Privacy policy

Who publishes HowNook

HowNook is an advertising-supported publisher of supplement rankings and product review pages. Partners pay us when readers buy through our links.

HowNook is published by 200 LLC. Our address is 1603 Capitol Avenue, Suite 413A #2239, Cheyenne, WY 82001, United States.

You can contact us at support@hownook.com.

Our cookies

We use hn_vid to hold a random visitor ID. This cookie lasts 400 days. We never set hn_vid when Global Privacy Control is on.

We use hn_sid to hold a random session ID. This cookie lasts 30 minutes. It is renewed while you browse.

Both cookies are first-party cookies. Both have the HttpOnly and Secure settings.

Clearing cookies resets the visitor ID.

Page activity we record

We record page views. We record which blocks of a page were on screen and for how long. We record scroll depth and time engaged.

We record clicks on partner links. We record when you come back after a partner click. We record the last block you saw.

Information recorded when you click a partner link

We record a click ID and the time of the click. We record the page and the position of the link. We record the partner and your visitor and session IDs.

We record the Google Analytics client and session IDs if those cookies exist.

We record the landing source. This includes the referrer, utm fields and ad click IDs such as gclid or fbclid.

We record the browser user agent and device type. We record the country when the server receives it. We do not store IP addresses.

Browser session storage

On the first page of a visit, we keep the referrer, utm fields and ad click IDs in your browser session storage. We add this information to the partner link when you click it.

Purchase and refund reports

When a purchase happens after a click, BuyGoods sends us a sale report. The report includes the order ID, commission, product, our click ID and a one-way hashed email.

Refunds are reported the same way. We never receive your name, address or payment details.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics 4 runs through Google Tag Manager.

In the EEA, the UK and Switzerland, analytics and advertising storage are denied by default through consent mode. No Google Analytics cookies are set there.

Elsewhere, analytics storage is on. Advertising storage is off when the browser sends Global Privacy Control.

When a sale is reported, we send Google Analytics a purchase event with the Google Analytics client ID captured at the click.

Google Signals is off. Data is kept for 14 months in Google Analytics.

Advertising pixels and newsletters

No Meta, TikTok or Google Ads advertising pixels run today. No newsletter signup runs today.

We do not sell personal information.

Our service providers include Google for analytics and tag manager. They include BuyGoods for retailer checkout and sale reports. They also include our hosting provider.

How long we keep records

We keep click and sale records as long as we need them to reconcile commissions and for reporting.

Your privacy choices

You can ask to see or delete data tied to your visitor ID. Send your request to support@hownook.com.

We honor Global Privacy Control as described in this policy. Clearing cookies resets the visitor ID.

Children

The site is for adults. It is not directed at anyone under 18.