Who we are
Our website, techtipsfix.com, complies with the required cookie policies and regulations, as well as the parameters of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation).
To provide detailed information on our data processing policy, you can visit the following page links:
As the person responsible for this website, I have endeavored to strictly comply with Article 22.2 of Law 34/2002 on Information Society Services and Electronic Commerce regarding cookies. However, given the way the Internet and websites work, it is not always possible to have up-to-date information on the cookies that third parties may use through this website.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the website, we collect the data shown in the comment form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help detect spam.
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. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. This is for your convenience so you don’t have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
What are Cookies?
Cookies are a tool used by web servers to store and retrieve information about their visitors. They are simply a text file that some servers ask our browser to write to our hard drive, containing information about what we have done on their pages. They have an expiration date, which can range from the duration of the session to a specified future date, after which they cease to be operational.
Cookies used by the website
This website uses its own and third-party cookies to ensure you have a better browsing experience, to share content on social media, to show you ads based on your interests, and to obtain user statistics.
As a user, you can reject the processing of data or information by blocking these cookies using the appropriate settings in your browser. However, please be aware that if you do so, this site may not function properly.
According to the terms included in Article 22.2 of Law 34/2002 on Information Society Services and Electronic Commerce, if you continue browsing, you will be giving your consent to the use of the cookies detailed below.
The cookies on this website help:
- Make this website work properly
- Save you from having to log in every time you visit this site
- Remember your settings during and between visits
- Allow you to view videos
- Improve site speed/security
- Allow you to share pages with social networks
- Continuously improve this website
- Show you ads based on your browsing habits
I will never use cookies to:
- Collect personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
- Collect sensitive information (without your express permission)
- Share personally identifiable data with third parties
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.
Contact Form
Data Used: Contact Form 7 is enabled on the site, and contact form submission data (IP address, user agent, name, email address, website, and message) is sent to the Akismet service (also owned by Automattic) for the sole purpose of spam checking. The actual submission data is stored in the database of the site where it was submitted and emailed directly to the form owner (i.e., the author of the site that published the page where the contact form resides). This email will include the sender’s IP address, timestamp, name, email address, website, and message.
Information Collected
Analytics
Generated by analytics services, specifically Google Analytics, to help techtipsfix.com analyze user use of the website and improve its usability. However, these cookies are never associated with data that could identify users.
Google Analytics is a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc., a Delaware company with its main office at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View (California), CA 94043, United States (“Google”).
The user can consult the types of cookies used by Google, the Google+ Cookie, and Google Maps, as set out on their page regarding the types of cookies they use.
Ads
This website uses the Google Adsense advertising service, which collects certain information for its proper functioning. Google Adsense has its own data collection policies. The data collected by Google Adsense is not stored on this website techtipsfix.com is not responsible for the processing of data collected by Google Adsense.
For more information, you can see the Google Adsense data processing policy.
Storage
Gmail: This service is used to store messages sent by users for contact purposes. It is not for commercial use.
WordPress: This is the platform used for this website, owned by the American company Automattic, Inc. For this purpose, the use of such cookies by these systems is never under the control or management of the website owner. Their function may change at any time, and new cookies may be added.
Platforms such as YouTube – Privacy Policy – are also used to include videos on this website.
Social Media Cookies
Social media cookies may be stored in your browser while you browse techtipsfix.com, for example, when you use the button to share techtipsfix.com content on a social network.
The companies that generate these cookies corresponding to the social networks used by this website have their own cookie policies:
Twitter cookie, as set forth in its privacy and cookie policy.
Facebook cookie, as set forth in its Cookie Policy.
The privacy implications will vary depending on each social network and the privacy settings you have chosen on these networks.
Under no circumstances can the website owner or advertisers obtain personally identifiable information from these cookies.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained for 14 days. This is so we can recognize and approve subsequent comments.
For users who register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can request to view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also view and edit this information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account or have left comments on this website, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to retain for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service such as Akismet Anti-Spam.
Third-Party Links
This website may contain links to other sites that may be of interest to you. Once you click on these links and leave our page, we no longer have control over the site to which you are redirected and, therefore, are not responsible for the terms, privacy policies, or the protection of your data on these other third-party sites. These sites are subject to their own privacy policies, so it is recommended that you consult them to confirm that you agree with them.
How to disable and manage cookies
If you do not want websites to place any cookies on your device, you can adjust your browser settings so that you are notified before any cookie is downloaded. Similarly, you can adjust your settings so that your browser rejects all cookies or only third-party cookies. You can also delete any cookies already on your device. Please note that you will need to adjust the settings separately for each browser and device you use.
Techtipsfix.com provides users who wish to prevent the installation of these cookies with links provided by the most widely used browsers:
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