Privacy policy.

Effective June 12, 2020

This website is owned and operated by HRV Marketing, hereafter referred to as “HRV,” “We,” “Us,” “Our” or “Company.” We understand visitors to our site may be concerned about the information they provide to Us, and how We treat this information. We’ve developed this Privacy Policy to address those concerns. We may update this Policy from time to time, and you are encouraged to periodically review the policy and note any changes.

We use your Personal data to provide and improve your browsing experience. By using this website, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

TYPES OF DATA COLLECTED

Personal Data
While using Our website, We may ask you to provide HRV with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Some of the personally identifiable information may be required to respond to your requests and contact you about your account, if necessary. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

  • email address

  • first name and last name

  • company name

  • phone number

  • address, state, province, ZIP/postal code, city

We may collect information you provide in the course of conducting business with you, such as your personal or professional interests, demographics, past experiences with products and services and detailed contact preferences.  

We may also collect publicly available information about you from other sources, such as information from newspapers, blogs, and commercial websites or third-party data aggregators. We may use such information to supplement your personally identifiable information maintained by Us. We may also collect personally identifiable information that you voluntarily disclose on the website, absent any request from Us.

We don't require you to register or provide this information to Us in order to view Our website or have access to its content.

Usage Data
Usage Data is collected automatically when visiting Our website. When you visit Our site, we automatically collect this information, and combine it with similar information collected about all other visitors. By collecting this information, we learn how to best tailor Our website to Our visitors. Usage Data may include information such as your device's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of Our website that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

When you access our website by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device you use, your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of your mobile device, your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser you use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

This website is not intended for persons under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly solicit or collect personal information from or about children, and We do not knowingly market Our products or services to children.

HOW INFORMATION IS COLLECTED

Personally-Identifiable Data Collection
Personally-identifiable information collected on Our website is provided by you directly when you provide it. Thus, when you register on the site, We collect the information you provide. When you enter a promotion, We collect the information needed for you to participate and for Us to fulfill our obligations to you.  When you e-mail Us, We collect the e-mail address you supply, so that We can respond.

Usage Data Collection and Analytics
We also collect aggregate, non-personal information on an ongoing basis when you view Our website. The collection of this non-personal information is done either through "cookie" technology or with "web beacons" (also called 'single-pixel gifs'), as explained below.

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data to power Our site analytics, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

  • Clicks

  • Internal links

  • Pages visited

  • Scrolling

  • Searches

  • Timestamps

Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.

We also share this information with Google, a third-party website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity. Please refer to the following link describing how Google uses data on partner’s sites or apps: www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/

Cookies
This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor access a website or app. They enhance your online experience by saving your preferences while you are visiting a particular site. The cookies do not contain are not used to obtain any personally-identifiable information and cannot profile your system or collect information from your hard drive.

Temporary cookies are used for purposes such as counting the number of visits to our sites. These temporary cookies are eliminated when you exit your browser. A permanent cookie may also be stored on your computer by your browser. When you log in, this type of cookie tells Us whether you've visited Us before or if you are a new visitor. The cookie doesn't obtain any personal information about you or provide Us with any way to contact you, and the cookie doesn't extract any information from your computer. We do use the cookie to help us identify site features and content in which you have the greatest interest, so that We can provide more of what you may want.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie is being sent. The "help" portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. Remember, however, that cookies allow you to take full advantage of all of Our website’s features. If you do not accept Cookies, you may not be able to use some parts of Our website.

Web Beacons
Web beacons are Internet instrumentation that helps Us to determine, for instance, whether a page has been viewed. When you ask Us to send you information on a promotion or newsletter, We may use web beacons to determine how many of the e-mails We sent were actually opened. In general, any electronic image viewed as part of a web page, including a banner ad, can act as a web beacon.

Third party advertising networks that serve ads onto any website may use cookies and/or web beacons in their advertisements. HRV retains no control over these third party cookies and/or web beacons and does not have access to whatever information they may collect on behalf of the third party. We do not partner with or have special relationships with any ad server companies. However, in addition, HRV may use cookies and/or web beacons when HRV advertises on other companies’ websites. Any information We gather in this way will be governed by this Privacy Policy.

Contests and Sweepstakes
Our site sometimes includes notices of promotions We are conducting, and We may permit you to enter electronically in some cases. If that occurs, We will use the information you provide for the purpose of conducting the promotion (e.g., to contact you if you're a winner). After the conclusion of the promotion, the personal information will remain in our database and be used to contact you again for other promotions and offers.

Questionnaires and Surveys
We may occasionally ask visitors to complete surveys and opinion polls about their attitudes and interests. Surveys help us to understand your needs. If sample answers to surveys are posted on the website, no personally identifiable information will be included. If you participate in one of our surveys, you can be assured that We do not maintain any personal information about you in our databases as a result of the survey.

HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

Our primary goal in collecting personal information is to give you a meaningful and customized experience while you are using Our website, social media pages or otherwise interacting with HRV.

The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:

  • To provide and maintain Our website, including to monitor the usage of Our website.

  • To manage your account: to manage your registration as a user of Our website. The Personal Data You provide can give you access to different functionalities of the site that are available to you as a registered user.

  • For the performance of a contract: the development, compliance and undertaking of the purchase contract for the products, items or services you have purchased or of any other contract with HRV.

  • To contact You: To contact you by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application's push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products or contracted services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.

  • To provide you with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which We offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about, unless you have opted not to receive such information.

  • To manage Your requests: To attend and manage your requests to Us.

We may share your personal information in the following situations:

  • With Service Providers:  We may share your personal information with service providers to monitor and analyze the use of Our website,  to contact you.

  • For Business transfers: We may share or transfer your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of Company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of Our business to another company.

  • With Affiliates: We may share your information with our HRV’s affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include Our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that We control or that are under common control with Us.

  • With Business partners: We may share your information with Our business partners to offer you certain products, services or promotions.

  • With other users: when you share personal information or otherwise interact in the public areas with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside. If you interact with other users or register through a Third-Party Social Media Service, your contacts on the Third-Party Social Media Service may see your name, profile, pictures and description of your activity. Similarly, other users will be able to view descriptions of your activity, communicate with you and view your profile.

 

RETENTION OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

HRV will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with Our legal obligations (for example, if We are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce Our legal agreements and policies. The Company will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of Our website, or We are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

 

DATA SHARING AND TRANSFER

We do not sell, transfer, or disclose the personally-identifiable information We gather on Our website to third parties, unless otherwise disclosed herein. Exceptions to this rule include: (1) We will disclose information in cases where We believe in good faith that it is necessary to prevent a crime or an injury to Ourselves or third parties or where otherwise required by law; and (2) We disclose information to third parties who provide support services to Us, as described above.

There may be times when We share usage data about Our visitors (for example, the percentage of male and female visitors to Our site) with advertisers, business partners, sponsors, and other third parties in an effort to customize or enhance the content and advertising of Our site for our users. We may also aggregate data from web log files (such as your web browser, operating system, pages visited, etc.) to understand how users navigate the site and what features are most popular.

Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company's operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information. The security of your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.

YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS (CALIFORNIA’S SHINE THE LIGHT LAW)

Under California Civil Code Section 1798 (California's Shine the Light law), California residents with an established business relationship with Us can request information once a year about sharing their Personal Data with third parties for the third parties' direct marketing purposes. If you'd like to request more information under the California Shine the Light law, and if you are a California resident, you can contact Us using the contact information provided below.

California Privacy Rights for Minor Users (California Business and Professions Code Section 22581)
California Business and Professions Code section 22581 allow California residents under the age of 18 who are registered users of online sites, services or applications to request and obtain removal of content or information they have publicly posted. To request removal of such data, and if you are a California resident, you can contact Us using the contact information provided below and include the email address associated with your account. Be aware that your request does not guarantee complete or comprehensive removal of content or information posted online and that the law may not permit or require removal in certain circumstances.

 

LINKS TO OTHER SITES

HRV’s website does its best to make sure that every link on Our website sends you to a helpful place on the Internet. However, websites and addresses change quickly, and We cannot guarantee the content of every site to which We provide a link. In addition, different websites have different privacy policies. You should always check the privacy policy of the specific site you're visiting to understand your rights. HRV is not responsible for the content, security or privacy practices employed by other sites.

 

CHOICE AND CONTROL OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We provide Our users a choice as to whether they would like to receive marketing or promotional communications. Users may also from time to time receive up-to-date information on products and services via e-mail communications.

You may unsubscribe from communications any time you would like, by simply clicking unsubscribe from any email program, or contacting Us via our Contact page on Our website.

 

UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY NOTICE

We may change or update portions of this Privacy Policy at any time and without prior notice to you. Changes to this Privacy Policy will be posted on this website. Please check back from time to time so you are aware of any changes or updates to the Policy, and so you may opt out of any new uses of your information. We will indicate the notice's effective date on the first page of the notice.

 

HOW TO CONTACT US

If you have any questions about Our Privacy Policy, you can contact Us via our website’s Contact page, or via our corporate address: 12004 Prails Mill Ln., Charlotte, NC 28262. We'll be happy to answer your questions or hear your concerns.