Honey Bee Brands respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how Honey Bee Brands collects, uses, discloses and protects personal information when you visit hbabrands.com, contact us, become a client or make a payment through Stripe.
1. Information We Collect
We may collect information that you provide directly to us, including your name, business name, job title, email address, telephone number, mailing address and information about your company, products or retail needs.
We may also collect information you provide when you:
- Submit a website form
- Schedule a consultation
- Subscribe to an email or report
- Communicate with Honey Bee Brands
- Sign an agreement or become a client
- Receive or pay an invoice
When you visit our website, certain information may be collected automatically. This can include your internet protocol address, browser type, device type, operating system, pages viewed, referring website, approximate location and the dates and times of your visits.
2. Payment Information
Honey Bee Brands uses Stripe to process credit card, debit card and certain other electronic payments.
When you make a payment, Stripe may collect your name, email address, billing address, payment card or bank account information, transaction information, device information and information used to prevent fraud.
Honey Bee Brands does not directly receive or store your complete payment card number or card security code. We may receive limited transaction information from Stripe, such as the payment amount, payment status, payment date, card type and the last four digits of the payment method.
Stripe processes personal information according to its own privacy practices. You can review the Stripe Privacy Center for more information.
3. How We Use Information
Honey Bee Brands may use personal information to:
- Respond to questions and business inquiries
- Schedule consultations and meetings
- Evaluate whether our services are a fit for a company
- Provide retail brokerage, consulting and account management services
- Prepare agreements, invoices and client records
- Process and confirm payments
- Communicate with clients about services, accounts and payments
- Send requested reports, resources or business communications
- Operate, maintain and improve our website
- Detect fraud, protect our systems and maintain security
- Comply with legal, tax, accounting and regulatory requirements
- Enforce our agreements and protect our legal rights
We may send marketing communications when permitted by law. You may unsubscribe using the link included in the communication or by contacting us.
4. How We Disclose Information
We may disclose personal information to companies that help us operate our business. These may include Stripe, website hosting providers, scheduling platforms, customer relationship management systems, accounting providers, email providers, analytics services and information technology providers.
We may also disclose information:
- To accountants, attorneys and other professional advisers
- When required by law, court order or lawful government request
- When necessary to prevent fraud, security threats or illegal activity
- To protect the rights, property or safety of Honey Bee Brands or others
- In connection with a merger, sale, financing, reorganization or transfer of the business
- At your direction or with your consent
Honey Bee Brands does not sell personal information for monetary consideration. Certain analytics or website technologies may allow service providers to collect information through cookies. Depending on the applicable law and how those technologies are used, some activity may be treated as sharing personal information.
5. Cookies and Website Analytics
Our website may use cookies and similar technologies to operate properly, remember preferences, understand website traffic and improve performance.
You can control cookies through your browser settings. Blocking cookies may affect how portions of the website work.
Some browsers provide a Do Not Track setting. Because there is no uniform industry standard for responding to these signals, our website may not currently respond to Do Not Track signals. Third party providers may collect information about your online activity over time and across different websites according to their own privacy practices.
6. Your Privacy Choices
You may contact Honey Bee Brands to request access to, correction of or deletion of personal information that we maintain about you. Certain information may need to be retained for legal, accounting, tax, contractual, fraud prevention or legitimate business purposes.
We may need to verify your identity before completing a request. Privacy rights vary depending on where you live and which privacy laws apply.
To make a privacy request, email info@hbabrands.com with the subject Privacy Request.
7. Data Retention
We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to provide services, maintain business and payment records, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce agreements.
The length of time information is retained depends on the type of information, why it was collected and applicable legal or contractual requirements.
8. Data Security
Honey Bee Brands uses reasonable administrative, technical and organizational safeguards intended to protect personal information. No website, email system, payment system or electronic transmission method can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
9. Children’s Privacy
Our website and services are intended for businesses and adults. Honey Bee Brands does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we learn that we have collected such information, we will take reasonable steps to delete it.
10. Third Party Websites
Our website may contain links to retailers, distributors, service providers and other third party websites. Honey Bee Brands is not responsible for the privacy, security or content practices of those websites. Please review their privacy policies before providing personal information.
11. International Data Processing
Honey Bee Brands is based in the United States. Information may be processed and stored in the United States or other countries where our service providers operate. Those countries may have privacy laws that differ from the laws where you live.
12. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy when our services, website practices, payment systems or legal obligations change. The effective date at the top of this page will show when the policy was most recently updated.