Privacy Policy

PRIVACY POLICY 
Effective Date: 07/13/2024 

Our Commitment to Privacy 
At HBConsulting, LLC we are committed to ensuring that we protect the privacy of our clients and customers.  We will do our best to ensure that any private information that we collect as a result of your visit to our website is treated appropriately. This privacy policy explains our principles and procedures.  This privacy policy is effective as of 07/13/2024. 

The Information We Collect About You When you enter our website, we automatically collect and store certain information of both a personal and nonpersonal nature, we may also collect information from third parties including application providers,advertisers, and/or partners, who may utilize methods which may include component sets, or other tools deployed on our website, and ultimately you may choose to provide information to us during your visit as detailed below.  The information we collect and store includes the following personal and nonpersonal information:
·      Your IPA (Internet Protocol Address) and domain name.
‍·      The type of browser and operatingsystem you use.
‍·      The time of your visit.
‍·      The pages of our site you visit.
‍·      Names, addresses, email addresses,and/or telephone numbers.
‍·      Aggregate nonpersonal informationsuch as the number of visitors to the website, number of visitors to thewebsite of a particular demographic, type of browser used, and/or pages mostfrequently visited. If youcomplete and submit actions on our website such as registering with us, fillingout an online survey, and/or completing a contact form e.g., we will collectadditional personal information such as your name, email address, mailingaddress, your phone number, your company name, and your product preferences. 

Additional Information Collection Processes In addition to the aforementioned methods of information collection and acquisition, our company and/or our website may use all, some, or none of the following methods to collect information about visitors to our website, individuals, and/or organizations:
·     Passive tracking methods.
·     Automatically upon a visitor’s entry to the website.
·     When a customer, prospective customer, client, prospective client, or any other website visitor fills out a form, participates in a survey or contest, places an order, signs up for a newsletter, subscribes to a blog or other periodical post to ourwebsite, sends an email, or requests product information.
·     From other third-party sources by purchase, partnership, and/or any other lawful method(s) of source information collection or acquisition. 

CookieUsage In order to provide you with customized service, we may make use of “cookies." Cookies are essentially files that help us identify your computer and respond to it. You may disable cookies on your own computer, but you may not be able to complete some tasks through our website such as but not limited to completing online orders unless cookies are enabled.   

How We Use Information  
The information we collect concerning your visit to our website may include all information included in the earlier sections of this Privacy Policy entitled “The Information We Collect About You” and “Additional Information Collection Processes.”  All the aforementioned information is used for administrative and technical purposes.   For instance, we may use collected information to count the number of visitors to our site and determine the most popular pages. We may also use it to review types of technology you are using, determine which link brought you here, assess how our advertisements on other sites are working, and to help with system maintenance. We use information contained in your emails only for the purpose of responding to those emails. If we ask you to fill out any forms or surveys e.g., we will use the information we receive only for the specific purposes indicated in those forms or surveys.  For instance, if a website visitor fills out a contact information form on ourwebsite, that information may be shared with our Customer Relationship Management “CRM” system and/or our scheduling software which assists us from an administrative and marketing standpoint. We may share any information we collect from you as prescribed above, and in any other lawful manner.  We may also share any information we collect from you in any reasonable lawful way in order to operate our business.   For example we may share information with our professionals to ensure that we remain in compliance with federal, state, and local laws from time to time.  We may at our discretion, in accordance with law, and subject to the advice of counsel, share information with law enforcement, however the preceding is not a waiver of any right or protection afforded under law.  We use third party platforms to assist us in operating our business which may include but is not limited to the following:
·     Cloud service providers, including but not limited to cloud storage providers.
·     Client Relationship Management platforms, scheduling software, sales process management software, analytics platforms and tools, and hosting sites.
·     Providers of marketing analytics, data hosting, design platforms, security, and technical services. 

Your Right To See and Correct Information 
If you wish to see the information we collect about you, please email our marketing department at Contact@HBConsultingUS.Com.  If you feel the information is incorrect, please email any corrections to us at Contact@HBConsultingUS.com.  We will be glad to update your information, to the extent that any such information exists within our systems, with any correction upon reasonable verification of your identity. 

Your Right to Opt Out 
If we are collecting information about you that you do not wish us to have, use, or share, you may “opt out” by emailing us at Contact@HBConsultingUS.Com.  Alternatively, you may use any provided opt out form on this website. 

Children’s Policy 
Our company’s services are not intended to interact with children in any way, and any access or usage of the services offered on our website or by our company by anyone under the age of thirteen (13) is unauthorized.  In the event that a person under the age of thirteen (13) provides any information, such information will be deleted as soon as practicable after discovery as we do not knowingly collect information from children under the age of thirteen(13), and in the company’s discretion a parent or guardian may be notified about such unauthorized communications. To the best of our knowledge, information, and belief we do not include any information on this site that we consider unsuitable for children, but we cannot guarantee the content of any linked sites we may list. 

Security Issues 
-In General
We make every effort to protect the integrity of your information.  Any personal information you enter into online forms or surveys on our website will be encrypted to ensure it remains private.  We limit the right of access to your information to employees that need to use the information to respond to or process your request or transaction. 

-Phishing and Pretexting
As you know, consumers are increasingly targeted by unscrupulous persons attempting to acquire sensitive personal or financial information, by impersonating legitimate businesses. We will never send you an unsolicited email or other communication requesting your private information. If you receive a communication directing you to enter your personal information, please disregard the instruction and contact us immediately at Contact@HBConsultingUS.com.

Links to Other Useful Sites
We may provide links to websites maintained by other organizations that may from time to time include governmental agencies that provide information, which in our opinion may be of interest to our website visitors.  These links are provided as a convenience to you. We have no control over linked sites and cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information on them, nor make any pledges concerning the hosts’ privacy policies and/or security measures. 

How to Contact Us
If you have questions about this privacy policy, please contact the marketing department via email at Contact@HBConsultingUS.com. We will respond in a timely manner.