Privacy Policy

Your privacy is critically important to us. At devguard, we have a few fundamental principles:

• We are thoughtful about the personal information we ask you to provide and the personal information that we collect about you through the operation of our services.
• We store personal information for only as long as we have a reason to keep it.
• We aim to make it as simple as possible for you to control what information on your website is shared publicly (or kept private), indexed by search engines, and permanently deleted.
• We help protect you from overreaching government demands for your personal information.
• We aim for full transparency on how we gather, use, and share your personal information.

Services we use

We use the following third-party tools to provide our services.

Below is our Privacy Policy, which incorporates and clarifies these principles.

Ave! We are the folks behind devguard. Our mission is to empower developers with a flexible compliance API platform that automates governance workflows, fostering accountability and collaboration without compromising efficiency.

Our vision is to redefine compliance by making it accessible, developer-centric, and adaptable for organizations of all sizes.

We believe in empowering developers with accessible, intuitive compliance tools that fit seamlessly into their workflows, making compliance inclusive and affordable for all. Guided by integrity, accountability, and transparency, we embrace open collaboration and continuous learning. By championing efficiency through automation and ensuring adaptability at scale, we enable organizations to navigate risks proactively and focus on sustained growth.

This Privacy Policy applies to information that we collect about you when you use our website, services and products. This Privacy Policy also applies to information we collect when you apply for a job at devguard or one of our subsidiaries.

Throughout this Privacy Policy we'll refer to our websites, applications, and other products and services collectively as "Services". If you want to learn more about us visit our site notice.

And from time to time you may encounter some Warhammer references, For the Emperor!

Below we explain how we collect, use, and share information about you, along with the choices that you have with respect to that information.

We only collect information about you if we have a reason to do so, for example, to provide our Services, to communicate with you, or to make our Services better.

We collect this information from three sources: if and when you provide information to us, automatically through operating our Services, and from outside sources. Let's go over the information that we collect.

Information You Provide to Us

It's probably no surprise that we collect information that you provide to us directly. Here are some examples:

• Basic account information: We ask for basic information from you in order to set up your account. For example, we require individuals who sign up to provide an email address and password, along with a username or name, and that's it. You may provide us with more information, like your address and other information you want to share, but we don't require that information to create an account.
• Payment and contact information: We require basic information to process payments from you in exchange for our Services. These include your full address, country of residency, full name and email. Additional information may be collected depending on the legal requirements of your country. Payments are processed through Stripe.
• Communications with us: You may also provide us with information when you sign up for a newsletter or contact us through our support channels. When you communicate with us via form, email, chat, or otherwise, we store a copy of our communications.
• Waiting List Form: By providing your email address through our waiting list form on the "Launching Soon" website, you consent to its secure storage solely for sending you a one-time launch notification. No account will be created, and no additional emails will be sent. Once the notification is delivered, your email address will be permanently removed from our system. We do not use any third-party services to store this information.

Information We Collect Automatically

We also collect some information automatically:

• Log information: Like most online service providers, we collect information that web browsers, mobile devices, and servers typically make available, including the browser type, IP address, unique device identifiers, language preference, referring site, the date and time of access, operating system, and mobile network information. We collect log information when you use our Services, for example, when you create or make changes to your data.
• Transactional information: When you subscribe to our Services, we collect information about the transaction, such as subscription details, purchase price, and the date and location of the transaction.
• Usage information: We collect information about your usage of our Services. For example, we collect information about the actions that users perform on our platform, in other words, who did what and when (e.g., [username] deleted [object] at [time/date]), this information will also be made available to you within the audit log. We also collect information about what happens when you use our Services (e.g., page views, click heat-maps and other parts of our Services) along with information about your device (e.g., screen size, name of cellular network, and mobile device manufacturer). We use this information to, for example, provide our Services to you, get insights on how people use our Services so we can make our Services better, and understand and make predictions about user retention.

Information We Collect from Other Sources

We may also get information about you from other sources. For example:

• Third Party Login: If you create or log in to your account through another service (like Google) we'll receive associated login information (e.g. a connection token, your username, your email address)

Our use of your information is based on the grounds that:

(1) The use is necessary in order to fulfill our commitments to you under the applicable terms of service or other agreements with you or is necessary to administer your account, for example, in order to enable access to our website or charge you for a paid plan; or

(2) The use is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation; or

(3) The use is necessary in order to protect your vital interests or those of another person; or

(4) We have a legitimate interest in using your information, for example, to provide and update our Services; to improve our Services so that we can offer you an even better user experience; to safeguard our Services; to communicate with you; to measure, gauge, and improve the effectiveness of our advertising; and to understand our user retention and attrition; to monitor and prevent any problems with our Services; and to personalize your experience; or

(5) You have given us your consent, for example before we place certain cookies on your device and access and analyze them later on.

We use information about you for the purposes listed below.

• To provide our Services: For example, to set up and maintain your account, host your data, backup and restore your data, provide customer service, process payments and orders, and verify user information.
• To ensure quality, maintain safety, and improve our Services: For example, by providing automatic upgrades and new versions of our Services. Or, for example, by monitoring and analyzing how users interact with our Services so we can create new features that we think our users will enjoy and that will help them create and manage websites more efficiently or make our Services easier to use.
• To protect our Services, our users, and the public: For example, by detecting security incidents; detecting and protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; fighting spam; complying with our legal obligations; and protecting the rights and property of Automattic and others, which may result in us, for example, declining a transaction or terminating Services.
• To fix problems with our Services: For example, by monitoring, debugging, repairing, and preventing issues.
• To customize the user experience: For example, to personalize your experience by serving you relevant notifications and features for our Services.
• To communicate with you: For example, by emailing you to ask for your feedback, share tips for getting the most out of our products, or keep you up to date on devguard; texting you to verify your payment. If you don't want to hear from us, you can opt out of marketing communications at any time. (If you opt out, we'll still send you important updates (system messages) relating to your account.)

We generally discard information about you when it's no longer needed for the purposes for which we collect and use it, described in the section above on How and Why We Use Information, and we're not legally required to keep it.

For example, we keep web server logs that record information about a visitor, like the visitor's IP address, browser type, and operating system, for approximately 30 days. We retain the logs for this period of time in order to, among other things, analyze traffic and investigate issues if something goes wrong on one of our websites.

While no online service is 100% secure, we work very hard to protect information about you against unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction, and take reasonable measures to do so. We monitor our Services for potential vulnerabilities and attacks.

If you are located in certain parts of the world, including some US states and countries that fall under the scope of the European General Data Protection Regulation (aka the "GDPR"), you may have certain rights regarding your personal information, like the right to request access to or deletion of your data.

If you are located in a country that falls under the scope of the GDPR, data protection laws give you certain rights with respect to your personal data, subject to any exemptions provided by the law, including the rights to:

• Request access to your personal data;
• Request correction or deletion of your personal data;
• Object to our use and processing of your personal data;
• Request that we limit our use and processing of your personal data; and
• Request portability of your personal data.

You also have the right to make a complaint to a government supervisory authority.

In the event that you wish to complain about how we have handled your personal data, please contact our representative via privacy(at)devguard.ch, who will then look into your complaint and work with you to resolve the matter.