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Privacy Policy

Last updated: August 8, 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how FlyingTechMan (“FlyingTechMan”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) collects, uses, shares, and protects personal data when you visit flyingtechman.com (the “Site”) or contact us.

1. Who is responsible for your data

The data controller is FlyingTechMan, an independent publication operated from Romania.

Privacy contact: [email protected]

No data protection officer has been appointed because the Site’s current processing activities do not require one under applicable law.

2. Scope

This Policy applies to personal data processed through the Site, including technical access data, communications, analytics, advertising, affiliate referrals, cookies, and similar technologies. It does not govern third-party websites or services reached through external links.

3. Data we collect

Technical and security data

When you access the Site, our infrastructure and security providers may process your IP address, request date and time, requested URL, referring page, browser and device information, operating system, response status, and security-related events. We use this information to deliver the Site, maintain availability, diagnose errors, prevent abuse, and investigate security incidents.

Communications

If you contact us, we process the information you choose to provide, such as your name, email address, message, and any attachments or other details included in your correspondence. Please do not send sensitive personal data unless it is necessary for your request.

Consent and preference data

When optional cookies or similar technologies are available, we may record your consent choices, the time of the choice, the policy or vendor version presented, and a consent identifier. This allows us and our consent management provider to remember and demonstrate your preferences.

Analytics data

When Google Analytics is enabled and you consent, Google may process information about how you use the Site, including pages viewed, approximate location, device and browser characteristics, referral source, session activity, and online identifiers. We do not intentionally send your name, email address, or other directly identifying information to Google Analytics.

Advertising data

When Google AdSense or another advertising service is enabled, advertising providers may process your IP address, page URL, device and browser data, cookie or advertising identifiers, consent signals, ad impressions, and interactions. Depending on your choices, this information may be used to deliver, measure, limit, or personalize advertising and to prevent fraud and abuse.

Affiliate referral data

Some links may be affiliate links. If you click one, the destination merchant or affiliate network may receive the referring page, link or campaign identifier, device and browser data, IP address, and information needed to attribute a purchase or other action. We generally receive only referral and commission reporting and do not receive your payment card details. The destination service processes any purchase and account data under its own privacy policy.

4. Why we process data and our legal bases

  • Site delivery, security, and fraud prevention: our legitimate interests in operating a secure, reliable publication and protecting the Site and its visitors (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR).
  • Responding to messages and business inquiries: our legitimate interests in managing correspondence, or taking steps at your request before entering into a contract where applicable (Article 6(1)(f) or 6(1)(b) GDPR).
  • Analytics, optional cookies, personalized advertising, and similar technologies: your consent (Article 6(1)(a) GDPR and applicable ePrivacy rules).
  • Non-personalized or limited advertising: consent where storage or access on your device is involved and, for subsequent processing, the legal basis communicated through the consent interface by the relevant provider.
  • Legal, accounting, and compliance matters: compliance with legal obligations or our legitimate interests in establishing, exercising, or defending legal claims (Article 6(1)(c) or 6(1)(f) GDPR).

Where processing relies on consent, you may refuse or withdraw consent at any time without affecting processing carried out before withdrawal. Refusing optional cookies will not prevent access to the Site’s editorial content.

5. Cookies and similar technologies

Cookies are small files stored on your device. Similar technologies include local storage, pixels, tags, and identifiers. The Site may use the following categories:

  • Strictly necessary: required for security, network delivery, load management, and remembering privacy choices. These cannot be disabled through our consent tool where they are essential to provide the Site.
  • Analytics: help us understand audience and Site performance. Google Analytics 4 commonly uses _ga and _ga_<container-id>, with a default lifetime of up to two years, subject to browser limits and our consent configuration.
  • Advertising: used by Google and selected advertising partners to deliver, measure, limit, or personalize ads, depending on your consent choices.
  • Affiliate and performance: used, where applicable, to attribute referrals, purchases, or commissions.
  • Embedded content: third-party video, social, or interactive content may set cookies or receive usage data when loaded.

Optional technologies will be controlled through a consent management platform when they are enabled. The consent interface will identify the active vendors and purposes and will provide a way to accept, reject, or change optional choices. Where required, optional tags and embedded services will not load before consent. You can also delete or block cookies through your browser, although doing so may affect some features.

6. Google Analytics and Google AdSense

We plan to use Google Analytics 4 to measure Site usage and Google AdSense to fund the publication. For users in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland, these services will be integrated with a Google-certified consent management platform that supports the IAB Transparency and Consent Framework where required.

Google and its advertising partners may use cookies to serve ads based on prior visits to this Site or other websites. Google’s advertising cookies allow Google and its partners to serve, measure, and, where consented, personalize ads. The active advertising technology providers and their purposes will be listed in the consent interface.

Google explains how it uses information from sites that use its services in How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services. You can manage Google ad personalization in Google Ads Settings and install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. These controls are in addition to the choices available through our consent interface.

7. Affiliate links and commercial transparency

FlyingTechMan may earn a commission when you purchase through certain links, at no additional cost to you. Relevant articles or links will include a clear disclosure close to the recommendation or commercial link. Affiliate relationships do not guarantee favorable coverage, and editorial opinions remain independent.

Affiliate partners vary by article and destination. Their identity will be apparent from the linked merchant or disclosed with the relevant content. Any cookies, accounts, purchases, returns, or payments on a merchant’s website are governed by that merchant’s terms and privacy policy.

8. Service providers and recipients

We share data only as necessary with the following categories of recipients:

  • Content delivery, DNS, and security providers: services used to deliver and protect the Site. These providers may process IP addresses, traffic data, security signals, and cached content.
  • Hosting infrastructure providers: services used to store and deliver the Site, its database, and technical logs.
  • Email providers: routing and mailbox services used to receive and respond to correspondence.
  • Google: Google Ireland Limited for users in the EEA and relevant Google affiliates for Analytics, AdSense, consent, advertising measurement, and fraud prevention when those services are enabled.
  • Advertising and affiliate partners: the vendors selected in our consent interface and the merchants or networks identified by relevant links and disclosures.
  • Professional advisers and authorities: where reasonably necessary for legal advice, compliance, security, or the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims.

We do not sell personal data. We do not disclose personal data to third parties for their own unrelated direct marketing. Advertising partners may process data for the purposes described in the consent interface and their privacy notices, based on the choices you make.

9. International data transfers

Some providers operate globally, so personal data may be processed outside Romania or the European Economic Area. Where required, transfers are protected by an adequacy decision, the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses, the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework for participating organizations, or another lawful transfer mechanism. You may contact us for information about the safeguards relevant to a specific transfer.

10. Data retention

We keep personal data only for as long as necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, taking account of security, legal, accounting, and dispute-resolution requirements:

  • Origin web server access and error logs are generally retained for up to 14 days, unless an event requires longer investigation.
  • Security incident records may be retained for up to 12 months after resolution, or longer where needed for a legal claim.
  • Correspondence is generally retained for up to 24 months after the last substantive interaction, unless a longer period is required for a contract, legal obligation, or claim.
  • Consent records may be retained for the period necessary to demonstrate compliance, generally up to three years after the relevant choice is replaced or withdrawn.
  • When Google Analytics is enabled, user-level and event-level data will be configured for a retention period of up to 14 months. Aggregated reports that no longer identify an individual may be retained longer.
  • Affiliate and advertising reports are retained according to business, accounting, fraud-prevention, and legal requirements. We generally retain our reporting records for up to five years where they form part of financial or tax documentation.
  • Where backups are maintained, deleted data may remain in protected backup copies for up to 30 days before being overwritten.

Third-party providers may apply their own retention periods where they act as independent controllers. Please consult their privacy notices and the information presented in the consent interface.

11. Your data protection rights

Subject to the conditions and exceptions in applicable law, you may have the right to:

  • obtain information about and access to your personal data;
  • correct inaccurate or incomplete data;
  • request deletion of your data;
  • restrict processing;
  • receive data you provided in a portable format;
  • object to processing based on legitimate interests;
  • withdraw consent at any time; and
  • lodge a complaint with a competent data protection authority.

To exercise a right, email [email protected] and describe your request. We may ask for information reasonably necessary to verify your identity. We will respond without undue delay and generally within one month, as required by the GDPR.

If you are in Romania, you may lodge a complaint with the National Supervisory Authority for Personal Data Processing (ANSPDCP), B-dul G-ral. Gheorghe Magheru 28-30, Sector 1, 010336 Bucharest, Romania. You may also contact the supervisory authority in the EU or EEA country where you live or work, or where you believe an infringement occurred.

12. Automated decision-making

We do not make decisions based solely on automated processing that produce legal or similarly significant effects for you. Advertising providers may use automated systems to select or personalize ads when you consent, but this does not result in a legal or similarly significant decision by FlyingTechMan.

13. Children

The Site is intended for a general audience and is not directed to children under 16. We do not knowingly request personal data from children. If you believe a child has provided personal data to us, please contact us so we can review and delete it where appropriate.

14. Security

We use proportionate technical and organizational measures designed to protect personal data, including encrypted transport, access controls, network filtering, security monitoring, software updates, and restricted administrative access. No Internet transmission or storage method can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

15. External links and embedded content

The Site may link to or embed third-party content. Visiting an external website or enabling embedded content may allow that third party to process data under its own terms. We encourage you to review the privacy notice of each external service. A link does not imply that FlyingTechMan controls that service’s privacy practices.

16. Changes to this Policy

We may update this Policy when our services, providers, or legal obligations change. The current version and its effective date will always be published on this page. If a change materially affects processing based on consent, we will request a new choice where required.

17. Contact

For privacy questions, requests, or complaints, contact:

[email protected]