This privacy policy explains how your personal data is collected and processed when you use this site and its event services. We process personal data in accordance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR 2016/679) and the Law on Legal Protection of Personal Data of the Republic of Lithuania.
1. Data controller
MB Instakademija (the Aeratus / Vox platform), Kaunas, Lithuania — the controller of your personal data. Data contact: privatumas@aeratus.app.
2. Categories of data we collect
We collect only the data necessary to organise events, handle registration, communicate with you and provide our services:
- Identity and contact data: name, email address, phone (if provided), organisation, role.
- Registration data: participation mode (in person / remote), answers to event questions, dietary or accessibility needs (if you provide them).
- Account data (for organisers): login email, password hash, organisation membership, role on the platform.
- Payment data (for paid services): billing and subscription information. Card details are handled solely by our payment provider — we never see or store them.
- Technical and usage data: IP address, browser type, device, visit time, interaction logs — stored in pseudonymised form.
We do not intentionally collect special-category (sensitive) personal data and ask that you do not submit it in free-text fields.
3. Purposes and legal bases
Each processing purpose is grounded in one of the legal bases set out in the GDPR:
| Purpose | Legal basis |
|---|
| Event registration and attendance | Contract (Art. 6(1)(b)) |
| Organiser account and platform services | Contract (Art. 6(1)(b)) |
| Newsletter and marketing messages | Consent (Art. 6(1)(a)) |
| Analytics and marketing cookies (where the organiser has connected them) | Consent (Art. 6(1)(a)) |
| Site security, fraud prevention, aggregated statistics | Legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f)) |
| AI-assisted preparation of event content (drafting descriptions, translations and tone analysis at the organiser's request) | Contract (Art. 6(1)(b)) |
| Accounting and tax obligations | Legal obligation (Art. 6(1)(c)) |
Marketing messages are sent only after a separate opt-in; you may withdraw consent at any time without affecting processing carried out before withdrawal.
4. Recipients and processors
We do not sell personal data. We disclose data only to trusted service providers (processors) acting on our instructions under signed data-processing agreements:
- Database, authentication and file storage — Supabase (database and files hosted in the EU region).
- Application build and hosting platform — Lovable (Sweden, EU).
- Payment processing — Stripe (card data is handled solely by Stripe under the PCI-DSS standard).
- Email and notification delivery — Resend (United States).
- AI features — Anthropic (United States). When an organiser uses text drafting, translation or tone-analysis, the relevant event content (including speaker biographies and the organiser's own writing samples) is sent to the Anthropic API for processing. Attendee registration data is not sent to these features.
- The event organiser — when you register for an event, your registration data is provided to the relevant organiser, who is an independent controller of that data.
This list is our sub-processor register. We update it before engaging a new provider; the date of the current version is shown at the top of this page.
We may also disclose data to competent authorities where required by law.
5. International data transfers
The database, authentication and uploaded files are held within the European Economic Area (EEA). Three of the sub-processors listed in section 4 are established in the United States: Stripe (its US entity), Resend and Anthropic. Those transfers rely on the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs), which form part of each provider's data-processing terms, together with supplementary technical measures — encryption in transit and data minimisation (only the content needed for the specific feature is sent to a US provider).
6. Retention periods
- Event registration data — up to 24 months after the event, then anonymised.
- Organiser account data — while the account is active, and up to 12 months after closure.
- Accounting and payment records — for the period required by law (typically 10 years).
- Technical logs — up to 12 months.
- Data processed on the basis of marketing consent — until consent is withdrawn.
How these periods are applied in practice: the platform has an anonymisation routine that strips names, email addresses, free-text answers and uploaded-file links from records of events that have ended, and deletes technical logs. Every run is written to an audit log. There is not yet an automatic daily schedule — the routine is started by the platform operator, so actual anonymisation may lag behind the period stated above. You do not have to wait for it: you may request erasure of your data at any time (see section 8) and we act on such a request without delay.
7. Data security
We apply appropriate technical and organisational measures: encrypted data in transit (TLS), access controls, per-organisation data isolation, and regular backups, to protect data against unauthorised access, loss or disclosure.
8. Your rights
Under the GDPR you have the following rights regarding your personal data:
- to access the data we process;
- to have inaccurate data rectified;
- to have data erased (the “right to be forgotten”);
- to restrict processing;
- to receive your data in a structured, machine-readable format (portability);
- to object to processing based on legitimate interest;
- to withdraw any consent at any time.
To exercise your rights, contact privatumas@aeratus.app.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority — the State Data Protection Inspectorate (VDAI), L. Sapiegos g. 17, Vilnius, Lithuania, ada@ada.lt, vdai.lrv.lt.
9. Cookies
This site uses cookies. For details on categories and consent management, see the
Cookie policy.
10. Changes to this policy
We may update this policy from time to time. We will announce material changes on the site or by email. The current version date is shown at the top of this page.
11. Contact
For any questions about this privacy policy or your data, contact: privatumas@aeratus.app.