Your Privacy Matters to Us

At TechBoss, accessible from https://techboss.com, we value your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains the types of data we collect, how we use it, and how you can control your information. If you have questions, please reach out to us.

Data Collection from Comments

When you leave a comment, we collect the information you provide along with your IP address and browser user agent. This helps us detect spam. If you use Gravatar, we may send an anonymized hash of your email to check if you have a profile. Once we approve your comment, your profile picture (if available) will appear with it. You can find Gravatar’s Privacy Policy here.

Handling Media

When uploading images to TechBoss, avoid using photos with embedded location data (like EXIF GPS), as visitors could download and extract this data from images.

Cookies and How We Use Them

We use cookies to improve your experience on TechBoss. Here’s how:

• Comments: When you leave a comment, you can save your name, email, and website in cookies. This way, you won’t need to enter these details again next time. These cookies last for one year.
• Login: When you log in, we set cookies to store your login information and screen preferences. Login cookies last two days, screen preferences cookies last one year. Choosing “Remember Me” extends your login for two weeks. Logging out will remove these cookies.
• Publishing: When you edit or publish an article, a cookie is stored in your browser for one day. This cookie contains only the post ID of the article, without personal data.

Embedded Content from Other Sites

Some articles on TechBoss may have embedded content, such as videos or images. Interacting with this embedded content is the same as visiting the original site, which might collect data, use cookies, or monitor your engagement.

Data Sharing

If you request a password reset, we’ll include your IP address in the reset email as a security measure.

How Long We Retain Your Data

• Comments: We keep comments and their metadata indefinitely to identify follow-up comments automatically.
• User Accounts: Registered users can view, edit, or delete their profile data (except for usernames). Site administrators can also access and manage user data.

Your Rights to Access and Delete Data

If you have an account or have left comments, you can request a file of the personal data we hold. You can also ask us to delete your data, except for information we’re required to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

How We Protect Against Spam

We check visitor comments through an automated spam detection service to keep TechBoss a safe space.