Privacy policy

We are committed to your privacy.

Short Version

This site keeps all your personal information secret. Your personal information is not shared with anyone else.

Long Version

This site hosts the project, documents, and tutorials related to open source software's, Linux, FreeBSD and UNIX (Solaris) etc., largely compiled and maintained by nixCraft or by project contributors. We do not ask for any registration except registration is compulsory only if:

  • You wish to post your message on our forum
  • You wish to post comments on our blogs or tutorials

Forum software and other registration softwares create your profile and collect your personal information such as email address, your name, instant massager ids etc. We do not share this information with any other entity. In addition, a confirmation from the email address is required, to prevent anyone from subscribing to forum or wiki someone else without permission. Subscription to our wiki or forum will not start until confirmation is received. Requests to be removed from the wiki and forum will result in deletion of the email address and other profile information.

Advertising and Third-party ads

Because of effective Internet advertising, the content is free to you. We do accept advertising on our site. These advertising or advertiser put cookies on your computer and by clicking on external links on this website, you will be visiting independent sites which have separate privacy policies.

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, you may visit ad vendor websites to opt out of cookies (if the vendor offers this capability).

Links to the vendor websites to opt out:

Visitors are invited to email us with questions or comments. Information sent will not be shared with any other entity. Email addresses are required to allow us to reply, but we do not collect email addresses from these submissions.

Mailing list

Visitors are invited to join our mailing list. No information, except an e-mail address is required for this. In addition, a confirmation from the email address is required, to prevent anyone from subscribing someone else without permission. Subscription to our mailing list will not start until confirmation is received. Requests to be removed from the mailing list will result in deletion of the email address.

All the information provided or collected by us will only be used within cyberciti.biz and will not be sold, rented, loaned or traded with a third party, except where required by law.

If offensive content is posted or sent anywhere on or to cyberciti.biz or a visitor engages in any disruptive behavior on cyberciti.biz, we can use whatever information is available to stop such behavior. This may involve informing relevant third parties such as employers, web hosting service provider, e-mail/Internet providers and law enforcement agencies about the content and behavior.

Questions regarding Cyberciti.biz policy, should be directed to us.

Please note that this privacy policy is subject to change without any prior notice to visitors.