Adelar Intel Privacy Policy

Last Updated: August 25, 2026

Adelar Intel, Inc (“Adelar,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) provides research, due-diligence, reputational-intelligence, monitoring, analytical, and related professional services. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, retain, and protect Personal Information in connection with:

our website at adelarintel.com and other websites that link to this Privacy Policy;
the Adelar platform, customer portal, and on-demand ordering and report-delivery services;
reports, monitoring, research, verification, and professional services we provide; and
sales, demos, support, events, and other business communications.

This Privacy Policy applies to website visitors, prospective and current customers, authorized users, individuals who communicate with us, and individuals or organizations that are the subjects of research requested through the Services (“Research Subjects”). It does not apply to information we process solely in our capacity as an employer or prospective employer, or to third-party websites, products, or services that maintain their own privacy policies.

For purposes of this Privacy Policy, “Personal Information” includes “personal data,” “personally identifiable information,” and similar terms under applicable privacy law. Personal Information does not include information that applicable law treats as publicly available, deidentified, or outside the scope of privacy-law protections.

1. Our Role and the Types of Information Covered

Depending on the circumstances, Adelar may act as a controller or business that determines why and how Personal Information is processed, or as a service provider or processor acting on a customer’s documented instructions. When we process Personal Information solely on behalf of a customer, that customer’s privacy notice may also apply, and we may refer a privacy request to the customer.

We distinguish among the following types of information:

Customer Information: Information about prospective customers, customers, account holders, authorized users, and representatives of organizations that interact with Adelar.
Customer Inputs: Information, identifiers, instructions, documents, files, order details, research purposes, and other materials submitted to Adelar by or for a customer.
Research Subject Information: Information about a person or organization that a customer asks Adelar to research, verify, monitor, or analyze, including information supplied by a customer and information obtained from public, licensed, and other lawful sources.
Usage and Device Information: Information generated when a person visits our website or uses our platform or portal.
Transaction and Communication Information: Information associated with payments, purchases, support, demos, correspondence, and other interactions with Adelar.

2. Notice at Collection

The following table summarizes the principal categories of Personal Information we may collect, the purposes for which we use them, and the categories of recipients to whom they may be disclosed. Our actual collection depends on how a person interacts with Adelar and the scope of the applicable customer order or service.

Category	Examples	Primary Purposes	Typical Recipients	Retention Criteria
Customer and account information	Name, organization, title, business contact information, username, account settings, authorization records	Create and administer accounts; authenticate users; provide the Services; communicate; support customers; enforce contracts	Hosting, identity, communications, support, security, and professional-service providers	For the customer relationship and as reasonably needed for legal, security, accounting, enforcement, and recordkeeping purposes
Order and Customer Input information	Research Subject identifiers, Approved Purpose, instructions, uploaded materials, requested scope, recipients, timing, compliance responses	Evaluate, accept, fulfill, verify, and deliver orders; conduct research; prevent misuse; support and document the engagement	Adelar personnel and contractors, data and research providers, hosting and security providers, and authorized customer recipients	According to the applicable order or plan, plus periods reasonably needed for compliance, legal, security, backup, and dispute purposes
Research Subject Information	Identifiers; professional, business, educational, political, organizational, and public-record information; public statements and online activity; litigation, regulatory, sanctions, corporate, campaign-finance, and other relevant information; analytical inferences	Identify and distinguish Research Subjects; perform research, monitoring, analysis, verification, and quality review; generate and deliver Reports; correct errors; prevent prohibited uses	The ordering customer and its authorized recipients; Adelar personnel and contractors; source, data, hosting, security, and research providers as necessary to perform the Services	Based on the service scope, source restrictions, customer plan, sensitivity, legal obligations, security needs, and whether the information remains necessary for the disclosed purpose
Transaction information	Purchase history, invoice information, billing address, payment status, processor tokens, tax information	Process payments; prevent fraud; provide receipts; maintain accounting, tax, and transaction records	Payment processors, financial institutions, accounting and tax providers, fraud-prevention providers	For periods required or permitted by tax, accounting, contract, fraud-prevention, and other applicable laws
Website, usage, and device information	IP address, browser and device type, operating system, pages viewed, referring URLs, session activity, approximate location derived from IP address, cookies, security logs	Operate and secure the website and Services; troubleshoot; measure performance and usage; prevent abuse; improve user experience	Hosting, analytics, security, and technology providers	For a period reasonably necessary for analytics, security, troubleshooting, and legal purposes, using shorter periods where appropriate
Communications and support information	Emails, demo requests, support messages, survey responses, feedback, call notes, and recordings when notice is provided	Respond to requests; provide support; manage relationships; train personnel; improve the Services; maintain business records	Communications, customer relationship, scheduling, support, and professional-service providers	For as long as reasonably necessary to address the communication and for legal, training, quality, and business-record purposes
Inferences and analytical output	Identity matches, namesake exclusions, risk categories, summaries, associations, patterns, and other conclusions derived from source information	Provide research and analytical Services; improve accuracy; support human review; detect errors and misuse	The ordering customer and authorized recipients; Adelar personnel and contractors; technology providers acting for Adelar	Consistent with the underlying order, Report, source information, legal requirements, and Adelar’s documented retention criteria

3. Information We Collect

3.1 Information You Provide Directly

We may collect Customer Information when you request a demo, contact us, create an account, place an order, purchase a Service, attend an event, communicate with support, or otherwise interact with Adelar. This information may include your name, organization, role, business contact information, account credentials, billing details, preferences, communications, and information necessary to confirm your identity, authority, or organizational affiliation.

3.2 Customer Inputs and Order Information

Customers may provide names, aliases, email addresses, phone numbers, postal addresses, social-media identifiers, employer or organization information, date or location information, documents, public-record references, and other identifiers or context needed to identify a Research Subject and define the requested research. We also collect the stated purpose of an order, intended recipients, selected service level, certifications, and compliance-review responses.

Customers are contractually required to submit information lawfully, provide accurate purpose and identity information, and use the Services only for an approved purpose. Customers should not submit passwords, authentication secrets, full payment-card numbers, financial-account credentials, full Social Security numbers, private medical records, intimate images, information about minors, or other highly sensitive information unless Adelar expressly requests it and the customer is legally authorized to provide it.

3.3 Research Subject Information

To provide the Services, we may collect and analyze information about Research Subjects from:

government and public records, including court, corporate, professional-licensing, campaign-finance, lobbying, regulatory, sanctions, and similar records;
news, media archives, websites, blogs, publications, and publicly available online content;
public or lawfully accessible social-media and digital-platform content;
licensed databases, information services, and other third-party data providers;
customers, business partners, contractors, or persons authorized to provide the information; and
information generated or inferred through identity resolution, matching, analysis, classification, and human review.

Research Subjects often do not interact directly with Adelar, and we may obtain their information from the sources described above rather than from the individual. Depending on the requested scope and lawful purpose, Research Subject Information may include identifiers, professional and educational history, business ownership and affiliations, political or organizational activity, public statements, media coverage, litigation and regulatory history, public-record information, online activity, and analytical inferences.

Some Research Subject Information may be considered sensitive under applicable law. We process sensitive information only when reasonably necessary for a legitimate and approved purpose, when permitted by applicable law, and subject to additional restrictions and safeguards where appropriate. Where consent or another specific legal authorization is required, we obtain it or require the customer to establish it before processing.

3.4 Information Collected Automatically

When you visit our website or use the Services, we and our technology providers may automatically collect Usage and Device Information through logs, cookies, pixels, software development kits, and similar technologies. This information may include IP address, browser, device type, operating system, pages or features used, dates and times, referring pages, session identifiers, error logs, security events, and approximate location inferred from IP address.

3.5 Payment Information

Payments may be processed by a third-party payment processor. Adelar receives transaction details such as amount, payment status, billing contact information, and a processor-generated token or reference. Adelar does not intend to receive or store full payment-card numbers or card-security codes through the ordinary checkout process.

3.6 Information We Create or Infer

We may create derived information and inferences by combining Customer Inputs with public, licensed, and other lawful information. Examples include identity matches, namesake exclusions, organizational associations, topic classifications, risk indicators, summaries, and other analytical output. Inferences may be incomplete or incorrect and should be independently reviewed in light of the applicable context.

4. How We Use Personal Information

We may use Personal Information to:

provide, operate, administer, and support the website, platform, portal, Reports, monitoring, and professional services;
identify and distinguish Research Subjects, reduce namesake errors, and assess whether source information relates to the correct person or organization;
research, collect, organize, classify, summarize, verify, analyze, and present information within the scope of a customer order;
conduct human review, correction, quality assurance, source validation, and customer-requested verification;
create and manage accounts, authenticate users, process orders and payments, issue receipts, and maintain customer and transaction records;
communicate about demos, orders, deliveries, updates, support, security, policy changes, and the customer relationship;
evaluate an order’s stated purpose, confirm customer identity or authority, detect prohibited or changed uses, and enforce our agreements and acceptable-use restrictions;
protect the rights, privacy, safety, property, systems, and integrity of Adelar, our customers, Research Subjects, service providers, and others;
detect, investigate, prevent, and respond to fraud, abuse, unauthorized access, security incidents, unlawful activity, and legal or reputational risk;
troubleshoot, measure, audit, test, evaluate, and improve the performance, quality, usability, security, and accuracy of the Services;
create deidentified or aggregated statistics, benchmarks, and operational insights that do not reasonably identify a person;
comply with law, legal process, contractual obligations, source restrictions, sanctions, export controls, and valid governmental requests;
establish, exercise, or defend legal claims and resolve disputes;
plan or complete a merger, financing, acquisition, reorganization, sale of assets, or similar business transaction; and
carry out another purpose disclosed when the information is collected or with appropriate authorization.

5. Artificial Intelligence and Automated Processing

Adelar uses software, artificial intelligence, machine learning, search tools, matching systems, and other automated processes to locate, organize, compare, classify, summarize, prioritize, and analyze information. These systems may generate identity associations, risk indicators, summaries, or other inferences. Depending on the Service purchased, human review may be included or available as an additional professional service.

Automated and human-assisted research can produce errors, omissions, outdated information, misleading summaries, or incorrect identity associations. Adelar does not make a customer’s final decision about a Research Subject. Customers are responsible for appropriate independent review, context, verification, legal compliance, and decision-making.

Adelar’s standard Services, including standard on-demand Services, are not designed or offered as consumer reports and may not be used to make eligibility determinations about individuals for employment, housing, credit, insurance, or any other purpose governed by the Fair Credit Reporting Act or analogous consumer-reporting laws, unless Adelar expressly authorizes that use under a separate written agreement structured for the applicable legal requirements.

We may use deidentified or aggregated information, service-quality metrics, user feedback, and test data to evaluate and improve the Services. Unless a customer expressly agrees otherwise, we do not intentionally permit a third-party artificial-intelligence provider to use nonpublic Customer Inputs or nonpublic Report content to train the provider’s general-purpose models for the provider’s independent purposes.

Where applicable law provides rights concerning certain automated decision-making or profiling, eligible individuals may exercise those rights as described in Section 12.

6. How We Disclose Personal Information

We may disclose Personal Information in the following circumstances:

6.1 To Customers and Authorized Recipients

A principal purpose of the Services is to deliver research and analysis to the customer that requested it. Reports may contain Research Subject Information and analytical output. Customers may provide access only to recipients authorized under the applicable customer agreement and only for the approved purpose.

6.2 To Service Providers, Contractors, and Subprocessors

We may disclose Personal Information to vendors and contractors that perform services for Adelar, such as cloud hosting, infrastructure, data storage, cybersecurity, identity and access management, communications, customer support, analytics, payment processing, accounting, legal services, research support, document processing, and artificial-intelligence or software functionality. These providers are permitted to process information only for the services they provide to us, subject to contractual and legal restrictions appropriate to their role.

6.3 To Data and Research Providers

We may disclose identifiers, search terms, or other limited information to public-record providers, licensed data providers, search services, archives, and research tools when necessary to locate, verify, or retrieve information requested through the Services. Their handling of information may also be governed by their own terms and privacy notices.

6.4 Within Our Corporate Organization and to Professional Advisers

We may disclose information to affiliates, personnel, auditors, insurers, lawyers, accountants, consultants, and other professional advisers where reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy and subject to confidentiality obligations.

6.5 For Legal, Safety, and Compliance Reasons

We may disclose information when we reasonably believe disclosure is necessary to comply with law, regulation, court order, subpoena, or other valid legal process; respond to a governmental or regulatory request; enforce our agreements; investigate or prevent fraud, misuse, prohibited activity, or security incidents; protect rights, safety, or property; or establish, exercise, or defend legal claims. Where legally permitted and reasonably practicable, we may notify an affected customer before disclosing the customer’s nonpublic information.

6.6 In a Business Transaction

We may disclose information in connection with an actual or proposed merger, acquisition, financing, investment, reorganization, bankruptcy, sale of assets, or similar transaction, subject to appropriate confidentiality and use restrictions.

6.7 At Your Direction or With Authorization

We may disclose information at the direction of the person or organization entitled to direct the disclosure, or for another purpose disclosed at the time of collection and authorized as required by law.

6.8 Deidentified or Aggregated Information

We may disclose information that has been aggregated or deidentified so that it cannot reasonably be linked to an identified or identifiable individual. We will not attempt to reidentify deidentified information except as permitted by law to test whether deidentification is effective.

7. Sale, Sharing, Targeted Advertising, and Research Reports

Adelar does not sell Customer Information for money and does not use Customer Information for cross-context behavioral advertising. We may disclose Customer Information to service providers and other recipients for the business purposes described in this Privacy Policy.

The core purpose of certain Adelar Services is to provide a requested Report to an authorized customer. A Report may contain Research Subject Information obtained from Customer Inputs, public sources, licensed sources, and Adelar’s analysis. Some state privacy laws define a “sale” of personal information broadly enough that a paid disclosure of Research Subject Information could be treated as a sale even when it occurs as part of a bespoke research or intelligence service. To the extent such a disclosure is treated as a sale under applicable law, eligible individuals may exercise an opt-out right as described in Section 12, subject to applicable exemptions and limitations.

Adelar does not knowingly sell or share for cross-context behavioral advertising the Personal Information of individuals under 16 years of age. We do not use Sensitive Personal Information for targeted advertising. We process or disclose Sensitive Personal Information only when reasonably necessary for an approved Service, pursuant to lawful customer instructions, and permitted by applicable law; we do not sell Sensitive Personal Information where prohibited by law.

Where required by law, we recognize applicable browser-based universal opt-out signals, such as the Global Privacy Control, for the browser or device from which the signal is sent. Because we may need additional information to identify Research Subject Information maintained in our systems, a universal signal may not by itself enable us to locate all information associated with a particular person.

8. Data Retention

We retain Personal Information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including providing the Services, honoring the applicable customer plan or order, maintaining business and transaction records, enforcing agreements, protecting security, resolving disputes, correcting reports, complying with source restrictions, and meeting legal, tax, accounting, and regulatory obligations.

Retention depends on the category and context of the information, including:

the length and nature of the customer relationship;
the service level, Report-access period, or retention period stated in the applicable order or plan;
whether information is needed to complete, correct, defend, or document a Report or engagement;
the sensitivity of the information and the risk of harm from continued retention;
source-provider contractual restrictions;
applicable statutes of limitation and legal, accounting, tax, compliance, and security obligations; and
backup, archival, disaster-recovery, and deletion cycles.

For certain on-demand or foundational offerings, a Report may be available to the customer through the portal for only 30 days. Expiration of portal access does not necessarily mean that every related record is immediately deleted. We may retain limited order, payment, acceptance, delivery, security, correction, and compliance records for longer periods where reasonably necessary and permitted by law.

When Personal Information is no longer required, we delete it, deidentify it, or place it beyond practical use in accordance with our retention processes.

9. Security

We use commercially reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect Personal Information against unauthorized access, acquisition, use, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. Measures may include access controls, authentication, encryption in transit or at rest where appropriate, logging, vendor review, personnel confidentiality obligations, security monitoring, backup controls, incident-response procedures, and data-minimization practices.

No system, transmission method, or storage environment is completely secure. We therefore cannot guarantee absolute security. Customers are responsible for safeguarding their credentials, devices, downloaded Reports, and copies shared with authorized recipients, and should promptly notify us of suspected unauthorized access or misuse.

10. Cookies and Similar Technologies

We and our technology providers may use cookies and similar technologies to:

enable essential website, portal, authentication, and security functions;
remember preferences and improve functionality;
understand traffic, usage, errors, and performance; and
protect against fraud, abuse, and unauthorized activity.

You may control cookies through your browser settings and any consent-management tools we make available. Disabling certain cookies may affect website or Service functionality. Browser “Do Not Track” signals are not interpreted consistently across the industry. We respond to legally recognized universal opt-out signals where required, as described in Section 7.

Our website or Services may link to third-party sites or integrate third-party tools. Their privacy practices are governed by their own policies, not this Privacy Policy.

11. Communications and Marketing Choices

We may send service-related communications that are necessary to administer an account, order, Report, security event, or customer relationship. You generally cannot opt out of essential transactional or security communications while maintaining an active relationship with us.

You may unsubscribe from promotional email by using the unsubscribe link in the message or contacting us. We may retain limited information necessary to honor an opt-out request.

12. Privacy Rights and Requests

Depending on where you reside and the law that applies, you may have the right to:

confirm whether we process Personal Information about you;
access or obtain a copy of Personal Information we maintain about you;
correct inaccurate Personal Information;
delete Personal Information, subject to legal exceptions;
obtain certain information in a portable format;
opt out of the sale of Personal Information, targeted advertising, or certain profiling;
limit certain uses or disclosures of sensitive Personal Information;
withdraw consent where processing is based on consent;
obtain information about certain automated processing where required by law; and
appeal a decision we make concerning a privacy request.

12.1 How to Submit a Request

You may submit a request by:

emailing info@adelarintel.com with the subject line “Privacy Request”; or
writing to Adelar Intel, LLC, Attn: Privacy, 1030 15th Street NW, Suite 595, Washington, DC 20005.

Please describe the right you wish to exercise and provide enough information for us to identify the relevant records and verify your identity. For a Research Subject request, helpful information may include your full name, state of residence, current and prior professional affiliations, relevant aliases, and the context in which you believe Adelar may have processed information about you.

Do not send a full Social Security number, account password, or other unnecessary highly sensitive information.

12.2 Verification, Authorized Agents, and Response Process

We may take reasonable steps to verify your identity and authority before acting on a request. The verification information we request will depend on the nature and sensitivity of the information and the risk of unauthorized access or deletion. We may request proof that an authorized agent is permitted to act on your behalf and may also verify your identity directly.

We will respond within the period required by applicable law. If we need additional time, we will provide notice where required. We do not charge a fee for ordinary requests, but applicable law may permit a reasonable fee or refusal for requests that are manifestly unfounded, excessive, repetitive, or technically infeasible.

12.3 Limitations and Exceptions

Privacy rights are not absolute. We may deny or limit a request where permitted by law, including when:

we cannot verify the requester’s identity or authority;
the information is public, deidentified, privileged, confidential, subject to trade-secret protection, or maintained solely on behalf of a customer;
disclosure would adversely affect another person’s rights, privacy, or safety;
retention is required for security, fraud prevention, legal claims, contracts, accounting, or compliance; or
another legal exemption applies.

A request to delete or opt out may not prevent us or our customers from independently obtaining information from public sources, government records, or other lawful sources. We may retain a limited suppression record to help honor an opt-out or deletion request.

If we act solely as a service provider or processor for a customer, we may direct your request to that customer or assist the customer as required by law and contract.

12.4 Appeals

If we deny your request, you may appeal by emailing info@adelarintel.com with the subject line “Privacy Appeal” and explaining why you believe the decision should be reconsidered. We will review and respond within the time required by applicable law. Where applicable, our response will explain how you may contact the appropriate state regulator or attorney general.

12.5 Nondiscrimination

We will not unlawfully discriminate against you for exercising an applicable privacy right. This does not prevent us from limiting or denying a Service when the information is reasonably necessary to provide that Service or when required or permitted by law.

13. Additional Disclosures for Residents of Certain U.S. States

For residents of states with comprehensive privacy laws, the categories of Personal Information we may have collected during the preceding 12 months are described in Sections 2 and 3. The sources are described in Section 3; business and commercial purposes are described in Section 4; and the categories of recipients are described in Section 6.

Depending on the Service and lawful scope, the statutory categories may include:

identifiers;
customer-record information;
commercial and transaction information;
internet or electronic-network activity;
approximate geolocation;
professional, employment, educational, political, organizational, and public-record information;
audio, visual, or communications information;
sensitive Personal Information; and
inferences.

We may disclose these categories to service providers and contractors for the business purposes described in this Privacy Policy. We may also disclose relevant Research Subject Information and inferences to the customer that requested the Report and its authorized recipients.

As explained in Section 7, we do not sell Customer Information for money or share Customer Information for cross-context behavioral advertising. To the extent applicable law characterizes a customer Report as a sale of Research Subject Information, eligible individuals may opt out by submitting a request under Section 12.

We use and disclose sensitive Personal Information only as reasonably necessary to provide requested Services, maintain security and integrity, prevent fraud and misuse, comply with law, or for other purposes permitted by applicable law. Eligible residents may request limitation of additional uses where the law provides that right.

14. Children and Minors

The website and customer-facing Services are intended for adults acting for legitimate business or professional purposes and are not directed to children under 18. We do not knowingly allow a child to create an account or purchase Services.

Customers may not order research concerning a minor unless Adelar expressly approves the order for a lawful professional purpose and appropriate safeguards are in place. If we learn that we collected Customer Information directly from a child in violation of applicable law, we will take reasonable steps to delete it.

15. International Data Transfers

Adelar is based in the United States, and Personal Information may be processed in the United States and other countries where our service providers operate. Those countries may have privacy laws that differ from the laws where you live. Where required, we use recognized contractual or other safeguards for international transfers.

If privacy law in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, or Switzerland applies to our processing, our legal bases may include performance of a contract, compliance with legal obligations, consent where required, and our or a customer’s legitimate interests in providing secure research, due-diligence, reputational-intelligence, and related services, balanced against applicable individual rights.

Where Personal Information is treated as special-category data, we process it only when an additional condition permitted by applicable law applies. You may have the right to contact a data-protection authority in your jurisdiction.

16. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in our Services, practices, technology, legal requirements, or other factors. We will post the revised policy and update the “Last Updated” date.

If a change is material, we may provide additional notice through the website, account, portal, or email where appropriate. The revised policy applies from its stated effective date.

17. Contact Us

Questions, concerns, and privacy requests may be directed to:

Adelar Intel, LLC
Attn: Privacy
1030 15th Street NW, Suite 595
Washington, DC 20005
Email: info@adelarintel.com
Telephone: 410-227-4873