This Privacy Policy explains how we (Howtoedge) collect and receive information from our website located at www.howtoedge.com, mobile version, or other layouts from where information is gathered. This also explains what we do with the relevant data from our Site-visitors.
By using or accessing our website, you are accepting the Privacy Policy laid down by us, our Terms of use, and all other policies or notices which we publish from time to time on our Site. Browsing our tech articles, you also accept all the information detailed on this Privacy Policy. Please note down that this policy is applicable only to the data we collect on our Site. This doesn’t imply the data that you might provide to any third-party sites that are linked on our webpage until we express the concern specifically.
If you have any queries or concerns related to this Privacy Policy, please drop an email at privacy@howtoedge.com. Usually, we reply instantly. However, this could take at max 3 days in certain cases.
Personal Information
The data that we store and collect from the use of our Services are as follows –
Information that You Provide to Us:
We may collect personal information from Users in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, when Users visit our site, fill out a form, search for a product/service, provide feedback, subscribe to a service or certain offerings (patches, updates, etc.), User-generated content (i.e. comments, community forums, and others).
The information you provide directly to us may include, without limitation – Name, Email address, Age, Home or Work address, Mobile numbers, the carriers, Birthdate, Demographic locations, and Other Contact Information.
Information Provided Passively or Automatically Collected:
We may collect certain information about the System or Devices you use to access our Site or Services.
This might include:
1) The IP addresses, Geo-location data, Browser types, Operating Systems, the state or country from where you take a look at our Website, pages, and posts.
2) Information related to the ways by which you interact with the Site or Services, like the number of clicks, domain names, pages, content viewed, and other matching information.
We may also use third-party analytics providers and technologies, including cookies and similar tools, to assist in collecting this information.
Cookies and Other Electronic Technologies
We collect information about how you use our Services, including access times, browser types and language, and the Internet Protocol addresses. Various technologies are used to collect information, and this may include sending cookies to your computer.
Note that some of our advertisers may serve you cookies as well. We do not have control over cookies placed by our advertisers. Advertisers/ vendors may collect information identified above and are subject to their own privacy policies, not ours. We disclaim any or all liability in connection with such advertisers and their collection and use of information.
If you don’t want any cookies, you may simply choose to opt out. To do so, set your browser to refuse cookies. However, keep in mind, some portions of our services may not function properly then. You do not have any obligation, legally or otherwise, to provide us with your information. However, if you do not provide us with your information, we may not be able to provide you with the Services you have requested or you may be limited in your use of our Services.
Information Collected from Social Media
When you “like” or “follow” us on Facebook or Twitter or other social media sites, we may collect some additional information from you including your name, e-mail address, and any comments or content that you post relevant to us. We may also collect your information if you sign up for one of our promotions or submit information to us through social media sites.
What do we do with the cached data
We do not sell, trade, or rent Users’ personal identification information to others. However, We may use the raw information about you to do the following activities, including without limitation:
- Track and analyze trends and usage in connection with our Services
- Protect your rights or property
- Verify your identity
- To send you information
- To notify you about new features, changes, or offerings
- For internal research and reporting
- To analyze and improve the content and features of our Services
- To measure or understand the effectiveness of advertising that we serve to you and others
- For the purposes for which you provided it
- To keep our website safe and secure
- To allow you to participate in interactive features
- Investigate and prevent fraud or other illegal activities
- To administer and troubleshoot our Services
- To protect the integrity and security of our Services
Disclosure of Your Information
We may disclose your information to third parties under the following circumstances:
- Your consent
- Our service providers who perform services on our behalf or for another legitimate business purpose
- Business partners with whom we have a business relationship may provide promotions, discounts, or other offerings to you.
- To protect your rights, comply with laws, regulations or we believe in good faith that access to information is necessary to protect us or others.
- Business mergers or acquisitions.
- Public forums such as blogs and community forums where your information may be read, collected, and used by others.
Transferring data internationally
We may transfer personal data collected by the Site to countries outside the USA and Europe, including (but not limited to): Canada, India, etc. This is mostly done through third-party websites that serve affiliate ads and content on the Site.
Retention of Your Information
We will keep your information only for as long as is reasonably necessary for the purposes that it has been processed, taking into account any legal requirements that may apply. For the avoidance of any doubt, we will retain your information in order to continue offering the Services to you. If you exercise any of the rights set forth above, your information will no longer be stored.
Information Security
No data transmission over the Internet is entirely secure and no system of physical or electronic security is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of the information you send or the security of our servers and databases. By using our Services you agree to assume all risks in connection with the information sent to us or collected by us when you use our Services. In the unlikely event that we believe the security of your information may have been compromised, we may seek to notify you.
What are “Your Rights”
You can reset your Cookies. You can remove or reject cookies via your browser settings. In order to do this, follow the instructions provided by your browser (usually within the “settings”, “help”, “tools” facility). If you clear your cookies, it will delete How-To Edge Cookie and therefore the Cookie ID will no longer identify a cookie on your device. This means the next time you visit the Site (unless you actively identify yourself by logging in), we will not recognize you or your device. We will treat you as a new user and will set the How-To-Edge Cookie again.
You may delete browser information. Many Internet browsers allow you to disable HTML5 local storage or delete information contained in HTML5 local storage using browser controls.
If you would like to correct or erase the personal data we have collected please send us a request by email at contact@howtoedge.com. When we receive such a request, we will seek to comply as soon as reasonably practicable (but in no event more than 15 days).
How we protect your information
We adopt appropriate data collection, storage, and processing practices and security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction of your personal information, username, password, transaction information, and data stored on our Site.
Additional Information
We use Sucuri Firewall and web antivirus to protect the website.
Visitor comments may be monitored through an automated spam detection service. We use CleanTalk to perform this task.
Advertising
Ads appearing on our site may be delivered to Users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile non-personal identification information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This privacy policy does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Changes to this privacy policy
Howtoedge has the discretion to update the existing policy at any time. However, when we do, we will post the revised Date at the bottom of this page. We encourage Users to check this page frequently for any changes that we put here so that they stay informed about how we are working to protect their personal information. It is the sole responsibility of Users and they allow their consent to review this privacy policy periodically and become aware of any changes.
Your acceptance of these terms
By using the information shared on this Site, you accept the privacy policy laid down by us. If you do not agree with any policy mentioned above, please do not use our Site. Your continued use of the Site following the subsequent changes will acknowledge your acceptance of these modifications.
Questions
If you have any queries or concerns about this policy, please drop a mail at contact@howtoedge.com.
Last Updated: July 21, 2021