Privacy Policy

Who we are

BiteBench is operated by BiteBench Labs, an independent benchmark testing lab registered in the United States. Our mailing address is 2001 Timberloch Pl, The Woodlands, TX 77380. For any privacy-related inquiry, email editorial@bitebench.com.

What data we collect

BiteBench collects no personal data from readers. We do not ask you to create an account, fill out a form, submit an email address, or identify yourself in any way in order to read BiteBench articles. There is no newsletter signup. There is no comment system. There is no login. There is no paywall. There is no customer database.

The only personal information BiteBench ever holds about a reader is an email address that reader voluntarily sends us at editorial@bitebench.com or corrections@bitebench.com. Those inbound emails are handled in a standard business inbox and retained only as long as needed to resolve the inquiry.

Cookies

BiteBench does not set tracking cookies. We do not use Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Meta Pixel, or any third-party behavioural tracking service. We do not use retargeting pixels. We do not embed social-media tracking scripts. A small number of strictly-necessary technical cookies may be set by our hosting provider for site security and load balancing; these expire at the end of your session and are not used for tracking.

Analytics

BiteBench uses a privacy-preserving, cookie-free analytics tool that records only aggregated, non-identifying information: page paths viewed, the referring domain, and a coarse country-level location derived from IP address but not stored. We do not record individual IP addresses, device fingerprints, or any identifier that could be linked back to a specific reader. Analytics logs are aggregated daily and discarded after 30 days.

Third parties

BiteBench's site is served from a standard hosting provider and uses a standard content delivery network to deliver static HTML, CSS, and images. Fonts are served from Google Fonts because Google Fonts is the most reliable public font host; this means that when you load a BiteBench page, your browser contacts fonts.googleapis.com to fetch typefaces. Google's own privacy policy governs that interaction.

BiteBench does not share, sell, rent, or license any data about readers to third parties, because we do not collect any data about readers that could be shared, sold, rented, or licensed.

GDPR

Readers in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland have rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Because BiteBench does not collect, store, or process personal data beyond voluntary inbound email, most GDPR rights (access, rectification, erasure, portability) apply only to email correspondence you have initiated with us. To exercise any right, email editorial@bitebench.com.

BiteBench's lawful basis for processing inbound reader email is legitimate interest in responding to the inquiry. We do not rely on consent because we do not set non-essential cookies or collect marketing data.

CCPA

Readers in California have rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Because BiteBench does not sell personal information and does not collect personal information in any form a CCPA right could meaningfully attach to, there is nothing to opt out of. If you believe BiteBench holds personal information about you (for example, because you emailed us), you may request access or deletion by emailing editorial@bitebench.com.

Children's privacy

BiteBench is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect information from children. If you believe a child has sent us personal information, email editorial@bitebench.com and we will delete it.

Server logs

BiteBench's hosting provider keeps standard web server logs for security and abuse prevention. These logs record the IP address of incoming requests, the timestamp, the requested URL, the HTTP status code, the user-agent string, and the referring URL. Server logs are retained for 14 days and then automatically purged. Server logs are never joined to any other data source and are never used for analytics, profiling, advertising, or identification of individual readers.

Do Not Track

Some browsers transmit a "Do Not Track" (DNT) signal. BiteBench honours DNT signals, although they have no practical effect on your visit because we do not perform tracking of any kind regardless of the DNT header. Your privacy is not contingent on which browser you use or which headers you transmit.

Contact for privacy inquiries

For any question about this policy, any request to access or delete personal information you have previously sent us, or any other privacy-related concern, email editorial@bitebench.com with the subject line "Privacy inquiry". We respond within three business days. If you are submitting a formal access or deletion request, please include enough information in your message for us to locate the data in question (usually the email address you used to contact us originally).

Changes to this policy

BiteBench may update this privacy policy from time to time. The version date at the top of this page reflects the most recent update. Material changes will be announced in a visible notice at the top of the page for at least 30 days before taking effect. Non-material changes (typo fixes, clarifications, formatting improvements) may be made silently; the dateModified field in this page's schema will always reflect the date of the most recent edit.