Effective Date: June 6, 2025
This Privacy Policy explains how Freak ("we," "us," or "our"), with our website located at https://wearefreak.com/, collects, uses, and protects the personal information you submit through our lead generation forms on LinkedIn.
1. Information We Collect
When you submit a lead generation form on LinkedIn, we may collect the following personal information:
1a. Contact Information: This may include your name, email address, phone number, company name, and job title.
1b. Professional Information: Information related to your professional background or interests as provided on your LinkedIn profile or directly within the form.
Any other information you voluntarily provide in the form's free-text fields.
We do not collect sensitive personal information (e.g., racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, health data, sexual orientation) through these forms.
2. How We Use Your Information
We use the information collected from LinkedIn lead generation forms for the following purposes:
2a. To respond to your inquiries: To contact you regarding your interest in our services or to provide the information you requested.
2b. Lead Nurturing and Marketing: To send you relevant marketing communications, updates, and information about our services that we believe may be of interest to you, based on your submission. This may include newsletters, promotional offers, or invitations to events.
2c. Business Development: To assess potential business opportunities and tailor our offerings to your specific needs.
2d. Internal Analytics and Improvement: To analyse the effectiveness of our lead generation efforts, understand user demographics, and improve our services and marketing strategies.
2e. Compliance with Legal Obligations: To comply with applicable legal obligations, such as record-keeping and responding to lawful requests from public authorities.
3. Legal Basis for Processing (for GDPR compliance)
If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA), our legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described in this Privacy Policy depends on the information we collect and the specific context in which we collect it. We primarily rely on the following legal bases:
3a. Consent: Where you have given us explicit consent to process your personal data for one or more specific purposes (e.g., for direct marketing). You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
3b. Legitimate Interests: Where the processing is necessary for our legitimate interests and not overridden by your data protection interests or fundamental rights and freedoms (e.g., for business development, internal analytics, and improving our services).
3c. Performance of a Contract: Where the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract.
3d. Legal Obligation: Where we need to process your personal data to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.
4. How We Share Your Information
We do not sell your personal information. We may share your information with the following categories of recipients:
4a. Internal Teams: Your information may be accessed by relevant Freak team members (e.g., sales, marketing, business development) who need to access it to fulfill the purposes outlined in this policy.
4b. Service Providers: We may engage third-party service providers to assist us with various business operations, such as CRM systems, email marketing platforms, or analytics tools. These service providers are contractually obligated to protect your information and only use it for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
4c. Legal Requirements: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court order or government agency).
4d. Business Transfers: In the event of a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your personal information may be transferred to the acquiring entity.
5. Data Retention
We retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
6. Your Data Protection Rights
Depending on your location and applicable data protection laws, you may have the following rights regarding your personal information:
6a. Right of Access: The right to request copies of your personal data.
6b. Right to Rectification: The right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
6c. Right to Erasure (Right to be Forgotten): The right to request that we erase your personal data under certain conditions.
6d. Right to Restrict Processing: The right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data under certain conditions.
6e. Right to Object to Processing: The right to object to our processing of your personal data under certain conditions.
6f. Right to Data Portability: The right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organisation, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
6g. Right to Withdraw Consent: If we are relying on your consent to process your personal data, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time.
6h. Right to Lodge a Complaint: The right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority if you believe your rights have been violated.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details provided below.
7. Security of Your Information
We implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your personal information from unauthorised access, use, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. However, no method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
8. Third-Party Links (LinkedIn)
Please note that this Privacy Policy only applies to the information collected by Freak through LinkedIn lead generation forms. LinkedIn has its own Privacy Policy, and we encourage you to review it to understand their data collection and processing practices. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of any third-party platforms.
9. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will post the updated Privacy Policy on our website and update the "Effective Date" at the top of this policy. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically.
10. Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us:
Address: 22 Ash Ave, London SE17 1HS
Email: info@wearefreak.com
