Privacy Policy for The TechWeirdo

Effective Date: July 12, 2024

Introduction

Welcome to The TechWeirdo ("we", "us", "our"). We are committed to protecting your privacy and personal information. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website www.techweirdo.net and its associated subdomains (collectively, the "Site").

Please read this privacy policy carefully. If you do not agree with the terms of this privacy policy, please do not access the site.

This privacy policy covers the following domains:

www.techweirdo.net
cdn.tedhweirdo.net
status.techweirdo.net
analytics.techweirdo.net
plsbl.techweirdo.net

We use the following third party services on this website

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Bunny CDN
Cloudflare
Ezoic
Google Adsense

All of our servers and analytics data are situated at Amsterdamand and Frankfurt.

Information We Collect

We collect information that you provide directly to us when you use our Site. This may include:

Email address (if you choose to leave a comment)
Any other information you choose to provide

We also automatically collect certain information when you visit, use or navigate the Site. This information does not reveal your specific identity but may include:

Device and usage information (e.g. IP address, browser and device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, device name, country, location, information about how and when you use our Site and other technical information)

This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our Site, and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes.

How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect or receive:

To facilitate account creation and the logon process (if you choose to create an account).
To post testimonials on our Site with your consent.
To protect our Site (e.g. fraud monitoring and prevention).
To comply with our legal obligations.
To respond to legal requests and prevent harm.
For other business purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, and to evaluate and improve our Site, products, services, and your experience.

Disclosure of Your Information

We may share information we have collected about you in certain situations. Your information may be disclosed as follows:

By Law or to Protect Rights: If we believe the release of information about you is necessary to respond to legal process, to investigate or remedy potential violations of our policies, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of others, we may share your information as permitted or required by any applicable law, rule, or regulation.
Third-Party Service Providers: We may share your information with third parties that perform services for us or on our behalf, including payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, customer service, and marketing assistance.
Marketing Communications: With your consent, or with an opportunity for you to withdraw consent, we may share your information with third parties for marketing purposes.
Online Advertising: We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit the Site. These companies may use information about your visits to our Site and other websites that are contained in web cookies in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.
Affiliates: We may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy.
Business Partners: We may share your information with our business partners to offer you certain products, services or promotions.

Third-Party Websites

Our Site may contain links to third-party websites and applications of interest, including advertisements and external services, that are not affiliated with us. Once you have used these links to leave our Site, any information you provide to these third parties is not covered by this Privacy Policy, and we cannot guarantee the safety and privacy of your information. Before visiting and providing any information to any third-party websites, you should inform yourself of the privacy policies and practices (if any) of the third party responsible for that website, and should take those steps necessary to, in your discretion, protect the privacy of your information.

Analytics

We use self-hosted Umami Analytics and self-hosted Plausible Analytics to help us understand how our visitors use the Site. Both Umami and Plausible Analytics are privacy-friendly analytics tools that do not use cookies and do not collect any personally identifiable information.

Advertising

We use Ezoic for advertising on our Site. For more information on how Ezoic uses your data, please refer to Ezoic's privacy policy: https://g.ezoic.net/privacy/techweirdo.net

Cookies

Our Site uses cookies to identify if a user is logged in. We also use cookieless analytics. Third-party advertisers on our Site may use cookies for ad personalization and measurement. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies.

Your Rights

Depending on where you reside, you may have certain rights with respect to your information, such as:

The right to access personal information we hold about you
The right to request that we update or delete your personal information
The right to object to our processing of your data
The right to request that we restrict our processing of your personal data

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the contact information provided below.

Data Retention

We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting or other legal requirements).

Security

We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, please also remember that we cannot guarantee that the internet itself is 100% secure.

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 and updating the "Effective Date" at the top of this Privacy Policy.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at: The TechWeirdo
contact@techweirdo.net

By using our Site, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.