Privacy Policy

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This policy explains what happens to personal data when you use madison-technologies.com (the "Site"). It covers the Site only. Data processed inside client projects is governed by the agreement with that client.

The Site is operated by Madison Technologies Malaysia PLT (LLP0020780-LGN), a limited liability partnership registered under the laws of Malaysia, with its registered office at Level 9, Tower B, Menara UOA Bangsar, 5, Jalan Bangsar Utama 1, Bangsar, 59000 Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. For the purposes of the UK and EU General Data Protection Regulation, that entity is the controller for Site data.

Madison Technologies is established in Malaysia only, and runs delivery from Da Nang, Vietnam. Its clients in Europe and the United States are served through partner organisations: there is no branch, subsidiary or other establishment of Madison Technologies in the EEA, the United Kingdom or the United States.

What we collect

Three categories, for three different reasons. Nothing else is collected, and there is no account system, no advertising pixel and no cross-site tracking.

DataWhenWhy
Name, email address, and optionally phone number and companyOnly when you submit the contact formTo reply to your enquiry
The message you writeOnly when you submit the contact formTo understand and answer it
IP address, browser user-agent string, and a Google reCAPTCHA scoreOn contact form submissionTo block automated abuse and enforce a submission rate limit. Without this the form is a spam relay.
Pages viewed, approximate location (country/city level), device and browser type, and interactions such as which case studies you openOn every visit, subject to the consent rules belowTo understand which content is useful
Your language choice and your answer to the cookie bannerStored on your device onlySo the Site remembers them. These never leave your browser.

What analytics never receives

Analytics events are stripped of anything that looks like a name, an email address or a phone number before they leave your browser. This is enforced in code rather than by policy: values matching those patterns are dropped at the single function every analytics event passes through.

What is measured is behaviour in the aggregate — that a contact form was opened from the services page, that an article was read to the end, that a button was clicked three times in a second and probably does not work. The content of anything you type is never sent, with one exception: a blog search term, which is what the search feature is for.

Cookies and similar technologies

If you visit from the EEA, the UK or Switzerland, no analytics cookie is set until you accept. Until then, and permanently if you decline, Google Analytics receives only cookieless signals that cannot identify you or your device across visits.

From other countries analytics runs by default, and you can opt out through your browser settings or a tracking blocker.

NameSet byPurposeDuration
_ga, _ga_*Google AnalyticsDistinguishes visitors so repeat visits are not counted as new ones2 years
_GRECAPTCHAGoogle reCAPTCHATells a human submitting the contact form from a script6 months
madison_consentThis Site (local storage)Remembers your answer to the cookie banner180 days
i18nextLngThis Site (local storage)Remembers your languageUntil cleared

Who else processes this data

We do not sell personal data and we do not share it for advertising. The following providers process data on our behalf in order to run the Site.

ProviderWhat it handlesWhere
CloudflareHosting, content delivery, contact form storage and rate limitingGlobal edge network
Google (Analytics, Tag Manager, reCAPTCHA, Fonts)Measurement, tag delivery, bot detection, web fontsUnited States and global
SendGrid (Twilio)Delivering contact form submissions to our inboxUnited States

International transfers

Madison Technologies is established in Malaysia and the providers above are global. Personal data is therefore transferred outside the country where it was collected, including outside the UK and the EEA — to our own systems in Malaysia, and to the providers listed above.

Malaysia is not covered by a UK or EU adequacy decision, so those transfers rely on the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses and the UK International Data Transfer Addendum. Cloudflare, Google and Twilio (SendGrid) each incorporate the same clauses into the data processing terms they publish, and we rely on those terms together with the technical safeguards described under Security below.

How long we keep it

When the period ends the data is deleted. Aggregate statistics that can no longer identify anyone may be kept indefinitely.

DataRetained for
Contact form submissions24 months after our last contact with you
Rate-limiting records (IP address)30 days
Analytics data14 months

Your rights

To exercise any of these, email hello@madison.dev. We will respond within one month. We may need to confirm your identity first, which protects you from someone else making a request in your name.

  • Access — ask what personal data we hold about you and receive a copy
  • Rectification — have inaccurate data corrected
  • Erasure — have your data deleted, where no legal obligation requires us to keep it
  • Restriction — ask us to pause processing while a dispute is resolved
  • Portability — receive the data you gave us in a machine-readable format
  • Objection — object to processing based on legitimate interests
  • Withdraw consent — decline analytics at any time, without affecting anything already lawfully processed

Complaints

If you are unhappy with how we have handled your data, please tell us first at hello@madison.dev — most issues are resolved quickly.

You also have the right to complain to a data protection authority: in the UK, the Information Commissioner's Office (ico.org.uk); in the EEA, the supervisory authority of the country where you live or work.

Children

This Site is aimed at businesses and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect data from anyone under 16. If you believe a child has submitted personal data, contact us and we will delete it.

Security

The Site is served over HTTPS only, with HSTS, a Content Security Policy and a strict set of security headers. Contact form submissions are protected by reCAPTCHA and a rate limit, and are transmitted over encrypted connections.

No system is perfectly secure. If you find a vulnerability, please report it to hello@madison.dev rather than disclosing it publicly, and we will work with you on a fix.

Changes to this policy

When this policy changes materially, the date at the top changes and, for changes that affect how we use data you have already given us, we will make the change visible on the Site rather than expecting you to re-read this page.

Contact

Email hello@madison.dev for anything in this policy, including data subject requests.

Postal address: Madison Technologies Malaysia PLT, Level 9, Tower B, Menara UOA Bangsar, 5, Jalan Bangsar Utama 1, Bangsar, 59000 Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

We have not appointed a representative in the EEA or the United Kingdom under Article 27 of the EU or UK GDPR. Our processing of visitor data from those regions is occasional, is limited to answering enquiries and to analytics you have consented to, involves no special category data and no large-scale monitoring, and so falls within the exemption in Article 27(2). Write to us directly at the email or postal address above — we answer in English.