Privacy Policy for TechPicks.tech

Last Updated: May 23, 2025

Welcome to TechPicks.tech (the “Site”). We are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy notice, or our practices with regards to your personal information, please contact us at contact@techpicks.tech.

This privacy notice describes how we might use your information if you visit our website at techpicks.tech, or otherwise engage with us.

Please read this privacy notice carefully as it will help you understand what we do with the information that we collect.

1. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?

Personal information you disclose to us

In Short: We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us.

We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you use our contact form, leave comments on our posts, or (in the future) subscribe to our newsletter.

The personal information that we collect depends on the context of your interactions with us and the Site, the choices you make, and the products and features you use. The personal information we collect may include the following:

• Name and Contact Data: We collect your first and last name and email address when you submit an inquiry through our contact form or leave a comment. If you subscribe to our newsletter, we will collect your email address and potentially your name.
• Message Content: We collect the content of the messages you send to us via our contact form.
• Comments and User Content: When you leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form (name, email, website if provided, and the comment itself), and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help 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 (if associated with Gravatar) and your provided name are visible to the public in the context of your comment.

We do not collect other types of sensitive personal information beyond what is described above unless explicitly requested and with your consent for a specific purpose.

Information automatically collected

In Short: Some information — such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address and/or browser and device characteristics — is collected automatically when you visit our Site.

We automatically collect certain information when you visit, use, or navigate the Site. This information does not reveal your specific identity (like your name or contact information) but may include device and usage information, such as your 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 (e.g., through analytics services).

Like many businesses, we also collect information through cookies and similar technologies. You can find out more about this in Section 4 (“DO WE USE COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES?”).

The information we collect automatically includes:

• Log and Usage Data: Log and usage data is service-related, diagnostic, usage, and performance information our servers automatically collect when you access or use our Site and which we record in log files. This data may include your IP address, browser type, operating system, pages visited, access times, and referring URLs.
• Device Data: We may collect device data such as information about your computer, phone, tablet, or other device you use to access the Site, including the device type, operating system, and browser.
• Location Data: We may collect imprecise location data, such as the general location derived from your IP address.

2. HOW DO WE USE YOUR INFORMATION?

In Short: We process your information for purposes based on legitimate business interests, the fulfillment of our contract with you, compliance with our legal obligations, and/or your consent.

We use personal information collected via our Site for a variety of business purposes described below. We process your personal information for these purposes in reliance on our legitimate business interests, in order to enter into or perform a contract with you, with your consent, and/or for compliance with our legal obligations. We indicate the specific processing grounds we rely on next to each purpose listed below.

We use the information we collect or receive:

• To post user reviews/comments. We post comments on our Site that may contain personal information (like a username provided by you).
• To respond to user inquiries/offer support to users. We may use your information to respond to your inquiries submitted through our contact form and solve any potential issues you might have.
• For data analysis. We may use automatically collected information for data analysis purposes, such as identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our content, and to evaluate and improve our Site, marketing, and your experience, for example, through analytics services like Google Analytics (or similar services).
• To protect our Site. We may use your information as part of our efforts to keep our Site safe and secure (for example, for fraud monitoring and prevention, spam detection).
• To send you marketing and promotional communications (if you opt-in). We may use the personal information you send to us for our marketing purposes, if this is in accordance with your marketing preferences. For example, when expressing an interest in obtaining information about us or our Site, subscribing to our newsletter, or otherwise contacting us, we will collect personal information from you. You can opt-out of our marketing emails at any time (see Section 8: “WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?” below).

3. WILL YOUR INFORMATION BE SHARED WITH ANYONE?

In Short: We only share information with your consent, to comply with laws, to provide you with services, to protect your rights, or to fulfill business obligations.

We may process or share your data that we hold based on the following legal basis:

• Consent: We may process your data if you have given us specific consent to use your personal information for a specific purpose.
• Legitimate Interests: We may process your data when it is reasonably necessary to achieve our legitimate business interests.
• Performance of a Contract: Where we have entered into a contract with you, we may process your personal information to fulfill the terms of our contract.
• Legal Obligations: We may disclose your information where we are legally required to do so in order to comply with applicable law, governmental requests, a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process.
• Vital Interests: We may disclose your information where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding potential violations of our policies, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person and illegal activities, or as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.

More specifically, we may need to process your data or share your personal information in the following situations:

• Service Providers: We may share your data with third-party vendors, service providers, contractors, or agents who perform services for us or on our behalf and require access to such information to do that work. Examples include: web hosting providers, data analytics providers (like Google Analytics), and spam detection services (like Akismet for comments).
• Advertising Partners: We plan to display advertisements on our Site, including through networks like Google AdSense. These advertising partners may use cookies and other tracking technologies to collect information about your activities on our Site and other sites to provide you targeted advertising based upon your interests. Their data collection and use are governed by their own privacy policies.
• Affiliate Links: Our website may contain links to affiliate websites, and we receive an affiliate commission for any purchases made by you on the affiliate website using such links. Our affiliates may use cookies to track referrals and may collect information directly from you if you visit their sites. Their data practices are governed by their respective privacy policies.
• Email Marketing Services: If you subscribe to our newsletter, your information (such as your email address) will be shared with our chosen email marketing service provider for the purpose of sending you the newsletter and other marketing communications you have opted into.

4. DO WE USE COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES?

In Short: We may use cookies and other tracking technologies to collect and store your information.

We may use cookies and similar tracking technologies (like web beacons and pixels) to access or store information. Specific information about how we use such technologies and how you can refuse certain cookies is set out below.

What are cookies? Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners in order to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.

How we use cookies:

• Essential Website Cookies: These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our Site and to use some of its features. This includes cookies used by WordPress for user logins and for remembering commenter details if you choose to save them.
• Performance and Functionality Cookies: These cookies are used to enhance the performance and functionality of our Site but are non-essential to their use. However, without these cookies, certain functionality (which we may add in the future, such as remembering your preferences) may become unavailable.
• Analytics and Customization Cookies: These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our Site is being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customize our Site for you. For example, analytics services like Google Analytics use cookies to track your interactions with our Site.
• Advertising Cookies: As we plan to use advertising networks like Google AdSense, these services will use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to our website or other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our sites and/or other sites on the Internet.
• Third-Party Cookies / Affiliate Cookies: Our affiliate partners use cookies to track referrals from our Site to theirs. If you click on an affiliate link, a cookie may be placed on your browser to track the sale for purposes of commissions. Additionally, if we implement social media sharing buttons, those platforms may also set their own cookies.

How can you control cookies? You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You will be able to exercise your cookie preferences through the cookie consent banner that will be implemented on our Site, which will allow you to select which categories of cookies you accept or reject. Additionally, most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

Please note that if you choose to block all cookies (including essential cookies) through your browser, you may not be able to access all or parts of our Site.

5. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?

In Short: We keep your information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this privacy notice unless otherwise required by law.

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

• Comment data, including your name, email, and comment content, is retained indefinitely so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
• Information submitted through our contact form is retained for as long as necessary to address your inquiry and for our internal record-keeping.
• Analytics data collected via services like Google Analytics may be retained for up to 26 months, after which it may be aggregated or anonymized.

When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize such information, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.

6. HOW DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION SAFE?

In Short: We aim to protect your personal information through a system of organizational and technical security measures.

We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. For example, our site uses HTTPS to encrypt data transmitted between your browser and our server. However, despite our safeguards and efforts to secure your information, no electronic transmission over the Internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorized third parties will not be able to defeat our security and improperly collect, access, steal, or modify your information. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, transmission of personal information to and from our Site is at your own risk. You should only access the Site within a secure environment.

7. DO WE COLLECT INFORMATION FROM MINORS?

In Short: We do not knowingly collect data from or market to children under 18 years of age.

We do not knowingly solicit data from or market to children under 18 years of age. By using the Site, you represent that you are at least 18 or that you are the parent or guardian of such a minor and consent to such minor dependent’s use of the Site. If we learn that personal information from users less than 18 years of age has been collected, we will take reasonable measures to promptly delete such data from our records. If you become aware of any data we may have collected from children under age 18, please contact us at contact@techpicks.tech.

8. WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?

In Short: Depending on your location, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information.

In some regions (like the European Economic Area (EEA) and United Kingdom (UK)), you have certain rights under applicable data protection laws. These may include the right (i) to request access and obtain a copy of your personal information, (ii) to request rectification or erasure; (iii) to restrict the processing of your personal information; and (iv) if applicable, to data portability. In certain circumstances, you may also have the right to object to the processing of your personal information.

If you are located in the EEA or UK and you believe we are unlawfully processing your personal information, you also have the right to complain to your local data protection supervisory authority. You can find their contact details via resources such as the one found at: https://dataprivacymanager.net/list-of-eu-data-protection-supervisory-authorities-gdpr/.

Residents of California may have additional personal information rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). If you are a California resident and would like to exercise your rights, please contact us.

To make such a request, or if you would like to exercise any of your privacy rights, please use the contact details provided in Section 11 below. We will consider and act upon any request in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

9. CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES

Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems and mobile applications include a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. At this stage, no uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized. As such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online. If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the future, we will inform you about that practice in a revised version of this privacy notice.

10. DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS NOTICE?

In Short: Yes, we will update this notice as necessary to stay compliant with relevant laws.

We may update this privacy notice from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated “Last Updated” date and the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible. If we make material changes to this privacy notice, we may notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to review this privacy notice frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information.

11. HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE?

If you have questions or comments about this privacy notice, or wish to exercise any of your privacy rights, you may contact us primarily via email:

Email: contact@techpicks.tech

While a physical postal address is traditionally provided for formal correspondence with data controllers, as an online entity operated by an individual, direct postal mail processing presents operational challenges. We are committed to addressing all privacy-related inquiries promptly and effectively through the email address provided above. If email communication is not suitable for your specific request, please indicate this in your initial email, and we will explore alternative means of communication where reasonably possible and required by applicable law.

For general inquiries not related to this privacy notice, you may also use the contact form available on our Contact Us page.