At How To by Guide, we are aware that privacy is important. This Privacy Policy governs the collection, use, storage and disclosure of information collected from users (each, a “User”) of the https://www.howtobyguide.com website (the “Site”). This privacy policy applies only to this site.
What Data Do We Collect?
We may collect information like your website, email & your name when you post a comment on this blog or when you contact us. We do not share your email address with anyone it’s only used to contact you. HowTobyGuide.com does not collect any information without the user’s knowledge.
We collect information to provide better service to our users. We collect information in the following ways:
We do not collect any personal information about you when you use our Services, except in the following conditions:
- You leave a comment on one of our posts: While leaving a comment, you can choose to enter your name and email address along with the comment. This data is automatically stored by WordPress.
However, we do not use this data, or sell it to our partners and/or third parties.
We use Google Analytics to analyse the traffic on our website. Google Analytics may collect the following information when you visit our website, read an article, or leave a comment:
- Device information: Google Analytics collects information about the device you use to access our Services, including the class of the device (smartphone, laptop, tablet, etc), operating system, and your city-level geographical location.
- Behavioural Information: Google Analytics collects information about the pages visited by visitors on our website, including the time spent on a page, as well as navigational behaviour through the website. However, this information is aggregated, and can’t be used to identify you, individually.
How Is The Data Used?
We will just combine personal information collected from you at different times to provide the services you’ve requested & to provide a better user experience, including customizing content for you.
Do We Disclose Any Information To Outside Parties?
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others rights, property, or safety.
Third-Party Links
Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third-party products or services on our website. These third-party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. Therefore we have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.
Cookies And Web Beacons
We do use cookies to store information, such as your personal preferences when you visit our site. This could include only showing you a popup once in your visit, or the ability to login to some of our features, such as forums.
We also use third-party advertisements on HowTobyGuide.com to support our site. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP, the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. This is generally used for geotargeting purposes or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited.
Use Of Cookies For Analytics
We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of this website. Google Analytics generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies, which are stored on users’ computers. The information generated relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of the website. Google will store this information. Google‘s privacy policy is available here.
We partner with Microsoft Clarity and Microsoft Advertising to capture how you use and interact with our website through behavioral metrics, heatmaps, and session replay to improve and market our products/services. Website usage data is captured using first and third-party cookies and other tracking technologies to determine the popularity of products/services and online activity. Additionally, we use this information for site optimization, fraud/security purposes, and advertising. For more information about how Microsoft collects and uses your data, visit the Microsoft Privacy Statement.
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We may also use third-party advertisers to serve ads on our Services. These advertisers may use cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies to collect information about your visits to our Services in order to serve ads that are relevant to your interests. These companies may use information, not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number, about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.
You can opt out of the use of cookies for personalised advertising by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page or the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page. Please note that these opt-out mechanisms are specific to the browser you are using and will not affect the collection of data by other third-party advertisers.
To gain clarity on Google AdSense’s privacy policy, we encourage you to read through the following link: https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/1348695
You can view our list of advertising partners by visiting this page.
DoubleClick DART Cookies
We also may use DART cookies for ad serving through Google’s DoubleClick, which places a cookie on your computer when you are browsing the web and visit a site using DoubleClick advertising (including some Google AdSense advertisements).
This cookie is used to serve ads specific to you and your interests (”interest based targeting”). The ads served will be targeted based on your previous browsing history. DART uses “non-personally identifiable information”. It does NOT track personal information about you, such as your name, email address, physical address, telephone number, social security numbers, bank account numbers, or credit card numbers. You can opt out of this ad serving on all sites using this advertising by visiting this website.
You can choose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to log in to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.
Deleting cookies does not mean you are permanently opted out of any advertising program. Unless you have settings that disallow cookies, the next time you visit a site running the advertisements, a new cookie will be added.
Data Protection And Security
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure and do our best to keep your personal data safe. We utilise safe protocols for communication and transferring data (such as HTTPS). We monitor our systems for possible vulnerabilities and attacks. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
Even though we try our best, we cannot guarantee the security of information. However, we promise to notify suitable authorities of data breaches. We will also notify you if there is a threat to your rights or interests. We will do everything we reasonably can to prevent security breaches and to assist authorities should any breaches occur.
Editorial Policy
How To by Guide abides by a strict Editorial Policy for the content posted on our website. Any products, software, and/or services recommended by us go through a thorough testing and are, to the best of our knowledge, worth recommending.
We do not provide paid positive reviews or coverage to any company, product, or service.
Additional Information
We use Cloudflare to protect the website and utilize their CDN services.
You can see Cloudflare’s Privacy Policy here – https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/
If you have Privacy concerns, it is best to use your browser in Incognito Mode along with a good security, an advertisement & tracker blocking browser extension and VPN software.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our information practices, you can contact us at: [email protected]