NovOWLs.com Privacy Policy

  


  


Effective date:  May 25, 2018

At NovOWLs.com we are dedicated to protecting your data and privacy.

We recognize that your privacy is important. This document outlines the types of personal information we receive and collect when you use NovOWLs.com, as well as some of the steps we take to safeguard your information. This will help you make an informed decision about sharing personal information with us.

NovOWLs.com strives to maintain the highest standards of decency, fairness and integrity in all our operations. Likewise, we are dedicated to protecting our customers' and online visitors' privacy on our website.


Third party websites and links

This privacy policy applies only to NovOWLs.com.

Pages on NovOWLs.com may contain advertising or other content that links to the sites, products, or services of various third parties.

NovOWLs.com does not and cannot control the content or links that appear on any third party website and is not responsible for the privacy practices they may adhere to.

Use of any other website, including websites linked to or from NovOWLs.com, in any way, is governed by the terms and policies set out by each such website.  We encourage you to read their policies carefully before using their website.


About our cookies

A cookie is a unit of information that a website may store on your computer.  Your browser provides the cookies stored by each website back to that website each time you return to that website.

NovOWLs.com may use cookies to help us identify and track visitors, visitor use of our website, and visitor website access preferences.  (For example, if we greet you by name when you arrive at our website, we may do so by storing your name in our cookie on your computer.)


Google Analytics cookies

NovOWLs.com may use Google Analytics to analyze the use of this website. Google Analytics collects demographic and interest data, and generates statistical and other information about website use, by means of cookies stored on your computer. This cookie information is shared with Google, which will store and use this information on its servers. Google's privacy policy is available at: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

NovOWLs.com may use information from Google Analytics to track the number of visits to the website, browsers used, and operating systems used, among other statistics.

NovOWLs.com obtains no personally identifiable information from Google Analytics cookies. The information that Google Analytics generates relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of the site. These reports allow us to update the site and improve your experience of it.

If you do not wish your data to be collected via Google Analytics, you can install its opt-out browser extension or add-on at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.


Advertising cookies

NovOWLs.com may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads on our website. These companies may use cookies and web beacons in their ads to ascertain how many times you've seen an advertisement. We do not provide these companies with any personally identifiable information for cookie or web beacon use.

NovOWLs.com cannot directly control the content of any advertisements displayed on our site by these services, nor the cookies and tracking techniques they employ within their ads. If you have any questions or concerns about a particular advertisement, you will need to contact the appropriate advertising company.

Some third-party advertisements may be served by Google. Google's advertising cookies enable it to serve "personalized ads" to our visitors based on each visitor's visits to other sites on the Web.  NovOWLs.com receives no information about other sites you may have visited.  You may opt out of personalized ads by visiting the Google ad opt-out page at:  https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated.  You may need to log in to your Google account to make changes to Google's personalized ad settings.

This link from Google provides more information about how Google manages data in its ad products:  https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

You may also opt out of personalized ads for over 125 other ad networks by clicking here:  http://www.aboutads.info/choices.  NovOWLS.com may use some of these networks to serve ads on our site.

Other third-party advertising companies that NovOWLs.com may use are listed here:

        (NovOWLs.com uses no other third-party advertising companies at this time.)


Refusing cookies

You can set your browser to accept or refuse all cookies automatically, or to notify you when each cookie is requested so that you can accept or refuse them individually.  Consult the Help section of your browser for guidance on how to set these cookie preferences.

If you choose to refuse NovOWLs.com's cookies, most features of the site should remain usable.  However, you may not be able to fully experience all features of the site.  (For example, if we use a cookie to greet you by name, we would no longer be able to greet you by name when you visit this site.)


Affiliate products and services

We may receive an affiliate commission for some of the products/services sold via NovOWLs.com.

The affiliate services platforms we may use are:

        (NovOWLs.com uses no affiliate services at this time.)

By clicking on an affiliate product or service link on any NovOWLs.com page, you consent to that platform's use of cookies, as outlined in the following links:

        (NovOWLs.com uses no affiliate services at this time.)


Retargeting ads and tracking pixels

NovOWLs.com may use retargeting ads, which require the setting of cookies in your browser.

NovOWLs.com may use Facebook tracking pixels to determine the effectiveness of some Facebook ad campaigns. You can change your Facebook ad settings here:  https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/?entry_product=ad_settings_screen.  You may need to log in to your Facebook account to make changes to Facebook's ad settings.

Third party privacy software can be used to override various types of web beacons and tracking pixels.  NovOWLs.com is not affiliated with any such products and can provide no other information about them.


Personally identifiable information

NovOWLs.com may collect personally identifiable information from you in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, when you visit our site, register on the site, or fill out a form, and in connection with other activities, services, features or resources we make available on our site.

We will use personal information received from you for internal purposes only and will not sell it, rent it, or otherwise provide it to third parties, except as specifically outlined in this privacy policy, or as set out in the specific form used to gather such information, or as required to comply with applicable law.

NovOWLs.com may use third party service providers to help us operate our business and the site, or to administer activities on our behalf (such as, but not limited to, sending out newsletters or surveys).  To perform these activities effectively, these third party service providers may need access to some of your personal information.  Such information will be shared with these providers only to the extent necessary to administer such activities correctly.  They are prohibited from using the information we share with them for any other purpose.

NovOWLs.com may collect and use your personal information for the following purposes:

  • To run and operate our site.
  • To display content on the site correctly.
  • To improve customer service.
  • To help us respond to your customer service requests and support needs more effectively.
  • To personalize your user experience.
  • To understand how our users as a group use the services and resources provided on our site.
  • To improve our site.
  • To improve our products and services.
  • To run a promotion, contest, survey or other site feature.
  • To send information to you that you agreed to receive about topics we think will be of interest to you.
  • To send periodic emails, which may include electronic newsletters and/or auto-responder series of emails.
  • To respond to your inquiries, questions, and/or other requests.

More specifically:

If you subscribe to our newsletter, we will ask for your name and will require your email address.

If you complete any other form on the site, we may require your name and your email address, and we may ask for other information relevant to the specific purpose of the form.

If we use a form to collect data for any third party person or business (for example, if we provide a sign-up form for a third party writing course), we will provide details about each such third party in the "Data storage" section of this Privacy Policy below.

NovOWLs.com may give you opportunities to submit content to us for use on the site or in other materials.  If you submit content to us, we will ask for your name and email address.

IMPORTANT NOTE:  Although our policy is to obscure any personally identifying details in any submitted content before we post it to the site or use it in any other materials, or to get explicit permission to use such content in un-obscured form, we are not data manipulation experts, and cannot guarantee that our attempts to obscure your information will be either complete or effective.  You should assume that all content you submit -- including, but not limited to, photos, videos, and text -- carries an unavoidable risk of personally identifying you, your location, your property, or people around you.

If you feel our attempts to obscure personally identifiable information in your submission are inadequate, please contact us immediately to request those specific details be removed or further obscured.

If you request to be notified about comments on any content you submit to us, or request to be notified when others submit content, we will require your name and your email address.

If you purchase a product or service from us, we will collect your name, email address, billing address, shipping address, and payment information.

We may collect each visitor's IP address to help us combat spam and fraud. IP addresses may also be used in the process of compiling non-personally identifying statistics about our site. We do not use IP addresses for any other purpose.

If we make material changes in the collection of personally identifiable information, we will inform you by placing a notice on our site.

You can always refuse to supply personally identifiable information and visit our site anonymously. However, doing so may prevent you from engaging in certain site-related activities.


Sale of personally identifiable information

NovOWLs.com has not sold or rented any personally identifiable information to anyone in the past 12 months.


Non-personally identifiable information

We may collect non-personally identifiable information about you whenever you interact with our site. Non-personally identifiable information may include the browser name, the type of computer you are connecting from, and technical information about your method of connecting to our site, such as the operating system and the Internet service provider you used, and other similar information.

This information is considered non-personally identifiable because identical information can be obtained from numerous other individuals.  There is no way to trace non-personally identifiable information to any specific person.


Children's privacy protection

This website is directed to adults. It is not directed to children under the age of 16. We operate our site in compliance with current regulations. Anyone under the age of 16 must obtain parental consent before using this site.

We do not knowingly collect or use personally identifiable information from anyone under 16 years of age, regardless of consent.  If you discover we have inadvertently acquired personally identifiable information about a person under 16 years of age, please contact us immediately to have that information deleted.  You can also use this link: https://www.novowls.com/gdpr-request.html.


Release of information

If we sell NovOWLs.com, the information we have obtained from you through your voluntary participation in our site may transfer to the new owner as a part of the sale so that any services we provide to you may continue. In that event, you will receive notice through our website, or through the services we provide to you, of that change in control and practices.  We will make reasonable efforts to ensure that the purchaser honors any opt-out requests you might make.


Data storage

Personally identifiable information and non-personally identifiable information collected by this site is stored on our host's servers. That host is SiteSell Inc., located at 1000 Saint-Jean Boulevard, Suite 702, Pointe-Claire, QC H9R 5P1 Canada.

Some information may also be collected by or provided to other third-parties, in addition to Google and others referenced above, as follows:

        (NovOWLs.com has no other third-party relationships at this time.)


How you can correct or remove information

We provide this privacy policy as a statement to you of our commitment to protect your personally identifiable information.

If you have submitted personally identifiable information to our website and would like to download or review your information as stored on the SiteSell servers for NovOWLs.com, please use this link:  https://www.novowls.com/gdpr-review.html.

You can also request to edit or delete any of your information from the SiteSell servers by using this link:  https://www.novowls.com/gdpr-request.html.

If you believe NovOWLs.com is in possession of any personal information about you that is not available for review through the links above, which you would like to review, alter, or delete, please contact us for access to that information.


Updates and effective date

This NovOWLs.com Privacy Policy is effective May 25, 2018.

NovOWLs.com reserves the right to make changes to this policy. If there is a material change to any of the practices outlined in this document, we will indicate on our site that those practices have changed and provide a link to the updated privacy policy. We encourage you to periodically review this policy so that you will know what information we collect and how we use it.

You acknowledge and agree that it is your responsibility be aware of modifications to our privacy practices by reviewing this privacy policy periodically, and in response to such notifications.


Agreement to terms

If you do not agree to NovOWLs.com's privacy policy as laid out in this document, please set your browser to reject NovOWLs.com cookies, and do not agree to the collection and storage of your personally identifiable information that may be requested via any form, button, or other link on this site. Also, use any appropriate links provided above to limit the behavior of various connected services (such as personalized Google Ads).

Your explicit consent given via any form, button, or other link on this site indicates acceptance of this privacy policy in its entirety.


Contacting us

If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy policy please contact us.

Thank you,
Jue Ann Lee
NovOWLs.com Webmaster

  

Updated: January 1,