On this page, we explain our affiliate agreement with Amazon and also what kind of information we collect in the form of cookies, etc.
If this page doesn’t answer any questions you might have about the website then you can always contact me at WoutAtHH@hotmail.com.
Affiliate Disclosure
Amazon Affiliate Disclosure Notice: The owner of this website (https://helpfulhyena.com) is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for website owners to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com, endless.com, smallparts.com, myhabit.com, and any other website that may be affiliated with Amazon Service LLC Associates Program.
Amazon, the Amazon logo, AmazonSupply, and the AmazonSupply logo are trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates.
This Compensation Disclosure has been provided for your protection and to fully disclose any relationship between this website’s service recommendations and the owners of those products or services.
The owner of this website is required by the FTC to inform you that a relationship exists between https://helpfulhyena.com and some of the products or services it reviews, recommends or promotes.
Helpfulhyena.com makes use of affiliate relationships with merchants for monetization.
When you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, this can result in a commission that is credited to this site.
Some affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, Amazon Services LLC Associates Program.
The views and opinions expressed on this website have been formed through hours of research and/or hands-on experience.
They do not reflect the opinions of any merchants that we are affiliated with.
The products that are reviewed have been researched in many different ways and it is extremely important to us to maintain the credibility of this website by offering unbiased reviews.
We take our roles as a credible source of information and as affiliates very seriously.
Introduction
At helpfulhyena.com, we recognize that privacy of your personal information is important.
Here is information on what types of personal information we receive and collect when you use and visit helpfulhyena.com, and how we safeguard your information.
We never sell your personal information to third parties.
Who we are
Our website address is https://helpfulhyena.com.
This site is owned and operated by Wouter.
I can be reached at WoutAtHH@hotmail.com.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it.
The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/.
After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
We do not collect your email address from the comments form for use in any email list, such as a newsletter or marketing email list.
We also never sell email addresses to third parties.
Media
In general, users are not able to upload images or other media files to this website.
However, if you do upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included.
Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Contact forms
When you fill out a contact form on helpfulhyena.com we only collect the information you enter into the contact form.
If the form asks for your name, email address, or any other personal information, then that information is sent to us via email.
We only retain that information including your email address for as long as necessary to address your purpose in contacting us.
Email addresses provided in contact forms are not ever used by helpfulhyena.com for any purpose other than to reply to you in regards to your reason for contacting us.
We never sell information from contact forms to any third parties for any purpose.
Log Files
As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files.
The information in the log files include your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as AOL or Shaw Cable), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox), the time you visited our site and which pages you visited throughout our site.
Cookies and Web Beacons
We use third-party advertisements on https://helpfulhyena.com to support our site.
Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP, the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed.
This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing New York real estate ads to someone in New York, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking sites).
You can choose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security.
However, this can affect how you can interact with our site as well as other websites.
This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.
Also, if you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies.
These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment.
These cookies will last for one year.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies.
This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices.
Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year.
If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks.
If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser.
This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited.
It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.).
Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
As you use this Website, we use automatic data collection technology (Google Analytics) to collect certain information about your device, browsing actions, and patterns.
This generally includes information about where you are, how you use our website and any communications between your computer and this site.
Among other things, we will collect data about the type of computer you use, your Internet connection, your IP address, your operating system, and your browser type.
We collect this data for statistical purposes and we don’t collect personal information.
The purpose of this data is to improve our Website and offerings.
If you wish to opt-out of Google Analytics so that none of your personal information is collected and stored by Google Analytics, you can download and install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on here.
For more information on how Google collects and uses your data, you can access the Google Privacy Policy here.
Who we share your data with
We don’t sell or share your data with anyone.
We do use a 3rd party email provider to store your email address if you voluntarily signed up for our email newsletter.
The privacy policy for SendInBlue can be found here.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely.
This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile.
All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username).
Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us.
You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Our contact information
When you contact us through any medium, we record your name and email so we can get back to you sooner.
We do not trade this info, nor we share it with anyone else.
For questions regarding your privacy or data and how we use it, you can reach us at WoutAtHH@hotmail.com.
You can also email us here if you would like an extract of all of your personal information stored on our website or to request that we delete all of your information stored on our website.
How we protect your data
Helpfulhyena.com uses secure third-party software such as MemberPress and SendOwl for all financial transactions.
No financial data is collected or stored by Helpfulhyena.com.
Their privacy policies can be accessed at the links above.
What third parties we receive data from
We use products data, images and affiliate links from Amazon.com through Amazon API. We are authorized for it as we are a valid member of their Amazon Associates program.