Privacy Policy

Last updated March 30, 2022

Thank you for visiting hgcharing.com, Howard G Charing (“we," "us," or "our"). We are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy notice or our practices with regard to your personal information, please contact us at hgcharing99@gmail.com.

Cookies

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app.

Functional and required cookies

Squarespace, our service provider uses some necessary cookies so visitors can navigate and use key features on your site. These cookies vary from site to site depending on the features it uses. For example, functional and required cookies help these features work:

Name, Purpose, type, and duration

Commerce-checkout-state

Stores state of checkout while the visitor is completing their order in PayPal

sessionstorage - Session

Crumb

Prevents cross-site request forgery (CSRF)

Cookie - Session

RecentRedirect

Prevents redirect loops if a site has custom URL redirects. Redirect loops are bad for SEO

Cookie - 30 minutes

squarespace-announcement-bar

Prevents the announcement bar from displaying if a visitor dismisses it

localstorage - Persistent

squarespace-likes

Shows when you've already "liked" a blog post

localstorage - Persistent

squarespace-popup-overlay

Prevents the promotional pop-up from displaying if a visitor dismisses it

localstorage - Persistent

ss_cookieAllowed

Remembers if a visitor agreed to placing analytics cookies on their browser if a site is restricting the placement of cookies

Cookie - 30 days

Test

Investigates if the browser supports cookies and prevents errors

Cookie - Session

TZ

Enables a Scheduling client’s appointments to display correctly based on their time zone preferences.

localstorage - Persistent

Analytics and performance cookies

We use analytics and performance cookies to collect information on your behalf about how visitors interact with your site. Storing these cookies is how we populate the data you find in Squarespace analytics, such as traffic sources, unique visitors.

You can disable Squarespace analytics and performance cookies at any time.

Cookie Name - Duration - Purpose

ss_cid - Two years - Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site

ss_cpvisit - Two years - Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site

ss_cvisit - 30 minutes - Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site

ss_cvr - Two years - Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site

ss_cvt - 30 minutes - Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site

Form block submissions

When you submit information to this website via webform, we collect the data requested in the webform in order to track and respond to your submissions. We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us.

Website visitors

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

  • Information about your browser, network and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Web pages you view while on this website

  • Your IP address

Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.


Fonts

This website uses font files from Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, servers where the font files are stored may receive personal information about you, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, or device

  • Your IP address

How often will you update this Policy?

We may update this Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. Please therefore re-visit this Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies. The date at the top of this Policy indicates when it was last updated.

Where can I get further information?

If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please email us at hgcharing99@gmail.com.