Privacy Policy

1. Who We Are

tbilisi-expat.com is operated by Tbilisi Expat LLC Setup Tax and Business Consulting LLC, a company based in Tbilisi, Georgia, serving a global audience. For questions about this policy or your personal data, you can contact us at: tbilisiexpat.team@gmail.com

2. What Data We Collect and Why

We collect personal data in two ways:

Contact form submissions When you fill out a contact form on our site, we collect your name and contact information (e.g. email address). We use this solely to respond to your inquiry. We do not add you to any mailing lists or use your contact details for any other purpose.

Website analytics and advertising (cookies) We use Google Analytics and Google Ads to understand how visitors interact with our site and to measure the performance of our advertising. These tools may collect data such as your IP address, browser type, pages visited, and conversion events via cookies and similar tracking technologies.

We use this data only to analyze and improve our advertising performance. We do not sell this data to any third party.

3. Legal Basis for Processing (GDPR)

For visitors from the European Economic Area (EEA) and other regions with similar data protection laws, our legal bases for processing personal data are:

• Legitimate interest — responding to inquiries you have initiated via our contact forms.

• Consent — for analytics and advertising cookies, which we only set after you have given your consent via our cookie banner.

4. Cookies

We use cookies for website analytics and advertising purposes through Google Analytics and Google Ads. When you first visit our site, you will be asked to accept or decline non-essential cookies via our cookie consent banner.

You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clearing your browser cookies and revisiting the site, or by adjusting your browser settings.

For more information on how Google uses data from sites that use its services, see: google.com/policies/privacy/partners

5. Third-Party Services

We share data with the following third-party services as part of normal site operation:

We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal data to any third party.

6. Data Retention

• Contact form data (your name and email as received in our inbox) is retained only as long as necessary to handle your inquiry, and deleted thereafter upon request or when no longer needed.

• Analytics and advertising data is retained according to the default retention settings of Google Analytics and Google Ads.

7. Your Rights

Depending on where you are located, you may have the following rights regarding your personal data:

• Access — request a copy of the data we hold about you.

• Correction — ask us to correct inaccurate data.

• Deletion — ask us to delete your data. For contact form submissions, this means we will delete the relevant email(s) from our inbox.

• Objection — object to us processing your data under legitimate interest.

• Withdraw consent — withdraw your cookie consent at any time (see Section 4).

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at: tbilisiexpat.team@gmail.com

We will respond to requests within 30 days.

8. Data Security

We take reasonable steps to protect your personal data. Contact form submissions are received via standard email. While no method of transmission over the internet is 100% secure, we handle your data with care and limit access to it.

9. International Transfers

Our website is based in Georgia. If you are visiting from the EEA or another jurisdiction, your data (particularly analytics data processed by Google) may be transferred to and processed in the United States or other countries. Google's data transfer mechanisms are described in their privacy policy.

10. Children's Privacy

This website is not directed at children under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personal data from minors. If you believe we have inadvertently collected such data, please contact us and we will delete it promptly.

11. Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy from time to time. When we do, we will update the "Last updated" date at the top of this page. We encourage you to review this page periodically.

12. Contact

For any privacy-related questions or to exercise your rights, please contact us at: tbilisiexpat.team@gmail.com