Hiya Website Privacy Policy

Introduction

Hiya Inc., (“Hiya” "Company" or "We") as the controller of your personal information and personal data respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through this policy.

This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the Hiya website, hiya.com (our "Website"). This policy also describes our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

This policy applies to information we collect:

• on this Website and
• in email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website or when you contact us or our customer service.

It does not apply to information collected:

• in connection with the download and use of any Hiya mobile applications made available from third party websites. Terms and conditions applicable to such consumer applications are available in our Hiya App data protection and privacy policy.
• by third parties who may reference or link to or may be accessible from this Website.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, or by getting in touch with us you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to our Privacy Policy below). Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

Children Under the Minimum Age

The Minimum Age may vary from country to country. Our Website is not intended for children under the Minimum Age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the Minimum Age. If you are under the Minimum Age, you are prohibited from providing any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under the Minimum Age we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under the Minimum Age, please contact us at support@hiya.com.

If you are a resident of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Montana, Oregon, Texas, Utah, or Virginia, you may be entitled to exercise additional rights relating to your personal information. Please see “Your State Law Privacy Rights” below for more information. 

Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information:

• by which you may be personally identified, such as your name, e-mail address, phone number, mailing address and other information you may submit to Hiya, including via this Website;
• that is about you but individually does not identify you directly, such as your Internet connection, your IP address, your location, the equipment you use to access our Website, and other information about your usage of the Website (collectively "Personal Information").

We collect this information:

• directly from you when you provide it to us.
• automatically as you navigate through the site (where permitted by applicable laws).
• Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other technologies that we may (now or in the future) employ to improve the features and functionality of the Website.
• from third parties, for example, our business partners. In such cases we rely on our partners to ensure and document the appropriate legal basis for sharing your information with us.

Information You Provide to Us

The information we collect on or through our Website may include:

• Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided via our “Contact” or “Customer Service” pages or otherwise requesting further information about Hiya products and services. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our Website.
• Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.
• Your search queries on the Website.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies  

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns where permitted by applicable law, including:

• details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
• information about your computer and Internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

We also may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time on our Website or other online services. See Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information below for information on how you can opt out of behavioral tracking on this website and how we respond to web browser signals and other mechanisms that enable consumers to exercise choice about behavioral tracking.

The information we collect using these automated means is mostly statistical and aggregated Personal Information. We will use this information to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

• estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
• store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.
• speed up your searches.
• recognize you when you return to our Website.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

Cookies (or browser cookies)

A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website from a country that requires consent for certain cookies, our system will issue necessary cookies and a pop-up banner for you to choose whether to allow other cookies. We utilize the following types of cookies:

• ‍Necessary cookies help make our Website usable by enabling basic functions. Our Website cannot function properly and safely without these cookies.‍
• Preference cookies enable our Website to remember information for how our Website behaves or looks based on your language, region, or preferences.‍
• Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our Website by collecting and reporting information to us anonymously.‍
• Marketing cookies track users across websites and are used to display ads that are relevant for the user such as interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.

Flash Cookies

Certain features of our Website may use local stored objects (or flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for flash cookies, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information below.

Web Beacons

Pages of our Website (and our e-mails) may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages (or opened an e-mail) and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website are served by third parties, including customer service enabling technologies, servers, and network operators. These third parties may use cookies, alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies, to collect information about you when you use our Website. The information they collect may be associated with your Personal Information or they may collect information, including Personal Information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.

We do not control these third parties' tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly. For information about how you can opt out of receiving targeted advertising from many providers, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information below.

Legal Bases We Rely on when Using Your Information

We may use your information based on one or more of the following legal bases:

• ‍Your consent. For example, we rely on your consent when you visit our Website, choose your cookie preferences or provide us with your Personal Information. In case we collected your Personal Information from third-parties and not directly from you, we rely on our partners to obtain your consent for our use of your Personal Information;‍
• Performance of a contract. We may use your Personal Information in order to perform our contracts with you or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into such a contract;‍
• Your and our legitimate interests (to be able to operate and improve our Website and to be able to communicate with you, if you get in contact with us, since we have carried out a legitimate interest assessment to demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override the fundamental rights and freedoms of the people whose Personal Information we process, including you);‍
• Legal obligation. We may need to use your Personal Information to comply with a legal obligation to which we are a subject;‍
• Vital interests. In certain cases, we use your Personal Information to protect your vital interests or those of another person;‍
• Public task. Using your Personal Information may be necessary to perform a task carried out in the public interest, insofar as the processing has a basis in Union or Member State law.

How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any Personal Information for one or more of the following purposes:

• to present and improve our Website and its contents to you, to keep our Website safe and secure.
• to provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
• for any other purpose with your consent (which is specified when asking for your consent and which could also be subject to a separate privacy policy).

We may also respond to your requests for information, or your inquiries to our customer service using the information you provided.  ‍

Disclosure of Your Information‍

We may disclose statistical, anonymized and aggregated information about our users without restriction.

We may disclose Personal Information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

• to our subsidiaries and affiliates.
• to our advisors, contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business; for example Zendesk provides us with customer support and HubSpot helps us with marketing and finding new clients.
• to a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Hiya’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Information held by Hiya about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
• to third parties to market their products or services to you if you have consented to these disclosures.
• for any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
• with your consent.

We may also disclose your Personal Information:

• to comply with any court order, law, subpoena or legal process, including responding to any government or regulatory request.
• to enforce or apply our terms of service and any other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
• if we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Hiya, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the Personal Information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

• ‍Browser Settings. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. When you visit our Website from a country that requires consent for cookies, in the pop-up banner you can allow cookies. To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe's website. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.

Note that while we do not currently process personal information for targeted advertising, certain legacy versions of our services may have incorporated that feature. We encourage all users to ensure that they remain up to date with our software releases and other service updates.

Residents of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Montana, Oregon, Texas, Utah, or Virginia may have additional rights and choices regarding the collection and use of your personal information. Please see Your State Law Privacy Rights below for more information.

Your Rights such as Accessing, Correcting and Deleting Your Information

We want to do the right thing and ensure the below rights for our users from the European Economic Area (“EEA”), in line with our Data Subject Rights Policy.

You may request access to the information we hold about you.

If we have information about you that is inaccurate, you may request that it is rectified.

Under certain circumstances, you may be entitled to request that we erase your information.

Under certain circumstances, you may be entitled to request the restriction of the use of your information.

In certain cases, you may be entitled to object to the use of your information.

In certain cases, you may also have the right to receive information concerning you in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format.

In certain cases, you have the right not to be subject to automated decision-making, including profiling.

If you have given us your consent, you may withdraw it at any time.

If you are from the EEA and wish to exercise any of your above rights, please complete a request here or contact our data protection officer at dpo@hiya.com.

Your State Law Privacy Rights

If you are a resident of a state that has enacted laws governing the processing of your personal information which apply to Hiya (which include California, Colorado, Connecticut, Montana, Oregon, Texas, Utah, and Virginia as of the date of this privacy policy) (collectively, “State Privacy Laws”), you may have additional rights regarding our use of your Personal Information. To learn more about your privacy rights under State Privacy Laws, visit our  U.S. State Consumer Rights Privacy Notice.

Data Security

We have implemented measures designed to secure your Personal Information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. The safety and security of your information also depend on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of Personal Information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.

We Transfer Your Information Outside the EU

Everyone can visit our Website or contact us throughout the whole world, even from Europe. If you are someone from the European Economic Area (“EEA”), please be advised that your information may be transferred to, and stored at a destination outside the EEA. Where your Personal Information is transferred in relation to providing our services we will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that they are subject to appropriate safeguards and that it is treated securely and in accordance with this policy, such as relying on a recognized legal adequacy mechanism.

Following the European Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/914, we have reviewed our existing SCCs and also adopted additional measures to ensure compliance with the new requirements regarding international data transfers arising out of the above decision.  July 17, 2023, the European Commission issued an adequacy decision on the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF), at this moment we do not hold this certification.  

Information Retention Period

We retain your information only for so long as is necessary for the purpose(s) for which it was originally collected, after which it will be deleted or archived except to the extent that it is necessary for us to continue to process it for the purpose of legal compliance obligations or another lawful purpose.

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