How Online

Privacy Policy

We at HOW Online (www.howsmatter.com) respect your privacy as a visitor to our website. It is important for you to understand what information we collect about you during your visit and what we do with that information. Your visit to this website is subject to this “Privacy Policy” and our Terms of Use. By visiting this website, you agree that we may collect, disclose and use information about you except as expressly provided below. You should review this privacy policy carefully, because if you do not agree with our practices, you should not visit this website.

Personally Identifiable Information

Personally identifiable information is information that we collect and store in a way that allows us to relate it to you personally or to your family, such as, but not limited to, your name, e-mail address, mailing or billing address and phone number. Like many other websites, we actively collect such information from our visitors by various means, including asking questions on this website and permitting you to communicate directly with us via e-mail. However, we will not collect personally identifiable information about you without your participation or consent. If you share with us or consent to our collection of any personally identifiable information about you, we may store it and use it for marketing, research and other business purposes, and we may associate your personally identifiable information with other information we collect about you, such as details about your usage patterns and interests.

We may share your personally identifiable information with our service providers (e.g., data analysis firms and web hosting companies) and marketing partners for use in connection with our programs and otherwise on our behalf. However, we will not sell your information to any other business except: (i) as necessary for you to continue to receive the benefits of any program or service you specifically request, (ii) to the extent that we notify you otherwise at the time that you provide such personal information, or (iii) to the extent that you otherwise consent. We may disclose any information we deem necessary, in our sole discretion, to comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request.

Aggregate Information

Aggregate information is information that we collect or store that is not specifically associated with you personally or your family. When you visit this website, we may collect and store aggregate information about your visit. This information may include the time and length of your visit, the pages you looked at on our sites, any site that you may have visited from which you linked to our site, the name of your Internet service provider, and other information relating to your visit. We may use this information to measure website activity, to develop ideas for improving our websites, and for any other purpose, and we may freely share this information with others.

Log Files

We may use IP addresses to analyze usage, administer our website, gather demographic information and for other purposes.

Use of Cookies

When you visit our website, we may use “cookies” to track your activity related to our website and store information about you. A cookie is a small piece of information that we send to your web browser when you visit our website. The cookie is stored on your hard drive so that we can read it back whenever you visit our website again. Information we collect using cookies may be associated with you personally using personally identifiable information that you provide to us or authorize us to collect as described above. Unless you set your browser to notify you when a cookie is received, you will not know when we send cookies to your computer.

Protection of Information; No Guarantee of Security

We endeavor to protect your personal information. We use both technical and procedural methods to maintain the integrity and security of our databases, including firewalls. However, we will not be responsible for or liable in connection with any loss or disclosure of your personal information, other than disclosures that we knowingly make in violation of this Privacy Policy.

Links

This website may contain links to or from other websites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of other websites. This Privacy Policy applies only to the information we collect on this website. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of other websites you link to from our website or otherwise visit.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we will post the revised policy here. We will also post a notice on the website for 60 days noting that changes were made and including a link to a summary of the changes or a redline of the changes. We suggest that you periodically consult this Privacy Policy. Please note that our rights to use any information collected will be based on the privacy policy in effect at the time the information is used. If you do not agree with the revised Privacy Policy you may give us written notice requesting that we remove any personally identifiable information relating to you which we will take reasonable steps to remove.

Children Visiting This Website

This website is not intended for children 13 years of age or younger. We will not collect information from website visitors whom we know to be in this age group. We encourage parents to talk to their children about their use of the Internet and the information they disclose online.

Comments

If you have any questions, comments or concerns about our privacy practices, or if you wish to request access to, correct or delete any personal information that you have provided to us, please contact us at:

Webmaster
c/o LRN Corporation
1100 Glendon Avenue, Suite 700
Los Angeles, California 90024