Last updated 27 September 2026
Terms & Privacy
This Notice sets out the basis upon which this Website is operated internationally, the treatment of personal data submitted to it, and the subsistence and permitted use of copyright in its Content.
1. Interpretation and status of this Notice
1.1 In this Notice, "the Website" means the website operated at mirahadul.eu.cc, together with every section of it, including the section styled as "the Atelier"; "the Proprietor" means Mir Ahadul Islam, in whom the rights described in this Notice are vested; "Content" means the written, visual, audio and audiovisual material published upon the Website, save where this Notice provides otherwise; and "Visitor" means any person accessing the Website.
1.2 This Notice does not constitute a contract for the sale of goods or services, no such sale being concluded upon the Website. It nonetheless records the Proprietor's binding position as to the licence granted at clause 8, the treatment of personal data at clauses 3 and 4, and the assertion of his copyright at clause 6, and is to be construed accordingly.
1.3 A reference in this Notice to any statute, convention or other instrument of any jurisdiction is a reference to that instrument as amended, revised or replaced from time to time.
2. The nature and purpose of the Website
2.1 The Website is maintained by the Proprietor as an informational and promotional instrument, being the official record of his work as an author, film maker and musician.
2.2 No sale is effected, and no payment is processed, by or through the Website. Where a Visitor wishes to acquire a book, recording or film referred to upon the Website, that acquisition is concluded exclusively with the relevant third party retailer or platform, and is governed by that party's own terms of trade and by the consumer protection law of the Visitor's own jurisdiction, having regard generally to the United Nations Guidelines for Consumer Protection, as expanded by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015, and to the OECD Guidelines for Consumer Protection in the Context of Electronic Commerce (1999, as revised in 2016). The Proprietor, not being the seller, incurs no liability under any such law.
3. Personal data: what is collected, and why
3.1 The right of a person not to be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy is recognised under Article 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948 and Article 17 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 1966, and this Notice is drafted consistently with that recognition.
3.2 The Website employs no analytics software, tracking pixel, advertising network or comparable instrument by which a Visitor's behaviour might be monitored, aggregated or profiled.
3.3 The sole personal data gathered by the Website is that which a Visitor volunteers by completing the correspondence form provided within the Atelier, namely his or her name, electronic mail address, telephone number and the substance of the message conveyed.
3.4 That data is processed for the single purpose of responding to the enquiry raised, consistently with the principles of purpose limitation and data minimisation recognised internationally under the OECD Guidelines Governing the Protection of Privacy and Transborder Flows of Personal Data (1980, as revised in 2013) and the United Nations Guidelines for the Regulation of Computerized Personal Data Files (General Assembly Resolution 45/95, 1990). Where a Visitor is located within a jurisdiction possessing its own data protection legislation, such as, by way of example only, the General Data Protection Regulation of the European Union, the California Consumer Privacy Act 2018 of the United States, or comparable legislation of the Visitor's own state, the rights conferred by that legislation are honoured according to its own terms.
3.5 In transmitting that data, the Website makes use of a third party form processing service acting solely on the Proprietor's behalf and for no independent purpose of its own, engaged only to effect delivery of the enquiry to him.
3.6 The provider of hosting and content delivery services to the Website may, in the unremarkable course of operating any server, record technical particulars such as a Visitor's Internet Protocol address and browser type. The Proprietor neither accesses, retains nor makes any use of such particulars.
4. Use, storage and disclosure of personal data
4.1 The Proprietor shall not sell, let, license, barter or otherwise part with any personal data submitted through the Website to any third party for that party's own marketing, commercial or research purpose. This undertaking is absolute and admits of no exception.
4.2 Personal data submitted through the correspondence form is retained no longer than is reasonably necessary to address the enquiry to which it relates, consistently with the internationally recognised principle of storage limitation, and a Visitor may request its earlier deletion at any time.
4.3 A Visitor may, upon reasonable request made by the means set out at clause 17 below, be informed what personal data, if any, the Proprietor holds concerning him or her.
5. Cookies and similar technologies
5.1 The Website does not set, and does not cause to be set, any cookie or similar device for the purposes of advertising, analytics or the tracking of a Visitor between visits.
5.2 A third party video player embedded within the Website may, once activated by the Visitor, set its own cookies under its own policy and under the law of its own jurisdiction. Responsibility for that rests with the third party concerned, and not with the Proprietor.
6. Copyright and intellectual property rights generally
6.1 Save as is expressly provided at clause 7 below, the whole of the Content, including without limitation the text of every book, screenplay and lyric, every photograph, illustration and cover design, every musical composition and sound recording, and every film published upon the Website, is an original literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work, sound recording or film in which copyright subsists and is vested absolutely in the Proprietor, whether as author or as assignee.
6.2 That copyright arises automatically, without registration or other formality, by operation of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works 1886 (Paris Act, 1971), extended to digital transmission and the making available of a work online by the WIPO Copyright Treaty 1996, and given further effect by the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights 1994 (TRIPS) and, in Bangladesh, by the Copyright Act, 2000.
6.3 The distinct rights of a performer, and of the producer of a sound recording, in each musical recording published upon the Website arise under the International Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organisations 1961 (the Rome Convention) and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty 1996, and are vested in the Proprietor or, as the case may be, his licensors, separately from and in addition to copyright in the underlying musical composition.
6.4 The moral rights of the Proprietor, being the right to be identified as author and the right to object to derogatory treatment of his work, arise under Article 6bis of the Berne Convention and are given further effect by the Copyright Act, 2000 of Bangladesh. Those rights are hereby asserted in respect of the whole of the Content.
6.5 No act of reproduction, distribution, public communication or adaptation may lawfully be undertaken in relation to any item of the Content save with the Proprietor's express written consent, or as is permitted by clause 7 or clause 8 below, or by such narrowly construed exception, whether termed fair dealing, fair use or otherwise, as satisfies the three step test set out at Article 9(2) of the Berne Convention and Article 13 of TRIPS.
7. Freely licensed media used upon the Website
7.1 Two items of audiovisual material published upon the Website fall outside clause 6 above, namely the looping background film displayed upon the principal landing page and hero section of the Website, and the looping background film displayed within the Atelier.
7.2 Each such film is stock footage obtained under a royalty free or otherwise permissive licence entitling its use without further payment or attribution. The Proprietor asserts no copyright of his own in either film, and does not represent that copyright in that footage has been assigned to him.
7.3 For the avoidance of doubt, this clause does not extend to any music, narration, editing or other original work of the Proprietor combined with such footage, copyright in which remains subject to clause 6 above.
8. Permitted use of cover artwork and promotional material
8.1 Notwithstanding clause 6 above, the Proprietor grants a limited, non-exclusive and revocable licence to any bookseller, retailer, streaming platform, member of the press or reviewer to reproduce, without alteration, the cover artwork of a book, the sleeve or cover art of a recording, and comparable promotional imagery, for the sole purpose of advertising, offering for sale, reviewing or otherwise showcasing the genuine work to which that artwork relates.
8.2 That licence is conditional upon the artwork being reproduced whole and unaltered, and used only in connection with the bona fide promotion or sale of the Proprietor's own genuine work. It does not extend to:
- (a) any alteration, cropping in a manner that misrepresents the work, or other derogatory treatment of the artwork, contrary to Article 6bis of the Berne Convention;
- (b) any use of the artwork upon or in connection with merchandise, apparel or any other article offered for sale, being a commercial purpose distinct from promotion of the underlying work itself;
- (c) any representation that the artwork, or any element of it, was created by or belongs to the person making use of it; or
- (d) any use calculated to suggest an endorsement or affiliation that does not in fact exist.
8.3 The licence at clause 8.1 is granted gratuitously, and may be withdrawn by the Proprietor, generally or in a particular case, upon reasonable notice.
9. Prohibited use of Content
9.1 Save as is permitted under clause 7 or clause 8 above, or under an exception satisfying the test at clause 6.5, no person may copy, reproduce, republish, distribute, perform, adapt or communicate to the public any item of the Content.
9.2 The systematic extraction or harvesting of Content by automated means, otherwise than by a search engine indexing the Website in the ordinary course, is not permitted, and may, depending upon the jurisdiction in which it occurs, amount to unauthorised access to a computer system of the kind prohibited under Article 2 of the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime 2001, and, by way of national example, under the Digital Security Act, 2018 of Bangladesh.
10. Third party links, platforms and embedded material
10.1 The Website contains hyperlinks to, and embeds players operated by, third parties over whom the Proprietor exercises no control. Such a link or embed is included as a convenience to the Visitor, and does not constitute an endorsement of that third party or its material.
10.2 Once a Visitor leaves the Website by such a link, or interacts with such an embedded player, that third party's own terms and privacy notice apply in place of this Notice, and the Proprietor disclaims all liability for that third party's conduct.
11. No warranty and limitation of liability
11.1 The Website and its Content are provided on an "as is" basis. The Proprietor gives no warranty, express or implied, as to the availability, accuracy or fitness for any purpose of the Website.
11.2 Nothing in this Notice excludes or limits any liability, including for death or personal injury caused by negligence or for fraud, that cannot lawfully be excluded under the mandatory law of the jurisdiction properly applicable to the claim in question.
11.3 Subject always to clause 11.2 above, the Proprietor is not liable to any Visitor for loss arising from reliance upon the Website or its Content, nor for loss arising from a transaction concluded with a third party retailer or platform referred to at clause 2.2 above.
12. Trade marks and unfair competition
12.1 The name "Mir Ahadul Islam", together with any associated signature or device appearing upon the Website, is used by the Proprietor in the course of his profession, and is protected, insofar as it is not the subject of a registered trade mark, under the prohibition upon acts of unfair competition at Article 10bis of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property 1883 (as revised), under Articles 15 to 21 of TRIPS, and under the tort of passing off recognised in Bangladesh and other common law jurisdictions internationally.
12.2 No person may use that name or device in a manner calculated to lead the public to believe that goods or services not genuinely those of the Proprietor are his.
13. Amendment of this Notice
13.1 The Proprietor reserves the right to amend this Notice from time to time, so that it continues accurately to describe the operation of the Website. The date at its head records the date it was last so amended.
14. Severability
14.1 If any provision of this Notice is held by a court or tribunal of competent jurisdiction to be void or otherwise unenforceable, that provision shall be severed, and the remaining provisions shall continue in full force and effect.
15. Governing law and jurisdiction
15.1 This Notice is governed by and is to be construed in accordance with the law of the People's Republic of Bangladesh, being the jurisdiction of the Proprietor's habitual residence and the place from which the Website is principally administered, without prejudice to any mandatory consumer protection or data protection law of a Visitor's own jurisdiction that cannot lawfully be excluded.
15.2 Any dispute arising out of or in connection with this Notice or the Website is subject to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Bangladesh, without prejudice to the Proprietor's right to bring or defend proceedings in any other court of competent jurisdiction, and having regard, as to the recognition and enforcement of any resulting judgment, to such international instruments as may apply, including the Hague Convention of 2 July 2019 on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil or Commercial Matters.
16. Regulatory information
16.1 Consistently with the standards for the legal recognition of electronic records and electronic signatures set out in the UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Commerce 1996 and the UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Signatures 2001, and given domestic effect in Bangladesh by the Information and Communication Technology Act, 2006, the Proprietor identifies himself as Mir Ahadul Islam, trading in his own name and not through any company.
17. Enquiries and correspondence
17.1 Any enquiry concerning this Notice, or any request concerning personal data submitted through the Website, ought to be addressed to the Proprietor by means of the correspondence form provided within the Atelier.
