wikiHow:Privacy-Policy
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| 44 | 44 | ## Sharing of Your Information |
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| 46 | 46 | We will not rent or sell your information into third parties outside wikiHow and its group companies (including any parent, subsidiaries and affiliates) without your consent, except as noted below: |
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| 48 | 48 | - Who we may share your information with: We may share your information with third-party business partners and Trusted Users for the purpose of providing the Service to you. |
| 49 | - If you choose to sign up for our newsletters, your email address will be shared Mailchimp. See [Mailchimp's privacy policy](https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/) for details about how Mailchimp manages and secures your information. | |
| 49 | - **YouTube:** Certain pages on the wikiHow website contain embedded videos from YouTube API Services. wikiHow does not store or transmit any personally identifiable information resulting from your interaction with the YouTube videos embedded on the wikiHow website. Data associated with your interaction with the YouTube videos on the wikiHow website is governed by the Google Privacy Policy, which you may read in full on the [Google Website](https://policies.google.com/privacy). | |
| 50 | - **Mailchimp:** If you choose to sign up for our newsletters, your email address will be shared Mailchimp. See [Mailchimp's privacy policy](https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/) for details about how Mailchimp manages and secures your information. | |
| 50 | 51 | - Third party business partners will be given limited access to your information as is reasonably necessary to deliver the Service, and we will require that such third parties comply with this Privacy Policy, or operate under a similar privacy policy. |
| 51 | 52 | - Please see further below regarding third party ads services that we may use of the Service. |
| 52 | 53 | - Who can see User Content: Any User Content that you voluntarily disclose for posting to the Service becomes available to the public and cannot be removed, except by wikiHow in its sole discretion. Once posted on wikiHow, User Content may not be removable from public view, as copies may remain viewable in cached and archived pages of the Service, on other sites that have republished us, or if other Users have copied or saved that information. If you do not wish your User Content to be available to the public, please don't post it on wikiHow. Your username and if you choose to disclose it, your real name, will be published publicly. Once published your username and / or real name may not be able to be removed. |
| 53 | 54 | - Who can see your IP address: If you post User Content on the Service while not logged in, your IP address will be published with your User Content in order to attribute your contribution to the Service. A selection of Trusted Users with administrative powers on wikiHow have the ability to review IP addresses of users to reduce abusive behavior. Any third party service embedded on wikiHow such as an advertiser, video provider, social network or other third party will also have access to your IP address. |
| 54 | 55 | - Who can see your email address: If you enter an email address, you will enable communication from wikiHow and other Users. If you reply to users or participate in group wikiHow activities such as meetups, your email address will be shared with these users. In addition, some email addresses such as [blocked@wikiHow.com](mailto:blocked@wikiHow.com) forward to a group of Trusted Users, who will use your email address to reply to the email. |
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| 70 | 71 | We may also share certain information such as your location, browser, cookie data, and other data relating to your use of our Service with our business partners to deliver advertisements ("ads") that may be of interest to you. wikiHow may allow third-party ad servers or ad networks to serve advertisements on the Service. These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to send, directly to your browser or mobile device, the ads and ad links that appear on the Service, and will automatically receive your IP address when they do so. They may also use other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, device identifiers, location data, and clear gifs, see above) to compile information about your browser's or device's visits and usage patterns on the Service and on other websites, and to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize the advertising content delivered to you. |
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| 72 | 73 | For example, Google uses DART cookies in order to deliver ads to you through the Service. Google's use of the DART cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to the Service and previous websites that you may have visited. Other advertising networks also use similar cookies, clear gifs, or other mechanisms to deliver targeted advertising to you through the Service. You can delete these cookies by following the instructions [here](https://wikihow.com/Clear-Your-Browser%27s-Cookies). You may opt out of use of Google's DART cookie and cookies placed by Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) certified ad networks [here](http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp). Opting out of these cookies will be effective not only on the Service, but on all websites with NAI certified advertising networks. However, these opt-outs will be ineffective on networks that are not NAI certified. |
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| 74 | 75 | Please note that an advertiser may ask wikiHow to show an ad to a certain audience of Users (e.g., based on demographics or other interests). In that situation, wikiHow or our Partners determines the target audience and wikiHow serves the advertising to that audience and only provides anonymous data to the advertiser. If you respond to such an ad, the advertiser or ad server may conclude that you fit the description of the audience they are trying to reach. |
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| 76 | To enhance your user experience or help us improve and measure our effectiveness, wikiHow may embed code from third parties on the Service. Examples of such parties may include Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google, YouTube, Howcast, VideoJug, AOL, and others. These third parties may collect information about you including IP address, cookies in ways wikiHow does not control. | |
| 77 | To enhance your user experience or help us improve and measure our effectiveness, wikiHow may embed code from third parties on the Service. Examples of such parties may include Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google, Howcast, VideoJug, AOL, and others. These third parties may collect information about you including IP address, cookies in ways wikiHow does not control. | |
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| 78 | 79 | The wikiHow Privacy Policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of third-parties. Please consult the respective privacy policies of such third parties or contact such third parties for more information. |
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| 80 | 81 | ## How We Store and Protect Your Information |
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| 82 | 83 | Storage and Processing: |