Privacy Policy
Last updated: 15 October 2026
At SECRITIC, we cover cybersecurity, technology, artificial intelligence, digital rights and online safety. We believe readers should be able to understand how their information is handled when they visit our website or use our services.
This Privacy Policy explains what information we may collect, how we use it, when it may be shared, and the choices available to you.
Website: https://secritic.com
Privacy contact: admin@secritic.com
1. Information We Collect
The information we handle depends on how you use SECRITIC.
Information you provide
When you contact us, you may provide your name, email address and the contents of your message. If you subscribe to our newsletter, we collect the email address needed to manage your subscription.
Reader account information
If you sign in using Google, we may receive information such as your name, email address, profile picture and an account identifier, depending on the sign-in configuration. We use this information to authenticate and manage your reader account. We do not ask for your Google password.
Technical information
When you visit SECRITIC, our website, hosting provider and security services may process technical information such as your IP address, browser type, device information, pages visited, access times and security logs. This information can help us operate the website, troubleshoot problems and protect against misuse.
Cookies and similar technologies
Cookies and similar technologies may be used to maintain sign-in sessions, support website functionality, remember preferences, measure website usage or support advertising. The technologies used depend on the services enabled on the website.
We aim to collect information that is reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this policy.
2. How We Use Your Information
We may use information to:
- Operate, maintain and improve SECRITIC.
- Create and manage reader accounts and authenticate sign-ins.
- Respond to questions, feedback, editorial enquiries and privacy requests.
- Send newsletters to people who have chosen to subscribe.
- Protect the website against spam, fraud, unauthorised access and other security threats.
- Understand website performance and improve our content, where analytics tools are used.
- Display and measure advertisements, where advertising services are used.
- Comply with applicable legal obligations and address legitimate legal claims.
We do not use a Google sign-in as permission to subscribe someone to marketing emails.
Where applicable law requires a lawful basis for processing personal information, we rely on the basis appropriate to the particular purpose, such as providing a requested service, complying with a legal obligation, pursuing a legitimate interest or obtaining consent.
3. Google Sign-In and Reader Accounts
SECRITIC offers Google sign-in so readers can access their accounts without creating a separate password specifically for our website.
When you choose this option:
- Google processes information in accordance with its own privacy policies.
- SECRITIC receives the information permitted by the sign-in configuration.
- We use the information received to authenticate your account and provide account-related features.
- Signing in does not automatically subscribe you to our newsletter.
You can review Google’s privacy practices at https://policies.google.com/privacy.
If you no longer wish to use your SECRITIC account, you can contact us at admin@secritic.com to request account deletion and the deletion of associated personal information, subject to applicable legal obligations and legitimate security or record-keeping needs.
Deleting your SECRITIC account does not delete your Google account. You may also need to manage the connection from your Google Account settings.
4. Cookies and Similar Technologies
Cookies are small files stored by a website or service in your browser. They can help websites remember settings, maintain sessions and understand how their services are used.
Depending on the services enabled, SECRITIC may use cookies or similar technologies for:
- Essential functions: Supporting website operation, sign-in sessions and security.
- Preferences: Remembering settings where these features are available.
- Analytics: Understanding visits and website performance where analytics tools are installed.
- Advertising: Delivering, measuring or personalising advertisements where advertising services are used.
Third-party services may also use their own cookies or similar technologies when operating on our website.
You can manage cookies through your browser settings. Blocking certain cookies may affect sign-in or other website features.
Where applicable law requires consent for non-essential cookies or similar technologies, we will seek consent before using them and provide the relevant choices.
5. Advertising and Google AdSense
SECRITIC may display advertisements through Google AdSense or other advertising providers.
When advertising services are used, Google and other third-party vendors may use cookies, web beacons, IP addresses or similar identifiers to deliver advertisements, measure performance, prevent repeated advertisements or personalise advertising, depending on the service and the settings in place.
Third-party advertising providers may process information under their own privacy policies. Their use of information is subject to applicable laws and the consent or privacy choices required for the relevant advertising features.
You can learn more about Google’s use of information on partner websites at:
You can manage Google advertising personalisation settings at:
You may also find information about opting out of certain third-party interest-based advertising at:
The availability of particular controls depends on your location, browser, account settings and the advertising services involved. Managing personalised advertising does not necessarily stop all advertisements from appearing.
6. Newsletter and Email Communications
If you choose to subscribe to a SECRITIC newsletter, we use your email address to manage your subscription and send the communications described when you sign up.
- Newsletter subscriptions are separate from reader accounts.
- Creating an account or signing in with Google does not automatically subscribe you.
- You can unsubscribe using the link included in a newsletter or by contacting us at admin@secritic.com.
- Unsubscribing from a newsletter does not automatically delete a separate reader account.
If an external email or newsletter service is used, it may process subscriber information to deliver and manage the emails on our behalf. We will provide relevant information about that service as appropriate.
7. How We Share Information
We do not sell personal information as a mailing list.
We may share information when reasonably necessary to operate and protect SECRITIC, including with:
- Hosting and technical service providers that help operate, maintain or secure the website.
- Authentication providers, including Google when you choose Google sign-in.
- Analytics providers, where website analytics are enabled.
- Advertising providers, where advertisements are displayed.
- Email and newsletter providers, where you subscribe to our communications.
- Legal or regulatory authorities, when disclosure is required by applicable law or is otherwise legally permitted.
We aim to limit the information shared to what is necessary for the relevant purpose.
Some service providers may process information in countries other than your own. Where applicable law requires safeguards for international transfers, the relevant safeguards should be used.
8. Data Retention
We retain information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, subject to applicable legal requirements.
Retention depends on the type of information and how it is used. For example:
- Account information may be retained while your account remains active.
- Contact messages may be retained for as long as needed to respond to the enquiry and maintain appropriate records.
- Newsletter information may be retained while you remain subscribed and for the limited period necessary to maintain subscription records or comply with legal obligations.
- Technical and security logs may be retained for a limited period to investigate problems, protect the website and address security incidents.
When information is no longer needed, we aim to delete it or otherwise handle it appropriately, subject to legal, security and legitimate record-keeping requirements.
9. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on your location and the laws that apply, you may have the right to:
- Request access to personal information we hold about you.
- Ask us to correct inaccurate information.
- Request deletion of your personal information.
- Object to or request restrictions on certain processing.
- Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.
- Request a portable copy of certain information.
- Complain to a relevant data-protection authority.
To make a privacy request, email admin@secritic.com with a clear description of what you need.
We may ask for reasonable information to verify your identity before acting on a request. We will respond in accordance with the time limits and requirements of applicable law.
Not every right applies in every country or to every type of processing, and some requests may be subject to legal exceptions.
10. Information Security
We take reasonable technical and organisational measures intended to protect information against unauthorised access, loss, misuse or alteration.
However, no website, online service or method of transmitting information can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
Please protect access to your email and Google account. If you believe your SECRITIC account has been compromised, contact us at admin@secritic.com.
11. Children’s Privacy
SECRITIC is a general-interest cybersecurity and technology publication. It is not intended to knowingly collect children’s personal information in violation of applicable law.
If you believe a child has provided personal information to us inappropriately, contact admin@secritic.com so we can review the matter and take appropriate action where necessary.
12. External Links
Our articles may link to external websites, research papers, security advisories, tools and other resources.
We do not control the privacy practices or security of third-party websites. Visiting an external link is subject to that website’s own policies and terms. We encourage readers to review those policies before providing personal information to another service.
13. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy when our website, services, data practices or legal obligations change.
The latest version will be published on this page with its updated date. Where required by applicable law, we will provide additional notice or seek consent for relevant changes.
14. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, your reader account, the information we hold about you or a privacy request, please contact us:
SECRITIC — Privacy Contact
Email: admin@secritic.com
Website: https://secritic.com
Contact page: https://secritic.com/contact/
Please do not include passwords, authentication codes or other sensitive login credentials in your message.