This privacy policy was last updated on May 28, 2024
This Privacy Policy applies to the Website and all services offered by WeeklyHow. WeeklyHow collects and uses information from users(“You”) of our website (https://weeklyhow.com) and/or any website which is fully operated by WeeklyHow (“Our”, “we”, or “us”).
By using our services, you agree to the terms of this privacy policy. If you do not agree with this privacy policy, you are free to not sign up for any of our services.
What data we collect
| Account information | In order to use certain features like enrolling in our course, you will need to be signed in or to have a user account. When you create an account, we collect data like your email address, full name, and your password. When you visit your profile account, you will also have the option to provide a photo of yourself, profile banner, a phone number, your website link(s), social media URLs, and a biography about your profile. These information about your profile (Your photo, your website link(s), social media URLs, and profile biography) will be visible publicly on the internet. If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website. |
| Student Payment Information | If you make purchases, we collect certain data about your purchase such as your name and your location. These data will be sent directly to our payment processing partner(s) as soon as you initiate a purchase. Data you provide will include your name, email address, credit card information, bank information, billing address (city, state, country), and ZIP code. For your security, WeeklyHow does NOT collect or store sensitive cardholder data, such as your credit card numbers or card authentication data. |
| Instruction Payment Information | If you’re registered as an instructor, you are required to provide us your payment account details like your PayPal email address. Currently, as an instructor, you are only able to receive payments through PayPal. For security, WeeklyHow does NOT collect or store sensitive information like your bank account details or your debit/credit card details. |
| Comments | Whether you’re a visitor or a registered student and you leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service Privacy Policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment. Finally, If you leave a comment on our site you may opt in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year. |
When you use the services, we collect certain data by automated means, including:
| System information | Technical information about your computer or device, like your IP address, operating system, browser, browser language, and other systems data. |
| Usage Data | Usage statistics about your interactions with WeeklyHow, including which content you accessed, the amount of time spent on pages or the Service, which account is used to interact with the Service (if logged in), your search queries, click data, date and time, and referrer. |
| Location Information | Based on your IP address, we are collecting your location information including your country, city, and geographic coordinates. |
How we get data
| Cookies | Cookies are small text files stored by your browser (like Google Chrome, Firefox, Opera, etc.). They can be used to collect and share data about your activities across websites, including on WeeklyHow. With Cookies, we are able to remember the things about your visits to WeeklyHow, like your recent search to make the website easier to use. We use session cookies to identify you during your one-time browsing session. This type of cookie expires after a short period of time or when you close your browser. Furthermore, If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed. |
| Analytics | We use third-party browser and mobile analytics services such as Google Analytics. These services use data collection tools to help us analyze your use of our services. These services provide us information about you, like which country you’re coming from, what browser you’re using, how long you stayed on our website, and how often you visit our website. We use this data to improve the services and provide information that may be of interest to you. |
| Embedded Media | Articles or courses on this website may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website. |
| Forms | Pages on this website may include forms (e.g. Contact form, newsletter forms, etc) to communicate with users. |
What we use your data for
We use your data to provide our Services, communicate with you, troubleshoot issues, secure ourselves from abuse and fraud, improve our Services, and as required by law or necessary for safety and integrity.
We use the data we collect to:
- Provide and regulate the Services, including easing up the participation of users in education content, issue course completion certificates, and simplify communication with other users;
- Process your orders for education courses, services, or features;
- Communicate with you (users of the Service) by instructors responding to your questions and concerns;
- Learn more about you by using your data through third-party tools or by analysing your data using analytics service providers;
- Request feedback from users;
- Market our products and services;
- Track purchases and usage data;
- Improve our services;
- Deliver relevant ads (on the blog/courses) based on your usage or system, and things that ad service providers know about you based on their tracking data;
- Develop new products, services, and features;
- Secure our services by monitoring who’s using our services to prevent fraud and abuse.
Your rights
If you have an account on this site or have left comments or feedbacks, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes like invoices, or your purchase data.
Who we share your data with
We share certain data about you (if you’re a student) with instructors. We may also share data with third parties performing services for us, our business partners, analytics, your social media providers, and advertising companies who help us promote our services. We may also share your data if needed for security, and legal compliance.
Contact us
If you feel that your privacy was not treated in accordance with our Privacy Policy, or if you believe that your privacy has been compromised by any person in the course of using the Services, please contact WeeklyHow at contact@weeklyhow.com and we shall promptly investigate.
