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This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) has been created to provide information about our company Harper Family LLC. ("us", "we", and "our") and our mobile application "Etymonline" (together with the Site (as defined below), the “Services”, and "Service") to our users (“you”, “your”). This Privacy Policy governs the manner in which the Service collects, uses, maintains and discloses information collected from users (each, a "User") of the etymonline.com website ("Site"). This privacy policy applies to the Site and all products and services offered by Etymonline.</p> <p>It is important for you to understand how this happens and how you may control it. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully.</p> <p>If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us through email at peigencihui@gmail.com.</p> <h3 id="toc_1">Definitions</h3> <p><strong>Service</strong> Service means the etymonline.com website and the Etymonline mobile application operated by Harper Family LLC.</p> <p><strong>Personal Data</strong> Personal Data means data about a living individual who can be identified from those data (or from those and other information either in our possession or likely to come into our possession). </p> <p><strong>Usage Data</strong> Usage Data is data collected automatically either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).</p> <p><strong>Cookies</strong> Cookies are small pieces of data stored on your device (computer or mobile device).</p> <p><strong>Data Controller</strong> Data Controller means the natural or legal person who (either alone or jointly or in common with other persons) determines the purposes for which and the manner in which any personal information are, or are to be, processed. For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, we are a Data Controller of your Personal Data.</p> <p><strong>Data Processors (or Service Providers)</strong> Data Processor (or Service Provider) means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Data Controller. We may use the services of various Service Providers in order to process your data more effectively.</p> <p><strong>Data Subject (or User)</strong> Data Subject is any living individual who is using our Service and is the subject of Personal Data.</p> <h3 id="toc_2">CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY</h3> <p>We may from time to time revise or add specific instructions, policies and terms to this Privacy Policy. Etymonline has the discretion to update this privacy policy at any time.</p> <p>When we do, we will revise the updated date at the bottom of this page. We encourage Users to frequently check this page for any changes to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the personal information we collect. You acknowledge and agree that it is your responsibility to review this privacy policy periodically and become aware of modifications.</p> <h3 id="toc_3">Personal Data</h3> <p>We may collect personal identification information from Users in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, when Users visit our site, register on the site, place an order, subscribe to the premium version of the services, respond to a survey, fill out a form, and in connection with other activities, services, features or resources we make available on our Site. </p> <p>Users may be asked for, as appropriate, name, email address, mailing address, and phone number. We will collect personal identification information from Users only if they voluntarily submit such information to us. Users can always refuse to supply personally identification information, except that it may prevent them from engaging in certain Site related activities.</p> <h3 id="toc_4">Usage Data</h3> <p>We may also collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Service or when you access the Service by or through a mobile device ("Usage Data"). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.</p> <p>When you access the Service by or through a mobile device, this Usage Data may include information such as the type of mobile device you use, your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of your mobile device, your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser you use, unique device identifiers, unique advertising identifiers, and other diagnostic data.</p> <h3 id="toc_5">Data from Social Networks</h3> <p>User information from social networking sites, such as Facebook, Google, Twitter, Instagram, WeChat, QQ, Weibo, including your name, your social network username, location, gender, birth date, email address, profile picture, and public data for contacts, if you connect your account or sign-up for an account at the Service using your accounts at such social networks.</p> <h3 id="toc_6">Web browser cookies</h3> <p>Our Site may use "cookies" to enhance User experience. User's web browser places cookies on their hard drive for record-keeping purposes and sometimes to track information about them. User may choose to set their web browser to refuse cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If they do so, note that some parts of the Site may not function properly.</p> <h3 id="toc_7">Tracking & Cookies Data</h3> <p>Like any other websites, we use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service and hold certain information. These cookies are used to store information including visitors' preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users' experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors' browser type and/or other information.</p> <p>Cookies are files with small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Service.</p> <p>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 Service.</p> <p>Examples of Cookies we use:</p> <p><strong><em>Session Cookies.</em></strong> We use Session Cookies to operate our Service.</p> <p><strong><em>Preference Cookies.</em></strong> We use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.</p> <p><strong><em>Security Cookies.</em></strong> We use Security Cookies for security purposes.</p> <p><strong><em>Advertising Cookies.</em></strong> Advertising Cookies are used to serve you with advertisements that may be relevant to you and your interests.</p> <h3 id="toc_8">Log Files</h3> <p>Etymonline follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services' analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users' movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.</p> <h3 id="toc_9">Google DoubleClick DART Cookie</h3> <p>Google is one of a third-party vendor on our site. It also uses cookies, known as DART cookies, to serve ads to our site visitors based upon their visit to www.etymonline.com and other sites on the internet. However, visitors may choose to decline the use of DART cookies by visiting the Google ad and content network Privacy Policy at the following URL: https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads</p> <h2 id="toc_10">How we protect your information</h2> <p>We adopt appropriate data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure or destruction of your personal information, username, password, transaction information and data stored on our Site.</p> <p>Sensitive and private data exchange between the Site and its Users happens over a SSL secured communication channel and is encrypted and protected with digital signatures.</p> <h3 id="toc_11">Retention of Data</h3> <p>Etymonline will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.</p> <p>Etymonline will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Service, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.</p> <h3 id="toc_12">Transfer Of Data</h3> <p>Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to and maintained on computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.</p> <p>If you are located outside United Arab Emirates and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to United Arab Emirates and process it there.</p> <p>Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer. Etymonline will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.</p> <h2 id="toc_13">Disclosure Of Data</h2> <h3 id="toc_14">Disclosure for Law Enforcement</h3> <p>Under certain circumstances, Etymonline be required to disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).</p> <h3 id="toc_15">Legal Requirements</h3> <p>Etymonline may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:</p> <ul> <li>To comply with a legal obligation</li> <li>To protect and defend the rights or property of Etymonline</li> <li>To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service</li> <li>To protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public</li> <li>To protect against legal liability</li> </ul> <h3 id="toc_16">Security Of Data</h3> <p>The security of your data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.</p> <h3 id="toc_17">Your Data Protection Rights Under General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)</h3> <p>If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. Etymonline aims to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Data.</p> <p>If you wish to be informed what Personal Data we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us.</p> <p>In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:</p> <ul> <li>The right to access, update or to delete the information we have on you. You can access, update or request deletion of your Personal Data by contacting us directly.</li> <li>The right of rectification. You have the right to have your information rectified if that information is inaccurate or incomplete.</li> <li>The right to object. You have the right to object to our processing of your Personal Data.</li> <li>The right of restriction. You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information.</li> <li>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.</li> <li>The right to withdraw consent. You also have the right to withdraw your consent at any time where Etymonline relied on your consent to process your personal information. Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests.</li> </ul> <p>You have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about our collection and use of your Personal Data. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority in the European Economic Area (EEA).</p> <h3 id="toc_18">Service Providers</h3> <p>We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service ("Service Providers"), to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services or to assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.</p> <p>These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.</p> <h2 id="toc_19">Analytics</h2> <p>We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service.</p> <h4 id="toc_20">Google Analytics</h4> <p>Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.</p> <p>For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/</p> <h4 id="toc_21">Firebase</h4> <p>Firebase is analytics service provided by Google Inc. You may opt-out of certain Firebase features through your mobile device settings, such as your device advertising settings or by following the instructions provided by Google in their Privacy Policy: http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/</p> <p>We also encourage you to review the Google's policy for safeguarding your data: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245. For more information on what type of information Firebase collects, please visit please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/</p> <h2 id="toc_22">Our Advertising Partners</h2> <p>We may use third-party Service Providers to show advertisements to you to help support and maintain our Service. Some of advertisers on our site may use cookies and web beacons. Each of our advertising partners has their own Privacy Policy for their policies on user data.</p> <h4 id="toc_23">Google AdSense & DoubleClick Cookie</h4> <p>Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our Service. Google's use of the DoubleClick cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our Service or other websites on the Internet.</p> <p>You may opt out of the use of the DoubleClick Cookie for interest-based advertising by visiting the Google Ads Settings web page: http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/</p> <h4 id="toc_24">AdMob by Google</h4> <p>AdMob by Google is provided by Google Inc.</p> <p>You can opt-out from AdMob by Google service by following the instructions described by Google: https://support.google.com/ads/answer/2662922?hl=en</p> <p>For more information on how Google uses the collected information, please visit the "How Google uses data when you use our partners' sites or app" page: http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/ or visit the Privacy Policy of Google: http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/</p> <h4 id="toc_25">Facebook</h4> <p>Facebook advertising is provided by Facebook Inc.</p> <p>Some of the ads may be served by Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/ads/ad_choices. You can opt-out from Facebook's interest-based ads by following these instructions from Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/help/568137493302217</p> <p>For more information on the privacy practices policies of Facebook, please visit their Privacy Policy: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation</p> <p>You can learn more about interest-based advertising, including how to opt out of third-party partners' advertising you see on the Service and on other services, by visiting http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ and http://www.aboutads.info/appchoices. For users in the EU/EAA, you can visit http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/. If you opt out, you'll still see ads, but they won't be tailored using information like your interests, visits to other services, or demographics. Alternatively, you can opt out by discontinuing your use of the Service.</p> <h2 id="toc_26">Behavioral Remarketing</h2> <p>Etymonline uses remarketing services to advertise on third party websites to you after you visited our Service. We and our third-party vendors use cookies to inform, optimize and serve ads based on your past visits to our Service.</p> <h4 id="toc_27">Google AdWords</h4> <p>Google AdWords remarketing service is provided by Google Inc.</p> <p>You can opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customize the Google Display Network ads by visiting the Google Ads Settings page: http://www.google.com/settings/ads</p> <p>Google also recommends installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on - https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout - for your web browser. Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on provides visitors with the ability to prevent their data from being collected and used by Google Analytics.</p> <p>For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/</p> <h4 id="toc_28">Twitter</h4> <p>Twitter remarketing service is provided by Twitter Inc.</p> <p>You can opt-out from Twitter's interest-based ads by following their instructions: https://support.twitter.com/articles/20170405</p> <p>You can learn more about the privacy practices and policies of Twitter by visiting their Privacy Policy page: https://twitter.com/privacy</p> <h4 id="toc_29">Facebook</h4> <p>Facebook remarketing service is provided by Facebook Inc.</p> <p>You can learn more about interest-based advertising from Facebook by visiting this page: https://www.facebook.com/help/164968693837950</p> <p>To opt-out from Facebook's interest-based ads follow these instructions from Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/help/568137493302217 Facebook adheres to the Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising established by the Digital Advertising Alliance. You can also opt-out from Facebook and other participating companies through the Digital Advertising Alliance in the USA http://www.aboutads.info/choices/, the Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada in Canada http://youradchoices.ca/ or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance in Europe http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/, or opt-out using your mobile device settings.</p> <p>For more information on the privacy practices of Facebook, please visit Facebook's Data Policy: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation</p> <h3 id="toc_30">Payments</h3> <p>We may provide paid products and/or services within the Service. In that case, we use third-party services for payment processing (e.g. payment processors).</p> <p>We will not store or collect your payment card details. That information is provided directly to our third-party payment processors whose use of your personal information is governed by their Privacy Policy. These payment processors adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of payment information.</p> <p>The payment processors we work with are:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Apple Store In-App Payments</strong> Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/en-ww/</li> <li><strong>Google Play In-App Payments</strong> Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/</li> <li><strong>Stripe</strong> Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://stripe.com/us/privacy</li> <li><strong>PayPal or Braintree</strong> Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full</li> </ul> <h3 id="toc_31">Privacy Policies</h3> <p>You may consult this list to find the Privacy Policy for each of the advertising partners of Etymonline.</p> <p>Third-party ad servers or ad networks uses technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on Etymonline, which are sent directly to users' browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.</p> <h3 id="toc_32">Third Party Privacy Policies</h3> <p>Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. Etymonline's Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers' respective websites.</p> <p>We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.</p> <h3 id="toc_33">Children's Information</h3> <p>Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity. Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 16 ("Children").</p> <p>Etymonline does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 16. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.</p> <h3 id="toc_34">Online Privacy Policy Only</h3> <p>This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website with regards to the information that they shared and/or collect in Etymonline. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.</p> <h3 id="toc_35">Your acceptance of these terms</h3> <p>By using this Site, you signify your acceptance of our Privacy Policy and agree to its Terms and Conditions. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use our Site. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of changes to this policy will be deemed your acceptance of those changes.</p> <h3 id="toc_36">Contacting us</h3> <p>If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this site, please contact us at: peigencihui@gmail.com</p> <p>This document was last updated on July 10th, 2019</p> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=UA-26425972-1"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag() { dataLayer.push(arguments); } gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'UA-26425972-1'); </script> </body> </html>