Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

Welcome to Patchwerk Technologies (“Patchwerk”, “we”, “our”, “us”). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy. This Privacy Policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit our website, as well as how we collect, use, maintain, protect, and disclose information obtained through our data acquisition services.

2. Information We Collect

A. From Website Visitors: We may collect contact information (such as name, email address, and company) when you voluntarily submit it through our contact forms or sample requests.

B. Public Data Collection: Patchwerk operates a headless collection engine that aggregates publicly available data from the internet. This data may include professional histories, public social profiles, firmographics, and other business-related information. We only collect data that is manifestly made public by the data subject or the hosting platform.

3. Lawful Basis for Processing

For individuals residing in the European Economic Area (EEA) or the UK, we process publicly available personal data under the lawful basis of Legitimate Interest (Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR). Our legitimate interest is in providing comprehensive B2B intelligence, market research, and data services to our enterprise clients. We balance this interest against the privacy rights of individuals by strictly limiting our collection to publicly available professional and business-related data.

4. Your Privacy Rights (GDPR & CCPA)

Depending on your jurisdiction (including the EEA, UK, and California), you may have the right to:

• Request access to the personal data we hold about you.
• Request correction of inaccurate data.
• Request deletion (Right to be Forgotten): You may request that we delete your public profile data from our databases.
• Opt-out of the sale of your personal information (CCPA).

To exercise these rights, please contact us at hello@patchwerktechnologies.com. We honor all verified deletion and opt-out requests promptly.

5. Data Retention & Security

Data is encrypted in transit using TLS 1.2+ and at rest using AES-256. We retain collected public data only for as long as it remains relevant for B2B intelligence purposes, or until a valid deletion request is received.

6. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us at:
hello@patchwerktechnologies.com