Effective date: November 27, 2024
At Hooc, we take your privacy seriously. Please read this Privacy Policy to learn how we treat your personal data. By using or accessing our Services in any manner, you acknowledge that you accept the practices and policies outlined below, and you hereby consent that we will collect, use and share your information as described in this Privacy Policy.
Remember that your use of Hooc's Services is at all times subject to our Terms, which incorporates this Privacy Policy. Any terms we use in this Policy without defining them have the definitions given to them in the Terms of Service.
As we continually work to improve our Services, we may need to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. Upon such changes, we will alert you to any such changes by placing a notice on the Hooc website, by sending you an email and/or by some other means. Please note that if you've opted not to receive legal notice emails from us (or you haven't provided us with your email address), those legal notices will still govern your use of the Services, and you are still responsible for reading and understanding them. If you use the Services after any changes to the Privacy Policy have been posted, that means you agree to all of the changes.
This Privacy Policy covers how we treat Personal Data that we gather when you access or use our Services. "Personal Data" means any information that identifies or relates to a particular individual and also includes information referred to as "personally identifiable information" or "personal information" under applicable data privacy laws, rules or regulations. This Privacy Policy does not cover the practices of companies we don't own or control or people we don't manage.
This chart details the categories of Personal Data that we collect and have collected over the past 12 months:
| Category | Examples | Third Parties We Share With |
|---|---|---|
| Profile or Contact Data | First and last name, Email, Phone number | Service Providers, Advertising Partners, Analytics Partners, Business Partners, Parties You Authorize |
| Payment Data | Financial account information, Payment card type, Last 4 digits of payment card, Billing address | Service Providers (specifically our payment processing partner, Stripe, Inc.) |
| Commercial Data | Purchase history | Parties You Authorize, Access or Authenticate |
| Device/IP Data | IP address, Device ID, Type of device/operating system/browser, Device fingerprint | Advertising Partners, Analytics Partners |
| Web Analytics | Web page interactions, Referring webpage, Non-identifiable request IDs, Browsing or search history | Advertising Partners, Analytics Partners, Parties You Authorize |
| Social Network Data | Email, User name, Information from social media profiles | Service Providers, Analytics Partners, Parties You Authorize |
| Geolocation Data | IP address-based location, Browser time zone | Service Providers, Advertising Partners, Analytics Partners |
| Sensory Data | Photos, videos or recordings you upload for AI video generation | Service Providers, Analytics Partners, Business Partners, Parties You Authorize |
We collect Personal Data about you from the following categories of sources:
We disclose your Personal Data to the categories of service providers and other parties listed below:
The Services use cookies and similar technologies such as pixel tags, web beacons, clear GIFs and JavaScript (collectively, "Cookies") to enable our servers to recognize your web browser and tell us how and when you visit and use our Services.
We use the following types of Cookies:
You can decide whether or not to accept Cookies through your internet browser's settings. Most browsers have an option for turning off the Cookie feature.
We seek to protect your Personal Data from unauthorized access, use and disclosure using appropriate physical, technical, organizational and administrative security measures based on the type of Personal Data and how we are processing that data. Although we work to protect the security of your account and other data that we hold in our records, please be aware that no method of transmitting data over the internet or storing data is completely secure.
We retain Personal Data about you for as long as necessary to provide you with our Services or to perform our business or commercial purposes for collecting your Personal Data. When establishing a retention period for specific categories of data, we consider who we collected the data from, our need for the Personal Data, why we collected the Personal Data, and the sensitivity of the Personal Data.
As noted in the Terms of Service, we do not knowingly collect or solicit Personal Data about children under 16 years of age; if you are a child under the age of 16, please do not attempt to register for or otherwise use the Services or send us any Personal Data. If we learn we have collected Personal Data from a child under 16 years of age, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that a child under 16 years of age may have provided Personal Data to us, please contact us at support@hooc.ai.
If you are a California resident, you have the following rights under the CPRA:
If you are a Virginia resident, you have similar rights under the VCDPA including access, correction, deletion, portability, and the right to opt-out of targeted advertising. To exercise your rights or appeal a decision, email us at support@hooc.ai with "VCDPA" in the subject line.
If you are using the Services in the European Region, we process your personal data based on: performance of our contract with you, your consent, our legitimate interests, and compliance with legal obligations. You have rights including access, rectification, erasure, data portability, and the right to lodge complaints with your local data protection authority.
We retain data according to Korean law requirements. You have the right to access, rectify, delete, and suspend processing of your personal data.
Additional terms may apply for users in Brazil, Indonesia, Vietnam, South Africa, Philippines, Egypt, Mexico, and UAE. Please contact us for region-specific information.
If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at: