Privacy Policy

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

We are not required to appoint a data protection officer. For any privacy question, contact us at the email address above.

We only process personal data that is necessary to run this website, respond to enquiries from companies and review applications to our Sales Bench. We do not sell your data and do not use it for advertising.

When you visit the website, our hosting provider automatically processes technical data such as your IP address, date and time of access, pages visited, browser type and operating system. This is needed to deliver the website securely and to detect misuse.

• Legal basis: our legitimate interest in a secure and working website (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR)
• Retention: log data is deleted after 14 days, unless needed to investigate a security incident

When you use our booking form, we process the information you enter: name, work email, company, target event, event location and dates, the staff you would like to book, your industry, any notes you add, the language of the form and your consent with a timestamp.

We use this data to respond to your request, prepare an offer and, if you become a client, to carry out our contract with you.

• Legal basis: steps prior to entering into a contract (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR) and our legitimate interest in responding to business enquiries (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR)
• Retention: if no contract follows, we delete your request 12 months after our last contact. If a contract follows, we keep the data for the duration of the business relationship and as required by tax and commercial law

When you apply as a freelance sales specialist or stand manager, we process the information you provide: name, email, phone number, LinkedIn profile, city and country, language levels, the role you apply for, your sales experience and results, the industries you have worked in, your answers to our questions, the link to your video pitch, your freelance status, your availability, the language of the form and your consents with a timestamp.

During the selection process we also keep notes from the screening call and the live sales interview. With your consent, we contact a professional reference you name.

We use this data to assess your application, run our selection process and, if you are accepted, to match you to client events.

• Legal basis: steps prior to entering into a contract (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR) and, for reference checks, your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR)
• Retention: if your application is not successful, we delete your data 6 months after our decision. If you are accepted to the bench, we keep your profile for as long as you are part of it. You can ask to be removed at any time

We only watch your video pitch through the link you provide and do not download or share it outside the selection process.

This website uses the fonts Barlow Condensed and Manrope. They are hosted on our own server, so no data is sent to Google or other font providers when you visit the website.

We save your chosen language (English or German) and your cookie choice in your browser's local storage, so the website opens in the same language on your next visit and remembers your consent. This information stays on your device, is not sent to us and is not used for tracking.

• Legal basis: storage that is strictly necessary for a function you requested (§ 25(2) TDDDG and Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR)
• You can delete it at any time in your browser settings

We only use analytics cookies if you consent to them (see section 8). We do not use advertising cookies.

Google Analytics. If you consent, we use Google Analytics 4 to understand how visitors use the website, for example which pages are visited and how long visits last. Google Analytics sets cookies (such as _ga, stored for up to 2 years) and processes usage data, device and browser information and a shortened IP address. We do not combine this data with your name or form entries.

• Provider: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. Data may be transferred to Google LLC in the USA, which is certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework
• Legal basis: your consent (§ 25(1) TDDDG and Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). Google Analytics only loads after you agree in our cookie banner
• Retention: analytics data is deleted after 14 months
• Withdrawal: you can withdraw your consent at any time via the Cookie settings link in the footer

Google Search Console. We use Google Search Console to see how our website appears in Google search results. Google provides us with aggregated search statistics. Search Console does not set cookies on our website and does not give us data about individual visitors.

We share personal data only where needed to run this website and our business:

• Hosting and database: Lovable, which hosts the website, and Supabase Inc. (USA), which stores form submissions in our database. Both act on our behalf under a data processing agreement (Art. 28 GDPR)
• Email: Google Workspace (Gmail), provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, for our communication with you
• Clients (Sales Bench applicants only): if you are accepted to the bench and matched to an event, we share your name, role and relevant professional background with that client
• Tax advisors and authorities: where required by law

Where a provider processes data outside the EU or EEA, we make sure an adequate level of protection is in place, for example through the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, another EU adequacy decision or the EU Standard Contractual Clauses.

We delete personal data as soon as it is no longer needed for the purposes above, unless we must keep it longer by law. Invoices and business records are kept for up to 7 years as required by tax and accounting rules.

Under the GDPR you have the right to:

• access the personal data we hold about you (Art. 15)
• have incorrect data corrected (Art. 16)
• have your data deleted (Art. 17)
• restrict processing (Art. 18)
• receive your data in a portable format (Art. 20)
• object to processing based on our legitimate interests (Art. 21)
• withdraw your consent at any time, with effect for the future (Art. 7(3))

To use any of these rights, email hello@madthinkmarketing.com.

You can complain to a data protection supervisory authority, in particular in the EU country where you live or work. Our lead authority is the Estonian Data Protection Inspectorate (Andmekaitse Inspektsioon), Tatari 39, 10134 Tallinn, Estonia, www.aki.ee.

Providing data through our forms is voluntary. Without the required fields, we cannot respond to your request or review your application.

We update this policy when our website or services change. The current version is always available on this page.