Privacy Policy

Last updated: May 24, 2025

This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or contribute to howto.wikioasis.org (the “Site”).

Information We Collect

When you visit the Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse the Site, we collect information about the individual web pages or articles that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site. We refer to this automatically-collected information as “Device Information.”

We collect Device Information using the following technologies:

• Cookies: Data files that are placed on your device or computer and include an anonymous unique identifier. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit allaboutcookies.org.
• Log files: Track actions occurring on the Site, and collect data including your 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 diagnostic data.
• Web beacons, tags, and pixels: Electronic files used to record information about how you browse the Site.

Additionally, when you contribute to the Site, we collect certain information from you, including your username, email address, and any other information you choose to provide. We refer to this information as “Contributor Information.”

How We Use Your Information

We use the information that we collect generally to fulfill any contributions you make through the Site (including processing your username and email address), to communicate with you, and to screen our contributions for potential risk or fraud. Additionally, we use this Contributor Information to:

• Improve the Site and your user experience.
• Analyze how users interact with the Site to enhance functionality.
• Send you updates, newsletters, and other information related to the Site.
• Monitor and analyze usage and trends to improve the Site.
• Comply with legal obligations and protect our rights.

Sharing Your Information

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your personal information to outside parties except to provide services to you, with your consent, or as required by law. We may share your information with trusted third parties who assist us in operating the Site, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential.

Your Rights

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. skyHow aims to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your personal information. If you wish to be informed about what personal information we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us.

In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:

• The right to access, update, or delete the information we have on you.
• The right of rectification: You have the right to have your information rectified if that information is inaccurate or incomplete.
• The right to object: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal information.
• The right of restriction: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information.
• The right to data portability: You have the right to be provided with a copy of the information we have on you in a structured, machine-readable, and commonly used format.
• The right to withdraw consent: You also have the right to withdraw your consent at any time where skyHow relied on your consent to process your personal information.

Data Retention

When you contribute to the Site, we will maintain your Contributor Information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last updated" date at the top of this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at stewards@wikioasis.org.