Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy applies to information collected online through Codezhost's Website and governs online data collection and usage by Codezhost. Please read the complete Privacy Policy below and contact us if you have any questions.

Collection and tracking of personal information

We collect personally identifiable information such as names, email addresses, postal addresses and demographic information such as location. We also collect your IP address, browser type, domain name, access times and referring Website address. This information is collected both during registration on our site or in your account.

How is the collected information handled?

We use personal information so that we may display custom, personalized content to our visitors. We also use collected information to evaluate and administer our service, respond to any problems that may arise and to help determine what part of our services are most popular with users. We will never give out your name or personal information at any time without your permission unless it is to disclose any information needed to satisfy any law, regulation or legal request, to conduct investigations of complaints or possible breaches of law, to protect the integrity of our site and our property, to protect the safety of our visitors or others, or to cooperate in any legal investigation. You should be aware that if you voluntarily disclose information online, personal or otherwise, that information can be collected and used by others. We have no control over this use of your personal information.

When you register a Codezhost account with us, you will need to provide us: (a) your username; (b) your email address and (c) a password (which is encrypted so that we don't have access to it). This information will be protected by your Codezhost account password. You are responsible for keeping it safe - please don't share it with anyone. Codezhost stores all collected information until 30 days after cancellation of services. A user may, at any time, change, correct, modify or delete any personal information they may have provided to us by visiting the client area from within your account.

When you use Codezhost services we may also collect the following information (how we use it is described later in this document):

(a) Technical details about devices which you use to access Codezhost services, including: Internet and/or network connection (including your IP address); mobile device identifiers; your operating system, browser type or other software; your hardware details; or other technical details provided by your web browser. This is technical data about our users and their actions and patterns, which does not provide personal information;

(b) Details of your use of Codezhost services including, but not limited to: metrics information about when and how you use Codezhost services.

(c) Other information required in order to help you with any queries/support you may need assistance with via Codezhost customer support; and

(d) limited payment processing information, including as applicable your credit card number, name and email address (on a hashed/anonymised basis as applicable).

(e) any other information which you supply us via our services;

Use of Cookies and 3rd party

Cookies do not contain any personally identifiable information about you and therefore cannot be used to identify you personally. Cookies simply assist us in customizing our content according to your preferences.

We use the reCAPTCHA service provided by Google Inc. to protect your submissions via internet submission forms on our sites. This plugin checks if you are a person in order to prevent certain website functions from being (ab)used by spam bots (particularly comments). This plugin query included the sending of the IP address and possibly other data required by Google for the Google reCAPTCHA service. For this purpose your input will be communicated to and used by Google. However, your IP address is previously truncated by Google within members states of the European Union or in other states which are party to the agreement of the European Economic Area and is, as such, anonymized. Only in exceptional cases is a full IP address transmitted to a Google server in the United States and truncated there. On behalf of us, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of our services. The IP address provided by reCAPTCHA from your browse shall not be merged with any other data from Google.

Third party processors

Third parties may be used to process a minimum amount of personal data on our behalf. The third party's in question are listed below along with what they are used for and links to their privacy policies. These third parties have been carefully chosen and it is our belief and understanding that all of them comply with current GDPR legislation.

Cloudflare (Secure Browsing) Privacy Policy
Stripe (Invoicing & Payments) Privacy Policy
PayPal (Invoicing & Payments) Privacy Policy
Google Analytics (Web analytics service) Privacy Policy
Google reCAPTCHA (Anti-Spam) Privacy Policy

Data Rectification

If you believe the data that we hold about you is incorrect or needs to be updated, you can request to have this rectified by emailing us using the contact form https://www.codezhost.com/contact/ and this information will be updated as soon as possible once your identity has been confirmed.

Controlling your personal information

A user may, at any time, change, correct, modify or delete any personal information they may have provided to us by visiting the client area. https://www.codezhost.com/account/

Security of your personal information

All Codezhost staff are made aware of its privacy practices through periodic communications. We limit access to private and confidential data. To maintain the highest level of security, we conduct internal reviews of our security measures on a regular basis. All information you provide to Codezhost is stored on our secure servers or those of our trusted partner services. We implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your personal data against unauthorised or unlawful processing, accidental loss, destruction or damage. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. We will do our best to protect your personal information, but we cannot guarantee 100% security of your data transmitted to our servers; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security to prevent unauthorised access to our servers.

Data breaches

Any unlawful data breaches related to the running of Codezhost.com, be it, web server, locally stored data, or that of any third party data processors will be reported to any and all relative persons and authorities within 72 hours of the breach if it is identified that any of the data involved in the breach can result in an individual becoming personally identifiable.

Visitors outside the United States

Our site and the servers that make this site available worldwide are located in the United States. All matters relating to these sites are governed by the laws of the United States. Any information you provide will be transferred to the United States. By visiting our sites and submitting information, you authorize this transfer.

Contact information

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please use the contact form found at the site or click here https://www.codezhost.com/contact/.


Last Updated: Friday, October 30, 2020