Privacy policy

Last Updated: March 2019

General

Hackingwithbill.com (the “Site”,“us”, “we”, or “our”) is a personal blog website written and edited by Bill Horn. The Site strives to offer its visitors a continually improving and personalized experience and is committed to protecting your privacy when you visit our Site. This page informs you of the Site’s policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information we receive from visitors of the Site.

We use your personal information only for setting up subscriptions and understanding viewer statistics to improve the Site. By using the Site, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use our Site. We will not use, sell, rent, or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy.

Information Collection

While using our Site, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. For example, you may be asked to provide information when you register for, subscribe to, or request access to certain features, such as newsletters, emails, or e-books.  You may provide information when you participate in sweepstakes and contests, message boards and chat rooms, and other interactive areas of our site.  Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to your first and last name, email address, postal address, and phone number (“Personal Information”).

Log Data

Like many site operators, we collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Site (“Log Data”).

We want to inform you that whenever you visit the Site, we collect information that your browser sends to us, called Log Data. This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other statistics.

Cookies

Cookies are files with small amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a web site and stored on your computer’s hard drive.

Like many sites, we use “cookies” to collect information. We use these “cookies” to collection information and to improve our service. Among other things, the cookie may store your user name and password, sparing you from having to re-enter that information each time you visit, or may control the number of times you encounter a particular advertisement while visiting our site. As we adopt additional technology, we may also gather information through other means. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Site.

Information Use

Like other Web publishers, we collect information to enhance your visit and deliver more individualized content and advertising. We respect your privacy.

Aggregated Information (information that does not personally identify you) may be used in many ways. For example, we may combine information about your usage patterns with similar information obtained from other users to help enhance our site and services. Aggregated Information may occasionally be shared with our advertisers and business partners. This information does not include any Personally Identifiable Information about you or allow anyone to identify you individually.

We may use Personally Identifiable Information collected on Hackingwithbill.com to communicate with you about your registration and customization preferences; our Terms of Service and privacy policy; services and products offered by Hackingwithbill.com and other topics we think you might find of interest.

Personally Identifiable Information collected by Hackingwithbill.com may also be used for other purposes, including but not limited to site administration, troubleshooting, processing of e–commerce transactions, administration of sweepstakes and contests, and other communications with you. Certain third parties who provide technical support for the operation of our site (i.e. our Web hosting service) may access such information. We will use your information only as permitted by law.

In addition, as we continue to develop our business, we may sell, buy, merge or partner with other companies or businesses. In such transactions, user information may be among the transferred assets. We may also disclose your information in response to a court order, at other times when we believe we are reasonably required to do so by law, in connection with the collection of amounts you may owe to us, and/or to law enforcement authorities whenever we deem it appropriate or necessary. Please note we may not provide you with notice prior to disclosure in such cases.

Security

We value your trust in providing us your Personal Information, thus we are striving to use commercially acceptable means of protecting it. But remember that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and reliable, and we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Affiliated sites, linked sites and advertisements

Hackingwithbill.com may contain links to other sites. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that site. Note that these external sites are not operated by us. Hackingwithbill.com expects its partners, advertisers and affiliates to respect the privacy of our users. However, third parties, including our partners, advertisers, affiliates and other content providers accessible through our site, may have their own privacy and data collection policies and practices. Therefore, we strongly encourage you to review the Privacy Policy of these websites. We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

While on our site, our advertisers, promotional partners or other third parties may use cookies or other technology to attempt to identify some of your preferences or retrieve information about you. For example, some of our advertising is served by third parties and may include cookies that enable the advertiser to determine whether you have seen a particular advertisement before. Hackingwithbill.com does not control the use of this technology by third parties or the resulting information, and are not responsible for any actions or policies of such third parties.

You should also be aware that if you voluntarily disclose Personally Identifiable Information on message boards or in chat areas, that information can be viewed publicly and can be collected and used by third parties without our knowledge and may result in unsolicited messages from other individuals or third parties. Such activities are beyond the control of Hackingwithbill.com and this policy.

Children’s Privacy

Hackingwithbill.com does not knowingly collect or solicit Personally Identifiable Information from or about children under 13 except as permitted by law. In the case we discover that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we immediately delete this information. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us at the address listed below so that we will be able to do necessary actions.

Rights related to your personal information

Opt-out – You may opt-out of future email communications by following the unsubscribe links in our emails. You may also notify us at hackingwithbill@gmail.com to be removed from our mailing list.

Access – You may access the personal information we have about you by submitting a request to hackingwithbill@gmail.com.

Amend – You may contact us at hackingwithbill@gmail.com to amend or update your personal information.

Forget – In certain situations, you may request that we erase or forget your personal data. To do so, please submit a request to hackingwithbill@gmail.com.

Please note that we may need to retain certain information for record keeping purposes or to complete transactions, or when required by law.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

Hackingwithbill.com reserves the right to change this policy at any time. Thus, we advise you to review this page periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. These changes are effective immediately, after they are posted on this page.

Your continued use of our site following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes. Information collected prior to the time any change is posted will be used according to the rules and laws that applied at the time the information was collected.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or suggestions about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us at hackingwithbill.@gmail.com.