This privacy policy (“Policy”) describes how HeroX collects, uses, and shares personal information of consumer users of this website, https://www.herox.com (the “Site”). This Policy also applies to any of our other websites that post this Policy. This Policy does not apply to websites that post different statements.
Information You Give Us. We collect information you directly give us on our Site, like: your name, email address, password, location, education history, and work history.
Information We Get from Others. We may get information about you from other sources like social networking services you choose to connect with our services. We may add this to information we get from this Site.
Information Automatically Collected. We automatically log information about you and your computer. For example, when you visit our Site we log your computer's operating system, Internet Protocol (IP) address, access times, browser type and language, and the website you visited before coming to our Site are logged automatically. We also log information about your use of and actions on our Site.
Cookies. We may log information using "cookies." Cookies are small data files stored on your hard drive by a website. Cookies help us make our Site and your visit better. We use cookies to see which parts of our Site people use and like and to count visits to our Site.
Web Beacons. We may log information using digital images called Web beacons on our Site or in our emails. We use Web beacons to manage cookies, count visits, and to learn what marketing works and what does not. We also use Web Beacons to tell if you open or act on our emails.
Local Shared Objects ("Flash Cookies"). We may use local shared objects, also known as "Flash cookies,” to store your preferences such as volume control or to display content based upon what you view on our websites to personalize your visit. Flash cookies are different from other cookies because of the amount of, type of, and way in which data is stored. Cookie management tools provided by your browser usually will not remove Flash cookies. To learn how to manage privacy and storage settings for Flash cookies click here: http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager.html#117118 (or in the EU http://www.youronlinechoices.com/).
Third party partners may also automatically collect information to provide certain features on our Site, conduct analytics, and display advertising based upon your Web browsing activity.
We use your personal information to:
Information You May Share
Our Site allows you to connect and share your actions, comments, content, and information with the world or with specific people. You may also connect to, and share your information on, third party websites and services. Please be mindful of your own privacy needs as you choose who to connect with and what to share and make public. We cannot control the privacy or security of information you choose to make public or share with others.
We do not share personal information with companies, organizations and individuals outside of HeroX unless one of the following circumstances applies:
Notice to California Residents - Your California Privacy Rights (As Provided by California Civil Code section 1798.83)
A California resident who has provided personal information to a business with whom he/she has established a business relationship for personal, family, or household purposes (a "California Customer") may request information about whether the business has disclosed personal information to any third parties for the third parties' direct marketing purposes. In general, if the business has made such a disclosure of personal information, upon receipt of a request by a California Customer, the business is required to provide a list of all third parties to whom personal information was disclosed in the preceding calendar year and a list of the categories of personal information that were disclosed. California Customers may request further information about our compliance with this law by e-mailing . Please note that we are required to respond to one request per California Customer each year, and we are not required to respond to requests made by means other than through this e-mail address.
HeroX is potentially liable for onward transfers to third parties of personal data of EU individuals received pursuant to General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We will share your personal information with third parties only in the ways that are described in this privacy policy.
We may provide or provide access to your personally identifiable information and the data generated by cookies and the aggregate information to the vendors and service agencies that we may engage to assist us. For example, a consultant may have access to your personally identifiable information while the consultant is performing services on our behalf if the services require access to your systems. Such third parties are required to agree to a non-disclosure and confidentiality agreement with us regarding your personally identifiable information. We only authorize them to use your personally identifiable information that they may have access to as necessary to perform services on our behalf and not for their own marketing purposes. We also may provide your personally identifiable information to our third party business service partners if you accept a challenge. They may use your personally identifiable information to send you marketing and promotional information in accordance with their policies.
Other people will be able to view such data if such data is published on third party websites.
We will also disclose your personally identifiable information and the aggregate information if we reasonably believe we are required to do so by law, court order, warrant, lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security, subpoena, legal process or regulation or in cooperation with any governmental investigation. We may transfer your personally identifiable information and the aggregate information to a successor entity upon a merger, consolidation or other corporate reorganization in which HeroX participates or to a purchaser of all or substantially all of HeroX’s assets to which this Site relates. You will be notified via email and/or a prominent notice on our Web site of any change in ownership or uses of your personally identifiable information, as well as any choices you may have regarding your personally identifiable information.
When you make an account on the HeroX Site, you may not opt-in to our marketing emails. If you do not opt in, we may still send you non-marketing emails. Non-marketing emails include emails about your accounts and our business dealings with you.
You can change contact choices, opt-in to our newsletter, and update your personal information on your account on the Site. You may send requests about personal information to .
When you visit our Site, our Site honors your Web browser signal and other similar mechanisms that indicate your choice to disable tracking of your online activities over time and across different websites and online services. You can typically remove and reject cookies from our Site with your browser settings. Many browsers are set to accept cookies until you change your settings. If you remove or reject our cookies, it could affect how our Site works for you. You can also adjust your preferences regarding Flash Cookies and Third Party Advertising used on our site as indicated above.
We take steps to help protect personal information. No company can fully prevent security risks, however. Mistakes may happen. Bad actors may defeat even the best safeguards. To protect yourself and your information, choose a unique password for our Site and do not use a password on our Site that you would use on any other Site.
Individuals have a right to their personal data as collected by HeroX. This can be obtained by sending a request to
At any point, you can delete your data by navigating to the edit section of your profile page, scrolling to the bottom, and clicking the 'Delete Account' link at the very bottom. If you need any assistance, please contact us at .
We welcome your comments or questions about this Privacy Policy. Please e-mail us at You may also contact us at: HeroX Attention: Legal Department 616 Corporate Way Suite 2-3445 Valley Cottage, NY 10989
We may change this Privacy Policy. If we make any changes, we will change the Last Updated date below.
