Privacy Policy
Effective date: April 2025
Hearne Economic and Community Development Corporations, also known separately as Hearne Economic Development Corporation (HEDC - Type A) and Hearne Community Development Corporation (HCDC - Type B) (“us,” “we,” or “our”) operates the www.hearneedc.com website (the “Service”).
This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data when you use our Service and the choices you have associated with that data.
We use your data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions, accessible from www.hearneedc.com.
Definitions
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Service
Service is the www.hearneedc.com website operated by Hearne Economic Development Corporation and Hearne Community Development Corporation. -
Personal Data
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
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). -
Location Data
We may use and store information about your location if you give us permission to do so (“Location Data”). We use this data to provide features of our Service, to improve and customize our Service.
You can enable or disable location services when you use our Service at any time, through your device settings. -
Tracking & Cookies Data
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:
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Session Cookies. We use Session Cookies to operate our Service.
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Preference Cookies. We use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.
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Security Cookies. We use Security Cookies for security purposes.
Use of Data
Hearne Economic and Community Development Corporations uses the collected data for various purposes:
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To provide and maintain our Service
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To notify you about changes to our Service
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To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service when you choose to do so
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To provide customer support
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To gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our Service
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To monitor the usage of our Service
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To detect, prevent and address technical issues
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To provide you with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless you have opted not to receive such information