Last updated: [16/03/2026]

Who we are?

The company CVL4, a simplified joint stock company (société par actions simplifiée) registered under number 904 956 596 RCS Lyon, whose registered office is located at 215 Chemin du Grand Revoyet – 69230 Saint-Genis-Laval (“Kestrel Vision” or “we/us/our”) is responsible for processing your personal data.

Our website address is: https://kestrel-vision.com.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

Login

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

What personal data do we collect and how?

When you contact us (e.g., by phone, email or via our online contact form), we collect the personal information you provide, such as your first and last name, business contact details, and the purpose of your request.

The data we request from you that is necessary to respond to your requests is identified by an asterisk or equivalent on the collection forms or is specified as such verbally at the time of collection.

We use cookies to let us know when you visit our website, how you interact with us, to enrich your user experience, and to customize your relationship with our website. For more information, please read our Cookies and Privacy Settings.

Our websites are not directed at minors. We do not solicit or deliberately collect personal data from minors. Visitors under the age of 18 may not do business with us.

Why do we collect your personal data?

We may collect or receive personal information for a number of purposes connected with our business operations:

• Managing client and prospect relationships

• Purpose of the processing: information needed to manage the contractual or business relationship with you (e.g., contracts, orders, transactions, invoices, etc.), sending

communications about products, services, offers, promotions, benefits, and events, as well as information that may be of interest to you.

• Legal basis: our legitimate interest (management of client and prospect relationships); or your consent.

• Data retention periods: during the commercial relationship, and then 3 years from your last contact with us (clients) and 3 years from your last contact with us (prospective clients).

• Responding to your requests via our website forms

• Purpose of the processing: responding to your questions submitted via the Contact Us form or other similar forms, including for job applications, depending on the subject of your request.

• Legal basis: our legitimate interest in responding to requests or job applications sent to us; or your consent.

• Data retention periods: for the duration of the processing of your request, then, depending on the nature of your request, archived for a period of up to three (3) years from the resolution of the request.

• Ensuring the security of the website

• Purpose of the processing: you may generally browse the website without having to provide us with data that allows you to identify yourself. However, information relating to your browsing is automatically collected in order to ensure the security of the website. For more information, please read our Cookie and Privacy Settings.

• Legal basis: legitimate interest in the proper functioning of the website, its optimization, and its security.

• Data retention periods: data is retained for the duration of security and integrity operations, which may vary depending on the operations carried out (from 3 to 6 months).

• Management of disputes and litigation

• Purpose of the processing: management of disputes and litigation.

• Legal basis: legitimate interest in defending our interests in court and preparing our defense in litigation proceedings.

• Data retention periods: for the duration of the complaint, then retention in accordance with the applicable statutory limitation periods, calculated from the date the complaint is resolved; or, in the event of legal action: retention of the data for the duration of the proceedings until full enforcement of the court decision or the settlement agreement.

• Compliance with applicable laws, court orders, other legal proceedings, or the requirements of any authority

• Purpose of the processing: Compliance with applicable laws, court orders, other legal proceedings, or the requirements of any authority.

• Legal basis: Legal obligation.

• Data retention periods: For the period provided for by the applicable law or by the relevant judicial or administrative decision.

How long we retain your data?

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights do you have over your data?

You can withdraw at any time your consent to any processing of your data that is based on your consent. You can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us.

You can also request that we correct, complete or erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

You can exercise your rights by contacting us at the address below.

You are also entitled to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority regarding the processing of your data. In France, the supervisory authority for the protection of personal data is the CNIL (www.cnil.fr).

Where your data is processed?

Our processors may transfer your personal data outside the European Union. In the absence of an adequacy decision by the European Commission under Article 45 of the GDPR, any such transfer will be governed by appropriate transfer mechanisms under Article 46 et seq. of the GDPR (such as standard contractual clauses adopted by the European Commission).

How to contact us?

CVL4 SAS

215 Chemin du Grand Revoyet – 69230 Saint-Genis-Laval

Phone: +33 4 37 20 15 00

DPO: rgpd@kestrel-vision.com

Update of the Privacy Policy

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time, in particular to comply with any legislative, regulatory, case law, editorial or technical developments. We will notify you of any material changes.