Privacy Policy

HATCH takes your and your family’s privacy very seriously. This privacy policy describes the treatment of information provided by you or collected by us.

Information Collected About Website Visitors

Like most websites, HATCH collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. HATCH’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how HATCH’s visitors use its website. From time to time, HATCH may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Types of Information We Collect

We collect two basic types of information – personal information and anonymous information – and we may use personal and anonymous information to create a third type of information, aggregate information. We collect the following categories of information:

Registration information you provide when you create an account, including your first name and surname, email address, physical address and interest data.

Transaction information you provide when you request information or purchase a product or service from us, whether on our sites or through our applications, including your postal address, telephone number and payment information.

Information you provide in public forums on our sites and applications.

Information sent either one-to-one or within a limited group using our message, chat, post or similar functionality, where we are permitted by law to collect this information.
Information you provide to us when you use our sites and applications, our applications on third-party sites or platforms such as social networking sites, or link your profile on a third-party site or platform with your registration account.

Location information when you visit our sites or use our applications, including location information either provided by a mobile device interacting with one of our sites or applications or associated with your IP address, where we are permitted by law to process this information.

Usage, viewing, and technical data, including your device identifier or IP address, when you visit our sites, use our applications on third-party sites or platforms or open emails we send.
HATCH also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. HATCH only discloses IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to HATCH’s websites choose to interact with HATCH in ways that require HATCH to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that HATCH gathers is dependent on the nature of the interaction. For example, registered users of HATCH provide their name, email address, and other information. Those who engage in transactions with HATCH are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, HATCH collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with HATCH. HATCH does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

HATCH may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. HATCH may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, HATCH does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

HATCH discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (1) need to know that information in order to process it on HATCH’s behalf or to provide services available at HATCH’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using HATCH’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. HATCH will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, HATCH discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when HATCH believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of HATCH, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of this website and have supplied your email address, HATCH may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with HATCH and our other products. We expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. HATCH takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. HATCH uses cookies to help HATCH identify and track visitors, their usage of HATCH website, and their website access preferences. HATCH visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using HATCH’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of HATCH may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

We may amend this Privacy Notice at any time by posting the amended terms on this site. All amended terms automatically take effect 30 days after they are posted. We may notify you via email of any material changes to this Privacy Notice.