Privacy Policy

Effective date: 2026-05-09 Last updated: 2026-05-09

This Privacy Policy describes how Awny Faris Marketing ("we," "us," "our") collects, uses, and shares personal information when you authorise our self-hosted scheduling tool to manage social media accounts on your behalf, when you visit awnyfaris.com, or when you otherwise engage our services.

We respect your privacy and only collect what we need to deliver the service you have asked us to perform. This policy is written in plain language. If anything here is unclear, contact us at the address at the bottom of this page and we will explain it.

1. Who we are

Awny Faris Marketing is a digital marketing agency operated by Awny Faris, based in Berlin, Germany. We provide bundled monthly marketing services (social media management, SEO audits and improvements, blog content) to small and medium businesses, primarily in Europe.

For the purposes of GDPR (Regulation (EU) 2016/679):

2. Information we collect

When you authorise our tool to manage your social media accounts

We use self-hosted social media management software (Postiz) to schedule and publish posts to your social media accounts. When you authorise our app to access your accounts via OAuth, we receive:

We do not collect, store, or sell anything beyond what the social media platforms themselves expose via their official APIs.

When you visit awnyfaris.com

When you contact us

3. How we use your information

We use the information described above to:

We do not use your data to:

4. AI services we use

To produce the content we publish on your behalf, we use:

When we send your content (e.g. a draft caption to be refined) to Anthropic or OpenAI, we do so under their API terms — they do not retain or train on it.

5. Third-party platforms

When we publish to your connected accounts, the social media platforms themselves receive your post content and apply their own privacy policies to it. We have no control over how Meta, LinkedIn, Google, etc. process data once it is on their service. Their privacy policies:

6. Where we store your data

7. How long we keep your data

8. Your rights under GDPR

You have the right to:

To exercise any of these rights, email us at the address below. We respond within 30 days.

You also have the right to complain to a supervisory authority. In Germany, that is the Berliner Beauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit.

9. Security

We use standard industry practices to protect your data:

No system is perfectly secure. If we discover a data breach affecting your information, we will notify you within 72 hours per GDPR Article 33.

10. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. Material changes will be announced by email to existing clients at least 30 days before they take effect. The "Last updated" date at the top of this page always reflects the most recent version.

11. Contact

For any privacy questions or to exercise your rights:

Awny Faris Marketing (operator: Awny Faris) Email: awny.faris5@gmail.com [Mailing address: to be filled in once registered as a legal entity]

We do not currently have a Data Protection Officer (we are below the GDPR threshold requiring one), but you can direct any data-protection question to the email above.