Thank you for choosing to be part of our community here at HITHR. You could have been anywhere in the world, but you’re here with us. We appreciate that.
This privacy policy governs your use of the HITHR website and mobile applications (
“Website”,
“Application”,
“App”). We are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy notice, or our practices with regards to your personal information, please contact us at
info@hithr.io. We want to make sure we’re communicating with you and treating you with all the honesty and respect you deserve.
When you visit our website at
http://hithr.io (the “Website”), use our mobile application, or any of our services (the
“Services”, which include usage of the Website, the App, our Newsletters, Bots, and interactive tools), we appreciate that you are trusting us to help you find the information you’re searching for and the data that is generated from such activities.
We take your privacy very seriously, and we want to make one thing very clear:
We do not collect or distribute any data that makes any of our visitors personally identifiable.
Even with future updates to our privacy policy, we’ll stand by this important rule. This privacy notice applies to all information collected through our Services, as well as any related services, sales, or marketing initiatives conducted by HITHR, Inc.
In this notice, we’ll explain what information we do collect, how we use it, and what rights you have in relation to it. We hope you take some time to read through it carefully, and if there are any terms in this privacy notice that you do not agree with, please contact us at
info@hithr.io to share your thoughts and concerns. If your correspondence leads to policy change for us, we’ll update our policy and announce the changes via email.
Please read this privacy notice carefully to understand the information we collect and the ways we utilize that information to drive our Services.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
2. HOW DO WE USE COLLECTED INFORMATION?
3. WILL COLLECTED INFORMATION BE SHARED OR SOLD TO THIRD PARTIES?
4. POLICY ON WEBSITE VISITORS UNDER THE AGE OF 13.
5. PROTECTION OF CONFIDENTIALITY AND INFORMATION SECURITY. NOTICE OF UPDATES TO OUR POLICIES.
WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
User Provided Information Our software obtains some of the information you provide when you create an account or download and register the Application.When you create an account and register with us we collect demographic information (i.e. your username, age range, “home” city, gender, interest in certain hobbies/activities,etc.) and the email information you provide us when you contact us for help.
We may also use the information you provided us to contact you from time to time to provide you with updates to our policies and/or services, required notices, and marketing promotions.
Automatically Collected Information Short Answer:
Some Information - such as your geo-location, push notifications, and/or browser and device characteristics - is collected automatically when you visit our Services.
We automatically collect certain information when you visit, use, or navigate our Services. This information does not reveal your specific identity (like your name or contact information) but may include device and usage information, such as your browser and device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, device name, country, location, information about how and when you use our Services and other technical information.
This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our Services, and for our internal analytics and reporting purpose.
Geo-Location Information:
We may request access or permission to and track location-based information from your mobile device, either continuously or while you are using our services, to provide certain location-based services. If you wish to change our access or permissions, you may do so in your device’s settings.
Mobile Device Access:
We may request access to permission to certain features from your mobile device, including your mobile device’s bluetooth, calendar, camera, contacts, reminders, sms messages, social media accounts, and other features. If you wish to change our access or permissions, you may do so in your device’s settings.
Push Notifications:
We may request to send you push notifications regarding your account or certain features of the Service. If you wish to opt-out from receiving these types of communications, you may turn them off in your device’s settings. Any information collected through cookies and similar technologies will require your permission before we proceed with any data collection process.
HOW DO WE USE COLLECTED INFORMATION?
Short Answer: We use this information to provide you with safe, accurate information you can use in real-time, while providing information about how people are engaging with the vendors, events, activities for our team to organize, analyze, and synthesize into information the experience, event, and activity providers can use to make better experiences available to you.We use the information we collect or receive in order to:
Facilitate Account Creation and Login Process. If you choose to link your account with us to a third-party account (such as your Google or Facebook account), we use the information you allowed us to collect from those third parties to facilitate account creation and login process for the performance of the contract.
Post Testimonials. We post testimonials on our Services that will not contain your personally identifiable information. Prior to posting a testimonial, we will obtain your consent to use your username or an alias and the content of the testimonial.
If at any point you wish to update or delete your testimonial, please contact us at info@hithr.io.
Request Feedback. We may use your information to request feedback and to contact you about your use of our Services.
Enable User-to-User Communications. We may use your information to enable user-to-user communication with each user’s consent.
Manage User Accounts. We may use your information for the purposes of managing our account and keeping it in working order.
Send Administrative Information to You. We may use your information to send you product, service, and new feature information and/or information about changes to our terms, conditions, and policies.
Protect Our Services. We may use our information as part of our efforts to keep our Services safe and secure (for example, for fraud monitoring and prevention).
Enforce Our Terms, Conditions, and Policies for Business Purposes. Respond to Legal Requests and Prevent Harm. If we receive a subpoena or other legal requests, we may need to inspect the data we hold to determine how to respond.
Fulfill and Manage Your Inquiries. We may use your information to manage the responses to searches and inquiries you make while using our Services.
Administer Prize Draws and Competitions. We may use your information to administer prize draws and competitions when you elect to participate in our competitions.
Respond to Inquiries/Offer Support to Users. We may use your information to respond to your inquiries and solve any potential issues you might have with the use of our Services.
Send You Marketing and Promotional Communications. We and/or our third-party marketing partners may use the information you send us for marketing purposes, if and only if, this is in accordance with the preferences you manage in your settings.
For example, when expressing an interest in obtaining information about us or our Services, subscribing to marketing or otherwise contracting us, we will collect the information you share with us. You can opt out of our marketing emails or unsubscribe from our calendars and email notifications at any time.
Deliver Targeted Advertising to You. We may use a combination of your demographic information and shared information to develop and share personalized content and advertising, tailored to your interests and/or location to measure its effectiveness.
WILL INFORMATION BE COLLECTED OR SHARED WITH THIRD PARTIES?
Do third parties see and/or have access to information obtained by the Application?Short Answer: Yes, but we only share information with your consent in order to comply with laws, to provide you with services, to protect your rights, or to offer our Services.
We may process or share your data that we hold based on the following legal basis:
Consent: We may process your data if you have given us specific consent to use your information for a specific purpose.
Legitimate Interests: We may process your data when it is reasonably necessary to fulfill our Services, such as accessing your geo-location in order to give you real-time information about what events, promotions, or engagements are happening in your location.
Performance of a Contract: Where we have entered into a contract with you, we may process your information to fulfill the terms of our contract.
Legal Obligations: We may disclose your information where we are legally required to do so in order to comply with applicable law, lawful governmental requests, judicial proceedings, court orders, or legal process, such as in response to a court order or a subpoena (including in response to public authorities to meet national security requirements).
Vital Interests: We may disclose your information where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding potential violations of our policies, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person and illegal activities, or as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.
Business Partners and Verified Affiliates: We may share your information with our business partners and/or affiliates to offer you certain products, services, promotions, or notifications about any of the aforementioned offerings.
We require our partners, affiliates, our parent company, subsidiaries, joint venture partners, and other companies that are under common control with us to honor this privacy notice.
Offer Wall: Our Services may display a third-party-hosted “offer wall.” Such an offer wall allows third-party advertisers to offer virtual currency, gifts, or other items to users in return for the acceptance and completion of an advertisement offer. Such an offer wall may appear in any of our Services and may be displayed to you based on certain data, such as your geographic area or demographic information.
Merger or Acquisition: If HITHR, Inc. is involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, you will be notified via email and/or a prominent notice on our website and via email (if you have provided your email information or subscribed to our newsletters) of any change in ownership or uses of this information, as well as any choices you may have regarding this information.
PROTECTION OF CONFIDENTIALITY AND INFORMATION SECURITY.
What are my opt-out/opt-in rights? You can unsubscribe from our marketing email list at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link in the emails that we send or by contacting us using the details provided below.
You will then be removed from the marketing email list - however, we may still communicate with you, for example to send you service-related emails that are necessary for the administration and use of your account, to respond to service requests, or for other non-marketing purposes.
To otherwise opt-out, you may:
1.) Access your account settings and update your preferences
2.) You can also request to opt-out via email, at
info@hithr.io.
Data Retention Policy, Managing Your Information
We will retain User Provided data for as long as you use the Application and for a reasonable time thereafter. We will retain Automatically Collected information for up to 24 months and thereafter may store it in aggregate. If you’d like us to delete User Provided Data that you have provided via the Application, please contact us at
info@hithr.io and we will respond in a reasonable time. Please note that some or all of the User Provided Data may be required in order for the Application to function properly.
California Residents Privacy Rights
California Civil Code Section 1782.83, also known as the “Shine The Light” law, permits our users who are California residents to request and obtain from us, once a year and free of charge, information about categories of personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared personal information in the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request in writing to us using the contact information provided below. If you are under 18 years of age, reside in California, and have a registered account with a Service, you have the right to request removal of unwanted data that you publicly post on the Services. To request removal of such data, please contact us using the contact information provided below, and include the email address associated with your account and a statement that you reside in California. We will make sure the data is not publicly displayed on the Services.
Security
We are concerned about safeguarding the confidentiality of your information. We provide physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect information we process and maintain. For example, we limit access to this information to authorized employees and contractors who need to know that information in order to operate, develop or improve our Application. Please be aware that, although we endeavor to provide reasonable security for information we process and maintain, no security system can prevent all potential security breaches.
POLICY ON WEBSITE USERS UNDER THE AGE OF 13
Children
We do not provide our services to knowingly solicit data from or market to children under the age of 13. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that their child has provided us with information without their consent, they should contact us at
info@hithr.io. We will delete such information from our files within a reasonable time.
NOTICE AND UPDATES TO OUR POLICIES
Changes
This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time for any reason. We will notify you of any changes to our Privacy Policy by posting the new Privacy Policy here and informing you via email or text message. You are advised to consult this Privacy Policy regularly for any changes, as continued use is deemed approval of all changes. You can check the history of this policy by clicking here.
Your Consent
By using the Application, you are consenting to our processing of your information as set forth in this Privacy Policy now and as amended by us. "Processing,” means using cookies on a computer/hand held device or using or touching information in any way, including, but not limited to, collecting, storing, deleting, using, combining and disclosing information, all of which activities will take place in the United States. If you reside outside the United States your information will be transferred, processed and stored there under United States privacy standards.
Contact Us
If you have any questions regarding privacy while using the Application, or have questions about our practices, please contact us via email at
info@hithr.io