Privacy Policy

Who we are

Localize is a project by Daniele Pratesi — Turin, Italy. We are the data controller of your personal data under the EU General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (GDPR).

For any questions about your data, you can write to us at: daniele@l0calize.com

What data we collect

When you sign up for our waitlist, we collect:

• Name
• Email
• Business name (if you are a merchant)
• City
• Business category
• Phone number (optional)

We also collect technical data automatically generated by your visit: IP address, browser type, pages visited. This data is not used to personally identify you.

Why we collect them

We use your data to:

• Notify you when Localize becomes available in your city
• Send updates about the project
• Understand demand in different cities to plan our launch

Legal basis: your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR), given by filling in the waitlist form and accepting this policy.

Who we share your data with

Your data is stored on:

• Supabase (database, EU server — Frankfurt) — supabase.com/privacy
• Vercel (website hosting) — vercel.com/privacy

We do not sell your data to anyone. We do not share it with third parties for marketing purposes.

How long we keep them

We retain your waitlist data until:

• The official launch of Localize in your city, plus 12 months
• Or until you ask us to delete them

After this period, the data is permanently deleted.

Your rights

You have the right to:

• Access — ask us what data we hold about you
• Rectify — correct inaccurate data
• Erase — ask us to delete everything (“right to be forgotten”)
• Portability — receive your data in a readable format
• Withdraw consent — at any time, without consequences
• Lodge a complaint with the Italian Data Protection Authority (garanteprivacy.it)

To exercise these rights, write to daniele@l0calize.com. We will respond within 30 days.

Cookies

This website uses only essential technical cookies for the website to function (Supabase session). We do not use profiling cookies, third-party analytics, or advertising tracking.

Technical cookies are exempt from the consent requirement under the ePrivacy Directive (Art. 5(3)). If we add analytics tools in the future, we will update this policy and implement a consent banner.

Changes to this policy

If we modify this Privacy Policy, we will publish the updated version on this page with the new date. For substantial changes, we will notify you by email.