Information collection:

• Information that you provide by filling in forms on our site https://hoshops.com/(our site). This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our site, and placing orders through our site. We may also ask you for information when you enter a competition or promotion sponsored by our site.
• If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
• We may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them.
• Details of transactions you carry out through our site and of the fulfillment of your orders.
• Details of your visits to our site including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data, whether this is required for our own billing purposes or otherwise.

Use of information:

We will use the personal information you provide to meet your requests and needs, such as processing orders, providing products and services, answering your inquiries, etc. We may also use your information to improve our website and services and provide you with relevant marketing and promotional information.

Information Protection:

• Using Secure Sockets Layer (“SSL”) encryption to secure all financial transactions conducted through this Site/Application
• Restricting access to your personal information to employees involved in providing specific services
• Selecting third-party service providers that we believe have sufficient security measures in place to protect all computer hardware

Sharing your personal information:

We will not sell, rent or share your personal information with third parties without your explicit consent, except as required by law or as necessary to fulfill your requests and needs. In some cases, we may need to share your information with partners, contractors or service providers to carry out our business responsibilities.

Third-party:

If you choose to link our Services to a third-party account, we may receive information about you, including your profile information, and your use of the third-party account. If you wish to limit the information available to us, you should visit the privacy settings of your third-party accounts to learn about your options.

Cookies and similar technologies:

We may also collect certain information automatically when you visit the Services, including:

• Your browser type and operating system
• Your Internet Protocol (IP) address, which is the number automatically assigned to your computer whenever you access
• the Internet and that can sometimes be used to derive your general geographic area
• Geolocation information
• Websites or search terms that referred you to the Site
• Pages you view and links you click on within the Services
• Information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other technologies
• Information about your interactions with e-mail messages, such as the links clicked on and whether the messages were opened or forwarded

We collect the above information in a variety of ways, including by “pixel tags,” “log files,” “web beacons,” “cookies” and other technologies to automatically collect information.

• Cookies are small bits of information that are stored by your computer’s browser. You can decide if and how your computer will accept a cookie by configuring your preferences or options in your browser. However, if you choose to reject cookies, you may not be able to use certain online products, services or features on the Services. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit HTTP://WWW.ALLABOUTCOOKIES.ORG.
• “Log files” track actions occurring on the Site, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.
• Pixel tags are very small images or small pieces of data embedded in images, also known as “web beacons” or “clear GIFs,” that can recognize cookies, the time and date a page is viewed, a description of the page where the pixel tag is placed, and similar information from your computer or device.

Industry regulatory disclosure requirements:

We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries which are not treated by us as third parties.

We in the following circumstances and notwithstanding the foregoing, we may disclose your personal information to third parties:

• In the event that we buy any business or assets substantially comprising a business, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller of such business or assets.
• If our site or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets.
• If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms and conditions of supply and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of our site, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Changes:

Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail.