Privacy Policy

1. Controller

The controller responsible for the processing of personal data on this website is:

Henrik Heßlau
c/o Technische Universität Berlin
Abteilung V - Forschung, Centre for Entrepreneurship
Sekr. AM1, Hardenbergstr. 38
10623 Berlin, Germany
Email: privacy@faust.bot

2. What Data We Collect

When you use our website or sign up for access, we may collect the following personal data:

• Contact information: your name and email address, provided voluntarily via our contact or access form.
• Usage data: information about how you interact with our website, such as pages visited, time spent, and browser type. This data is collected in anonymised or pseudonymised form.

We do not collect payment data directly. We do not sell your data to third parties.

3. Purpose and Legal Basis

We process your personal data for the following purposes:

• To respond to your enquiries and send you product updates (legal basis: Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR - consent, or Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR - pre-contractual measures)
• To improve our website and services through anonymised usage analytics (legal basis: Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR - legitimate interest)

4. Data Retention

We retain your personal data only as long as necessary for the purposes described above, or as required by applicable law. Contact and registration data is deleted upon request or when no longer needed for communication purposes.

5. Third-Party Services

We use the following third-party services that may process personal data on our behalf:

• AI model providers (e.g. Anthropic, OpenAI): used to power FaustAI's knowledge capture features. Data processed is subject to their respective privacy policies.
• Email service providers: used to send transactional and product emails.
• Hosting providers: our infrastructure is hosted on servers within the EU or with providers offering adequate data protection guarantees.

All third-party processors are bound by data processing agreements in accordance with Art. 28 GDPR.

6. Cookies

Our website may use technically necessary cookies to ensure basic functionality. We do not use tracking or advertising cookies without your explicit consent.

7. Your Rights

Under the GDPR, you have the following rights regarding your personal data:

• Right of access (Art. 15 GDPR)
• Right to rectification (Art. 16 GDPR)
• Right to erasure (Art. 17 GDPR)
• Right to restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR)
• Right to data portability (Art. 20 GDPR)
• Right to object (Art. 21 GDPR)
• Right to withdraw consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing prior to withdrawal

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at privacy@faust.bot.

8. Right to Lodge a Complaint

You have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority. The supervisory authority for Berlin is:

Berliner Beauftragte fur Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit
Friedrichstr. 219
10969 Berlin
www.datenschutz-berlin.de

9. Changes to This Policy

We may update this privacy policy from time to time. The current version is always available at faust.bot/privacy.