains what happens to your information when you use theshalimovamethod.com. I have written it in ordinary language rather than legal shorthand, because a privacy policy you cannot read is not much use to you.
The short version: I collect very little, only for the thing you actually asked for, I never sell it, and you can ask me to delete it at any time.
Last updated: August 24, 2026
Who is responsible for your information
Yevheniya Shalimova, trading as theshalimovamethod.com, is responsible for the personal information described here — in legal terms, the "data controller". You can reach me at any time at [email protected], and that is the right address for any question or request about your information.
What I never do
- I never sell or rent your information to anyone.
- I never share it with other businesses for their own marketing.
- I do not use it to make automated decisions about you, and I do not build behavioural profiles.
- I do not ask for more than I need. There is no reason for this website to know your address, your age or your employer.
When you send me a message
If you write to me using the contact form, I collect your name, your email address and the message you write.
Why I need it: to read your message and reply to you. Nothing else.
My legal basis: taking steps at your request before entering into an agreement, and my legitimate interest in answering people who contact my business.
Where it goes: it is saved on this website and a copy is sent to my private email inbox so I do not miss it. It is never sold, rented or shared for marketing.
When you download the free guide
To send you the guide I collect your name, your email address, and a record that you agreed to receive it, together with the date and time you agreed.
Why I need it: to deliver the guide you asked for, and — only if you agreed to it — to send occasional emails about this work.
My legal basis: your consent. You gave it deliberately by ticking the box; nothing was ticked for you.
You can withdraw that consent at any time, either by using the unsubscribe link in any email or by writing to me. Withdrawing it does not affect anything done before you withdrew it.
Visitor statistics
With your permission, this website uses Google Analytics to understand which pages are useful — for example how many people read a page, and whether they arrived from a search engine, LinkedIn or an article.
Why I need it: to see which writing genuinely helps people, so I can do more of it. I am not trying to identify you.
My legal basis: your consent. This is switched off until you accept it in the cookie banner. If you decline, no statistics are collected at all and the website works exactly the same.
Google Analytics is provided by Google Ireland Limited. Your IP address is shortened before it is stored, and data may be transferred outside Norway and the EU under the safeguards Google publishes for those transfers.
Cookies and similar technologies
A cookie is a small file a website asks your browser to keep. Some are needed for a site to work at all; others are optional.
This site uses only what is necessary unless you choose otherwise. Nothing optional is loaded before you agree to it.
Declining is exactly as easy as accepting — the two buttons are the same size and neither is pre-selected. You can change your mind at any time using the "Cookie settings" link at the bottom of every page.
Your choice itself is remembered in your own browser so you are not asked on every page. Clearing your browser data will clear that choice, and you will simply be asked again.
Booking a call
When you book an Executive Audit Call, you are taken to Calendly, a separate scheduling service. The details you enter there — typically your name, email address and the time you choose — are collected by Calendly and passed to me so I can hold the appointment.
My legal basis: taking steps at your request to arrange a meeting you asked for.
Calendly handles that information under its own privacy policy. If the meeting takes place by video call, the video provider will also process your name and email in order to connect the call.
The mailing list
If you agreed to receive occasional emails, your name and email address are also stored in my mailing list, which runs on Mailchimp.
My legal basis: your consent. Every email includes an unsubscribe link, and unsubscribing removes you from the list. Mailchimp is operated by Intuit, and data may be processed outside Norway and the EU.
How I know which channels work
Links I share — on LinkedIn, in articles, in emails, or as a QR code in a resource — may carry a short label saying where that link was published. If you then send me a message or download the guide, that label is stored next to your enquiry.
Why I need it: so I know which channels bring people who genuinely find this work useful, instead of guessing.
My legal basis: my legitimate interest in understanding where my enquiries come from. The label describes the channel, not you — for example "LinkedIn" or "QR code in the guide".
Where this website lives
This website is stored on servers run by a professional web host, and is delivered through Cloudflare, a security and content delivery network that protects it from attacks and helps pages load quickly.
Like every web server, these systems automatically process technical information — including your IP address, browser type and the time of your request — in order to send you the page and to keep the site secure. This happens in server logs and is not used to build any profile of you.
My legal basis: my legitimate interest in running a website that is available and secure.
Typefaces
Some typefaces in the design are loaded from Google Fonts. When a page opens, your browser requests those files from Google, which necessarily involves your IP address.
My legal basis: my legitimate interest in presenting the site as it was designed.
Who else can see your information
I use a small number of established services to run this business. They act on my instructions and may only use your information to provide their service to me:
- My web host and Cloudflare — they store and deliver the website itself.
- Calendly — only for people who book a call, and only the details needed to arrange it.
- Google Analytics — only if you accepted statistics in the cookie banner.
- Mailchimp — only for people who asked to receive emails.
- Google Fonts — for the typefaces used in the design.
- My email provider — because messages from the website are forwarded to my inbox.
- Professional advisers or authorities, but only where the law requires it.
Information leaving Norway and the EU
Some of the services above are operated by companies based outside Norway and the European Economic Area, or store data there. Where that happens, the transfer relies on the safeguards those providers publish for international transfers, such as the European Commission's standard contractual clauses or an adequacy decision.
How long I keep your information
Guide sign-ups are kept for 24 months and messages sent through the website for 24 months. After that they are deleted automatically — this is not something I have to remember to do.
If we go on to work together, records relating to that work — including anything I am required to keep for tax or accounting purposes — are kept for as long as the law requires. You can ask me to delete your details sooner at any point.
How your information is protected
The whole site runs over an encrypted connection (the padlock in your browser), sits behind a security network that filters malicious traffic, and is kept up to date. Access to the systems holding your details is limited to me and, where necessary, the person who maintains the site.
No system can promise perfect security. If something were ever to go wrong in a way that put your information at risk, I would tell you and the Norwegian Data Protection Authority as the law requires.
Children
This is a coaching practice for working adults. The site is not directed at children and I do not knowingly collect information about them. If you believe a child has sent me their details, please write to me and I will delete them.
Your rights
These rights are yours under data protection law, and using them is free. In plain terms, you can:
- See what I hold — ask for a copy of the information I have about you.
- Correct it — have anything wrong or incomplete put right.
- Have it deleted — ask me to erase it, where there is no legal reason for me to keep it.
- Pause my use of it — ask me to restrict what I do with it while something is being sorted out.
- Take it with you — receive it in a common format you can give to someone else.
- Object — tell me to stop using it where I rely on my legitimate interest, including for any marketing.
- Change your mind — withdraw consent you gave, at any time, without giving a reason.
To use any of these, simply write to me at [email protected]. I will respond within one month, and I will not make it difficult.
If you are not happy with my answer
Please tell me first — most things are a misunderstanding and I would rather fix it directly. If you are still not satisfied, you have the right to complain to Datatilsynet, the Norwegian Data Protection Authority, at datatilsynet.no. If you live in another EEA country, you may complain to your own national authority instead.
Changes to this page
If I add a new tool or change how something works, I update this page and change the date at the top. If a change materially affects how your information is used, I will say so clearly rather than quietly editing the text.