Hillwinds Inc Privacy Statement

Last Modified October 29, 2025

Introduction

Hillwinds, Inc (“Hillwinds” or “We”, or “us”) respects your privacy and will do its utmost to protect said privacy through compliance with this privacy statement.

Hillwinds provides its users with a data solution to facilitate an understanding of the market position of their customers, their customer’s potential clients, and to enable contact and communication with their stakeholders. Hillwinds offers a web application and an email marketing service (hereinafter the "Services").

As part of its activities, Hillwinds processes personal data of customers, prospects, and users.

Data Security

We are committed to the security of your Personal Information and have implemented ways to secure your Personal Information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we have implemented measures to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of Personal Information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures deployed on the Website.

Sources of Personal Information

The information described in this Privacy Statement reflects Hillwinds’ practices regarding the collection, use, sale, and sharing of personal information during the twelve (12) months preceding the date this Privacy Statement was last updated.

We obtain personal information from the following sources:
Directly from users when you create an account, contact us, or use our Services.
From our data providers and partners who license or make available professional contact and company data.
From publicly available sources such as corporate websites, press releases, and government filings.
Automatically when you interact with our Services, through cookies, logs, and similar technologies.

How We Use Personal Information

Hillwinds collects, processes, and shares personal information to operate our services, deliver business insights, and provide data products to our customers. “Personal Information” is defined as identifiers including name, business email address, job title, business phone number and professional information such as company name, industry, and work location. We may also collect technical information such as browser type, IP address, and other device identifiers in the process of using our Services.

Specifically, we may use personal information for the following purposes:

To maintain and deliver the Hillwinds platform, process user accounts, and fulfill customer requests.
To enhance data accuracy, coverage, and quality through aggregation, normalization, and verification processes.
To build and refine our AI tools, data models, prospect recommendations, and analytics features.
To collect and maintain databases of professional contact and company information — including names, job titles, company affiliations, business email addresses, phone numbers, and office locations.
To respond to user inquiries, provide support, and send technical or administrative notices.
To prevent fraud, misuse, and unauthorized access to our systems.
To comply with applicable laws, regulations, and legal requests.
To enforce our terms, policies, and contractual rights.
To send service updates, feature announcements, and product or marketing communications.
To manage internal operations, billing, and audits.
In connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, or sale of company assets, personal information may be transferred as part of that transaction.

We do not knowingly sell or share sensitive personal data such as personal phone numbers, personal email addresses, or consumer information unrelated to a person’s professional role or sell personal information about consumers for non-business or household use.

Hillwinds may sell, share, or license business contact information — such as professional names, titles, work email addresses, company affiliations, and similar business identifiers — to our verified customers and partners for sales, marketing, and research purposes.

We require all customers to use the data only for lawful business purposes and to comply with applicable privacy and marketing laws.

We may use aggregated, anonymized, or de-identified data (which cannot reasonably identify an individual) for analytics, benchmarking, and product development.

We may disclose your Personal Information to comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.

Geographic Scope:

‍Hillwinds services are only intended for use in the United States.

Data Retention:

‍We retain personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this Privacy Statement, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. When data is no longer needed, we securely delete, aggregate, or de-identify it.

Children’s Privacy:

Hillwinds does not knowingly collect or process personal information from children under 16 years of age. Our Services are intended for use by business professionals only.

Changes to Our Privacy Statement

‍We could change this Privacy Statement at any time. We will post changes we make to our Privacy Statement on this page. The date this Privacy Statement was last modified is stated at the top of this page. You are responsible for periodically visiting this Privacy Statement to check for any changes.

Your continued use of our website after the posting of any changes constitutes your acceptance to such changes.

Your privacy rights

‍You have the right to access, correct, or delete your personal information. The right to opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information. The right to limit the use or disclosure of sensitive personal information.You may exercise these rights by contacting us at privacy@hillwinds.ai. We may not accommodate a request to change or delete your Personal Information if we believe the change or deletion would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

Hillwinds will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your privacy rights under applicable law.

California residents may exercise their rights by (1) emailing privacy@hillwinds.ai or (2) submitting a request through our Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information which can be found on our website.

Contact Information

‍If you have any questions, requests, or suggestions regarding the Privacy Statement or any use of your Personal Information please contact us using the information below:
privacy@hillwinds.ai

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