Although we give you permission to use our services, we retain any intellectual property rights (ownership) we have in the sites and our services. While you may share or repost our content, we ask that you do so with proper credit and never claim ownership or try to exploit our content for your own personal gain.

We may ask/allow you to upload, submit, store, send, receive, or share your content. If you choose to upload or share content, please make sure you have the necessary rights to do so and that the content is lawful.

Your content remains yours, which means that you retain any intellectual property rights that you have in your content. By sharing your content with Howie, you give us a license to host, copy, share, use, publish, modify, display, and create derivative works based on your content.

We’ll also use feedback that you provide to make our sites and services better, and you give us the right to do so for no guaranteed compensation or credit. Thanks in advance!

We hope it never comes to this but Howie reserves the right to suspend or terminate your access to the site and/or our services if:

• you breach these Terms or our policies
• we’re required to do so to comply with the law or authorities
• we believe that your conduct causes harm or liability to a user, third party, or Howie — for example, by hacking, phishing, harassing, spamming, misleading others, or taking content that doesn’t belong to you

At Howie, we believe in uplifting and sharing the voices of all, in any language, around the world. Around the world naturally means a diversity of people, places and perspectives – we value all so long as they are rooted in respect and goodwill for one another. By engaging with Howie, you are part of a multicultural community that inherently embraces, celebrates and exists on the basis of inclusion and diversity.

We want to maintain a respectful environment for everyone, which means you must follow these basic rules of conduct:

• respect the rights of others, including privacy and intellectual property rights
• don’t abuse or harm others or yourself (or threaten or encourage such abuse or harm) — for example, by misleading, defrauding, defaming, bullying, harassing, or stalking others
• don’t abuse, harm, interfere with, or disrupt the services

• Visiting our sites subjects you to our Terms of Service and our Privacy Policy. If you don’t agree with what’s in these terms, please refrain from using the sites. We’ll be sad to see you go.
• Sometimes we’ll link to other sites and services. We think they’re good folks but we’re not responsible if they turn out not to be so good.
• Our services and all content on Howie is provided on an "as is" basis without warranty of any kind, whether express or implied.
• We are not responsible if you break the law, breach these Terms or go against the rights of a third party, especially if you get sued.
• We may change or discontinue the services and/or prices at any time, without liability, but we’ll strive to let you know in advance, where practical.

We encourage you to read our Privacy Policy in detail for the details about which kinds of personal information are collected from you and your rights under California law.

Howie’s Privacy Policy covers our treatment of information gathered when you are using or accessing our sites and content around the web. It does not apply to the practices of sites, apps, and services that we do not own, control, or manage. While we strive to work only with companies that share our respect for your privacy, we don't take responsibility for them. We encourage you to review the policies of any other services and sites you access.

• If you create an account, we’ll ask you for information such as your name, username, password, and email address to create the account and to communicate with you.
• We use information about how you interact with Tumblr in order to personalize it for you, to keep both you and our community safe from harm, and to improve Tumblr for everyone who uses it.
• In some cases we collect and store information about where you are located using your IP address or any location data you provide.
• Sometimes we’ll collect financial information, such as information related to your payment method (credit card number, type, expiration date etc), should you decide to purchase a product or paid service from us. We do not, however, store that financial information; instead, it’s stored by our payment processors like PayPal or Stripe, for example, and they have their own privacy policies which you’re recommended to check out.
• We collect information about how people use our sites. This type of information may be collected in our log files each time you interact with the site and services. We use internal tools and third party apps (like Google Analytics) to collect and analyze this information and in turn to make Howie better.
• Cookies are text files that may be sent to and saved by your web browser when you access a website; your web browser stores these cookies in a way associated with each website you visit. Howie uses cookies to remember you and to tell us how you use the site. Most browsers have an option for turning off cookies. It’s your call, but if you disable cookies, your browsing and log-in experiences may be different.

We never share information we receive from you unless: (a) we have your permission to share that information; (b) we have given you prior notice that the information will be shared, and with whom (such as in our Privacy Policy); or (c) that information is bundled in a way that does not identify you.

In some cases, we share information we store with third parties, such as service providers, consultants, and others for the purposes of operating, enhancing, and developing our products and services. For example, we may share information with service providers that help us provide an accessible website, providers that process your credit card, analytics providers that help us understand and improve our services, or consultants who may have access to information while they help us improve our offerings. Not to worry, anyone with whom we share such information for these reasons are generally bound by confidentiality and do not have the right to use information we share with them beyond what is necessary to assist us.

We hope it never happens but in the event that we have to share your information to protect ourselves or our community, we reserve the right to do so. This means we will access, preserve, and disclose any information as reasonably necessary, according to us, to comply with laws and governmental orders and/or to enforce our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.

Because Howie is a company with a global point of view, we may transfer data from the US to Europe (EU/EEA) and vice versa. Such transfers are handled in accordance with the GDPR and recognized international standards for data protection.

Several non-European countries have similar data protection laws to the GDPR. No matter where you call home, we commit to being good stewards of your information. If you have questions about how our practices align with your country’s standards, please contact us.

• Visiting our sites subjects you to our Terms of Service and our Privacy Policy. If you don’t agree with what’s in these terms, please refrain from using the sites. We’ll be sad to see you go.
• Our Privacy Policy may change at any time. We’ll let you know by posting an announcement on our website and/or via email.
• Our sites are intended for users aged 16 and up. We’re not checking ID, but if we learn that information was collected from someone underage, we will delete that information.