Who We Are
Our website address is: https://www.randombusinessbits.com. This website has a singular webmaster with the pseudonym Maverick Van Houten, who is active for the site owner BetContent with VAT number BE0734.718.382. All articles are by his hand unless noted otherwise.
Cookies
Ah, cookies. Nobody really likes them or reading about them, but they are necessary for the functioning of the website and its ads. In short, I only use them to track non-individualized performance of the website and provide the minimum to ad partners for them to provide their services.
We use Complianz.io to try and comply to all these complicated regional laws to the best of our ability. Oh, there is also a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
Through Complianz.io we have a dedicated Cookie Policy that explains how we handle Cookies for your region. I can’t link to it here because, unlike this page, there is a different version for each region and unlike them I am not technically adept enough to know where you’re visiting from. You can find it in the About section of the website, though.
If you have any specific concerns, please drop me a line.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has 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 tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
No one. We do have Google Analytics and advertisement partners that may collect data on you on their own, however, as described above.
Advertisements
Visitors to https://www.randombusinessbits.com should be aware the site contains advertisements. Well, actually, not really at the time of writing, but it will eventually, and I may forget to update this page when they are added, so I’d rather add this disclaimer now.
Although I do not sell any personal data to advertisers, they may still collect data on you as described previously.
If you’re looking to advertise on this site, you can get in touch through maverick@randombusinessbits.com. We do not do so-called “product reviews”, only clearly distinguishable ads. Even those may be rejected if I feel your product is a bad match for my site. If I received bad customer service from you in the past, I will also not publish any ads from your company. You may call that petty and holding a grudge (and you wouldn’t be wrong) but it is hard to imagine the people I advertise to would get a better experience than I had in the past.
Affiliate links
When there is a product I like, I may enter an affiliate deal with the company behind that product. This allows me to place links with a specific affiliate ID to their product and/or company. When you then click this link and make a purchase there within a certain time, I may get a commission.
For this system to function, cookies using my affiliate partner’s own Privacy Policy are necessary.
I do not sell any personal data to these affiliate partners and I always make an effort to clearly identify affiliate links.
Some links on https://www.randombusinessbits.com lead to Amazon products. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
Google Analytics
https://www.randombusinessbits.com makes use of Google Analytics. I like to see numbers going up and down (but preferably up) and only treat them as such, numbers, not a study of you as an individual. I may look at stuff at which country my visitors are coming from, which of my pages are the most popular, how much time is spent on those pages etc.
Google Analytics mainly uses first-party cookies to report on visitor (aka user) interactions on Google Analytics customers’ websites. Users may disable cookies or delete any individual cookie. Google Analytics also collects Internet Protocol (IP) addresses to provide and protect the security of the service, and to give website owners a sense of which country, state, or city in the world their users come from (also known as “IP geolocation”).
Google provides a browser add-on allowing users to prevent their data from being used by Google Analytics.
You can find Google’s Privacy Policy here.
YouTube
Some articles have embedded videos from YouTube in them. These embedded videos are set to the privacy-enhanced version. This version prevents YouTube from gathering any data on you if you do not start the embedded videos. If you choose to start a video out of your own accord, however, YouTube gathers your data in accordance with Google’s Privacy Policy which you can read here.