Privacy Policy

Updated: June 19, 2017

Introduction

We at Houlihan Lokey, Inc. and its subsidiaries and other controlled affiliates (referred to as "us”, “our” or “we”) respect your online privacy and recognize your need for greater clarity regarding our collection, use and disclosure of the personally identifiable information ("Personal Information") that we acquire from your use of our websites that link to this Privacy Policy, including www.HL.com (each, a “Website” and collectively, the “Websites”).

This Privacy Policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the Website and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting and disclosing that information. This Privacy Policy applies only to Personal Information collected on or through the Websites. It does not apply to information collected by (a) us, or on our behalf, in person, through the mail, by telephone or any other means, or (b) any third party, including, without limitation, through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on the Website.

For users located in the European Economic Area (EEA), the Houlihan Lokey affiliate in the country from which the user receives services or information is the data controller in respect of such user’s Personal Information processed by us under this Privacy Policy. A list of Houlihan Lokey entities can be found in Houlihan Lokey’s Terms of Use.

This Privacy Policy may change from time to time. If we make material changes to how we treat Personal Information, we will notify you through a notice on the Website and/or by sending you an email to the last email address you provided to us. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will be effective upon the earlier of thirty (30) calendar days following our dispatch of an email notice to you or thirty (30) calendar days following our posting of notice of the changes on the Website. We therefore encourage you to review the Website from time to time to stay informed of how we are using Personal Information. These changes will be effective immediately for new users of the Website. If you do not wish to permit changes in our use of your Personal Information, you must notify us prior to the effective date of the changes and discontinue any further use of the Website. Any use of the Website following notice of such changes shall indicate your acknowledgement of such changes. The date the Privacy Policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page.

By submitting your Personal Information to us, you acknowledge and agree to the processing set out in this Privacy Policy. Further notices highlighting certain uses we wish to make of your Personal Information together with the ability to opt-in or out of selected uses may also be provided to you when we collect Personal Information from you.

This Privacy Policy covers the following areas:

Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It
Security and Export of Personal Information
Use of Personal Information, Including Marketing
Disclosure of Personal Information
Access, Accuracy and Deletion of Personal Information
Cookies
Children
Questions

Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

We may collect and process the following Personal Information about you:

When you visit the Website, our web servers use certain technologies to automatically collect the details of your visit, including, but not limited to, operating system, browser type and language, internet domain and host names and IP addresses, the pages you request on the Website, the dates and times that the Website is accessed and how long you spend on each page, and the details of the website you linked from to the Website.
We collect the information you voluntarily provide to us or if you contact us. For example, our Website may enable you to submit requests for certain information. If you voluntarily submit information to our Website, we may record any Personal Information you provide, including, but not limited to, your name, title, address, phone and fax numbers, e-mail address, and company name, type, description and URL.
Please also note we may have certain legal and regulatory responsibilities to verify the identity of clients/customers and may need to make certain inquiries and obtain certain information from you for that purpose. You confirm that all information you supply will be accurate and that we may disclose such information as we consider necessary to comply with any reporting or legal and regulatory requirements (please see Section 4 below).

Security and Export of Personal Information

We have implemented certain measures reasonably designed to secure Personal Information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration and disclosure.

Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of the Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential and for complying with any other security procedures that we notify you of. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.

Despite the measures we take to protect your Personal Information from unauthorized access or disclosure, the Internet is an inherently unsecure environment and so we cannot guarantee the security or confidentiality of your Personal Information. We make no warranty whatsoever to you, express or implied, regarding the security of the Website. Any transmission of Personal Information is at your own risk. We assume no liability for any disclosure of data due to, among other things, errors in transmission, unauthorized third party access or other acts of third parties, or acts or omissions beyond our reasonable control.

You may be able to access third party websites directly from the Website. We cannot control how third parties may protect or use Personal Information you disclose to them, so you should carefully review the privacy policy of any third party website you visit before using it or disclosing your Personal Information to it.

Your Personal Information may be accessed by our affiliates, staff or suppliers or other third parties specified in this Privacy Policy in, transferred to, and/or stored at, a destination outside the EEA which may not have data protection legislation similar to that in the EEA and may provide a lower level of protection for Personal Information.

Use of Personal Information, Including Marketing

In general, the Personal Information we collect from you is used:

to monitor, improve and administer the Website and the information and services provided on the Website, or for our internal business purposes;
to fulfill your requests for information, products, or services;
to communicate with you; and
to enable us to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations and related internal business procedures.

We may also use Personal Information for marketing our own and selected third parties’ products and services to you by post, email, SMS, phone, fax or through other means, and we may use your Personal Information to send you newsletters, announcements and invitations that we think you may be interested in.

We may provide an option to unsubscribe or opt-out of further communication on any electronic marketing communication sent to you which you can exercise by following the unsubscribe instructions provided in the email you receive or by contacting us directly at Webmaster@HL.com.

Please note that despite your indicated email preferences, we may send you service related communications, including notices related to our Terms of Use, Cookies Policy or Privacy Policy.

Disclosure of Personal Information

We may disclose Personal Information we have collected from or about you to such persons or organizations who may use your Personal Information for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, including:

any of our affiliated entities (including entities outside your country as per Section 2 above);
contractors, service providers and other third parties we use to support our business, including to companies that perform marketing services on our behalf;
buyer(s) or other successor(s) in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets (including during negotiations of the foregoing to prospective buyer(s)), whether as a going concern or as part of a bankruptcy, liquidation or similar proceeding;
or any purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information; or
with your consent.

We may also disclose Personal Information:

if we reasonably believe we are required or authorized by law, law enforcement agencies, the court service and/or regulators, the government or private parties in connection with a lawsuit, subpoena, investigation or similar proceeding anywhere in the world, or to otherwise cooperate with law enforcement or regulatory authorities or comply with our reporting or legal or regulatory requirements;
to enforce or apply the Terms of Use;
if we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate in connection with the rights, property or safety of any party;
to protect or defend our rights or property or those of any of our affiliated entities or users of the Website; or
to investigate or assist in preventing any violation or potential violation of applicable law or regulation, our Terms of Use, Cookies Policy or Privacy Policy.

Access, Accuracy and Deletion of Personal Information

You may have certain rights under applicable data protection laws to access or update your Personal Information held by us and to object, where legitimate, to the processing of data relating to you. You may contact us as described below to request access to or inform us of updates to your Personal Information. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with applicable data protection legislation, although this may be subject to a fee as provided by law or otherwise to meet our costs in providing you with details of the Personal Information we hold about you and there may be certain categories of information we are entitled not to provide.

In order to ensure that your Personal Information remains accurate, please notify us of any changes to the Personal Information that you have provided (please see Section 8 below).

Cookies

The Website uses cookies to improve your user experience. For more information please see our Cookies Policy.

Children

The Website is not designed for children under 13 years of age, and we do not seek to collect any information from children. No one under age 13 may provide any information to or on the Website.

Questions

To ask questions or communicate any concerns, complaints or comments about this Privacy Policy and our privacy practices, please contact us at Webmaster@HL.com.