Privacy Policy

Last updated: April 2026

Welcome to BotNews.today. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, protect, and share personal data when you visit our website, read our articles, interact with ads, click affiliate links, use contact forms, subscribe to updates, or otherwise use our services.

BotNews.today is an AI, technology, digital business, SEO, automation, and future-of-the-internet news website operated from the European Union. We aim to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation, the ePrivacy rules, and other applicable privacy laws.

1. Data Controller

For the purposes of data protection law, the data controller is:

Porto Scuba IKE
63077 Kallithea, Kassandra, Halkidiki, Greece
Website: https://botnews.today
Email: sitetools@botnews.today

2. Information We Collect

We may collect different types of information depending on how you use BotNews.today.

Information you provide directly

This may include your name, email address, message content, newsletter subscription details, comment content, or any other information you choose to send to us through forms, email, comments, or other communication tools.

Technical and usage information

When you visit BotNews.today, we may automatically collect technical information such as your IP address, browser type and version, device type, operating system, referring website, pages visited, time spent on pages, approximate location based on IP address, cookie identifiers, consent choices, and interactions with website content.

Advertising, affiliate, and analytics information

We may use advertising, affiliate, and analytics technologies that collect information about your visit, device, browser, and interactions with ads, links, and content. These technologies may include cookies, pixels, tags, local storage, scripts, and similar tools.

3. How We Use Personal Data

We may use personal data for the following purposes:

  • To operate, maintain, secure, and improve BotNews.today.
  • To publish and improve AI, technology, SEO, automation, and digital business content.
  • To understand which articles, categories, and topics are useful to readers.
  • To analyze website traffic, performance, and user behavior.
  • To display advertising, including Google AdSense and other advertising networks.
  • To measure ad performance and prevent advertising fraud.
  • To personalize ads where legally allowed and where valid consent has been given.
  • To manage affiliate links and track eligible referrals or commissions.
  • To respond to messages, requests, or support inquiries.
  • To manage newsletter subscriptions, if offered.
  • To prevent spam, abuse, fraud, unauthorized access, and security threats.
  • To comply with legal, accounting, tax, regulatory, or contractual obligations.

4. Legal Bases for Processing

If you are located in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, we process your personal data under one or more of the following legal bases:

  • Consent: for non-essential cookies, analytics cookies, advertising cookies, personalized advertising, marketing technologies, affiliate tracking where required, and similar technologies.
  • Legitimate interests: for basic website operation, security, fraud prevention, audience understanding, website improvement, and protection of our legal rights, provided these interests are not overridden by your rights and freedoms.
  • Contract: where processing is necessary to provide a service you requested, such as responding to a direct inquiry or managing a subscription.
  • Legal obligation: where we must process or retain information to comply with applicable law.

5. Cookies and Similar Technologies

BotNews.today uses cookies and similar technologies to make the website work, improve performance, understand readership, display ads, measure advertising, support affiliate links, and remember your choices.

Cookies may be used for:

  • Essential website functions.
  • Security and anti-spam protection.
  • Analytics and traffic measurement.
  • Advertising and ad personalization.
  • Affiliate tracking.
  • Embedded content and third-party services.
  • Remembering cookie consent choices.

Where required by law, we ask for your consent before placing non-essential cookies or using similar tracking technologies. You can accept, reject, or manage cookie preferences through our cookie banner or consent settings.

You can also control cookies through your browser settings. Blocking some cookies may affect how the website works.

6. Google AdSense and Advertising Partners

BotNews.today may use Google AdSense, Google advertising products, and other advertising networks or partners to display ads on the website.

Google and other advertising partners may use cookies, device identifiers, local storage, pixels, tags, scripts, or similar technologies to:

  • Serve ads on this website.
  • Measure ad performance.
  • Prevent fraud, abuse, and invalid traffic.
  • Limit how often ads are shown.
  • Show personalized ads where legally allowed and where valid consent has been given.
  • Show non-personalized ads where personalization is disabled or consent is not granted.

For visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland, we aim to use advertising technologies in accordance with applicable consent requirements. Where required, advertising cookies and personalized advertising will only be used after valid consent has been given.

Google may process information collected through Google advertising services according to its own privacy policies and advertising terms. You can learn more about how Google uses information from sites and apps that use its services here: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites

You can manage Google ad personalization settings here: https://adssettings.google.com/

7. Affiliate Links, Sponsored Links, and Commercial Content

BotNews.today may contain affiliate links, sponsored links, promotional placements, product recommendations, service recommendations, or other commercial content.

This means that if you click a link and buy a product, sign up for a service, start a trial, download software, or complete another qualifying action, we may receive a commission or other compensation at no extra cost to you.

Affiliate partners may use cookies, tracking links, pixels, tags, scripts, or similar technologies to record that you came from BotNews.today and to measure eligible referrals. These third-party partners may process your data according to their own privacy policies.

We aim to clearly identify sponsored content, affiliate relationships, or commercial placements where required by law or platform rules.

8. Google Analytics and Website Measurement

We may use Google Analytics or similar analytics tools to understand how visitors use BotNews.today. These tools may collect information such as pages visited, time on site, device type, browser type, approximate location, referral source, and interactions with content.

Analytics helps us understand what readers find useful, improve article structure, improve website speed, identify technical problems, and measure the performance of our content.

Where required by law, analytics cookies and non-essential analytics technologies will only be used after consent has been given.

9. Google Fonts and External Design Resources

BotNews.today may use Google Fonts or other externally loaded design resources to improve the appearance, readability, and performance of the website.

When fonts or design resources are loaded from external servers, your browser may send technical information such as your IP address, requested URL, browser details, and referrer information to the provider of that resource.

Where appropriate, we may choose to self-host fonts or use local font files to reduce third-party requests.

10. Embedded Content and Third-Party Websites

Articles on BotNews.today may include embedded content or links from third-party websites, such as videos, social media posts, charts, maps, images, tools, documents, or external articles.

Embedded content from another website behaves as if you visited that website directly. These third parties may collect data about you, use cookies, track interactions, and combine data with accounts you may have with them.

BotNews.today is not responsible for the privacy practices of third-party websites. We recommend reviewing their privacy policies before interacting with them.

11. Comments, Forms, and Email Communication

If you leave a comment, submit a form, or contact us by email, we may collect the information you provide together with technical details needed for security, spam prevention, and abuse protection.

We use this information to respond to you, manage communication, moderate comments, prevent abuse, improve the website, and protect our legal rights.

Please do not send sensitive personal data unless it is necessary.

12. Newsletters and Email Updates

If BotNews.today offers a newsletter or email updates, we may collect your email address and related subscription information.

We use this information to send updates, news, articles, and related content. You can unsubscribe at any time using the unsubscribe link in the email or by contacting us at sitetools@botnews.today.

We may use third-party email service providers to manage newsletters, mailing lists, and email delivery.

13. Data Sharing

We may share limited personal data with trusted service providers and partners where necessary for the operation, improvement, security, monetization, and legal compliance of BotNews.today.

These may include:

  • Website hosting providers.
  • Security and anti-spam providers.
  • Analytics providers.
  • Advertising networks and ad technology providers.
  • Affiliate networks and commercial partners.
  • Email and newsletter service providers.
  • Technical support providers.
  • Professional advisers, such as accountants, lawyers, or compliance consultants.
  • Legal, regulatory, tax, or government authorities where required by law.

We do not sell your personal data as a standalone product. However, advertising, analytics, and affiliate technologies may involve data sharing, cookies, identifiers, tracking links, or similar tools for ad delivery, measurement, fraud prevention, personalization, analytics, and referral tracking, subject to consent where required.

14. International Data Transfers

Some of our service providers, advertising partners, analytics providers, affiliate partners, or technology providers may process data outside Greece, outside the European Union, or outside the European Economic Area.

Where required, we rely on appropriate safeguards such as adequacy decisions, Standard Contractual Clauses, data processing agreements, consent, or other legally recognized transfer mechanisms.

15. Data Retention

We keep personal data only for as long as necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.

Typical retention periods may include:

  • Contact messages: for as long as needed to respond and maintain business records.
  • Comments: for as long as the comment remains published or moderation records are needed.
  • Newsletter data: until you unsubscribe or request deletion, unless retention is legally required.
  • Analytics data: according to the retention settings of the analytics provider.
  • Cookie consent records: for as long as needed to prove and manage consent choices.
  • Security logs: for a limited period needed to protect the website and investigate abuse.
  • Advertising and affiliate records: according to partner, accounting, tax, and legal requirements.

16. Your Privacy Rights

Depending on your location, especially if you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, you may have the right to:

  • Access your personal data.
  • Correct inaccurate or incomplete personal data.
  • Request deletion of your personal data.
  • Restrict processing of your personal data.
  • Object to processing based on legitimate interests.
  • Withdraw consent at any time.
  • Request data portability.
  • Lodge a complaint with a data protection authority.

Withdrawing consent does not affect processing that happened before withdrawal.

To exercise your rights, contact us at: sitetools@botnews.today.

17. Managing Consent and Cookie Choices

You can manage your cookie and tracking choices through our cookie banner or consent settings, where available.

You may also use your browser settings to block, delete, or manage cookies. Some third-party services, including advertising and analytics providers, may offer their own opt-out tools.

For Google advertising, you can manage ad personalization through Google’s ad settings: https://adssettings.google.com/

18. Children’s Privacy

BotNews.today is not intended for children under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children. If you believe a child has provided personal data to us, please contact us and we will take appropriate steps to delete it.

19. Security

We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect personal data from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, disclosure, or destruction.

However, no website, server, database, or internet transmission is completely secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security.

20. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our website, legal requirements, advertising partners, analytics tools, affiliate programs, or business operations.

The updated version will be posted on this page with a new “Last updated” date.

21. Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, your personal data, cookies, advertising, analytics, affiliate tracking, or your privacy rights, you can contact us at:

Porto Scuba IKE
63077 Kallithea, Kassandra, Halkidiki, Greece
Email: sitetools@botnews.today
Website: https://botnews.today