Effective Date: 2/05/2023
Last Update: 1/27/2024
Welcome to https://www.bitsandthat.com (“we”, “us”, “our”). Your privacy is of great importance to us. This Privacy Policy outlines the types of personal information we collect and how it is used, stored, and protected when you use our website [YourWebsite.com], which is powered by WordPress and enhanced by various tools including Monster Insights for analytics, a comment feature on our blogs, and Google Ads.
1. Information We Collect
Personal Information: We may collect personal information such as your name, email address, and other contact details when you subscribe to our newsletter, post comments on our blog, or interact with us in other ways.
Usage Data: Through Monster Insights, we collect non-personal data such as your browser type, operating system, the pages of our website that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other diagnostic data.
Cookies: We use cookies to enhance your experience, understand user activity, and improve the quality of our services. You have the option to accept or reject these cookies.
2. How We Use Your Information
To Provide and Maintain our Service: Including to monitor the usage of our service.
Communication: We may use your personal information to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials, and other information that may be of interest to you.
To Improve our Service: We continually strive to improve our website offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you.
Advertising: We use Google Ads to display advertisements that may be of interest to you.
3. Sharing Your Personal Information
We do not sell, trade, or rent users’ personal identification information to others. We may share generic aggregated demographic information not linked to any personal identification information regarding visitors and users with our business partners, trusted affiliates, and advertisers for the purposes outlined above.
4. Security of Your Personal Information
The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
5. Your Data Protection Rights
Depending on your location, you may have certain rights regarding your personal data, including the right to access, update, or delete the information we have on you.
6. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.
7. 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.
8. Links to Other Websites
Our blog contains links that lead to other websites. If you click on these links bitsandthat.com is not held responsible for your data and privacy protection. Visiting those websites is not governed by this privacy policy agreement. Make sure to read the privacy policy documentation of the website you go to from our website.
9. 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.
10. DoubleClick.net
The test_cookie is set by doubleclick.net and is used to determine if the user’s browser supports cookies.
Please note that cookies don’t allow us to gain control of your computer in any way. They are strictly used to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not so that we can provide a better experience for you.
If you want to disable cookies, you can do it by accessing the settings of your internet browser. You can visit https://www.internetcookies.com, which contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of browsers and devices.
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.
11. Hosting Services
Our website is hosted on DreamHost, a web hosting provider. As a result, some of your data, including personal information and usage data, may be stored through DreamHost’s data storage, databases, and general applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall, ensuring the safety and integrity of your personal information.
DreamHost’s hosting services also mean that your data may be transferred to and maintained on computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those in your jurisdiction.
Please Note: We are responsible for the processing of your data; however, if you have any concerns about the hosting services and data storage by DreamHost, we recommend reviewing their Privacy Policy.
12. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at info@bitsandthat.com.