Privacy Policy – bitechase.com
Effective Date: December 7, 2024
Welcome to Bitechase! Your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your information when you visit our website, https://bitechase.com (the “Site”). By using the Site, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy.
1. Information We Collect
We may collect the following types of information:
- Personal Information: When you contact us or subscribe to newsletters, we may collect your name, email address, or other details.
- Usage Data: Through Google Analytics, we collect information about your interactions with the Site, including pages viewed, time spent on pages, and other analytics.
- Comments: When visitors leave comments on the Site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, the visitor’s IP address, and browser user agent string to help with spam detection. An anonymized string created from your email address (hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to check if you use it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available at https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible in the context of your comment.
- Media: If you upload images to the Site, avoid including embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors can download and extract location data from these images.
- Cookies and Tracking Technologies: We use cookies, Google AdSense, and potentially Facebook/Instagram pixels to provide personalized ads and enhance your user experience.
2. How We Use Your Information
We use the collected information to:
- Improve and personalize your experience on the Site.
- Analyze site performance and user behavior.
- Display relevant advertisements through Google AdSense.
- Respond to your inquiries submitted via https://bitechase.com/contact.
3. Third-Party Services
We share certain data with third-party services:
- Google Analytics: To analyze site performance and user behavior.
- Google AdSense: To serve personalized advertisements.
- Facebook/Instagram Pixels: For tracking and marketing purposes.
Embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles) from other websites behaves as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, and monitor your interaction with their content.
4. Additional Information about Content
Some of the recipes featured on Bitechase originate from handwritten recipe notebooks, giving them a unique and authentic touch. Additionally, in some cases, images of the dishes are created using artificial intelligence, offering an artistic interpretation of the recipes.
5. Your Rights
You have the right to:
- Opt-out of personalized ads via Google’s Ads Settings.
- Disable cookies in your browser settings.
- Request access to or deletion of your personal data by emailing us at contato.bitechase@gmail.com.
If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of your personal data or request its deletion. This does not include data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
6. Data Retention
- Comments and metadata are retained indefinitely to recognize and approve follow-up comments automatically.
- Registered user profiles (if any) store personal information indefinitely. Users can edit or delete their personal data anytime (except usernames). Administrators can also manage this information.
7. Data Security
We take reasonable measures to protect your information from unauthorized access, alteration, or disclosure. However, no data transmission or storage system is guaranteed to be 100% secure.
8. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at contato.bitechase@gmail.com or visit our contact page at https://bitechase.com/contact.