Privacy Policy

Last updated: 13 November 2026.

This Privacy Policy explains how Tech Specora (“Tech Specora”, “we”, “us” or “our”) collects, uses, shares and protects information when you visit or use techspecora.com and any of its country sections (the “Site”). It also explains the choices and rights you have.

By using the Site you acknowledge that you have read this policy. If you do not agree with it, please stop using the Site. Where the law requires your consent for a particular use of your information, we ask for it separately, and you can withdraw it at any time.

Tech Specora operates the Site and is responsible for the personal information described in this policy (the “controller” under the UK and EU GDPR). You can contact us about any privacy matter at contact@techspecora.com.

Some companies we work with, such as Google, act as independent controllers for the information they collect through their own cookies and technologies. Their own privacy policies apply to that information.

Phone reviews: if you post a review, we collect the name you enter, your rating, your review text and the country section you posted from. Reviews are checked before they are published and, once published, are visible to everyone. Please do not include your full name, phone number, address or any other personal or sensitive details in a review.

Contact form and email: if you use the contact form or email us, we collect your name, email address, subject, message and anything else you choose to include, so that we can reply and keep a record of the conversation.

Advertisers and business contacts: if you contact us about advertising or another business matter, we collect your business contact details, the information you send about your business, and our correspondence with you.

You do not have to give us any of this information. If you choose not to, you can still browse the Site, but we will not be able to publish your review or reply to you.

Technical data: when you visit the Site, your device sends technical information such as your IP address, browser and device type, operating system, language, the page you came from, the pages you request, and the date and time. Our hosting provider, Cloudflare, processes this data to deliver the Site, keep it fast and protect it from attacks, spam and abuse.

Spam and abuse protection: to stop automated abuse of our review, contact and sign-in forms, we store a one-way scrambled code (a “hash”) made from your IP address, never the IP address itself. With a review, this code is kept together with the review; for form limits, it is kept for no more than one hour.

Advertising statistics: for ads we sell directly, we count how many times each ad is shown and clicked. These are totals only; we do not record who saw or clicked an ad.

Visitor statistics: we use Cloudflare Web Analytics to count visits, popular pages, countries, device types and page speed. It does not use cookies, does not store anything on your device and does not track you across other websites; we only see totals, never individual visitors.

We do not use the information in this section to identify you personally, and we do not build profiles of visitors.

Cookies are small files stored on your device. The Site itself uses only cookies it needs to work: a “country” cookie that remembers the country section you chose (kept for up to one year), and, only for our own staff who sign in to the admin area, a secure sign-in cookie (kept for up to seven days). These cookies do not track you across other websites and are not used for advertising.

When Google ads are shown on the Site, Google and its partners may also place or read cookies and similar technologies, such as device identifiers, on your device. This is explained in section 5.

Our Videos page shows videos from our own YouTube channel. Video pictures (thumbnails) are loaded from YouTube’s servers. A video is only loaded when you press play, using YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode (youtube-nocookie.com). Once it plays, YouTube, a Google service, may store or read information on your device and collect data about your viewing under Google’s own privacy policy at policies.google.com/privacy.

You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings. If you block the Site’s own cookies, the Site may not remember your country.

The Site is free to use because it is supported by advertising. We may show ads served by Google AdSense and ads we sell directly to businesses.

Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to this website or other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to users based on their visits to this Site and/or other sites on the Internet.

You can opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google’s Ads Settings at adssettings.google.com, or opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalised advertising at www.aboutads.info. You can learn how Google uses information from sites that use its services at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. If you opt out, you will still see ads, but they will be less relevant to you.

In the United Kingdom, the European Economic Area and Switzerland, advertising cookies are used only after you give consent through the consent message shown on the Site, which uses a consent tool certified by Google. You can refuse, and you can change or withdraw your choice at any time through the privacy and cookie settings link that the message provides. If you do not consent, you may see non-personalised or limited ads.

In US states with privacy laws, such as California, you can opt out of the “sale” or “sharing” of your personal information for targeted advertising through the privacy message shown on the Site.

Ads we sell directly are images with a link to the advertiser. We do not give advertisers any information about you. When you click an ad you leave the Site, and the advertiser’s own privacy policy applies from then on.

We use information only to: run, secure, maintain and improve the Site; publish and moderate reviews; reply to messages and handle your requests; sell, deliver and measure advertising; detect, prevent and investigate spam, fraud, security incidents and misuse; enforce our Terms of Use and protect our rights and the rights of others; and comply with the law.

Where the UK or EU GDPR or a similar law applies, we rely on these legal bases: our legitimate interests in running a safe, working, ad-supported website (for technical data, security, spam protection, moderation, business contacts and essential cookies); your consent (for advertising cookies where consent is required, and for anything else we ask your consent for); taking steps you ask for or performing an agreement with you (for example, replying to you or handling an advertising order); and compliance with legal obligations.

Where we rely on legitimate interests, we have weighed them against your rights, and you can object as explained in section 11.

We do not sell your personal information for money, and we do not give it to anyone for their own marketing, except through advertising technologies as described in section 5.

We share information only with: service providers who work for us under contract, such as Cloudflare for hosting, security, storage and email forwarding, and our email provider; Google and its partners when Google ads are shown, as described in section 5, and YouTube when you load our Videos page or play a video, as described in section 4; authorities, courts, regulators or other parties when we believe in good faith that the law requires it, or that it is needed to protect the safety, rights or property of our users, the public or Tech Specora, or to investigate fraud, abuse or security problems; professional advisers, such as lawyers and accountants, who must keep it confidential; and a buyer or successor if the Site or our business is sold, merged or transferred, in which case this policy will continue to protect your information.

Published reviews are public and can be read, copied and shared by anyone who visits the Site.

Some pictures and other content on the Site may be loaded from other websites, such as image libraries. When your browser loads them, those websites may receive technical data such as your IP address.

Our service providers, including Cloudflare and Google, operate worldwide, so your information may be processed in countries other than your own, including the United States, which may have different data protection laws. Where the law requires it, these transfers are protected by appropriate safeguards, such as the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses, the UK International Data Transfer Addendum, or other lawful mechanisms used by those providers.

We keep information only as long as we need it for the purposes in this policy. Published reviews stay online until we remove them or you ask us to; reviews that are not approved are deleted. Contact messages and emails are kept as long as needed to deal with your request, and normally no longer than two years. Advertising agreements and related records are kept as long as the law requires for business and tax records. Form-protection codes are kept for no more than one hour. Technical logs held by Cloudflare are kept under Cloudflare’s own retention rules.

We may keep information longer where the law requires it, or where it is needed to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.

We use reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect information, including encrypted connections (HTTPS), restricted and password-protected staff access, secure sign-in cookies, and the security protections of our hosting provider. We collect only the information we need.

No website, internet transmission or storage system is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security. If we become aware of a security breach that affects your personal information, we will take appropriate steps and notify you and the authorities where the law requires it.

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to: ask whether we hold personal information about you and get a copy of it; ask us to correct it; ask us to delete it; ask us to restrict or stop using it; object to our use of it based on legitimate interests; receive it in a portable format; withdraw your consent at any time, without affecting what was done before; and opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information or of targeted advertising.

These rights come from laws including the UK GDPR, the EU GDPR, the California Consumer Privacy Act as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act, other US state privacy laws, Saudi Arabia’s Personal Data Protection Law, the UAE’s Federal Decree-Law No. 45 of 2021 on the Protection of Personal Data, and the Philippines Data Privacy Act of 2012. Visitors from Pakistan and other countries can also make these requests, and we will handle them under the law that applies to them.

To make a request, email contact@techspecora.com and tell us what you are asking for. To protect you, we may need to confirm your identity before we act, for example by asking you to reply from the email address you used with us. An authorised agent may make a request for you if they can show they have your permission. We will reply within the time the law requires, usually within one month. We will not treat you differently or charge you for using your rights, unless a request is clearly unfounded or excessive.

If you are not satisfied with our reply, you can complain to your local data protection authority, for example: the Information Commissioner’s Office in the UK; your national data protection authority in the EEA; the California Privacy Protection Agency in California; the Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA) in Saudi Arabia; the UAE Data Office in the UAE; or the National Privacy Commission in the Philippines. We would appreciate the chance to resolve your concern first.

California residents: in the last 12 months we may have collected identifiers (such as name, email address and IP address), internet and device activity, and approximate location from your IP address, for the purposes in section 6. When Google ads are shown, this information may be “shared” for targeted advertising, which you can opt out of as described in section 5. We do not knowingly sell or share the personal information of anyone under 16, and we do not use sensitive personal information to infer characteristics about you.

Some browsers send “Do Not Track” signals. There is no common standard for these signals, so the Site does not respond to them. You can use the cookie and advertising choices described above instead.

The Site is for a general audience and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13, or under the minimum age set by the law where they live (for example, 16 in some EEA countries). Children should not post reviews or send us their personal information. If you believe a child has given us personal information, please contact us and we will delete it.

The Site contains links to other websites, including shops, brands, advertisers and social networks. We do not control those websites and are not responsible for their content or privacy practices. Please read their privacy policies before giving them any information.

We may update this policy from time to time, for example when we add new features or when the law changes. The “Last updated” date at the top shows when it last changed. If we make important changes, we will make them clear on the Site. If you keep using the Site after a change, you accept the updated policy, except where the law requires your consent, in which case we will ask for it.

For any question, request or complaint about this policy or your personal information, email us at contact@techspecora.com. If this policy is translated into another language and the versions differ, the English version applies.