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Quickler Ltd operates quickler.co and the quickler workflow product. The company is registered in Scotland under company number SC882439 and with the UK Information Commissioner's Office under registration number ZC124993. This page explains what personal data is handled, why it is used, and who it is shared with.

What data quickler collects

Quickler may collect your email address, the contents of your message, and any other information you choose to include when you contact the business. If you email directly, the same applies to the information in that email thread.

The site also uses Google Analytics, Google Ads conversion measurement and Microsoft Clarity, which may collect information such as pages viewed, approximate location, device/browser information, referral source, and general usage patterns. Clarity also records heatmaps and session replays.

For customers using the quickler workflow product, quickler also handles the names, phone numbers and email addresses of the customer's managers and of the people on the job, their messages, uploaded report examples and documents, project identifiers, photos, voice notes, transcripts, the location and time of each Record, generated Records and reports, and routing information needed to deliver finished outputs to the correct destination. For paying customers, billing details (name, email, bank-mandate identifiers) are also processed via the payment provider.

Cookies

Quickler uses a small local setting in your browser to remember whether you accepted or declined analytics cookies. If you accept, Google Analytics, Google Ads and Microsoft Clarity may set cookies. If you decline, Clarity is not loaded and Google runs only in its cookieless, anonymised mode. A separate Cookie Policy explains this in more detail.

How the data is used

Your enquiry details are used to reply to you, understand the workflow problem you describe, assess whether quickler is a good fit, and if appropriate prepare next steps for a potential project.

Website analytics are used to understand which pages are useful, where visitors are coming from, and how the site can be improved.

For workflow product customers, the data is used to generate report drafts, ask follow-up questions, route finished outputs, maintain auditability, support the customer, and improve the reliability of the product. Aggregated and de-identified usage data may be used to improve the platform.

Legal basis

For enquiries, the main basis is taking steps at your request before entering into a possible contract, together with legitimate interests in responding to business enquiries and running the business sensibly.

For website analytics, quickler uses a cookie-consent prompt and only loads analytics after you actively allow them. Site security and basic hosting operations are handled under legitimate interests in protecting and operating the site.

For the workflow product, quickler acts as processor for the paying customer firm. The customer firm relies on performance of its contract with the person on the job (or its legitimate interests in administering its work) as the basis for sending WhatsApp or Telegram check-ins. Quickler's own processing is carried out on documented instructions from the customer firm under Article 28 UK GDPR. For billing data, quickler relies on performance of contract and compliance with legal obligations (tax and accounting records).

Where your contact details come from

Where you are the person on the job receiving WhatsApp or Telegram check-ins from a customer firm using quickler, your name and phone number were provided to quickler by that firm, not collected from you directly. The customer firm is the controller for that data. If you would like the source firm identified, or wish to object to the processing, contact hello@quickler.co and quickler will route the request to the relevant customer firm.

Who the data is shared with

Quickler currently uses the following third-party services as processors or infrastructure providers:

  • Hetzner Online GmbH (Germany; servers in Finland) - server hosting for the workflow product and its databases.
  • Cloudflare, Inc. (United States) - sits in front of the dashboard at app.quickler.co, including shared Record links, so all traffic to it passes through Cloudflare's network, which can see the pages and Records shown. Cloudflare Turnstile also runs the human check on the sign-in page and receives the sign-in request's IP address.
  • Twilio Inc. (United States / Ireland) - WhatsApp messaging gateway. Receives every message, photo and voice note sent and received, and the phone numbers involved.
  • WhatsApp Ireland Limited / Meta Platforms Ireland Limited (Ireland) - operator of the WhatsApp messaging service used to deliver and receive workflow messages. Meta is a separate controller for the WhatsApp transport layer; its handling of message metadata is governed by the WhatsApp Privacy Policy.
  • Telegram FZ-LLC (United Arab Emirates) - the messaging app some users reply through instead of WhatsApp, when their firm chooses it for them. Telegram carries their messages, photos, voice notes and documents, the phone number they share to link their chat, and our replies. Telegram is a separate controller for its messaging service; its handling of that data is governed by the Telegram Privacy Policy.
  • Anthropic PBC (United States) - large-language-model processing. Reads captured messages, transcripts, photos and uploaded documents to understand replies, sort and describe photos, and draft and check the Record and report.
  • OpenAI, L.L.C. (United States) - large-language-model processing of the same content as Anthropic: captured messages, transcripts, photos and uploaded documents. Also the fallback service for speech-to-text transcription of voice notes.
  • ElevenLabs Inc. (United States) - speech-to-text transcription of voice notes.
  • Mapbox, Inc. (United States) - satellite map images for a Record's location, on the Record page and in its PDF. Receives the map area (and so the location) and, when the page is viewed, the viewer's IP address.
  • OpenStreetMap Foundation (United Kingdom) - Nominatim place lookup and map tiles. Receives a Record's location, or a place name a manager searches for, to find the address and nearby place names, and the viewer's IP address for map tiles.
  • Overpass API (overpass-api.de, Germany) - finds named places near a Record's location. Receives the location only.
  • Open-Meteo (Europe) - weather at a Record's place and time. Receives the location and the date and time only.
  • ntfy - push notifications to Quickler's own staff phones. When a Record is filed, the notification carries the customer firm's name, the Check name, the Record's subject, the name of the person on the job, the names of any questions marked as a Fault, and the Record's link. It never carries what was written in the answers.
  • GoCardless Ltd (United Kingdom) - direct-debit subscription billing. Receives the billing contact's name, email address, postal address and bank-mandate details.
  • Resend (United States) - transactional email delivery. Sign-in codes and links, notices to managers, and report emails, including their PDF attachments, are sent to recipients through Resend.
  • Functional Software, Inc. (trading as Sentry) (United States) - application error monitoring and diagnostics. Stack traces may incidentally include fragments of user input where an error occurs during processing.
  • Backblaze, Inc. (United States) - encrypted off-site backup infrastructure. A continuous replica of the product databases is held for disaster recovery.
  • GitHub, Inc. (United States) - hosting of the public website (GitHub Pages).
  • Formspree, Inc. (United States) - receiving and forwarding website contact-form submissions.
  • Zoho Corporation Pvt. Ltd. (India, with EU data-centre options) - email hosting for the @quickler.co mailbox and message forwarding.
  • Google LLC (United States) - website analytics (anonymous, cookieless measurement runs for all visitors under Google Consent Mode; cookie-based analytics only after you accept cookies); Google Ads conversion measurement on the marketing site and on the first dashboard page a new account sees after signing up (cookieless unless you accept cookies); YouTube, for the help videos shown in the dashboard; Google Fonts, which some HTML report files use for their typeface, so Google may receive the reader's IP address when one is opened; and Gmail, which receives and stores email forwarded from the @quickler.co inbox for reading.
  • Microsoft Corporation (Clarity) (United States) - usage analytics (heatmaps and session replay) on the marketing site and on signed-in dashboard pages, loaded only after you accept cookies. It is not loaded on Record pages, history pages or shared Record links. Other dashboard pages it can record, such as the Records list and the Contacts list, show names, phone numbers, email addresses and Record subjects.

Finished reports are delivered by email, through Resend, to the recipients the customer chooses.

Data may also be shared where reasonably necessary with email providers, professional advisers, or law-enforcement bodies where disclosure is required by law.

How long data is kept

Enquiry data is kept only as long as it is useful for handling the enquiry, any follow-up discussions, and ordinary business record-keeping. As a working rule, non-client enquiry records are normally not kept longer than 24 months after the last meaningful contact unless there is a good reason to keep them longer.

For workflow product customers: messages from the people on the job, photos, voice notes, and transcripts are kept while they are in active use and are automatically deleted three years (1,095 days) after the last activity on that record. Filed Records and their report PDFs are kept for three years (1,095 days) and then deleted automatically, or sooner if the customer deletes them. Application logs are operational only and are not kept as a long-term record; they roll over when the service is updated and are not retained on a fixed schedule. Database backups are retained for 30 days. Removing a person from the Contacts list in the dashboard stops their conversations and cancels their scheduled messages, and takes them off the active roster within a 30-day restore window. It deliberately keeps their filed reports and records, so the customer's compliance history stays intact. Each Record has a shared link, which is also printed in its PDF, Word and HTML files; anyone who has the link can open the Record, its photos and its downloads for 365 days, and the link stops working early only if the Record is deleted. Full erasure of an individual's captured data - their WhatsApp and Telegram conversations, photos, voice notes and transcripts - is carried out on request by emailing hello@quickler.co.

International transfers

Some sub-processors are based outside the UK (notably in the EEA and the United States). Where personal data is transferred internationally, quickler relies on the following mechanisms, as appropriate to the destination country:

  • UK-US Data Bridge (an extension of the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, in force since 12 October 2023) for transfers to US-based sub-processors that hold a current certification with the UK Extension active. Twilio, Cloudflare, Google, Microsoft, Backblaze, GitHub, Sentry (listed on the register as Sentry.io), and Resend are relied on under this mechanism.
  • The UK International Data Transfer Agreement, or the UK Addendum to the EU Standard Contractual Clauses, for transfers that are not covered by an adequacy decision or the Data Bridge. Anthropic, OpenAI, ElevenLabs, Mapbox, and Formspree are relied on under this mechanism, where they are not certified under the Framework.
  • UK / EEA adequacy decisions for transfers within the EEA.
Where quickler processes personal data on behalf of a customer (for example, data captured via WhatsApp or Telegram by the customer's people on the job), the customer is the data controller and quickler is the data processor. The processing is governed by the data-processing terms set out in the Customer Terms. The standalone Data Processing Agreement is Schedule 1 of those terms and is published in full at quickler.co/pages/dpa.html. It is available to any customer, free or paying; a signable copy for a compliance or procurement team can be requested from hello@quickler.co.

Automated decisions and AI processing

Messages, photos, voice notes and uploaded documents captured through the workflow product are processed by third-party AI services (Anthropic and OpenAI) and speech-to-text services (ElevenLabs, with OpenAI as the fallback) to understand replies, extract structured information, describe photos and draft the Record and report. These services process your content under their business and API terms and do not use it to train their models. Quickler does not make any solely automated decisions producing legal or similarly significant effects about you within the meaning of Article 22 UK GDPR. Each report is checked by the user who files it, who is the customer's own person, not Quickler, and the customer can edit it afterwards, so the AI output never stands on its own as a binding decision. If you would prefer your data not to be processed by these services, contact hello@quickler.co; in practical terms the workflow product cannot function without them, so the alternative will be discontinuation of the service rather than a non-AI variant.

Special-category and health data

Some customers use the workflow product to keep care and welfare records. When they do, the content they capture can include special-category data within the meaning of Article 9 UK GDPR - for example health information about a named person, such as weight, food and fluid intake, medication, or personal-care notes.

In these cases the customer is the data controller and decides what to record and why; quickler is the data processor and handles that data only on the customer's documented instructions, under Schedule 1 of the Customer Terms. A customer who intends to capture special-category data must agree that in writing with quickler in advance, including the categories involved and the safeguards that apply, before that data is processed.

If you are a person written about in these records - for example a resident of a care service that uses Quickler - the service you receive care from is the controller of your data. Requests to see, correct, or erase your information are usually made to them, and they can pass an erasure instruction to quickler. You can also contact quickler directly at hello@quickler.co and we will route your request to the right controller.

Your rights

Depending on the circumstances, you may have rights to access, correct, erase, restrict, or object to the use of your personal data, and to ask for a copy of the data held about you. These are the UK GDPR rights set out in Articles 15 to 22.

To exercise those rights, email hello@quickler.co. Quickler will acknowledge within 72 hours and respond in full within one calendar month, as required by Article 12. Where you are a customer, the dashboard provides self-service export at Dashboard → Data Export at any time. Removing a person from your Contacts list stops their conversations and schedules but retains their filed reports and records, so your compliance history stays intact. Full erasure of an individual's data, including sessions, photos, voice notes and transcripts, is available on request by emailing hello@quickler.co.

You also have the right to complain to the UK Information Commissioner's Office if you believe your data has been handled improperly. The ICO's helpline is 0303 123 1113 and its website is ico.org.uk.

Changes to this policy

This page may be updated when the site, services, or data flows change. The latest version will always be published here. Customers are given at least 14 days' notice by email before a sub-processor is added or replaced, as set out in clause S1.6 of the Customer Terms.