Privacy Policy

We are Hudson Consultancy also known as Hudson Consultancy Online, a specialist consultancy organisation.

Hudson Consultancy is strictly a free advice consultation practice and operates as a non profit organisation. Nevertheless we adhere to the safety and practice of a standard privacy policy.

This privacy policy governs the collection, storage and use of information collected by Hudson Consultancy (“us”, “we”, or “our”), via: (1) any of our websites, including www.hudsonconsultancyonline.com (our “Sites“); (2) any of our products or services on any platforms, including mobile applications on iOS, Android and any other applicable mobile platform; and (3) any of our games, products or services (including support services) which may be accessible via a web application, third party platform or social networking service (including Instagram and Linkedin).

We’ll call them together our “Service “. By using our Service, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agree to this privacy policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use our Service.

If you have any queries, please email us at info@hudsonconsultancyonline.com

Definition

• Service means the www.hudsonconsultancyonline.com website and any of our services, resources and materials, including free demonstrations.

• Personal Data means data about a living individual who can be identified from those data (or from those and other information either in our possession or likely to come into our possession).

• Usage Data is data collected automatically either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).

• Cookies are small pieces of data stored on your device (computer or mobile device).

• Data Controller means the natural or legal person who (either alone or jointly or in common with other persons) determines the purposes for which and the manner in which any personal information are, or are to be, processed. For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, we are a Data Controller of your Personal Data.

• Data Processors (or Service Providers) means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Data Controller. We may use the services of various Service Providers in order to process your data more effectively.

Information Collection and Use

We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our Service to you.

TYPES OF DATA
Personal Data
While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Data”). Personally, identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

• First name and Last name
• Email address
• Contact telephone number
• Cookies and Usage data

Usage Data
We may also collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Service or when you access the Service by or through a mobile device (“Usage Data”).

This Usage Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

When you access the Service by or through a mobile device, this Usage Data may include information such as the type of mobile device you use, your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of your mobile device, your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser you use, unique device and advertising identifiers, your save data and time stamped progress in the games and other diagnostic data.

Cookies
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service and hold certain information.

Cookies are files with small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier.

Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Service.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.

Examples of Cookies we use:

• Session Cookies. We use Session Cookies to operate our Service.
• Preference Cookies. We use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.
• Security Cookies. We use Security Cookies for security purposes.
• Advertising Cookies. Advertising Cookies are used to serve you with advertisements that may be relevant to you and your interests.

How We Collection Information

We may collect and process information about you through the following means: (1) information that you give us via any of our Services, including any of our games; (2) information given when you contact us or report a problem with any of the Services; and (3) we may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them.

We may collect this information via our Services or third-party services connected with them.

Uses Made of Your Information

Hudson Consultancy uses the collected data for various purposes:

• To provide and maintain our Service
• To notify you about changes to our Service
• To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service when you choose to do so
• To provide customer support
• To gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our Service
• To provide social features within our Service
• To monitor the usage of our Service
• To detect, prevent and address technical issues
• To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us or which we feel may interest you
• For marketing purposes

Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data Under General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

If you are from the European Economic Area (EEA), Hudson Consultancy legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described in this Privacy Policy depends on the Personal Data we collect and the specific context in which we collect it.

Hudson Consultancy may process your Personal Data because:

• We need to perform a contract with you
• You have given us permission to do so
• The processing is in our legitimate interests and it is not overridden by your rights
• For payment processing purposes
• To comply with the law

Retention of Data

Hudson Consultancy will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.

We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

Hudson Consultancy will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes.

Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Service, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

Transfer of Data

Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

Hudson Consultancy will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.

Disclosure of Data

DISCLOSURE FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT
Under certain circumstances, Hudson Consultancy may be required to disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

LEGAL REQUIREMENTS
Hudson Consultancy may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

• To comply with a legal obligation
• To protect and defend the rights or property of Hudson Consultancy
• To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
• To protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public
• To protect against legal liability

Security of Data

The security of your data is important to us but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure.

While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

“Do Not Track” Signals

We do not support Do Not Track (“DNT”).

Do Not Track is a preference you can set in your web browser to inform websites that you do not want to be tracked.

You can enable or disable Do Not Track by visiting the Preferences or Settings page of your web browser.

Your Data Protection Rights Under General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights.

Hudson Consultancy aims to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Data.

If you wish to be informed what Personal Data, we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us.

How long do we keep your information?

We apply a general rule of keeping personal data only for as long as required to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected.

However, in some circumstances, we may retain personal data for longer periods of time, for instance where we are required to do so in accordance with legal, tax and accounting requirements, or if required to do so by a legal process, legal authority, or other governmental entity having authority to make the request, for so long as required.

In specific circumstances, we may also retain your personal data for longer periods of time corresponding to a statute of limitation, so that we have an accurate record of your dealings with us in the event of any complaints or challenges.

Your Rights

Subject to applicable law, you may have some or all the following rights available to you in respect of your personal data:

Right to object: If we are using your data because we deem it necessary for our legitimate interests to do so, and you do not agree, you have the right to object.

We will respond to your request within 30 days (although we may be allowed to extend this period in certain cases). Generally, we will only disagree with you if certain limited conditions apply.

Right to withdraw consent: Where we have obtained your consent to process your personal data for certain activities, you may withdraw your consent at any time.

Subject Access Request (SAR): You have the right to ask us to confirm what information we hold about you at any time, and you may ask us to modify, update or delete such information. At this point we may comply with your request and do one of the following:

We may ask you to verify your identity, or ask for more information about your request; and
where we are legally permitted to do so, we may decline your request, but we will explain why if we do so.

Right to erasure: In limited circumstances, such as whereas your personal data is no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which it was collected or processed.

We will respond to your request within 30 days (although we may be allowed to extend this period in certain cases) and will only disagree with you if certain limited conditions apply. If we do agree to your request, we will delete your data.

Right of data portability: If you wish, you have the right to transfer your data from us to another data controller. We will help with this – either by directly transferring your data for you, or by providing you with a copy in a commonly used machine-readable format.

Right to restrict: Processing of your personal data under certain circumstances: You have the right to request the restriction or suppression of your personal data. This is not an absolute right and only applies in certain circumstances.

In addition to the above rights, you have the following rights:

Right to object: On grounds relating to your particular situation, at any time to any processing of your personal data for which we have justified on the basis of a legitimate interest, including profiling (as opposed to your consent) or to perform a contract with you.

You also have the right to object at any time to any processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes, including profiling for marketing purposes.

Right to lodge a complaint: With a supervisory authority: You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority, or the ICO details of which can be found here:

Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire SK9 5AF
0303 123 1113

Service Providers

We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service (“Service Providers”), to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services or to assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.

These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

ANALYTICS
We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service.

SERVERS
We may use third-party Service Providers to provide servers used to run the Service these are data processors who handle data on our behalf.

• Zoom Video Conferencing service is provided by Zoom.us. For more information on the protection of personal data offered by Zoom please visit the following page: https://zoom.us/docs/en-us/privacy-and-security.html

• Zoho Cloud Suite service is provided by Zoho.com. For more information on the protection of personal data offered by Zoho please visit the following page:
https://www.zoho.com/privacy.html

• Google App Engine service is provided by Google. For more information on the protection of personal data offered by Google please visit the following page: https://cloud.google.com/security/privacy/

Payments

We may provide paid products and/or services within the Service.

In that case, we use third-party services for payment processing (e.g. payment processors).

We will not store or collect your payment card details. That information is provided directly to our third-party payment processors whose use of your personal information is governed by their Privacy Policy.

These payment processors adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover.

PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of payment information.

The payment processors we work with are:

• Apple Store In-App Payments Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/en-ww/
• Google Play In-App Payments Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/
• Stripe In-App Payments Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://stripe.com/privacy

Children's Privacy

We recognize we have a special obligation to protect personal information obtained from children.

We do not and will not knowingly collect information from any unsupervised child under the age of 13.

For children under the age of 13 wishing to use the Services, consent is required from a parent or guardian.

In some countries, verifiable consent may be required from a parent or guardian for children under 18 years of age.

We recommend that parents familiarize themselves with parental controls available on the devices they provide to their child and accompany their child if aged under 13 years of age when online.

Sharing Your Information with Third Parties

We may share your non-personal information with third party partners who work with us to provide the Services to you (for example, a third party developer or publisher who we’ve worked with to create one of our games) in order to support, improve or amend any Services. We may also share your non-personal information with data analysis services.

We do not disclose personal information about identifiable individuals to advertisers.

Please remember that any communications you have via our Services, including for example our games, may reveal your screen name, other details about you and the content of any communications by you to other users.

We are not responsible for the activities of other users or other third parties whom you choose to provide your information to or otherwise interact with (whether via our Services or otherwise).

Changes to This Privacy Policy

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

We will let you know via our Service, prior to any material changes becoming effective and update the “effective date” at the top of this Privacy Policy.

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

We welcome any questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy, which should be addressed to info@hudsonconsultancyonline.com