HowToHaven™'s Privacy and No Spam Policy

Our policy concerning privacy and no spam

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Privacy and No Spam Policy

This page outlines HowToHaven™'s policy concerning your privacy and the sending of unsolicited email (usually referred to as "spam").

Email Address

If you send me feedback using the site's contact form, you will be asked for your email address so that I can reply to you.
That email address will only be used to reply to your message. I will not use it to spam you, nor will I sell your email address to any third party. I am very much against spam myself.

Cookies

By default, without your intervention, HowToHaven™ itself does not use cookies on any of its pages.
One of the site's advertisers, Google, uses cookies in the course of serving advertisements. You can read more information about Google's use of cookies here.
On the pages where Google adverts appear, I display a "This site uses cookies" notice. While I have tried my best to make sure that the notice obstructs as little of the content as possible, I realize that if you are reading the articles on a small screen, even a brief notice can use up valuable screen space, hampering your effort to read the page efficiently.

As such, if you click the "Close" button to get rid of the notice, HowToHaven™ saves that setting and remembers it on its other pages, so as not to inconvenience you any further. The method provided by the web protocols/standards to save settings is by storing a cookie. In other words, if you click the "Close" button, HowToHaven™ will actually end up saving a cookie where previously it didn't.

That said, the cookie contains no personal information and cannot be used to track you. In fact, everyone who clicks the "Close" button gets the exact same cookie. Specifically, the cookie only has the words "user_wants_notice_gone=y". All pages on HowToHaven™ will obey that cookie and not display any notice as long as the cookie exists. The cookie expires after 365 days, so if you come back to this site after a year, you'll have to click the "Close" button again.

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