Privacy Policy

Welcome to Laptop Zone Tech, a personal blog operated by me, Alan Ho. In my blog, I aim to provide valuable content including reviews, guides, and tips about laptops.
This privacy policy for Laptop Zone Tech is committed to protecting your privacy, explains how your personal information is collected, stored, and used when you use our Services.
Reading this privacy policy will help you understand your privacy rights and choice to agree the collection and use of your personal information. If you have any question with this policy, please do not hesitate to contact me.

1. What Information Do We Collect

a. Email Subscription

We will collect information from you when you voluntarily provide your personal information to subscribe to our newsletter and updates. The personal information we collect may included the following:

• Email Address

b. Comment

When you leave comments below blog post, we collect the data shown in the comments form (name and email address), and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

Sensitive Information: Do not process any sensitive information.

2. Information Automatically Collected

We may collect certain information automatically as you navigate and interact with our platform including your IP address, country, browser type, device identifiers, referring URLs, and pages visited gathered through various technical means such as cookies and tracking technologies. We use this information for analytical purposes, to administer the website, track user movements, and gather demographic information.

3. How Do We Use The Information We Collect

We collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:

• To deliver personalized content based on user preferences.
• To provide newsletters and updates to subscribers.
• To gather demographic information for statistical analysis.
• For administration of the website to ensure proper functioning.

4. 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, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

5. Cookies

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device (computer, tablet, or mobile phone) when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently and to provide information to the website owner. We will use cookies for analytic purpose: These cookies allow us to analyze how visitors use the Site, which helps us improve the Site’s performance and user experience. We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, to collect and analyze this data. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect information such as your IP address, browser type, and operating system. This information is aggregated and anonymized before being transmitted to Google.

When you visit our website, you will be presented with a cookie consent banner or pop-up that informs you about the use of cookies and provides options to accept or decline cookies. By clicking “Accept,” you consent to the use of cookies as described in our Cookies Privacy Policy. If you choose to decline cookies, only essential cookies necessary for the functioning of the website will be set. You can manage cookies through your web browser settings. Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings/preferences options. You can usually find these settings in the “Options” or “Preferences” menu of your web browser. For more information on how to manage cookies, you can refer to the help documentation provided by your web browser.

6. Do We Share The Information with Third-Party

We may share your information with Google Analytics to track and analyze website traffic and user interactions. Google Analytics Advertising Features that we may use include: Remarking with Google Analytics, Google Display Network Impressions Reporting and Google Analytics Demographics. By using Google Analytics 4, it primarily collects aggregated and anonymized data about your interactions with website may be collected, processed, and stored by Google in accordance with their privacy policy. This data includes page views, session durations, and user interactions, it did not contain your personal information (Name and Email Address).

If you prefer not to have your data collected and shared with third parties by Google Analytics, you can opt out by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on, available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout and opt out of Google Analytics Advertising Features through Ads Settings. For more information on the privacy of Google, please visit Google’s Privacy & Terms website at https://policies.google.com/privacy.

7. How Long Do We Retain Your Information

a. Email Subscription

We start to retain your name and email address information since you had subscribe to our email list. This information is used for the purpose of sending newsletters and updates on Laptop Zone Tech. We retain subscription information for as long as the user remains subscribed to our email list. You have right to opt out of our email list at any time by clicking the “unsubscribe” link provided in our email communications or by contacting me directly. Upon receiving an unsubscribe request, we will promptly remove the user’s email address from our list and cease sending them further email communications.

b. Comment

We will retain comment and its metadata indefinitely for purpose on recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue. If you would like to request the removal of your posted comment data, please contact us using the information provided in our privacy policy.

8. How Do We Keep Your Information Safe

We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, despite our efforts to secure your information, no electronic transmission over the Internet or Information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot promise that hackers, cybercriminals or other unauthorized third parties will not be able to defeat our security and steal your information.

9. What Are Your Privacy Rights

In some regions (like the EEA, UK, Switzerland, and Canada), you have certain rights under applicable data protection laws. These may include the right (i) to request access and obtain a copy of your personal information, (ii) to request rectification or erasure; (iii) to restrict the processing of your personal information; (iv) if applicable, to data portability; and (v) not to be subject to automated decision-making. In certain circumstances, you may also have the right to object to the processing of your personal information. You can make such a request by contacting us by using the contact details provided in the section ‘Contact’ below.

We will consider and act upon any request in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

If you are located in the EEA or UK and you believe we are unlawfully processing your personal information, you also have the right to complain to your Member State data protection authority or UK data protection authority.

If you are located in Switzerland, you may contact the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner.

Withdrawing your consent: If we are relying on your consent to process your personal information, which may be express and/or implied consent depending on the applicable law, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. You can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us by using the contact details provided in the section ‘Contact’ below.

However, please note that this will not affect the lawfulness of the processing before its withdrawal nor, when applicable law allows, will it affect the processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.

10. Do United States Residents Have Specific Privacy Rights?

If you are a resident of California, you are granted specific rights regarding access to your personal information.

California Residents

California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the “Shine The Light” law permits our users who are California residents to request and obtain from us, once a year and free of charge, information about categories of personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared personal information in the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request in writing to us using the contact information provided below.

If you are under 18 years of age, reside in California, and have a registered account with the Services, you have the right to request removal of unwanted data that you publicly post on the Services. To request removal of such data, please contact us using the contact information provided below and include the email address associated with your account and a statement that you reside in California. We will make sure the data is not publicly displayed on the Services, but please be aware that the data may not be completely or comprehensively removed from all our systems (e.g., backups, etc.).

CCPA Privacy Notice

This section applies only to California residents. Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), you have the rights listed below.

The California Code of Regulations defines a “residents” as:

1. every individual who is in the State of California for other than a temporary or transitory purpose and
2. every individual who is domiciled in the State of California who is outside the State of California for a temporary or transitory purpose

All other individuals are defined as “non-residents.”

If this definition of “resident” applies to you, we must adhere to certain rights and obligations regarding your personal information.

Your rights with respect to your personal data

Right to request deletion of the data — Request to delete

You can ask for the deletion of your personal information. If you ask us to delete your personal information, we will respect your request and delete your personal information, subject to certain exceptions provided by law, such as (but not limited to) the exercise by another consumer of his or her right to free speech, our compliance requirements resulting from a legal obligation, or any processing that may be required to protect against illegal activities.

Right to be informed — Request to know

• Depending on the circumstances, you have a right to know:
• whether we collect and use your personal information;
• the categories of personal information that we collect;
• the purposes for which the collected personal information is used;
• whether we sell or share personal information to third parties;
• the categories of personal information that we sold, shared, or disclosed for a business purpose;
• the categories of third parties to whom the personal information was sold, shared, or disclosed for a business purpose;
• the business or commercial purpose for collecting, selling, or sharing personal information; and
• the specific pieces of personal information we collected about you.

In accordance with applicable law, we are not obligated to provide or delete consumer information that is de-identified in response to a consumer request or to re-identify individual data to verify a consumer request.

Right to Non-Discrimination for the Exercise of a Consumer’s Privacy Rights

We will not discriminate against you if you exercise your privacy rights.

Right to Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information

We do not process consumer’s sensitive personal information.

Verification process

Upon receiving your request, we will need to verify your identity to determine you are the same person about whom we have the information in our system. These verification efforts require us to ask you to provide information so that we can match it with information you have previously provided us. For instance, depending on the type of request you submit, we may ask you to provide certain information so that we can match the information you provide with the information we already have on file, or we may contact you through a communication method (e.g., phone or email) that you have previously provided to us. We may also use other verification methods as the circumstances dictate.

We will only use personal information provided in your request to verify your identity or authority to make the request. To the extent possible, we will avoid requesting additional information from you for the purposes of verification. However, if we cannot verify your identity from the information already maintained by us, we may request that you provide additional information for the purposes of verifying your identity and for security or fraud-prevention purposes. We will delete such additionally provided information as soon as we finish verifying you.

11. Contact

If you have any questions or comments about this privacy policy, you may contact us:

By email at [email protected].