Personal data
Privacy policy
Version 1.1 · 12 October 2026 · English translation for information; the French version prevails · Draft subject to legal review
1. Data controller
SPARKMOTION AGENCY LTD, a company registered in England and Wales (no. 16880032), Dept 6341, 43 Owston Road, Carcroft, Doncaster, DN6 8DA, United Kingdom, which operates the Avitime brand.
Contact: contact@avitime.fr · Representative in the European Union: to be appointed
2. Data collected
- Testers: first name, last name, email address, phone number where needed, age range, interests, answers to the questionnaire and admission test, delivery address (at the time of a mission), date of birth and tax identification number (before the first order), value of products received, mission history, reviews, photos and videos, reports and messages.
- Merchants: identity of the business and its representatives, business contact details, billing data, store data needed for the service (products, test orders, shipping statuses).
- All users: login and browsing data (IP address, technical logs), fraud-prevention signals.
Avitime does not read or store the personal data of a store’s other customers.
3. Purposes and legal bases
| Purpose | Legal basis |
|---|---|
| Create and manage accounts, admit testers | Performance of the contract |
| Select testers, manage missions, send reminders | Performance of the contract |
| Send the delivery address to the store for shipping | Performance of the contract |
| Publish reviews, photos and videos | Performance of the contract; consent for media |
| Prevent and detect fraud, check the authenticity of reviews | Legitimate interest and legal obligations on online reviews |
| Invoice merchants, keep accounts | Legal obligation |
| Report each year to the tax authorities the value of products received by testers and send them the summary | Legal obligation (reporting obligations of platform operators) |
| Send invitations to test by email | Consent |
| Measure website audience | Consent |
4. Recipients
- Authorised Avitime staff.
- The store concerned by a mission, which receives only the tester’s name and delivery address, to ship the order.
- Avitime’s technical service providers (hosting and email: Hostinger; payment: Stripe for PrestaShop and WooCommerce stores, Shopify Billing for Shopify stores), bound by confidentiality.
- The tax authorities, for the annual report of the value of products received by testers.
- Public authorities, where required by law.
Published reviews are visible to the public, under a pseudonym or first name.
5. Transfers
Avitime is operated from the United Kingdom, which benefits from an adequacy decision of the European Commission. Any other transfer is made with the safeguards provided by applicable law. To be verified: providers’ safeguards
6. Retention periods
| Data | Period |
|---|---|
| User account | For as long as it is used; after 3 years without login, the account is disabled and address, phone and date of birth are erased |
| Unconfirmed sign-up | Deleted within 30 days; immediately for a minor |
| Delivery address and phone | While the tester account is active (for future missions), stored encrypted; technical copies sent to stores erased after 30 days |
| Published reviews, photos and videos | For as long as they are published |
| Billing data | Period required by applicable law |
| Technical logs and anti-fraud signals | 12 months |
| Emails sent by the platform | 90 days |
| Tax identity and value of products received | 10 years after the year of the report |
These periods are applied automatically.
7. Automated decisions
The admission test is marked automatically, and tester selection combines automatic criteria with a random draw. Anyone may ask for human intervention, express their point of view and contest a decision concerning them, in particular a refused admission or an exclusion.
8. Your rights
You have the right to access, rectify, erase, restrict, object to and port your data, to withdraw your consent at any time and to set instructions on what happens to your data after your death. To exercise them: contact@avitime.fr. You may also lodge a complaint with the French data protection authority (CNIL, www.cnil.fr) or the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ico.org.uk).
9. Security
Avitime applies appropriate measures: encryption in transit (HTTPS), encryption at rest of sensitive data (addresses, phone numbers, tax numbers, tracking numbers, store access keys), access control, single-use order links, logging of sensitive actions and backups. Card data is processed exclusively by the payment provider.
10. Cookies
Cookies required for the site to work (login, security, language) are set without consent. Audience measurement cookies are only set with your agreement, which you can withdraw at any time.
11. Minors
The testing programme is reserved for adults. The data of a minor who tries to sign up is deleted.