Privacy Policy

Last Updated: April 29, 2020    

Protecting your private information is our priority. This Statement of Privacy applies to Hefe Technologies Inc (Hefe) and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to Hefe Technologies Inc include Kuote.com, GetHefe.com and HefeApp.com. Hefe provides temporary use software as a service in both downloadable and non-downloadable forms in the field of staffing and employment, contracting, sub-contracting; Enabling and facilitating the posting of work opportunities, searching, building contact lists, application, screening, negotiation, booking, onboarding, communications, timecards, payment and ratings; The service facilities the staffing and employment of workers, contractors and sub-contractors; The service enables posting of short term and permanent work needs for a variety of services; The service enables hourly and fixed price opportunities of both private and public in nature; The service enables workers to search for private and public opportunities based on rates, number of hours, skills, experience, equipment and prerequisites; The service enables the workers to apply for private and public opportunities of interest; The service enables the hiring party to invite existing workers, contractors and sub-contractors to the service; The service enables screening, qualification and negotiation of opportunities between parties; The service enables booking of the workers; The service facilitates communications including onboarding, direct messages, group messages; The service enables tracking of working to completion including time entry, time tracking, time management, expenses and fees; The service enables location services for directions, location of the opportunity, arrival and departure; The service facilitates payment between the hiring and working parties;  The service enables and provides reviews and ratings of both the worker and hiring parties. The service enables 3rd party agents to facilitate the usage of the platform between parties. By using the Hefe website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

In order to better provide you with products and services offered on our Site, Hefe may collect personally identifiable information, such as your:    

  • First and Last Name  

  • Mailing Address  

  • E-mail Address  

  • Phone Number

  • Information needed to conduct Background Checks    

If you use Hefe's products and services, we collect billing, credit card, debit or ACH information through our secure transaction partner Stripe, you can read more about their privacy policy. We never store your financial information on our servers. This information is used to complete the purchase transaction.  

We do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. However, you may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to use certain products or services available on the Site. These may include: (a) registering for an account on our Site; (b) entering a sweepstakes or contest sponsored by us or one of our partners; (c) signing up for special offers from selected third parties; (d) sending us an email message; (e) submitting your credit card or other payment information when ordering and purchasing products and services on our Site. To wit, we will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to services and/or products you have requested from us. We also may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future.  

Use of your Personal Information

Hefe collects and uses your personal information to operate its website(s) and deliver the services you have requested.  

Hefe may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Hefe and its affiliates.  

Sharing Information with Third Parties

Hefe does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.  

Hefe may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Hefe, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.  

Hefe may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Hefe or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Hefe; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Hefe, or the public.  

Tracking User Behavior

Hefe may keep track of the websites and pages our users visit within Hefe, in order to determine what Hefe services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Hefe to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area. Tracking may include location data in order to optimize work and workers for a given geographical area.

Automatically Collected Information

Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by Hefe. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Hefe website.  

Personal Data Access

How you can see or change your account Personal Data. If You would like to review, correct, or update Personal Data that You have previously disclosed to us, You may do so by signing in to your account or by contacting us.

Use of Cookies

The Hefe website may use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.  

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Hefe pages, or register with Hefe site or services, a cookie helps Hefe to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Hefe website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Hefe features that you customized.  

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Hefe services or websites you visit.

Browser DATA Storage

Hefe may store a secure copy of some of your data in your browser. This data being stored is for the express purpose of improving the performance of the applications, reducing the amount of data consumption, helping the application still work when the network connectivity is degraded. This data is your data for your use. Hefe does not store data that is not relevent to you and your experience. Hefe does not store data for any other purposes other than to improve performance of the application and/or website.

Authentication and Security

Hefe uses trusted authentication and identity management providers Google and Facebook to ensure your account stays safe and secure. You can read Google’s Privacy Policy and Facebook’s Privacy Policy to get more details. We use these services for both user convenience and to ensure we alway have the very best account security as possible.

External Data Storage and Security

Hefe used trusted data storage and security provider Google to ensure we are leveraging the very best technologies available to ensure your data is stored securely. Please take a moment to review Google’s Privacy Policy regarding your personal data storage. We may store your data on servers provided by other third party hosting vendors with whom we have contracted.

Links

This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.   Security of your Personal Information Hefe secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. Hefe uses the following methods for this purpose:    

  • SSL Protocol  

When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.  

We strive to take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the Internet which are beyond our control; and (b) security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and us through this Site cannot be guaranteed.

 

Children Under Thirteen

Hefe does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.

Disconnecting your Hefe Account from Third Party Websites

You will be able to connect your Hefe account to third party accounts. BY CONNECTING YOUR HEFE ACCOUNT TO YOUR THIRD PARTY ACCOUNT, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT YOU ARE CONSENTING TO THE CONTINUOUS RELEASE OF INFORMATION ABOUT YOU TO OTHERS (IN ACCORDANCE WITH YOUR PRIVACY SETTINGS ON THOSE THIRD PARTY SITES). IF YOU DO NOT WANT INFORMATION ABOUT YOU, INCLUDING PERSONALLY IDENTIFYING INFORMATION, TO BE SHARED IN THIS MANNER, DO NOT USE THIS FEATURE. You may disconnect your account from a third party account at any time. Please email us.  

E-mail Communications

From time to time, Hefe may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication. In order to improve our Services, we may receive a notification when you open an email from Hefe or click on a link therein.  

If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from Hefe, you may opt out of such communications by using the opt out links provided in all communications.

Jurisdiction Specific Provisions

California Residents. This section provides additional details about the personal information we collect about California consumers as well as the rights of California consumers under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).

Your CCPA Rights and Choices. As a California consumer and subject to certain limitations under the CCPA, you have choices regarding our use and disclosure of your personal information:

  • Exercising the right to know. You may request, up to twice in a 12-month period, the following information about the personal information we have collected about you during the past 12 months:

    • the categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you;

    • the categories of sources from which we collected the personal information;

    • the business or commercial purpose for which we collected the personal information;

    • the categories of third parties with whom we shared the personal information; and

    • the categories of personal information about you that we disclosed for a business purpose, and the categories of third parties to whom we disclosed that information for a business purpose.

  • Exercising the right to delete. You may request that we delete the personal information we have collected from you, subject to certain limitations under applicable law.

  • Exercising the right to opt-out from a sale. You may request to opt out of any “sale” of your personal information that may take place. As described in Advertising, we do not use, share, rent or sell the Personal Data of our Users’ Customers for interest-based advertising. We do not sell or rent the Personal Data of our Users, their Customers or our Site visitors.

  • Non-discrimination. The CCPA provides that you may not be discriminated against for exercising these rights.

Mexican residents. Mexican residents may exercise data protection rights to access, correction, deletion, opposition or revocation under applicable law. You may be provided with further information about the steps to exercise your privacy rights, including identity verification, timing, the way to get in touch with the organization responding to your request for further communications about your request, and how your request may be honored.

To submit a request to exercise any of the rights described above, you may contact Hefe at privacy@hefeapp.com. We may need to verify your identity before responding to your request, such as verifying that the email address from which you send the request matches your email address that we have on file. Authentication based on a government-issued and valid identification document may be required.

Changes to this Statement

Hefe reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our site, and/or by updating any privacy information on this page. Your continued use of the Site and/or Services available through this Site after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy.  

Contact Information

Hefe welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Hefe has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Hefe at: support@hefeapp.com