Privacy Policy Statement

Objective of the Statement

This Privacy Policy Statement (referred to as the "Statement") is designed to provide clarity on how Immediate Flare ("Immediate Flare", "We", or "Us") as the data controller, manages the personal data you share with us when you visit our website immediateflare.org (referred to as the "Website"), or that we receive from third parties, to assist you in connecting with relevant professionals.

How do we gather your data?

We acquire your personal data in the following ways:

Directly from you, when you provide your Identification Data on our Website; and/or
Indirectly:
- through receipt of Identification Data about you from third parties
- via the collection of data relating to your Website navigation using cookies or similar technologies (please refer to our Cookies Policy for more information).

While sharing your personal data is voluntary, failing to do so may limit our ability to connect you with professionals relevant to your interests.

Which categories of personal data are processed?

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

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

What are the purposes and legal basis for our processing?

Immediate Flare processes your personal data for the following reasons:

Purpose	Legal basis	Categories of personal data processed
Connecting you with professionals offering services that may interest you	Your consent	Identification Data
Addressing requests and complying with legal requirements from regulators or other authorities, both within and outside your country.	Compliance with applicable legal and regulatory obligations.	Identification Data Browsing Information
Defending 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 existing data protection legislation, you have an extensive set of rights, which include:

Right of Access: You can request Immediate Flare to confirm whether your personal data is being processed and, if so, access that data. This includes information on processing purposes, 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 inaccurate, you have the right to have it corrected. You also have the right to complete incomplete personal data for processing purposes, including through additional 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 ask for the processing of your personal data to be limited. 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 particular situation, at any time. Upon objection, we will stop processing your data for the objected purposes, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the 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 legality of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
Post-Mortem Right to Data: You have the right to set guidelines regarding the handling 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 contact us as outlined in the "Get in Touch" 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 purposes, provided you have given consent to this sharing, to inform you about services/products you might find interesting;
With service providers assisting our operations (e.g., storage, hosting, analytics, technical support);
With our legal advisors, for compliance with our legal 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.

Cross-Border Data Transfers

Personal data collected 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 considered 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 suitable safeguards.

Data Retention Policies

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

Get in Touch

If you have any questions about this Statement, please contact [email protected].

Amendments to the Statement

This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time. We will notify you of any significant changes as required by law.

Last updated: 01.11.2023