Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

This Privacy Policy describes how HData collects and uses Personal Data about you through the use of the Website, and through email, text, and other electronic communications between you and HData, including our applications on third-party websites and services if these include links to our Privacy Policy.

HData, Inc. (“HData”, “we,” “our” or “us”) respects your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this Privacy Policy.

This Privacy Policy (our “Privacy Policy”) describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit www.hdata.us (the “Website”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information. This Privacy Policy also informs you of your rights and choices with respect to the personal information we collect about you.

Our Privacy Policy does not apply to information collected by:

us through any other means, including on any other website operated by HData or any third-party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries); or
any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries), including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from the Website.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use the Website. By accessing or using the Website, you agree to this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of the Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check this Privacy Policy periodically for updates.

2. Children Under the Age of 18

The Website is not intended for children under the age of 18 and children under the age of 18 are not permitted to use the Website. We will remove any information about a child under the age of 18 if we become aware of it.

The Website is not intended for children under 18 years of age. No one under age 18 may provide any information to the Website. We do not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under 18. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on the Website or on or through any of its features, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received Personal Data from a child under 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from a child under 18, please contact us at info@hdata.us.

3. Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

We collect different types of information about you, including information that may directly identify you, information that is about you but individually does not personally identify you, and information that we combine with our other users. This includes information that we collect directly from you or through automated collection technologies.

Generally

We collect several types of information from and about users of the Website (“Personal Data”):

by which you may be personally identified, such as name and e-mail address;
that is about you but individually does not identify you, such as traffic data, location data, logs, referring/exit pages, date and time of your visit to the Website, error information, clickstream data, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website; and/or
about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access the Website and usage details.

We collect this information:

directly from you when you provide it to us;
automatically as you navigate through the Website. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies and other tracking technologies; and
From third parties, for example, our other members, affiliates and business partners who use the Website and who may enter your Personal Data onto the Website.

Information You Provide to Us

The information we collect on or through the Website is:

information that you provide by filling in forms on the Website. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use the Website, posting material, or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with the Website;
records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us; and
your search queries on the Website.

The Personal Data we collect from you is required to enter into a contract with HData, for HData to perform under the contract, and to provide you with our products and services. If you refuse to provide such Personal Data or withdraw your consent to our processing of Personal Data, then in some cases we may not be able to enter into the contract or fulfill our obligations to you under it.

You also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, “posted”) on public areas of the Website or transmitted to other users of the Website or third parties (collectively, “User Contributions”). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Although you may set certain privacy settings for such information by directing the postings to certain users, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Website with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies

As you navigate through and interact with the Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns:

details of your visits to the Website. We collect traffic data, location data, logs, referring/exit pages, date and time of your visit to the Website, error information, clickstream data, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website; and
Information about your computer and internet connection, i.e. your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

The information we collect automatically may include Personal Data, but we may maintain it or associate it with Personal Data or other data we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve the Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service by enabling us to:

estimate our audience size and usage patterns;
store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Websites according to your individual interests;
speed up your searches; and
recognize you when you return to the Website.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

Cookies (or browser cookies). We and our service providers may use cookies, web beacons, and other technologies to receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with the Website through your computer or mobile device. A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer or mobile device. On your computer, you may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser, and you may have similar capabilities on your mobile device in the preferences for your operating system or browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of the Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser or operating system setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to the Website.

Information From Third Parties

We may obtain information about you from other sources, including through third party services and organizations to supplement information provided by you. This supplemental information allows us to verify information provided to us and to enhance our ability to provide you with the services.

4. How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any Personal Data to:

provide the Website and their contents to you;
provide you with information and services you request from us;
enforce our rights arising from contracts;
notify you about changes; and
to fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it. For example, if you direct us to send User Contributions to another user we will also disclose your identity to that user;
to carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us or your employer and us, including for billing and collection;
to notify you about changes to the Website or any products or services we offer or provide though them;
to maintain, secure, or improve the Website and services;
to respond to your questions or inquiries;
to undertake activities to verify or maintain the quality or safety of a service or device that is owned, manufactured, manufactured for, or controlled by you, and to improve, upgrade, enhance the service or device that is owned, manufactured, manufactured for, or controlled by you.
in any other way we may describe when you provide the information; and
for any other purpose with your consent.

We may also use your information to contact you about goods and services that may be of interest to you, including through newsletters. If you wish to opt-out of receiving such communications, you may do so at any time by clicking unsubscribe at the bottom of these communications. For more information, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.

5. Disclosure of Your Information

We do not share, sell, or otherwise disclose your Personal Data for purposes other than those outlined in this Privacy Policy. We disclose your Personal Data to a few third parties, including:

our business partners who operate third party applications available through the Website;
our subsidiaries and our affiliates;
our third-party service providers that we use to support our business;
other users of the Website, when you direct us to do so;
to a company we merge, acquire, or that buys us, or in the event of change in structure of our company of any form;
to comply with our legal obligations;
to enforce our rights; and
with your consent.

We do not share, sell, or otherwise disclose your Personal Data for purposes other than those outlined in this Privacy Policy. However, we may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.

We may disclose Personal Data that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

to business partners who operate third party applications available through the Website, including Idaciti, Inc.
to our subsidiaries and affiliates;
to contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business. These entities provide IT and infrastructure support services and marketing and advertising services;
to a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of HData’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Data held by HData’s about theWebsite users is among the assets transferred;
to third parties to market their products or services to you if you have not opted out of these disclosures. For more information, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information;
to fulfill the purpose for which you provide it. For example, if you ask us to send your User Contributions to another user of the Website, we will transmit the contents of those User Contributions and your email address to the recipients;
for any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information; and
with your consent.

We may also disclose your Personal Data:

to comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request;
to enforce or apply our terms of use (https://www.fercpro.us/terms-of-use) and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes; and
if we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of HData, our customers, or others.

6. Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

We offer you choices on how you can opt out of our use of tracking technology, disclosure of your Personal Data for third-parties to advertise to you, our advertising to you, and other targeted advertising.

We do not control the collection and use of your information collected by third parties described above in Disclosure of Your Information. When possible, these organizations are under contractual obligations to use this data only for providing the services to us and to maintain this information strictly confidential. These third parties may, however, aggregate the information they collect with information from their other customers for their own purposes.

In addition, we strive to provide you with choices regarding the Personal Data you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with control over your Personal Data:

Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
Disclosure of Your Information for Third-Party Advertising. Unless you opt-out, we may share your Personal Data with unaffiliated or non-agent third parties for promotional purposes. If you wish to opt-out of such use, you may do so at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the email.
Promotional Offers from HData. You may receive email from us for a variety of reasons; for example, if you took an action through the Website. If we have sent you a promotional email, you may unsubscribe by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the email. This opt out does not apply to information provided to HData for the processing of a service or other transaction.

You can learn more about interest-based advertisements and your opt-out rights and options from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) on its website (www.networkadvertising.org) and from members of the Digital Advertising Alliance on its website (www.aboutads.info). We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can also opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the NAI on its website.

7. Correcting Your Information

You may update your Personal Data by logging into the Website and updating your contact information.

You can review and change your Personal Data by contacting us at info@hdata.us. We may also not be able to accommodate your request if we believe it would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

8. Do Not Track Signals

We may use automated data collection technologies to track you across websites. We currently do not honor do-not-track signals that may be sent by some browsers.

We also may use automated data collection technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking). Some web browsers permit you to broadcast a signal to websites and online services indicating a preference that they “do not track” your online activities. At this time, we do not honor such signals and we do not modify what information we collect or how we use that information based upon whether such a signal is broadcast or received by us.

9. Data Security

Information transmitted over the Internet is not completely secure, but we do our best to protect your Personal Data. You can help protect your Personal Data and other information by keeping your password to the Website confidential.

We have implemented measures designed to secure your Personal Data from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of the Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Data transmitted to the Website. Any transmission of Personal Data is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.

10. Data Retention Periods

We retain your Personal Data for as long as you keep your account open. In some instances, we may keep it after you close your account, for example we may keep it:

on our backup and disaster recovery systems;
for as long as necessary to protect our legal interests; and
and to comply with other legal requirements.

HData will retain your Personal Data for the entire time that you keep your account open. After you close your account, we may retain your Personal Data:

for as long as necessary to comply with any legal requirement;
on our backup and disaster recovery systems in accordance with our backup and disaster recovery policies and procedures;
for as long as necessary to protect our legal interests or otherwise pursue our legal rights and remedies; and
for data that has been aggregated or otherwise rendered anonymous in such a manner that you are no longer identifiable, indefinitely.

11. Changes to Our Privacy Policy

We will post any changes to our Privacy Policy on the Website. If we make material changes to our Privacy Policy, we may notify you of such changes through your contact information and invite you to review the changes.

We may change this Privacy Policy at any time. It is our policy to post any changes we make to our Privacy Policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ Personal Data, we will notify you by email to the email address specified in your account and/or through a notice on the Website’s home page. The date this Privacy Policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting the Website and this Privacy Policy to check for any changes.

12. Contact Information

If you wish to contact us, you must contact us through the contact information below.

If you have any questions, concerns, complaints or suggestions regarding our Privacy Policy, have any requests related to your Personal Data pursuant to applicable laws, or otherwise need to contact us, you must contact us at:

To Contact HData

HData, Inc.

15952 S. Windmill Drive

Lockport, IL 60491

312-493-7533

info@hdata.us