Welcome to HowTellMe.com (the “Website”). We designed this Privacy Policy to inform you how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your personal information when you visit our Website or use our services.
This Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures for collecting, using, and disclosing Your information when You use the Service. It also tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You.
We use personal data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, you agree to this Privacy Policy’s collection and use of information.
Collecting and Using Your Data
Types of Data Collected
Personal Data
While using Our Service, We may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that we can use to contact or identify You. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:
- Email address
- First name and last name
- Phone number
- Usage Data
Usage Data
The Service automatically collects Usage Data during its use. Usage Data may include information such as Your Device’s Internet Protocol address (e.g., IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.
When you access the Service by or through a mobile device, we may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device you use, your mobile device’s unique ID, the IP address of your mobile device, your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser you use, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.
We may also collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Service or access the Service through a mobile device.
Tracking Technologies and Cookies
We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on Our Service and store certain information. Tracking technologies are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and improve and analyze Our Service. The technologies We use may include:
- Cookies or Browser Cookies: A cookie is a small file placed on Your Device. You can direct your browser to reject all cookies or notify you when a cookie is being sent. However, you must accept Cookies to be able to use some parts of our Service. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting to refuse Cookies, our Service may use Cookies.
- Web Beacons. Certain sections of our Service 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 to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of a specific section and verifying system and server integrity).
Cookies can be “Persistent” or “Session” Cookies. Persistent cookies remain on your personal computer or mobile device when you go offline. When you close your web browser, it deletes session cookies immediately.
We use both Session and Persistent Cookies for the purposes set out below:
- Necessary / Essential Cookies
- Type: Session Cookies
- Administered by: Us
- Purpose: These cookies are crucial for providing services accessible through the Website and facilitating using some of its features. They assist in verifying users’ identities and mitigating the risk of fraudulent activity associated with user accounts. Without these cookies, we cannot deliver the requested services and will use them to ensure the provision of those services to you.
- Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance Cookies
- Type: Persistent Cookies
- Administered by: Us
- Purpose: These Cookies identify if users have accepted cookies on the Website.
- Functionality Cookies
- Type: Persistent Cookies
- Administered by: Us
- Purpose: These Cookies allow us to remember your choices when you use the Website, such as your login details or language preference. The purpose of these Cookies is to provide you with a more personal experience and to avoid having to re-enter your preferences every time you use the Website.
For more information about the cookies we use and your choices regarding cookies, please visit our Cookies Policy or the Cookies section of our Privacy Policy.
Use of Your Data
The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:
- To provide and maintain our Service, including monitoring the usage of our Service.
- To manage Your Account is to manage your registration as a Service user. The Personal Data You provide can give you access to different functionalities of the Service that are available to you as a registered user.
- For the performance of a contract: the development, compliance, and undertaking of the purchase contract for the products, items, or services You have purchased or of any other contract with Us through the Service.
- To contact You: We may contact you by email, telephone call, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application’s push notifications, regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products, or contracted services, including security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.
- To provide you with news, special offers, and general information about other goods, services, and events we offer similar to those you have already purchased or enquired about unless you have opted not to receive such information.
- To manage Your requests: To attend and manage Your requests to Us.
- For business transfers: We may use Your information to evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Data held by Us about our Service users is among the assets transferred.
- For other purposes: We may use your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns, and evaluating and improving our Service, products, services, marketing, and your experience.
We may share Your personal information in the following situations:
- With Service Providers: We may share your personal information with service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service and contact you.
- For business transfers: We may share or transfer Your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of Company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of Our business to another company.
- With Affiliates: We may share Your information with Our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include Our parent company and any other subsidiaries. Joint venture partners, or other companies that We control or are under common control with Us.
- With business partners: We may share Your information with Our business partners to offer You certain products, services, or promotions.
- With other users: When you share personal information or otherwise interact in public areas with other users. Such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside.
- With Your consent: We may disclose Your personal information for any other purpose with Your consent.
Retention of Your Data
The Company will retain Your Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will have and use Your Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.
The Company will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally kept for a shorter period. We use it to strengthen the security or improve the functionality of our Service or when legal obligations require us to retain it for extended periods.
Transfer of Your Data
Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company’s operating offices and in any other places. Where the parties involved in the processing are located. The system or entity may transfer this information to — and maintain on — computers outside Your state, source, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws differ from yours.
Your acceptance of this Privacy Policy, followed by submitting such information, represents your agreement to that transfer.
The Company will take all necessary steps to ensure that Your data is treated securely and by this Privacy Policy. Your Data will only be transferred to an organization or a country if adequate controls. It includes the security of Your data and other personal information, are in place.
Delete Your Data
You have the right to delete or request that we assist you in deleting the Personal Data we collected about You.
Our Service may allow You to delete certain information about You from within the Service.
You may update, amend, or delete your information at any time by signing in to Your Account, if you have one, and visiting the account settings section, which allows you to manage your personal information. You may also contact us to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information you provided.
Please note, however, that We may need to retain certain information. When we have a legal obligation or lawful basis to do so.
Disclosure of Your Data
Business Transactions
Your Data may be transferred if the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition, or asset sale. We will provide notice before Your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.
Law enforcement
Under certain circumstances, the Company may disclose Your Data if required by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities. (e.g., a court or a government agency).
Other legal requirements
The Company may disclose Your Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
- Comply with a legal obligation
- Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company
- Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
- Protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public
- Protect against legal liability
Security of Your Data
The security of Your Data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Children’s Privacy
Our Service only addresses people under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under 13. If you are a parent or guardian and know that your child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. We may become aware that we have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent. In that case, we remove that information from our servers.
Suppose we need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your information, and your country requires parental consent. In that case, we may require your parent’s permission before we collect and use that information.
Links to Other Websites
Our Service may contain links to other websites that we do not operate. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third-party’s site. We strongly advise you to review every site’s privacy policy.
We do not control and assume no responsibility for third-party sites or services’ content, privacy policies, or practices of third parties.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. Our team will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.
We will inform You via email and a prominent notice on Our Service before the change becomes effective and update the “Last updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy.
Review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when posted on this page.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact us:
- By email: editor.howtellme@gmail.com
- By visiting this Contact Us page on our Website
