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Privacy Policy

Last updated: March 28, 2022

This Privacy Statement explains Your privacy rights and the laws that protect you, as well as Our policies and procedures for gathering, using, and disclosing Your information when you use the Service. 


Your Personal Information is collected and used by us to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, you consent to this Privacy Policy’s collection and use of your information.

Keywords Meaning

Meaning

The following situations define the meanings of words with capital first letters. The definitions that follow, whether written in the singular or plural, must be understood both ways.

Definitions

Below are meaning of words you might see in our Privacy Policy:

  • Account: A special user name and password created specifically for you to access our website or extra features of it.

  • Company: `Genhowto` is referred to as Company (also known as “the Company,” “We,” “Us,” or “Our” in this Agreement).

  • Cookies: Cookies are tiny files that websites put on your computer, mobile device, or any other device. They include information about your browsing history on the website in addition to other things.

  • Country: Nigeria is the mentioned country.

  • Device Device refers to any item that can access the Service, including a computer, a phone, or a tablet computer.

  • Personal Data: Any information pertaining to an identified or recognisable individual is considered personal data.

  • Service: The word Service here refers to the GenHowTo

  • Service Provider: Any individual—natural or legal—who processes data on behalf of the Company is a service provider. It refers to third-party businesses or people that the Company employs to complete Service-related tasks, deliver the Service on its behalf, facilitate the Service, or help the Company conduct Service usage research. 

  • Usage Data: This refers to information that is automatically collected from the service’s infrastructure or from users (for example, how long a user stays on a particular page).

  • Website: is General How To, which is found at GenHowTo

  • You: refers to the individual who accesses or utilizes the service, or, if applicable, the company or other legal entity on whose behalf the individual is acting.

Personal Data Collection and Use

Data Collection Methods

Personal Information

While utilizing Our Service, We might ask You for specific personally identifiable information that will allow Us to get in touch with or identify you. Listed below are personal identifiable information among other things:


  • Electronic mail address (E – mail)

  • First name and last name

  • Phone number

  • Usage Data

Usage Data

Utilizing the Service results in the automatic collection of Usage Data.

Usage Data may include specific device identifiers, other diagnostic data, the IP address of your device, the type and version of your browser, the pages of our service that you visit, when and for how long, and other similar information. 

We may automatically gather certain information when You use a mobile device to access the Service, including, but are not limited to, the kind of mobile device you make use of (Android, Iphone, PC, Mac etc), its unique ID, IP address, operating system, the specific type of mobile Internet browser you make use of (Chrome, Firefox, Safari etc), other diagnostic data, and more. 


How we make use of Cookies and tracking tools

With the aid of cookies and other tracking technologies, we keep track of activity on Our Service and store data. Examples of tracking technologies used to collect data, track it, and analyze it to improve Our Service include beacons, tags, and scripts. We might use the following technological tools:


  • Cookies: Your device stores a cookie as a small file. To always reject cookies or to alert you when one is being sent, you can instruct your browser. However, if you refuse to accept Cookies, you might not be able to use all of our Service. Our Service may use cookies if you haven’t adjusted your browser’s settings to prevent them.
  • Flash Cookies: A few parts of our service might make use of locally stored objects to collect and store information about your preferences or how you use it (also known as Flash Cookies). Flash cookies cannot be managed through the same browser settings as browser cookies. For more information on how to delete Flash Cookies, please see “Where can I change the settings for disabling or deleting local shared objects? available at HERE
  • Web Beacons: Also known as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs, are small data files that may be present in some areas of our Service and emails. Web beacons enable the Company to compile other website statistics and to count the number of users who have accessed those pages or opened emails (for example, Keeping track of a section’s popularity, for instance, or checking the server and system integrity). 

Cookies come in two varieties: “Persistent” and “Session. When you close your web browser, session cookies disappear, but persistent cookies stay on your computer or mobile device even when you go offline.

For the following reasons, we both use session cookies and persistent cookies:


  • Essential / Required Cookies

    Type: Temporary cookies

    In charge: GenHowTo
    Purpose: These cookies are necessary to deliver the services you request from the website and let you use some of its features. They aid in user authentication and guard against fraudulent account use. The services that You have requested from us cannot be provided without these cookies, so we only use them to deliver them to you.

  • Acceptance of Cookies Policy and Notice

    Kind: Permanent Cookies

    In charge: GenHowTo

    Purpose: To ascertain whether users have given their consent for the website to use cookies, these cookies are used.

  • Operational Cookies

    Kind: Permanent Cookies

    In charge of: Us

    Purpose: These cookies is to assist us in remembering choices you make when utilizing the website, such as your preferred language or login details. By using these Cookies, we can provide more customization for you and spare you from having to enter your preferences each time you visit the website.

Please see our Cookies Policy or the Cookies section of our Privacy Policy for more details on the cookies we use and your cookie-related options.


Use of Your Personal Data

The following uses of personal data by GenHowTo are possible:

  • To deliver and upkeep our service, which includes keeping an eye on how it’s used.

  • To manage Your Account, you must be in control of how you registered to use the Service. You can use several Service features that are only accessible to registered users by providing Personal Data.

  • For the purposes of carrying out a contract, we define a contract as the creation, execution, and performance of a purchase agreement for goods, services, or other items that You have purchased from Us through the Service. 

  • Whenever necessary or practical for their implementation, to contact You by phone, email, SMS, or some analogous form of technological communication, such mobile app push alerts.

  • Unless you have indicated that you do not want to receive this information, we may send you news, promotional offers, and general details about additional goods and services as well as events that we provide that are similar to those you have already enquired about or purchased. 

  • To manage and handle Your requests for Us: to handle Your demands.

  • For additional purposes: We might use Your information for things like data analysis, spotting usage patterns, gauging the success of marketing campaigns, and assessing and enhancing our service, goods, and marketing efforts as well as your experience.

Listed below are instances we may give out your personal information:


  • With Service Providers: We might give your personal information to service providers so they can get in touch with you and assist us in tracking and analyzing how our service is used. 
  • For business transfers: We reserve the right to disclose or transfer Your personal information in the course of, or in connection with, any merger, sale of business assets, financing, or purchase of all or a portion of Our business by another company.
  • With Affiliates: If you give us permission to do so and our affiliates consent to the terms of this privacy statement, we may share Your information with them. Affiliates are any subsidiaries, joint venture partners, or other businesses that we control or that are under our common control, as well as Our parent company.
  • With business partners: To offer You specific goods, services, or promotions, We Might Share Your Information With Our Business Partners.
  • Interacting with other users in public spaces may result in the exchange of personal information or other activities that are visible to other users as well as the general public outside.
  • With your permission, your personal data can be shared for any other reason.

How we save Your Personal Data

The Company (GenHowTo)  will only keep your personal information for as long as it takes to accomplish the goals outlined in this privacy statement. We will keep and use your personal information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if applicable laws require us to keep your data on file), resolve disputes, and uphold our agreements and policies. 

The Company will also keep Usage Data for its own internal analysis requirements. Usage Data is typically only kept for a brief period of time. However, if more time is needed to meet legal requirements, settle disputes, or improve the functionality of Our Service, it may be kept for a longer period of time.


Sharing Your Personal Information

Business Dealings

If the Company merges, buys, or sells assets, your personal information might be transferred. We will alert you prior to any transfer of Your Personal Data that is covered by a different Privacy Policy.


Law enforcement

The Company might on occasion be compelled by law to disclose Your Personal Data or in response to lawful requests from the government (For instance, a court or an authority). 


Other legal requirements

The Company may disclose your Personal Data if it reasonably believes that doing so is necessary to:


  • Fulfill a legal obligation
  • Protect and uphold the Company’s property rights.
  • Prevent or investigate any possible Service misconduct.
  • Ensure the security of the general public or service users
  • Fend off legal responsibility

How secured your Data or information is?

Although We are concerned about the security of Your Personal Data, keep in mind that no method of electronic data storage or transmission over the Internet is 100% secure. Despite our best efforts, we are unable to completely guarantee the security of your personal information, even when using commercially reasonable measures.


Children’s Privacy

Users who are younger than 13 cannot use our service. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 through our website. If you are a parent or other legal guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, kindly contact us. We take steps to remove the data from Our servers if We become aware that We may have obtained Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without first confirming parental consent. 


We may request your consent before collecting and using your information if your country mandates it and we must use it as the basis for doing so under the law.


Links to Other Websites

It’s possible that Our Service contains links to other websites that are not managed by Us. If you click on one of their links, you will be directed to a website owned by a third party. Please make sure to carefully read the privacy statement on every website you visit, as we urge you to do.


We have no control over and accept no liability for the content, privacy practices, or other policies of any third-party websites or services.


Changes or Modifications to Our Privacy Policy

Our privacy statement may be revisted and revised from time to time. We’ll notify you whenever we make changes by posting the most recent version of the Privacy Policy on this page.

Prior to the modification going into effect, We will notify You via email and/or a clear notice on Our Service, update the “Last updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy, and make the change. 

It is advised that you check this privacy statement for updates on a regular basis. Any amendments to this privacy statement become effective upon posting to this page.

        Getting in touch with us

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