Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

We are committed to maintaining your privacy as you use this website. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on our homepage.

We use non-personally identifiable and aggregate information to better design our site. We only collect personally identifiable information through the site registration process you can correct or modify that information by editing your user profile. We have appropriate security measures in place in our physical facilities to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of information that we have collected from you at our site.

On this site you will be asked to provide an email address when registering for an account.

If you register at bytee.net you can choose whether to allow other forum members to contact you by email or private messaging and the type of personal information that is available using your user profile. You can also opt in to subscribe to specific forums or threads which means your email address will be used to send information when new posts are made. All email from the forum site includes a link that allows you to opt out from continued subscription to that thread or forum. Forum administrators may use your email address to contact you if necessary.

Your IP address may be used to identify duplicate user accounts and for security purposes (which are forbidden under the forum rules), but never shared with any third party person.

Cookies are used to store visitors preferences and record past activity at a site in order to provide better service when visitors return to our site, such as indicating which threads you have read.

On any of the sites with commenting features your name, email address, and anonymzed IP address will be recorded when you make a comment.

Sharing of information with third parties

With the exception of the issues discussed in this paragraph we do not share your information with third parties. On some sites, we use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Web sites. These companies may use information (not including your name and email address) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, click here.

We may your user e-mail addresses to find statistical data about them, but we never sell, rent, or lease email addresses to third parties.

Your information may be disclosed when we are legally required to by a EU court order, to verify or enforce compliance with the policies governing our website and applicable laws, or to protect against misuse or unauthorized use of our website

Notice of privacy protection for the use of Facebook plugins (Like-Button)

We have embedded plugins of the social network Facebook, 1601 South California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA, into our website. You can recognize these plugins by the Facebook logo or the “Like-Button” on our website. Here you will find a list of the Facebook plugins: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/. When visiting a page of our website that contains a Facebook plugin, a direct connection between your browser and a Facebook server is established. By this connection, the plugin provides Facebook with the information that you have accessed a certain page of our website with your IP address. When clicking the Facebook Like-Button while you are logged in to your Facebook account, you can link content of our site to your Facebook profile. Facebook can then assign your Facebook account with the visit to our website. We point out that we as a provider of this website do not know details about the data submitted to Facebook or the use of that data at Facebook. Here you can find further information about Facebook‘s policy of privacy protection: http://facebook.com/policy.php. If you don‘t want Facebook to be able to assign your visit of our website to your Facebook account, please log out of your Facebook account.

Notice of privacy protection for the use of Disqus (Comments)

We are using disqus service to provide comments to our website. Please see the disqus privacy policy for more information.

Notice of privacy protection for the use of Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, an Internet analysis service of Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics applies so-called cookies, i.e., text files that are stored on your computer and are used to analyse your usage behaviour on the corresponding website. The usage information (including your anonymized IP address) stored in the cookie will be sent and transmitted to a Google server in the United States of America. Google will use this information to analyse your behaviour and create a report of your web activity for the website provider. With this report the website provider can offer other services which seem to be interesting for the user. Google may share such information with third parties, as far as this is statutory required or in order to process the information by affiliafted companies on behalf of Google. By no means Google will link your IP address with other data of Google Inc. It is up to you to avoid the installation of cookies through your browser settings. In that case we must point out that you may not be able to properly use the provided features and services of the website. By using services of this website you agree with the aforementioned way and purpose of processing your collected personal data.

Privacy Policy for the use of Twitter

On our site Twitter are functions of the service involved. These functions are available through the Twitter, Inc., 795 Folsom St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA. Through the use of Twitter and function of "re-tweet" the web pages you visit are linked to your Twitter account and, where other known users. This data is also transmitted to Twitter.

We point out that we as providers of the sites have no knowledge of the contents of the transmitted data and use them through Twitter. For more information, please see the privacy statement of Twitter at http://twitter.com/privacy.

Your privacy preferences at Twitter, you can change the account settings under http://twitter.com/account/settings

Children's Privacy

Protecting the privacy of the very young is especially important. None of of our websites are structured specifically to attract anyone under 13. However, we recognize that there are users under age 13 who may register at one or more of our sites. The privacy policies that apply to all site users also apply to those users under 13.

Future changes

From time to time, we may use user information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our privacy notice. If our information practices change at some time in the future we will post the policy changes to our website to notify you of these changes and provide you with the ability to opt out of these new uses. If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should check back at our Web site periodically.

Questions or comments

If you have questions or comments about this policy or if you feel that this site is not following its stated information policy please contact us.