Free Float LLC and its entities are committed to responsible data processing and ensuring adequate personal data protection across all group entities.

Your Privacy at Free Float

Your privacy is one of our fundamental commitments here at Free Float.

The primary business purpose of Free Float is to provide the insights required for investors and companies to make more informed decisions that lead to a more just and sustainable global economy. As such, Free Float uses personal data when performing its research, analytics, and engagement activities and providing information that our clients request. This privacy policy explains how the personal data (hereinafter called “data”) of our clients, potential clients or prospects, subject companies that we research or engage with, service providers and the representatives thereof, or persons contacting and visiting us will be processed and protected by Free Float, such as to make you feel secure when in contact or in a commercial relation with us.

Personal data represents any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person, and an identifiable person is that person that may be identified directly or indirectly, particularly by reference to an identification number or to one or more factors specific to its physical, psychological, mental, economic, cultural or social identity.

How do we gather personal data?

Free Float collects personal data directly and indirectly, through the following channels:

Directly from you: when entering into contracts with us, either on behalf of clients or service providers, when  interacting with us as part of our research and engagement activities, when visiting our website and online platforms and you explicitly provide your data for different purposes such as for receiving newsletters, as well as when becoming part of our team as a board member, member of the executive team, employee or intern.

INDIRECTLY, from: 

• OUR SITES’ OR PLATFORMS’ TECHNOLOGY: this includes data about our clients, prospects, or visitors;

• SUBJECT COMPANIES THAT WE RESEARCH OR ENGAGE WITH: this includes data about senior executives, investors’ relations or CSR representatives or other contact persons of, and indicated by the companies we research or engage with;

• PUBLIC SOURCES: data collected by us from publicly available sources (such as public websites of companies that we research or engage with, stock exchange websites, public media, etc.).

While this information is publicly available, Free Float is committed to respecting your rights and answering your questions regarding the way we use your data.

What information do we collect?

FREE FLOAT GATHERS A VARIETY OF DATA, FROM THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS:

• CLIENTS OR PROSPECTS

• REPRESENTATIVES OF THE COMPANIES WE RESEARCH OR ENGAGE WITH

• VISITORS AND WEBSITE USERS

If you are our client, a prospect or the representative, contact person, or employee thereof:

• Information that you provide when entering into a contract with Free Float will be processed to enable us to execute the contract, to grant you access to our services and products, and for fiscal, billing, and audit purposes. Data gathered includes name, title, contact details (business e-mail and telephone number), and other relevant information depending on the contract language.

• If you are the representative, an employee, or contact person of our clients, the information that your employer provides us for the performance of our contract includes name, title, and contact details (e-mail and telephone number). This is used to grant you access to our platforms, services, research, and data, as well as to monitor the usage of our services and report to your employer.

If you are a representative of the companies we research or engage with

• If you are a representative or hold an executive position in the corporate governance structure of a company that we research or engage with, we may use publicly available information regarding your name, title, remuneration, public allegations or records on administrative, employment or criminal misconduct, contact details, professional background, education or professional body affiliations (e.g. trade unions).

If you are visitor or a user of our website or platforms

• Information that you provide by filling in forms on our website: name, e-mail address, telephone number, details about the company you represent.

• If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence, for audit purposes.

• Any postings, comments or other content that you upload or post to any Free Float websites (including our social media accounts, such as LinkedIn).

• Details of your visits to our website and access to our resources (including but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data). Please see the Cookies section below for more information.

How do we use the information that we collect?

We use personal data:

• To carry out our research and engagement activities.

• To grant you access to our platforms and research products and services.

• To monitor access to and usage of our platforms and research products and services, for reporting purposes.

• To subscribe to our services, based on your prior request, and send you newsletters and other further information about Free Float.

• To contact you for marketing purposes where you have consented to this.

• To ask you to complete surveys or research questionnaires that we use for research purposes. However, completing such surveys is optional.

• To personalize your website experience. Please see the Cookies section below for more information.

Will we share your personal data with third parties?

We generally do not share personal data. However, there will be instances when, for a specific purpose, we will need to share or disclose the personal data you provided, respectively:

• We may need to disclose your personal data to third parties if we sell or liquidate any part of our business or assets;

• We will disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal or regulatory obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our Terms of Use for our products and services; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Free Float and its clients.

What about data security?

Free Float takes appropriate steps to maintain the security of personal data collected through any of the above-mentioned channels/ means.

However, you should understand that the open nature of the Internet is such that information and personal data may flow over networks connecting you to our systems without security measures and may be accessed and used by people other than those for whom the data is intended.

Cookies

Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information that are downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another site that recognizes that cookie. Cookies are useful because they allow a site to recognize a user’s device.

Contact Us with Concerns

If you have questions about this privacy policy or how we treat your personal information, please contact us at inquiries@freefloat.llc or by filling in the relevant contact form.