Privacy Policy – Influesque

This Privacy Policy explains how Influesque ("we", "us", "our") collects, uses, and protects information when you visit our website, join the waitlist, or otherwise interact with our services.

Who we are

Data Controller: Influesque. We currently operate from the EU (Netherlands and Germany). Contact: info@influesque.com.

What we collect

Website analytics: We use Plausible Analytics to measure page views and events in a privacy‑friendly, cookie‑less way. Plausible does not collect personally identifiable information nor use tracking cookies.
Waitlist information: When you join our waitlist, we collect your email address and optionally your company and website to contact you and manage your request.
Account and authentication (platform): If you sign in to our platform using Google OAuth, we receive basic profile information (such as your name and email) from Google to create and authenticate your account. We do not receive your Google password.
B2B contact data from public sources: We may collect and process publicly available business contact information (e.g., work email published on a company site or public profile) for legitimate business outreach purposes.

How we use your information

To provide, maintain, and improve our site and upcoming services.
To communicate with you about product updates, access, or support when you request it.
To perform product research and understand interest in our features.
For security, abuse prevention, and to comply with legal obligations.

Legal bases under GDPR

Performance of a contract or steps prior to entering a contract (GDPR Art. 6(1)(b)): For processing your waitlist submission and related communications.
Legitimate interests (GDPR Art. 6(1)(f)): For privacy‑respecting analytics; for B2B outreach using publicly available business contact details where we balance necessity and your rights; and for product improvement, security, and fraud prevention.
Compliance with legal obligations (GDPR Art. 6(1)(c)) where applicable.

YouTube API Services

Certain features may rely on YouTube API Services. If you use those features, your use is subject to the YouTube Terms of Service and the Google Privacy Policy. You can revoke Influesque’s access to your Google account at any time via your Google Account permissions.

Processors and third parties

Email and contact management: Resend, used to send emails and manage audience lists (including suppression). Data may be processed in the United States.
Analytics: Plausible Analytics (EU‑based), which is cookieless and does not use personally identifiable tracking.
Authentication (platform): Google OAuth 2.0 for sign‑in. Your use is also subject to Google’s policies.
Error monitoring: Sentry (application performance and error reporting). May collect minimal diagnostic data and stack traces to help us fix issues.
Background processing and caching: Sidekiq and Redis for job processing and queues.
Data storage: PostgreSQL for primary application data.
Hosting: Heroku (platform) and Vercel (marketing site hosting & delivery).
DNS/CDN & security: Cloudflare for DNS, CDN, and DDoS protection.
Language detection and AI features: Google Gemini API via our AI components to process prompts/outputs strictly to provide features.

We engage third‑party providers under data protection terms and appropriate safeguards (e.g., Standard Contractual Clauses for international transfers where applicable).

International transfers

Some providers may process data outside your country (including the United States). Where required, we use appropriate safeguards such as Standard Contractual Clauses and limit data to what is necessary for the stated purposes.

Retention

We retain personal data only as long as necessary for the purposes described above or as required by law. We periodically review and delete or anonymize data that is no longer needed.

Your rights

Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict, or object to processing, and to data portability. You can exercise these rights by contacting info@influesque.com.

Opt‑out of B2B outreach

If we contacted you using a public business email and you prefer not to be contacted, email info@influesque.com from the address you want us to stop contacting. We will promptly suppress your email for future outreach.

Security

We implement reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect personal data against unauthorized access, loss, or misuse.

Children

Our site is intended for business use and not directed to children under 16.

Changes

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Material changes will be noted by updating the effective date above. Continued use of our site after changes means you accept the updated Policy.

Contact

Questions or requests: info@influesque.com.