$300 Billion in One Quarter — But Strip Out Four Companies and the Story Changes Completely TypeScript Hit Number One on GitHub. Now Comes the Hard Part. Rust Is Now in Half of All Enterprise Codebases — and the Language War Is the Wrong Thing to Watch The $10.5 Trillion Problem: Why AI Is Making Cybersecurity Simultaneously Better and Worse Ransomware Is Now a Franchise Business — And It's Growing Faster Than the Companies It Attacks DeFi Is Growing Up — And It's Not Nearly as Fun as It Used to Be Bitcoin ETFs Absorbed More Capital in 18 Months Than Gold ETFs Did in 15 Years The AI Compute War Nobody Warned You About — And Why It's Already Changing What You Can Build GPT-5.5 vs Claude Opus 4.7 vs Gemini 3.1 Pro — An Honest Breakdown for Developers Who Actually Have to Choose The Lawyer Who Lied to the Supreme Court About Using AI — Then Got Suspended

Privacy Policy

Last updated: May 2026

Hitechies ("we", "us", "our") operates hitechies.com. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, and what rights you have in relation to it. Please read it carefully.

Who We Are

Hitechies is a technology publication covering AI, cryptocurrency, cybersecurity, software development, and startups. We publish editorial content and host the Hitechies Podcast. Our website is hitechies.com.

For privacy-related enquiries, contact us at: privacy@hitechies.com

What Information We Collect

Information you provide to us

When you subscribe to our newsletter, we collect your email address. If you contact us directly — via email or a contact form — we collect your name, email address, and the contents of your message. We do not collect payment information, as we do not currently sell subscriptions or products directly through this website.

Information collected automatically

When you visit hitechies.com, we automatically collect certain technical information including your IP address, browser type and version, operating system, referring URL, pages visited, and time spent on pages. This data is collected through cookies and similar tracking technologies and is used in aggregate to understand how our content performs.

Information from third parties

If you interact with social sharing buttons on our site (for X, LinkedIn, or similar), those platforms may collect data about your interaction. We do not control the data collection practices of third-party platforms.

How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect to:

  • Send you our newsletter if you have subscribed and given us your consent to do so
  • Respond to enquiries you send us directly
  • Understand how our content is read and improve it over time
  • Monitor the security and performance of our website
  • Comply with legal obligations

We do not use your personal information for automated decision-making or profiling. We do not sell, rent, or share your personal data with third parties for their marketing purposes.

If you are located in the European Union or United Kingdom, we rely on the following legal bases for processing your personal data:

  • Consent — for sending you our newsletter. You can withdraw this consent at any time.
  • Legitimate interests — for analytics and website security, where our interests in operating a website do not override your fundamental rights.
  • Legal obligation — where processing is required to comply with applicable law.

Newsletter and Email Communications

If you subscribe to our newsletter, we will send you regular updates about our editorial content, podcast episodes, and coverage. You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any email we send, or by emailing privacy@hitechies.com. We use Ghost's built-in subscription and email delivery system to manage newsletters.

Cookies

We use cookies on hitechies.com. For full details of the cookies we use and how to control them, please see our Cookie Policy at hitechies.com/cookies.

Third-Party Services

We use the following third-party services which may process personal data on our behalf or independently:

  • Ghost — our publishing and subscription platform. Ghost processes subscriber email addresses to deliver newsletters. Ghost's privacy policy is available at ghost.org/privacy.
  • Buzzsprout — our podcast hosting provider. When you interact with embedded podcast players, Buzzsprout may collect listening data. Buzzsprout's privacy policy is available at buzzsprout.com/privacy.
  • Google Analytics or equivalent — we use analytics software to understand traffic patterns. This involves collection of anonymised or pseudonymised usage data. You can opt out of analytics tracking via your browser's cookie settings or a browser extension such as the Google Analytics opt-out add-on.

We do not allow advertising networks to place tracking cookies on hitechies.com.

Data Retention

We retain newsletter subscriber data for as long as you remain subscribed, plus a reasonable period for record-keeping purposes after unsubscription. We retain analytics data in accordance with our analytics provider's standard retention policies, typically 14 months. We retain enquiry correspondence for up to two years.

Your Rights

Depending on your location, you may have the following rights regarding your personal data:

  • Access — the right to request a copy of the personal data we hold about you
  • Rectification — the right to ask us to correct inaccurate data
  • Erasure — the right to ask us to delete your personal data in certain circumstances
  • Restriction — the right to ask us to restrict how we process your data
  • Portability — the right to receive your data in a structured, machine-readable format
  • Objection — the right to object to processing based on legitimate interests
  • Withdrawal of consent — where processing is based on consent, you can withdraw it at any time

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at privacy@hitechies.com. We will respond within 30 days. If you are in the EU or UK and believe we have not handled your data correctly, you have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.

Data Security

We take reasonable steps to protect your personal data from unauthorised access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. Our website is served over HTTPS. We limit access to personal data to those who need it to operate the site and deliver our services.

No method of data transmission or storage is completely secure. While we take appropriate precautions, we cannot guarantee the absolute security of information transmitted to us over the internet.

Children's Privacy

Hitechies is not directed at children under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children. If you believe we have inadvertently collected data from a child, please contact us at privacy@hitechies.com and we will delete it promptly.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will update the "last updated" date at the top of this page. We encourage you to review this policy periodically. Continued use of hitechies.com after changes have been posted constitutes your acceptance of the updated policy.

Contact

For any privacy-related questions or to exercise your rights:

Email: privacy@hitechies.com