Privacy Notice

Last updated: October 17, 2025

Purpose

HBD Industries, Inc. and its subsidiaries, affiliates, and related entities (collectively “Company”, “we”, “our”, or “us”) respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy. This Privacy Notice describes how we collect, process, retain, and disclose personal information about you when providing services to you through our websites, products, and services that link to this Privacy Notice (collectively, our “Services”) and our practices for using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information. This Privacy Notice is not a contract and does not create any legal rights or obligations, nor is it intended to set forth our privacy practices as they relate to Company employees.

This policy applies only to information we collect through the Services and in communications, including email, text, chat, and other electronic messages, between you and the Services.

Please read this Privacy Notice carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we treat it. By interacting with our Services or providing us with your information, you agree to the collection, use, and sharing of your information as described in this Privacy Notice. This Privacy Notice may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Notice below). Your continued use of the Services after we make changes as described here is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the Privacy Notice periodically for updates.

What is Personal Information?

The term “Personal Information” used in this Privacy Notice means information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, to you. Personal Information does not include publicly available information, lawfully obtained, truthful information that is a matter of public concern, or aggregated or anonymized information that is maintained in a form that is not reasonably capable of being associated with or linked to you.

Children’s and Minor’s Data

IF YOU ARE UNDER THE AGE OF 18, PLEASE DO NOT USE OUR WEBSITES OR ONLINE SERVICES OR OTHERWISE PROVIDE US WITH ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION EITHER DIRECTLY OR BY ANY OTHER MEANS.

Our Services are not intended for, and we do not knowingly collect any Personal Information from, children under the age of 18. If we learn we have collected or received Personal Information from a child under 18 years old without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information.

The Personal Information That We Collect or Process

From the first moment you interact with us, we are collecting Personal Information about you. Sometimes we collect Personal Information automatically when you interact with our Services and sometimes we collect the Personal Information directly from you. We may also collect Personal Information about you from other sources and third parties.

If you are a California resident, to access our supplemental California privacy statement, visit the Supplemental California Privacy Disclosures.

Personal Information Provided by You

We collect the following Personal Information you provide in connection with our Services:

  • Contact Information: Contact information includes, but is not limited to, your name, phone number, email address, mailing address and state and country of residence.
  • Professional Information: Professional Information, includes, but is not limited to, your title, company name, professional background and the nature of your relationship with us.
  • Service Information: Service Information, includes, but is not limited to, Service interests and orders.
  • Inquiry and Communications Information: Inquiry and Communications Information, includes, but is not limited to, the content of your email, call or other communication with us.

If you choose to contact us, we may need additional information to fulfill your request or respond to your inquiry. We may provide additional privacy disclosures where the scope of the inquiry/request and/or Personal Information we require fall outside the scope of this Privacy Notice. In that case, the additional privacy disclosures will govern how we may process the information you provide at that time.

Personal Information Collected Automatically

As you navigate through and interact with our Services, we use automatic data collection technologies to collect information, including:

  • Log File Data: Log File Data, includes Web browser type and version, the operating system used by your computer, the referrer Universal Resource Locator (URL), the “hostname” given to your computer, your Internet Protocol (IP) address, the date and time you (i) accessed our website and (ii) took certain actions, such as s clicking on the activation link in the related email, performing a search, or using our contact form.
  • Analytics Data: Analytics Data includes the electronic path you take to our Services, through our Services, and when exiting our Services, as well as your usage and activity on our Services, such as the links and objects you view, click, or otherwise interact with in connection with our Services.
  • Location Data: Location Data includes your general geographic location based on your IP address.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection include:

  • Cookies: A cookie is a small file placed on your device when you interact with the Services. You may refuse to accept or disable cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser or device. However, if you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain features of the Services. See Cookie Notice for more information.
  • Web Beacons: Some parts of the Services and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those parts or opened an email and for other related statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain content and verifying system and server integrity).

For more information about our and, where applicable, our third-party partners’ use of cookies and related technologies to collect information automatically, and any choices you may have in relation to its collection, please visit our Cookie Notice.

If we combine or connect non-personal statistical or technical data with Personal Information so that it directly or indirectly identifies an individual, we treat the combined information as personal information.

When you interact with the Services, there are third parties that may use automatic collection technologies to collect information about your or your device. These third parties may include, but are not limited to, analytics companies, your device manufacturer, and your internet or mobile service provider. Such third parties may use tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use the Services. The information they collect may be associated with your Personal Information or they may collect information, including Personal Information, about your online activities over time and across different websites, apps, platforms, and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content. We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.

Personal Information Collected From Business Partners and Service Providers

We may receive Personal Information about you from other sources and combine that with information we collect directly from you. For example, we may obtain information about you from service providers that we engage to perform services on our behalf, such as analytics and security services. We also may receive Personal Information from (i) business partners that we engage to share consumer information with us, including, but not limited to, your personal preferences so that we can better provide you with a personalized experience, (ii) publicly available sources, such as government records or publicly available websites, to supplement other personal information we collect; and/or (iii) generating inferences or predictions about you and your interests and preferences based on the other Personal Date we collect and the interactions we have with you.

How We Use Personal Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any Personal Information, to:

  • Communicate with You: We use Personal Information such as contact information, professional information and inquiry and communications information to communicate with you about our Services, including to inform you about new Services, solicit feedback, respond to inquiries or keep you up to date with what’s going on with the Company and our Services. Some of these communications may include marketing materials. You may ask us not to send marketing communications by following any available opt-out instructions in the marketing communications you receive. Please note we may continue to send you non-marketing communications even after you opt out.
  • Provide You with Services: We use Personal Information such as contact information and professional information to provide you with our Services.
  • Review Your Job Application: We use personal information like contact information, professional information and job applicant information to assess your application for employment and facilitate the job application process (including interviews, where applicable). The information we collect in connection with your job application may be transferred to your employment record if you are offered and accept a position at the Company.
  • Otherwise Operate Our Business: We use Personal Information such as contact information, professional information, service information, inquiry, and communications information, log file data, analytics data, and location data to otherwise operate our business, including, but not limited, to:
    • identify and communicate with customers who may be interested in our Services;
    • optimize customer experience with our Services;
    • remember customers and the choices they have made in relation to our Services;
    • connect with customers about requests and transactions they make on our Services;
    • develop and test new services;
    • conduct research and analytics on service usage and activity trends; and
    • deliver marketing communications and advertisements based on customer representative interests and interactions with us.
  • Comply with Legal Obligations and Rights: We use Personal Information to exercise or comply with legal obligations and rights including, but not limited to, enforcing and carrying out contracts and agreements.

The usage information we collect, whether connected to your Personal Information or not, helps us improve our Services and deliver a better and more personalized experience by enabling us to estimate our audience sizes and usage patterns, store information about your preferences, customize the Services according to your individual needs and interests; speed up your searches, and recognize you when you return to our Services.

We may also use your information to contact you about Services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, adjust your user preferences in your account profile. For more information, see Your Rights and Choices About Your Information below.

Our Disclosure of Personal Information

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.

We may also disclose Personal Information that we collect or you provide as described in this Privacy Notice as set forth below:

  • Our Subsidiaries and Affilaites: Company may disclose Personal Information to other Company affiliates for purposes and uses that are consistent with this Privacy Notice.
  • Your Employer: We may share Personal Information about you with your employer, such as when you represent your employer in a relationship with us, we may inform your employer of your communication with us.
  • Data Analytics Providers: We may share information with data analytics providers who analyze statistics and trends relating to the usage of and activity relating to our Services. These data analytics providers produce reports and make suggestions for our customer and business strategy based on the Personal Information and other information analyzed.
  • Marketing Partners: We may coordinate and share Personal Information with our marketing partners, including advertisement networks, social networks, re-targeting partners and marketing communication providers, in order to communicate with you about our Services and market our Services to you.
  • Other Service Providers: We may engage other third parties to perform certain functions on our behalf in connection with the use of Personal Information described in the Our Use of Personal Information section above. Depending on the function the third party serves, the service provider may process Personal Information on our behalf or have access to Personal Information while performing functions on our behalf.
  • Business Transaction or Reorganization: We may take part in or be involved with a corporate business transaction or reorganization, such as a merger, acquisition, joint venture, or financing or sale of company assets. We may disclose Personal Information to a third party during negotiation of, in connection with or as an asset in such a corporate business transaction. Personal Information may also be disclosed in the event of insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership.
  • Legal Obligations and Rights: We may disclose Personal Information to third parties, such as legal advisors and law enforcement:
    • in connection with the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims;
    • to comply with laws or to respond to lawful requests and legal process;
    • to protect the rights and property of us, our agents, customers, and others, including to enforce our agreements, policies, and terms of use;
    • to detect, suppress, or prevent fraud;
    • to reduce credit risk and collect debts owed to us;
    • to protect the health and safety of us, our customers, or any person; or
    • as otherwise required by applicable law.
  • With Consent or Direction: We may disclose Personal Information about you to certain other third parties with your consent or at your direction.

Your Rights and Choices About Your Information

This section describes mechanisms you can use to control certain uses and disclosures of your information and rights you may have under state law, depending on where you live.

Advertising, marketing, cookies, and other tracking technologies choices:

  • Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies: You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies or other tracking technology files, or to alert you when these files are being sent. You can choose whether or not to allow the Services to collect information through other tracking technologies via the Cookie Settings. If you disable or refuse cookies or similar tracking files, some Services features may be inaccessible or not function properly. Some browsers include a “Do Not Track” (DNT) setting that can send a signal to the online services you visit indicating you do not wish to be tracked. Because there is not a common understanding of how to interpret the DNT signal, our Services may not respond to all browser DNT signals. Instead, you can use the range of other tools to control data collection and use, including the cookie controls and advertising controls described in this policy.
  • Promotions by the Company: If you do not wish us to use your information to promote our own Services, you can opt out by following the available opt-out instructions in the communications you receive.
  • Targeted Advertising by the Company: If you do not want us to use information that we collect or that you provide to us to deliver advertisements according to our advertisers’ target audience preferences, you can opt out by following the available opt-out instructions in the communications you receive.

Location data choices:

  • Location Data: You can choose whether or not to allow the Services to collect and use real-time information about your device’s location through the device’s privacy settings. If you block the use of location information, some Services features may become inaccessible or not function properly.

Your State Privacy Rights

Depending on your state of residency, you may have certain rights related to your Personal Information, including:

  • Access and Data Portability: You may confirm whether we process your Personal Information and access a copy of the Personal Information we process. To the extent feasible and required by state law, depending on your state, data will be provided in a portable format. Depending on your state, you may have the right to receive additional information and it will be included in the response to your access request.
  • Correction: You may request that we correct inaccuracies in your Personal Information that we maintain, taking into account the information’s nature and processing purpose.
  • Deletion: You may request that we delete Personal Information about you that we maintain, subject to certain exception under applicable law.
  • Opt-Out of Using Personal Information for Targeted Advertising, Profiling, and Sales: You may request that we do not use your Personal Information for these purposes.

The exact scope of these rights vary by state. There are also several exceptions where we may not have an obligation to fulfill your request.

If you are a California resident, additional information applies to you. To access our supplemental California privacy statement and learn more about California residents’ privacy rights, see the Supplemental California Privacy Disclosures.

How We Protect Your Personal Information

We use commercially reasonable administrative, physical, and technical measures designed to protect your Personal Information from accidental loss or destruction and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. However, no website, mobile application, system, electronic storage, or online service is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Information transmitted to, through, using, or in connection with the Services. In particular, email, texts, and chats sent to or from the Services may not be secure, and you should carefully decide what information you send to us via such communications channels. Any transmission of Personal Information is at your own risk.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. You are responsible for taking steps to protect your Personal Information against unauthorized use, disclosure, and access.

How We Retain Your Personal Information

We keep the categories of Personal Information described in this Privacy Notice for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes described or for as otherwise legally permitted or required, such as maintaining the Services, operating our organization, complying with our legal obligations, resolving disputes, and for safety, security, and fraud prevention. This means that we consider our legal and business obligations, potential risks of harm, and nature of the information when deciding how long to retain Personal Information. At the end of the retention period, Personal Information will be deleted, destroyed, or deidentified.

If you are a California resident, see Supplemental California Privacy Disclosures for more information about the retention periods that apply to the Personal Information categories we collect.

Third-Party Websites

Our websites and Services may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Except where we post, link to, or expressly adopt or refer to this Privacy Notice, this Privacy Notice does not apply to, and we are not responsible for, any personal information practices of third-party websites and online services or the practices of other third parties. To learn about the personal information practices of third parties, please review their respective privacy notices.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Notice from time to time, and we will provide notice of any such changes to the Privacy Notice as required by law. The date the Privacy Notice was last updated is identified at the top of the page. We will notify you of changes to this Privacy Notice by updating the “last updated” date and posting the updated Privacy Notice on the Services. We may email or otherwise communicate reminders about this Privacy Notice, but you should check our Services periodically to see the current Privacy Notice and any changes we have made to it.

Contact Information

To exercise your rights or ask questions or comment about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, contact us at one of the following:

  • [sales@winmith.com]
  • HBD Industries, Inc.
    565 Metro Place South, Suite 250
    Dublin, OH 43017
    Attn: [Privacy Policy]