Last updated: 13 November 2026
TheLatestTechNews is owned and run by Pavlos Papadopoulos, who is the controller of the personal data described here. This policy explains what we collect when you read the site, create a contributor account, submit an article or contact us, and what rights you have.
1. What we collect
- Messages: your name, email address and message when you use the contact form.
- Contributor accounts and submissions: your name, email address, username, author profile and bio, and the articles you submit. Accounts require email verification.
- Comments: your name, email address and comment text, where comments are enabled on an article.
- Usage data: your IP address, browser and device type, pages visited, referral source and time on site, collected by analytics and advertising services (section 3).
2. Why we use it, and on what legal basis
- Consent: for analytics and advertising cookies where the law requires it, and for comments. You can withdraw consent at any time.
- Contract and legitimate interests: to run contributor accounts, review submissions, answer your messages, keep the site secure and prevent spam.
- Legal obligations: to keep records where legal or tax rules require it.
We do not sell or rent your personal information.
3. Third-party services
- Google Analytics: measures how the site is used.
- Google AdSense: shows advertising, and may use cookies to personalise it. See how Google uses data from partner sites.
- Gravatar: shows author avatars based on a hashed email address.
- Email delivery: sends account, verification and submission emails.
Some of these providers are outside the European Economic Area. Where that happens we rely on the transfer safeguards required by GDPR, such as standard contractual clauses.
4. Cookies
The cookies we use, and how to control them, are listed in our Cookie Policy.
5. Your rights under GDPR (EU users)
If you are in the European Union you can ask us to:
- give you access to the data we hold about you
- correct inaccurate or incomplete data
- delete your data
- restrict or stop certain processing
- give you a copy of your data in a portable format
You can also complain to your national data protection authority. To make a request, use the contact page.
6. California residents (CCPA)
You can ask what personal data we collect and how we use it, and ask us to delete it. We do not sell personal information. Send requests through the contact page.
7. Retention
We keep personal data only as long as needed for the purpose it was collected for, or as the law requires. Contributor accounts and their data can be deleted on request. Published articles stay online under the author’s name unless the author asks us to remove or anonymise them.
8. Changes to this policy
We update this page when the site, our services or the law change, and show the date of the latest update at the top.
9. Contact
For any privacy question or request, use the contact page.