1. Who We Are
Welcome to ByteFixers! Your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your information when you visit our website.
2. Information We Collect
a. Personal Information
We may collect personal information such as your name, email address, and contact details when you subscribe to our newsletter, contact us, or engage with our services.
b. Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, along with 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 check 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.
c. Media
If you upload images to the website, avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors can download and extract location data from images on the website.
d. Cookies
- If you leave a comment, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies for convenience. These cookies last for one year.
- A temporary cookie is set when visiting the login page to check browser acceptance of cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when the browser is closed.
- Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If “Remember Me” is selected, the login persists for two weeks. Logging out removes the login cookies.
- Editing or publishing an article saves an additional cookie in the browser, indicating the post ID of the edited article. It expires after one day.
3. How We Use Your Information
We use your information to:
- Improve our website and services.
- Respond to inquiries and provide customer support.
- Send newsletters or promotional emails (you can opt-out anytime).
- Monitor and analyze website usage for optimization.
4. 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 tracking your interaction if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
5. Who We Share Your Data With
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
6. How Long We Retain Your Data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely for automatic recognition and approval of follow-up comments.
For registered users, we store personal information in user profiles. Users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except for usernames). Website administrators can also see and edit user information.
7. Your Rights Over Your Data
If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request an exported file of the personal data we hold, including data you provided. You can also request data erasure, excluding data we must retain for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
8. Where Your Data Is Sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
9. Third-Party Services
We may use third-party tools such as Google Analytics and advertising services that collect data in accordance with their privacy policies. We do not sell or share your personal information with third parties for their marketing purposes.
10. Data Security
We implement security measures to protect your personal information, but no method of transmission over the internet is 100% secure. Please use strong passwords and be cautious when sharing personal details online.