Privacy Policy

Effective Date: 16.08.2025
Website: https://pcbuyguide.com

At PCBuyGuide.com, your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your personal information when you interact with our website.

1. Who We Are

PCBuyGuide provides guides, reviews, and information about PC hardware and software. You can access our website at https://pcbuyguide.com.

2. Comments

When visitors leave comments on our site, we collect the information displayed in the comment form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent for spam detection purposes.

3. Media Uploads

If you upload images to our website, please avoid including embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors can download and extract this data from images on the site.

4. Cookies

We use cookies to enhance your experience on PCBuyGuide.com:

  • Comments: If you leave a comment, you can choose to save your name, email, and website in cookies for convenience. These cookies last for one year.

  • Login: A temporary cookie is set to check if your browser accepts cookies. When logging in, cookies store your login status and screen display preferences. Login cookies last two days; screen options cookies last one year. Selecting “Remember Me” keeps you logged in for two weeks. Logging out removes these cookies.

  • Content Editing: When you edit or publish an article, a cookie stores the post ID of the article you edited for one day.

5. Embedded Content from Other Websites

Articles on our site may include embedded content such as videos or images. Embedded content behaves as if you visited the other website directly. These third-party sites may collect data about you, use cookies, or track your interactions with the content.

6. Sharing Your Data

We do not sell or rent personal data. However, certain actions, such as password resets, may include your IP address in communications. Visitor comments may be checked using automated spam detection services.

7. Data Retention

Comments and associated metadata are retained indefinitely to help recognize and approve follow-up comments automatically. For registered users, personal information provided in user profiles is stored and can be viewed, edited, or deleted by the user. Administrators can also access this information.

8. Your Data Rights

If you have an account or have left comments on our site, you can request:

  • A copy of all personal data we hold about you

  • Deletion of your personal data (excluding data we must retain for legal, administrative, or security purposes)

9. Data Transfer

Visitor comments may be processed through automated spam detection services.