Privacy Policy

SSMN OOD,  LTD, “Vasil Levski” str, number 68, Bulgaria, Plovdiv, 4003,  (“the website”, “we”, “us”, “Howtoremove.guide”) is committed to being completely transparent and creating a warm and trusting environment for its users, with respect given to personal privacy, identity and information. We want to raise trust in our ability to protect user data and in that good faith intend to cover several main points in our privacy policy: 

  1. What personally identifiable information (PII) we collect with our services.
  2. How we use that information and under what limitations.
  3. Who has access to your information and through what methods.
  4. How you can opt out of us collecting that information.
  5. To provide a disclaimer about warranties and limitations of our responsibility in relation to such.
  6. Who we are affiliated with through our services.

Our Data Protection Principles
We comply with data protection laws, which state that personal data shall be:
• used lawfully, fairly and in a transparent way, applying the data minimization principle;
• collected for valid purposes that we clearly explain to you and not used for other purposes;
• relevant to the purposes we reveal to you and limited only to those purposes;
• accurate and kept up to date, kept as long as necessary for the purposes we reveal to you;
• kept securely, on a hashed/anonymized basis wherever possible.

Protecting Children and Vulnerable Persons
Children merit specific protection with regard to their Personal Data. We will never knowingly
collect Personal Data from any child under 14. If we decide to knowingly do that, we will ask for
consent by the holder of parental responsibility over the child.

Please note that:
● We will NEVER ask you to send us any of your personal documents (passport, other ID,
social security number, taxpayer number, birth/marriage certificate, driving license, health
insurance, etc.).

What Tracking Technologies does HowToRemove.Guide use?

We and our service providers use cookies and similarly described technologies (collectively dubbed as “cookies” for the purpose of this privacy policy) to provide our services to you. By accessing the website you consent to the use of Cookies in the manner described here. Visiting and reading the content of Howtoremove.guide is entirely optional and any person that does not agree with this disclaimer is encouraged to simply navigate away from it.

What are cookies?

“Cookies” are small text files that a website stores on your computer or mobile device every time you visit a  website. The use of such files is widespread in order for websites to function or be more effective, as well as to provide information to site owners on how users engage with their content. They are inadvertently used to track user behavior on the website through carious third-party applications like Google Analytics among others. Their primary function is to recognize and personalize preferences and account information, should such be stored on the website in question. You can find more information on cookies here: https://www.aboutcookies.org.

When do we use cookies?

We start using cookies the moment you load on your browser one of the website’s pages. Cookies also help to improves our services, for example to better authenticate you and serve a more personalized experience.

How are cookies used by us?

We currently use Cookies for the following purposes:

  • Operation of Our Service: we use cookies to monitor session data through Google Analytics (more on Google Analytics below), to lto observe how users use our services and to improve their performance. 
  • Security: we use cookies to help enforce our security features and to ensure we block malicious activity effectively.

In addition, Howtoremove.guide uses cookies for two services, as disclosed here:

1.
Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”) to help analyze the use of the website. For this purpose, Google Analytics collects and uses cookies.

The information obtained through these files about how you use the website –  IP address and visitor behavior information in an anonymous form – is provided and stored by Google, in servers in USA. Google will send the information anonymously by removing the last octet from your IP address before it is saved, thus ensuring your anonymity. Google uses this information under the terms of use of Google Analytics to evaluate how the website is used and to report on the activities performed on the website. We will not use and will not allow a third party to use the statistical analysis tool to track or collect any information that could identify the site visitors. Google may provide third parties with information collected through Google Analytics when required by law, or when such third parties process the information on behalf of Google. Under the Google Analytics Terms of Use, your IP address will not be linked by Google with any other data available to Google.

You may opt out of using Google Analytics cookies by downloading and installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. The app is associated with Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js) to indicate that website visit information should not be sent to Google Analytics.

Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on

2.

We collect cookies for Web Tracker, an in-house tracking system created especially for Howtoremove.guide to evaluate the performance of our advertising and make improvements to them for better user experience. We track information in relation to the advertisements, including IP and user agents of users who clicked on the advertisements, together with browsing history on our website. If no clicks occurred, we do not track or collect any information. The statistical information we gather is destroyed every 30 days and is not shared with any entities affiliated with us.

You can opt out of us collecting this information by refusing to use cookies on your browser. All popular modern browsers include this option in their settings. Below we have collected a list of links where you can learn how to do this on your browser:

Disclaimer

This site contains varying information in the form of facts and comments left by visiting individuals, as well as recommendations for software usage and more. We provide access to this information “as is”, WITH NO WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND. To elaborate: Howtoremove.guide and the people behind it deny any kind of warranty – either express or implied, including those linked to merchantability and fitness. Any consequences resulting from actions taken based on advice obtained from this website lie solely on the reader’s responsibility.

This site recommends software based on our writer’s personal experience in their field of expertise. The writers cannot guarantee that the suggested software will be equally effective for all kinds of problems and situations experienced by visitors.

Should you, as the user, decide to download and install a software product, please note that you are bound under a different set of Terms and Conditions that are issued by the company that distributes the software. The site’s writers or owners are under no circumstance liable for the damage or loss of property resulting from the usage and interpretation of written content on this website.

This website may contain links to third party websites – either in the content of the site or in the comments posted by visitors. We are in no way responsible for the content of linked sites – any responsibility lies entirely with the relevant third parties, as we have no influence or control of these sites. No liability can be accepted for any possibly damage caused by visiting such sites.

Howtoremove.guide operates under an affiliate disclose agreement, that serves to handle our site’s affiliate relations and partnerships. This is done in accordance to the Federal Trade Commission’s Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsement and Testimonials in Advertising, 16 C.F.R. Part 255.

Affiliate relationship disclosure:

We have picked our affiliate partners based on the quality of their products, as well as previous positive experience in the field of anti-malware. We do receive financial compensation for every software purchase from the Ads hosted on our site as a means to sustain the costs of running a website and researching malware behavior.

Please keep in mind that we provide a comment section on our pages for people to express their opinions and share experience for dealing with the various viruses and ad-based threats. The comment section is not private, so it is solely up to our readers to keep sensitive information about their computers away from the public eye. We reserve to ourselves the right to delete and modify inappropriate comments. 

Howtoremove.guide is a website dedicated to sharing information about the removal of various unwanted programs and malware. It is owned and managed by a Bulgarian company called SSMN Ltd (OOD), which was founded in 2015 by Stefan Sadakov and Martin Naydenov, two friends passionate about security and the tech industry as a whole. 

We are currently an affiliate partner primarily of 1 company. SSMN Ltd receives a special commission for every software purchase conducted by the banners displayed on Howtoremove.guide:

Enigma Software Group, USA LLC (ESG), to promote the award-winning software product SpyHunter, which is owned by ESG. 

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images, audio clips, digital downloads, data compilations, computer code and any other works of
authorship, both individually and as they are compiled on Howtoremove.guide (the “Content”), including but not
limited to the design, structure, selection, coordination, expression, and arrangement of such Content,
contained on Howtoremove.guide unless specifically noted, is owned, controlled or licensed by or to us, and is
protected by trade dress, copyright, patent and trademark laws, other intellectual property rights and
unfair competition laws.

Except as expressly provided in these Terms, no part of Howtoremove.guide and no Content may be
copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, downloaded, posted, publicly displayed, encoded, translated,
transmitted or distributed in any way to any computer, server, website, other medium for publication or
distribution or for any commercial enterprise, without our express prior written consent.

Any use of the Content not expressly permitted by the Terms is a breach of the Terms and may
violate copyright, patent, trademark and other laws including such owned by third parties. You agree to
abide by all copyright notices, information, or restrictions contained in or attached to the Content.