Privacy Policy

What this policy covers

How To Fix Guide publishes security guides, scam reviews, troubleshooting articles, and cybersecurity news at howtofix.guide. This policy explains what information may be collected when you visit the site, contact us, or interact with our content.

We keep data collection limited to what is needed to operate the website, protect it from abuse, understand site performance, and respond to messages from readers.

Information we may collect

• Information you provide: your name, email address, subject, and message when you use the contact form or email us directly.
• Technical data: IP address, browser type, device information, referring page, pages visited, timestamps, and similar server log data.
• Cookies and similar technologies: cookies may be used for security, preferences, analytics, embedded content, advertising measurement, or affiliate attribution.
• Security signals: requests may be processed by hosting, caching, anti-spam, firewall, or CDN services to detect abuse and keep the site available.

How we use information

• To respond to reader questions, corrections, tips, and support requests.
• To maintain, secure, debug, and improve the website.
• To understand which articles are useful and where pages need updates.
• To prevent spam, scraping, attacks, fraud, and other abuse.
• To comply with legal obligations when they apply.

Third-party services

We may use service providers for hosting, caching, analytics, spam protection, email delivery, contact forms, advertising, affiliate links, embedded media, and security monitoring. These providers may process limited technical data according to their own policies.

Articles may link to external websites, tools, advisories, or vendor pages. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of websites we do not operate.

Advertising and affiliate disclosure

Some pages may include ads, affiliate links, sponsored links, or optional tool recommendations. Clicking those links may allow third parties to set cookies or measure referrals. We aim to keep security recommendations editorially clear and separate from manual troubleshooting steps.

Retention and security

We keep contact messages and technical logs only as long as reasonably needed for the purposes described above. No internet service can guarantee perfect security, but we use reasonable technical and organizational safeguards to protect the site and the information we process.

Your choices

You can disable cookies in your browser, avoid submitting personal information through forms, or contact us to request correction or deletion of information you previously sent to us. Some security, anti-spam, or logging data may need to be retained for legitimate operational reasons.

Contact

Questions about this Privacy Policy can be sent through our contact page or by email at [email protected].