ICTboard (ictboard.eu) provides intelligence for European leadership —
a radar for your ICT stack with AI-curated readings. This policy explains how we process personal data when you use our website, alerts, or an Officer / Executive radar subscription.
We do not build advertising profiles, sell personal data, or use visitor or subscriber data to make automated decisions about you.
When you browse the dashboard (without subscribing):
We do not require an account.
Standard server logs (IP address, browser type, pages requested, timestamp) may be stored briefly for security and operations.
Plausible Analytics — aggregated, cookieless usage statistics (pages viewed, referrers, device type, country). No advertising profiles and no cross-site tracking. See section 5.
We do not use advertising or social tracking pixels.
When you subscribe to the newsletter:
Email address
Your selected preferences: goal(s), optional topic, and delivery cadence (Week free; Month with Officer radar)
Confirmation and unsubscribe tokens (technical identifiers)
Date of subscription and, where applicable, date of last newsletter sent
When you subscribe to Officer or Executive radar or join the waitlist:
Work email address
Optional company name
Selected plan and strategic goals
For Officer radar checkout (Mollie): payment status and a Mollie payment reference (we do not store card or bank details)
For Executive radar interest: waitlist details until a paid Executive checkout path is offered
Access and order tokens to unlock month and full-depth views and, where your plan includes them, Strategic Reviews
Subscription dates (payment, expiry)
Waitlist notes, if you provide them
When you give optional feedback:
Story usefulness votes (article, goal, thumbs up/down) — no account required
Optional email, only if you choose to include it in a suggestion form
3. Why we use your data (legal basis)
Newsletter delivery — performance of a service you requested, based on your consent after double opt-in (GDPR Art. 6(1)(a)).
Security & uptime — legitimate interest in operating a reliable service (GDPR Art. 6(1)(f)).
Website analytics — legitimate interest in understanding aggregate traffic to improve the product (GDPR Art. 6(1)(f)). Plausible does not use cookies for this purpose.
Officer / Executive radar access & payment — performance of a contract you requested (GDPR Art. 6(1)(b)).
Radar waitlist — your consent when you register interest (GDPR Art. 6(1)(a)).
Product feedback — legitimate interest in improving editorial quality (GDPR Art. 6(1)(f)). Feedback does not change article rankings automatically.
Email engagement (opens/clicks) — legitimate interest in measuring newsletter quality, disclosed in this policy (GDPR Art. 6(1)(f)).
4. AI-generated content & sources
Article titles and summaries on ICTboard are generated with AI from publicly available RSS feeds and linked
to the original publishers. We do not claim ownership of source material. Summaries may contain inaccuracies;
always refer to the original article. We do not use your personal data to train article-ranking models.
Internal operations may use separate AI-assisted reports for the publisher only (not for automated decisions about you).
5. Processors & third parties
Brevo (Sendinblue) — email delivery and subscription management. Brevo may record opens and link clicks in aggregated form to measure engagement. Data may be processed in the EU. See Brevo’s privacy policy.
Plausible Analytics — privacy-friendly website statistics (EU-based, no cookies, no personal data sold). See Plausible’s privacy policy and data policy.
Hetzner — hosting of our server infrastructure in the EU.
Mollie — payment processing for Officer radar subscriptions (iDEAL, card, and other EU methods). Mollie processes payment data according to its own privacy policy. See Mollie’s privacy policy.
Original publishers — when you click “Read full article”, you leave ICTboard and their policies apply.
6. Retention
Newsletter data is kept while you remain subscribed.
After unsubscribe, your email and preferences are removed or anonymised within 30 days.
Officer / Executive radar subscription records are kept while your access is active and for up to 7 years thereafter for tax and accounting obligations, then deleted or anonymised.
Waitlist entries are removed within 30 days after you are onboarded, decline, or ask us to delete them.
Anonymous story feedback is retained for product improvement; entries with an optional email follow the same 30-day deletion window on request.
Article archive (non-personal): active stories retained up to 365 days, then deactivated.
Server logs are retained for up to 90 days unless needed longer for security incidents.
7. Your rights (EEA / UK)
You may request:
Access to your personal data
Correction or deletion
Withdrawal of consent (unsubscribe link in every email, or email us)
Restriction or objection where applicable
Data portability for data you provided
Contact privacy@ictboard.eu.
You may also lodge a complaint with your local supervisory authority (in the Netherlands: Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens).
8. Cookies & browser storage
ICTboard uses Plausible Analytics in its default, cookieless configuration. Plausible does not
place analytics cookies or use local storage for tracking. We do not show a cookie consent banner for this limited
statistics collection because no non-essential cookies are set for analytics.
Sign-in sessions: when you create an account or sign in, we set a first-party
HttpOnly Secure session cookie (ictboard_session, SameSite=Lax, typically 14 days with sliding refresh).
The cookie stores a random session identifier; we keep only a hash server-side. It is required to open your radar and manage your account — not for advertising or cross-site tracking. Sign out (or “Sign out everywhere”) revokes the session(s).
Officer / Executive entitlement is stored on your account after checkout (or a valid discount code). We no longer use localStorage access tokens as credentials.
Preferred language may still be stored in local storage for the flag picker (functional preference only).
If we change analytics tools or enable non-essential cookies, we will update this policy and ask for consent
where required by law.
9. International transfers
We aim to process data within the European Economic Area. If a processor transfers data outside the EEA,
we ensure appropriate safeguards (such as Standard Contractual Clauses) are in place.
10. Children
ICTboard is intended for business and professional readers. We do not knowingly collect data from anyone under 16.
11. Changes
We may update this policy. Material changes will be reflected on this page with a new “Last updated” date.
Continued use after changes constitutes acceptance where permitted by law.