Privacy notice

Who we are

Tervald is run by Akbar Odilov, Kanalstrasse 6, 5734 Reinach AG, Switzerland, who is the controller of the personal data described here. Tervald is not a separately registered company. Contact: hello@tervald.com.

Company and financial data

Our business intelligence uses information about companies from the public Companies House register and from the accounts companies file there: for example their status, sector, filing dates, net assets and cash. This is information about companies, not people. Where it includes people, it is only company directors, as described next.

Directors named in our lists

What we use. From the public Companies House register: a company director's name, role and appointment date.

Why. To sell lists and reports on companies that have just changed their leadership to businesses that offer those companies their services, such as recruiters and suppliers. Free samples never include directors' names.

Lawful basis. Our legitimate interests and those of the businesses that buy the lists (UK GDPR Article 6(1)(f)). The data is already public, it concerns people only in their role as company directors, and the use is business to business.

Who receives it. Businesses that buy a list or report.

How long. Each list is built fresh from the register when it is made. We keep a copy of a delivered list for 12 months to answer questions about it, then delete it.

Your choices. You can object at any time, and we will remove you from lists we make after that. You can also ask for access to, correction or erasure of your data, or for its use to be restricted. Email hello@tervald.com.

Businesses we contact or sell to

We email companies (limited companies and LLPs) about our services, addressed to a named person at a work address. When we do, or when a business buys from us, we keep the work contact details of the people we deal with (name, work email, company, the messages exchanged) to run that relationship, and we record our emails in our customer records. Lawful basis: legitimate interests. We keep them for up to 24 months after our last contact. We do not use tracking pixels or link tracking in our emails.

Opting out. You can object to our marketing emails at any time, and we will stop: reply "no" to any email or write to hello@tervald.com. We keep your name on a suppression list so that we do not contact you again.

Asking companies about their needs

We may email a company that shows a relevant signal to ask whether it is looking for a professional service, such as accounting, recruitment, IT, insurance or legal help. If the person we write to answers, we record what they tell us about the company's need (the service, timing and rough scale) with their work contact details. Lawful basis: legitimate interests. We pass nothing to a provider unless the company asks us to (see below). We keep these notes for up to 24 months after our last contact. You can tell us to stop at any time.

Introductions to partners

If you tell us your company needs a service and ask us to introduce you to a provider, we pass your name, work contact details and a summary of the need you described to the provider you agreed to. We only do this when you ask for it, and you can withdraw that request at any time before the introduction. Lawful basis: your request and our legitimate interests. The provider then uses your details under its own privacy notice.

Partner and project enquiries

When you apply to join our partner network or ask about a consulting project, we keep your work contact details and our messages to answer you and run any agreement that follows. Lawful basis: legitimate interests, or steps towards a contract. We keep them for up to 24 months after our last contact.

Service providers

We use providers for email, our customer records, payments and hosting this site. They process data on our behalf only.

International transfers

Tervald is run from Switzerland, which the UK recognises as giving adequate protection to personal data.

Complaints

Please contact us first. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office in the UK (ico.org.uk) or to the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner in Switzerland.