Privacy Policy
Last modified: November 15, 2023
Introduction
Hidonix, Inc. ("Company" or "We") respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.
We collect, use, and are responsible for certain personal information about you. When We offer goods and services to individuals in the European Economic Area (EEA), we are subject to the EU General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR), which applies across the entire European Union. For California consumers, we are subject to the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA), as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA). We are responsible as a “controller” of that personal information for the purposes of the GDPR. We are responsible for your personal information as a “business” under the CCPA/CPRA.
This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website www.themagicofgiotto.com ("Website") and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.
This policy applies to information we collect:
On this Website.
In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website.
Through mobile and desktop applications you download from this Website, which provide dedicated non-browser-based interaction between you and this Website.
When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services, if those applications or advertising include links to this policy.
It does not apply to information collected by:
Us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by Company or any third party; or
Any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or through the 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, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). 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 Age of 16
Our Website is not intended for children under 16 years of age. No one under age 16 may provide any information to the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you are under 16, do not use or provide any information on this Website or through any of its features, make any purchases through the Website, or provide 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 16 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 16, please contact us at support@hidonix.com.
California residents under 16 years of age may have additional rights regarding the collection and sale of their personal information. Please see Your State Privacy Rights 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 name, postal address, email address, and telephone number, or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline ("personal information");That is about you but individually does not identify you, such as information regarding referrals, sources, geographic areas, access logs, visits, hardware, clicks, cart, purchases and/or
About your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website, and usage details.
We collect this information:
Directly from you when you provide it to us.
Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies.
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 at the time of purchasing goods and/or 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.
Details of transactions you carry out through our Website and of the fulfillment of your orders. You may be required to provide financial information before placing an order through our 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, including:
Details of your visits to our Website, including referrals, sources, geographic areas, access logs, visits, hardware, clicks, cart, purchases.
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.
The information we collect automatically is only statistical data and does not include personal information. It helps us 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.
How We Use Your Information
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:
To present our Website and its contents to you.
To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide though it.
In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
To send you updates (by email, text message, telephone, or post) about our products and/or services, including exclusive offers, promotions or new products and/or services.
For any other purpose with your consent.
EAA Data Subject. We have a legitimate interest in processing your personal information for promotional purposes (see below “How and why we use your personal information”). This means We do not usually need your consent to send you promotional communications. However, where consent is needed, We will ask for this consent separately and clearly.
We will always treat your personal information with the utmost respect and never sell or share it with other organizations outside our Company for marketing purposes.
You have the right to opt out of receiving promotional communications at any time by:
• Contacting us at support@hidonix.com; or
• Using the “unsubscribe” link in emails or “STOP” number in texts.
We may ask you to confirm or update your marketing preferences if you instruct us to provide further products and/or services in the future, or if there are changes in the law, regulation, or the structure of our business.
Furthermore, under data protection laws, We can only use your personal information if We have a proper reason for doing so, for example:
To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations;
For the performance of our contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract;
For our legitimate interests or those of a third party; or
Where you have given consent.
A legitimate interest is when We have a business or commercial reason to use your information, so long as this is not overridden by your own rights and interests.
The table below explains what We use (process) your personal information for and our reasons for doing so:
What we use your personal information for
Our reasons
To provide products and/or services to you
For the performance of our contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract.
To prevent and detect fraud against you or the Company
For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e., to minimize fraud that could be damaging for us and for you.
Conducting checks to identify our customers and verify their identity
Screening for financial and other sanctions or embargoes
Other processing necessary to comply with professional, legal, and regulatory obligations that apply to our business, e.g., under health and safety regulation or rules issued by our professional regulator
To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations.
Gathering and providing information required by or relating to audits, inquiries or investigations by regulatory bodies
To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations.
Ensuring business policies are adhered to, e.g., policies covering security and internet use
For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e., to make sure We are following our own internal procedures so We can deliver the best service to you.
Operational reasons, such as improving efficiency, training, and quality control
For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e., to be as efficient as We can so We can deliver the best service for you at the best price.
Ensuring the confidentiality of commercially sensitive information
For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e., to protect trade secrets and other commercially valuable information.
To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations.
Statistical analysis to help us manage our business, e.g., in relation to our financial performance, customer base, product range or other efficiency measures
For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e., to be as efficient as We can so We can deliver the best service for you at the best price.
Preventing unauthorized access and modifications to systems
For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e., to prevent and detect criminal activity that could be damaging for us and for you.
To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations.
Updating and/or enhancing customer records
For the performance of our contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract.
To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations.
For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, e.g., making sure that we can keep in touch with our customers about existing orders and new products.
Statutory returns
To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations.
Ensuring safe working practices, staff administration and assessments
To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations.
For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, e.g., to make sure We are following our own internal procedures and working efficiently so We can deliver the best service to you.
Marketing our services and those of selected third parties to:
Existing and former customers
Third parties who have previously expressed an interest in our services
Third parties with whom we have had no previous dealings
For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e., to promote our business to existing and former customers.
Credit reference checks via external credit reference agencies
For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e., to ensure our customers are likely to be able to pay for our products and services.
External audits and quality checks, e.g., for ISO or Investors in People accreditation and the audit of our accounts
For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e., to maintain our accreditations so We can demonstrate We operate at the highest standards.
To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations.
For EEA Data Subjects: The above table does not apply to special category personal information, which we will only process with your explicit consent.
How Long Your Personal Information Will Be Kept. We will keep your personal information while you have an account with us or while we are providing products and/or services to you. Thereafter, We will keep your personal information for as long as is necessary:
To respond to any questions, complaints or claims made by you or on your behalf;
To show that we treated you fairly; or
To keep records required by law.
We will not retain your personal information for longer than necessary for the purposes set out in this policy. Different retention periods apply for different types of personal information.
When it is no longer necessary to retain your personal information, we will delete or anonymize it.
California Consumers: Your Rights Under the CCPA/CPRA. You have the right under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA), as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA), and certain other privacy and data protection laws, as applicable, to exercise free of charge:
Disclosure of Personal Information We Collect About You
You have the right to know, and request disclosure of:
The categories of personal information We have collected about you, including sensitive personal information;
The categories of sources from which the personal information is collected;
The categories of third parties to whom We disclose personal information, if any; and
The specific pieces of personal information We have collected about you;
Please note that We are not required to:
Retain any personal information about you that was collected for a single one-time transaction if, in the ordinary course of business, that information about you is not retained;
Reidentify or otherwise link any data that, in the ordinary course of business, is not maintained in a manner that would be considered personal information; or
Provide the personal information to you more than twice in a 12-month period.
Disclosure of Personal Information Sold, Shared, or Disclosed for a Business Purpose
In connection with any personal information We may sell, share, or disclose to a third party for a business purpose, you have the right to know:
The categories of personal information about you that we sold or shared and the categories of third parties to whom the personal information was sold or shared; and
The categories of personal information that We disclosed about you for a business purpose and the categories of persons to whom the personal information was disclosed for a business purpose.
You have the right to opt-out of the sale of your personal information or sharing of your personal information for the purpose of targeted behavioral advertising. If you exercise your right to opt-out of the sale or sharing of your personal information, we will refrain from selling or sharing your personal information, unless you subsequently provide express authorization for the sale or sharing of your personal information.
To opt-out of the sale or sharing of your personal information, send us an email at support@hidonix.com with a request to not sell or share your personal information.
Right to Limit Use of Sensitive Personal Information
You have the right to limit the use and disclosure of your sensitive personal information to the use which is necessary to:
Perform the services or provide the goods reasonably expected by an average consumer who requests those goods or services;
To perform the following services: (1) Helping to ensure security and integrity to the extent the use of the consumer's personal information is reasonably necessary and proportionate for these purposes; (2) Short-term, transient use, including, but not limited to, non-personalized advertising shown as part of a consumer's current interaction with the business, provided that the consumer's personal information is not disclosed to another third party and is not used to build a profile about the consumer or otherwise alter the consumer's experience outside the current interaction with the business; (3) Performing services on behalf of the business, including maintaining or servicing accounts, providing customer service, processing or fulfilling orders and transactions, verifying customer information, processing payments, providing financing, providing analytic services, providing storage, or providing similar services on behalf of the business; and (4) Undertaking activities to verify or maintain the quality or safety of a service or device that is owned, manufactured, manufactured for, or controlled by the business, and to improve, upgrade, or enhance the service or device that is owned, manufactured, manufactured for, or controlled by the business; and
As authorized by further regulations.
You have a right to know if your sensitive personal information may be used, or disclosed to a service provider or contractor, for additional, specified purposes.
To limit the use of your sensitive personal information, send us an email at support@hidonix.com with a request to limit the use of your sensitive personal information.
Right to Deletion
Subject to certain exceptions set out below, on receipt of a verifiable request from you, We will:
Delete your personal information from our records; and
Delete your personal information from our records; and
Direct third parties to whom the business has sold or shared your personal information to delete your personal information unless this proves impossible or involves disproportionate effort.
Please note that We may not delete your personal information if it is reasonably necessary to:
Complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, provide a good or service requested by you, or reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform a contract between you and us;
Help to ensure security and integrity to the extent the use of the consumer's personal information is reasonably necessary and proportionate for those purposes;
Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality;
Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law;
Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act;
Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when our deletion of the information is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of such research, provided we have obtained your informed consent;
Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on your relationship with us;
Comply with an existing legal obligation; or
Otherwise use your personal information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which you provided the information.
Right of Correction
If we maintain inaccurate personal information about you, you have the right to request us to correct that inaccurate personal information. Upon receipt of a verifiable request from you, We will use commercially reasonable efforts to correct the inaccurate personal information.
Protection Against Retaliation
You have the right to not be retaliated against by us because you exercised any of your rights under the CCPA/CPRA. This means We cannot, among other things:
Deny goods or services to you;
Charge different prices or rates for goods or services, including through the use of discounts or other benefits or imposing penalties;
Provide a different level or quality of goods or services to you; or
Suggest that you will receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.
Please note that We may charge a different price or rate or provide a different level or quality of goods and/or services to you, if that difference is reasonably related to the value provided to our business by your personal information. We may also offer loyalty, rewards, premium features, discounts, or club card programs consistent with these rights or payments as compensation, for the collection of personal information, the sale of personal information, or the retention of personal information.
EAA Data Subject: Your Rights Under the EU GDPR
Right to Be Informed
The right to know or be notified about the collection and use of your personal information.
Right to Access
The right to be provided with a copy of your personal information (the right of access).
Right to Rectification
The right to require us to correct any mistakes in your personal information.
Right to be Forgotten
The right to require us to delete your personal information - in certain situations.
Right to Restriction of Processing
The right to require us to restrict processing of your personal information - in certain circumstances, e.g., if you contest the accuracy of the data.
Right to Data Portability
The right to receive the personal information you provided to us, in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and/or transmit that data to a third party - in certain situations.
Right to Object
The right to object:
At any time to your personal information being processed for direct marketing (including profiling);
In certain other situations to our continued processing of your personal information, e.g., processing carried out for the purpose of our legitimate interests.
Right Not to be Subject to Automated Individual Decision-Making
The right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing (including profiling) that produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you.
For further information on each of those rights, including the circumstances in which they apply, see the guidance from the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) on individual rights under the EU General Data Protection Regulation.
How to Exercise Your Rights. If you would like to exercise any of your rights as described in this Privacy Policy, send us an email at support@hidonix.com.
Please note that you may only make a CCPA/CPRA-related data access or data portability disclosure request twice within a 12-month period.
If you choose to contact us directly by email, you will need to provide us with:
Enough information to identify you (e.g., your full name, address and customer or matter reference number, as applicable);
Proof of your identity and address (e.g., a copy of your driving license or passport and a recent utility or credit card bill); and
A description of what right you want to exercise and the information to which your request relates.
We are not obligated to make a data access or data portability disclosure if We cannot verify that the person making the request is the person about whom We collected information or is someone authorized to act on such person's behalf.
Any personal information We collect from you to verify your identity in connection with you request will be used solely for the purposes of verification.
EEA Data Subjects: Where Your Personal Information is Held. Information may be held at our offices, third party agencies, service providers, representatives and agents as described below (see above: “Disclosure of Your Information”).
Some of these third parties may be based outside the European Economic Area. For more information, including on how we safeguard your personal information when this occurs, see below: “Transferring Your Personal Information Out of the EEA.”
EEA Data Subjects: Transferring Your Personal Information Out of the EEA. To deliver services to you, it is sometimes necessary for us to share your personal information outside the European Economic Area (EEA), e.g.:
With our offices outside the EEA
With your and our service providers located outside the EEA; or
If you are based outside the EEA; or
These transfers are subject to special rules under European and UK data protection law.
If you would like further information, please contact us (see “Contact Information” below).
Disclosure of Your Information
We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, 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 contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business.
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 our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by us about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
To third parties to market their products or services to you if you have not opted out of these disclosures. For more information, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
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, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
To enforce or apply our terms of use [INSERT AS LINK TO WEBSITE'S TERMS OF USE] and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Company 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:
Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
We do not control third parties' collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative ("NAI") on the NAI's website.
Your State Privacy Rights
State consumer privacy laws may provide their residents with additional rights regarding our use of their personal information.
Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, and Utah each provide their state residents with rights to:
Confirm whether we process their personal information.
Access and delete certain personal information.
Data portability.
Opt-out of personal data processing for targeted advertising and sales.
Colorado, Connecticut, and Virginia also provide their state residents with rights to:
Correct inaccuracies in their personal information, taking into account the information's nature processing purpose.
Opt-out of profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects.
To exercise any of these rights please email us at support@hidonix.com.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users' personal information, we will notify you. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.
Contact Information
To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at: