Privacy Policy

Thank you for using the websites of PLF CONSULTING US LLC. Prior to accessing and using our websites (referred to as the “Website”), products, services, software, and platform (collectively referred to as the “Services“), please read the following Terms and Conditions, our Cookies Policy, and Privacy Policy.

PLF CONSULTING US LLC (“PLF”, “we”, “us” or “our”) provides this Privacy Policy to inform users about our policies and procedures regarding the collection, use, processing, deletion, security, and disclosure of personal data and information subject to protection under applicable data protection, privacy, and data security laws, including the California Consumer Privacy Act (as amended, the “CCPA”) and other relevant laws (such data and information collectively, “Personal Data”). It also complements our professional obligations of confidentiality. Our privacy policies and procedures only apply to Personal Data about identifiable individuals. In the context of this policy

We are committed to processing your Personal Data in accordance with applicable laws and industry best practices. By using our Website, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agreed to the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not use our Website or provide us with any Personal Data.

PLF may update this Privacy Policy periodically by posting a revised version on the Website. The date of the last update will be indicated at the bottom of this page. Continued use of our Website following any updates constitutes acceptance of the revised Privacy Policy. Additionally, our Website may use cookies and similar tracking technologies as described in more detail below.

In certain circumstances, we may process additional categories of Personal Data received from clients or business partners as part of our services. Such processing is conducted in accordance with applicable agreements, professional obligations, and industry standards and may not be covered by this Privacy Policy.

1. Why we collect Personal Data

We primarily collect Personal Data to offer legal and related services to our clients, manage client accounts, establish and maintain client and commercial relationships, and ensure compliance with regulatory obligations.

2. What Personal Data we collect

We may collect the following Personal Data when you visit the Website or otherwise provide us with Personal Data in connection with the Website:

1. Personal Data you provide when you complete forms available on the Website;
2. Personal Data you provide when you contact us;
3. Details of visits to the Website, including the volume of traffic received, logs and the resources that you have accessed and the devices you have used to access such information;
4. Personal Data relating to you or your employees and officers that you provide to us to enable us to provide services to you and to comply with our legal obligations (including with respect to know your customer requirements and anti-money laundering screening).

The categories of Personal Data we have collected from individuals pursuant to this Privacy Policy over the last twelve (12) months include the following:

1. Identifiers, such as name, contact details, and address (including physical address, telephone number, email address, and Internet Protocol address, which we may use to identify your geographic location);
2. Professional information, non-public education information, and certain information related to protected classification characteristics (e.g., age, race, and gender);
3. Internet or other electronic network activity information, such as information regarding your use of the Website (e.g., cookies, browsing history, and/or search history), as well as information you provide to us when you correspond with us in relation to your inquiries.

We only collect the information necessary for the provision of our legal services and compliance with legal obligations.

3. How we collect this Personal Data

We collect your Personal Data through lawful and fair means, with your consent or as required or allowed by law. In connection with operating the Website, we obtain your Personal Data from the following sources:

• Information from your communications with us in connection with the Website or other services, events, publications, or programs that we are offering, including any updates to such information provided by you;
• Information captured on the Website, including information provided by you through online forms and any information captured via cookies;
• Information that you provide us at the start of our engagement with you or during the course of our providing services to you;
• Information that we collect from publicly available sources. This will generally include information collected in an online or offline context.

4.How we use your Personal Data

We use your Personal Data for one or more of the following business purposes and pursuant to the corresponding legal bases:

• To understand your needs and provide you with better service;
• To improve the Website and to notify you about changes to the Website;
• To communicate with you, including responding to requests for information submitted by you through the Website or to notify you of services we provide or publications that may be of interest to you;
• To keep a record of your relationship with us;
• To research and analyze users’ demographic characteristics, interests, and behavior in an aggregated form in order to better understand and serve our users and improve the Website and its offerings;
• To detect security incidents and to protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity;
• To generally comply with U.S., state, local, and non-U.S. laws, rules, and regulations;
• To evaluate client satisfaction;
• To provide you with marketing and other information about our services and about developments in the law;
• Security and emergency purposes (for visitors to our offices).

Please note that we may process your Personal Data for more than one legal basis, depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your Personal Data.

5. With whom we share your Personal Data

We do not sell or rent any of the Personal Data we collect about you to third parties.

We do not disclose any Personal Data about you to third parties, except:

1. As permitted or required by law or regulation or pursuant to any legal process;
2. In response to governmental, regulatory, law enforcement or judicial inquiries;
3. To affiliates;
4. To third-party suppliers and service providers (including vendors providing hosting, database management, and development services related to the operation of the Website, outsourcing providers of our back-office and internal functions, technology service providers, and/or email marketing services related to events we are hosting, our publications or other communications we may send to you);
5. Our lawyers, auditors, and other professional advisors; and
6. Entities to whom we may transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets in a restructuring or in connection with a corporate transaction. If a change happens to our business, then the successor entity may use your Personal Data in the same way as set out in this Privacy Policy.

Within the last twelve (12) months, we have shared with affiliates and service providers each of the categories of Personal Data collected in connection with the Website with affiliates and service providers that are set forth above.

6. Consent

We may obtain your consent for the collection, use, and disclosure of your Personal Data either explicitly, for specific purposes, or implicitly, when the purposes are indicated by the circumstances or logically follow from other stated purposes. By providing us with your Personal Data, you consent to its collection, use, and disclosure as necessary for providing our services, managing our relationship with you, running our business, and as required or permitted by law, in line with this Privacy Policy.

We will obtain your consent as required by law before using your Personal Data for any purpose outside the scope of your initial consent. You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time, subject to legal and contractual restrictions and reasonable notice. However, please be aware that withdrawing your consent may impact our ability to serve you and maintain our relationship.

7. Withdrawing consent

You may withdraw your consent at any time, subject to legal or contractual obligations. However, withdrawing consent may impact our ability to provide legal services.

To withdraw consent, please contact us at +1 (747) 717 7197.

8. Updating information

PLF may use your information to provide legal services to you, it is important that the information be accurate and up to date. Please inform us if any of your information changes so that we can make any necessary changes.

9. Security of your Personal Data

PLF has established policies and procedures to safeguard your Personal Data against loss, unauthorized access, alteration, or disclosure. Our offices are secure, and we use technological measures such as security software and passwords to prevent unauthorized computer access.

However, please note that no method of transmitting or storing information is completely secure. While we take reasonable steps to protect your Personal Data, there is always a risk that it may be lost, intercepted, or misused. We may exchange electronic documents and emails with you using commercially available software, which could be vulnerable to viruses or other harmful electronic programs. We cannot guarantee that all communications and documents sent via email will be received or that they will always be free of viruses. We do not offer any warranty regarding the integrity or security of electronic communications between us, and you acknowledge and consent to the exchange of electronic communications, including confidential documents, without encryption.

10. Storage of your Personal Data

Your Personal Data is stored in secure locations and on servers managed by PLF CONSULTING US LLC at our office in 19 Richmond, Irvine, CA 92620, USA.

11. Data Transferred to service providers

When we transfer your Personal Data to third parties for administrative and other services, we take appropriate measures to ensure that they use your information solely to perform the services we have specified. Given the global nature of our business, we may engage administrative service providers located in the USA or other countries outside the USA. As a result, your Personal Data may be transferred outside the USA and, in such cases, will be subject to the legal requirements of the relevant foreign jurisdictions, including obligations to disclose information to law enforcement and national security authorities.

12. Retention of Your Personal Data

We retain your Personal Data only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy or as required for our legal or business needs. After the retention period expires, Personal Data is securely deleted or anonymized.

13. Your rights under CCPA & CPRA

In certain circumstances, subject to certain exceptions and applicable law, you may have the following rights in relation to personal information about you:

• The right to know (i) the specific pieces of personal information collected; (ii) the categories of personal information; (iii) the categories of sources of the personal information: (iv) the business or commercial purpose for collecting the personal information; (v) the categories of personal information disclosed for a business purpose; and (vi) the categories of third parties with whom the personal information is shared;
• The right to have personal information corrected, for example, if it is incomplete or incorrect;
• The right to opt out of receiving marketing communications at any time;
• The right to request that personal information be deleted;
• The right to restrict or object to the processing of personal information;
• The right to receive a copy of personal information that you have provided to the firm, in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format (known as “data portability”);
• Where you have provided personal information voluntarily, or otherwise consented to its use, the right to withdraw your consent;
• The right not to be discriminated against if you exercise any rights conferred on you by the CCPA;
• The right to complain to a Data Protection Authority (see further below).

14. Additional data subject rights

In addition to the rights mentioned above under “Access to Your Personal Data,” you may, in certain cases, request the deletion of your personal data. You may also object to the processing of certain personal data or request that its processing be restricted. Please be aware that limiting or deleting your personal data may impact our ability to provide the services described above.

15. Links to Third-party websites

Our website may include links to third-party websites for your convenience and reference. Please be aware that these external sites operate independently from PLF, and we have no control over their content, security measures, or privacy practices. We do not endorse or assume responsibility for how these third parties collect, use, or protect your Personal Data.

We strongly encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party websites you visit to understand how your information may be collected, stored, and used. If you choose to interact with or provide personal data to these external sites, you do so at your own risk.

16. Our Commitment to Data security

We consider the protection of Personal Data to be a sound business practice, and to that end, we employ commercially appropriate organizational, physical, technical and procedural safeguards and measures to protect your Personal Data in our possession or under our control, to the extent possible, from unauthorized or accidental access and improper use.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure, and we cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Data transmitted to or through the Website; any such transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your Personal Data, we will use the procedures and security features described above to try to prevent unauthorized access of your Personal Data.

17. Notice to California residents of certain rights under the CCPA

This section outlines specific rights granted under the CCPA to individual California residents and provides information regarding how such California residents can exercise their rights under the CCPA. This section is only relevant to you if you are a resident of California as determined in accordance with the CCPA. Information required to be disclosed to California residents under the CCPA regarding the collection of their Personal Data that is not set forth in this section is otherwise set forth in this Privacy Policy.

Deletion rights: You have the right to request that we delete any of your Personal Data that we retain, subject to certain statutory exceptions, including, but not limited to, our compliance with U.S., state, local, and non-U.S. laws, rules, and regulations. We will notify you in writing and provide an explanation if we cannot comply with a specific request.

Disclosure and access rights: You have the right to request that we disclose to you certain information regarding our collection and use of Personal Data specific to you over the last twelve (12) months. Such information includes:

• The categories of Personal Data we collected about you;
• The categories of sources from which the Personal Data was collected;
• Our business or commercial purpose for collecting such Personal Data;
• The categories of third parties with whom we share the Personal Data;
• The specific pieces of Personal Data we collected about you; and
• Whether we disclose your Personal Data to a third party, and, if yes, the categories of Personal Data that each recipient obtained.

No discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights under the CCPA, including by denying service, suggesting that you will receive, or charging, different rates for services, or suggesting that you will receive, or providing, a different level or quality of service to you.

How to exercise your rights: To exercise any of your rights under the CCPA or to access this notice in an alternative format, please submit a request on your behalf using any of the methods set forth in Section 20 (“How to contact us”) of this Privacy Policy below.

18. Our Commitment to Children’s privacy

We do not seek to collect or maintain information (including Personal Data) on the Website from those we know are under the age of 18, and no part of the Website is structured to attract anyone under the age of 13. If we learn we have collected or received Personal Data from an individual under the age of 13, we will delete that Personal Data.

19. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We regularly review our privacy policies and procedures, and as such, we may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The most current version will be available on our website at [website link]. Regardless of any changes, we will only use your Personal Data in accordance with the Privacy Policy in effect when you provide the information, or as required or permitted by law, unless you have explicitly consented to a different use.

20. How to contact us

• Email: inquiry@plfconsulting.us
• Phone: +1 (747) 717 7197
• Mailing Address: 19 Richmond, Irvine, CA 92620, USA

Last Updated: May 2025