Privacy Policy for Cyber-Ranks.com

Last Updated: August 26, 2025

1. Who We Are

Our website address is: https://cyber-ranks.com. We are an independent online publication dedicated to providing objective, test-based reviews of technical services.

2. What Personal Data We Collect and Why

Contact Forms

When you contact us through a form on our site, we collect the information you provide—typically your name and email address—so that we can respond to your inquiry. We use the WPForms plugin to manage form submissions, and notifications are sent securely via our email provider. We do not use this information for marketing purposes unless you explicitly request it.

Comments

When you leave a comment, we collect the data shown in the comments form, your IP address, and browser user agent string to help with spam detection via the Akismet service. An anonymized string from your email (a hash) may be sent to the Gravatar service to display your profile picture.

Cookies

Our website uses cookies to provide the best user experience. This includes:

Functional Cookies: These are necessary for the website to function correctly. For example, if you leave a comment, you may opt-in to saving your name and email in cookies for your convenience.
Statistics Cookies: We use these to understand how visitors interact with our website.
Marketing Cookies: These may be set by embedded third-party content, such as YouTube videos.

You have full control over your cookie preferences via the consent banner provided by Complianz. For a detailed list and description of all cookies we use, please see our Cookie-policy.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics, Yandex.Metrica, and Bing Webmaster Tools to gather anonymous statistics about our website’s traffic. This helps us understand what content is most valuable to our readers. In accordance with GDPR, we have enabled IP address anonymization for these services, meaning we do not store your full IP address.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., YouTube videos). This content behaves in the exact same way as if you had visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, and embed additional third-party tracking.

We do not sell your personal data. We only share it with third-party services that help our website function. These include:

Google, Yandex, Bing: For anonymous analytics.
Automattic (Akismet & Gravatar): For spam protection and comment avatars.
Cloudflare: Our security and performance partner.

4. How Long We Retain Your Data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This allows us to recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically. Contact form submissions are retained for a limited time for customer service purposes but are not used for marketing.

5. What Rights You Have Over Your Data

If you have left comments on this site, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you. 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 purposes.

To make a request, please contact us at our dedicated privacy email address.

6. How We Protect Your Data

We take your privacy seriously. We protect your data using a multi-layered security approach:

SSL Encryption: All traffic to and from our site is encrypted via HTTPS.
Web Application Firewall (WAF): We use both Cloudflare and Wordfence to block malicious traffic and attacks before they reach our server.
Limited Access: Only authorized personnel have access to the website’s backend.

7. Contact Information

For any questions or requests related to your privacy, please contact us at: [email protected].