Privacy Policy

Introduction

Welcome to dotnet-guide.com. This independently operated educational website is run from India. This Privacy Policy explains the information that may be processed when you browse our .NET tutorials and articles, contact us, or interact with third-party services made available through the site.

Most content can be read without creating an account or submitting your name or email address. The information involved depends on the features and services enabled when you visit.

Information We Collect

1. Technical and Server Information

When you access the site, web servers and hosting or security systems may process technical information needed to deliver pages and investigate problems. Depending on the server configuration, this can include:

• IP address, date and time of a request, requested URL, and HTTP response status
• Browser or device information supplied in request headers, such as a user-agent
• Referring page information when provided by the browser
• Errors, security events, and diagnostic records

Google AdSense and participating advertising partners may also receive browser, device, and advertising-interaction information as explained below.

2. Information You Choose to Send

Our contact form is handled by Formspree. When you submit it, Formspree receives and processes the information you provide, which may include your name, email address, message, and any additional information you choose to share. Formspree may also process technical submission data. We receive the submitted message so that we can respond. If you contact us by email, the relevant email services may process that communication.

Please avoid sending passwords, API keys, access tokens, private client data, or other sensitive information in contact messages.

3. Browser Storage

The site may store interface settings, such as a selected color theme or a dismissed notice, using browser storage. Cookies, localStorage, and similar technologies are distinct mechanisms; the applicable storage depends on the site's implementation.

How We Use Information

Information described above may be used for the following purposes, depending on what is collected:

• Operate the website: Deliver educational pages, maintain basic features, and diagnose errors or outages.
• Protect the service: Detect suspicious requests, investigate security events, and prevent abuse.
• Respond to you: Answer questions, feedback, correction requests, and other messages you send.
• Review basic performance: Use server diagnostics and available aggregated advertising reports to understand technical operation and ad performance.
• Support advertising: Display Google AdSense advertisements and support associated ad delivery, reporting, and fraud prevention.
• Meet legal obligations: Handle valid legal requests and comply with requirements that apply to us.

Where a privacy law requires a particular legal basis for processing, that basis depends on the purpose and circumstances. It may include consent where required, activities necessary to provide a requested service, compliance with law, or legitimate interests where the relevant law permits that basis. This policy does not replace any consent mechanism required for non-essential technologies.

Cookies and Similar Technologies

Cookies are small data items stored by browsers. Browser localStorage is a separate mechanism used by some website features. The technologies involved on this website include the following:

Site Preferences

The website may store preferences such as a selected color theme or notice state in browser storage. The storage method and duration depend on the feature and your browser settings.

Google AdSense Advertising

We display ads using Google AdSense. Third-party vendors, including Google, may place and read cookies on your browser and may use web beacons, IP addresses, or other identifiers in connection with ads shown on this website. These technologies can support ad delivery, frequency capping, measurement, security, and fraud prevention.

Google and other participating advertising vendors may use cookies to serve ads based on previous visits to this website or other websites. Google's advertising cookies can enable it and its partners to show personalized ads where permitted. The cookies and partners involved may vary by location, consent choices, and advertising configuration.

For more information, read how Google uses information from sites that use its services.

Managing Cookies and Ad Choices

• Use your browser's privacy or site-data settings to inspect, block, or delete cookies and localStorage.
• Manage personalized Google advertising through Google My Ad Center.
• For certain participating third-party advertisers, review the Digital Advertising Alliance opt-out tool.
• If an advertising consent or privacy-choice interface is presented, use its available options to express or change your choices.

Third-Party Services

We use hosting infrastructure, Formspree for our contact form, Google AdSense for display advertisements, and Google Fonts for some website typography. Linked external resources have their own privacy policies and terms.

Website Hosting

Our web-hosting and security infrastructure processes requests and technical logs to deliver the site, troubleshoot errors, and protect services against abuse.

Formspree Contact Form

When you submit the contact form, Formspree processes the information you enter and associated technical request information to deliver the submission and operate its service. Formspree may process information in the United States or other countries where it operates. Review the Formspree Privacy Policy for information about its collection, processing, retention, sharing, and privacy-rights practices.

Google AdSense Display Ads

We use Google AdSense to display advertisements. Google and participating advertising partners may process cookies, IP addresses, browser or device identifiers, and ad-interaction data for ad selection, serving, measurement, security, and fraud prevention. Personalization and applicable consent choices depend on location and settings. Review the Google Privacy Policy, how Google uses data on partner sites, and Google My Ad Center.

Google Fonts

Some pages request the Inter font from Google Fonts. Loading a font from Google may disclose technical request information such as your IP address and browser details. See the Google Privacy Policy.

Services not in use: We do not currently use Google Analytics or Google Tag Manager on dotnet-guide.com. Google AdSense provides advertising-related reporting separately.

External Developer Platforms

Links to GitHub, Microsoft documentation, NuGet, and other external resources take you to independently operated services with their own privacy practices.

.NET AI Tutorials and Companion Code

Our .NET AI tutorials explain topics such as provider-independent chat, hybrid search, agents, and Model Context Protocol (MCP). Reading these tutorial pages does not, by itself, submit your own prompts or source files to a model provider.

If you choose to download and run a companion project, its configuration may connect to local models, hosted model APIs, databases, or other services. Data sent by your local or deployed copy of that software is generally processed according to the services you select and their policies, not as a submission through our website.

Before running examples with external AI providers, review the sample configuration and the provider's privacy, security, retention, and billing policies. Do not place live credentials or confidential information into public repositories or example requests.

When Information May Be Shared

We do not operate a business of selling contact-form submissions to data brokers. Information may nevertheless be handled by the third parties that provide website infrastructure, Formspree contact delivery, or Google AdSense advertising services.

• Service providers: Hosting and security services, Formspree, and email providers may process information needed to operate their services or deliver your contact messages.
• Google AdSense: Google and participating advertising vendors may receive technical identifiers or ad-interaction information as described above. Certain advertising disclosures may be legally classified as a sale or sharing under particular privacy laws even without a monetary sale of a personal-data file.
• Legal or safety reasons: We may disclose information when lawfully required or reasonably necessary to investigate abuse or protect the website, subject to applicable law.
• Business changes: Information relevant to website operations may be transferred if the website changes ownership, subject to applicable requirements.

We cannot make promises about the independent processing practices of third-party providers beyond the controls and terms that actually apply to those services.

How Long Information Is Kept

Retention varies by category, purpose, and provider. We do not apply one fixed retention period to all information.

• Server and security logs: Kept according to hosting, security, troubleshooting, and applicable legal requirements. Actual settings may change.
• Contact messages: We keep messages as reasonably needed for replies, relevant correspondence, or legal obligations. Formspree may retain submission records and related technical data under its own policies and applicable account settings.
• Advertising information: Google AdSense and participating vendors determine retention of their advertising records under their policies, settings, and applicable requirements.
• Browser storage: Preference settings may remain until removed by the browser, the website, or the user.

Where practical and appropriate, information that is no longer needed may be deleted or de-identified, subject to lawful retention requirements.

Data Security

We use reasonable operational and technical precautions appropriate to a small educational website, including secure transport where supported, controlled access to hosting and administrative systems, and routine security maintenance.

However, no website, data transfer, provider, or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure. You should avoid sending credentials or other sensitive content through general contact forms.

International Data Processing

The website is operated from India and can be accessed worldwide. Hosting, Google Fonts, Google AdSense, Formspree, and other third-party services may process information in countries other than your own. Formspree states that it may process personal information in the United States and other countries where it operates.

Where cross-border processing is subject to legal requirements, appropriate obligations and safeguards depend on the applicable law, provider, and processing arrangement. This policy does not claim that a particular international transfer mechanism applies to every service.

Your Privacy Rights

Depending on the laws that apply to you and to our processing, you may be entitled to request access to personal data, correction of inaccurate data, erasure, information about processing, restriction or objection, or withdrawal of consent where consent is the relevant legal basis. Some laws also provide complaint, appeal, or data portability rights.

Residents of India

Indian digital personal data protection requirements, including the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 and its phased implementation, may apply depending on the provisions in force and the processing involved. Applicable rights and procedures will be handled according to the requirements in effect at the relevant time.

European and UK Visitors

EU or UK data protection rules may apply in certain circumstances. Where applicable, they can provide rights relating to access, correction, erasure, processing restrictions, objection, portability, and consent withdrawal, as well as the ability to contact the relevant supervisory authority.

California and Other US Residents

Some US state privacy laws provide additional rights when their coverage requirements are met, potentially including access, deletion, correction, and opt-out rights relating to certain advertising data disclosures. We do not assume that every such law applies to every visitor or to this website.

How to Make a Request

Please use our contact page, identify the relevant privacy request, and provide enough information for us to locate the records concerned. We may ask for reasonable verification before disclosing or deleting information. We will handle requests in accordance with applicable requirements.

Children's Privacy

dotnet-guide.com provides technical learning material for developers and is not specifically directed to children. We do not intentionally ask children to submit personal information. If you are a parent or guardian and believe personal information about a child was submitted, please contact us so the matter can be reviewed.

Browser Privacy Signals

Browsers may offer cookie blocking, site-data deletion, Do Not Track (DNT), or Global Privacy Control (GPC) signals. DNT does not have a universally adopted handling standard. Other signals may carry legal significance where particular laws apply.

Use the controls available in your browser, the website when presented, and relevant third-party services. You can also contact us about rights and opt-outs that may apply to you.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may revise this policy when website features, third-party services, legal requirements, or data practices change. The updated policy will be posted on this page with a revised date. Where a law requires additional notice or consent for a material change, that requirement must be addressed separately; continued browsing alone is not a substitute.

Contact Us About Privacy

For privacy questions, information requests, corrections, or deletion inquiries, please use our contact page. The website is independently operated from India.

Contact-form provider: The contact form is processed by Formspree. Before submitting personal information, you can review the Formspree Privacy Policy.

To help us assess a request, please identify the page or communication concerned and describe what you would like us to review. Do not include passwords or other sensitive credentials in your message.

You can also review our Editorial Policy and Legal Disclaimer for information about content review standards and educational code-use limitations.