Privacy

Controller: Alexandre Aptsiauri, Greece, operating this website as AptQ.

This notice explains how we handle information from the website and its contact form. For questions about your information or to exercise your rights, use the contact form. If we have already exchanged emails, you may also reply to that correspondence.

The form also accepts privacy questions and rights requests. You do not need to propose a business idea or give additional consent to use it for that purpose.

Your inquiry

The form asks for your email address and message. Your name is optional. We use these details to read and respond to your inquiry and consider the problem, collaboration or business opportunity you describe. You are not legally required to send an inquiry or provide a name. We need an email address and message to handle an inquiry through the form.

Please include only what is necessary. Avoid sensitive information and personal details about other people. We do not add senders to marketing lists or use their messages to train AI models. Sending a message does not guarantee a reply, collaboration or solution.

Why we may use the information

For ordinary inquiries, our basis is our legitimate interest in receiving, assessing and responding to relevant correspondence, with limited data, access and retention. You can object to processing based on this interest.

Where you specifically ask us to take necessary steps toward a contract with you, those steps may instead be based on pre-contractual necessity. That basis does not automatically cover every collaboration or investment message. We also process information as necessary to meet our legal duties when handling data-protection rights requests.

For the technical operation and protection of the website, our basis is our legitimate interest in providing a functioning, secure service and limiting abuse. Remembering your language choice is optional and based on consent.

Providers and technical information

Alexandre Aptsiauri handles the inquiries. Netlify, Inc. hosts the site and processes form submissions and notifications. Its service providers support hosting, email delivery and spam filtering, including Akismet. A submission may be classified or rejected as spam; this does not assess the merits of a collaboration proposal.

We receive notifications and manage subsequent correspondence in an ordinary consumer Gmail account. Google processes information under its consumer terms and privacy policy. This is not Google Workspace, and Google is not represented as acting only on AptQ’s instructions.

We have turned off optional smart features in Gmail, Chat and Meet, across Google Workspace apps, and in other Google products for this mailbox. This does not remove Google’s processing needed to provide and protect the email service.

The host processes technical request information, including IP addresses and connection/request details, to deliver, monitor and protect the service. This is separate from the optional language cookie. We do not add advertising cookies, browser analytics scripts or session-replay tools to this site.

For technical request data, Netlify determines retention using the type and sensitivity of the data, the risk of abuse or unauthorized access, the need to operate or investigate problems with the service, and applicable legal requirements. Its public retention policy does not give one fixed period for every Free-plan log or backup. A dashboard’s visible history is not a promise that older data has been erased. We do not maintain a separate archive of visitor request logs.

See Netlify’s processing information, Google’s Privacy Policy and Google’s Gmail privacy explanation.

Processing outside the EEA

These services may handle information outside the European Economic Area, including in the United States. Netlify’s Data Processing Agreement provides for covered transfers under the EU–US Data Privacy Framework and an EU Standard Contractual Clauses fallback. Google describes its adequacy and contractual transfer mechanisms in its transfer-framework information.

You can use our contact routes to request information about the safeguards applicable to your data and a copy where appropriate. We do not promise that all processing or storage takes place in the EEA.

How long we keep inquiries

We check the inquiry inbox on working days and review Netlify’s verified and spam lists weekly. We review deletion monthly, using these periods:

• We remove obvious spam within 30 days.
• We remove inquiries that do not progress after 90 days.
• We keep useful correspondence while it is active, then normally delete it 12 months after the last substantive contact.

These periods apply to the copies we manage in Netlify and the mailbox, including relevant replies. We may retain necessary information longer for a continuing relationship or legal need, with the reason documented.

Deleting our accessible copies does not immediately erase every provider backup. Providers may also retain limited information for security or legal purposes. Google describes its deletion and backup process here. We do not treat archiving an email as deletion.

Language and cookies

You can switch between English and Greek without accepting a cookie. If you choose to remember your language, the website stores a first-party cookie named aptq_language, containing only en or el, for 30 days. You can withdraw that choice with the site’s forget-language control or remove the cookie in your browser. Withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of earlier storage based on your consent.

A direct English or Greek page takes priority. At the neutral entry page, a remembered choice takes priority over supported browser-language preferences. Where neither supplies a supported choice, the host’s estimated country is used: Greek for Greece, otherwise English. This does not use GPS.

Your rights

Subject to the applicable conditions, you can request access, correction, deletion or restriction of processing. You can object to processing based on legitimate interests. Portability applies where the legal basis is consent or contract and the processing is automated. You can withdraw consent where processing relies on it.

We handle rights requests without undue delay, normally within one month. If the law allows an extension of up to two further months, we explain the reason within the first month. Where we have reasonable doubts about identity, we may request proportionate information to verify it. We do not require every requester to provide identification documents.

You may complain to the Hellenic Data Protection Authority or another competent supervisory authority. Its website explains the complaint procedure and when to contact the controller first.