Privacy Policy

Hapiglow, Inc., is a New Jersey, United States, registered Corporation with a global outreach. It provides free educational services. Its basic commodities are happiness and wealth development, and instructions are provided free. Its customers are individuals, “Chapters,” and “Happiness Development Projects,” businesses, and other bodies and institutions.

“This business belongs to all of us, and its success is our success” is the guiding principle of Hapiglow, Inc. The business and the customers are one entity. Therefore, the terms “we,” “our,” “us” implies the business, which also includes its customers. This language has been conveyed as much as possible in the Privacy Policy. Thus, any appearance of a separation of these entities is merely an attempt to effectively communicate and facilitate understanding of this policy.

The Privacy Policy is critically important to the Hapiglow, Inc. enterprise. Here are a few fundamental principles:

Hapiglow, Inc. is thoughtful about the personal information it seeks and collects about customers in furtherance of our business goals.
It stores personal information only as necessary.
It aims to make its demands as simple as possible for users to control the information they share.
It protects customers from overreaching government demands for personal information.
It aims for full transparency on how it gathers, uses, and shares users’ personal information.

Below is our Privacy Policy, which incorporates and clarifies these principles.

Information it collects information

Hapiglow, Inc. only collects information about customers if it has a reason to do so – for example, to provide its services, to communicate with users, or to improve its services. It collects information in three ways:

from what customers provide at registration;
automatically when users engage the services; and
from external or affiliate sources.

Here are the details.

Information that customers provide.

The amount and type of information depends on the context and how the site uses the information. Here are some examples:

Basic Account Information: This site asks for basic information from users to set up accounts. For example, it requires individuals, corporations, Chapters and Projects and other entities that sign up to provide a name and email address–and that’s it. Users may provide more information–like a profile photo, but Hapiglow, Inc. doesn’t require that information to create an account.
Public Profile Information: Hapiglow, Inc. collects information that users provide for their public profiles, such as name, and other data that entered into About Me/Us” description, including photo.
Transaction and Billing Information: If an entity buys Ad space from Hapiglow, Inc., it requires you to provide additional personal and payment information to process the transaction and make payment, such as name, credit card information, and contact information. Payments by customers to external bodies will be subject to the stipulations of such entities.
Content Information: A member may provide information in draft and published content (such as for a group or community). For example, a post that includes biographic information about a member, will have that information, and so will anyone with access to the Internet.
Communications with Hapiglow, Inc.: A customer may also provide information when responding to surveys or in communicating with the support team about an operational question, or post questions into public forums.

Information Automatically Collected

Hapiglow, Inc. also collects information automatically:

Log Information: This site collects information that web browsers, mobile devices, and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, IP address, unique device identifiers, language preference, referring site, the date and time of access, operating system, and mobile network information. It collects log information when opening an account.
Location Information: This site may determine the approximate location of your device from your IP address. It collects and uses this information to, for example, calculate how many people visit the site and use services from certain geographic regions. It may also collect information about users’ precise location via their mobile apps; for example, users post photographs with location information with permissions from their mobile device operating system.
Stored Information: This site may access information stored on your mobile device via the mobile app. It accesses this stored information with permissions from their mobile device operating systems. For example, Hapiglow, Inc. may access the photos stored on your device when you upload a photo of the sunrise to your account, if you give it permission to access the photographs on your mobile device’s camera roll.
Information from Cookies & Other Technologies: A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Pixel tags (also called web beacons) are small blocks of code placed on websites and emails.

Hapiglow uses cookies and other technologies like pixel tags to identify and track visitors, determine usage, and access preferences, track and understand email campaign effectiveness, and deliver targeted ads. See Cookie Policy below for more information.

Information collected from other sources

Hapiglow, Inc. may also generate information about users from other sources. For example, when users create or log into their Hapiglow account through another service (like Google) or a social media service (like Facebook), it will receive information from that service (such as your username, basic profile information, and friends list) via the authorization procedures used by that platform.

Why Hapiglow, Inc. uses Information

Hapiglow, Inc. uses information as mentioned above for these purposes:

To provide services – for example, to set up and maintain user accounts, backup, and restore personal data.
To charge users for payments, e.g., ad services.
To further develop and improve the services – for example by adding new features to increase the understanding and learning about happiness and wealth development and the effective use of the platform.
To monitor and analyze trends and better understand how users interact with the site, which helps Hapiglow, Inc. to improve content quality and streamline flow of use;
To measure, gauge, and improve the effectiveness of advertising, and better understand user retention and attrition;
To monitor and protect the security of the services, detect, and prevent fraudulent behaviors and other illegal activities, fight spam, and protect the rights and property of Hapiglow and others that may lead to declining use of the services;
To communicate with users, for example, through emails about offers and promotions offered by Hapiglow and others it thinks will be of interest to customers, solicit feedback, or keep customers up to date on the products; and
To personalize the experiences of customers, provide content recommendations, target marketing messages to individuals, Chapters and Projects, and serve relevant advertisements.

Legal Bases for Collecting and using Information under EU data protection laws

For those in the European Union, our legal grounds for processing and using customer information are:

The use is necessary to fulfill Hapiglow, Inc.’s commitments to customers under our Terms of Service or other agreements with users. It is also necessary to administer users’ accounts – for example, to enable users access to the site from their devices; or
The use is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation; or
The use is necessary to protect users vital interests or those of other persons; or
Hapiglow, Inc. has a legitimate interest in using customer information – for example, to provide and update the services, to improve the services for better user experience, to safeguard the services, to communicate with users, to measure, gauge, and improve the effectiveness of advertising, and better understand customer retention and attrition, to monitor and prevent any problems with the services, and to personalize user experience; or
Users have given Hapiglow, Inc. their consent – for example, before it accesses customers’ devices, as described in the Cookie Policy below.

Sharing Information

How Hapiglow, Inc. shares Information

Hapiglow, Inc. does not sell users’ private personal information. It shares customers information in limited circumstances as spelled out below and with appropriate safeguards on users’ privacy:

Subsidiaries, Employees, and Independent Contractors: Hapiglow, Inc. may disclose user information to subsidiaries, employees, and independent contractors that need to provide services. These entities, i.e., subsidiaries, employees, and independent contractors are required to comply with this Privacy Policy for the personal information that we share with them.
Third Party Vendors: Hapiglow, Inc. may share information about users with third party vendors who need information to provide their services to it, or to provide their services to customers. This group includes vendors that process credit and debit cards, fraud prevention services, postal and email delivery services, customer chat and email support services, marketing services, and operations and systems analysts, among others. Hapiglow, Inc. requires vendors to agree to privacy commitments before information is shared with them.
Legal Requests: Hapiglow, Inc. may disclose information about users in response to subpoenas, court order, or other governmental requests.
To Protect Rights, Property, and Others: Hapiglow, Inc. may disclose information about users, when it believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Hapiglow, third parties, or the public at large. For example, if it has the good faith belief that there is an imminent danger of death or serious physical injury, it may disclose information without delay.
Business Transfers: In connection with any merger, sale of company assets, or acquisition of all or a portion of the business or aspects of it, or in the unlikely event that Hapiglow, Inc. goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would likely be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. If any of these events occurs, this Privacy Policy would continue to apply with regards to user information and the party receiving the information may continue to use the information, but only in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
With User Consent: Hapiglow, Inc. may share and disclose information with user consent or at direction. For example, it may share customer information with third parties with users’ authorization to do so.
Aggregated or De-Identified Information: Hapiglow, Inc. may share information that has been aggregated or reasonably de-identified, so that the information could not reasonably be used to identify individual customers. For instance, Hapiglow, Inc. may publish aggregate statistics about service usage, and it may share a hashed version of customer email addresses to facilitate customized ad campaigns on other platforms.
Other Site Owners: If you have a Hapiglow account and leave a comment on another site that uses our services (like a site created on Hapiglow), your IP address and the email address associated with your Hapiglow account may be shared with the administrator(s) of the site where you left the comment.

Information Shared Publicly

Information disclosed publicly by customers, like user public profiles, posts, and “Likes” and comments on other websites, are all available to others. For example, photos that users upload to their public profiles, or default images, along with other public profile information, will display with the comments and “Likes” that users make on other users’ websites while logged in to their accounts at Hapiglow, Inc. Public information may also be indexed by search engines or used by third parties. Be advised to understand these ramifications before deciding what information to share and level of activities on social media.

How Long does Hapiglow, Inc. Keep Information?

In general, Hapiglow, Inc. discards information about users when it no longer needs the information for the purposes for which it collects and uses it; this is described in the section on How and Why It Uses Information above – and we are not legally required to continue to keep it. For example, Hapiglow, Inc. keeps the web server logs that record information about a visitor, such as the visitor’s IP address, browser type, and operating system, for approximately 30 days. It retains the logs for this period to, among other things, analyze traffic to the site and investigate issues if something goes wrong.

Security

While no online service is 100% secure, Hapiglow, Inc. endeavors to protect user information against unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction. It takes reasonable measures to do so, such as monitoring the website for potential vulnerabilities and attacks. To enhance the security of user accounts, it encourages users to choose secure passwords and never share their password with someone else under any circumstances.

Information Sharing Choices

Customers have choices available to them when it comes to sharing their data:

Limiting the Information provided: Customers can choose not to provide the optional account information, profile information, and transaction and billing information. However, keep in mind that certain features of the site may not be accessible.
Limiting Access to Information On Mobile Devices: Mobile devices have the options to share or discontinue collection and sharing of stored information, including location data. However, imposing restrictions on collection and sharing information also means loss of certain device capabilities. For example, restriction on location information would mean omitting location data on photographs.
Opt-Out of Electronic Communications: Users may opt out of receiving promotional messages from Hapiglow, Inc. Remember to be aware and follow the instructions, including cautions in promotional messages. If you opt out of promotional messages, Hapiglow, Inc. may still send other messages, like those about user accounts and legal notices.
Setting Browser to Reject Cookies: Users may choose to set their browsers to remove or reject browser cookies before using Hapiglow; but the drawback is that certain features may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Users May Close their Account: Users can close their account at any time, if they no longer want to use Hapiglow, Inc. However, Hapiglow may continue to retain user information after an account has been closed, as described in How Long It Keep Information section above – for example, when that information is reasonably needed to comply with (or demonstrate compliance with) legal obligations such as law enforcement requests, or reasonably needed for our legitimate business interests.

Your Rights

Users in certain countries, including those that fall under the scope of the European General Data Protection Regulation, data protection laws give certain user rights regarding personal data, subject to any exemptions provided by the law, including the rights to:

Request access to personal data;
Request correction or deletion of personal data;
Object to supplier use and processing of personal data;
Request that vendor limits use and processing of personal data; and
Request portability of personal data.

Users can access, correct, or delete personal data using their account settings and tools. But, if customers are unable to do that, they can contact Hapiglow, Inc. Users also have the right to make a complaint to a government supervisory authority.

How to Contact Hapiglow, Inc.

For questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at [email protected]

Other Things You Should Know

Transferring Information

Because Hapiglow, Inc, offers its services worldwide, user information may be accessed, processed, and used by third party processors operating outside the United States. Refer to “Why Hapiglow, Inc. Uses Information” and “How Hapiglow, Inc. Shares Information” sections above. Hapiglow, Inc. takes appropriate measures to ensure that data processing entities outside the United States adequately protect users’ personal information, in accordance with this Privacy Policy and as required by applicable laws. These measures include:

In the case of IT based entities, entering approved United States standard contractual arrangements with them, or
In the case of entities in the European Economic Area (EEA) ensuring they have signed up to the EU-IT Privacy Shield; or
In the case of entities based in other countries outside the EEA, entering approved standard contractual arrangements with them.

Ads and Analytics Services Provided by Others

Ads appearing on the Hapiglow, Inc. site may be delivered by advertising networks. Other parties may also provide analytics services. These ad networks and analytics providers may set tracking technologies (like cookies) to collect information about customer activities. These technologies allow these third parties to recognize user devices to compile information about customers or others who use their devices. This information allows Hapiglow, Inc. and other companies to, among other things, analyze and track usage, determine the popularity of certain content, and deliver advertisements that may be more targeted to user interests. Please note this Privacy Policy only covers the collection of information by Hapiglow and does not cover the collection of information by any third-party advertisers or analytics providers.

Third Party Software

Users must be aware that when they use third party plugins or other third-party software, they often provide information about themselves (or their sites) to those third parties. Therefore, they are advised to always review the rules of third parties about collection, use and sharing of information, because Hapiglow, Inc. neither owns nor has control over them.

Visitors to Users’ Websites

Hapiglow, Inc. may also process information about visitors to customers’ websites, on their behalf and in accordance with user agreements. However, this Privacy Policy does not cover the activity; this is to encourage users to post privacy policies that accurately describe their practices on data collection, use, and sharing of personal information.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Hapiglow may make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time. Therefore, it encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to this Privacy Policy. Hapiglow, Inc, will notify users when and if it makes changes, and in some cases, It may provide additional notice (such as adding a statement to the homepage or blog or sending a notification through email or users’ dashboards). Further use of the site after a change to the Privacy Policy will be subject to the updated policy.

Cookie Policy

This is the Hapiglow, Inc. Cookie Policy. As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies.

What Are Cookies?

Cookies are strings of data created by a web server while a user is browsing a website and downloaded to the visitor’s computer or other devices, to improve user experiences. This page describes what information cookies gather, how Hapiglow, Inc. uses cookies and why the site stores these cookies. Hapiglow, Inc. also shares how users can prevent these cookies from being stored in their computers or other devices. However, such actions may limit the functionality of this site to them.

For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies.

How Hapiglow, Inc. Uses Cookies

Hapiglow, Inc. uses cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately, it seems there are no industry options for restricting cookies without limiting the site functionality. Therefore, users are advised to leave on all cookies whether they need them or not, unless they have detailed understanding and control of how cookies will impact them.

Disabling Cookies Settings

You may disable or adjust the cookie setting on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). However, be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies often results in loss of certain functionalities and features provided by most sites. Therefore, users are advised not to disable cookies.

The Cookies Hapiglow, Inc. Sets

Account related cookies: Hapiglow, Inc. uses cookies to manage the signup process and general administration. Thus, when a user opens an account, cookies are created, but they are usually deleted when the user logs out, although cookies may remain to remember user site preferences.
Login related cookies: Hapiglow, Inc. creates cookies when users log into their accounts so that it can remember this fact. This prevents the user from having to log in every single time they visit a new page. These cookies are typically cleared when users log out to ensure that accounts are secure and only persons with the right security identification can access the account.
Site preferences cookies: Hapiglow, Inc provides users with a great experience by enabling cookies that set user preferences and streamline how the site runs when customers use it. The cookies set the information that can be called up whenever the user interacts with a page that is affected by user preferences.

Third Party Cookies

Hapiglow, Inc. also uses cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details third party cookies encountered on this site.

Google Analytics. This is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web for helping to understand how customers use the site and how Hapiglow, Inc. can improve customer experience. These cookies may track how long users spend on the site and the pages that they visit so this site can continue to produce engaging content.
See the official Google Analytics page to learn more about Google Analytics cookies.
Google AdSense. This is another Google service that Hapiglow, Inc. uses to serve advertising. It uses a DoubleClick cookie to decipher more relevant ads across the web and helps to limit the number of times that a given ad is shown to customers. See official Google AdSense privacy FAQ to learn more about this service and related cookies.
Hapiglow, Inc. periodically tests new features and makes subtle changes to the way its products are delivered to customers. When testing new features cookies are used to determine which optimizations customers appreciate the most.

For more information can contact us at [email protected].
Effective from December 15, 2021