Human Capital Consultants International, LLC (“HCCI, LLC”) believes that the protection and privacy of your Personal Data and Non-Personal Data (collectively “Data” or “Your Data”) is paramount and we value your right to privacy. HCCI strives to protect Data that we collect through your interaction with the HCCI family of websites (“HCCI Websites”), HCCI applications (“HCCI Apps”), HCCI social media tools (“HCCI Social Media”) and other digital and non-digital spaces where HCCI may collect Data (HCCI Websites, HCCI Applications, and HCCI Social Media, and other digital and non-digital spaces, respectively, and collectively, “HCCI Digital Assets”).
Data you provide to us through your use of HCCI Digital Assets helps to inform the HCCI about how best to provide you with a fulfilling user experience as it relates to our mission. Our goal is to ensure that Your Data is secure and that HCCI only uses Your Data subject to the terms and conditions set forth below.
HCCI is committed to working with you to obtain a fair and rapid resolution of any queries, complaints, or disputes about privacy. If you have any questions or comments about our Privacy Statement, Cookie Policy or our information collection and data protection practices, please contact privacy@hcc-intl.com.
By using HCCI digital assets, you consent to the terms and conditions of this privacy statement and toHCCI processing your data for the purposes stated below. if you do not agree to the terms and conditions of this privacy statement, please understand that your use ofHCCI digital assets may not be optimized and in some instances you may not be allowed access to HCCI digital assets that require HCCI to verify you as an authorized user (for example accessing HCCI’s platform (HR Solutions, Coaching or Assessments).
You provide data to us to create your account or transact business with us
We collect Data from all visitors (“Users”) to HCCI Digital Assets in order to interact with you. The following are examples of the types of Data we collect:
Please note that we also consider aggregated data, which is not personally identifiable, to be Non-Personal Data.
We use your data to contact you, provide support for your membership, conduct surveys and personalize our services to you.
Except to the extent necessary to fulfill our business obligations as described in this privacy statement, we do not sell, transfer, or otherwise disclose to third parties any of the personal data that we collect directly from or about you.
We use personal data that is collected on HCCI digital assets in the following ways:
COOKIES ARE USED TO RECOGNIZE USERS WHEN THEY COME BACK TO OUR SITE, TO LEARN ABOUT WHICH PAGES ARE THE MOST VISITED AND TO ASSIST WITH A SINGLE SIGN-ON ACROSS HCCI DIGITAL ASSETS.
Cookies are text files sent by Web servers to Web browsers and are stored on the user’s computer or mobile device. If the browser is loading a page and the server requests the Data stored in the cookie, the Data contained within the cookie is sent back to the server.
Cookies contain data about the user’s activities on a website and can be used by Web servers to identify and track Users as they navigate different pages on that website and can identify Users returning to that website.
Cookies may be either “persistent” or “session” cookies. HCCI uses persistent cookies to enable our website to recognize you when you visit or return to an HCCI Website. Persistent cookies will remain stored on your computer until you delete them or until it expires automatically at its expiration date. Session cookies are temporary cookies that typically expire at the end of the web browsing session on a website. HCCI uses session cookies to keep track of you while you navigate HCCI Digital Assets. A session cookie expires at the end of the user session, i.e. when the Web browser is closed.
Cookies contain Data that we have previously stored from prior interactions with HCCI Digital Assets and may allow us to link to other Data we have about you (previous purchases, subscriptions).
HCCI Digital Assets use Data we obtain from cookies for the following purposes:
*We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of HCCI Digital Assets. Google Analytics generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies, which are stored on Users’ computers. The Data generated relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of the website. Google will store this Data. More information is available at Google’s privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en&gl=us.
When Users visit HCCI Digital Assets, third-party cookies (such as Google advertising cookies) may be sent to their computers by HCCI’s advertisers or service providers. Third party advertisers may use data obtained from these cookies:
Most browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings preferences. However, if you limit the ability of websites to set cookies, you may limit your overall user experience, since it will no longer be personalized to you. It may also stop you from saving customized settings like login information.
HCCI uses certain Google Analytics Advertising Features, which contain third party cookies. Google Analytics is a web analytics tool that helps website owners understand how visitors engage with their website. HCCI follows the Google Analytics policy requirements found at https://support.google.com, which are incorporated herein by reference. The specific Google Analytics Advertising Features that HCCI uses include only the following: Google Display Network Impression Reporting, Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting, and Integrated Services that require google analytics to collect data via advertising cookies and identifiers. HCCI does not use the Google remarketing features. You can opt out of the foregoing Google Analytics Advertising Features by following the instructions at this link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.
Personal Data collected as a function of the HCCI Digital Assets will not be released to third parties except to further the purpose for which you provided the Data and in the following instances:
HCCI Digital Assets may provide you with links to other websites, although we do not necessarily advise that you are linking to another website. In the event you choose to access such websites, HCCI is not responsible for any actions or policies of those sites. Further, please note that the third party’s Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy or security practices may differ from HCCI. HCCI neither assumes responsibility for nor does it control, endorse or guarantee any aspect of your use of the linked site. We recommend that you check the Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy and other pertinent security practices of such a party before providing Personal Data to it.
HCCI may also permit advertisers, third party ad networks or other advertising companies to serve advertisements on HCCI Digital Assets. Please be advised that such companies may gather Data about your visit to HCCI Digital Assets (through cookies, web beacons and other technologies) to enable such advertising companies to market products or services to you, to monitor which ads have been served to your browser and which Web pages you were viewing when such ads were delivered. Follow this link to learn more: http://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1#!/
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS POLICY DOES NOT COVER THE COLLECTION AND USE OF DATA BY SUCH ADVERTISING COMPANIES.
Please note that any Data you include in a message you post to any chat room, blog, forum or other public posting area is available to others. If you don’t want people to know your e-mail address, for example, don’t include it in any message you post publicly. PLEASE BE EXTREMELY CAREFUL WHEN DISCLOSING ANY DATA IN CHAT ROOMS, FORUMS AND OTHER PUBLIC POSTING AREAS. WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE USE BY OTHERS OF THE DATA THAT YOU DISCLOSE IN CHAT ROOMS, FORUMS AND OTHER PUBLIC POSTING AREAS
We communicate with Users on a regular basis via email. For example, we will use your email address to contact you regarding membership renewal and dues payments, HCCI elections, to confirm a request you have made of HCCI, to send you notice of upcoming payments that are due, to send you information about changes to our products and services or to send notices and other disclosures as required by law. Generally, members cannot opt-out of these communications since it is necessary to keep members of informed of specific information regarding membership and actions related thereto.
HCCI provides you the opportunity to exercise an opt-out choice if you do not want to receive other types of communications from us, such as messages or updates from us regarding new services and products offered on HCCI Digital Assets. For emails, you may opt-out by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link within the text of an email. We will process your request to unsubscribe as soon as possible, but please be aware that in some circumstances you may receive a few more messages until the unsubscribe is processed. If you have elected to receive notices to your mobile device via text message, you may opt-out by replying “STOP” to such mobile message. You may receive a confirmatory text message in response to your “STOP” request and you hereby consent to receipt of such confirmation.
As noted above, to opt out of the Google Analytics advertising features outlined above, follow the instructions at this link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
We keep your Data for as long as you are a Member or as long as your relationship with HCCI Digital Assets continues and as required by law. We retain your Data while your membership is active or as necessary to continue to provide Services including fulfilling orders, HR, Coaching Solutions, Trainings or Assessments, etc. This includes Data you or others provided to us and Data obtained from your use of HCCI Digital Assets. There may be some instances where we retain Non-Personal Data in a depersonalized or aggregated form.
You can access, change or delete Your Data if you have an account/membership with HCCI by logging into your account. You can also email us at privacy@hcc-intl.com. We collect Your Data in many ways, most often where you provide it to us, and we provide you with several options for collecting, using and sharing of Your Data, including deleting or correcting Data you have provided to us. We offer you settings to control and manage.
Delete Data: You can ask us to erase or delete all or some of Your Data (for example if you resign from being a member) and we will work hard to honor all requests in a timely manner. In some instances, we may not be able to delete your Personal Data in order to comply with applicable laws (for example, it is necessary to keep the financial records of a transaction with you).
Change or Correct Data: You can edit some of Your Data through your account. You can also ask us to change, update or fix your data in certain cases, particularly if it’s inaccurate.
Object to, or Limit or Restrict, Use of Data: You can ask us to stop using all or some of Your Data.
Right to Access and/or Take Your Data: You have the right to see Your Data and take your data and we will work with you to be sure we can provide the most complete set of Your Data and a secure way to transfer Your Data.
Resignation/Account Closure: We will keep some of Your Data even after you resign your membership with HCCI. Please note that we will retain Your Data even after you have resigned your membership or closed your HCCI account if reasonably necessary to comply with our legal obligations (including law enforcement requests), meet regulatory requirements, resolve disputes, maintain security, prevent fraud and abuse, enforce our User Agreement, or fulfill your request to “unsubscribe” from further messages from us. We will retain de-personalized Data after your account has been closed.
Please note that HCCI will not delete or restrict access to Data about you where you have published in an HCCI journal or other HCCI publication including Division journals and/or newsletters. We will not delete historical Data that reference your service to HCCI or its Divisions in governance. We will not delete any comments or posts you have made on any of HCCI’s social media accounts or on any other of HCCI’s Digital Assets.
No data transmissions over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100 percent secure. Consequently, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any Data you transmit to us and you understand that any Data that you transfer to HCCI is done at your own risk. However, HCCI uses website security measures consistent with current best practices to protect its website, email and mailing lists. These measures include technical, procedural, monitoring and tracking steps intended to safeguard data from misuse, unauthorized access or disclosure, loss, alteration or destruction.
Credit card data is transmitted using Secure Socket Layer (“SSL”) encryption or Transport Layer Security (“TLS”). Member and purchaser Data is a high priority and we use our own protective measures, as well as the capabilities of our software and hardware vendors.
We realize there can be incidents of misuse or unauthorized program incursions, as almost every website, service and user encounters. In those instances, our goals are to move quickly to isolate the problem, ensure or restore proper functionality and minimize any inconvenience to our Users. As appropriate and necessary, HCCI will notify the relevant authorities of these incidents of misuse or unauthorized program incursions of the HCCI website.
HCCI retains information only as long as necessary to accomplish the business purpose for which it was collected and to comply with its legal and contractual obligations, plus 3 years, and then securely disposes of that information or converts it into non-personal information by aggregating it, de-identifying it, or otherwise anonymizing it so that it does not directly or indirectly identify you and cannot, with reasonable efforts, resources, and technologies, be used to re-identify you.
California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits our visitors who are California residents to request certain information regarding the HCCI’s disclosure of personal data to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please contact us at privacy@hcc-intl.com or 786.496.4063
HCCI Digital Assets, and the services HCCI provides to its Users, are not directed to or intended for individuals under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personal Data from children under 16. If we become aware that a child under the age of 16 has provided us with personal Data, we will take steps to delete such information. If you become aware that a child under the age of 16 has provided us with personal Data, please contact us at privacy@hcc-intl.com or 786.496.4063.
In the event that all or part of our assets are sold or acquired by another party, or in the event of a merger, you grant us the right to assign the personal and non-personal Data collected via HCCI Digital Assets.
Users may contact HCCI through email at privacy@hcc-intl.com or 786.496.4063. You may also mail us directly 17334 SW 22nd Miramar, FL 33029.
For Users of this website located in the European Union (“EU”), HCCI follows the Google EU User Consent Policy found at this link: http://www.google.com/about/company/user-consent-policy.html. By voluntarily using this website, EU Users consent to HCCI’s data collection, sharing, and usage as described above, as well consent to HCCI’s storing and accessing of cookies as described above. Any EU user not consenting to such uses by of data and cookies by HCCI should not use this website.
This section applies if you are an EU data subject (for these purposes, reference to the EU also includes the European Economic Area countries of Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway and, where applicable, Switzerland).
HCCI is the data controller for processing Personal Data provided to us through HCCI Digital Assets. Our registered office is 17334 SW 22nd ST, Miramar, FL 33029.
Subject to applicable law, you have the following rights in relation to your Personal Data:
We maintain reasonable risk-based physical, technical, and administrative safeguards to protect against unauthorized and accidental disclosure, use, alteration, or destruction of personal data in our possession, and to maintain the confidentiality, integrity, availability, and resilience of our systems, data, and services. We restrict access to Personal Data to those individuals and third parties that need to know the information to accomplish the business purposes described in this Privacy Statement. We are committed to taking appropriate measures to enforce compliance with this Privacy Statement. In addition, we comply with applicable law for protecting Personal Data.
We provide reasonable security controls to protect electronic Data that we receive from you against foreseeable hazards, but please note that no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. In addition, use of email to transmit Data is insecure and violates HCCI policy. Please contact us if you need a more secure method for transmitting Data.
HCCI reserves the right to make changes to our Privacy Policy at any time and for any reason without prior notice. Any changes to our Privacy Policy will be posted on this page and other places we deem appropriate so that you are always aware of our policies. We may also contact you by email with changes. Additionally, we will update the “last updated” date below.
SHRM Recertification
HCCI is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for the SHRM-CPSM or SHRM-SCPSM.
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