wikiHow:Privacy-Policy

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140140(h) You have the right to lodge a complaint with the data protection supervisory authority of the EU member state where you reside.
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142142Please note that the above legal rights are subject to various conditions and exceptions including where the data is used for statistical or scientific research purposes and the exercise of the right would prevent such purposes from being attained or would seriously impair their attainment.
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144144## California Privacy Rights
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146Under California Civil Code Section 1798.83, if you are a California resident and your business relationship with us is primarily for personal, family or household purposes, you may request certain data regarding our disclosure, if any, of information to third parties for the third parties' direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an email to privacy@Company.com with "Request for California Privacy information" in the subject line. You may make such a request up to once per calendar year. If applicable, we will provide to you via email a list of the categories of information disclosed to third parties for their direct marketing purposes during the immediately-preceding calendar year, along with the third parties' names and addresses. Please note that not all personal data sharing is covered by Section 1798.83's requirements.
146This section provides additional details about the personal information we collect about California residents and the rights afforded to them under the California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA").
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148## Application
148**Your rights under CCPA**. The CCPA provides California residents the right to request from wikiHow the categories and specific pieces of personal information we collect, and to request that we delete their personal information, and to opt out of any sale of their personal information. If you are a California resident, you may request that wikiHow provide you with the information we have stored about you via an email to support@wikihow.com.
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150This Privacy Policy relates to your personal data, meaning data about you, an individual, from which you can be identified. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any data insofar as it is held, processed, disclosed or published in a form which cannot be linked to a living individual (such as anonymised data, or aggregated data which cannot directly or indirectly be used to extract your personal data). We reserve the right to generate anonymised and aggregated data extracted out of any databases containing your personal data and to make use of any such anonymised and aggregated data as we see fit (including publishing such data and sharing it with third parties).
150**Personal Information wikiHow collects.** If you have accessed the wikiHow service in the last 12 months, we may have collected one or more of the following categories of personal information: identifiers (such as your name, email address, IP address or other online identifiers). If you created an account with wikiHow and included these in your wikiHow profile page, you may have provided wikiHow with other data such as demographic information, visual information (for example, your profile pictures) and personal interests. For more details about the personal information we collect please see the "How We Collect and Use Information" section above.
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152## How to Contact Us
152**Use of Personal Information.** wikiHow collects personal information to provide the wikiHow service, and for the business and commercial purposes described in the "How We Collect and Use Information" section above. Please see the "Sharing of Your Information" section above for details about how wikiHow shares your information with third parties. For details regarding the potential _sale_ of personal information please read the "Ads on wikiHow" sub-section above. As described therein, we may provide data such as your location, browser, cookies, and other data related to your use of the wikiHow Service to deliver targeted advertisements on the wikiHow Service. To opt out of these _sales_, please use the following link: [Do Not Sell My Personal Information](https://www.wikihow.com/wikiHow:Privacy-Policy).
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154If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the Service, please contact us at [wiki@wikiHow.com](mailto:wiki@wikiHow.com).
154## Application
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156<table><tbody><tr><td><table><tbody><tr><th><p>General Questions and Help</p></th></tr><tr><td><ul><li>Please contact <a href="https://wikihow.com/User_talk:Chris-H" title="User_talk:Chris H">Chris Hadley</a><ul><li>Email <a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:wiki@wikiHow.com">wiki@wikiHow.com</a></li><li>Advertisers please contact: <a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:ads@wikiHow.com">ads@wikiHow.com</a></li></ul></li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td><table><tbody><tr><th><p>Snail Mail</p></th></tr><tr><td><p>wikiHow, Inc.<br>530 Lytton Avenue, 2nd Floor<br>Palo Alto, CA 94301</p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>
156This Privacy Policy relates to your personal data, meaning data about you, an individual, from which you can be identified. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any data insofar as it is held, processed, disclosed or published in a form which cannot be linked to a living individual (such as anonymized data, or aggregated data which cannot directly or indirectly be used to extract your personal data). We reserve the right to generate anonymized and aggregated data extracted out of any databases containing your personal data and to make use of any such anonymized and aggregated data as we see fit (including publishing such data and sharing it with third parties).
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158<table><tbody><tr><td><table><tbody><tr><th><p>Press Inquiries</p></th></tr><tr><td><ul><li>Email <a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:media@wikiHow.com">media@wikiHow.com</a></li><li>Call 650-492-8008</li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td><table><tbody><tr><th><p>Community Liaison</p></th></tr><tr><td><ul><li>Please contact <a href="https://wikihow.com/User_talk:JayneG" title="User_talk:JayneG">Jayne</a><ul><li>Email <a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:jayne@wikiHow.com">jayne@wikiHow.com</a></li></ul></li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>
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160158## Changes to Our Privacy Policy
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162160wikiHow may modify or update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect the changes in our business and practices, and so you should review this page periodically. When we change the policy in a material manner we will let you know and update the 'last modified' date at the bottom of this page.
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164This privacy policy was last modified on May 25, 2018.
162This privacy policy was last modified on December 31, 2019.
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166164## Article Info
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