TechiQuest

Privacy and cookies

What we collect, why we collect it, how long we keep it, and the rights you have in the US and the EU.

Last updated 8 Oct 2026

Draft for legal review. Written against the US and EU sources listed at the end, checked 4 Oct 2026. Have a qualified lawyer review it before relying on it.

Who is responsibleEU

TechiQuest is the controller of the personal data described here. Contact us through the Contact page and choose “Privacy request”. Under GDPR Article 13 we must tell you who we are and how to reach us when we collect your data.

EU General Data Protection Regulation

What we collect and whyEU

Messages you send us through the Contact page (to reply). Anonymous usage data (to see which articles help). Our legal bases are your consent (cookies that aren’t essential), performing what you asked for (replies) and our legitimate interest in running and securing the site, as GDPR Article 6 requires.

EU General Data Protection Regulation

What stays on your deviceUS · EU

Your reading list, hourly-cost setting and theme are stored in your own browser. We never receive them.

Cookies and similar technologyEU

We only store or read information on your device without asking when it is strictly necessary to provide something you requested. Anything else, including analytics that use cookies, needs your consent first, and you can withdraw it as easily as you gave it. This follows Article 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive and the EDPB’s 2023 guidelines, which apply the same rule to pixels, local storage and other tracking methods. Affiliate partners may set their own cookies after you click an outbound link.

EU ePrivacy Directive 2002/58/ECEDPB Guidelines 2/2023 on the technical scope of Article 5(3) ePrivacy

How long we keep itUS · EU

Contact messages: 12 months.

EU General Data Protection Regulation

Your rights in the EUEU

You can ask to access, correct, delete, restrict or move your data, object to processing, and withdraw consent at any time (GDPR Articles 15 to 21). We answer within one month. You can also complain to your national data protection authority.

EU General Data Protection Regulation

Your rights in the USUS

We don’t sell or share personal information for cross-context advertising. California’s CCPA applies to businesses above set thresholds (for example, annual revenue over $26,625,000 from 2025, or data on 100,000+ California consumers); TechiQuest is below them today, but we honour access and deletion requests from anyone, wherever they live.

California Consumer Privacy Act

ChildrenUS

TechiQuest is for working adults and isn’t directed at children under 13. We don’t knowingly collect their data (COPPA).

Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule

International transfersEU

Some of our service providers process data outside the EU. Where they do, we rely on an adequacy decision or the European Commission’s standard contractual clauses.

EU General Data Protection Regulation

Laws and guidance this page follows6 sources