Effective Date: March 1st 2025
Who We Are
Our website address is: https://howard-consulting.com
Howard Consulting Company is a professional services firm specializing in Information Technology (IT) services and hiring solutions. We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring that your personal information is handled responsibly and securely.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, along with 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 check if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment is approved, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to our website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the website can download and extract location data from images on the website.
Cookies
Comments
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 that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
Login
- 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 set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices.
- Login cookies last for two days.
- Screen options cookies last for one year.
- If you select “Remember Me,” your login will persist for two weeks.
- If you log out, the login cookies will be removed.
Publishing
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 1 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 you visited the other website.
These websites may:
- Collect data about you.
- Use cookies.
- Embed additional third-party tracking.
- Monitor your interaction with the embedded content (including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website).
Who We Share Your Data With
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How Long We Retain Your Data
- If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This allows us to automatically recognize and approve follow-up comments without holding them in a moderation queue.
- For users that register on our website (if any), we store the personal information provided 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 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.
You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are required to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
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. Any changes will be reflected on this page with an updated effective date. We encourage you to review this policy periodically to stay informed about how we are protecting your information.
Contact Information
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, you can contact us at:
Howard Consulting Company
[email protected]