How We Treat Your Information

We are committed to maintaining a high degree of ethical standards throughout every facet of our business. Our company recognizes the reasonable expectation held by our customer’s regarding our protection of any and all information provided to our company. Generally, we will not share, disclose or otherwise offer any non-public data or information to any persons or organizations, however we reserve the right to provide information under certain circumstances with:

•  Persons or entities involved in the fulfillment of a customer’s project.
•  Law enforcement or Courts of Law (including investigations, subpoenas, warrants for arrest, etc.)
•  Third parties investigating identity theft, credit card fraud, or other illegal or illicit behaviors.
•  Collection agencies, private investigators, or any agents working for our company.

Our internet privacy policy is designed to specifically protect our customers from third party nuisance e-mails, telephone solicitations and similar actions. Under no circumstances will be knowingly or intentionally provide information which might be deemed to be collusion, unethical or represent a conflict of interest.

Tracking Cookies

We do use analytics scripts which utilize cookies to retain information on visitor sessions. Use of our website may provide us with information including date and time of your visit, time spent on our site or individual pages, and the particular search engine from which you came to our site. No personal data is collected with our website analytics services.

Google Analytics protects your website tracking transactions with Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology. And your visitors’ information is secure, too – your reports don’t include identifiable information about your site’s users. We’d adhere to the policies stated in the Google Privacy Policy. Our site may utilize Remarketing with Google Analytics as part of our online marketing. The DoubleClick cookie enables remarketing for products like AdWords on the Google Display Network. For more information about this cookie, visit the Google Advertising Privacy FAQ. To opt our of remarketing, and manage your settings for this cookie, visit the Ads Preferences Manager.

Use of Information

We may occasionally use customer provided information, such as testimonials, in promoting or advertising our company. Any use of customer information will be treated with an appropriate level of discretion and sensitivity. We will not use information which we consider to be confidential or proprietary in our advertising.

We do not partner with or have working business relationships with advertising companies that involves providing said companies with customer information. An example of an exception is providing Google Adwords with customer billing information and related business or marketing information.

Third Party Content

Our company is responsible for only the content on our website. Where we may provide links to third party websites, we are not responsible for any content on, or activity conducted on or from these websites. Visitors to any third party websites do so at their own risk. Any links from our site to another website is not intended to convey an agreement with content, an endorsement or any particular company, product or service, or indicate that any content made available is fit for any particular purpose.

Site Updates

Our company does make reasonable efforts to update and maintain our internet privacy policy, any changes made are effectively immediately and may not be formally announced or otherwise advertised. We do not guarantee that we will issue any type of formal or informal notice of any changes to our website, policies or other information.

Any questions or concerns may be directed to our business office during regular business hours.

Updated June 26, 2018

We are pleased that you are visiting our website and thank you for your interest. In the following we inform you about:

• Data collection and storage
• Purpose and duration of data collection and storage
• Cookies
• Use of social media/YouTube videos
• Tools
• Your rights

Data Collection And Storage

Personal data are all data with which you can be personally identified. When contacting us through the website (via form or email), your personal data is collected. This data is stored and used exclusively for the purpose of responding to your request and communicating with you as needed.For security reasons and to protect the transmission of personal data and other confidential contents (e.g. orders or requests to the responsible person), this website uses SSL or TLS encryption. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the character string “https://” and the lock symbol in your browser line.

To delete or modify any data in which you could personally be identified contact support@hughesm.com. We will respond to your request promptly.

Purpose And Duration Of Data Collection And Storage

When using our website for information purposes only, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise provide us with information, we only collect data that your browser transmits to our server (so-called “server log files”). When you visit our website, we collect the following data that is technically necessary for us to display the website to you:

• Our visited website
• Date and time at the time of access
• Amount of data sent in bytes
• Source/reference from which you came to the page
• Browser used
• Operating system used
• IP address used (if applicable: in anonymized form)

Advertising & Analytics

Google: Our website uses Google Analytics, a service which transmits website traffic data to Google servers in the United States. Google Analytics does not identify individual users or associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. We use reports provided by Google Analytics to help us understand website traffic and web page usage. Google Analytics Opt-Out Add-on.

Facebook: Our website sometimes uses Facebook advertising as well as Facebook pixels for the purpose of tracking advertising efforts. Facebook does not identify individual users or associate your IP address with any other data held by Facebook. We use reports provided by Facebook to help us understand advertising efforts. Facebook privacy policy here.

Cookies

In order to make your visit to our website attractive and to enable the use of certain functions, we use cookies, which are small text files that are stored on your device. The purpose of these cookies is to collect and process specific user information, such as browser and location data as well as IP address values to an individual extent. In some cases, cookies are used to simplify a user’s experience by saving settings (i.e. remembering the contents of a prior website submission). Persistent cookies are automatically deleted after a specified period, which may vary depending on the cookie, or after you delete your own cookies within your browser settings. Some of the cookies we use are deleted after closing your browser.

Other cookies remain on your terminal and enable us or our partner companies (third-party cookies) to recognize your browser on your next visit; when we work with the aforementioned advertising partners, you will be individually and separately informed about the use of such cookies. Please note that if you do not accept cookies, the functionality of our website may be limited. To remove, block or learn more about your browser’s cookie settings, please visit your browser’s settings.

Use Of Youtube Videos

This website uses the Youtube embedding function to display and play videos from the provider “Youtube”, which belongs to Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”).
According to “Youtube”, these serve, among other things, to collect video statistics, to improve user-friendliness and to prevent abusive practices. If you are logged in to Google, your information will be directly associated with your account when you click on a video. If you do not wish to be associated with your profile on YouTube, you must log out before activating the button. Google saves your data (even for users who are not logged in) as usage profiles and evaluates them.

Regardless of the playback of the embedded videos, every time this website is accessed, a connection to the Google network “DoubleClick” is established, which can trigger further data processing operations without our influence.

Google LLC, based in the USA, is certified for the US European data protection agreement “Privacy Shield”, which guarantees compliance with the data protection level applicable in the EU. Further information on data protection at “YouTube” can be found in the provider’s data protection declaration at: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.

Tools And Miscellaneous

Google Maps: On our website we use Google Maps (API) from Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). Google Maps is a web service for displaying interactive (country) maps in order to display geographical information visually. By using this service you will be able to see our location and to find us easily.

When you access the sub-pages that contain the Google Maps map, information about your use of our website (such as your IP address) is transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. This is regardless of whether Google provides a user account that you are logged-in from or whether no user account exists If you are logged in to Google, your information will be directly associated with your account. If you do not wish to be associated with your profile on Google, you must log out before activating the button. Google saves your data (even for users who are not logged in) as usage profiles and evaluates them. Such an evaluation takes place in particular according to art. 6 para. 1 lit.f DSGVO on the basis of the legitimate interests of Google in the insertion of personalised advertising, market research and/or demand-oriented design of its websiteYou have the right to object to the creation of these user profiles, however, you must contact Google to exercise this right.

Google LLC, based in the USA, is certified for the US-European data protection agreement “Privacy Shield”, which guarantees compliance with the data protection level applicable in the EU.

If you do not agree to the future transmission of your data to Google in the context of the use of Google Maps, it is also possible to completely deactivate the Google Maps web service by switching off the JavaScript application in your browser. Only then Google Maps and therefore also the map display on this website cannot be used. You can view Google’s Terms of Use at http://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/terms/regional.html, the additional Terms of Use for Google Maps can be found at https://www.google.com/intl/de_US/help/terms_maps.html

Detailed information on data protection in connection with the use of Google Maps can be found on Google’s website (“Google Privacy Policy”): http://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/

Google Web Fonts: This website may or may not use web fonts provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”) to uniformly display fonts. When you call up a page, your browser loads the required Web fonts into its browser cache to display texts and fonts correctly.

To do this, the browser you are using must connect to Google’s servers. This gives Google knowledge that our website has been accessed via your IP address. The use of Google Web Fonts is in the interest of a uniform and appealing presentation of our online offers. This represents a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO. If your browser does not support web fonts, a default font is used by your computer. Google LLC, based in the USA, is certified for the US European data protection agreement “Privacy Shield”, which guarantees compliance with the data protection level applicable in the EU.

Further information about Google Web Fonts can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google’s privacy policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/