Your Privacy & Our Affiliate Disclosure

We collect information in a few limited ways:

• Contact form: if you message us via /contact, we store your name, email address, and message so we can respond.
• Newsletter signup: if you subscribe, we store your email address so we can send you updates. You can unsubscribe at any time.
• Recovery & health-check tools: the self-help recovery plan and security health check run entirely in your browser. Your answers are stored in your browser's local storage on your device — we don't send them to our servers.
• Analytics: we use Google Analytics to understand how visitors use the site (see below).

We use Google Analytics (GA4) to understand how people find and use our guides — for example, which pages are most helpful, and which searches bring people to the site. Google Analytics uses cookies and may collect information such as your approximate location (derived from IP address), device/browser type, and pages visited.

This data is aggregated and used to improve our content — we don't use it to identify you personally. You can opt out of Google Analytics tracking using browser extensions such as the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on, or by using a browser/extension that blocks tracking scripts.

Some of the links on this site — particularly on our Security Software page and within guides recommending specific products — are affiliate links. This means that if you click through and sign up for a product (for example, Proton Mail, Proton VPN, Proton Pass, Proton Drive, Proton Authenticator, or Malwarebytes), we may earn a commission at no additional cost to you.

These commissions help us keep CyberSecurityGuides.net free for everyone. They never influence our recommendations — we only recommend products we genuinely believe are good for your security and privacy, and we'd suggest them whether or not an affiliate relationship existed.

We use the information we collect to:

• Respond to messages sent through our contact form
• Send newsletter updates to subscribers (if you've opted in)
• Understand site usage so we can improve our guides and tools

We do not sell your personal information to third parties.

This site relies on the following third-party services, each with their own privacy policies:

• Supabase — hosts our database (contact messages, newsletter subscribers, and guide content)
• Google Analytics — site usage analytics
• Google AdSense — may display advertisements on some pages, which can use cookies to show relevant ads

You can ask us to access, update, or delete any personal information we hold about you (such as your contact form submission or newsletter subscription) at any time by reaching out via our contact page.

We may update this privacy policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices. The latest version will always be available on this page.