Legal · GDPR

Privacy policy

By , founder of Egalis ·

In short

Egalis calculations run on pseudonymised data (no names, no national ID numbers — only the payroll identifier and sex, the only criterion the Directive permits). Everything is hosted exclusively in the European Union, the website uses cookie-less analytics, and data is exported or permanently deleted on request.

1. The controller

ADDO VISION SOLUTIONS SRL, registered office: Bucharest, Șos. Berceni 96, Monaco Towers, A9.06, Romania, trade register no. J2013010973404, EUID ROONRC.J2013010973404, VAT RO32203240. For any data-related question: office@addovision.ro or +40 722 232 481.

For employee data uploaded by client companies into the application, the client company is the controller and Egalis is the processor — the full rules are in the data processing agreement.

2. What data we process, and why

  • Your account (email, irreversibly hashed password): providing the service — basis: the contract. Kept for as long as the account exists.
  • The payroll data imported by your company (payroll identifier, sex, job title, occupation code, department, working-time fraction, remuneration): the calculations required by the Pay Transparency Directive — basis: the contract with the company plus its legal obligation. No names and no national ID numbers in the calculation data; the Directive explicitly restricts the criteria to sex.
  • Employee names (optional), if the company chooses to import them for day-to-day operations: stored separately, encrypted (AES-256-GCM), visible only to the owner and HR admin roles.
  • Workers’ requests submitted through the public form (employee ID, contact email, message): the legally required answer — basis: the employer’s legal obligation (Art. 7 of the Directive).
  • The audit log (who, what, when, at action level): the legal evidence of compliance — basis: legitimate interest plus legal obligations. It contains no salary data.
  • Website usage statistics: aggregate, cookie-less, without persistent identifiers (Umami, self-hosted by us, in the EU).
  • Anonymised aggregates for market statistics, only if the company switches the feature on explicitly in the application (off by default): from the pay data we compute irreversibly anonymised aggregates and publish them in pay-related statistics — basis: our legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f)), under the company’s contractual authorisation. No published figure comes from groups of fewer than 5 employees or fewer than 5 companies; what is published is no longer personal data. Full conditions and withdrawal: the anonymised-aggregates clause of the DPA.

3. Where the data lives

Exclusively in the European Union: the servers are at Hetzner Online GmbH (data centres in Germany), on infrastructure we administer. We do not transfer data outside the EU/EEA, and we never sell data, to anyone.

4. For how long

Calculation data and reports: for the duration of the contract, plus the legal retention of reports required by the Directive and national implementing laws, unless the company requests earlier deletion. When a company is deleted, all content data is deleted; the audit log remains as legal evidence (basis: Art. 17(3) GDPR).

5. Your rights

Access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability, objection — write to the contact address. Employees of client companies exercise their rights first with their employer (the data controller); we support it technically with every request. You may also lodge a complaint with your national data protection authority (for Romania: ANSPDCP, dataprotection.ro).

For companies: full export (JSON) and permanent deletion are buttons in the application, under Governance → Company data — not email requests.

6. Processors

  • Hetzner Online GmbH (Germany) — hosting.
  • Transactional email (legal notifications) is sent from our own server, hosted in the EU — no third-party email provider.
  • Stripe Payments Europe, Ltd. (Ireland) — card payment processing for subscriptions; Stripe receives billing data only, never payroll data.

The complete, up-to-date list is an annex to the DPA.

Next step

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Start is free under 50 employees; from 50 up, 14 free days, no card. Your data: full export, any time.

Updated: 7 August 2026. Figures reflect Directive (EU) 2023/970, unchanged — the Commission has ruled out any postponement, and its FAQ of 6 August 2026 confirms the reporting calendar. The transposition deadline of 7 June 2026 has passed: as of September 2026 only Italy, Slovakia, Lithuania, Malta and Greece have complete implementing laws, and most member states are still drafting. Where your country has no implementing law yet, the Directive is the reference; national rules may be stricter once adopted.

Egalis does not provide legal advice; for specific situations, consult an employment lawyer.