Outreach Privacy Notice

If someone at DESENO emailed you or sent you a LinkedIn request, this page explains how we got your details and what we do with them. Our emails come from addresses ending @desenomedia.com, @desenocreative.com, @desenodigital.com, @desenomarketing.com, @desenosolutions.com, @desenobranding.com or @growthwithdeseno.com. It also tells you how to make us stop. That takes one reply.

Who we are

DESENO Media Agency Private Limited is a video, design and marketing agency registered in India. We decide how your details are used, so we are responsible for them under UK data protection law (the law calls us the “controller”).

• Post: Office 501-502, Shree Ganesh Galaxy, Pipeline Road, Anandvalli, Nashik 422013, India
• Email: hello@deseno.co.in
• Grievance Officer (India): Ajay Badve, ajay.badve@deseno.co.in

What we hold about you

Business information, almost all of it from LinkedIn:

• your name, job title and headline
• your company, its LinkedIn page, its size band and its website address
• the town or region you work in
• your LinkedIn profile address
• your work email address, and the result of our check that it can receive mail
• the “About” section of your LinkedIn profile, and up to two of your LinkedIn posts from the last six months
• a few short lines we wrote from that information (an opening line, a video idea, our LinkedIn note to you) and our own notes on whether you fit, such as “not a software company”
• a record of what we sent you, when, and whether you replied

We don’t track whether UK recipients open our emails, and our emails contain no tracking links. We don’t hold your home address, personal phone number or financial details. We don’t look for sensitive information such as health, religion or politics, and we don’t use it if a post happens to mention it. We don’t email personal addresses such as Gmail or Hotmail for UK contacts.

Where we got it

We didn’t get your details from you, which is why we are explaining this now.

• A LinkedIn search. Your name, job title, company, and your company’s LinkedIn page and size came from a search we ran in September 2026 for founders of software companies in the UK and US. We used a data tool made by HarvestAPI and run on Apify, which searches LinkedIn’s member directory.
• Your LinkedIn profile. Your headline, location, “About” section, recent posts and company website address came from your profile, collected with the same tool.
• An email finder. Your work email address wasn’t taken from LinkedIn, except in a few cases where you show it on your profile. HarvestAPI’s email finder worked out a likely address and checked it with your company’s mail server. We then checked it again with MillionVerifier, which asks your company’s mail server whether the address exists without sending you anything.

Why we contacted you

We edit video for companies: we turn webinars, product demos, podcasts and talks into short, captioned clips. We contacted you because you run or co-founded a business, usually a software company, that might use that service.

Our legitimate interest is marketing our video editing service to businesses that may need it. The legal basis is legitimate interests, under Article 6(1)(f) of the UK GDPR. We think contacting you is fair because:

• we contact you only in your business role, at your work address, about something that fits your business;
• we send no more than five emails, and on LinkedIn we don’t advertise to UK contacts;
• we stop for good when you ask.

We have written this reasoning down, and you can ask us for a copy. If you think we got the balance wrong, tell us or the ICO. We also rely on legitimate interests to keep a do-not-contact record if you ask us to stop, and, if we end up working together, to manage that work with you.

We used AI software (Anthropic’s Claude) to read the information above, write the personalised lines in our emails and LinkedIn notes, and flag people we shouldn’t contact, for example because they no longer run the company. That can only mean we contact fewer people. No decision with a legal or similarly significant effect on you is made by automated means.

How often we contact you

• By email: no more than five short emails, sent on weekdays over about two weeks. They stop as soon as you or a colleague at your company replies. We won’t start another email sequence with you for at least 12 months.
• On LinkedIn: a connection request and, only if you accept it, no more than two short messages. For UK contacts these ask about your work and don’t advertise our services; we’ll only tell you what we do if you ask.

We won’t add you to a newsletter or mailing list. We don’t sell your details or share them for anyone else’s marketing.

How to make us stop

Reply “no” to any of our emails or messages, use the Unsubscribe option your email app shows next to our address, or email hello@deseno.co.in.

This is your absolute right to object to direct marketing, under Article 21 of the UK GDPR. We won’t ask why, and it never expires. Within two working days we add your email address and LinkedIn profile address to our do-not-contact list, which stops all our emails and LinkedIn messages to you for good. If you’d also like us to delete everything else we hold about you, say so and we will.

Your other rights

You can ask us to:

• show you what we hold about you
• correct anything that’s wrong
• delete it
• restrict how we use it
• object to our use of it (for marketing, we must always comply)

Email hello@deseno.co.in. We’ll reply within one month, and there’s no charge. If you’re unhappy with how we’ve handled your data, you can complain to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office at ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint or on 0303 123 1113. You don’t have to contact us first, though we’d like the chance to put it right.

How long we keep it

• We collected your details but never contacted you: deleted within one month of collection (for this outreach, by 16 October 2026).
• We contacted you and you didn’t reply: deleted within 12 months of our last message.
• You replied, but we didn’t end up working together: deleted within 12 months of your last message.
• You asked us to stop: we keep only your email address, LinkedIn profile address and the date you asked, on our do-not-contact list, for as long as we do outreach. That’s the only way to make sure we never contact you again.
• We ended up working together: kept while we work together, then for as long as Indian tax and company law require.

Where your data goes

We’re based in India and use your details there. The service providers below store or handle them for us in the USA, Hong Kong and the EU. India, the USA and Hong Kong don’t have a UK “adequacy” decision. Our larger providers (Google, Microsoft, Anthropic and ClickUp) protect UK data transfers with the UK’s approved contract terms or the UK-US Data Bridge in their data-processing terms. Email hello@deseno.co.in to ask how any particular transfer is protected.

• Apify (Czech Republic; stores data with Amazon Web Services in the USA): ran our LinkedIn search and collected your profile, posts and email address
• HarvestAPI (Aventra Technologies Limited, Hong Kong): made the LinkedIn and email-finder tools we ran on Apify
• MillionVerifier (GBD Software as a Service Ltd, Hungary): checked your email address
• ManyReach (data processed in Germany): sends our emails and records replies
• Google (USA): the mailboxes our outreach emails are sent from
• Microsoft (USA): our main company mailbox, including hello@deseno.co.in
• Anthropic (USA): the AI software that helped write our personalised lines
• ClickUp (USA): our internal task list, where replies from interested people are logged

When we contact you on LinkedIn, LinkedIn also processes that message under its own terms with you.

If you are in India

We also contact businesses in India about our marketing services. For these contacts we use business details that are publicly available, such as company websites, Google Maps business listings and industry association directories, and we check email addresses with MillionVerifier. India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 applies to how we handle your details.

Our Grievance Officer is Ajay Badve (ajay.badve@deseno.co.in), at the address above. Write to him to find out what we hold about you, to correct or delete it, to stop our messages, to nominate someone to act for you, or to make a complaint. He replies within one month. Once the Data Protection Board of India starts taking complaints (the Act’s complaint provisions apply from 13 May 2027), you can also complain to the Board after using our grievance process.

Changes to this page

If we change how we do outreach, we’ll update this page and the date at the top.

Last updated 3 October 2026. Questions about this policy? Email hello@deseno.co.in.