Who we are
This website is operated by AFFERENT Corp. ("AFFERENT", "we", "us"). Our registered address is [registered address to be added]. For any question about this policy or about your personal information, contact us through the contact form.
This policy covers the website at AFFERENT.tech. It does not cover data generated by AFFERENT products installed at customer sites, which is governed by the agreement between AFFERENT and that customer.
Information we collect
Information you give us
- Contact forms. Your name, email address and message, and, if you choose to provide them, your organization, country, industry, approximate number of assets and deployment type.
- Careers and talent network. Your name, email address, area of work and any link or note you choose to include.
- Investor inquiries. The information you submit through the contact form when you select Investment, and, if you are given access to confidential materials, a record of your acceptance of confidentiality terms.
- Email. The content of messages you send us and the address you send them from.
Information collected automatically
- Server logs. Our hosting provider records standard technical information for each request, including IP address, date and time, the page requested, the referring page and browser type. Logs are used to operate, secure and troubleshoot the site.
- Abuse prevention. When you submit a form, we store a keyed cryptographic hash of your IP address, and not the address itself, so that we can limit automated submissions.
- Download records. When a document is downloaded from the investor materials center, we record the document, the time, the browser type and a hashed IP address. Downloads made through an individual access link are associated with that link.
- Cookies. See the Cookie Policy. Ordinary browsing of this site sets no cookies. A session cookie is set when you load a page containing a form.
- Analytics. If analytics is enabled on this site, it runs only after you have given consent, as described in the Cookie Policy.
We do not knowingly collect special categories of personal information through this website, and we ask that you do not send any.
How we use information
- To respond to your inquiry and route it to the appropriate team.
- To consider you for current or future roles, where you have joined the talent network or applied.
- To communicate with investors, journalists and partners who contact us.
- To operate, secure and improve the website, including detecting and preventing abuse.
- To comply with legal obligations and to establish or defend legal claims.
We do not sell personal information. We do not use personal information from this website for automated decisions that have legal or similarly significant effects.
Legal bases
Where the law requires a legal basis for processing, we rely on: your consent (for example, analytics cookies); our legitimate interests in responding to inquiries, recruiting and securing our website, balanced against your rights; steps taken at your request before entering into a contract; and compliance with legal obligations. [Counsel to confirm the legal bases applicable in each jurisdiction where AFFERENT operates.]
Service providers
We share personal information with service providers that process it on our behalf, under contract and only for the purposes described here. These include our website hosting provider, our email delivery provider and, if enabled and consented to, our analytics provider. [List of providers to be confirmed before publication.]
We may also disclose information where required by law, to protect the rights, property or safety of AFFERENT or others, or in connection with a merger, acquisition or sale of assets, subject to appropriate confidentiality protections.
Data retention
We keep personal information only for as long as it is needed for the purpose for which it was collected.
- Contact inquiries: [retention period to be confirmed] after the inquiry is closed.
- Talent network submissions: [retention period to be confirmed], after which they are deleted unless you ask us to keep them.
- Server logs: for the period set by our hosting provider, typically a limited number of weeks.
- Hashed IP addresses used for abuse prevention: for a short period, after which they no longer serve a purpose.
- Download records: [retention period to be confirmed].
Security
We use technical and organizational measures intended to protect personal information, including encrypted connections to this website, restricted administrative access, hashed credentials and audit logging of administrative actions. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security. See Security and trust.
Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to request access to the personal information we hold about you, to have it corrected or deleted, to restrict or object to certain processing, to receive a copy in a portable format and to withdraw consent at any time. You may also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection authority.
To exercise any of these rights, contact us through the contact form. We will respond within the time required by applicable law. We may need to verify your identity before acting on a request.
International users
AFFERENT may process and store information in countries other than the one in which you live. Those countries may have data protection laws that differ from the laws of your country. Where required, we use appropriate safeguards for international transfers. [Counsel to confirm transfer mechanisms.]
Children
This website is intended for a professional audience. It is not directed to children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has provided personal information to us, contact us and we will delete it.
Links to other websites
This website may link to sites we do not operate. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of those sites and encourage you to read their policies.
Changes to this policy
We may update this policy from time to time. The date at the foot of this page shows when it was last revised. Material changes will be indicated on this page.
Contact
AFFERENT Corp., [registered address to be added]. Privacy inquiries: us through the contact form.
Last updated October 7, 2026