My privacy is very important to me and, therefore, yours is important to me also. Below is the legally mandated Privacy Policy for the website. But in short, I don’t collect any information that isn’t needed for the site to function. Basically just your email if you create an account to verify you’re not a robot. I also made it a point to make it easy to control your privacy settings or delete your account and all data if you wish by going to your account page. I will even send you a copy of all of your data on BauerPower.Tech if you want to see it. Rest assured your information is safe and your privacy is important to me.
Some information will be collected by 3rd parties (namely Google) for tracking analytics and managing ads but it’s all standard stuff.
That’s the TLDR version. Thanks for visiting and let me know if you have any questions.
Jake Bauer
Tech Geek
BauerPower.Tech Privacy Policy
At BauerPower, we believe that privacy is a right. We want to empower our users to be the masters of their identity. In this privacy policy, we want to help you understand how and why BauerPower.Tech (“BauerPower,” “we” or “us”) collects, uses, and shares information about you when you use our website and services (collectively, the “Services”) or when you otherwise interact with us or receive a communication from us.
We collect minimal information that can be used to identify you by default. If you want to just browse, you don’t need an account. If you want to create an account to participate in the forum or comments, we don’t require you to give us your real name. We don’t track your location. You can share as much or as little about yourself as you want. You can create multiple accounts, update information as you see fit, or ask us to delete your information.
Any data we collect is used primarily to provide our services, which are focused on allowing people with a common interest to come together as a community and learn. If you have questions about how we use your data, you can always ask us for more information.
What Information We Collect
Information You Provide to Us
We collect information you provide to us directly when you use the Services. This includes:
Account information
You don’t need an account to use BauerPower.Tech. If you create a BauerPower account, your account will have a username and password. Your username is public, and it doesn’t have to be related to your real name. Your account will also have a password. BauerPower uses WordPress and a password is required for a user to register. Passwords are hidden, even from administrators, and we only have the ability to set a temporary password or send a reset link. We cannot see what you set for a password and will never attempt to. WordPress also requires an email address to register. It will only be used for account management (i.e. password reset if you are locked out) upon your request. We will not email you unless you opt in to be part of our mailing list or you reach out to us via email or our contact page.
When you use BauerPower.Tech, you may provide other optional information such as your country, a bio, your website, profile picture, and links to your social media. This information is optional and may be removed at any time.
Content you submit
We collect the content you submit to the Services. This includes your posts and comments including saved drafts and communications with moderators and with us. Your content may include text, links, images, gifs, audio, and videos.
Actions you take
We collect information about the actions you take when using the Services. This includes your interactions with content, like voting, saving, hiding, and reporting. It also includes your interactions with other users, such as following, friending, and blocking. We collect your interactions with forum topics like your subscriptions and topic read status.
Other information
You may choose to provide other information to us. For example, we may collect information when you fill out a form or otherwise communicate with us.
Information We Collect Automatically
When you access or use our Services, we may also automatically collect information about you. This includes:
Log and usage data
We may log information when you access and use the Services. This may include your IP address, browser type, operating system, referral URLs, device information (e.g., device IDs), device settings, mobile carrier name, pages visited, links clicked, the requested URL, and search terms.
Information collected from cookies and similar technologies
We may receive information from cookies, which are pieces of data your browser stores and sends back to us when making requests. We use this information to deliver and maintain our services and our site, improve your experience, understand user activity, personalize content and advertisements, measure the effectiveness of advertising, and improve the quality of our Services. Examples are to identify for you what forum topics you have read or not read or if you select the option to stay logged in.
Location information
We may receive and process information about your location. We may receive location information from you when you choose to share such information on our Services, including by associating your content with a location, or we may derive an approximate location based on your IP address.
Information Collected from Other Sources
We may receive information about you from other sources, including from other users and third parties, and combine that information with the other information we have about you. For example, we may receive demographic or interest information about you from third parties, including advertisers (such as the fact that an advertiser is interested in showing you an ad), and combine it with data you have provided.
Information Collected by Third Parties
Embedded content
BauerPower displays some linked content in-line on the BauerPower services via “embeds.” For example, project or forum posts that link to YouTube or Twitter may load the linked video or tweet within BauerPower directly from those services to your device so you don’t have to leave BauerPower to see it. In general, BauerPower does not control how third-party services collect data when they serve you their content directly via these embeds. As a result, embedded content is not covered by this privacy policy but by the policies of the service from which the content is embedded.
How We Use Information
We use information about you to:
Provide, maintain, and improve the Services;
Personalize services, content, and features that match your activities, preferences, and settings.
Help protect the safety of BauerPower and our users, which includes blocking suspected spammers, addressing abuse, and enforcing the BauerPower Terms of Service and our other policies;
Provide, optimize, target, and measure the effectiveness of ads shown on our Services;
Provide customer service;
Monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with our Services.
How We Share Information
Much of the information on the Services is public and accessible to everyone, even without an account. By using the Services, you are directing us to share this information publicly and freely.
When you submit content (including a post or comment) to a public part of the Services, any visitors to and users of our Services will be able to see that content, the username associated with the content, and the date and time you originally submitted the content.
Your BauerPower account has a profile page that is public. Your profile contains information about your activities on the Services, such as your username, prior posts and comments, likes & dislikes, and how long you have been a member of the Services.
We do not sell your personal information. However, in addition to the personal information that is displayed publicly as described above, we may share personal information in the following ways: .
With your consent
We may share information about you with your consent or at your direction.
With our service providers
We may share information with vendors, consultants, and other service providers who need access to such information to carry out work for us. Their use of personal data will be subject to appropriate confidentiality and security measures. A few examples: (i) payment processors who process transactions on our behalf, (ii) cloud providers who host our data and our services, (iii) third-party ads measurement providers who help us and advertisers measure the performance of ads shown on our Services.
To comply with the law
We may share information in response to a request for information if we believe disclosure is in accordance with, or required by, any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request, including, but not limited to, meeting national security or law enforcement requirements. To the extent the law allows it, we will attempt to provide you with prior notice before disclosing your information in response to such a request.
In an emergency
We may share information if we believe it’s necessary to prevent imminent and serious bodily harm to a person.
Aggregated or de-identified information
We may share information about you that has been aggregated or anonymized such that it cannot reasonably be used to identify you. For example, we may show the total number of times a post has been upvoted without identifying who the visitors were, or we may tell an advertiser how many people saw their ad.
How We Protect Your Information
We take measures to help protect information about you from loss, theft, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. For example, we use HTTPS while information is being transmitted. We also enforce technical and administrative access controls to limit who has access to nonpublic personal information.
We store the information we collect for as long as it is necessary for the purpose(s) for which we originally collected it. We may retain certain information for legitimate business purposes or as required by law.
Deleting Your Account
You may delete your account information at any time from the profile page. When you delete your account, your profile is no longer visible to other users and disassociated from content you posted under that account. Please note, however, that the posts, comments, and messages you submitted prior to deleting your account will still be visible to others unless you first delete the specific content or contact us and request it be deleted. We may also retain certain information about you as required by law or for legitimate business purposes.
Controlling the Use of Cookies
Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually choose to set your browser to remove or reject first- and third-party cookies. Please note that if you choose to remove or reject cookies, this could affect the availability and functionality of our Services.
Controlling Advertising and Analytics
Some analytics providers we partner with may provide specific opt-out mechanisms and we may provide, as needed and as available, additional tools and third-party services that allow you to better understand cookies and how you can opt out. For example, you may manage the use and collection of certain information by Google Analytics via the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. You can opt out of the Audience Measurement services provided by Nielsen and Quantcast.
You may also generally opt out of receiving personalized advertisements from certain third-party advertisers and ad networks. To learn more about these advertisements or to opt out, please visit the sites of the Digital Advertising Alliance and the Network Advertising Initiative, or if you are a user in the European Economic Area, Your Online Choices.
Do Not Track
Most modern web browsers give you the option to send a Do Not Track signal to the sites you visit, indicating that you do not wish to be tracked. However, there is no accepted standard for how a site should respond to this signal, and we do not take any action in response to this signal. Instead, in addition to publicly available third-party tools, we offer you the choices described in this policy to manage the collection and use of information about you.
Controlling Promotional Communications
You may opt out of receiving some or all categories of promotional communications from us by following the instructions in those communications. If you opt out of promotional communications, we may still send you non-promotional communications, such as information about your account or your use of the Services.
Additional Information for EEA Users
Users in the European Economic Area have the right to request access to, rectification of, or erasure of their personal data; to data portability in certain circumstances; to request restriction of processing; to object to processing; and to withdraw consent for processing where they have previously provided consent. EEA users also have the right to lodge a complaint with their local supervisory authority.
As required by applicable law, we collect and process information about individuals in the EEA only where we have a legal basis for doing so. Our legal bases depend on the Services you use and how you use them. We process your information on the following legal bases:
You have consented for us to do so for a specific purpose;
We need to process the information to provide you the Services, including to operate the Services, provide customer support and personalized features and to protect the safety and security of the Services;
It satisfies a legitimate interest (which is not overridden by your data protection interests), such as preventing fraud, ensuring network and information security, enforcing our rules and policies, protecting our legal rights and interests, research and development, personalizing the Services, and marketing and promoting the Services; or
We need to process your information to comply with our legal obligations.
International Data Transfers
BauerPower.Tech is based in the United States and we process and store information on servers located in the United States. We may store information on servers and equipment in other countries depending on a variety of factors, including the locations of our users and service providers. By accessing or using the Services or otherwise providing information to us, you consent to the processing, transfer, and storage of information in and to the U.S. and other countries, where you may not have the same rights as you do under local law.
When we transfer the personal data of users in the EEA, UK and/or Switzerland, we rely on the Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission for such transfers or other transfer mechanisms deemed ‘adequate’ under applicable laws.
Additional Information for California Users
The California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), as amended, requires us to provide California residents with some additional information, which we address in this section.
In the last 12 months, we collected the following categories of personal information from California residents, depending on the Services used:
Identifiers, like your BauerPower username, email address, IP address, and cookie information.
Commercial information, including information about transactions you undertake with us.
Internet or other electronic network activity information, such as information about your activity on our Services and limited information about your activity on the services of advertisers who use our advertising technology.
Geolocation information based on your IP address.
Your messages with other users (e.g., private messages, chats, and modmail).
Audiovisual information in pictures, audio, or video content submitted to BauerPower.
Inferences we make based on other collected data, for purposes such as recommending content, advertising, and analytics.
You can find more information about (a) what we collect and sources of that information in the “Information We Collect” section of this notice, (b) the business and commercial purposes for collecting that information in the “How We Use Your Information” section, and (c) the categories of third parties with whom we share that information in the “How We Share Information” section.
If you are a California resident, you have additional rights under the CCPA, including the right to opt out of any sales or sharing of your personal information, to request access to and information about our data practices, and to request deletion or correction of your personal information, as well as the right not to be discriminated against for exercising your privacy rights. BauerPower does not “sell” or “share” personal information as those terms are defined under the CCPA. We do not use or disclose sensitive personal information except to provide you the Services or as otherwise permitted by the CCPA.
You may exercise your rights to access, delete, or correct your personal information through your account page or by contacting us. If you have any questions or concerns, you may reach us by emailing us at support@bauerpower.tech.
Children
Children under the age of 13 are not allowed to create an account or otherwise use the Services. Additionally, if you are located outside the United States, you must be over the age required by the laws of your country to create an account or otherwise use the Services, or we need to have obtained verifiable consent from your parent or legal guardian.
Changes to This Policy
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we do, we will let you know by revising the date at the top of the policy. If the changes, in our sole discretion, are material, we may also notify you by sending an email to the address associated with your account (if you have chosen to provide an email address) or by otherwise providing notice through our Services. We encourage you to review the Privacy Policy regularly to stay informed about our information practices and the ways you can help protect your privacy. By continuing to use our Services after Privacy Policy changes go into effect, you agree to be bound by the revised policy.
Contact Us
If you have other questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at: