Privacy Policy

Last updated: June 04, 2026

Privacy Policy

Last updated: June 2026

At lateral.top (accessible from https://lateral.top), one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that is collected and recorded by lateral.top and how we use it.

If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us.

1. Information We Collect

We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our blog for you.

1.1 Personal Data

While using our blog, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. This is collected only when you voluntarily submit it, for example through our contact form or when leaving a comment. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

Email address
First name and last name
Any other information you choose to provide in the message body of a contact form or comment

1.2 Usage Data

We may also collect information on how the blog is accessed and used. This Usage Data may include information such as your computer's Internet Protocol address (IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our blog that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.

2. How We Use Your Information

lateral.top uses the collected data for various purposes:

To respond to your inquiries submitted via our contact form
To manage and display comments you leave on our blog posts
To provide and maintain our blog
To notify you about changes to our blog
To allow you to participate in interactive features of our blog when you choose to do so
To gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our blog
To monitor the usage of our blog
To detect, prevent, and address technical issues

3. Cookies and Web Beacons

Like any other blog, lateral.top uses 'cookies'. These cookies are used to store information including visitors' preferences, and the pages on the blog that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users' experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors' browser type and/or other information.

We use cookies for the following purposes:

Essential Cookies: These are necessary for the blog to function properly. They enable basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the blog.
Analytics Cookies: These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our blog by collecting and reporting information anonymously. This helps us improve the content and layout of our site.
Preference Cookies: These cookies allow our blog to remember information that changes the way the blog behaves or looks, such as your preferred language or the region you are in.

You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers' respective websites.

4. Analytics

We use basic analytics services to monitor and analyze the use of our blog. These analytics tools collect information such as how often users visit the blog, what pages they visit, and what other sites they used prior to coming to our blog. We use the information we get from analytics only to improve our blog and the content we publish. We do not combine the information collected through the use of analytics with personally identifiable information.

The analytics providers we use may use cookies and other tracking technologies to collect information about your use of our blog. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the blog (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by them. They will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the blog, compiling reports on blog activity, and providing other services relating to blog activity and internet usage.

5. Comments

When visitors leave comments on the blog, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor's IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

We reserve the right to moderate, edit, or delete any comments that we deem inappropriate, spam, or offensive.

6. Contact Forms

If you contact us directly via our contact form, we may receive additional information about you such as your name, email address, phone number, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide.

We use the information provided in contact forms solely for the purpose of responding to your inquiry. We do not use this information for marketing purposes unless you have explicitly opted in to receive such communications.

7. Third Party Privacy Policies

lateral.top's Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options.

8. CCPA Privacy Rights (Do Not Sell My Personal Information)

Under the CCPA, among other rights, California consumers have the right to:

Request that a business that collects a consumer's personal data disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data that a business has collected about consumers.
Request that a business delete any personal data about the consumer that a business has collected.
Request that a business not sell a consumer's personal data.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

9. GDPR Data Protection Rights

We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.
The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.
The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

10. Children's Information

Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.

lateral.top does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our blog, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

11. Data Security

The security of your data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

12. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

13. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:

By email: [email protected]
By mail: 157 Park Blvd, Austin, TX 78701