Interview and meeting participation
Who is talking to you
The conversation is held by Gregor Lederer, managing director of The Branding Brand EOOD, a company registered in Sofia, Bulgaria (UIC 207195302), which develops and sells 24/6, a workspace for remote teams (m246.org). The Branding Brand EOOD is the controller of your data.
This is commercial research. We talk to leaders of remote teams to understand their challenges and to develop, improve and sell our product. Nobody else receives your answers. If we ever work with a research partner, we will name them here and ask you separately.
What we would like to talk about
How your team works remotely: how goals and priorities are set and communicated, how tasks are assigned and followed up, where communication breaks down, and what you have tried. You decide what you share. Please do not tell us confidential information of your company or personal details about named colleagues; we do not need them.
What happens with what you say
- Notes. We take notes during the conversation and store them in our own database (hosted in the EU).
- Recording, only if you agree. With your consent, our note-taker joins visibly as "24-6 Notetaker" and records the audio. The audio is transcribed on our own server in Germany with open-source speech recognition; no external transcription service receives it. Without your consent, nothing is recorded, and the conversation is just as welcome.
- AI-assisted notes. To create notes from the transcript and compare themes across conversations, we use open-source models on our own or rented servers in the EU, and Claude by Anthropic (processing in the USA). Use of your data for model training is switched off. AI makes no decisions about you.
- Findings. We combine what many people told us into aggregated, anonymised findings, which we may share with participants, customers and the public, including in scientific publications and in our marketing, such as LinkedIn posts. We quote you only with your separate consent, without your name or company and so that you cannot be identified.
- No voice profiles. We do not create voice profiles of interview participants.
- No other use. We do not sell your data, do not use it for advertising and do not pass it to third parties beyond the providers named here and in our sub-processor list.
How long we keep it
| Audio recording | Deleted 30 days after the interview, or earlier once the transcript is checked. |
| Transcript and notes | Kept while we work on the research round, at most 24 months, then deleted. Anonymised findings that can no longer be linked to you may be kept. |
| Your contact details and our messages | 24 months after our last contact, unless you become a customer. |
Your choice and your rights
Taking part is voluntary, and recording is optional. You can stop the conversation at any time, ask us to stop recording, and withdraw any consent later with one message to contact@m246.org or on LinkedIn. We then delete the recording, transcript, notes and everything derived from them, except anonymised findings that can no longer be linked to you. Withdrawal does not affect processing before it (Art. 7(3) GDPR).
You also have the rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, data portability and objection, and you may complain to a supervisory authority. Details: privacy policy, section 7.
The consent we ask for
When you book a call, we ask for two things:
- I have read the participant information. (required to book)
- Yes, I’m happy for 24/6’s note-taking assistant to join this and future meetings and create notes using recording and transcription, as described in the participant information and I can write to contact@m246.org anytime to withdraw recording consent. (optional)
Without the second, nothing is recorded. Before recording starts, we confirm it with everyone present at the start of the call. If we would like to quote you, we ask you separately at that time.