Privacy policy
Last updated: 30 September 2026
This policy explains what personal data 56North Experts collects, why, and what rights you have. It applies to this website (experts.56north.io) and to the two forms on it: the staffing request form and the expert application form.
Who is responsible
The data controller is Swell Invest Ltd (BRN C22187700), c/o Legis Corporate Secretarial Services Ltd, 6 Edith Cavell Street, Port Louis, Mauritius. For any question or request about your data, write to experts@56north.io.
What we collect and why
Staffing request form
Data: Name, work email, company, platform, role needed, engagement model, start date, location, free-text context.
Purpose: Answer your request and propose suitable experts.
Legal basis: Steps taken at your request before a contract, and our legitimate interest in answering business enquiries.
Expert application form
Data: Name, email, LinkedIn profile URL, platform, years of experience, modules delivered, certifications, community contributions, day rate expectation, availability, location, and any referral you choose to give.
Purpose: Assess your application and match you with missions.
Legal basis: Your consent, given with the checkbox on the form, and steps taken at your request before a contract.
If you refer a peer, only the name and profile link you provide are recorded, solely to contact that person about the network. They can ask us to delete it at any time.
We do not use cookies, analytics or advertising trackers on this website. Fonts are served from our own server.
How decisions are made
Every application and request is read by a person. We do not make decisions about you based solely on automated processing. If we introduce tools that help prepare assessments, a person will still take every decision and this policy will be updated first.
Who receives your data
We do not sell your data. It is shared only with the service providers that run this website:
- OVH SAS (France) — hosting of the website, on a server in the European Union.
- Supabase Inc. — storage of form submissions in a database located in Paris, France.
- Resend Inc. (United States) — delivery of an internal email alert containing your submission to our team.
- Google LLC (United States) — our team's mailbox, which receives those alerts.
Where data is transferred outside the European Economic Area or Mauritius, the transfer relies on the European Commission's standard contractual clauses or an equivalent safeguard offered by the provider. With your agreement, we may share an expert's profile with a client for a specific mission; we never do so without telling the expert first.
How long we keep it
- Staffing requests: 3 years after our last exchange with you.
- Expert applications: 24 months after your last update, unless you ask us to keep your profile longer.
After these periods, the data is deleted.
Your rights
You can ask to access, correct or delete your data, to restrict or object to its processing, and to receive it in a portable format. Where processing is based on consent, you can withdraw it at any time; this does not affect processing already carried out. Write to experts@56north.io. We answer within one month.
You can also lodge a complaint with the Data Protection Office of Mauritius or, if you live in the European Union, with the data protection authority of your country.
Security
Data is encrypted in transit (HTTPS). The database cannot be read from the public website: only our server, with a secret key, can write to it, and access is limited to our team.
Changes
We will update this page if our practices change. The date at the top shows the latest version.