PRIVACY POLICY

Effective Date 12/1/2022 and supersedes all previous privacy policies

Effected Audience: World Wide including European Union and other International countries and groups. This Privacy Policy will be effective as of May 23, 2018 for all new users and users in EU and EEA member countries.

About the Policy

The scope of this agreement pertains to Howtouseajournal.com, and its subsidiaries, brands, and network members (“we,” “us” or “Howtouseajournal.com”) providing downloadable personal development tools for free, and for a fee as well as products, books, blogs ET. To help our users build the life of their dreams. We place extreme value on the personal information of our customers and visitors who use our websites, products, or services (collectively, our “Users”). This privacy policy was designed to give you user details concerning how your personal information is collected, shared, and used by us. If you have any concerns about this privacy policy or the practices described herein, you may contact privacy@Howtouseajournal.com or The Motivation Nut, 455 N Third St, Mammoth Spring, AR 72554. For the purposes of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679, or GDPR, we respect your rights to privacy and will honor any request to be removed from our database at any time.

INFORMATION COVERED BY THIS PRIVACY POLICY

This privacy policy covers personal information, including any information we collect, use and share with you, as described further below. This privacy policy applies to HOWTOUSEAJOURNAL.COM, and its subsidiaries, brands and network members, our products and services, and our mobile applications (collectively, the “Services”). This privacy policy does not cover how our Users may use or share data that they collect using our services.

When you purchase a Service from us, your personal information may be collected, used, and shared consistent with the provisions of this privacy policy, which is part of this privacy policy:

Addendum for Users who purchased a membership and monthly services
Addendum for Users who purchased Domain Registration services

INFORMATION WE COLLECT FROM YOU

When using our Services, we obtain the following information about you as described below. We collect this data for the purposes described under “How We Use Your Information”.

SIGNING UP FOR OUR SERVICES

Information you provide prior to any registration process, such as your email when you provide it to us;
Information that you provide during any registration process, including but not limited to your name, company name, email address, phone number, billing address or credit card information, geographic location, and industry, when you call or email, or when you use our products or services; and
Payment information that you provide to us for any product or service, including credit card data.

USE OF SERVICES, WEBSITE VISITS, AND SUPPORT

Data relating to your online activity on our websites with respect to our Services, including the following:

IP address
browser type and version
geographic location
pages you view
The source you used to find our services
any communication with us
New services ordered
metadata about your use and your contact’s use of our Services and the emails you send (including clicks and opens)
your interactions with any videos we offer
issues you encounter requiring our support or assistance
any device or other method of communication you use to interact with the Services

We securely store the data we collect in a variety of places within our infrastructure, including system log files, back-end databases, and analytics systems. We respect the PCI compliance requirements and implement secure means to transfer the data whenever possible.

Voicemails left by the user as well as conversations that may be monitored or recorded at our discretion

SOCIAL MEDIA

Information from third-party social networking sites, including information that social networking sites provide to us if you use your credentials at such social networking sites to log into some of our Services (such as your name and email address to pre-populate our sign-up form)
The information you allow us to access varies by social networking site and depends on the level of privacy settings you have in place at the social networking site. You can control and find out more about these privacy settings at the applicable social networking site
Tracking Devices such as cookies and pixels will allow us to better market the user with professionalism and preferences as provided by past interactions

OTHER SOURCES

Information you provide to us through our JVs and partners
Information you provide to us in surveys
Information that is publicly available
Information you consent to us receiving from third parties

HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

Our goal is to behave as a successful, effective, and efficient business and in providing you the user with Services and useful content, and we use the information we collect, both on its own and combined with any other information collected about you, for the following purposes:

To provide Services, both free and paid to you at your request
To provide you with useful content for an improved user experience
To ensure the proper functioning of our Services through surveys, ET.
To offer new or potentially improved products and Services
To assist you with the requested information, and or support for our product or service
To assist your navigation through our websites or your use of our products Services
To improve the customer experience where it concerns marketing and advertising (and to fulfill our duties of diligence in consent where required by applicable law)
To advertise and market third-party products and services
To diagnose problems within the scope of our Services
In connection with our security and compliance programs
To improve our websites
To communicate with you
To target prospective customers with our products or services (where and how it’s allowed by law)
To assist us in offering you a personalized experience or otherwise tailor our Services to you
Otherwise documented by this privacy policy.

We use the information we receive for reporting trends and statistics, such as mobile search trends, email open rates by industry, campaign best practices, or the number of users that have been exposed to, or clicked on, our websites or evaluated or purchased our products and services.

Payment information that you provide to us, including credit card data, is used to facilitate payment for our products and services.

We use recorded telephone conversations for quality control purposes.

SHARING OF INFORMATION

As further described below, we share the least amount of personal information necessary with:

Our product and service partners
Third-party service providers and vendors
Sale, merger, acquisition, or corporate reorganization
Law Enforcement

SHARING WITHIN THE MOTIVATION NUT NETWORK

We share personal information with other members of the Howtouseajournal.com network to allow our internal affiliates to contact you with offers, services, or products that we believe may be of interest to you. Any such network affiliate may use your information only according to the terms of this privacy policy. If you are located in a jurisdiction where such sharing requires your permission, we will only do so with your consent.

SHARING WITH PARTNERS

We sometimes share your personal information with our third-party partners, including marketing and advertising partners, that information may include your name, email address, and other information enabling partners to:

Assist you in using and improving our products and services
Contact you with offers, services, or products that may be of interest to you
Provide you with their products or services

If you are located in a jurisdiction where such sharing requires your permission, we will only do so with your consent. Please note that if you access our services through a tool that hides your location, such as through a virtual private network, you may not receive our request for permission because we were not able to identify you as being located in a jurisdiction where your permission is required. If this happens you are responsible for our inability to track your location. Including but not limited to the EU, and you agree to pay any financial burdens and damages this may cause.

Further, our partners are prohibited from using your contact information for any purpose beyond those set forth above without your consent. We do not share your credit card information; therefore you will need to give it to them.

In the event we collect information from you in connection with an offer that is jointly presented by us and a partner, we will let you know who is collecting the information and whose privacy policy applies, as well as any options you may have regarding the use of your information.

SHARING WITH THIRD-PARTY SERVICE PROVIDERS AND VENDORS

We use third-party services to handle the standardized task. Therefore, we may need to share your information to manage situations such as customer service, marketing and fraud investigation. We prohibit third parties from using any of your personal information for any purpose beyond the specific scope and purpose for which it was shared.

If you purchase a product or service from a third party through one of our brands, we will pass your personal information to such third party as needed in order for them to fulfill your order.

We share non-personal information with certain third parties, including the media, industry observers, marketing and advertising partners, vendors, customers, potential customers or partners. For example, we disclose mobile search trends, email open rates by industry, campaign best practices or the number of users that have been exposed to, or clicked on, our websites or evaluated or purchased our products and services.

CHANGE OF OWNERSHIP

If the ownership of Howtouseajournal.com is transferred or merged with another company, the information in our database and our privacy policy will transfer to the new ownership. You will still maintain all of the same rights and may ask to be removed before, or after the transfer of ownership.

AUTHORIZED USERS

Any users authorized by you will have access to any personal information stored in your account. Please be careful to whom you grant access as any legal implications are entirely assumed by you and you agree to hold Howtouseajournal.com employees, Investors, and anyone who holds a vested interest in Howtouseajournal.com not liable for any actions or damages caused by your revealing your personal information or allowing access to your account.

DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL DATA FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT

Please be on notice that we will disclose any and all of your personal information to courts of law, law enforcement authorities, and other relevant third parties, such as internet service providers, to conduct an investigation, respond to a third party or law enforcement subpoena or court order, bring legal action, prevent harm to others or pursue other relief when you or a third party are or may be:

Violating our terms and conditions of use
Causing injury or other harm to, or otherwise violating the property or other legal rights, of us, other users, or third parties; or
Violating federal, state, local, or other applicable laws.

This disclosure can include transferring your information to the U.S. and other countries to the extent we are legally permitted to do so..

SECURITY

The transmission of information via the internet, email, or text message is almost never completely secure. We will always do our best to protect your personal information. But, we cannot guarantee the security of your information transmitted through the Services or over email; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will take appropriate technical and organizational measures to safeguard your personal information against loss, theft, and unauthorized use, access, or modification.

When we collect financial account information, such as credit card numbers, we protect its transmission through the use of encryption such as the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol. This is handled by third-party PCI-compliant companies. The fees for using the service are charged to us, and will not affect the price for the consumer.

TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES AND ONLINE ADVERTISING

We use cookies, web beacons, pixels, tags, scripts, and other similar technologies in the course of our business. They are used to improve the user experience such as online marketing and shopping cart.

MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS FROM US

EMAIL

Feel free to opt out of our newsletters, information, and marketing emails at any time. Just click the unsubscribe at the bottom of any email, or feel free to email us at privacy@Howtouseajournal.com. To cancel your delete your account, please follow the option to delete your membership. Please note: Our email lists are separate from our membership accounts, so deleting an account and unsubscribing from the email may require two separate steps.

TELEPHONE AND TEXT MESSAGING

Please understand that we may need to contact you by telephone, with your consent where applicable, for marketing purposes (including by automatic dialer and/or prerecorded message). If you do not want to receive marketing calls please forward an email to privacy@Howtouseajournal.com, or feel free to contact a customer support agent who will likewise be happy to remove your phone or text number from our database. Please be advised that your telecommunications company may charge you for text messages and you are solely responsible for any cost incurred as part of our agreement under these terms, and use of our products and services.

THIRD-PARTY INFORMATION

To manage the information we receive about you from a third-party website, you will need to follow the instructions from that party for updating your information and changing your privacy settings, where available. The information we collect and use is covered by this privacy. Privacy choices you have made on any third-party site will not update or modify the information we have collected from you the user.

UNAUTHORIZED ACCOUNTS

We do our best to keep our data accurate and secure, you find an account or profile was created without your knowledge or authorization, please contact customer support to request the removal of the account or profile. We value your customer experience and wish to do anything we can to make it an enjoyable one.

RETENTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We retain your personal information to provide products, services, and marketing to you and as otherwise necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. We will retain your personal information for no more than seven years following the later of the date on which you terminate your use of the Services or if we are otherwise required by law or regulation to retain your personal information for longer.

YOUR RIGHTS CONCERNING YOUR DATA

Where the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679, or GDPR, applies, in certain circumstances and subject to data processing agreements, you have rights in relation to the personal information we hold about you. We do not operate in the EU but we do our best to uphold the systematic values they have presented. Below is an outline of those rights and how to exercise those rights. Please note that we will require you to verify your identity before responding to any requests to exercise your rights by providing details only known to the account holder.

KNOWLEDGE OF HOW WE USE YOUR DATA

You have the right to know whether we process personal information about you and if we do to find out how we use it and who we share it with.

CORRECTION

If you feel you’re the personal information we have in our database about you is incorrect, please forward a detailed explanation of the error so we can fix it ASAP. Simply forward privacy@Howtouseajournal.com and we will manage the issue expeditiously.

DELETION OF YOUR DATA FROM OUR DATABASE

You also have the right to object to us using your data to send you marketing offers and build profiles for such. We are more than happy to remove any personal data from our database. Please just contact us at privacy@Howtouseajournal.com , Identity what you wish to have removed and we will handle it expeditiously

THIRD-PARTY LINKS AND INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE BY OUR USERS

Some of our Services provide links to other websites. Because we do not control the information policies or practices of these third-party sites, you should review their privacy policies to learn about how they collect and use personal information.

You may also log in to some of our Services using sign-in services such as Facebook Connect or an Open ID provider. These services will authenticate your identity and provide you with the option to share certain personal information with us, such as your name and email address to pre-populate our sign-up form. You use these services at your own risk and by using the links you agree not to hold www.Howtouseajournal.com, its investors, employees, or affiliates responsible for any damages or consequences of your actions caused by using the link.

CHILDREN AND MEMBERS UNDER THE AGE OF 18

Our Services are not intended for anyone under 18. We do not, and will not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that his or her child has provided us with personal information with, or without such parent or guardian’s consent, he or she is required to contact us immediately so we may remove the unwanted data. If we become aware that a child under 18 has provided us with personal information, we will automatically, and without notice, delete such information from our files.

DATA PROCESSING

In order for us to provide the Services to you, your personal information will be transferred to and stored at/processed in the United States. Your personal data may also be processed by staff operating outside the United States (China, India, and the Philippines). We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your personal data is treated securely and in accordance with this policy.

USER CONCERNS AND REMOVAL REQUEST

If you have any concerns about your data or wish to be removed, please use the automated forms included in each of our emails, or feel free to contact our data collections agent at privacy@Howtouseajournal.com and we will manage, and attempt to resolve your request with the utmost urgency.

NOTIFICATION OF CHANGES

We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time; it is the user’s discretion to review it frequently. If we decide to change this privacy policy in any material way, you will be notified here, by email, or a notice on www.Howtouseajournal.com or the website of the product or service you have purchased or subscribed to prior to the change becoming effective. In all cases, your continued use of any Services constitutes acceptance of any such changes.

Last modified Dec 1, 2022

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