Who we are
This website and the services described here are run by Hilal Gani Consulting FZ-LLC, a company registered in the RAKEZ Free Zone, Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates (“we”, “us”). For any question about your data, or to ask us to delete it, write to connect@hilalgani.com.
In short: we use your data only to answer you and to do the work you asked us to do. We do not sell it, we do not use it for advertising, and nothing is posted or sent in your name until you have approved it.
1. The contact form on this website
When you send the contact form we receive what you type: your name, e-mail address, phone number, company, industry, the service you are interested in and your message. We also record your IP address for a short time to stop abuse.
- Why: to reply to you and keep a record of our conversation with you.
- Where it goes: into our own customer list (CRM). Hilal gets a short notification of your message on his phone.
- Spam check: the form uses Google reCAPTCHA, which sends Google information about your visit to decide whether you are a person. Google’s own Privacy Policy and Terms apply to that check.
- We do not add you to a mailing list and we do not share your details with other companies.
2. Cookies
This website uses no advertising or analytics cookies. If you log in to our dashboard, one cookie keeps you logged in. Google reCAPTCHA may set its own cookies when the contact form loads. Fonts are loaded from Google Fonts.
3. AI agents we set up for clients
For some clients we set up an AI assistant — for example a Telegram bot that helps with content, reels, a simple customer list (CRM) and scheduling. When you are such a client:
- What we process: the messages, voice notes, photos, videos and documents you send to your assistant, the details of your own customers that you choose to give it, and the content it makes for you.
- Why: only to do the work you ask for — drafting posts, editing reels, keeping your customer list, preparing meetings.
- Approval: your assistant prepares drafts. Nothing is posted, published or sent to anyone in your name until you approve it.
- Separation: each client’s assistant runs separately. One client never sees another client’s data.
- Telegram: messages with your bot travel through Telegram, under Telegram’s own privacy policy.
4. AI and other services that process data for us
To do the work, parts of your material are sent to these services, only for the task at hand:
- Anthropic (Claude) — understanding messages, writing drafts and plans;
- Google (Gemini) — looking at footage and pictures to choose shots and moments;
- OpenAI — making illustrations or backgrounds (never a picture of a real person);
- Deepgram — turning speech in voice notes and videos into text;
- ElevenLabs — making music and sound effects.
We use their paid business services and, where a provider offers it, we opt out of our data being used to train or improve their models. We send only what a task needs.
Our server is a private virtual server rented from DigitalOcean, located in Bangalore, India. Backups of our records are kept in our own Google Drive. This means your data may be processed outside the country you live in.
5. Connecting your Google account (Drive and Calendar)
If you are a client, you can choose to connect your own Google account, through Google’s own sign-in screen. We ask for this only with your permission, and only for the work we do for you.
What we ask Google for
- Google Drive — to create and use the working folders for your content (for example “Raw Footage”, “Music”, “Finished Reels”), read the footage, music and reference files you put there, and save the finished content back there. Google’s consent screen describes this access as broad (“see, edit, create and delete your Drive files”); we use it only for the folders set up for your work, and we do not browse, search or read the rest of your Drive.
- Google Calendar (events) — to create or change meeting events and video-call invitations that you have approved. We do not read your calendar for any other purpose.
How we use it
Only to provide the features you use — preparing your content and your meetings. To edit a video we copy the file from your Drive to a temporary work area on our server, make the edit, save the result back to your Drive and delete the temporary copies. Leftovers are removed automatically within a few hours.
Google API Services User Data Policy — Limited Use
Our use and transfer of information received from Google APIs follows the Google API Services User Data Policy, including its Limited Use requirements. In plain words:
- We use your Google data only to provide and improve the features you can see and use in your assistant.
- We never sell your Google data.
- We never use it for advertising, including targeted or interest-based ads.
- We do not use it to build credit or lending profiles.
- We do not use it to train general AI or machine-learning models. When a file is sent to an AI service from the list above to do a task for you, it is used for that task only.
- No person reads it, unless you ask us to (for example to fix a problem), it is needed for security or abuse reasons, or the law requires it. In practice the only person with access is Hilal Gani.
- We share it with others only as described above, to do your task, or if the law requires it.
How to remove access
At any time, go to your Google Account → Security → Your connections to third-party apps & services (myaccount.google.com/connections), choose our app and remove access. Or write to connect@hilalgani.com and we will disconnect it and delete the access key we hold. Files we created in your Drive stay yours; delete them whenever you like.
6. Instagram, Threads and TikTok
If you are a client, you can choose to connect your Instagram, Threads or TikTok account, through that platform’s own login screen. We then receive your account ID and username and permission to publish to that account, and — where you allow it — basic results for those posts (such as views and engagement).
- We use this only to publish posts you approved and to show you how they performed.
- Nothing is posted without your approval. We do not read your private messages. We do not like or follow on your behalf. If you use comment or message replies, each reply is drafted for you and sent only after you approve it.
- You can disconnect at any time in the platform’s own settings (for example Instagram: Settings → Apps and websites), or by writing to us. We then delete the access key and the account data we hold.
7. How we store access keys
The access keys that Google, Instagram, Threads, TikTok or Telegram issue are stored on our server in files only the system can read, and are used only by the assistant they belong to. Our website and dashboard use encrypted connections (HTTPS). No system is perfectly secure, and we cannot promise that data will never be exposed; if we learn of a problem that affects your data, we will tell you.
8. How long we keep data
- Contact form messages and our customer list: as long as they are useful for our business relationship with you, or until you ask us to delete them.
- Client records (settings, drafts, approvals, costs, links to files): while we work together, and deleted within 12 months after our work ends — sooner if you ask.
- Temporary copies of your media: deleted after each job, and automatically within a few hours at most.
- Files in your own Google Drive stay there until you delete them.
9. Your choices and rights
You can ask us to see, correct or delete the data we hold about you, or to stop using it. Write to connect@hilalgani.com with the subject “My data”. We will reply within 30 days.
10. Children
Our services are for businesses and adults. They are not directed at anyone under 18, and we do not knowingly collect children’s data.
11. Changes
If this policy changes, we will update the date at the top of this page. If a change matters for clients, we will tell them directly.
Contact
Hilal Gani Consulting FZ-LLC · RAKEZ Free Zone, Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates · connect@hilalgani.com