Introduction

Welcome to Hakiim Herring’s website (www.hakiimherring.com). We value your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal information. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, and safeguard your data.

Who We Are

Our website address is: https://hakiimherring.com.

Information We Collect

We collect the following types of information when you visit our website and input your details:

• Personal Information: Name, email address, phone number, and any other information you provide through our forms.
• Comments: When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help with 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: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
• Usage Data: Information about how you use our website, including your IP address, browser type, and operating system.
• Media: If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect for the following purposes:

• Communication: To contact you via email, phone, or SMS about our services and updates.
• Service Improvement: To analyze website usage and improve our services.
• Marketing: To send promotional materials and information about our services, with your consent.
• Customer Service: To provide customer service solutions and support whenever you need to reach our brand.

Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to enhance your experience on our website. Here are the types of cookies we use:

• Comments Cookies: If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience, so you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
• Login Cookies: 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 days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
• Editing Cookies: 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 day.

Embedded Content from Other Websites

Articles on this site 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 in to that website.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your personal information to outside parties, except as described below:

• Service Providers: We may share your information with third-party service providers who assist us in operating our website and conducting our business. These providers are obligated to keep your information confidential.
• Legal Requirements: We may disclose your information if required by law or in response to legal requests.

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 our website (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.

Your Rights

You have the right to:

• Access the personal information we hold about you.
• Request correction or deletion of your personal information.
• Opt-out of receiving marketing communications from us.
• If you have an account on this site 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.

Data Security

We implement various security measures to protect your personal information. However, please be aware that no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is 100% secure.

Where Your Data Is Sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. Changes are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:

• Email: success@hakiimherring.com
• Phone: 404-496-8198

Thank you for trusting Hakiim Herring with your personal information. Your privacy is important to us.