We welcome you to our website and thank you for your interest in our company and our products. The protection of your privacy when processing personal data as well as the security of all business data are important issues to us, which we consider in our business processes.
General Information
Controller
We, HydraForce, INC., are responsible for processing your personal data on this website. Our contact details are as follows:
HydraForce, Inc.
500 Barclay Blvd
Lincolnshire, Illinois, 60069
United States
1 (847) 908-9575
Children
Please note that this website is not intended for children.
California “Shine the Light” Privacy Rights
California’s “Shine The Light” law permits customers who are residents of California to request, up to twice with in a 12-month calendar year, a list of their personal information (if any) that we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes in the preceding calendar year, and the names and addresses of those third parties. At this time, We currently do not share any personal information with third parties for direct marketing purposes. In your request, please attest to the fact that you are a California resident and provide a current California address for our response. You may request the information in writing by contacting the HydraForce Marketing at hydraforce.marketing@hydraforce.com.
Categories of personal data
We process the following categories of personal data:
- Communication data (e.g., name, telephone, e-mail, address, IP address)
- Contract master data (contractual relationship, product or contractual interest)
- Location data
Duration of storage, retention periods
We store your data for as long as is necessary to provide our website and the associated services or for as long as we have a legitimate interest in continuing to store your data (e.g., we may still have a legitimate interest in postal marketing even after a contract has been fulfilled). In all other cases we delete your personal data except for such data that we are obliged to store in order to fulfill legal obligations (e.g., we are obliged to retain documents such as contracts and invoices for a certain period due to retention periods under tax and commercial law).
Data transfer to other controllers
In general, your personal data will only be transferred to other controllers if this is necessary for the fulfillment of a contract, if we or the third party have a legitimate interest in the transfer, or if you have given your consent. For details on the legal basis and the recipients or categories of recipients, please refer to the section Processing purposes and legal bases. Additionally, data may be transferred to other controllers if we are obliged to do so by law or by enforceable official or court order.
Data transfer to service providers
We involve external service providers with tasks such as sales and marketing services, contract management, programming, and data hosting. We have carefully selected these service providers and monitor them regularly, in particular their careful handling and safeguarding of the data stored with them. All service providers are obliged to maintain confidentiality and to comply with the statutory provisions. Service providers may also be other companies from the Bosch Group.
Transfer to recipients outside the EEA
We may transfer personal data to recipients located outside the EEA into third countries. In such cases, we ensure before the transfer that either the data recipient provides an adequate level of data protection or that your consent to the transfer has been obtained. You can obtain a copy of the appropriate or suitable safeguards. Please use the information mentioned in the Contact section for this purpose.
Processing purposes and legal bases
We and service providers contracted by us process your personal data for the following processing purposes:
Provision of this website
If you use our website solely for information purposes, that is, without registering or otherwise sending us information, we process your personal data to provide this website based on our legitimate interest to present us and to ensure stability and security.
Our marketing activities
Participation in product and customer surveys
On our website, you have the opportunity to participate in product and customer surveys. These surveys are generally anonymized. If we conduct a product and customer survey by mail, we enable you to participate by using your personal data from an existing contractual relationship. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interest to optimize our own products and services, to develop new products and services and thus to maintain your satisfaction. If you wish to participate in an electronic (e.g., by e-mail) or telephone product and customer survey, we will only contact you for this purpose with your express consent. Even if you have consented to be contacted, your participation in the survey is voluntary.
Newsletter
You can subscribe to newsletters as part of our website. We send these newsletters based on your consent. To confirm your consent, we use a double opt-in procedure, according to which we will only send you a newsletter by e-mail if you have previously expressly confirmed the activation of the newsletter service by clicking on a link in a notification mail. You can stop receiving the newsletter at any time by revoking your consent. The revocation takes place for e-mail newsletters via the link contained in the newsletter. Alternatively, please contact us using the details in the Contact section.
Registration for events
On our website, you have the opportunity to register for events (e.g., face-to-face, or online events, webinars). We use your personal data to conduct the event. You can find the details of whether and which personal data we process for this purpose on the respective event registration form.
Communication
Contact form
You contact us via a provided contact form. We store and use data entered in contact forms, such as name, e-mail, address and telephone number, to communicate with you. We process your personal data based on our legitimate interest in customer support and to improve our products and services.
Security and protection of rights
We may also process your personal data to investigate service disruptions and for security reasons to comply with our legal obligations in the area of data security, as well as on the basis of our legitimate interest in the elimination of service disruptions and the security of our offers. We may process your personal data to protect and defend our rights. This purpose also constitutes our legitimate interest.
Log Files
Log Files
Every time you use the internet, certain information is automatically transmitted by your internet browser and stored in log files. Log files are stored by us for the purpose of investigating service disruptions and for security reasons (e.g., to clarify attempted attacks) for a period of 90 days. Log files whose further storage is necessary for the purpose of evidence are exempt from deletion until the final clarification of the respective incident and may be passed on to investigative authorities in individual cases. The following information is stored in the log files:
- IP address (internet protocol address) of the end device from which our website is accessed;
- Internet address of the website from which our website was accessed (origin or referrer URL);
- Name of the service provider used to access the website; – Name of the files or information retrieved;
- Date and time as well as duration of the retrieval;
- amount of data transferred;
- Operating system and information on the Internet browser used, including installed add-ons (e.g., for Flash Player);
- http status code (e.g., "request successful" or "requested file not found").
Information storage and access
Use of Cookies and other technologies
In the course of providing our website, cookies and other technologies may be used that either store information on your terminal equipment or gain access to information stored on your terminal equipment. Cookies are small text files that can be stored on your end device when you visit a website. The use of our website is generally possible without cookies that are not technically necessary.
Technically necessary cookies
By technically necessary cookies, we mean cookies without which the technical provision of the website cannot be guaranteed. This includes, for example, cookies that store data in order to ensure the interference-free playback of video or audio content. These cookies are deleted at the end of your visit.
Technically not necessary mechanisms
We only use technically not necessary cookies and tracking mechanisms if you have given us your prior consent.
The only exception to this is the cookie that stores the current status of your privacy settings (selection cookie).
We use third-party tools to integrate technically not necessary cookies and mechanisms. These tools ensure that technically not necessary cookies and mechanisms are only set with your consent.
We use the following tools:
Name: Google Tag Manager
Provider: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland
Function: Management of website tags via an interface, integration of program codes on our websites
Convenience
Cookies and mechanisms, which are assigned to this category, facilitate the operation and thus enable a more comfortable surfing on our website. For example, your language settings can be stored in these cookies.
Marketing
The use of marketing cookies and tracking mechanisms such as web beacons enables us to show you personalized offers based on an analysis of your interests and usage behavior.
Below we explain which mechanisms and which providers we use on this website.
Analysis
YoWe use analysis tools to improve our products and services. We measure, for example, the number of page views or your behavior on our website. This may also include the evaluation of log files.
Conversion Tracking
Our conversion tracking partners place a cookie on your computer ("conversion cookie") if you have reached our website via an advertisement of the respective partner.
If you visit certain websites of ours, we and the respective conversion-tracking provider can recognize that a certain user clicked on the ad and was thus redirected to our site. This may also take place across devices.
The information collected using the conversion cookie is used to create conversion statistics and to record the total number of users who clicked on the relevant ad and were redirected to a page tagged with a conversion tracking tag.
Retargeting
Retargeting tools use advertising cookies or third-party advertising cookies, web beacons (invisible graphics also known as pixels or tracking pixels), or similar technologies to create user profiles.
These are used for interest-based advertising and to control the frequency with which the user sees certain ads.
We use the following tools:
Name: Google Analytics
Provider: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland
Function: Analyze user behavior (page views, number of visitors and visits, downloads), create pseudonymous user profiles based on cross-device information of logged-in Google users (cross-device tracking), enrich pseudonymous user data with target group-specific information provided by Google, retargeting, UX testing, conversion tracking and retargeting.
Additional information: We use the "anonymize IP" function, which anonymizes your IP address before writing it to disc.
We use the paid version of Google Analytics, in which the data collected on our website via Google Analytics is stored on own Google servers. Google may not use this data for its own purposes or mix it with other data that Google collects about you in other ways, such as when you are logged into your Google account on your browser while visiting our website.
Name: Google Ads
Provider: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland
Function: Placement of advertisements, remarketing, conversion tracking
Name: Google DoubleClick
Provider: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland
Function: Placement of advertisements, remarketing, conversion tracking
Name: HubSpot Analytics
Provider: HubSpot Ireland Limited, One Dockland Central D1, Dublin, Ireland
Function: Tool to support automated marketing purposes. To generate and qualify contacts, we use contact and content IDs within our web forms, that allow us to identify you and perform visitor-stitching, conversion tracking and retargeting.
Further information is available at: https://legal.hubspot.com/dpa; https://www.hubspot.com/data-privacy/privacy-shield; https://legal.hubspot.com/privacy-policy
Your Rights – US
State specific privacy laws within the United States provide data subjects certain rights regarding the personal information that businesses collect and how the collected personal information is used. If you would like to exercise data subject right available to you, find the “Exercise your Rights” section below. Our privacy team will examine your request and respond to you as quickly as possible.
We may still use any aggregated and de-identified Personal Information that does not identify any individual and may also retain and use your Personal Information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our Agreements. We maintain and use all de-identified information in de-identified form. We do not attempt to reidentify it except to ensure our de-identification processes are in compliance with applicable law.
Dependent on the state of your residence, you may be provided the following rights:
California:
- Right to know what personal information is being collected
- Right to access your personal information.
- Right to correct inaccurate personal information.
- Right to delete personal information
- Right to know what personal information is sold or shared and to whom.
- Right to opt-out of sale or sharing of personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising
- Right to data portability
- Right to opt-out of processing for the purpose of profiling
- Right to limit the use and disclosure of sensitive personal data
- Right of no retaliation following opt-out or exercise of other rights
Virginia:
- Right to confirm if personal data is processed
- Right to access your personal information
- Right to correction inaccuracies in your personal data
- Right to delete your personal data
- Right to obtain a copy of your personal data
- Right to opt-out for the purpose of targeted advertising, sale of data, or profiling
- Right to non-discrimination
- Right to appeal
Colorado
- Right to confirm if personal data is processed
- Right to access your personal information
- Right to correction
- Right to deletion
- Right to opt-out of sale, targeted advertising, and profiling
- Right to data portability
- Right to non-discrimination
- Right to appeal
Connecticut:
- Right to confirm if personal data is processed
- Right to access your personal information
- Right to correction
- Right to deletion
- Right to data portability
- Right to opt-out of sale, targeted advertising, and profiling
- Right to Non-Discrimination
- Right to appeal
Utah:
- Right to confirm if personal data is processed
- Right to access your personal information
- Right to deletion
- Right to data portability
- Right to opt-out of sale and targeted advertising
- Right to non-discrimination
- Right to data portability
Nevada:
- Right to request that a company not sell your personal information for monetary consideration
Your Rights – Canada
Individuals located in Canada have certain rights pursuant to Canadian Privacy Laws. Subject to certain exceptions and limitations, and depending upon the jurisdiction where you reside, such rights may include:
- The right to withdraw your consent to the collection, use or disclosure of your personal information.
- The right to be informed of the existence, use, and disclosure of your personal information, and to be provided with an account of the use that has been made or is being made of this information as well as the third parties to which it has been disclosed (including a list of organizations to which your information may have disclosed).
- The right to challenge the accuracy and completeness of your personal information, and have it amended, updated, or rectified as appropriate.
- The right to acquire information about Dremel’s policies and practices with respect to personal information, including: a description of the type of personal information held by Dremel and a general account of its use; a copy of any brochures or other information that explain our policies, standards, or codes; and information about what personal information is shared with or accessible to our service providers or affiliates, including outside of Canada.
- The right to data portability.
- The right to challenge Dremel’s compliance with the applicable Canadian Privacy Laws.
How to Exercise Your Rights
To exercise your rights, submit a verifiable consumer request or access request, as applicable, to us by either:
Calling us at +1 847-793-2300.
Sending an email to hydraforce.marketing@hydraforce.com
To assist HydraForce in processing your request when exercising your rights, supply the following information:
- Full name
- Phone number
- Address
- Any information you can provide about pour previous contact with HydraForce (e.g. contact point / touchpoint with HydraForce, screenshots, reference to a specific product/newsletter)
Only you (or based on your state of residence, an authorized agent authorized by you to act on your behalf – see Section Authorized Agent below for more information) may make a verifiable consumer request or access request, as applicable related to your personal information. You may also make a verifiable consumer request on behalf of your minor child. Your verifiable consumer request or access request, as applicable, must:
- Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected Personal Information or an authorized representative.
- Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.
We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you. Making a verifiable consumer request or access request does not require you to create an account with us, but if you already have an account with us, you may be required to make your request through that account.
We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request or access request, as applicable, to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make the request.
Response Timing and Format
We endeavor to respond to a verifiable consumer request or access request, as applicable, within forty-five (45) days of its receipt, or sooner where required by applicable law (including Canadian Privacy Laws). If we require more time (up 90 days in total), where permitted by applicable law, we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing. Opt-out request will be honored as soon as feasibly possible, but no later than 15 days from the date we receive the request.
If you have an account with us, we will deliver our written response to that account. If you do not have an account with us, we will deliver our written response by mail or electronically, at your option.
Any disclosures we provide in response to a verifiable consumer request will only cover the 12-month period preceding the verifiable consumer request's receipt, unless otherwise required by applicable law. The response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable.
For data portability requests, where applicable, we will select a format to provide your personal information that is readily useable and should allow you to transmit the information from one entity to another entity without hindrance.
We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request or access request, as applicable, unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.
Managing cookies and tracking mechanisms
In the browser and/or in our Privacy Settings, you can manage your cookie and tracking mechanism settings.
Please note: The settings you make each apply only to the browser you are using.
Switch off all cookies
If you would like to disable all cookies, please go to your browser settings and disable the setting of cookies. Please note that this may affect the functionality of this website.
Obligation to provide personal data
You must provide those personal data that are required for the establishment and implementation of a business relationship and for the fulfillment of the associated contractual obligations or for the processing of which we are legally obligated. We mark such personal data in the respective forms or functions with an *. Please note that without the provision of such personal data, we will not be able to enter into or perform a contract with you. In this case, certain services (see "Processing purposes and legal basis") cannot be used.
External links
Our websites may contain links to internet pages of third parties, in particular providers who are not related to us. Upon clicking on the link, we have no influence on the collecting, processing and use of personal data possibly transmitted by clicking on the link to the third party (such as the IP address or the URL of the site on which the link is located) as the conduct of third parties is beyond our control. We do not assume responsibility for the processing of personal data by third parties.
Data subject rights
Please use the information in the Contact section to assert your rights. When doing so, please ensure that we can clearly identify you. You have the right to request access to the personal data concerning you, as well as the right to rectification, the right to erasure, the right to restriction of processing and the right to data portability. Insofar as you have given us consent to process your personal data, you may revoke this consent at any time with future effect.
Objection to direct marketing
You can object to the processing of your personal data for advertising purposes ("advertising objection") at any time. Please note that, for organizational reasons, there may be an overlap between your objection and the use of your data in the context of an already ongoing campaign.
Objection to data processing based on "legitimate interest"
If the processing of your personal data is based on “legitimate interest”, you also have the right to object to the processing of your personal data at any time on grounds relating to your particular situation. The reasons shall be stated. We will then terminate processing your data unless we can prove - in accordance with the legal requirements - compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your rights.
Right to lodge complaint with supervisory authority
You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.
Contact
If you wish to contact us, please find us at the address stated in the Controller section.
To assert your rights and to notify data protection incidents please use the following link: https://request.privacy-bosch.com/
For suggestions and complaints regarding the processing of your personal data we recommend that you contact our data protection officer:
Data Protection Officer Information Security and Privacy (C/ISP)
Robert Bosch GmbH P.O. Box 30 02 20 70442 Stuttgart, GERMANY or mail to: DPO@bosch.com
Changes to the Data Protection Notice
We reserve the right to change our security and data protection measures. In such cases, we will amend our Data Protection Notice accordingly. Therefore, please note the current version of our Data Protection Notice, as it is subject to change.
Published: 07/31/2025