This Policy describes the information we collect from you, how we use that information and our legal basis for doing so. It also covers whether and how that information may be shared and your rights and choices regarding the information you provide to us.
This Privacy Policy applies to the information that we obtain through your use of this website and all first-party services offered by Bits and Bytes for the community.
Bits and Bytes is a small group of developers and industry professionals who occasionally play video games and sometimes publish (hopefully) interesting videos and articles.
We will never sell, lease, rent, or otherwise provide your personal data to any unaffiliated third party for any purpose whatsoever.
In order for us to provide you the best possible experience on our website, we need to collect and process certain information. Depending on your use of the Services, that may include:
When you visit our sites, we will store some usage data about your visit. This data is collected by eVAL Agency on our behalf and collected and processed in a privately-hosted instance of Matomo Analytics.
Log aggregation is performed by eVAL Agency on our behalf and collected and processed in a privately-hosted instance of Graylog.
This log data is used for incident response, debugging and to help us improve our service and your experience.
We use cookies (small data files transferred onto computers or devices by sites) for record-keeping purposes and to enhance functionality on our site. You may deactivate or restrict the transmission of cookies by changing the settings of your web browser. Cookies that are already stored may be deleted at any time.
Some services such as Mastodon will use functional cookies for user authentication. These cannot be disabled without losing functionality of the service but are not used for tracking purposes.
We have partnered with Mailerlite to offer newsletters and email marketing. Please refer to their privacy policy for details on how they handle your data, but short version is they are a GDPR-compliant service provider and only store your email address for the purpose of sending you our newsletters.
By submitting your email, you are providing your email address to Bits and Bytes, (should be obvious but worth stating).
You can opt out of user analytics tracked by our Matomo Analytics by utilizing standard ad-blocking and tracker-blocking software.
You cannot opt out of log aggregation as that is performed at the server level for security purposes. (But again this data is not used for tracking purposes.)
You have the right to be informed of Personal Data processed with Matomo, a right to rectification/correction, erasure and restriction of processing. You also have the right to ask from us a structured, common and machine-readable format of Personal Data you provided to us.
In addition, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the data protection authority in your jurisdiction.
We use a select number of trusted external service providers for certain technical data processing and/or service offerings. These service providers are carefully selected and meet high data protection and security standards. We only share information with them that is required for the services offered, and we contractually bind them to keep any information we share with them as confidential and to process Personal Data only according to our instructions.
Bits and Bytes uses the following partners to process the data collected by our website:
| Subprocessor | Data location | Service |
|---|---|---|
| eVAL | USA | Server hosting |
| Wort Technologies | USA | IT Consulting |
| MailerLite | Lithuania | Email Marketing |
We collect and maintain aggregated, anonymized or pseudonymized information which we may retain indefinitely to protect the safety and security of our Site, improve our Services or comply with legal obligations.
We partner with some affiliate programs to support our site. Clicking through to external affiliate links may result in cookies being set by those third-party sites after navigating away from our site. We do not control the use of cookies by these third-party sites and we encourage you to review their privacy policies.
We reserve the right to implement advertising on our site in the future. Any advertisements will be served from first-party, trusted sources and will never be served from a third-party advertisement network.
These advertisements and sponsored content will be clearly labeled as such and help support our site and services.
We may update this Policy from time to time.
Before reading further, please note that none of our team members are lawyers and do not provide legal or business advice.
You are welcome to reuse and be inspired by this Privacy Policy (published under license CC BY ) after making sure it complies with the way your website tracks, uses and discloses users information.
This privacy policy was derived from https://matomo.org/privacy-policy/.
The accuracy, completeness, adequacy of this privacy policy cannot be warranted or guaranteed. Please use it at your own risk.