Privacy Policy Effective Date: Oct 8, 2022
We understand your privacy is important. This Privacy Policy page explains the types of data we collect when you use our website: https://techtoti.com. It also explains when we collect and what steps we take to safeguard the personal data you provide us when using our website.
Who We Are
Our website address is https://techtoti.com. It is a free online tech knowledge-sharing platform. As of now, techtoti.com is a personal website by a tech enthusiast who writes and shares his knowledge and expertise on this website, which might be helpful for tech newbies and professionals. Read more on the About Us page.
What Personal Data We Collect and Why we Collect it
We may collect your Personal Identifiable Information (PII) when you visit and use our website. The personal information we collect may include first name, last name and Email address.
We collect this information when you submit a comment on our website, when you contact us using the Contact Us page, and when you submit to our newsletter. This information is used to respond to your enquiries, notify you of our latest guides, and improve the content of this website. Moreover, if we make any changes to the collection of your Personal Identifiable Infomation, we will notify you immediately, and you can see the new policy on this page.
The information we collect from you will be used for internal purposes and will not be sold or shared with third parties under any circumstances. The internal purpose includes contacting you to respond to your queries and update you on new posts.
If you do not want to provide us with your Personal Identifiable Information, such as your name and email address, then you should not leave a comment on our website and use our newsletter and contact us.
We also use standard third-party plug-ins to provide you with a better experience and improve our site. The policy related to those plug-ins is linked under the below sections where we make use of them.
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 with 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 collect information about visitors who comment on Sites that use our Akismet anti-spam service. The information we collect depends on how the User sets up Akismet for the Site but typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter, such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).
Media
If you 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 Form and Newsletter
When you fill out the contact form on our Contact Us page and when you subscribe to our newsletter, you provide us with your email address, first name, and last name. We collect this data and use it only to respond to your enquiries and notify you of the new content on our website.
Our contact and newsletter page uses forms using the WPForms plug-in. You should agree to the WPForm privacy policy when you use the fill the Contact Us and Newsletter forms on our website.
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 exact 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 tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
How we protect your data
We scan our website regularly to ensure it is a secure platform for our visitors. We use standard tools and protocols such as HTTPS to ensure your security on our website. Although we never ask for your private information, such as address, credit card number and so forth, as we only provide guides, articles, and information.
Use of Cookies
Cookies are small text files that get stored on your device when you visit a website. We do not use Cookies for tracking purposes. However, like all websites on the internet, we use cookies to help you personalize your online experience.
Visitors can set their devices to warn them when a cookie is being sent to their devices. You can also turn off all cookies using your browser’s settings, such as Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari, and so forth.
Note that if you disable cookies, some features that enhance your site experience will get disabled.
If you leave a comment on our website, 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.
A web beacon is a transparent image used for monitoring users’ journey around a single website or collection of sites. Beacons are also called web bugs. Commonly, websites that use third-party services to monitor traffic use beacons. Beacons may also be used in association with cookies to understand how users interact with the pages and content of the page on a website.
For European Economics Users
If you are using our website from a European Economic Area (EEA), you have the right, among other things, to access your Personal Data, ask us to erase it and restrict your personal data’s further processing. For that, you can contact us through the Contact Us page.
For California Users
According to California law, California residents have the right to opt-out of the “sale” of their Personal Information to third parties, including for advertising purposes. According to California law, sharing your data with a service provider for advertising could be considered a “sale.” We are committed to the privacy and security of your data, and we do share or sell your personal data to third parties. However, we use services such as google analytics, standard plug-ins to better surf you on our website, and Bing webmaster that may have varying policies.
Analytics
We use Google Analytics to analyze our site performance. As you browse our website, Google Analytics tracks your interaction on our site. We use this data to determine the number of users on our website, to understand how users find and use our website, and to track their browsing journey on our site.
Google Analytics collects your geographical location, device, internet browser, and operating system, which do not personally identify you to us. This analytic tool may also collect the IP address that can be used to identify you personally, but they do not grant us access to your IP address.
Third Party Disclosure
It is important to insist that we do not trade, sell, or share your Personally Identifiable information with third parties.
Third-Party Links
Sometimes, we may include or offer an external link that leads you to a third-party website, article, or product. These third-party websites have their own separate privacy policy terms. Therefore, we do not have any responsibility or liability for the activities and content on these websites.
Google’s advertising requirements are declared by its own Google Advertising Principles. They are put in place to provide you with a better positive experience. Read the Google Ads Policies.
We use Google Adsense advertising on our website, which you can read the policy on the Advertising page on Google Privacy Terms.
As a third-party vendor, Google uses cookies to serve ads on our website. Google uses the DART cookie that enables it to serve ads to our users based on users’ visits to our website and other websites on the internet. Users can opt-out of the use of the DART cookie on the Google Ad and Content Network privacy policy.
We, along with our third-party vendors such as Google, use first-party cookies such as Google Analytics cookies. Also, we use third-party cookies such as DoubleClick cookies or other third-party identifiers. All these cookies and identifiers are to compile data about user interactions with Ad impressions and other Ad service functions that relate to our website.
We have implemented the followings:
- Remarketing with Google AdSense
- Demographics and Interests Reporting
- Google Display Network Impression Reporting
- DoubleClick Platform Integration
Opting Out:
Users can set up preferences for how Google advertises to them using the Google Ads Settings webpage.
Who do we share your data with
We do not sell, trade, or transfer your Personally Identifiable Information to outside parties. We use standard and trustworthy plug-ins, as named in the above sections, for spam detection and for you to contact us and register for our newsletter. These tools may save your information, and you should comply with their use of your personal information as per their privacy terms linked above.
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.
We also keep your information if you register for our Newsletter. However, you can request us to erase it anytime you wish.
Contact Information
If you have questions regarding this privacy policy, please get in touch with us using the Contact Us page. We reserve the right to change our Privacy Policy. So, from time to time, we may change it, and we will inform or prompt you to review our Privacy Policy in case of a significant change.