Data Privacy Statement

Aim of this Statement

This Data Privacy Statement (hereafter referred to as the "Statement") serves to clarify how Immediate Flare ("Immediate Flare" or "We" or "Us") will manage, as data controller, the personal information you provide when you access our website immediateflare.com (the "Website"), or that we gather from third parties, to connect you with experts you may be interested in.

How do we collect your data?

We gather your personal information:

Directly from you, when you submit your Identification Data on our Website; and/or
Indirectly:
- by acquiring Identification Data about you from third parties
- through gathering data related to your Website navigation using cookies or similar technologies (please see our Cookies Policy for more information).

Providing your personal information is voluntary, but failure to do so may hinder our ability to connect you with experts who may be of interest to you.

What types of personal data will be processed?

Immediate Flare collects and processes the following types of personal information about you:

Category of personal data	Description
Identification Data	This includes your full name and contact details (phone number and email address).
Browsing Information	Details such as IP address, access times and dates, pages viewed on our web and mobile sites, language preferences, crash reports, browser type, device-related information, and online activities automatically gathered, for example, via cookies, web server logs, pixels, and web beacons.

What are the objectives and legal grounds for our processing?

Immediate Flare processes your personal data for the following objectives:

Objective	Legal grounds	Categories of personal data processed
Connecting you with professionals offering services that may interest you	Your consent	Identification Data
Addressing requests and adhering to legal requirements from regulators or other authorities, both within and outside your country.	Compliance with applicable legal and regulatory requirements.	Identification Data Browsing Information
Protecting and enforcing our rights	Our legitimate interest in protecting our rights against users (including you), judicial, administrative, and/or law enforcement bodies.	Identification Data Browsing Information
Preserving the functionality and security of our Website	Our legitimate interest in maintaining a secure and efficient Website.	Browsing Information

Your Rights Concerning Data Privacy

Under current data protection legislation, you have a wide range of rights, including:

Right of Access: You can request confirmation from Immediate Flare whether your personal data is being processed and, if so, gain access to that data. This includes information on processing objectives, categories of personal data processed, and potential data recipients.
You're entitled to a copy of the processed data. For additional copies, we may charge a reasonable fee based on administrative costs.
Right to Rectification: If your personal data is incorrect, you have the right to have it rectified. For processing objectives, you also have the right to complete incomplete personal data, including through supplementary statements.
Right to Erasure ("Right to be Forgotten"): You can request that Immediate Flare erase your personal data under certain conditions.
Right to Restrict Processing: You can request that the processing of your personal data be restricted. In such cases, the data will be marked and processed by us only for certain purposes.
Right to Data Portability: You have the right to receive your personal data, which you've provided to Immediate Flare, in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, and you have the right to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance from us.
Right to Object: You can object to the processing of your personal data based on your specific situation, at any time. Upon objection, we will stop processing your data for the objected objectives, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for processing that override your interests, rights, and freedoms, or for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims.
Right to Withdraw Consent: If data processing is based on your consent, you can withdraw this consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
Post-Mortem Right to Data: You have the right to set directives concerning the management of your personal data after your death.

Note: The exercise of these rights may be subject to certain conditions and limitations under local data protection law.

To exercise any of these rights, please reach out to us as detailed in the "Contact Us" section below.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent French data protection authority, the CNIL.

Data Sharing Practices

Your personal data may be shared as follows:

Within our corporate group;
With our partners, for their processing objectives, provided you have consented to this sharing, to inform you about services/products you may find interesting;
With service providers supporting our operations (e.g., storage, hosting, analytics, technical support);
With our legal advisors, for compliance with our statutory obligations, including accounting, auditing, and internal controls;
In the context of a business sale, asset transfer to a third party, or during company restructuring or reorganization;
Where required or permitted by law, to government bodies, courts, external advisors, and similar third parties.

Trans-border Data Transfers

Personal data gathered by Immediate Flare may be transferred outside the European Economic Area (EEA). Transfers to countries recognized by the European Commission as providing adequate protection (e.g., Israel) are deemed to ensure an adequate level of data protection. For transfers to countries not recognized as providing adequate protection, we ensure data protection through standard contractual clauses or other approved mechanisms, guaranteeing adequate safeguards.

Data Retention Policies

We retain your personal data only as long as necessary for the objectives outlined in this Statement, in compliance with applicable laws. Once your personal data is no longer required, it will be deleted or anonymized.

Contact Us

For questions regarding this Statement, please contact [email protected].

Amendments to the Statement

This Privacy Statement may be updated periodically. We will notify you of any significant changes as required by law.

Last updated: 01.11.2023