How I handle your details.
Short and specific. This site collects very little, and this page says exactly what, why and for how long.
Last updated 12 November 2026
Who is responsible
I am: Abdul Basit, working as designbyab from Islamabad, Pakistan. Write to me at hello@designbyab.com about anything on this page.
Visiting this website
The pages are static files. I do not use analytics, advertising or tracking scripts, I set no cookies for visitors, and the fonts are served from this site, not from a third party. My web host keeps ordinary server logs (such as the address of the visitor and the page requested) to run and secure the service.
The contact form and the Edzen enquiry form
When you send either form I receive what you type: your name, email address, institution or company, what you need or the type of institution, your country (Edzen form, optional), your budget range (contact form, optional) and your message. The form also records the date, the address your connection came from and your browser's identification text. I use the connection address only to limit how many messages one address can send in an hour, to stop spam.
I use these details to read and answer your enquiry and, if we work together, to run that work. I do not add you to a mailing list, I do not sell or share your details, and I do not use them for anything else. You agree to this use when you tick the box on the Edzen form.
The enquiry is saved in my database and emailed to me. The form is protected against automated abuse with a hidden field and the hourly limit above. There is no third-party captcha.
The Edzen licence service
If I license Edzen to your institution, the licence service stores your licence key, the address of each website where you use it, the dates of the licence, the name, email address and any note I recorded when we agreed the licence, and, each time your website checks its licence (about once an hour), the check time and the Edzen, WordPress and PHP version numbers. It does not receive your students' records, your users, your pages or any other content from your website, and it does not log your visitors. The licence and update checks send only the licence key and the website address with those version numbers.
I use this to confirm your website is licensed, to deliver updates and downloads, and to see which of my products are in use where. If a licence expires or is cancelled, your website keeps working and your content stays where it is; you stop receiving updates.
Who else handles it
- My web hosting and email provider, Hostinger, stores the website, the database and the mailbox that receives enquiries.
- GitHub holds the code of this website. Enquiries and licence data are not stored there.
- The licence service runs on a server I choose and control; I will name its provider here once it is live.
How long I keep it
- Enquiries that do not lead to work: I delete them after twelve months.
- Clients: I keep the correspondence and agreements for as long as I need them to deliver the work and to keep the business records the law requires of me.
- Licence records last as long as the licence and the records I must keep. The connection address and browser text stored with an enquiry are deleted together with it.
Your choices
You can ask me what I hold about you, ask me to correct it, ask me to delete it, or withdraw your consent, by emailing hello@designbyab.com. I will answer within one month. If you are not happy with my answer you can complain to the data protection authority where you live.
Changes
If I change what I collect, I will update this page and its date before the change takes effect.
What clients said, and where they said it.
Each quote is copied exactly as it was published. Nothing in them has been edited.
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Land and Wave
“We hired Abdul to effectively rebuild a website using for Elementor Pro. It was a very large project that ran over several months. Abdul was effective and offered good value. Communication was consistent and reliable. Use Abdul Basit with confidence.”
Owen S. -
Nextage
“Awesome work. He took a hand drawing and turned it into a graphic, exactly like I wanted. I had asked a local print shop to have their graphic artist to make the graphic and was disappointed that they were not able to do what I wanted done. At first I just wanted a second opinion from this artist because he has done work for me in the past. Besides, maybe I was asking for the impossible. Ab-creativegfx said he could do it and he did.”
Tamiam -
Siftly+
“Designer was able to do (better & faster) then what another top rated PPT "specialists" wasn't able to get done. He worked tirelessly to meet an nearly impossible deadline.”
Frank Striefler -
Business Owner
“He is fantastic and beyond exponentially talented. He is great to work with and very flexible. He listens and delivers on what you hired him for instead trying to change your ideas. The work he has done for us as a team is priceless. The quality of the work is priceless. The attention to detail by itself is amazing. He took every recommendation and ideas we gave him seriously and Wow the entire team. We were pleased, delighted, hyper happy and beyond explanation. We will absolutely come back for more. That’s inevitable. Thank You Basit.”
Cherif Dean B. -
Product Design
“He did a very good job & worked hard to make my requirements as it is not a regular product. He made all the necessary adjustments I requested in trying different things & I am very happy with the overall results.”
Funmilayo A. -
CapitalM
“I really like working with this seller! He has great communication skills, Amazing talent and does perfect work!!!!!!!!!!”
Chani Frankel
Questions
The objections, in the order people actually have them.
What does this cost?
It depends on how much of the sequence you need. A logotype with a short set of rules is a different job to an identity with packaging, a website and documentation. You get a written proposal with the scope, the price and the schedule in it before anything starts, so you are never making the decision halfway through.
How long does it take?
A focused identity runs three to five weeks. Identity plus website, six to ten. The schedule is written into the proposal stage by stage, so you always know what is happening and what is due from you.
Why one person instead of an agency?
You brief me and you hear back from me, and the person designing it is the person you spoke to. There is no account manager in between, and nothing is handed to someone junior. In return I take fewer projects at once, so the schedule is agreed before anything starts and it does not move.
Do you work with clients outside Pakistan?
Most of the work is international. I am on GMT+5, which shares most of the working day with the Gulf and puts my afternoon in the UK and European morning. Scope, schedule and decisions are all written down, which is what actually makes distance a non-issue.
Can you work with the brand I already have?
Yes. A lot of projects start as "the brand is fine, the website is letting it down", or the reverse. I will tell you which of the two is the real problem before you pay me to fix the wrong one.
Will I be able to update the site myself?
Yes. The content lives in plain text, separate from the design, so changing the words cannot break the layout. You get a walkthrough at handover.
