This Privacy Policy describes our policies on the collection, use, and disclosure of information about you in connection with your use of our services, including those offered through our websites, communications (e.g., emails, phone calls, and texts), and mobile applications (collectively, the “Service”). The terms “we”, “us”, and “our” refer to HiHelloSanta.com.
When you use the Service, you consent to our collection, use, and disclosure of information about you as described in this Privacy Policy.
Information Collected
We may collect, transmit, and store information about you in connection with your use of the Service, including any information you send to or through the Service. We use that information to provide the Service’s functionality, fulfill your requests, improve the Service’s quality, engage in research and analysis relating to the Service, personalize your experience, track usage of the Service, provide feedback to third party businesses that are listed on the Service, display relevant advertising, market the Service, provide customer support, message you, back up our systems, allow for disaster recovery, enhance the security of the Service, and comply with legal obligations. Even when we do not retain such information, it still must be transmitted to our servers initially and stored long enough to process.
Account Information
When you create a business listing on HiHelloSanta.com, you create an account where we store and use the information you provide during that process, such as the first and last name you enter, email address, zip code, physical address, and any other information you may provide during the listing creation process, such as a gender, phone number, or birth date. We may publicly display the business name that you provide, as well as any photos or other content you submit through the listing creation process, as part of your account profile. We also store and use any preferences you provide to personalize your user experience.. You can later modify some of the account information you provide by logging into your account. If you believe that someone has created an unauthorized account using your personal information, you can request its removal by contacting us.
Activity
We store information about your use of the Service, such as your search activity, the pages you view, the date and time of your visits you make through the Service. We also store information that your computer or mobile device may provide to us in connection with your use of the Service, such as your browser type, type of computer or mobile device, browser language, IP address, WiFi information such as SSID, mobile carrier, phone number, unique device identifier, advertising identifier, location (including geolocation, beacon based location, and GPS location), and requested and referring URLs and mobile applications. You may be able to limit or disallow our use of certain data through your device or browser settings, for example you may be able to limit or disallow our collection, use or sharing of location data or mobile advertising identifiers by adjusting the settings for our applications in iOS or Android privacy settings.
Cookies
We may use cookies, web beacons, tags, scripts, local shared objects such as HTML5 and Flash (sometimes called “flash cookies”), advertising identifiers (including mobile identifiers such as Apple’s Identifier for Advertisers (“IDFA”) or Google’s Advertising ID (“GAID”)) and similar technology (“Cookies”) in connection with your use of the Service, third party websites, and mobile applications. Cookies may contain unique identifiers, and reside, among other places, on your computer or mobile device, in emails we send to you, and on our web pages. Cookies may transmit information about you and your use of the Service, such as your browser type, search preferences, IP address, data relating to advertisements that have been displayed to you or that you have interacted with, and the date and time of your use. Cookies may be persistent or stored only during an individual session.
You can also set some Cookie preferences through your device or browser settings, but doing so may affect the functionality of the Service. The method for disabling Cookies may vary by device and browser, but can usually be found in your device or browser preferences or security settings. For example, iOS and Android devices each have settings which are designed to limit forms of ad tracking.
The purposes for which we use Cookies in the Service include improving processes, authentication, analytics, and advertising.
Third Parties
Third parties may share, receive or process information about you as follows:
Advertisers
We may share some non-identifiable, de-identified or aggregated information from or about you with third parties in connection with advertising programs and data analytics.
Content
We allow third party partners to use and display some of the public content available through the Service, such as your photos.
Hi Hello Santa’s Service Providers:
We rely on third-party service providers to support or provide services for us in connection with your use of the Service, such as communications and hosting, security, technical and customer support, tracking and reporting usage of the Service, quality assurance testing, marketing, and other functions. We share information from or about you with these third party providers so that they can perform their services or complete your requests. For example, we may share your advertising identifiers (e.g., your IDFA, GAID, or a cryptographic hash of your email address) with third party service providers that help us facilitate HiHelloSanta.com’s advertising programs and measure and report their effectiveness. HiHelloSanta.com shares personal information with its service providers subject to obligations consistent with this Privacy Policy, and on the condition that personal information is only used on behalf and pursuant to instructions.
Aggregate or Anonymous Information
HiHelloSanta.com shares user information in the aggregate with third parties, such as businesses that are listed on HiHelloSanta.com and content distributors. For example, HiHelloSanta.com may disclose the number of users that have been exposed to or interacted with business listings or advertisements.
Links
The Service may link to third party-controlled websites, like a business’s URL. Please be aware that HiHelloSanta.com is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information.
Legal Disclaimer
Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, HiHelloSanta.com may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on the HiHelloSanta.com website.
Controlling Your Personal Data
HiHelloSanta.com will store your personal information for so long as it is reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collectedYou can contact us with a request to delete your business listing and account.
Children
The Service is intended for general audiences and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.
Security
We use various safeguards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and after we receive it. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or via mobile device, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Modifications To This Privacy Policy
Whenever HiHelloSanta.com changes its privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, and other places we deem appropriate.