Privacy Policy

1. Who this is about

This notice describes what FortressFlag LLC (“FortressFlag”, “we”) does with personal data for which we are the controller: the data we collect to run our business and to let people sign in to our dashboard.

It is a notice under Articles 13 and 14 GDPR. It is not a contract. You are not asked to agree to it, only to confirm that you have read it. What we do with the personal data our customers put into the platform — where they are the controller and we are their processor — is governed by the Data Processing Agreement instead.

Contact: privacy@fortressflag.com.

2. This website

The marketing site you are reading collects nothing. No forms, no cookies, no analytics, no tracking pixels, no third-party scripts. The one thing it stores on your device is your light/dark preference, in localStorage under the key ff.theme, written only if you click the switch. It holds no identifier, is readable only by this site, and is never sent anywhere.

That is why there is no cookie banner. A preference you set through the interface, for the sole purpose of customising that interface, does not require consent under ePrivacy Article 5(3).

Our documentation site, docs.fortressflag.com, behaves the same way: search runs entirely in your browser, and the one thing it stores on your device is your theme preference.

3. What we collect, and why

What	Why	Lawful basis
Your name and email address, when you create an organisation or accept an invitation	To create your account, identify you, and attribute changes you make	Performance of a contract (Art. 6(1)(b))
Your password, stored only as an Argon2id hash	To authenticate you	Performance of a contract
Your TOTP secret and recovery codes, if you enrol a second factor	To authenticate you	Performance of a contract
The IP address of a sign-in, and of each audited action	Security: to investigate suspicious access and to make an audit record complete	Legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f)) — securing a system that holds the switches controlling our customers’ production software
The name and role of each member of an organisation	To operate role-based access control	Performance of a contract
Your organisation’s name, its URL slug, and the billing contact	To run the account and to bill it	Performance of a contract
A record that you accepted a specific version of our legal documents, including your email address as it stood at that moment, the document versions and hashes, the time, and the originating IP address	To prove that a contract was formed, and on what terms	Legitimate interests, and Art. 17(3)(e) for its retention
A support ticket you open — its subject, description, replies, and any files you choose to attach	To provide support and resolve the issue you raised	Performance of a contract (Art. 6(1)(b))

We do not collect user-agent strings, we do not use advertising or analytics cookies in the dashboard, and we do not profile you or make automated decisions with legal or similarly significant effects.

4. Who else sees it

Our sub-processors, listed at fortressflag.com/legal/subprocessors. The list covers both the customer data we process and the account data described here.

We do not sell personal data, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioural advertising.

We disclose personal data to a public authority only where we are legally compelled, and we will tell you unless the law forbids it.

5. Where it is processed

In the United States — the Service runs on Amazon Web Services in the us-east-2 (Ohio) Region — and therefore outside the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom. Where a transfer requires a safeguard under Chapter V GDPR we rely on the Standard Contractual Clauses and, where the UK GDPR applies, the UK International Data Transfer Addendum.

6. How long we keep it

What	How long
Account records (name, email, membership, role)	For the life of the account
Password hash, second-factor secret, recovery codes	For the life of the credential
Session records, including the sign-in IP address	Retained indefinitely today. Expiry is enforced when a session is read, and revocation marks a session rather than deleting it. No sweep job is built. We would rather say that plainly than describe a deletion routine that does not run.
Pending invitations, including the invited email address	Expire after seven days; the row is retained
Support tickets, replies and attachments	For the life of the organisation’s account
Audit records, including the pseudonymous actor reference and the source IP	For the life of the customer relationship. Deleted only by a deliberate, separately authorised purge
Contract-acceptance records	For the life of the relationship, and for as long as a claim may be brought

7. Your rights

You have the right to access your personal data, to have it corrected or erased, to restrict or object to processing, and to data portability. You can withdraw consent where we rely on it (today we do not rely on consent for anything described here).

The honest state of these paths. There is no self-service export or deletion in the product today, and there is no screen on which you can edit your own name or email address. A request to privacy@fortressflag.com is answered by hand. We respond within one month, as Article 12(3) requires, and we will tell you if we need the permitted extension.

Erasing an account removes the account record, its memberships, its sessions and its access grants. Three things deliberately survive, and you should know before you ask:

• Audit records. They keep a pseudonymous reference to the actor rather than your name. After erasure the log still shows that one actor performed a sequence of actions; it no longer shows who. Our customers are entitled to a complete change history of their own production configuration.
• Contract-acceptance records, if you accepted our terms on behalf of an organisation. These keep your email address as it stood at acceptance, under Article 17(3)(e) — establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
• Support messages. Messages and attachments in an organisation’s support threads remain, because they are part of that organisation’s record. Erasure removes the link to your name, so the thread no longer identifies who wrote them.

If you are unhappy with how we have handled your data you may complain to the supervisory authority where you live or work. FortressFlag LLC is established in the United States and does not have a lead supervisory authority in the EEA.

We have not appointed a representative in the Union under Article 27 GDPR.

8. Security

Described in Annex A of the Data Processing Agreement, which says plainly what is in place and what is not.

9. Children

The Service is a business tool. It is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from anyone under 16.

10. Changes

We publish each version of this notice at a permanent, dated URL and never edit a published version in place. Where a change is material we tell you in the product.