Privacy Policy.

This page says what Inside Tech World records about the people who read it. It describes what this website actually does, checked against its own source code, not what a template says a website usually does.

Inside Tech World is operated by EvolveDash. Reading the site requires no account, and there is nothing to sign up for in order to read an article.

Reading an article records nothing

A normal page view sets no cookies and stores nothing about you. There is no analytics on this site: no Google Analytics, no Tag Manager, no advertising or measurement pixel, and no third-party script of any kind. Typefaces and scripts are served from this site's own domain rather than from anyone else's network.

There is no comment system, so nothing on this site invites you to post publicly or stores anything you would have posted.

The three things you can send us, and what goes with them

Each of these happens only when you choose to submit something.

The newsletter

You give us an email address. We also record, automatically: the page you signed up from, your IP address, your browser's user-agent string, and the times you signed up, confirmed and (if you do) unsubscribed.

Signing up sends one email, to the address you typed and to nobody else, asking you to confirm. If you do not confirm, you get nothing further. That confirmation is the only email this website sends to anyone.

The contact form

You give us a message and a topic, and optionally your name and email address. Both of those are optional, so you can write to us without identifying yourself, though we cannot reply if you do. We also record, automatically: the page you wrote from, your IP address, your user-agent string, and the time.

Correction reports

You give us the report itself, what kind of problem it is, and optionally your email address. We also record, automatically: which article you were reading, the page you reported from, your IP address, your user-agent string, and the time.

What you write is never published. If we accept a correction, an editor writes the public notice that appears on the article; your own words, your email address and everything recorded automatically stay internal. Nothing a reader submits is ever published automatically, on any of these three forms.

Our editorial policy describes what happens to a report after that.

Cookies, and the two that exist

No cookie is set by simply reading. Two can appear, and neither identifies you for advertising:

• A CSRF token, set when you first interact with one of the forms above. It exists to stop another website submitting that form on your behalf.
• A session cookie, set only when a member of staff signs in to the site's editing system. Readers do not receive one.

Your display preferences -- light or dark, the archive layout, the reading text size -- are kept in your own browser's local storage and are never sent to us. Clearing your browser data removes them.

Other companies involved in serving this site

Some of these see your request because they deliver the site to you. Others are contacted by your browser only if you interact with something.

• Cloudflare sits in front of every request as a security and delivery layer, so it sees each request and keeps its own logs and its own cookies under its own policy.
• Amazon Web Services hosts the site and stores its images, so image requests go to Amazon's network. The newsletter confirmation email is also delivered through Amazon.
• YouTube and Vimeo, on the articles that embed a video. The player loads only when you scroll to it, and when it does, that provider receives your IP address and can set its own cookies under its own policy. If you do not reach the video, your browser never contacts them.
• Shops and manufacturers, if you click an outbound link. A small number of articles carry links with third-party affiliate tracking already in the address; what that is and whose it is is set out in full on our affiliate disclosure. Nothing on this site rewrites, tags or redirects a link on its way out.
• X and Facebook, only if you click a share link. Those are ordinary links, not embedded buttons, so nothing is loaded from either company unless you click.

The Listen control on an article uses the speech engine built into your own browser or operating system. On some platforms that engine is a cloud service belonging to your browser or device maker, which means the article's text may be sent there to be spoken. That is a property of your device rather than of this site, and nothing about you is sent by us when you use it.

How long we keep it

Submissions to the three forms are kept indefinitely; there is no automatic deletion. If you unsubscribe from the newsletter we keep the record of the address rather than erasing it, because that record is how we know not to email you again.

Search terms typed into this site's own search box are not stored in our database, but they appear in the site's server logs alongside the requesting address, as every URL does. Those logs are operational and are not used to build a profile of anyone.

What you can ask for

Every newsletter email carries an unsubscribe link, and using it stops the mail immediately. You can also ask us to delete anything you have sent us, or ask what we hold about an address you have used. Write to us through Contact and an editor will handle it.

Changes to this page

If what the site records changes, this page changes with it. It describes the site as it is now rather than as it was when a policy was first written, which is why it names specific forms and specific companies instead of describing categories of them.