Last updated: September 2026
This policy explains, in plain English, what information olusholaawode.com (this “site”) collects about you, why, and what you can do about it. The short version: I collect as little as possible, I never sell it, and you can ask me to delete it at any time.
1. Who is responsible for your data
This site is owned and run by Olushola Awode, a chartered logistics professional based in Lagos, Nigeria. For the purposes of data protection law, I am the “data controller”, the person who decides how your information is used. You can contact me about anything in this policy at olusholaawode@gmail.com.
2. What this site collects, and why
When you subscribe to my emails. I collect the email address you type in, and your name if you give it. It is stored by my email service provider and used only to send you the essays, tools and updates you signed up for. Every email includes a one-click unsubscribe link, and unsubscribing removes you from the list.
When you contact me. If you use a contact form or email me, I receive your name, your email address and whatever you write. I use it only to reply to you and to keep a record of our conversation.
When you use the free tools. The calculators, checkers and toolkits on this site run entirely inside your own web browser. Nothing you type into them is sent to me, transmitted anywhere, or stored on any server. I have no database of what anybody has calculated, checked or quoted, because none of it ever reaches me.
Some tools deliberately remember your entries so you do not lose your work between visits. When they do, they save it in your own browser’s storage, on that one device, and it stays there. Nothing in that storage is readable by me or by anybody else. This is what each tool keeps:
- The Quotation Issuer saves the quotation you are working on and your company details, including your company name, address, contact details and the logo you upload.
- The Demurrage and Storage Clock, the Shipment Profit Calculator and the Rate Bank save the last figures you entered.
- The oil and gas readiness checker saves which boxes you have ticked.
- The site itself saves two things that identify nobody: whether you have seen the subscribe pop-up, and whether you have dismissed the cookie notice.
You can wipe all of it at any time by clearing your browsing data for this site, and the tools will simply start empty.
Your logo, and your clients’ details
Two parts of the Quotation Issuer deserve to be spelled out, because people reasonably assume otherwise.
The logo you upload is never uploaded anywhere. The word “upload” is misleading and I have kept it only because it is the word everybody expects on a button. Your browser reads the image file from your own disk, shrinks it to fit, and saves the result in its own storage on your device. It is never transmitted to this site, to me, or to any other service. No copy of your logo exists anywhere except on your own computer.
Your clients’ details never leave your device either. The client name, the rates, your margins and every other figure on a quotation are processed entirely in your browser. The PDF and the Excel file are both generated on your computer, by your computer. Nothing is sent away to be converted, formatted or rendered, which is unusual for a tool of this kind and is the reason it can be honest about privacy.
The consequence is worth understanding: I cannot recover any of this for you. If you clear your browser data, change device or lose your computer, it is gone, and I cannot restore it, produce a copy, or confirm to anybody that a document ever existed. Export anything that matters and keep the file safe.
One technical exception, for completeness. The duty calculator, the landed cost calculator and the HS code finder need Nigeria’s tariff schedule, so when you use the search box your browser downloads that table from this site as a file. That is a one-way download of public reference data, in the same way your browser downloads an image. Nothing you have typed is sent back with it, and the request tells me no more than any ordinary page visit does.
When you leave a comment (if comments are enabled on a page). Your name, email address and comment are stored with the post, and your name and comment are shown publicly. Your email address is never shown.
Automatically, by the web server. Like almost every website, the server that hosts this site keeps standard technical logs: your IP address (the number that identifies your internet connection), the pages you request, the time, and the type of browser and device you use. These logs help keep the site secure and working, and are deleted on a routine schedule by the hosting company.
3. Cookies and similar technologies
A cookie is a small text file a website saves in your browser so it can remember something about you. This site uses very few.
- Strictly necessary. Two small settings are saved in your browser’s own storage: whether you have already seen the subscribe pop-up (so it does not keep appearing) and whether you have dismissed the cookie notice. These identify no one and never leave your device. The tools save their own working data in the same way, listed in full in section 2 above.
- Statistics. If site statistics are switched on, a privacy-respecting analytics tool may count visits and see which pages people find useful. Where the tool uses cookies, you will be asked to accept them through the cookie notice first. No personal profiles are built.
- Embedded content. If a page embeds a video or a post from another service (for example YouTube or LinkedIn), that service may set its own cookies when the embed loads. Their privacy policies apply to those.
You can delete or block cookies at any time in your browser settings. The site will still work; you may just see the pop-up or the notice again.
4. Advertising
This site carries no advertising. I do not sell, rent or trade your information to anyone, and I do not share it with advertisers or data brokers.
5. Who else sees your data
I use a small number of trusted service providers to run the site, and some of your data passes through them: the company that hosts the website, the email service that sends the newsletter, and, if enabled, the analytics and form-handling tools mentioned above. Each of them is bound by its own privacy commitments and may only use your data to provide its service to me. Some of these providers are based outside Nigeria (for example in the European Union or the United States), which means your data may be stored or processed there under their safeguards.
I will also disclose information if the law requires me to, or to protect the site, myself or others from harm.
6. How long I keep it
Newsletter details are kept until you unsubscribe. Contact messages are kept for as long as our conversation is useful, normally no more than two years. Server logs are kept by the hosting company for a short, routine period. Comments stay with the post they belong to until you ask me to remove them.
7. Your rights
Wherever you are in the world, you have the right to ask me:
- what personal information I hold about you (a copy of it);
- to correct anything that is wrong;
- to delete it;
- to stop using it for a particular purpose, or to stop emailing you;
- to send you your data in a portable format.
To do any of these, email olusholaawode@gmail.com. I will reply within 30 days, and I will not charge you. If you are in Nigeria, these rights come from the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 and you can complain to the Nigeria Data Protection Commission. If you are in the European Union or the United Kingdom, they come from the GDPR and you can complain to your local data protection authority. I would rather you came to me first so I can put things right.
8. Security
The site is served over HTTPS (the padlock in your browser), which encrypts what travels between you and the site. I limit the information collected in the first place, use reputable providers, and protect my accounts with strong passwords and two-factor authentication. No website can promise perfect security, but I treat your information with the care I would want for my own.
9. Children
This site is written so that even a teenager can understand logistics, and young readers are very welcome. However, the site is not designed to collect information from children under 16. If you are under 16, please do not subscribe or send me personal information without a parent’s or guardian’s permission. If I learn that I have collected such information without permission, I will delete it.
10. Links to other sites
Essays and tools sometimes link to other websites. Once you leave this site, this policy no longer applies, and I am not responsible for how those sites handle your information.
11. Changes to this policy
I may update this policy as the site grows or the law changes. The date at the top tells you when it last changed. If a change is significant, I will say so on the site or by email.
12. Contact
Olushola Awode, Lagos, Nigeria. Email: olusholaawode@gmail.com.