How we handle your data.
In plain English. Short version: we collect what you give the waitlist form, store it in Munich, never sell it, and delete it when you ask.
1. Who is responsible
Maximilian Rupp, the operator of maximilianrupp.com, is the controller for personal data submitted via the FBX founding cohort form. Full contact details are in the legal notice.
2. What we collect
When you fill out the FBX founding cohort form, we collect only what you type into it:
- Your role (brand, mill, investor, or other)
- Your name, company, work email, and where relevant your job title or country
- Your answers to the questionnaire (budget range, fibre types, pain points, willingness to use a transparent exchange, free text comments)
We also automatically store a one way hash of your IP address and your browser user agent string, used only for rate limiting (to stop spam) and for technical debugging. The raw IP is never written to disk.
3. Why we use it
- To follow up with you about your responses
- To shape which fibre contracts FBX lists first and how the venue is built
- To invite the right respondents into the founding cohort
Legal basis under DSGVO: Art. 6(1)(b) (pre-contractual measures you requested) and Art. 6(1)(f) (legitimate interest in validating the FBX venue with the industry).
4. Where it lives
All submissions are stored on a private server in Munich, Germany, operated by Maximilian Rupp. Data is not transferred to any third country. No third party processors, no advertising networks, no LLM or AI service ever sees your submission content.
5. How long
We keep your data until the FBX validation phase concludes, or until you ask us to delete it, whichever comes first. After validation, we will either delete or anonymise the data unless you have asked to remain on the launch list.
6. Who else sees it
Only the FBX founding team (Maximilian Rupp and direct collaborators bound by confidentiality). We do not sell, rent, or share your submission with brokers, marketing networks, or anyone else.
7. Your rights
Under DSGVO you can at any time ask us to:
- Show you what we have stored about you (Art. 15)
- Correct it (Art. 16)
- Delete it (Art. 17)
- Restrict how we use it (Art. 18)
- Send you a portable copy (Art. 20)
- Object to legitimate interest based processing (Art. 21)
To exercise any of these, use the contact form. We respond within a few working days. You also have the right to complain to your local data protection authority (in Bavaria: BayLDA).
8. Cookies and tracking
The FBX page itself sets no cookies and runs no analytics or tracking scripts. We do not use Google Analytics, Meta Pixel, or similar. The rest of maximilianrupp.com may use Vercel Web Analytics, which is covered in the legal notice.
9. Changes
If we materially change how we handle FBX submission data, we update this page and email anyone on the list before the change takes effect.
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