Privacy and data protection at LiteByte

Personal information you disclose includes:

• Contact details such as your name, email address, phone number, and organization affiliation.
• Account credentials and security information, including passwords, authentication tokens, or multi-factor prompts so you can sign in securely.
• Profile details like your role, community affiliations, photos, bios, and notification preferences.
• Content you submit, including posts, attachments, survey responses, and messages sent to our support team.

Automatically collected data includes:

• Device and browser characteristics (IP address, device identifiers, operating system, language, hardware, and preferred settings).
• Usage data describing how you interact with the platform, including pages viewed, features used, timestamps, referrers, and diagnostic logs.
• Approximate location inferred from your IP address to keep experiences compliant with regional regulations.
• Cookie identifiers and similar technologies that remember your session, preferences, and opt-out choices.

Typical uses include:

• Providing the platform functionality you sign up for, creating accounts, and enabling publishing workflows.
• Personalizing feeds, recommendations, and notifications so important updates surface quickly.
• Communicating with you about product improvements, feature launches, billing, surveys, and responding to support inquiries.
• Monitoring performance, troubleshooting issues, and performing analytics that help us improve the experience.
• Protecting against fraud, abuse, or violations of our terms, and enforcing community standards.

• Performance of a contract: processing is necessary to provide the services you request, such as maintaining your account.
• Legitimate interests: we process limited data to operate, secure, and improve LiteByte in a way that does not override your rights.
• Consent: we rely on your consent for optional activities, for example marketing subscriptions or beta research, and you may withdraw consent at any time.
• Legal obligations: we may need to retain or disclose data to meet regulatory, tax, or law-enforcement requirements.
• Vital interests: in rare situations we may process data to help prevent harm to a person.

We may disclose information to:

• Service providers that host infrastructure or deliver analytics, customer support, email, or payment processing.
• Professional advisors and auditors who help us stay compliant with legal and financial regulations.
• Business partners, resellers, or integration partners when you direct us to connect your LiteByte account with their services.
• Law enforcement or regulators when required to comply with legal process or to protect the rights, property, or safety of LiteByte, our users, or others.
• Relevant parties in a corporate transaction such as a merger, financing, or acquisition, subject to appropriate confidentiality safeguards.

These technologies help us:

• Stay secure by authenticating sessions and preventing fraudulent activity.
• Measure engagement so we can understand which features are most helpful.
• Remember your preferences, such as language, accessibility, or notification settings.

• Active account data is stored while you or your organization use LiteByte.
• Support, billing, and compliance records are retained according to legal, tax, and audit requirements.
• When data is no longer needed, we delete it or irreversibly anonymize it.

• Encryption in transit (HTTPS/TLS) and at rest for sensitive records.
• Role-based access controls, multi-factor authentication, and background checks for employees who need system access.
• Continuous monitoring, logging, and alerting that help identify suspicious behavior.
• Documented incident response procedures and regular security training for the LiteByte team.

You may have the right to:

• Request access to the personal information we hold about you.
• Ask that we correct inaccurate or incomplete data.
• Request deletion of your information or ask us to restrict certain processing.
• Object to processing based on legitimate interests or direct marketing.
• Receive a portable copy of the data you provided.
• Withdraw consent for any activity that relies on consent.
• Lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.

Your options include:

• Managing profile details and notification preferences directly within the LiteByte app.
• Submitting a formal request through our secure data subject access form.
• Emailing us at support@litebye.news with any privacy question or appeal.