Privacy policy
Last updated: 7 November 2026.
IoThingsQuest is run by its founder, an individual based in the United Arab Emirates, under the name IoThingsQuest. The founder is responsible for your personal data on iothingsquest.com ("we"). For any privacy question or request, write to contact@iothingsquest.com.
What we collect
- Account data: your email address, and the profile details you choose to give: display name, role, country, interests and timezone, and optionally your job title, company or university, and LinkedIn profile address.
- Learning data: the missions you start and complete, your answers' results, the track you choose, XP and streaks.
- Your portfolio: the documents you write in missions.
- Feedback and messages you send us, through the feedback or contact form or by email, and your answers to the short satisfaction question after chapter 1 and after the project.
- Contact record: when you sign up, subscribe or write to us, we keep a record of those actions and a simple activity score, so we can support you and ask the right people for feedback.
- Email preferences: whether you agreed to receive newsletters, reminders and news, and when.
- Quest Points and invitations: the points you earn, your invite code, who invited you, and the friends who joined with your invite (they see you, and you see them, by first name only).
- Where you came from (for example a newsletter link or another website): only if you accepted analytics cookies.
- Technical data: error reports, and usage analytics only if you accepted analytics cookies.
Why we use it, and on what basis
- To provide the service: your account, progress and portfolio, Quest Points and invitations (to perform our agreement with you).
- To improve the beta from your feedback, and to occasionally ask account holders for feedback by email; you can say no at any time (legitimate interest).
- To answer your messages (agreement and legitimate interest).
- To send newsletters, only if you opted in (consent; unsubscribe at any time from any email).
- To understand how the site is used, only if you accepted analytics cookies (consent).
- To keep the service secure, prevent misuse and fix errors (legitimate interest).
Who processes data for us
- Supabase: database, sign-in and file storage.
- Hostinger: website hosting and our email domain.
- Resend: sign-in and service emails.
- Brevo: newsletters, only for people who opted in.
- PostHog (EU): usage analytics, only with your consent.
- Sentry: error reports.
- Google: only if you choose "Continue with Google".
These providers process data on our instructions or, for their own role, under their own privacy terms. Some may process data outside your country; where the law requires it, transfers are covered by appropriate safeguards such as standard contractual clauses. We do not sell your personal data.
How long we keep it
- Account, learning and portfolio data: while your account is active. When you delete your account it is hidden immediately and permanently deleted after 30 days.
- Newsletter-only contacts: until you unsubscribe or ask us to delete your data.
- Feedback and messages: as long as needed to handle them and improve the service.
Your rights
Depending on where you live, you can ask to access, correct or delete your data, to receive it in a portable format, to restrict or object to its use, and to withdraw consent at any time. You can download your data and delete your account yourself from your account page. For anything else, write to contact@iothingsquest.com. You can also complain to a data protection authority: in the United Arab Emirates, the UAE Data Office, or the authority of the country where you live.
Children
The service is not meant for children under 16, and we do not knowingly create accounts for them.
Changes
The date of the latest version is shown above; we will tell you about important changes.