Flanv International Inc

Privacy Policy

Introduction

Flanv International Inc. worldwide is committed to respecting your online privacy and recognizing your need for appropriate protection and management of any personal data you share with us based on applicable data protection laws and regulations. This privacy notice describes our approach to privacy, what data we are collecting, how we are processing it, why we are collecting your data, sharing & transferring data, and your rights relating to other personal data shared with us.
This privacy notice would also provide information about different or higher jurisdiction-specific standards that apply in those particular locations.
If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy notice or your data, don’t hesitate to get in touch with us at info@flanv.com.

Table of contents

What personal data we collect and how; why we collect this information.

  1. What personal data we collect and how; why we collect this information.
  2. Lawful basis for processing personal data.
  3. Security
  4. Third Party Links.
  5. To whom we share your information
  6. International and group company transfers of personal data.
  7. Data storage and retention.
  8. Data Subject rights:
    1. Residents of Europe/UK
    2. Residents of Australia
    3. Residents of Philippines
    4. Residents of South Africa
    5. Residents of Columbia
    6. Residents of Canada
    7. Residents of USA (Federal and State Laws)
  9. Do Not Track (DNT)
  10. Contact us and information regarding complaints
  11. Modifications to Statement

What personal data we collect and how we collect it.

For this privacy statement, ‘Personal data is any data related to an individual who may be identified from that data, or from a combination of a set of data, and other information that Flanv International owns.

Depending upon the Site(s)/apps and context, the information shared by you or automatically collected whenever you visit our sites/apps:

Contact Information: Name, phone number, address, city, state, postal/zip code, and email address.
Demographic information: Date of birth, gender, occupation, country of origin, educational details, and employer details.
Account/registration Information: If you create a user account on our Website or use restricted access or password-protected portions of the Website, then we may collect name, password, email, telephone number, street address, city, state, country, postal code, and other valuable information to our products and services.
On the ‘Contact Us’ page: Flanv International uses the contact information you submit to respond to a general or business inquiry made by you or on behalf of the company you represent.
Internet and network activity when you visit our Website: We use cookies and web beacons to collect data on how you use our websites, including your IP address, internet domain, browser type, type of operating system you use, the domain name of your internet service provider, pages visited, and length of time spent on the site. You can customize your cookie preferences.
Social media widgets: Our Sites and applications may include social media features connected with social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, and others. Your interactions with those features are governed by the companies’ privacy policies that provide them.
Our career portal: Our Site may include a link to our Career Section. Any Personal data submitted through that portion of the site, by upload or via email, shall be governed by this privacy policy.
Information from other sources: Depending on your relationship with us, we may receive information about you from other sources, including but not limited to data vendors, insurance providers, auditors, travel service providers, consulting firms, background check service providers, and social media to ensure the accuracy and completeness of your data.

Why Do We Collect These Information?

Unless otherwise provided in the Policy, we may use personal data collected from the Sites/Apps in various ways, including:

  • To facilitate or fulfill the information, products, or services you have requested.
  • To contact the user to confirm their registration on our Website.
  • To communicate with the user to respond to their queries, seek feedback, or resolve disputes on the product and services.
  • For business, marketing, and promotional purposes such as sending information about special promotions, programs, schemes, offers, new features, plans on products/services, and marketing communications that we believe may be of interest to you
  • For the legitimate business interest, such as prevention of money laundering, fraud detection and prevention, and enhancing safety
  • To consider an application from prospective Vendors for partnering with Flanv International.
  • To educate you about us, our products, and services or to understand your interest in improvising the content and performance of our Sites/Apps.
  • For maintenance of high quality and standards of products and services
  • To send you important information regarding the Sites/Apps, changes in terms and conditions, user agreements and policies, and/or other administrative information.
  • For internal business operations including:
    • Reviews and data analysis for the Website (e.g., to determine the number, category of visitors to specific pages within the Website)
    • To manage, operate, maintain, and secure our Sites/Apps, network system, and other assets and customize/personalize your experience with us, including displaying content based upon your preferences.
    • For the purposes of analyzing the use of the Sites/Apps, enabling and monitoring your use of our Sites, /Apps operating our Sites/Apps, ensuring the security of our Sites/Apps, for maintaining back-ups of our databases.
    • To help diagnose our server problems and administer our Sites/Apps.
  • To comply with our legal obligations or as otherwise permitted by law.
  • To investigate potential breaches or protect the rights, property, or safety of Flanv International, the users of our sites/apps, or others.
  • For any other purpose necessary or incidental to our business
  • For any other purpose for which you give your consent.

Suppose we use your data for other purposes not specified above. In that case, we will inform you about the specific purposes for processing your data and, when required, our basis for doing so when we collect the personal data from you to the extent required by law.

For clarity, we may also use your data in combination with information we obtain from third parties about you for the same purposes described above.

Lawful basis for processing personal data.

Flanv International utilizes or processes the personal data it has acquired from you based on any of the below mentioned legal bases:

  • Consent: Where we process personal data based on consent, you will have the option to opt out and will have the ability to withdraw your consent at any time. If at any point you wish to unsubscribe from any of our communications or opt-out of our services or in case of any queries/concerns with regards to your data we processed, feel free to contact us at info@flanv.com.
  • Contract: When we need to carry out a contract with you that we are about to enter into or have already entered into. This applies when we provide services to you according to a contract. If you do not provide the personal data that we need to provide our services, we may not provide our services to you.
  • Legal or regulatory obligation: This includes records keeping and performing compliance reviews (e.g., anti-money laundering, financial checks). This includes automatic checks of the personal data you submit regarding your identification against appropriate databases, as well as contacting you to confirm your identity for compliance purposes or maintaining records of our communication for compliance purposes.
  • Legitimate interests: Wherever necessary for our legitimate interests, such as conducting and developing our business, meeting and anticipating the requirements of our current and prospective customers, appropriate controls to ensure our Website, processes, and procedures are running effectively, for the prevention and detention of fraud, for Information Technology (IT) security purposes.

Consequences of not providing Personal Data

If you choose not to provide the mandatory data to process your request, we may not be able to provide the corresponding service.

The legal basis may differ depending on applicable local laws, but generally, we consider that our legitimate interests justify the processing;

Security

The Company has implemented technological and operational security processes to protect information from loss, misuse, alteration, or unintentional destruction. While no security measure can guarantee against compromise, the Company regularly reviews and updates its security measures following industry standards to provide appropriate security for all information held by the Company.

Third Party Links

Our Sites/Apps may have links to the websites/Apps of other third parties. These third-party websites/Apps may collect personal data about Users for their purpose; in such cases, our Privacy Policy does not extend to these external websites/Apps of third parties. Please be aware that you will be leaving our Site(s) if you access these links. We encourage users to read the privacy policies of those websites/apps, as we are not responsible for their content, links, or privacy procedures.

To whom we share your information

We may share the Personal data collected from the Sites/Apps with third parties as outlined in this section.

Affiliates

Our parent business, subsidiaries, joint ventures, group of firms, and affiliated companies. These entities may use this information for the purposes mentioned above.

Business Partner

  • Service Providers who perform services on behalf of Flanv International and may require information about you to perform their functions, such as authorized service partners, payroll processors, call center operators, marketing contractors, social media website providers, IT agencies handling or maintaining Sites/Apps, storing/processing information, overseas service providers who work for us, and so on.
  • Suppliers, research and development vendors, professional advisers, agents, representatives, and other Flanv International business associates

Legal Authorities

We may disclose your data in response to any notification, order, inquiry, demand, request, or other communication from a law enforcement agency that requires or mandates the disclosure of such personal data or following applicable laws.

Changes in Corporate Structure

If Flanv International is involved in a merger, acquisition, reorganization, or sale of assets, or if it files for bankruptcy, your information may be transferred as part of such transaction. Therefore, we keep a copy of such information.

We DO NOT use or disclose Information for purposes other than as mentioned in this Policy, except with the user’s consent providing such Information or as required by law.

International transfers of your data

In nearly all cases, the above-described data may be collected or processed by, transferred to, the Company’s facilities in the United States and in other jurisdictions where the Company performs its business activities, such as India, South Africa, Australia, the Philippines, Canada, Colombia, Europe, and the UK. The data may then be subject to the legal systems of those countries. This may be done through the Website’s internet service provider (ISP) or through the use of such tools as google analytics. This information is gathered to improve the quality of our services and our ability to market those products and services to specific individuals and organizations that could benefit from them.

We only transfer personal data to countries that provide an adequate level of protection, and/or we ensure that we have appropriate safeguards (such as standard contractual clauses, etc.) in place to cover these transfers, as permitted by the applicable data protection legislation.

You may contact us to find out more about the relevant safeguards in place for cross-border transfers.

Data storage and retention

Your data processed by Flanv International is kept in a form that permits your identification for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which the personal data is processed in line with legal, regulatory, contractual, or statutory obligations as applicable. Your data will be deleted or archived to comply with legal/contractual retention obligations or to follow applicable statutory limitation periods at the expiry of such periods.

Data Subject Rights

You may have certain rights concerning your data according to data protection laws in your jurisdiction. To exercise such rights, please get in touch with info@flanv.com. The rights for certain jurisdictions are explained in further detail below.

Residents of Europe:

  • The right to request access to your personal data and request details of the processing activities conducted by us.
  • The right to erasure of your personal data under certain circumstances.
  • The right to request for rectification of your personal data if it is inaccurate or incomplete.
  • The right to request restriction of the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances.
  • The right to object to the processing, including the sale or commercial use, of your personal data in certain cases.
  • You may opt out of receiving non-essential (promotional, marketing-related) communications from us. If you want to opt-out of any such communication, then you may send an email to info@flanv.com
  • The right to object to, and not to be subject to a decision based solely on, automated processing (including profiling), which produces legal effects or significantly affects you.
  • The right to withdraw your consent is provided at any time by contacting us.

Following the GDPR, we will respond to your request within one month upon receipt of your request. Provided we are unable to progress your response; we will contact you. In certain circumstances, we may extend the timeline of our response to 3 months under applicable law.

Residents of Australia:

We recognize that individuals must have the option not to identify themselves or to use a pseudonym when liaising with us. Accordingly, we seek to provide this option to the extent possible. However, due to the nature of our business operations, it is impracticable in most cases for us to deal with individuals who have not identified themselves or who use a pseudonym.

As a resident of Australia, you have the following rights:

  • The right to have your data de-identified and/or destroyed.
  • The right to require that any personal data held and processed by us is accurate, up-to-date, and complete. If the information is inaccurate, incomplete and/or out-of-date, you have the right to request that it be corrected.
  • The right to be informed regarding when and how your data is collected, used, and disclosed.
  • The right to “opt out” of your data being used for opt-out marketing purposes.
  • The right to request Data Holders and accredited bodies to share information relating to yourself, with consent, in a standardized machine-readable format.

Residents of the Philippines:

  • The right to be informed about your data being collected and processed.
  • The right to access your data.
  • The right to object to processing your data if the personal data processing involved is based on consent or legitimate interest.
  • The right to erasure or blocking of your data under certain circumstances.
  • The right to file a complaint with the National Privacy Commission (NPC) if your data has been misused, maliciously disclosed, or improperly disposed of, or if any of your data privacy rights have been violated.
  • The right to be indemnified for any damages sustained due to inaccurate, incomplete, outdated, false, unlawfully obtained, or unauthorized use of their data.
  • The right to rectify your data under certain circumstances.
  • The right to data portability.

Residents of South Africa:

  • Request access to your data and request details of the processing activities conducted by third parties and us within a reasonable time and at a prescribed fee, if any.
  • Request that your data be rectified if it is inaccurate or incomplete, irrelevant, excessive, out of date, misleading, or obtained unlawfully.
  • Request the destruction or de-identification of your data where we are no longer authorized to retain the information.
  • Right to Request restriction of processing your data by us in certain circumstances.
  • Right to object to the processing of your data in certain circumstances.
  • Receive your data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format in certain circumstances.
  • Lodge a complaint with the Information Regulator.
  • Right to Object to, and not to be subject to a decision based solely on, automated processing (including profiling), which produces legal effects or significantly affects you.
  • Right to withdraw any consent you have provided to us at any time by contacting us.

Residents of Columbia:

  • The right to be informed about the use of your data.
  • The right to access (includes the right to data portability).
  • Under certain circumstances, you have the right to have your data rectified.
  • Right to revoke authorization and/or request the deletion of data when processing is not compliant with principles, rights, and constitutional guarantees. The revocation and/or deletion shall proceed when the SIC determines that the processing by the data controller or data processor was contrary to the law and the Constitution.
  • To request evidence of the consent granted to the data controller, except when consent is not required for the processing; and
  • To submit to the SIC claims for violations of the provisions contained in the Data Protection Law and other rules that modify, amend, or complement it.

Residents of Canada:

  • The right to be informed of their personal data existence, use, and disclosure.
  • The right to access your data.
  • Individuals have the right to challenge the accuracy and completeness of that information and have it amended/rectified as appropriate.
  • Individuals can withdraw their consent to collect, use, and disclosure of their PI, including for marketing purposes.
  • Right to file a complaint with the relevant privacy regulator(s).

Residents of USA (Federal and State Laws):

Virginia-

  • Under §59.1-574(C) of the CDPA, you have the right to be informed about the categories of personal data collected and processed, information shared and sold to third parties, purpose, all uses, and disclosures.
  • The right to access, rectify, and erasure of your data.
  • The right to data portability.
  • The right to opt-out of the processing of their data for purposes of:
  • Targeted advertising; the sale of personal data; or profiling in further decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning you.
  • The right to appeal against a controller’s refusal to take action following a consumer’s request to exercise their rights.

Colorado-

  • Under §6-1-1308(1)(a) to (b) of the CPA, you have the right to be informed about the categories of personal data collected and processed, information shared and sold to third parties, purpose, all uses, and disclosures.
  • The right to access, rectify, and erasure of your data.
  • The right to data portability.
  • A consumer has the right to opt-out of the processing of personal data concerning the consumer (§6-1-1306(1)(a) of the CPA) for the purposes of:
  • Targeted advertising; the sale of personal data; or profiling in further decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning you.

How to submit a request

You may submit a request to exercise your rights through any one of three means:

  • By filling out a data subject request form available here.
  • By calling us at the appropriate office or, if available, the designated 800 (this applies only for California residents) number as mentioned below.

Do Not Track

Do Not Track (DNT) is a privacy preference that users can set in some web browsers, allowing users to opt-out of tracking by websites and online services. However, at present, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has not yet established universal standards for recognizable DNT signals, and therefore, Flanv International Company and the Site do not recognize DNT.

Contact Us and Information Regarding Complaints

Don’t hesitate to contact us with any concerns you may have. In addition, you can contact us by writing to us at info@flanv.com

+1 825-561-9744 (this applies only for Canadian residents)

Information regarding complaints:

You may also have the right to complain about using your data to the applicable authority with oversight of applicable data protection laws. For example, the European GDPR gives you the right to complain about a supervisory authority in the Member State where you particularly work, normally live, or where any alleged infringement of data protection laws has occurred. In addition, where applicable, you can contact the nominated data protection supervisory body in that jurisdiction for other data protection laws.

Modifications to Statement

The Company reserves the right to change, modify, or update this statement at any time. We indicate the current statement date below, so you know when it was last updated. Continued use of the Website after any such revision or modification constitutes your acceptance of the privacy statement as revised or modified, where permitted by law.