Last updated: 25 October 2026
1. Who We Are
Lev Minikes Consulting is an independent management, organisational development and HR consulting business registered with the Dutch Chamber of Commerce (KvK).
Business name: Lev Minikes Consulting
KvK registration number: 94913420
Location: Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Website: https://levminikes.com
Email: info@levminikes.com
Lev Minikes Consulting is the data controller responsible for processing personal data as described in this Privacy Policy.
For privacy-related enquiries, please contact us at the email address above.
2. What Personal Data We Collect
When you contact us through our website or by email, we may collect:
- Your first and last name
- Your email address
- Your organisation’s name, if provided
- The consulting service you are interested in
- Information you voluntarily provide about your business needs
- Relevant correspondence relating to your enquiry
Our website may also process technical information, including IP addresses, browser information and cookie-related data, for website functionality, security and statistics.
Please avoid submitting sensitive personal information, including medical information or employee records, through the general enquiry form.
3. Why We Process Your Information
We process personal data for the following purposes:
- Responding to enquiries and discussing potential consulting assignments
- Preparing proposals and taking steps towards a consulting agreement
- Providing consulting services under an agreed engagement
- Maintaining relevant business correspondence
- Operating, securing and maintaining our website
- Collecting website statistics where permitted
Depending on the circumstances, the legal basis for processing is:
- Contractual necessity or pre-contractual steps: Where processing is necessary to respond to an individual’s request or perform an agreement.
- Legitimate interests: For appropriate business communications, responding to representatives of organisations and maintaining website security.
- Legal obligations: Where information must be processed or retained under applicable law.
- Consent: Where required for optional cookies or other activities relying on consent.
We do not automatically subscribe people submitting consulting enquiries to marketing communications.
4. Contact Forms and Email
Our website uses WPForms to collect consulting enquiries.
Form submissions are sent to our business email address through our website’s configured email delivery system, which uses Google/Gmail.
WPForms Lite does not ordinarily store submitted form entries in the WordPress database unless additional entry-storage or backup functionality has been enabled.
5. Cookies and Website Statistics
Our website uses cookies and related technologies for essential functionality, security, visitor preferences and, where enabled, website statistics.
We use Complianz to manage cookie information and consent preferences.
Our website also has statistics tools, including Burst Statistics and Jetpack Stats, whose use is subject to their active configuration and applicable consent requirements.
Optional tracking technologies requiring consent should not operate before that consent has been obtained.
For more information, please refer to our Cookie Policy, available on this website.
6. Sharing Information with Service Providers
We use third-party service providers to support website hosting, business email, form processing, security and website maintenance.
These include:
- Bluehost — website hosting
- Google — business email services
- WordPress and WPForms — website and contact-form functionality
- Other website service providers, where their functionality is enabled
We do not sell personal information.
Some providers may process information outside the European Economic Area (EEA). Where personal data is transferred internationally, an applicable legal transfer mechanism and safeguards must be in place.
7. How Long We Keep Information
We retain personal data only for as long as necessary for the purposes for which it was collected.
Consulting enquiries: Enquiries that do not result in an engagement are retained for up to 12 months after the last substantive communication, unless a longer retention period is necessary for a specific legal obligation or legitimate legal claim.
Client engagements: Information relating to consulting agreements is retained for the duration of the engagement and subsequently for as long as necessary to meet contractual, accounting, tax or other legal obligations.
Technical and website data: Retention depends on the purpose of processing and the applicable settings of the website systems and service providers.
When information is no longer required, it is deleted or anonymised.
8. Your Rights
Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you may have the right to:
- Access your personal information
- Request correction of inaccurate information
- Request deletion of your information
- Restrict certain processing activities
- Object to processing based on legitimate interests
- Request data portability where applicable
- Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
To exercise your rights, contact info@levminikes.com.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Dutch Data Protection Authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens).
Website: https://autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl
9. Information Security
We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect personal information against unauthorised access, loss, misuse and disclosure.
Access to personal information is restricted to those who require it for legitimate business purposes.
10. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy when our services, website technologies or legal obligations change.
The latest version will be available on this website, together with its date of revision.