GDPR Notice
Last updated: October 1, 2026
Who This Applies To
This notice is for visitors in the European Union, the European Economic Area, and the United Kingdom. It supplements our Privacy Policy, which describes what information this site collects and why.
Data Controller
Eric Helsel LLC, based in Scottsdale, Arizona, United States, is the controller of personal data collected through erichelsel.com. You can reach us through the contact form for any question or request about your data.
What We Process and Why
- Chat conversations: to answer your questions and assess whether working together is a fit (legitimate interests, or steps before a contract when you ask about an engagement).
- Contact and landing page forms: to reply to your inquiry and follow up (steps before a contract).
- Newsletter signup: to send occasional emails (consent, which you can withdraw at any time by unsubscribing).
- Analytics: to understand how the site is used and improve it (consent where required, otherwise legitimate interests).
Your Rights
Under the GDPR and UK GDPR, you have the right to:
- Access the personal data we hold about you
- Correct data that is inaccurate or incomplete
- Delete your data (the “right to be forgotten”)
- Restrict how we process your data
- Object to processing based on legitimate interests, including any direct marketing
- Port your data, receiving it in a common, machine-readable format
- Withdraw consent at any time, without affecting processing that happened before
- Complain to your local data protection authority, or in the UK, the Information Commissioner's Office
How to Make a Request
Send your request through the contact form and tell us which right you want to exercise. We may ask you to confirm your identity before acting on it. We respond within one month, and requests are free of charge.
International Transfers
This site and its service providers are based in the United States, so your data is processed and stored there. Where required, transfers rely on our providers' safeguards, such as the EU Standard Contractual Clauses.
Retention
We keep personal data only as long as it is needed for the purposes above. Newsletter addresses are kept until you unsubscribe. Chat conversations and form submissions are kept while they are useful for an active or potential working relationship, and are deleted on request.
Automated Decisions
The chat on this site is powered by AI, but it does not make decisions about you that have legal or similarly significant effects. Any decision about working together is made by a person.