Data We Collect, And How We Use It

Your Personal Data

While using our Services, HCI asks you to provide information that identifies you (“Personal Data”). This includes:

• Email address

• Name

• Phone number

• Physical address

• Credit card or other payment information (for paid Services only)

• Usage Data such as mobile phone ID or browser data

• Demographic information such as race, gender, and similar data

• Other information that you provide to us, including in our online forum or during events we host

HCI uses Personal Data to provide, manage, and improve the Services. We also use it to manage your account, send you updates, and contact you as needed.

We share Personal Data:

• with our own service providers;

• with business partners (e.g., speakers at our events);

• with mentors and advisors who help HCI provide Services to you;

• with other users of our Services;

• in a sale of, transfer of, or investment in any HCI company; and

• to protect our legal rights.

 We store your Personal Data for the following amounts of time:

• if you’re a member of HCI, during your membership and for one (1) year afterwards;

• if you’re not a member of HCI, for one (1) year after you provide us your information; or

• if a longer time period is required by US law, for that amount of time.

Data collected with cookies and other trackers

Cookies are small files that are placed on your device while you’re online. These files contain details of your browsing history.

We use cookies to verify users, record your login details, and track what you view on our site. We use first-party cookies (sent by HCI to your device) and third-party cookies (sent by our service providers). We use both session cookies, which expire once you close your web browser, and persistent cookies, which stay on your device until you delete them.

You can set your browser to block or delete certain cookies. If you do this, the Services may not work as intended – for example, you may not see content that is localized or personalized for you.

We also use pixel tags, which are embedded on our site to help us collect statistics about site use.

Transfer of your Personal Data

Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at HCI’s premises in the United States. It is also processed at our third-party service providers’ locations.  

Your information may be sent to — and stored in — countries whose privacy laws are different from the privacy laws in your country. By using our Services, you agree to this transfer and storage.

Security of your Personal Data

The security of your Personal Data is important to us. However, no online service or electronic storage is 100% secure. While we use commercially reasonable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Our Service Providers’ Access to Your Personal Data

The service providers we use have access to your Personal Data. These third-party vendors collect, store, use, process and transfer information about your activity on our Services in accordance with their Privacy Policies.

Our Site

Our site was built using Squarespace. For more information on Squarespace’s privacy practices, please visit https://www.squarespace.com/privacy.

Slack Channel

As part of our Service, we offer a Slack channel. For more information on Slack’s privacy practices, please visit https://slack.com/trust/privacy/privacy-policy.

Collaboration Apps

We use Google documents to share information about the HCI community. For more information on Google’s privacy practices, please visit https://policies.google.com/privacy.

Analytics

We use third-party service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Services, including Google Analytics and HotJar. For more information on Google’s privacy practices, please visit https://policies.google.com/privacy. For more information on HotJar’s privacy practices, please visit https://www.hotjar.com/legal/policies/privacy/.

Email

We use your Personal Data to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to you. You can opt-out of these by following the unsubscribe link, or by contacting us.

We use Mailchimp to manage and send emails to you. For more information on Mailchimp’s privacy practices, please visit https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/.

Payments

We provide paid Services, for which we use third-party payment processors.

We provide your Personal Data to our third-party payment processors. Their use of your Personal Data is governed by their privacy policies. These payment processors follow PCI-DSS standards, as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, a joint effort of brands like Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover.  

California "Do Not Track" Disclosure

Some browsers allow you to send a “Do Not Track” signal. Our Services are not currently set up to respond to these signals.

California Privacy Rights

If you are a California resident who has a business relationship with us, you can request certain privacy information once a year. In particular, you can learn whether we’ve shared your Personal Data with third parties so those third parties can market directly to you.

If you'd like to request this information, you can contact us at hello@hudsonincubator.com.

EEA and UK Privacy Rights

Our site is intended for viewers from the US only. However, if you are visiting us from the European Economic Area (EEA) or the United Kingdom (UK), you should be aware that you have certain rights under applicable data protection laws. You have the right to:

• Get access to, and a copy of, the personal information about you that we collect.

• Ask us to correct or delete the personal information we have on file about you.

• Prevent us from sharing your personal information of third parties (but please note that our Services may not work the same way for you without this information).

To make a request, please contact us at hello@hudsonincubator.com. We will consider and act on any request in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

As part of our efforts to increase diversity and inclusion in our community, we may collect demographic information about you and share this information with third parties. For example, we may create reports including data about race, ethnicity, gender, religious beliefs, physical/mental health, sexual orientation, or other personal information that is defined as a “special category” under applicable privacy laws.

If you are a resident in the EEA or UK and you believe we are unlawfully processing your personal information, you also have the right to complain to your local data protection supervisory authority. You can find their contact details here:

http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/bodies/authorities/index_en.htm

If you are a resident in Switzerland, the contact details for the data protection authorities are available here: https://www.edoeb.admin.ch/edoeb/en/home.html

If you have questions or comments about your privacy rights, you may email us at hello@hudsonincubator.com

Links to Other Sites

Our Services contain links to other sites or services that we do not operate.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We will update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, you can contact us at hello@hudsonincubator.com.