Privacy Policy

1. Who we are

Cyber Technician operates a technology-content, giveaway and knowledge-challenge platform at thecybertechnician.com. The platform allows visitors to browse giveaway campaigns and allows eligible signed-in participants to complete campaign tasks, take video knowledge quizzes and receive verified campaign entries.

2. Information we collect

Depending on how you use the platform, we may collect:

• Google account identifier, name, email address and profile image supplied through Google Sign-In.
• YouTube account authorization data and read-only subscription verification results when you voluntarily connect YouTube.
• Discord or Telegram identifiers and encrypted OAuth tokens when you voluntarily connect those accounts for task verification.
• Phone number, messaging consent, notification preferences and browser push-subscription keys when you enable those services.
• Campaign participation, terms acceptance, task completion, referral and entry-ledger records.
• Task screenshots, extracted text, evidence hashes, AI/OCR confidence and tampering-risk signals when screenshot verification is used.
• Video knowledge-quiz attempts, answers, scores, XP and unique watch-progress checkpoints.
• Basic security and anti-fraud signals, such as IP-derived information, browser/user-agent information and timestamps.
• Information submitted through collaboration, support or newsletter forms.
• Consent preferences for analytics, personalization, marketing and advertising, plus privacy-safe first-party measurement events when you allow analytics.
• Saved articles/products/comparisons, engagement XP, levels, missions, achievements and activity history when you use retention features.
• We record affiliate-link click events using a privacy-safe daily visitor hash; raw IP addresses are not stored by the affiliate click tracker.

3. Google and YouTube API data

Google Sign-In is used to authenticate participants and associate campaign records with one account. If you separately choose to connect YouTube, Cyber Technician requests the read-only scope needed to check YouTube-related campaign eligibility, including whether the connected YouTube account is subscribed to the Cyber Technician channel.

The requested YouTube permission is read-only. Cyber Technician cannot use it to upload or delete videos, post or delete comments, like videos, manage playlists or otherwise modify your YouTube account.

Cyber Technician’s use and transfer of information received from Google APIs will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

4. How we use information

• To create, secure and maintain participant accounts.
• To administer campaigns, verify eligibility and calculate campaign entries.
• To verify YouTube subscription tasks when the user has granted read-only access.
• To verify eligible Discord, Telegram or WhatsApp campaign actions after the user connects or interacts with the relevant service.
• To analyze voluntarily submitted screenshots using the configured AI/OCR provider and route uncertain evidence to human review.
• To deliver consented website, email, SMS, WhatsApp or Web Push notifications and record delivery receipts.
• To operate video knowledge quizzes and award campaign entries or loyalty XP.
• To prevent duplicate entries, automated abuse, manipulation and fraud.
• To contact provisional winners and complete prize verification or fulfilment.
• To respond to collaboration, newsletter and support requests.
• To measure consented product/content/campaign journeys through first-party events and, only when enabled and consented, GA4 or Google Tag Manager.
• To provide saved content, rule-based next-best actions, persistent achievements, levels, missions and streaks. Engagement XP does not secretly alter giveaway entries or draw odds.
• To operate disclosed affiliate links and aggregate click performance without unrestricted cross-site profiling.
• To manage sponsor/brand opportunities, contracted deliverables and recognized sponsorship or affiliate revenue.
• To show limited route-aware display advertising only on eligible editorial/product/discovery surfaces when advertising is enabled and you have explicitly allowed advertising. Ads are not rendered on campaign participation, quiz, KYC, claim, login, account, Admin V2 or updater surfaces.
• To run limited traffic experiments on non-critical content/discovery surfaces only when experimentation is enabled and analytics consent is present.

5. Legal basis and consent

Google and YouTube access is requested only after you choose to sign in or connect YouTube. You may decline YouTube authorization; however, YouTube-specific campaign tasks cannot be automatically verified without it. Campaign participation may also require acceptance of campaign-specific official rules. Optional analytics, personalization and marketing preferences, advertising consent, and newsletter processing use explicit choices that you can change or withdraw; essential security and campaign-audit processing does not depend on analytics consent.

6. Sharing and sale of information

We do not sell personal information. Data may be shared only with hosting, security, communication, AI/OCR or prize-fulfilment service providers when reasonably necessary to operate the platform, verify a submitted task, deliver a requested alert, fulfil a prize, comply with law, investigate abuse or protect users and the platform. Each provider receives only the data needed for that operation.

7. Storage and security

We use reasonable administrative and technical safeguards. OAuth tokens and designated secrets, where retained, are encrypted at rest. Security controls include response-security headers, bounded malware scanning on supported uploads, operational alerting, audit trails and recurring source/dependency security checks. No internet-based service can guarantee absolute security, but access is limited to legitimate operational needs.

8. Data retention

We retain account and campaign records only as long as reasonably necessary for platform operation, winner verification, fraud prevention, legal obligations, accounting, dispute resolution and audit integrity. Screenshot evidence is scheduled for automatic deletion after the configured evidence-retention period (30 days by default), while non-image audit results or hashes may be retained to prevent repeat fraud. Some immutable campaign-entry or winner-draw records may be retained to preserve transparency and legal compliance.

9. Disconnecting and revoking access

You may disconnect YouTube, Discord or Telegram through your Cyber Technician dashboard. You may also revoke access from the relevant provider’s account settings and disable notification channels from the Notification Center. Revocation stops future authorized API access but may not automatically delete historical campaign records that must be retained for legitimate audit or legal purposes.

10. Access, correction and deletion requests

To request access, correction or deletion of personal data, email swati@cybertechnician.media or follow our data deletion instructions.

11. Public winner information

After a campaign result, limited winner information such as a display name, prize category and winning ticket reference may be published for transparency. Full email addresses, phone numbers and identity documents are not publicly displayed.

12. Children

Campaigns are generally intended for adults aged 18 or older unless the official rules of a specific campaign clearly state otherwise. We do not knowingly request Google or YouTube data from children in violation of applicable law.

13. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy when legal requirements, Google API requirements or platform functionality change. The current version and its effective date will remain publicly available at this URL.

14. Contact

Cyber Technician
Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
Email: swati@cybertechnician.media