Hocbstylesus (“we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal information you provide when using our website, Your Website URL. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information. By accessing or using our Site, you agree to the terms outlined in this policy.
1. Collection and Use of Personal Data
What is Personal Data?
Personal data refers to information that can directly or indirectly identify you. This includes information that, when combined with other data, could be used to identify you. However, personal data does not include information that has been irreversibly anonymized or aggregated.
2. Promoting Safety and Security
We follow the principles of legality, legitimacy, and transparency, processing only the necessary data within a limited scope and implementing technical and administrative security measures.
We use personal data to:
- Verify accounts and user activity
- Monitor fraud and suspicious activities
- Investigate potential violations of our terms or policies
- Enhance the safety of our products and services
This processing is based on our legitimate interest in ensuring security.
3. What Personal Data We Collect
i. Data You Provide
We collect personal data when you:
- Create an account
- Contact us
- Participate in an online survey
- Use our online chat or help tool
- Make a purchase
This may include:
- Payment data (e.g., credit/debit card details)
- Billing, shipping, and contact details
ii. Data About Your Use of Our Services
When you visit our website or use our services, we may collect:
- Device type and unique identifier
- IP address
- Operating system and browser type
- Usage and diagnostic data
- Approximate location (via GPS, IP address, or other technologies)
4. How We Use Your Personal Data
We use your personal data to:
i. Provide, Improve, and Develop Our Products & Services
This includes data analysis, research, and audits. We may also use your data if you participate in contests or promotions.
ii. Communicate with You
With your express consent, we may:
- Send you marketing communications
- Notify you about account updates or transactions
- Respond to your inquiries and support requests
- Share your data with third-party partners for marketing purposes
You can opt out of marketing emails at any time by contacting us.
5. Cookies & Tracking Technologies
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files stored on your device that help websites function and improve user experience.
How We Use Cookies
We use cookies to:
- Personalize content
- Measure ad performance
- Analyze user behavior
- Enhance security
The specific cookies used may vary depending on the services you access.
6. Disclosure of Personal Data
We share personal data only with strategic partners that help us provide and market our products/services. We do not share data with third parties for their own marketing purposes without your express consent.
7. Data Storage, Transfer & Processing
We may process or transfer personal data in the following cases:
i. Legal Obligations
We comply with all legal and regulatory requirements, including GDPR for European Economic Area (EEA) residents.
ii. Business Transactions
In the event of a merger, acquisition, reorganization, or sale, personal data may be transferred to the relevant third party.
iii. Legal Compliance & Security
We may disclose personal data when required by law enforcement, national security, or legal proceedings.
8. Your Rights
You have the right to:
- Access, correct, or delete your personal data
- Restrict or object to data processing
- Receive a copy of your personal data in a standard format
- File a complaint with a data protection authority
To protect your privacy, we may require identity verification before fulfilling your request. Some requests may be legally restricted.
đź“© To exercise your rights, contact us at [email protected]. We aim to respond within 30 days.
9.Your Choices About How We Use Your Information and Opting Out
There are ways by which you can control how your Personal Information is used.
a. Tracking. You can set your browser to refuse some or all cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent. Please visit your specific browser’s instructions for doing this. The “Help” function on most browsers contains information on how you can set your browser to notify you before accepting cookies, or you can disable them entirely. If you opt out of cookies, you may not be able to take advantage of various features of the Website that are available to other users. For example, we may use cookies to recognize you by name when you return to this site so you don’t have to login again and provide your password each time. If you use more than one browser, you will need to change each browser’s settings in order to refuse cookies.
b. Promotional Offers. If you do not wish to receive our email promotional offers, you may opt-out by checking the relevant box when we collect your information, logging into your account to update your preferences, or clicking on the “unsubscribe” link found in emails we send to you. Please allow up to ten (10) business days for changes to your email preferences to take effect. During that time, you may continue to receive email communications from us that were already in process. Opting out of receiving our communications will not affect your receipt of service-related communications, such as payment confirmations and delivery status updates, if we have a data breach, or other such communications for which we have a legal obligation to inform you and/or to prevent fraud or harm to our Website, our business, and/or third parties.
c. Advertising. If you do not want us to use Personal Information that we collect for us to deliver advertisements to you, you can opt-out of receiving such advertising by clicking here.
You may opt out of Internet-based and mobile advertising on your mobile device by visiting TRUSTe’s Ad Preference Manager, currently available at https://preferences-mgr.truste.com/, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s consumer choice page, currently available at http://www.aboutads.info/choices/, or the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) opt out tool currently available at http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/.
If you opt-out of receiving advertising or when using the ad industry opt out tools described above, note that: (a) if you opt-out we may still collect some data about your online activity for operational purposes (such as fraud prevention), but it will not be used by us for the purpose of targeting ads to you; (b) if you use multiple browsers or devices you may need to execute this opt out on each browser or device; and (c) other ad companies’ opt-outs may function differently than our opt-out, and we have no control over the practices of any third-parties. If you use any of the third-party opt-out tools listed above, we do not make any representations or warranties about such opt-out services. Such services are independent from us, and we have no control over, or responsibility for their performance.
Analytics. Our Website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google, Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, www.google.com (https://www.google.com) (“Google Analytics” or “Google”). Google Analytics employs cookies that are stored to your computer in order to facilitate an analysis of your use of the site. The information generated by these cookies, such as time, place and frequency of your visits to our site, including your IP address, is transmitted to Google’s location in the US and stored there.
In using Google Analytics our website employs the extension “anonymizeIp”. In doing so, Google abbreviates and thereby anonymizes your IP address. Google uses this information to analyze your use of our Site, to compile reports for us on internet activity and to provide other services relating to our Website. You may learn more about Google’s IP anonymization at the following link: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2763052?hl=en (https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2763052?hl=en)
Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law or where such third parties process this data on Google’s behalf. Google states that it will in never associate your IP address with other data held by Google. You can prevent cookies from being installed by adjusting the settings on your browser software accordingly as noted elsewhere in this Privacy Policy. You should be aware, however, that by doing so you may not be able to make full use of all the functions of our Website.
Google Analytics also offers a deactivation add-on for most current browsers that provides you with more control over what data Google can collect on websites you access. The add-on tells the JavaScript (ga.js) used by Google Analytics not to transmit any information about webs
10. Third-Party Websites & Services
Our website may contain links to third-party websites or services. We are not responsible for their privacy practices. We encourage you to review their privacy policies before using their services.
11. Data Security & Retention
We use technical, administrative, and physical security measures to protect your personal data.
We retain your personal data for as long as necessary to:
- Fulfill the purposes outlined in this policy
- Comply with legal obligations
12. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect new technologies, industry standards, or legal requirements.
Your continued use of our services after an update signifies acceptance of the changes. If you disagree, please stop using our services and contact us to close your account.
đź“Ś For any questions or concerns, please contact our support team.