LEGAL

Privacy notice

Effective 26 September 2026Updated 28 September 2026

On this page 17 sections

At a glance
1. Who we are
2. Who this notice applies to
3. Our role: controller or processor
4. Data we collect on the website
5. Data we process in the platform
6. If you are a supplier contact
7. Why we process your data and our legal basis
8. Who we share data with
9. International data transfers
10. How long we keep your data
11. How we protect your data
12. Your privacy rights
13. Cookies
14. Children's data
15. Changes to this notice
16. How to contact us

At a glance

This summary gives you the key points. The full details follow in the numbered sections below.

Question	Short answer
Who are we?	Aventruks DOOEL Skopje ("Aventrux"), the company that builds and operates Certinuity
What is Certinuity?	Software that keeps supplier certificates, insurance and declarations in date: it reminds suppliers by email, collects their uploads and produces the audit register
What does this notice cover?	The website certinuity.com, and the Certinuity platform at platform.certinuity.com
Who decides what happens to the data?	We do for website visitors, trial and demo requests, customer accounts and billing. Our customers do for the supplier records they keep in Certinuity; we process those on their behalf
What do we collect on the website?	What you type into the trial or demo form, the campaign parameters of the link that brought you here, and your IP address and browser for abuse prevention. Analytics only runs if you accept it
Do we sell your data?	No. Never
Who else sees it?	A small number of service providers, listed in section 8. Names and emails are never sent to analytics
Where is data stored?	Platform data, including uploaded files and backups, is stored in the European Union. The website and its forms run on our own server in Europe
How long do we keep it?	As long as it is needed, with fixed periods in section 10. Trial data that is not continued is deleted after 60 days. Invoices are kept for 7 years, as the law requires
What are your rights?	Access, correction, deletion, restriction, portability and objection. Write to info@certinuity.com
Who is the DPO?	Martin Mihailovski - martin@aventrux.com - +389 71 333 194

1. Who we are

Certinuity is operated by:

Aventruks DOOEL Skopje Mateja Matevski 22, Skopje, North Macedonia Email: info@certinuity.com Phone: +389 71 333 194

When this notice says "Certinuity", "we", "us" or "our", it means Aventruks DOOEL Skopje.

We process personal data in line with the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 ("GDPR") and any other data protection law that applies to us or to you. This notice refers to GDPR articles for clarity.

2. Who this notice applies to

This notice applies to:

Website visitors who browse certinuity.com
People who request a trial or a demo through the forms on the website
Customer users: the owners, admins, reviewers and read-only auditors who sign in to the Certinuity platform on behalf of their organisation
Supplier contacts: people at a customer's suppliers who receive reminder emails and upload documents through a personal link. They do not have an account. Section 6 is written for them

If your employer gave you access to Certinuity, your employer may have its own privacy notice that also applies to you.

3. Our role: controller or processor

Who is responsible for your data depends on the situation.

When we are the controller

We decide why and how data is processed when:

You visit the website, request a trial or book a demo
You sign up to receive product updates
We run a customer account: sign-in, security, support, invoices and payments
We process data for our own business purposes, such as keeping the service secure and meeting legal obligations

When we are the processor

The customer organisation decides why and how data is processed when it uses Certinuity to:

Keep a list of its suppliers and their contact people
Request, receive, review and approve supplier documents
Keep an audit trail and produce the audit register

In these cases the customer is the controller and we process the data only on its instructions, under our Data Processing Agreement. This covers supplier contacts, the documents suppliers upload, and the content that customer users create inside the platform.

What this means for you: if you are a supplier contact, or a user whose account belongs to an organisation, some requests (such as deleting a supplier record) need to go to that organisation. If you write to us, we will pass your request on or tell you who to contact.

4. Data we collect on the website

4.1 Trial and demo forms

Data	Form	Why we need it
Full name	Trial, demo	To address you and set up your account or demo
Work email	Trial, demo	To send your sign-in details or agree a demo time
Company	Trial, demo	To set up your organisation and prepare the demo
Number of suppliers (band)	Demo	To suggest a plan and prepare the demo
Country	Trial	To set up your organisation, time zone and billing
Plan after the trial	Trial	To know which plan you are interested in
Acceptance of the Terms and DPA	Trial	To record that you accepted them
Product updates opt-in	Trial	To know whether you want product update emails
Role	Demo	To tailor the demo
Number of facilities (band)	Demo	To tailor the demo
Message (optional)	Demo	Anything you want us to know before the call
Campaign parameters: `utm_source`, `utm_medium`, `utm_campaign`, `utm_term`, `utm_content`, `gclid` and the first page you landed on	Trial, demo	To understand which campaigns and pages bring people to us
IP address and browser (user agent)	Trial, demo	To prevent abuse, spam and automated submissions

The forms also contain checks that stop automated submissions. Submissions that fail them are discarded and not stored.

Form data is stored on our own server in Europe, operated by us. New submissions are posted to a private channel in our internal Slack workspace so that our team can follow up. The Slack message contains the form fields and the campaign source, not your IP address or browser.

4.2 Browsing the website

When you browse the website, our web server processes your IP address and the pages requested, as any web server does, in order to deliver the pages and keep the site secure.

If you accept analytics cookies, Google Analytics 4 measures how the site is used: pages viewed, buttons and forms used, the campaign that brought you, approximate location, device and browser. Until you accept, analytics and marketing storage stay denied. Google may still receive cookieless signals without identifiers while consent is denied, which it uses for aggregate modelling. We never send names, email addresses, company names or form text to analytics. The website also sets one first-party cookie, cn_hero, which decides which of two homepage headlines you see. It contains no personal data. See the Cookie policy for the full list.

5. Data we process in the platform

Data	Why we need it
Name, email address, job title (optional)	To identify you in the platform and show your name on your actions, such as approvals
Interface language	To show the platform in your language
Organisation memberships, role and facilities	To control what you can see and do. Roles limit each person to their own facilities
Access end date (read-only auditors)	To end an auditor's access automatically
Password and one-time codes sent by email	To sign you in securely. You sign in with your email address and password, which is stored only as a one-way hash. If you switch on two-step sign-in, you also enter a one-time code we email you, valid for 10 minutes
Signed-in devices (device and browser, IP address, last active)	So you can see and sign out your devices, and for security monitoring
Last sign-in time	Security monitoring

5.2 Organisation and billing data (we are controller)

Data	Why we need it
Organisation name, country, domain, time zone	To run the account and show dates correctly
Owner of the account	To know who may manage billing, transfer ownership or delete the account
Plan, supplier limit, trial and subscription dates, status	To provide the plan you chose
VAT number and its validation result	To issue correct invoices
Plan, billing period, amounts in USD, currency and billing country	Billing and accounting
Paddle customer, subscription and transaction IDs, and the billing email	To link payments to your subscription and handle billing questions

We never receive or store your payment details. Orders are processed by Paddle.com Market Limited (London, United Kingdom), our online reseller and Merchant of Record. Paddle collects your payment details, billing address and tax details directly, and acts as an independent controller for payment, tax and invoicing data under its own privacy notice. We receive only the customer, subscription and transaction IDs, the plan, amount, currency, country and billing email.

5.3 Customer data (we are processor)

Customer data is what the organisation and its users put into Certinuity, including:

Facilities, the document catalogue, supplier sets and workflows
Suppliers: name, country, contact name, contact email, language and internal notes
Requirements, statuses, exceptions (with their reason and end date) and review decisions (with reject reasons and notes)
Files uploaded by suppliers or users, with their dates, scope notes and history
The audit trail: who did what, and when
Records of emails sent to suppliers, and whether they were opened or the upload link was used

Uploaded documents such as certificates and insurance schedules can themselves contain personal data, such as the names and signatures of auditors, signatories or company officers. We process that data as part of the file, on the customer's instructions.

5.4 Technical data

Data	Why we need it
IP address, browser and device	Security, rate limiting and diagnosing problems
Server and application logs	To keep the platform running and investigate errors or abuse

6. If you are a supplier contact

A customer of ours (the organisation named in the email you received) has added you as the contact person for your company, so that it can collect the documents it needs from you. That organisation is the controller of your data. We send the emails and run the upload page on its behalf.

What is processed about you:

Your name, email address and preferred language, as entered by the organisation, plus any notes it keeps about your company
The emails sent to you (requests, reminders, accepted and rejected notices), and whether each was opened or its link was used. We detect this with a small image in the email and with the link itself
What you upload through the personal link: the file, any expiry date you type, your optional note, and the page language you used
Your IP address and browser when you use the upload page, for security and rate limiting

You do not need an account, and no password is involved. The link is personal to your company: anyone who has it can upload documents for your company, so please do not forward it outside your company. The organisation can reset the link at any time.

For questions or requests about your data, contact the organisation that emailed you. The reply-to address of its emails goes to that organisation. If you write to us at info@certinuity.com, we will pass your request to the organisation and help it respond.

7. Why we process your data and our legal basis

To answer your trial or demo request

Legal basis: steps at your request before entering into a contract (Article 6(1)(b) GDPR)

This covers setting up your trial, sending your sign-in details, agreeing a demo time and following up on your request, including sharing it with our team through Slack.

To provide the platform to customers

Legal basis: performance of a contract (Article 6(1)(b) GDPR)

Creating and running accounts, organisations and memberships
Providing the features of the plan, including emails to users and suppliers
Billing and subscription management, with orders processed by Paddle as Merchant of Record
Service emails: invitations, sign-in codes, export links, billing notices and account deletion notices
Customer support

To keep the website and platform secure

Legal basis: legitimate interest (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR)

Our legitimate interest is a secure, reliable service that cannot easily be abused:

Rate limiting and spam checks on forms, sign-in and upload pages
Logging, monitoring and investigating suspicious activity
Showing and revoking signed-in devices

Balancing test: these measures use the minimum data needed, are expected by people using a business service, and protect them as much as us.

To understand and improve our marketing

Legal basis: legitimate interest (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR) for campaign parameters attached to a form submission; consent (Article 6(1)(a) GDPR) for analytics cookies

Knowing which campaign or page led to a trial or demo request helps us spend our marketing budget sensibly. Analytics cookies are set only after you accept them.

To send product updates

Legal basis: consent (Article 6(1)(a) GDPR)

Only if you ticked the product updates box. We send them at most once a month, and every email has an unsubscribe link.

To meet legal obligations

Legal basis: legal obligation (Article 6(1)(c) GDPR)

Keeping invoices and accounting records for 7 years, as required by tax and accounting law
Responding to lawful requests from authorities

Customer data

When we process customer data as a processor, the customer determines the legal basis. We process it only to provide the service, on the customer's documented instructions, as set out in the Data Processing Agreement.

You can withdraw consent at any time, through Cookie settings in the website footer or the unsubscribe link in our emails. Withdrawing consent does not affect processing that took place before.

We do not sell, rent or trade personal data.

8.1 Service providers

These providers help us run the website and the platform. We share only the data each one needs.

Provider	What they do	Data they process	Where
Our own server (operated by us, not a third party)	Hosts the website and stores trial and demo requests	Form data, IP addresses, browser	Europe
DigitalOcean (DigitalOcean, LLC)	Hosts the platform, its database, uploaded files and backups	All platform data	European Union
Slack (Slack Technologies)	Internal notification of new trial and demo requests to our team	Form fields and campaign source (no IP address or browser)	United States
Google Analytics (Google Ireland Limited)	Website analytics, only after you accept analytics cookies	Pseudonymous identifiers, pages and events, approximate location, device and browser	EU, with transfers to the United States
Paddle (Paddle.com Market Limited)	Merchant of Record: processes orders, payments, VAT or sales tax and invoices, as an independent controller	Payment details, billing address and tax details, collected by Paddle directly. We share the plan and subscription details	United Kingdom
Microsoft 365 (Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited)	Sends platform emails to users and suppliers through Exchange Online, from Aventrux's own Microsoft 365 tenant	Recipient name and email address, email content	EU, with possible transfers to the United States

We do not use advertising networks, social media trackers or error-tracking services. The cookie banner has a Marketing option, but no marketing tags are in use today. If we add any, we will list them here and in the Cookie policy first.

8.2 Inside a customer organisation

Users of a customer organisation see each other's names and roles where the work requires it, for example on approvals, workflows and the audit register. Organisation admins can see the users, roles and facility access of their organisation. No organisation can see another organisation's data.

Read-only users, such as the customer's external auditor, can see the suppliers, documents and register for the facilities they were given, until their access ends.

8.3 Our own staff

A small number of Aventrux staff can access customer accounts where needed to provide support, investigate a problem or meet a legal obligation. Where we open an account as an organisation admin to help, that access is time-limited and every action taken is recorded in the audit trail with the staff member's identity.

8.4 Legal requirements

We may disclose personal data if the law, a regulator or a court order requires it, or to protect the rights, property or safety of our users, the public or us. We check that requests are lawful, and where we are allowed to, we tell the person or customer affected.

8.5 Business transfers

If Aventruks DOOEL Skopje is involved in a merger, acquisition or sale of assets, personal data may pass to the successor. We will tell you before your data becomes subject to a different privacy notice.

9. International data transfers

Platform data, including uploaded files and backups, is stored in the European Union. Some of our providers are based in, or may give support from, countries outside the EU, in particular the United States. Where that happens, we protect the data as follows:

DigitalOcean: the platform is hosted in an EU region. DigitalOcean, LLC is a US company, so any remote access from outside the EU, for example for support, is covered by the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework and the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses
Slack, Google and Microsoft: where data goes to the United States, these providers rely on the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework and the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses
Paddle: Paddle is in the United Kingdom, which has an adequacy decision of the European Commission
Customer data we process as a processor: the safeguards are set out in the Data Processing Agreement

For details of the safeguards for a specific transfer, write to info@certinuity.com.

10. How long we keep your data

Data	How long	Why
Trial and demo requests that do not become a customer	24 months from our last contact with you, including the copy in our Slack channel	To follow up and handle a later return
Rate-limit records for forms	A hashed IP address, used only within a 10-minute window	Abuse prevention
Product update consent	Until you unsubscribe	So we only email people who asked
Trial account not continued	Kept for 60 days after the trial ends, then deleted	So you can still choose a plan without losing your work
Cancelled subscription	Full access until the end of the paid period, then read-only for 60 days, then deleted	To allow export or a change of mind
Account deletion requested by the Owner	Deleted 14 days after the request, unless cancelled in that time	To allow a mistaken request to be undone
Customer data during the subscription	Until the customer deletes it or the account ends	The customer decides
Audit trail	As long as the account exists; it cannot be edited or deleted by users	The audit register depends on it
Invoices and payment records	7 years from issue	Tax and accounting law
Invitations	Valid 7 days	Security
Data export download links	Valid 7 days	Security
One-time sign-in codes	10 minutes	Security
Signed-in device sessions	Until you sign out or revoke the device	Security
Google Analytics data	2 months	Aggregate reporting
Platform backups	Kept for a limited period in the European Union, then overwritten automatically	Recovery from failures and mistakes

After these periods, data is permanently deleted or irreversibly anonymised.

11. How we protect your data

Encryption in transit: the website and the platform are served over HTTPS only
Server protection: the platform servers sit behind a firewall that allows only web traffic and administrator access; administrator access is by SSH key only, and security updates are installed automatically
Backups: the platform is backed up automatically on a regular basis. Backups are kept in the European Union, and access to them is restricted to authorised staff
Private storage: the database and uploaded files are stored privately in the European Union and are not reachable from the internet. Files are never stored on a public address
Tenant isolation: every query in the platform is limited to the signed-in user's organisation, and every supplier query to the user's facilities. Both are covered by automated tests across organisations and facilities
Roles: Owner, Admin, Reviewer and Read-only, each limited to a list of facilities; auditor access can end on a set date
Sign-in protection: passwords are stored only as one-way hashes; optional two-step sign-in adds a one-time code by email that expires after 10 minutes and allows 5 attempts; sign-in, sign-in codes and upload pages are rate-limited; you can see and sign out your devices
Files: served only to authorised users or through short-lived preview links (5 minutes). File types are checked on the server, and web page and SVG files are refused
Supplier links: long random tokens, stored as a hash; an unknown or reset link shows a neutral page that reveals nothing
Audit trail: decisions and changes are recorded and cannot be edited or deleted through the platform
Payments: payment details stay with Paddle
People: access to production systems is limited to the staff who need it, and every staff visit to a customer account as admin is audited

12. Your privacy rights

You have the following rights, wherever you are:

Access (Article 15 GDPR): ask whether we process your data and get a copy
Rectification (Article 16 GDPR): ask us to correct or complete your data. Users can update most of their details in My profile
Erasure (Article 17 GDPR): ask us to delete your data, unless we must keep it, for example invoices for 7 years
Restriction (Article 18 GDPR): ask us to pause processing while a dispute is resolved
Portability (Article 20 GDPR): get your data in a structured, machine-readable format. Customer admins can export all organisation data from Settings
Objection (Article 21 GDPR): object to processing based on our legitimate interests
Automated decisions (Article 22 GDPR): Certinuity does not make decisions about people based solely on automated processing. Documents are approved or rejected by people
Withdraw consent: at any time, without affecting earlier processing

How to exercise your rights

Email: info@certinuity.com
Post: Aventruks DOOEL Skopje, Mateja Matevski 22, Skopje, North Macedonia
DPO: Martin Mihailovski, martin@aventrux.com, +389 71 333 194

We acknowledge requests within 7 days and reply within 30 days. For a complex request we may extend this by up to 60 more days, and we will tell you why. We may need to confirm your identity first. If the request concerns customer data, we will pass it to the customer and help it respond.

Right to complain

If you live or work in the EU or EEA, you can complain to the data protection supervisory authority in your own member state. In the United Kingdom, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office.

You can also complain to the supervisory authority where we are registered:

Agency for Personal Data Protection of North Macedonia (Agencija za zashtita na lichnite podatoci) Bul. Goce Delchev 18, 1000 Skopje, North Macedonia Website: https://azlp.mk

13. Cookies

The website uses a small number of cookies and browser storage items, and analytics only after you accept. The platform uses browser storage to keep you signed in. The Cookie policy lists every item. You can change your choice at any time with Cookie settings in the website footer.

14. Children's data

Certinuity is a business service. It is not directed at children under 16 and we do not knowingly collect their data. If you believe we have, write to info@certinuity.com and we will delete it.

15. Changes to this notice

We may update this notice when our service, providers or the law change:

Minor updates (clarifications, formatting): we change the "Last updated" date
Material changes (new data, new providers, changes to your rights): we tell customers by email or in the platform at least 30 days before they apply, and ask for consent again where the law requires

Earlier versions are available on request.

16. How to contact us