PRIVACY POLICY

Effective date: July 1, 2023

Welcome to halogenentertainment.com (“Website”), a website owned and operated by Halogen, LLC (“Halogen”, “we” “our”, “us”).

Please read the terms and conditions of this Agreement carefully before using our Website. By accessing or otherwise using any portion of the Website, you agree to be bound by the terms of this Agreement. If you are not willing to be bound by the terms of this Agreement, you may not access or otherwise use any portion of the Website.

Your privacy is important to us.

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, store, use, and disclose your information, including any personal information or data, when you use the Website. By using the Website, you are consenting to the use of your information in the manner set out in this Privacy Policy.

This Privacy Policy explains the following, among other things:

• Our principles with respect to your information and your privacy

• The information we collect about you

• How we use your information and our legal basis for processing

• How we share your information

• How we use cookies and similar technologies

• Your rights, including your choices, with respect to your information

• How to contact us regarding privacy issues

Please take some time to read this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. If you do not agree to any of the provisions of this Privacy Policy, you should not use the Platform. If you have any questions or concerns, you can contact us at [email protected].

Our Principles

We have a pretty simple approach to data protection and privacy, which can be summarized as follows:

You should know what we do with your information.

This Privacy Policy is designed to give you transparency regarding our data protection practices. If there’s anything that’s not clear from this Privacy Policy, please feel free to e-mail us at [email protected].

Information We Collect About You

You don’t need to provide us with any personal data in order to visit the Website. If you contact us through the contact form, you will provide us with your name and e-mail address. 

How We Use Your Information

We use the information that we collect about you to respond to you about any comment or inquiry submitted through our contact form. 

How We Share Your Information

We will not share your information with any third party except as described in this Privacy Policy. There are circumstances in which we may need to share some of the information we collect about you or the information you provide to us. These circumstances are as follows:

• Service providers: We use certain third parties, some of whom may be located outside of the United States, to provide us with certain specialized services related to the Website. For example, we may engage third-party service providers to host our Website or to provide analytics, advertising, communication, customer support, or maintenance. These third parties may have access to certain information about you but only where this is necessary in order for those third parties to provide their services to us. Where we transfer personal data to these third parties, we require these third parties to implement appropriate organizational and technical security measures to protect against unauthorized disclosure of personal data and only to process personal data in accordance with our instructions and to the extent necessary to provide their services to us. 

  Please see the below links to understand the privacy policies of third-party service providers (including any opt-out facilities they may have):

  • Google LLC: https://policies.google.com/privacy

  • Squarespace, Inc.: https://www.squarespace.com/privacy

• If required by law: We will disclose your information if we believe in good faith that we are permitted or required to do so by law, including in response to a court order, subpoena, or other legal demand or request.

• To protect our interests: We may disclose your information if we feel this is necessary in order to protect or defend our legitimate rights and interests or those of our users, employees, directors, or shareholders, or to ensure the safety and security of the Platform.

• In the context of a business transfer: We may transfer your information in the event of a corporate divestiture, acquisition, merger, dissolution, or insolvency. If there is a transfer of assets, your information may be reviewed, transferred to, and acquired by a third party. The new owner or newly controlling party will, under the terms of this Privacy Policy, be permitted to use your information for the purposes and in the scope that it was supplied to us.

• With your consent: Except as otherwise set forth in this Privacy Policy, we will disclose your information if you have explicitly agreed that we may do so. We will make this clear to you at the point at which we collect or agree to disclose your information.

How we use cookies and other measurement technologies

This section describes use of cookies and other measurement technologies used in device, user, and network identification.

For further information about how information may be shared by Halogen, please see the section “How We Share Your Information.”

What are cookies and other measurement technologies?

A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your computer, mobile phone, or other device when you visit a website. The cookie will help website providers to recognize your device the next time you visit their website. There are other similar technologies such as pixel tags (transparent graphic images placed on a web page or in an e-mail, which indicate that a page or e-mail has been viewed), web bugs (similar to pixel tags), and web storage, which are used in desktop software or mobile devices.

We use various technologies, including but not limited to session cookies (which expire once you close your Web browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on your device for a set period of time or until you delete them).

The information collected through such means are used for the following purposes:

Essential operational

This information allows us to operate the Website. For example, they allow us to recognize what type of user you are and then provide you with Website resources accordingly.

Performance and analytics

This information allows us to analyze how the Website is accessed, used, and performing. We use this information to maintain, operate, and improve the Website and to deliver information to you that you may find relevant or interesting

Third-party

We may allow our business partners to use cookies and other measurement technologies on or outside the Website for the same purposes identified above, including collecting information about your online activities over time. We may also use service providers acting on our behalf to use cookies for the purposes identified above.

Managing your preferences for cookie and other measurement technologies

Many Web browsers allow you to manage your preferences. You can set your browser to refuse cookies or delete certain cookies. You may be able to manage other measurement technologies in the same way that you manage cookies using your browser’s preferences.

Please note that if you choose to block cookies, doing so may impair the Platform or prevent certain elements of the Platform from functioning.

An available tool is the Network Advertising Initiative’s (NAI) Opt-Out Tool at https://www.networkadvertising.org/choices. This allows you to opt out from the use of information about your online activities for online behavioral advertising by NAI member companies.

By using this Website, you hereby consent to the use of the cookies and other measurement technologies described above. If you do not agree with any of the terms of this Privacy Policy, including our use of cookies and other measurement technologies, you should not use the Website.

For more information about the use of cookies and how to block them, visit https://www.allaboutcookies.org, https://www.youronlinechoices.eu/ (Europe), or https://www.aboutads.info/choices/ (United States). If you have any questions or comments about our use of cookies, please contact us at [email protected].

Third-party tracking

Third parties, other than our service providers, do not have authorization from us to track which websites, apps, or other online services you visit prior to and after visiting the Website. Please note, however, that we cannot control third-party tracking and there may be some third-party tracking that occurs without our consent or knowledge.

Your California Privacy Rights

Pursuant to Section 1798.83 of the California Civil Code, California residents have the right to request from a business with whom the California resident has an established business relationship: (1) What types of personal information, if any, of the California resident the business shares with third parties for direct marketing purposes of those third parties; and (2) the identities of the third parties with whom the business has shared such information in the immediately preceding calendar year.

Halogen does not currently share personal information with third parties for their direct marketing purposes.

If you have any questions, comments, or requests related to this section of the Privacy Policy, please contact us by e-mail at [email protected].

A number of states are currently considering enacting laws similar to the California law mentioned above. If you are a resident of a state that enacts such a law, please use the contact information provided above to contact us with any questions, comments, or requests.

Access to your data

If you wish to review, amend, or delete personal data we hold about you, or if you have any objection to the processing of any personal data that we hold about you, please contact us at [email protected]. or the address provided below. We will process and respond to your requests in accordance with applicable laws and regulations and our policies, including our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. We reserve the right to deny requests to amend or delete certain information where the request is not legally mandated or not technologically or practically feasible or where the request would require an unreasonable use or expenditure of additional resources.

International Data Transfers

Halogen is based in the United States, and your personal information is collected, stored, used, and shared in accordance with United States law. However, from time to time, it may be necessary for us, our affiliates, or our service providers to use, transfer, or store your personal data elsewhere around the world. If you are located outside the United States, be advised that any information you provide to us will be transferred to and stored in the United States and that, by using the Platform and submitting information to us, you explicitly authorize its transfer and storage within the United States. We will treat personal information subject to this Privacy Policy in accordance with this Privacy Policy regardless of where it is processed or stored. You should be aware that privacy laws in the United States may not be equivalent to the laws in other countries.

Children

The Website is not intended for use by children.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from any person who is under the age of 13 in the United States or any other jurisdiction. If it comes to our attention that we have collected personal data from a person under the age of 13, we will delete any such information as quickly as possible. If you have reason to believe that we may have collected any such personal data, please notify us immediately at [email protected].

Security and Data Retention

We take reasonable security precautions to protect the personal information that you choose to provide. Although guaranteed security does not exist on the Internet or offline, we make commercially reasonable efforts to handle such information consistent with this Privacy Policy and applicable laws. Due to the design of the Internet and other factors outside our control, we cannot guarantee communications between you and our servers will be free from unauthorized access by third parties. We will retain your personal data for as long as necessary for the purposes for which it was collected. The precise period will depend on the reason why it was collected. Those periods are also based on the requirements of applicable data protection laws, applicable legal and regulatory requirements, and periods relating to the commencement of legal actions.

Changes and Updates to this Policy

We may occasionally update this Privacy Policy, and when we do so, we will also update the date of last revision. Any changes to our Privacy Policy will always be available here so you are always aware of what information we gather and how we might use and share that information. Updates to this Privacy Policy will be effective upon their posting.

Questions?

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, want to suggest changes to this Privacy Policy, or want to know what information we store about you, please contact us by e-mail at [email protected].