Privacy Policy
The privacy of visitors to HowIWearIt.com is respected and taken very seriously.
The latest update to our Privacy Policy information was posted on December 9, 2015. This document governs the privacy policy of our website and blog, HowIWearIt.com (this site), along with the collection, use and disclosure of information.
Please read this policy before using, or submitting information to this site. By using this site, you signify that you agree to this Privacy Policy.
Links to Other Websites
In some cases, HowIWearIt.com may contain links to third party other websites as a convenience to you. In any event, please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of those, or any other sites. If you have questions about how those websites collect and use data, you should carefully read those sites’ privacy policies.
You acknowledge that your use and access of these websites is solely at your own risk and that you accept responsibility to check the privacy policies of these websites to see how your personal information is treated.
Information We Collect
HowIWearIt.com allows you to visit and browse without requiring any collection of personally identifiable information (PII). We may provide a ‘Contact Us’ form which may contain your PII. Your information is not shared or sold, and is only used by this site to provide a communication vehicle between its visitors and owners.
HowIWearIt.com uses AWeber, a third-party service, to manage its email list. The opt-in form for the newsletter may contain your personally identifiable information (PII). This information is only accessed by AWeber as our service provider and HowIWearIt.com as their client, and is not sold or shared. You may opt out of the email list at anytime via the unsubscribe button of the newsletter. For more information about AWeber, and their privacy policies, you may visit http://www.aweber.com/privacy.htm.
We collect and store in server logs non-personally identifiable information, including but not limited to browser type, IP address, operating system, the date and time of visits, the pages visited on the site, time spent viewing the site, and return visits to the site. We also use Google Analytics, a service that records non-personally identifiable data such as browser type, operating system, the date and time of a visit, where visitors came from, the pages visited on this website, the time spent viewing site, where visitors went when they left the site, and return visits to the site.
We aggregate this non-personally identifiable data to better understand how visitors use our site, and to help manage, maintain, and report on use of our website. We store IP addresses for fraud detection and prevention purposes.
We may share this non-personally identifiable data with third parties for the limited purpose of reporting on use of our website, or to comply with applicable law. We also may share this data with our service providers. We do not rent, sell or share any non-personally identifiable data collected on this website with third parties for marketing purposes.
Web Beacons
We may also use a technology called, web beacons, to collect general information about your use of our Website and your use of special promotions or newsletters. The information we collect by Web Beacons allows us to statistically monitor the number of people that open our emails. Our Web Beacons are not used to track your activity outside of our Website. We do not link non personal information (NPI) from Web Beacons to PII without your permission.
Automatic Information
We automatically receive information from your web browser or mobile device. This information includes the name of the website from which you entered our Website, if any, as well as the name of the website to which you’re headed when you leave our website. This information also includes the IP address of your computer/proxy server that you use to access the Internet, your Internet Website provider name, web browser type, type of mobile device, and computer operating system. We use all of this information to analyze trends among our Users to help improve our Website.
Cookies
Third party vendors and ad networks that use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to HowIWearIt.com include Google, Amazon & Commission Junction and Chitika. You may visit those respective websites to learn more about their privacy policies and opt out of the use of cookies for interest-based advertising or alternatively, visit aboutads.info to opt out.
We use cookies on this website. Cookies are small text files created by a web server, delivered through a web browser, and stored on your computer. They provide a means for websites that you visit to keep track of online patterns and preferences, as well as to identify return visitors. Cookies make the personalization of your web experiences possible, so that you do not need to re-enter your information each time you visit a website.
We also serve cookies to help us anonymously track web traffic, as described above.
Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our site. The DoubleClick cookie is used by Google in the ads served on the websites of its partners, such as websites displaying AdSense ads or participating in Google certified ad networks. When users visit a partner’s website and either view or click on an ad, a cookie may be dropped on that end user’s browser.
Google’s use of the DoubleClick DART cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to users based on their visit to our sites and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DoubleClick DART cookie by visiting Ad Settings as well as the Google ad and content network privacy policy at the following link: http://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads
You have the ability to manage the use of cookies on your computer using controls in your browser. To learn more about how to manage cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org