Separately from the website, we carry out business-to-business outreach: we contact people in professional roles at companies whose published business is relevant to what we build, to introduce our systems. If you received an email from us without having contacted us first, this section describes how we handled your information.
4.1 What we process, and where it comes from
We process business contact information only: name, professional role, work email address, and the company name, website and publicly described services. We obtain it from public and professional sources — company websites, industry directories and listings, and public professional profiles. We do not use personal or private email addresses for outreach, and we do not process special categories of personal data for this purpose.
4.2 Legal basis
For this outreach we rely on legitimate interests (GDPR Article 6(1)(f)), not consent: direct business-to-business marketing sent to a work address, on a subject matter relevant to the recipient's professional role. Recital 47 of the GDPR expressly recognises direct marketing as capable of constituting a legitimate interest. We have carried out and documented the balancing assessment the law requires, and you may request a copy of it.
4.3 How we limit it
- Stopping is immediate and unconditional. A one-word reply asking us to stop removes you from all outreach at once. So does emailing us. We keep a suppression record so you are not contacted again.
- Limited sequence. An initial message and a small number of follow-ups. Replying at any point ends the sequence.
- Retention. Where a recipient does not respond, we delete their contact data within 12 months of first contact.
- No profiling or automated decisions with legal or similarly significant effects, and we do not sell or license outreach data to third parties.
4.4 Your rights here
You have the same rights described in Section 8, including the right to object to processing based on legitimate interests at any time. If you object to direct marketing, we stop — there is no balancing test for us to apply. Email support@tasken.ai, or simply reply to the message you received.
Outreach into the European Union is carried out by our Italian establishment, which acts as controller for that activity; see Section 15.