Privacy Notice

This Privacy Notice describes how Hawthorneworld Corp. and its subsidiaries and affiliates (“Hawthorne,” “Hawthorne Development,” “Hawthorne World,” or “Hawthorneworld,” or “we” or “our” or “us”) treat certain information collected or provided in connection with an end user’s (“you” or “your” or “user”) use of Hawthorne World’ website, www.hawthorneworld.com, and any other website, or other digital medium owned or operated by Hawthorneworld Corp. where this Privacy Notice is posted. This Privacy Notice also applies to any personal information collected, stored, or used by us, such as information you provide us through the above mediums, by email, mail, or telephonic communications (collectively, the “Site”).
The information provided in this Privacy Notice is designed to inform you of what information we collect, why we collect such information, how we use the information we collect, and the choices we offer, including how to access and update information. By accessing or using our Site, you consent to this Privacy Notice, including our collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information, as described below.
Please read this Privacy Notice carefully.

PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT FROM YOU

We get most personal information directly from you, through the Site, or from transactions with you. We might also obtain personal information about you from transactions you have with our subsidiary companies, authorized third-party vendors, or partners. Personal information is any information that can be used to identify you. Please note that, if you use XXX XXX (our investor portal), there is an additional Privacy Notice that applies to that site. In addition, if you work with our leasing agents, including when you visit a project-related website operated or controlled by our leasing agents, you may provide information directly to our leasing agents, who use, handle, and disclose your personal information in accordance with their own privacy policies.

On this Site, we may collect:

Your name and contact information if you provide us such information.
Website analytics information, including when, how often, and for how long you use the Site; information related to your geographic location; the content you submit and view; the name of the domain and host from which you access the Internet; and the IP address of the computer or device you are using.

We do not currently respond to Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control browser settings. We reserve the right to update our practices and Privacy Notice as such standards evolve.

This Privacy Notice does not cover data we, or our authorized third-party vendors or partners, collect that cannot be used to identify an individual or to pseudonymous data.

PERSONAL INFORMATION PROVIDED FROM OTHER SOURCES

We may also automatically receive and store certain types of personal information whenever you visit the Site, such as information on when, how often, and for how long you use the Site, information related to your geographic location, and the content you submit and view. This information may include the name of the domain and host from which you access the Internet and the IP address of the computer or device you are using. We may log and use your IP address to administer the Site, to help diagnose problems with our server, to analyze trends, to track users’ webpage movements, to help identify you, and to gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. We may use standard tools, such as cookies or web beacons, to monitor the Site and Internet usage and to improve or customize the content on the Site. You can control the use of cookies by changing your browser settings.

Our Site includes social media features connected with social networking sites such as Twitter (aka X), Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn. Those sites may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on the Site, and may set a cookie to enable social media features to function properly. Your interactions with social media sites, including any personal information you provide via buttons or links to these sites, are governed by the privacy notice of the social media company.

We may also receive personal information about you from third parties, including from our affiliates, partners, and leasing agents.

HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may collect personal information in order to improve our services, to deliver services, to perform contractual obligations, to comply with legal obligations, to help identify and prevent fraud, and for other purposes as described in this Privacy Notice.

We may use your name and contact information to communicate with you, for example, to respond to an inquiry or to send you our quarterly market data summary.

Our authorized third-party vendors and partners have their own privacy policies. Those policies will govern the use, handling, and disclosure of your personal information with those third parties.

DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION

In order to conduct our business and better serve you, we may disclose personal information and other information about you or your activities on our Site or while using our services with:

Our service providers and vendors, such as website hosts, analytics providers, leasing agents, legal counsel, and various customer, tech, and operational support.
Third parties approved by you, such as social media sites.
Law enforcement agencies, regulatory bodies, courts, or other public authorities, to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations, to respond to requests from governmental authorities, to protect our rights, to defend against legal claims, or as otherwise required by law.

We do not sell your personal information to any third parties.

RETENTION, CONFIDENTIALITY, AND SECURITY OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We store personal information for as long as is reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes described herein, as we determine is necessary for business records, and as required under applicable law.

We restrict access to personal information to those who need to know in order to provide services to you and to conduct our internal operations. We maintain reasonable physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to guard your information. However, the Internet is not absolutely secure and, thus, we cannot promise guaranteed security. In the unlikely event that we believe that the security of your personal information in our possession or control may have been compromised, we may seek to notify you. As applicable, we will comply with notification requirements for a security breach and may also notify you by email.

In the event of a merger, acquisition, corporate change, or bankruptcy, we may share or transfer your personal information as part of a transfer of our assets to the acquiring entity.

CHILDREN UNDER 13

We do not knowingly collect information from minors, and the Site is intended for adults over the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and believe that your child under the age of 13 has provided personal information to us without your consent, please notify us at [email protected]. If we become aware that information is or has been submitted by or collected from a minor under the age of 13, we will work to promptly delete this information.

VIEWING AND AMENDING INFORMATION

Hawthorneworld Corp. is located in the state of Illinois, United States. Our users primarily live in Illinois State. The personal information we collect is stored and used in the United States. Therefore, we make no representation that this Privacy Notice complies with the laws of any other jurisdiction, including other states or international jurisdictions.

If you no longer wish to receive communications from Hawthorne World, please contact us at [email protected]. Opt-out requests may not be able to be immediately processed, and we may continue to send you other types of transactional email communications.

Any changes to, or deletion of, account information does not affect any other information collected by us, or which we may retain and continue to use or disclose in accordance with this Privacy Notice. If we already provided your personal information to a third party before you changed your preferences or updated your account, you may need to change your preferences directly with that third party.

We reserve the right to verify the identity of any person making a request to opt-out or to delete or modify personal information; provided, however, that we will have no liability of any kind resulting from false or erroneous requests or any change or deletion made by us for any reason.

CONTACT US

If you have any questions or concerns about our Privacy Notice, please contact [email protected].

CHANGES AND UPDATES TO THE PRIVACY NOTICE

This Privacy Notice applies to all relevant information collected by or provided to us or our authorized third-party vendors or partners as of the Effective Date. When we make any material changes to this Privacy Notice, we will update the Effective Date and may inform you by email to the address associated with your account. We will treat your continued use of this Site or our services following such notice as your acceptance of the changes.

The Effective Date of this Privacy Notice is December 12, 2023.