Last Updated: June 2026
Welcome to Cloudorian (https://www.cloudorian.net). We respect your privacy and are committed to being fully transparent about how we handle your personal data. This Privacy Policy details how we collect, use, and safeguard your information when you visit our website, read our guides, or interact with our content.
Who We Are
Cloudorian is a technology publication dedicated to providing news, how-to guides, and reviews covering Android, iPhone, Windows, and enterprise tech. Our website address is: https://www.cloudorian.net.
Information We Collect and Why
Comments and Account Data
When you leave a comment on our site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, alongside your IP address and browser user agent string. This helps us detect and prevent spam. An anonymized string (hash) created from your email address may be provided to the Gravatar service to check if you use it. Once your comment is approved, your Gravatar profile picture becomes publicly visible alongside your comment.
Cookies and Local Storage
We use cookies to improve your browsing experience. If you leave a comment, you can opt-in to saving your name, email, and website in cookies so you don’t have to fill them out again next time. These last for one year.
If you visit our login page, a temporary cookie is set to check if your browser accepts them. Additional cookies are used to manage screen display choices and login persistence. Login cookies last for two days, and screen option cookies last for a year.
Third-Party Services, Tracking, and Advertising
To keep Cloudorian running as a free resource, we partner with specialized third-party services for analytics, notifications, and monetization. These services use cookies and web beacons to collect data about your interactions with our site.
Google AdSense and DoubleClick Cookies
We use Google AdSense to serve advertisements on Cloudorian. Google, acting as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to our website or other websites across the internet.
- Specifically, Google uses DoubleClick cookies to enable it and its partners to serve targeted, relevant advertisements to you based on your browsing history.
- How to opt-out: You can opt out of personalized advertising at any time by visiting Google’s Ads Settings. Alternatively, you can opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.
Google Analytics
We rely on Google Analytics to understand how visitors engage with our site. This tool tracks non-personally identifiable data such as your IP address, browser type, device type, pages visited, and time spent on the site. This data is aggregated and helps us figure out what kind of content our readers want to see. Google Analytics sets its own cookies to facilitate this tracking.
OneSignal Push Notifications
We offer browser push notifications to alert you when we publish breaking tech news or new tutorials. We use OneSignal to manage and deliver these alerts. If you choose to opt-in, OneSignal will collect specific metadata, such as your IP address, device type, and interaction metrics (like whether you clicked a specific notification). You can unsubscribe from these alerts at any time directly through your browser or device notification settings.
Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on Cloudorian frequently feature embedded content (like YouTube videos, X/Twitter posts, or external images). Embedded content behaves exactly as if you visited the source website. These external platforms may collect your data, use their own cookies, and embed additional third-party tracking.
Your Global Privacy Rights
We are committed to full compliance with major global data protection regulations. Depending on your geographical location, you have specific rights regarding your personal information:
NDPR (Nigerian Data Protection Regulation)
For our readers located in Nigeria, we comply with the NDPR guidelines. You have the right to request access to your data, object to its processing, and request its complete deletion. We also ensure that the third-party platforms we integrate with maintain adequate data protection standards as required by the NDPR.
GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation)
If you are accessing Cloudorian from the European Economic Area (EEA), you have the right to:
- Access the personal data we hold about you.
- Request corrections to any inaccurate data.
- Request the erasure of your personal data (the “Right to be Forgotten”).
- Object to or restrict the processing of your data.
- Request data portability.
CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act)
If you are a resident of California, you hold the right to:
- Know what personal data is being collected about you and how it is used.
- Request the deletion of your personal data.
- Opt-out of the “sale” of your personal data. (Note: Cloudorian does not directly sell personal data to third parties. However, our use of advertising networks like Google AdSense may fall under specific broad definitions of data sharing under California law. You can opt out of targeted ads using the Ad Settings link provided in the advertising section above).
- Not face discrimination for exercising your privacy rights.
Data Retention
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This allows us to recognize and approve follow-up comments automatically without holding them in a moderation queue. For users who register on our site, we store the personal information provided in their user profile. All users can view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time.
Where We Send Your Data
Visitor comments may be routed through an automated spam detection service. Non-personally identifiable data regarding site traffic, ad interactions, and push notifications is processed by our partners (Google, OneSignal) on their respective servers, which may be located outside of your home country.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, wish to exercise your data rights under the NDPR, GDPR, or CCPA, or need further clarification on how we handle your information, please reach out to us via our Contact Us page.
