Effective Date: 18/06/2025
Last Updated with Turnstile Addendum: JUNE 11, 2026
Welcome to Big Biz Tools. Your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website. It also outlines your rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).
1. Information We Collect
We may collect the following types of information:
a. Personal Information (you provide voluntarily)
- Name, email address, and other contact details.
- Submitted through forms (e.g., newsletter, contact, comments).
b. Automatically Collected Information & Security Signals
- IP address, browser type, device info, and referring URLs.
- Pages viewed and time spent on our website.
- Turnstile Security Signals: To protect our web properties against malicious activity, we use Cloudflare Turnstile. Turnstile processes a variety of client-side signals (“Signals”) such as your client IP address, TLS Fingerprint, User-Agent Header, and Sitekey/associated origin. Cloudflare cannot directly identify individuals from these Signals.
c. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
- Cookies, web beacons, and pixels to analyze site traffic and personalize content.
- Turnstile Cookie Exception: The security Signals collected by Turnstile are strictly necessary for detecting and blocking bots to ensure a safe user experience. You can control standard cookie settings through your browser.
2. How We Use Your Information
We use the collected data to:
- Improve and personalize the website.
- Communicate with you (e.g., by sending newsletters or replying to inquiries).
- Track and analyze user behavior for performance and marketing.
- Comply with legal obligations.
- Bot Detection and Security: We use Turnstile to distinguish human users from bots and block malicious traffic. This data is processed to ensure site safety. Big Biz Tools acts as the Data Controller for form submissions, while Cloudflare acts as our Data Processor for these security checks. Cloudflare also acts as an independent Data Controller solely to refine and improve its global bot-detection algorithms.
3. Legal Bases for Processing (GDPR)
Under GDPR, we process your data based on:
- Your consent.
- The necessity to fulfill a contract.
- Our Legitimate Interests: This includes securing our website, preventing spam, and improving the effectiveness of bot-detection capabilities, provided they don’t override your fundamental rights.
- Compliance with legal obligations.
4. Your GDPR Rights
If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have the right to:
- Access the personal data we hold about you.
- Request correction or deletion of your data.
- Object to processing or request restriction.
- Withdraw consent at any time.
- Complain to a data protection authority.
To exercise your rights regarding standard form data, please contact us. For specific questions regarding Cloudflare’s background processing to improve its security network, you may also contact Cloudflare’s Data Protection Officer at dpo@cloudflare.com.
5. Your CCPA Rights
If you are a California resident, you have the right to:
- Know what personal information we collect and how we use it.
- Request the deletion of your personal data.
- Opt-out of the sale of your personal data (Please note: neither Big Biz Tools nor Cloudflare Turnstile sells or profiles your security data for targeting purposes).
- Non-discrimination for exercising your rights.
To submit a CCPA request, please contact us.
6. Data Retention
We retain your personal information only as long as necessary for the purposes outlined in this policy or as required by law. Security signals processed via Turnstile are kept by our processor only for the minimum duration required to validate human interactions and secure the site.