Privacy Policy

hcfcorp.com
Last Updated 05 October 2023

This privacy statement (also referred to as HCF’s Privacy Policy explains our privacy practices for our persons who use our website www.hcfcorp.com (Our Site)

HCF’s Commitment to Privacy

We respect your right to privacy. We do not sell, rent, share or disclose personal information to third parties without your prior consent, except in the circumstances described in this Privacy Statement. In addition, your ability to make informed choices about the uses of your information is important to us. This privacy statement explains our policy regarding the collection, use, disclosure and protection of personal information.

 

A. What is Personal Information?

Personal information is information that identifies an individual or that can be reasonably associated with a specific person or entity, such as a name, contact information, Internet (IP) address and information about an individual’s purchases and online shopping.

 

B. Collection of Personal Information

We collect no personal information about you when you visit Our Site unless otherwise stated or unless you choose to provide this information to us. However, we automatically collect some information when you visit our website, such as your computer’s IP address and operating system, the site from which you linked to us, your site activity, the time and date of your visit, and your purchases. This information may be collected through the use of “cookies” and web beacons (see Online Specifics below). We also receive information from third parties who help us correct our records and prevent fraud. We may combine any of this information with the other personal information we maintain about you.

 

C. Use of Personal Information by HCF

The personal information we collect is generally used to process your requests or transactions, provide you with high-quality service, tell you about opportunities we think will be of interest and administer your account, including distribution of our own surveys and publications. For example, we may:
– Send personalized messages to your specific questions;
– Provide you with information about services and products that we believe may be of interest to you offered by HCF and reputable third-party companies; and
– Utilize web site-based services

If you prefer not to receive Promotional Information from us, let us know. You may contact us at any time to decline Promotional Information.

 

D. Sharing of Personal Information

We may contract with others to perform services on our behalf. For example, we might retain companies or individuals to in part or in total complete contracted work, process credit card payments, distribute emails, process rebates or analyze data. If any of these subcontractors or service providers need access to your personal information, we require them to use it only to perform the services for us. We also require that they maintain the confidentiality of the information and/or return the information to us when they no longer need it.

 

E. Other Uses and Disclosures

In addition, we may use or disclose personal information in the good faith belief that we are lawfully authorized to do so, or that doing so is reasonably necessary to protect you, to comply with legal process or authorities, to respond to any claims, or to protect the rights, property or personal safety of HCF, our employees or the public. Personal information may be disclosed or transferred as part of, or during negotiations of, any merger or sale of company assets or acquisition.

 

F. Protection of Personal and Credit Card Information

We have physical, administrative and technical security measures in place to protect personal information from loss, misuse or alteration while it is under our control. We are required to collect, process and maintain payment card information in accordance with the data security rules adopted by credit card companies such as Visa, MasterCard and American Express. This means that we do not retain debit card PINs or credit card security codes, and that any time we maintain a credit card number, such as when you create an online account, we must limit access to it and use strong encryption to protect it.

 

G. Online Specifics

1. Information Gathering and Use

We use cookies. Cookies are small files that are stored on your computer. They enable us to monitor online activity. We use this information to help optimize your experience. For example, we may customize our home page for you, better display pages according to your browser type, and/or deliver customized product recommendations and email. We also allow third-parties who provide us with analytics services to place cookies on our site for that purpose. Information gathered using these cookies helps us improve your user experience, the performance of our site and our site optimization activities. This information is not maintained in a way that can be associated with any personal information. Cookies are not spyware, and HCF does not collect multi-site data or share personal information with others that we gather through cookies. Currently our site does not respond to “Do Not Track” features enabled through your browser.

Like most web sites, our servers log your IP address, the URL from which you accessed our site, your browser type, and the date and time of your purchases and other activities. We use this information for system administration, troubleshooting, fraud investigation and communications from HCF (only).

Finally, we use web beacons to determine when and how many times a page has been viewed. Again, we use this information for our own marketing purposes.

Your browser will accept cookies and allow automatic collection of information unless you change the browser default settings. If cookies are disabled, the web site will not load properly.

2. Links to Other Sites

From our web site you can link to websites of third parties who we allow to offer goods and services or who provide functions and amenities to our site, such as product information and reviews. If it is not clear from the context that you are being directed to a third-party site, we endeavor to notify you that you are visiting a site where a different privacy policy applies. In general, any personal information you provide on the linked pages is provided directly to that third party and is subject to that third party’s privacy policy. We are not responsible for the content or privacy and security practices and policies of websites to which we link. We encourage you to learn about their privacy and security practices and policies before providing them with personal information.

 

H. Apps/Mobile Specifics

SMS (Text) Messages
We will send you SMS (text) communications only if you consent to receive them. We may send you information customized based on your area code, but we do not automatically collect any information that discloses your physical location.

 

J. Changes to this Statement

We may change this privacy statement at any time but will alert you that changes have been made by indicating at the top of the privacy statement the date it was last updated. We encourage you to review our privacy statement to make sure you understand how your personal information will be used.