Privacy Policy

A. Introduction

1. For our company HIPE Single Member P.C., the privacy of our website visitors is very important and we are committed to protecting it. Our policy explains how we will use your personal information.
2. Your consent to the use of cookies in accordance with our policy during your first visit to the website allows us to use cookies each time you visit our site.

B. Collection of Personal Information

We ensure to collect only absolutely necessary data that are appropriate and clear for their intended purpose. The following types of personal information may be collected, stored, and used:

• Information related to your computer including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, and operating system.
• Information about your visits and use of the website including external sources, duration of the visit, page views, and navigation path on the website.
• Information such as your email address that you enter during registration on the website.
• Information you enter when creating your profile on our website—such as your name, profile photos, gender, date of birth, marital status, interests, hobbies, education information, and employment information.
• Information such as your name, email address, phone number, etc., that you enter when setting up your subscriptions and for sending emails and newsletters.
• Information you enter when using services on our website.
• Information that arises from your use of the website, such as when, how often, and under what conditions you use it.
• Information related to your purchases, services you use, and transactions you make on the website, including your name, address, phone number, email address, and credit/debit/prepaid card information.
• Information you disclose on the website with the intention of publication online, including your username, profile information, and the content of your posts.
• Website visitation details and other websites you visited before us.
• Information contained in any communications you send to us via email or through the website, including the content of communication and metadata.

Before disclosing any personal information of a third party, you must have their consent regarding the sharing and processing of their personal information, in accordance with this policy.

C. Use of Your Personal Information

The personal information submitted to us is used for the purposes defined by this policy on the relevant pages of the website. The collection and processing of your personal data are solely for fulfilling and supporting your orders, communicating with you, and enhancing your experience when using our website. We may use personal information for the following purposes:

• Managing our website and business operations.
• Personalizing the website for you.
• Enabling your use of the services available on our website.
• Sending you goods purchased through our website.
• Providing services purchased through our website.
• Sending statements, invoices, and payment reminders to you, as well as collecting payments from you.
• Sending non-marketing communications.
• Sending email notifications regarding your requests.
• Sending our newsletter via email if requested (you can inform us at any time if you no longer wish to receive the newsletter).
• Sending marketing communications related to our business or the businesses of specific third parties, if you have consented to it, via email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer wish to receive marketing communications).
• Providing user statistics to third parties (which will not be able to identify any user from this information).
• Managing requests and complaints submitted by you or related to your website.

Maintaining the security of the website and preventing fraud. Other uses.

If you submit personal information for posting on our website, we will publish or use this information in accordance with your authorization.

Your privacy settings can be used to limit the publication of your information on our website and can be adjusted using the privacy controls on the website.

We will not disclose your personal information without your consent to any third party or any commercial division of a third party.

D. Disclosure of Personal Information

We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers, or subcontractors as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

We may disclose your personal information:

• To the extent required by law.
• In connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings.
• To establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).
• To the buyer (or prospective buyer) of any business or asset that we are (or are contemplating) selling.

As stated in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.

E. International Data Transfers

The information we collect may be stored, processed, and transferred between any countries in which we operate to enable us to use the information in accordance with this policy.

These transfers of personal data are necessary for the purposes specified in this policy.

F. Retaining Personal Information

This section outlines our data retention policies and procedures, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal information.

Personal information that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.

G. Security of Your Personal Information

We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal information.

We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure (password- and firewall-protected) servers.

All electronic financial transactions entered into through our website will be protected by encryption technology.

You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.

You are responsible for keeping the password you use for accessing our website confidential; we will not ask you for your password (except when you log in to our website).

H. Amendments

We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website.

You should check this page occasionally to ensure you understand any changes to this policy.

We may notify you of changes to this policy by email or through the private messaging system on our website.

I. Your Rights

You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you; provision of such information will be subject to:

• The supply of appropriate evidence of your identity (for this purpose, we will usually accept a photocopy of your passport certified by a solicitor or bank plus an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address).

We may withhold personal information that you request to the extent permitted by law.

You may instruct us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.

In practice, you will usually either expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.

J. Third-Party Websites

Our website includes hyperlinks to, and details of, third-party websites.

We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of third parties.

K. Updating Information

Please let us know if the personal information that we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.

L. Cookies

Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.

Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.

Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

We use both session and persistent cookies on our website.

The names of the cookies that we use on our website, and the purposes for which they are used, are set out below:

• We use Google Analytics and AdWords on our website to recognize a computer when a user visits the website, track users as they navigate the website, improve the website’s usability, analyze the use of the website, administer the website, prevent fraud, improve the security of the website, and personalize the website for each user.

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies—for example:

• In Internet Explorer (version 10), you can block cookies using the cookie handling override settings available by clicking “Tools,” “Internet Options,” “Privacy,” and then “Advanced.”
• In Firefox (version 24), you can block all cookies by clicking “Tools,” “Options,” “Privacy,” selecting “Use custom settings for history” from the drop-down menu, and unticking “Accept cookies from sites.”
• In Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by accessing the “Customize and control” menu, and clicking “Settings,” “Show advanced settings,” and “Content settings,” and then selecting “Block sites from setting any data” under the “Cookies” heading.

Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites.

If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.

You can delete cookies already stored on your computer—for example:

• In Internet Explorer (version 10), you must manually delete cookie files (you can find instructions for doing so at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835).
• In Firefox (version 24), you can delete cookies by clicking “Tools,” “Options,” and “Privacy,” then selecting “Use custom settings for history,” clicking “Show Cookies,” and then clicking “Remove All Cookies.”
• In Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by accessing the “Customize and control” menu, clicking “Settings,” “Show advanced settings,” and “Clear browsing data,” and then selecting “Delete cookies and other site and plug-in data” before clicking “Clear browsing data.”

Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.

Last Updated: 30-6-2024