Privacy Policy
Hoku Scientific, Inc. takes your privacy seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy.
What this Privacy Policy Covers
This policy covers how Hoku Scientific, Inc. treats personal information that Hoku Scientific, Inc. collects and receives, including information related to your past use of Hoku Scientific, Inc. products and services. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available.
This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that Hoku Scientific, Inc. does not own or control, or to people that Hoku Scientific, Inc. does not employ or manage. In addition, certain Hoku Scientific, Inc. associated companies.
Information Collection and Use
General
Hoku Scientific, Inc. collects personal information when you register with Hoku Scientific, Inc., when you use Hoku Scientific, Inc. products or services, when you visit Hoku Scientific, Inc. pages or the pages of certain Hoku Scientific, Inc. partners, and when you enter promotions or sweepstakes. Hoku Scientific, Inc. may combine information about you that we have with information we obtain from business partners or other companies.
When you register we ask for information such as your name, email address, birth date, gender, zip code, occupation, industry, and personal interests. Once you register with Hoku Scientific, Inc. and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.
Hoku Scientific, Inc. collects information about your transactions with us and with some of our business partners.
Hoku Scientific, Inc. automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, Hoku Scientific, Inc. cookie information, and the page you request.
Hoku Scientific, Inc. uses information for the following general purposes: to improve our services, contact you, conduct research, and provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
Hoku Scientific, Inc. does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies except to provide products or services you've requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:
- We provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with Hoku Scientific, Inc. under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help Hoku Scientific, Inc. communicate with you about offers from Hoku Scientific, Inc. and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information.
- We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims;
- We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of Hoku Scientific, Inc.'s terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
- We transfer information about you if Hoku Scientific, Inc. is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, Hoku Scientific, Inc. will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
Confidentiality and Security
We limit access to personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs.
We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations to protect personal information about you.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
Hoku Scientific, Inc. may update this policy. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your Hoku Scientific, Inc. account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.
Questions & Suggestions
If you have questions or suggestions, please contact us at:
Hoku Scientific, Inc.
1288 Ala Moana Blvd., Suite 220
Honolulu, Hawaii 96814 USA
Telephone: 808.682.7800
Fax: 808.440.0357
Email: info@hokucorp.com