Privacy Policy – Tech Info Central

Privacy Policy

Last updated: 26 July 2026

Tech Info Central (“we”, “us” or “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to handling personal information responsibly.

This Privacy Policy explains what information may be collected when you visit https://techinfoc.com, why it is collected, how it may be used and shared, and the choices available to you.

1. Who We Are

Tech Info Central is a technology news, reviews and buying-guides website.

For the purposes of applicable data-protection law, Tech Info Central is responsible for the personal information collected through this website.

You can contact us about privacy or exercise your privacy rights through the contact form on our website.

2. Information We Collect

The information collected depends on how you interact with the website.

Information you provide

You may provide personal information when you:

  • Submit an enquiry through our contact form.
  • Leave a comment on an article.
  • Contact us regarding a privacy request, correction or complaint.

This information may include:

  • Your name or chosen display name.
  • Your email address.
  • The contents of your message or comment.
  • Any other information you voluntarily provide.

Please avoid including sensitive personal information in comments or contact-form messages unless it is genuinely necessary.

Comments

When visitors leave comments, we may collect the information entered in the comment form, together with the visitor’s IP address and browser information. This helps us display comments, prevent spam and protect the website from abuse.

An anonymised string created from your email address, sometimes called a hash, may be sent to the Gravatar service to determine whether you use it. If your comment is approved, your chosen profile image may appear publicly beside your comment.

Comments and their associated metadata may be retained for as long as the comment remains published. We may retain moderation records where reasonably necessary to prevent spam, abuse or repeated violations.

Anything you publish in a comment may be visible to other website visitors. Do not include private information that you do not want to make public.

Contact-form enquiries

When you use our contact form, we collect the information needed to read and respond to your enquiry.

Contact-form messages are normally retained for up to 12 months after the matter has been resolved. Information may be kept longer where reasonably necessary for security, record-keeping, dispute resolution or compliance with a legal obligation.

Information collected automatically

When you visit the website, certain technical information may be collected automatically by our website, hosting provider, security services and analytics tools.

This may include:

  • Your IP address.
  • Browser type and version.
  • Device type and operating system.
  • Approximate location derived from your IP address.
  • Referring website or page.
  • Pages viewed and links selected.
  • Date, time and duration of visits.
  • Cookie identifiers and consent preferences.
  • Information about errors, suspected attacks, spam or misuse.

We use this information to operate, secure and improve the website and, where required, only after obtaining your consent.

3. How and Why We Use Information

We may use personal information for the following purposes:

  • To operate and maintain Tech Info Central.
  • To respond to enquiries submitted through the contact form.
  • To publish, moderate and manage comments.
  • To detect spam, fraud, malicious activity and security threats.
  • To understand how visitors use the website.
  • To improve our articles, navigation, performance and user experience.
  • To remember and respect visitors’ cookie choices.
  • To comply with applicable legal obligations.
  • To establish, exercise or defend legal claims.

4. Legal Bases for Processing

Where UK or European data-protection law applies, we rely on one or more of the following legal bases:

Consent

We rely on consent before using non-essential analytics, media or similar technologies where consent is required.

You can withdraw or change your cookie consent at any time using the cookie settings control available on the website. Withdrawing consent does not make earlier processing unlawful.

Legitimate interests

We may process information where reasonably necessary for our legitimate interests, including:

  • Operating and improving the website.
  • Responding to genuine enquiries.
  • Moderating comments.
  • Preventing spam, fraud and security incidents.
  • Maintaining appropriate business and technical records.

We consider whether these interests are outweighed by your privacy rights before relying on this basis.

Legal obligations

We may process or retain information when required to comply with a legal obligation, lawful request, court order or regulatory requirement.

Establishing or defending legal claims

Information may be used where necessary to protect our legal rights or respond to a dispute or claim.

5. Cookies and Similar Technologies

Cookies are small files placed on your device by a website. Similar technologies may include local storage, tags and online identifiers.

Tech Info Central uses CookieYes to display its consent banner, manage visitor preferences and help prevent non-essential technologies from operating before the appropriate consent has been given.

Cookies used on the website may fall into the following categories:

  • Necessary cookies: Required for essential website operation, security and consent management.
  • Functional cookies: Support optional website features and preferences.
  • Analytics cookies: Help us understand website traffic and usage.
  • Advertisement or affiliate-related cookies: May be used by third-party destinations after you select an affiliate link.
  • Media cookies: May be used when you load or interact with embedded videos or social-media content.

Necessary cookies may operate without consent where legally permitted. Non-essential cookies and similar technologies are controlled through the CookieYes consent banner where consent is required.

For the latest details about individual cookies, their providers, purposes and durations, please read our separate Cookie Policy and use the cookie settings control on the website.

You can also restrict or delete cookies through your browser settings. Disabling certain cookies may affect how some website features work.

6. Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors find and use Tech Info Central. Depending on your consent choices and our configuration, Google Analytics may collect information such as:

  • Pages viewed.
  • Approximate location.
  • Device and browser information.
  • Referring sources.
  • Interactions with website content.
  • Cookie or device identifiers.

We use analytics information to measure website performance, identify popular content and improve the website. We do not use Google Analytics intentionally to collect names, email addresses or the contents of contact-form messages.

Google Analytics is activated only where permitted by applicable law and your consent choice. Analytics information controlled through our Google Analytics account is retained according to our configured retention period and normally for no longer than 14 months, unless a longer period is required for a legitimate and lawful reason.

Google may process information on servers located outside your country. Google is responsible for its own handling of information under its privacy terms and applicable data-protection safeguards.

You can reject analytics through our cookie banner or change your choice later through the cookie settings control.

7. Amazon Affiliate Links

Tech Info Central participates in Amazon affiliate programmes. Some links on the website are affiliate links.

When you select an Amazon affiliate link:

  • You are taken to an Amazon website or service.
  • Amazon may receive information showing that your visit originated from Tech Info Central.
  • Amazon may use cookies or similar technologies to attribute eligible purchases to our affiliate account.
  • We may earn a commission from qualifying purchases at no additional cost to you.

We do not receive your Amazon password, full payment information, delivery address or complete purchase details. Amazon processes information under its own privacy notice and cookie practices.

Selecting an affiliate link is optional. You should review Amazon’s privacy information before providing personal information or making a purchase.

Our use of affiliate links is also explained in our Affiliate Disclosure.

8. Embedded YouTube and Social-Media Content

Some articles may contain videos, posts or other content embedded from YouTube or social-media services.

Embedded content behaves similarly to content viewed directly on the provider’s website. When this content is loaded or played, the provider may:

  • Receive your IP address and device information.
  • Use cookies or similar technologies.
  • Record your interaction with the content.
  • Associate the interaction with your account if you are signed in to that service.
  • Process information in another country.

Where required, embedded media is blocked until you consent to the relevant cookie category.

Some YouTube videos may use YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode. This can reduce personalisation associated with viewing an embedded video, but it does not necessarily prevent all information from being sent when the video is loaded or played.

The creators of videos embedded on Tech Info Central do not control this website. Likewise, Tech Info Central does not control how YouTube or social-media providers process information on their platforms.

9. Hosting, Security and Spam Prevention

Our website host and technical service providers may process limited personal information to:

  • Deliver website pages.
  • Maintain backups.
  • Diagnose technical problems.
  • Detect attacks, spam and malicious activity.
  • Protect the availability and integrity of the website.

Server and security logs are retained only for as long as reasonably necessary for these purposes, unless a longer period is required to investigate an incident or meet a legal obligation.

We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect personal information. However, no website, internet transmission or electronic-storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

10. Who May Receive Information

Depending on how you use the website, information may be processed by:

  • Our website-hosting and infrastructure providers.
  • Website security, backup and spam-prevention providers.
  • CookieYes, for cookie-consent management.
  • Google, in connection with Google Analytics and YouTube.
  • Amazon, when you select an Amazon affiliate link.
  • Social-media providers whose content you choose to load.
  • Professional advisers where reasonably necessary.
  • Courts, regulators, law-enforcement authorities or other parties where disclosure is legally required.

We do not sell personal information for money.

Third-party providers may act as our service providers, independent organisations responsible for their own processing, or both, depending on the circumstances.

11. International Data Transfers

Tech Info Central can be accessed internationally, and some of our service providers operate in multiple countries.

Consequently, personal information may be processed outside the country in which you live, including in countries whose data-protection laws differ from those in your country.

Where UK or European data-protection law applies, relevant providers may rely on recognised safeguards such as adequacy regulations, approved contractual protections or an applicable data-transfer framework.

12. How Long We Keep Information

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected.

Our general retention approach is:

  • Contact-form enquiries: Normally up to 12 months after resolution.
  • Published comments and associated metadata: For as long as the comment remains published or is needed for moderation.
  • Spam and security records: For as long as reasonably necessary to prevent abuse or investigate an incident.
  • Google Analytics information: According to our configured retention period, normally no longer than 14 months.
  • Cookie-consent records: For as long as reasonably necessary to demonstrate and respect consent choices.
  • Legal and dispute records: For the period required by law or reasonably necessary to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.

Information may be deleted, anonymised or securely retained when a relevant period ends.

13. Your Privacy Rights

Depending on where you live and the law that applies, you may have the right to:

  • Ask whether we process your personal information.
  • Request a copy of your personal information.
  • Ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete information.
  • Request deletion of your information in certain circumstances.
  • Ask us to restrict certain processing.
  • Object to processing based on legitimate interests.
  • Withdraw consent at any time.
  • Request applicable information in a portable format.
  • Complain to an appropriate data-protection authority.

These rights are not absolute and may be subject to legal exceptions.

To make a request, use the contact form on Tech Info Central and clearly state that your message concerns a privacy request. We may ask for limited information to verify your identity before acting on a request.

We aim to respond within the period required by applicable law.

If UK data-protection law applies to you, you may also complain to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office. If European data-protection law applies, you may contact the supervisory authority in the country where you live, work or believe an infringement occurred.

14. Children’s Privacy

Tech Info Central provides general technology information and is not intended to collect personal information from children.

Children should not submit comments or contact-form messages containing personal information without the involvement of a parent or guardian.

If you believe that a child has provided personal information improperly, please contact us through the website contact form so that we can investigate and, where appropriate, delete it.

15. External Links

Our articles contain links to Amazon and other third-party websites.

We do not control third-party websites, cookies or privacy practices. This Privacy Policy applies only to Tech Info Central. Please review the privacy information provided by a third-party website before giving it personal information.

16. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy when our website, service providers or legal obligations change.

The revised version will be published on this page with a new “Last updated” date. Significant changes may also be highlighted on the website or through the cookie banner where appropriate.

17. Contact Us

For privacy questions, requests or complaints, please use the contact form available on Tech Info Central.

When submitting a request, include enough information for us to understand and respond to it, but do not provide unnecessary sensitive information.