Privacy Policy

Updated November 25, 2024

INTRODUCTION

This privacy notice (the “Privacy Policy”) provides you with details of how High Noon International (“High Noon International,” the “Company,” “we” or “us”) collects and processes your personal data through our website at www.highnoon.org (the “Site”) and/or any and all services provided in connection with the Site (collectively altogether the “Services”).

By accessing and utilizing our Services in any way, you represent to us that you are over eighteen (18) years old. High Noon International is the data controller for any personal data collected, and we are responsible for same. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, process, store, share, and otherwise interact with your personal data.

WHAT DATA DO WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU, FOR WHAT PURPOSE AND ON WHAT GROUND DO WE PROCESS IT

Personal data means any information capable of identifying an individual. It does not include anonymized data.

We may process the following categories of personal data about you:

Communication Data includes any communication that you send to us whether through the contact form on our website, email, text, social media messaging, social media posting or any other communication that you send us. Our lawful ground for processing this data is our legitimate interests, which in this case are to reply to communications sent to us, to maintain records, and to establish, pursue and/or defend legal claims.

Customer Data includes data relating to any purchases of goods and/or services such as your name, title, billing address, delivery address email address, phone number, contact details, purchase details and your card details. We process this data to supply the goods and/or services you have purchased and to maintain records of such transactions. Our lawful ground for this processing is the performance of a contract between you and us and/or taking steps at your request to enter into such a contract.

User Data includes data about how you use our Services together with any data that you post for publication on our website or through any of our Services. We process this data to operate our Services and ensure relevant content is provided to you, to ensure the security of our website, to maintain back-ups of our website and/or databases and to enable publication and administration of our website and other Services. Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate interests, which in this case are to enable us to properly administer our Services.

Technical Data includes data about your use of our Services such as your IP address, your login data, details about your browser, length of visit to pages on our website, page views and navigation paths, details about the number of times you use our website, time zone settings and other technology on the devices you use to access our website. The source of this data is from our analytics tracking system. We process this data to analyze your use of our Services, to administer and protect our business and website, to deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and to understand the effectiveness of our advertising. Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate interests, which in this case are to enable us to properly administer our website and our business and to grow our business and to decide our marketing strategy.

Marketing Data includes data about your preferences in receiving marketing from us and third parties and your communication preferences. We process this data to enable you to partake in our promotions such as competitions, prize draws and free giveaways, to deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of this advertising. Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate interests which in this case are to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them, to grow our business and to decide our marketing strategy.

We may use Customer Data, User Data, Technical Data and Marketing Data to deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you (including Facebook adverts or other display advertisements) and to measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we provide you. Our lawful ground for this processing is legitimate interests, which is to grow our business. We may also use such data to send other marketing communications to you. Our lawful ground for this processing is either consent or legitimate interests (namely to grow our business).

Sensitive Data

We do not collect any Sensitive Data about you. Sensitive Data refers to data that includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data. We do not collect any information about criminal convictions and offenses.

HOW WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We may collect data about you by you providing the data directly to us (for example by filling in forms on our Services or by sending us emails). We may automatically collect certain data from you as you use our website by using cookies and similar technologies. Please see our cookie policy for more details about this.

We may receive data from third parties such as analytics providers like Google, advertising networks like Facebook, search information providers like Google, and various providers of technical, payment and delivery services, such as data brokers or aggregators. These entities may be based inside or outside of the EU on a case-by-case basis.

We may also receive data from publicly availably sources such as Companies House and the Electoral Register based inside the EU.

MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS

Our lawful grounds of processing your personal data to send you marketing communications are either your consent or our legitimate interests (namely to grow our business).

Under the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations, you may receive marketing communications from us if: (i) you made a purchase or asked for information from us about our goods or services; or (ii) you agreed to receive marketing communications, and in either case you have not opted out of receiving such communications since. Under these regulations, if you are a corporate entity rather than an individual, we may send you marketing emails without your consent. However, you can still opt out of receiving marketing emails from us at any time.

Before we share your personal data with any third party for their own marketing purposes, we will request your express consent. You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time: (i) by logging into the website and checking or unchecking relevant boxes to adjust your marketing preferences; or (ii) by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you; or (iii) by emailing us at admin@highnoon.org at any time.

If you opt out of receiving marketing communications, this opt-out does not apply to personal data provided as a result of other transactions, such as purchases, warranty registrations, etc.

DISCLOSURES OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We may have to share your personal data with the parties set out below:

  • Other companies who provide services to us.

  • Service providers who provide IT and system administration services.

  • Professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors, and insurers.

  • Government bodies that require us to report processing activities.

  • Third parties to whom we sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets.

We require all third parties to whom we transfer your data to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We only allow such third parties to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS
Countries outside of the European Economic Area (EEA) do not always offer the same levels of protection to your personal data, so European law has prohibited transfers of personal data outside of the EEA unless the transfer meets certain criteria. Many of our third-party service providers are based outside the EEA, so their processing of your personal data will involve a transfer of data outside the EEA. Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the EEA, we do our best to ensure a similar degree of security of data by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is in place:

We will only transfer your personal data to countries that the European Commission have approved as providing an adequate level of protection for personal data; or

Where we use certain service providers, we may use specific contracts or codes of conduct or certification mechanisms approved by the European Commission which give personal data the same protection it has in Europe; or

If we use US-based providers that are part of EU-US Privacy Shield, we may transfer data to them, as they have equivalent safeguards in place.

If none of the above safeguards is available, we may request your express consent to the specific transfer. You will have the right to withdraw this consent at any time.

DATA SECURITY
We have put in place security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, altered, disclosed, or accessed without authorization. We also allow access to your personal data only to those employees and partners who have a business need to know such data. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they must keep it confidential.

We have procedures in place to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where legally required.

DATA RETENTION
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the legitimate purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

When deciding the permissible duration for maintaining data, we look at its amount, nature, sensitivity, potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure, processing purposes, whether the processing purposes can be achieved by other means, and legal requirements.

For tax purposes, the law requires us to keep basic information about our customers (including Contact, Identity, Financial, and Transaction Data) for six (6) years after they stop being customers.

In some circumstances, we may anonymize your personal data for research or statistical purposes, in which cases we may use this information indefinitely, without further notice to you.

YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS
Under data protection laws, you have rights in relation to your personal data that include the rights to request access, correction, erasure, restriction, transfer; the right to object to processing; the right to portability of data; and (where the lawful ground of processing is consent) the right to withdraw consent.

You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive, or excessive or we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.

We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one (1) month of receiving them. Occasionally it may take us longer than one (1) month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you.

THIRD-PARTY LINKS
Our Services may from time to time include links to third-party websites, plug-ins, and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notices of each and every other website you visit.

COOKIES
You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of our Services may become inaccessible or not function properly. For more information about the cookies we use, please see our full Cookie Policy.

Supplemental Terms and Conditions
Educational & Informational Purposes Only
The information contained in the High Noon International Services is for educational and informational purposes only and is made available to you as a self-help tool for your own personal use. It is not a substitute for professional medical, psychotherapy, or counseling advice. You acknowledge that we are not acting in the capacity of health professionals nor trained to provide psychotherapy or any medical care, and that we are not holding ourselves out as such. Do not provide us with protected health information (PHI) under any circumstances.

Comments
When visitors leave comments on the Services, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: highnoon.org/privacy-policy. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media
If you upload images to the Services, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to our website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies
If you leave a comment on our Services you may opt into saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one (1) year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two (2) days, and screen options cookies last for one (1) year. If you select “Remember Me,” your login will persist for two (2) weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after one (1) day.

Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on our Services may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged into that website.

Who We Share Your Data With
Personal sharing from participants during Zoom sessions is never recorded or shared. Program participants will not have access to other participants’ full names, emails, or physical addresses.

How Long We Retain Your Data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on or through our Services (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What Rights You Have Over Your Data
If you have an account with the Services, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Personal sharing from participants is never recorded or shared. High Noon International maintains the right to record certain educational portions of sessions for educational and training purposes.

Where We Send Your Data
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personal information. This does not include trusted third-party service providers who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or otherwise providing our Services, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also disclose personal information when we believe doing so is necessary to comply with the law, enforce our Terms and Conditions and/or Privacy Policy, or protect ours or others’ rights, property, safety, or security.

How We Protect Your Information
We implement a variety of reasonable security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you place an order or enter, submit, or access your personal information.

For example, we use a secure server. All supplied sensitive/credit information is transmitted via secure technology and then encrypted into our payment gateway provider’s database only to be accessible by those authorized with special access rights to such systems and are required to keep the information confidential.

Please be aware, however, that no data security measures can be guaranteed to be completely effective. Consequently, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information that you provide to us. You transmit information to us at your own risk, and you are responsible for all personal information you submit to us.

Contact Details
Full name of legal entity: High Noon International
Email address: admin@highnoon.org

It is very important that the information we hold about you is accurate and up to date. Please let us know if at any time your personal information changes by emailing us at admin@highnoon.org.