Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

ElevateBits ("we", "us", "our") is committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your information when you visit our website elevatebits.com.

2. Data Controller

ElevateBits
Vase Pelagica 24, 78000 Banja Luka
Bosnia and Herzegovina
info@elevatebits.com

3. Data We Collect

Contact Form

When you submit our contact form, we collect your name, email address, and message content.

Comments

When you submit a comment on our articles, we collect your name, email address, and comment content. Comments are subject to moderation before being published. Your email address is not displayed publicly.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics (GA4) to understand how visitors use our website. This service collects anonymized IP address, browser type and version, pages visited and time spent, and referral source. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect this data. You can opt out via the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

Google reCAPTCHA

We use Google reCAPTCHA v3 to protect our contact and comment forms from spam and abuse. This service may collect IP address, browser information, and behavioral data to assess whether form submissions are made by humans or automated bots. reCAPTCHA operates invisibly in the background without requiring any user interaction. For more information, see Google's Privacy Policy.

4. How We Use Your Data

5. Data Sharing

We may share your data with the following third parties:

• Email service providers - to deliver your messages and our responses
• Google LLC - for analytics purposes via Google Analytics and spam protection via reCAPTCHA

All third parties are required to process your data in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

6. International Transfers

Google Analytics and Google reCAPTCHA may transfer data outside the European Economic Area (EEA). Google LLC participates in the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, which provides adequate protection for such transfers.

7. Data Retention

• Contact form data - retained for 12 months after last contact, then deleted
• Comment data - retained as long as the associated article is published; deleted upon request
• Analytics data - retained for 26 months (Google Analytics default)

8. Your Rights

Under GDPR, you have the right to:

• Access - request a copy of your personal data
• Rectification - request correction of inaccurate data
• Erasure- request deletion of your data ("right to be forgotten")
• Restriction - request restriction of processing
• Objection - object to processing based on legitimate interest
• Portability - receive your data in a structured, machine-readable format

To exercise any of these rights, contact us at info@elevatebits.com.

9. Cookies

You can manage or disable cookies through your browser settings.

10. Security

We implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your personal data against unauthorised access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. These measures include rate limiting, spam detection, and IP reputation checks on all form submissions.

11. Children's Privacy (COPPA)

Our website is not directed to children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us at info@elevatebits.com and we will delete such information from our systems.

If we become aware that we have collected personal data from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will take steps to remove that information from our servers.

12. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any significant changes by updating the "Last updated" date at the top of this page.

13. Contact

For any privacy-related questions or to exercise your rights, please contact:

ElevateBits
info@elevatebits.com