Collecting Personal Information
When you submit a story or interact with our website, we may request your name, email address, and additional information such as your profession or job title.
Our website uses cookies—special text files stored on your computer or device by your web browser when you access it. You can modify or disable cookie usage in your browser’s settings, but this may affect the availability of certain services on our website. We use the following types of cookies:
- Session cookies: These store an anonymous session identifier to ensure an appropriate user experience while using our website.
- Statistics cookies: We collect anonymous browsing statistics through our partners Google Analytics and Facebook.
This site is affiliated with Publisher First, Inc. dba Freestar (“Freestar”) for placing advertising on the site. Freestar will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. Learn more about Freestar’s data usage.
We also use Hotjar to better understand visitor needs and optimize service and experience. Hotjar is a technology service that helps us understand users’ behavior (e.g., time spent on pages, links clicked, user likes/dislikes, etc.). Hotjar uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on user behavior and devices. This includes a device’s IP address (processed during your session and stored in a de-identified form), device screen size, device type (unique device identifiers), browser information, geographic location (country only), and the preferred language used to display our website. Hotjar stores this information on behalf of Techbiz in a pseudonymized user profile and is contractually forbidden to sell any data collected on our behalf. For further details, please see the ‘about Hotjar’ section of Hotjar’s support site.
Using and Sharing Personal Information
We use the information collected only for communications with authors and improving user experience.
We do not share your personal information with any company or person outside Thebestestone.
Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.). Each page of this website may also have embedded “Facebook Pixel” for providing anonymous browsing statistics through our partner Facebook.
Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if you have visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
What Rights You Have Over Your Data
If you have submitted any data on this site, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security