1. Collected Data & Data Usage
1). This site uses Google Analytics which collects visitor data to help us analyze traffic and understand how visitors use our site. This process helps us better understand how content is used, and includes the use of cookies. Certain browsers may set your preferences to block/refuse cookies, and/or notify you before they are placed. Google states that the Google Analytics browser add-on can be installed to prevent Analytics from operating in conjunction with your browser when visiting our site. Data (including your IP address) is made anonymous to make it unidentifiable. User and event level data retention is limited to the user’s last site activity within a 14 month period. For more information on how google uses collected data please click on the following links: Partner Policies & How google uses your data.
2). Voluntarily submitted data is also collected. This includes blog comments, emails sent from users to site operators, and email addresses submitted by users for subscriptions.
3) Passively collected data consist of data web-based services that are automatically collected in our server to generate traffic logs.
4) Our subscription uses our third party partners Mailchimp for communicating blog updates to those subscribed. The subscriber will explicitly give consent based off of GDPR(General Data Protection Regulation) at sign up. User can unsubscribe at anytime via received emails.
5) Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies/web beacons to serve ads based on user’s prior visits to our website.
6) Google’s use of advertising cookies enables us to serve ads based on a user’s prior visit to our site. Users can opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings. Users can also opt out of a third-party vendor’s cookies utilization by visiting About Ads.
7) We use Social Media (Pinterest,Facebook,Twitter,Whatsapp,Reddit,Mewee etc..) Save widget at our website to allow you to share our webpages. These requests may track your IP address in accordance with their respective data privacy policy.
8) Instanttechcup is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com].
2. 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.
3. Opt Out Options
Functional/Essential Cookies
These cookies are are core or central to the site’s functionality. These cookies do not collect personal information. i.e Cookies relating to security or sessions.
Analytical Cookies
Google analytic is configured to not be personally identifiable. Analytics provide us with anonymous data on how users use our website. The data provided by the use of cookies no longer contains identifiable data about the user. (Ex: How long users use our site, which pages were looked at etc..).
Marketing Cookies
Cookies will still be used when the marketing cookie on this site is set to off. When set to off ads will no longer be personalized based on your activity.
4. Security
Securing personal data is taken seriously, and these are some of the steps taken to secure data.
- Limited Access control
- Website traffic SSL encryption.
- Log Monitoring
- Limited third party selections. We can’t guarantee secure handling of data by third parties. Third party respective policies, data processing agreements, and their ability to provide secure processing are highly considered in our selection.
Although reasonable security measures are implemented, we cannot completely guarantee the security of data. In case of a security breach, we will try our best to notify all users who are impacted by the possible loss of personal data.
Note, we reserve the right to change and or update this privacy policy at any time at our discretion. It is the user’s responsibility to keep up to date by visiting our policy periodically.