Privacy Policy

1. Who We Are

WhoInventedBitcoin.com is an independent educational website dedicated to documenting the history, origin, and mystery surrounding the creation of Bitcoin. We are not affiliated with any cryptocurrency exchange, investment platform, or financial institution.

For any privacy-related questions, you can contact us via our Contact page.

2. Information We Collect

We do not directly collect personal information such as your name, email address, or payment details. However, third-party services embedded on this site may collect data as described below.

Automatically Collected Data

When you visit our website, certain information may be collected automatically by our analytics and advertising partners, including:

• Your IP address (typically anonymised)
• Browser type and version
• Operating system
• Pages visited and time spent on each page
• Referring website (how you found us)
• General geographic location (country/region level)

3. Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors interact with our site. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect anonymised data about site usage. This data helps us improve the content and structure of our website.

Google Analytics data is processed by Google LLC. You can learn more about how Google uses this data at policies.google.com/privacy.

You can opt out of Google Analytics tracking by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

4. Google AdSense & Advertising

We use Google AdSense to display advertisements on this website. Google AdSense uses cookies and similar technologies to show you ads that are relevant to your interests, based on your browsing behaviour across websites.

Google and its partners may use cookies to:

• Serve ads based on your prior visits to this or other websites
• Measure ad performance and prevent fraud
• Personalise the ads you see

You can opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google's Ads Settings or by visiting aboutads.info.

For more information on how Google uses data in advertising, see: policies.google.com/technologies/ads.

5. Cookies

Cookies are small text files stored on your device by your browser. Our site uses cookies through the third-party services described above (Google Analytics and Google AdSense). We do not set any first-party tracking cookies ourselves.

You can control or disable cookies through your browser settings. Note that disabling cookies may affect the functionality of some features on this and other websites.

6. Third-Party Links

Our website contains links to external websites, including news sources, cryptocurrency data providers, and official Bitcoin resources. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of those external sites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party sites you visit.

7. Data from External APIs

Our Bitcoin price and news pages fetch data from the CoinGecko API. These requests are made directly from your browser to CoinGecko's servers. We do not store or process any data returned from these requests. Please refer to CoinGecko's Privacy Policy for details on their data practices.

8. Children's Privacy

Our website is not directed at children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect any personal information from children. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us and we will take steps to remove it.

9. Your Rights

Depending on your location, you may have rights under applicable data protection laws, including:

• The right to access information held about you
• The right to request correction or deletion of your data
• The right to object to or restrict certain processing
• The right to data portability

Since we do not directly collect personal data, most of these rights would be exercised with the third-party services mentioned above (Google, CoinGecko). For any questions, please contact us.

10. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or applicable law. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated date. We encourage you to review this page periodically.

11. Contact

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please use our Contact page.