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Privacy policy

Last updated: 1 November 2026

This policy explains what personal information the website NetworkTechGuy (the "site") collects, why, and what happens with it. We follow Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA). To ask a question, see what we hold about you, or have it corrected or deleted, use the contact details on the About page.

Visiting the site

Reading the site sets no cookie. Its pages, fonts and styles come from the site's own server. A post can embed a video or a picture from another site (for example YouTube); that site receives your request when you open such a post and has its own policy.

Like any web server, ours handles your IP address and the address of the page you ask for in order to answer you. The site's own log notes the method, page, status and time of each request, without your IP address and without anything after a question mark in the address.

Requests from the internet reach us through Cloudflare, which handles your IP address to deliver them and to protect the site. The proxy in front of the site keeps a log of requests that fail or take longer than a second, to look into faults and attacks: the IP address, the page and the browser details. That log is deleted after 14 days at most.

Counting visits

The site's own count. A small script reports each page view to the site: the address of the page (without anything after a question mark, such as a search), the name of the website you came from (its name only, not the address of the page), the time, and a visitor code. The code is worked out from your IP address and browser type with a secret that is made new every day and kept only in the server's memory, so it cannot be turned back into your address and cannot link your visits on different days. Your IP address is not stored. These records are kept for 400 days.

KNet SIA. Visits may also be counted by KNet SIA, our own analytics, which runs on our own server (analytics.karlonet.com). It is first-party: what it counts stays with us and is not shared with or sold to anyone. It sets no cookies and does not store IP addresses, and it keeps a visitor code that changes every day.

Switched on at the moment, besides the site's own count: KNet SIA at analytics.karlonet.com.

Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control. If your browser sends Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control, the site's own script does not report your page view, and KNet SIA does not count it (unless the site's owner has switched that respect off for an engine, which would be stated above).

Comments

To leave a comment you give a name, an e-mail address and your comment. What happens with them:

  • The name and comment are shown with the post once the comment is published, with the date. The e-mail address is never shown to other visitors. The site's owner and administrators can see it; moderators see it partly hidden.
  • The address is stored encrypted. It is used to send you a confirmation link (valid for 48 hours; the mail service that delivers our mail handles the message for that) and to recognise your later comments.
  • A comment that you never confirm is deleted after 7 days. The address is kept for as long as one of your comments is on the site. An address that a moderator marked as trusted (so that its comments are published at once) or as blocked (to keep spam out) is kept with that mark even when no comment is left. Ask us and we delete it.
  • The site does not store your IP address with a comment.
  • When you use the confirmation link, the site sets one cookie in your browser (ntg_commenter, kept for one year, readable only by the server). It names your address record so that your next comment does not need a new confirmation mail. Clear your cookies and it is gone.
  • To keep the forms from being misused, the server counts attempts per visitor address (comments, reports, confirmations, subscribing) in a short-lived cache, for between ten minutes and a day, and remembers for 30 days that a visitor address has reported a comment, as a code made with a secret key from that address.
  • The small puzzle your browser solves before it sends a comment, a report or a subscription is not stored beyond the next half hour.

The newsletter

If you subscribe, the site stores your e-mail address and the date, and sends you one mail with a confirmation link (valid for 48 hours). Nothing else is sent until you confirm. An address that is never confirmed is deleted about nine days after the request. After you confirm, you get an e-mail for each new post. Every e-mail has an unsubscribe link; using it deletes the address at once. The site does not store your IP address with a subscription.

Mail goes out through the mail server that the site's owner has set up. While a mail waits to be sent its content is stored encrypted, and it is emptied when the mail has gone; the record of a sent mail (with the address partly hidden) is removed after 7 days, a failed one after 30.

Staff accounts

Visitors have no accounts. People who write for the site sign in with a cookie (ntg_session, readable only by the server) that exists only for them. The site stores the IP address and browser details of a staff sign-in with the session, and the audit log keeps the IP address of what staff do in the admin area and of failed sign-in attempts on a staff account. The audit log can be read by the site's owner and administrators only.

Who we share it with

We do not sell or share your information. It passes through Cloudflare on the way to us, through the mail server that delivers the site's mail, and, for visits, to the analytics engine named above, which runs on our own server.

Your rights

You may ask us what information we hold about you, ask us to correct or delete it, and complain to us if you think we have handled it wrongly. Use the contact details on the About page. In Canada you may also contact the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.

Children

The site is not directed at children.

Changes

If we change this policy, the date at the top changes.