Privacy policy
Pennybench is a site you read. You don’t sign up and there’s nothing to log in to. There are no ads, no analytics and no tracking cookies on it. This page explains the little we do handle and why.
Who we are
Pennybench is run by BIZWAX WEBDEV SRL, a company registered in Romania (tax ID RO47632445), Str. George Valsan 12, Bl. 109, Sc. 1, Et. 1, Ap. 7, Sector 6, 060475 Bucharest, Romania. We are the data controller for the personal data described here. For anything about your data, write to hello@pennybench.com.
What we collect, and why
| When | What | Why, and the legal basis |
|---|---|---|
| You read a page | Your IP address, browser type, the page you asked for and the time, in our host’s server logs | To deliver the page and keep the site secure. Legitimate interest (GDPR art. 6(1)(f)). |
| You email us | Your email address, your name if you give it, and what you write | To reply to you. Legitimate interest, or steps you asked for before a contract (art. 6(1)(b)). |
That is all. We don’t use analytics tools, advertising pixels, session recording or fingerprinting. The site sets no cookies. Our fonts and images are served from our own site, so reading a page doesn’t send your details to Google or any other font or image service.
Links to other sites
Our pages link to the products we write about, such as Shopify and Squarespace. When you click one, you leave Pennybench, and that site’s own privacy policy applies.
Some of those links may later become affiliate links (see how we make money). An affiliate link can carry a code that tells the shop the visit came from us. The shop, or the affiliate network that runs the program, may then set its own cookies on its own site. Pennybench doesn’t receive your name, email or payment details from any shop. If a program ever reports a purchase to us, we see only that a sale happened and the commission, not who you are.
Who handles the data for us
- Vercel Inc. hosts the site and keeps the server logs (Vercel privacy policy).
- Google LLC runs our email (Google Workspace) (Google privacy policy).
Both may process data outside the European Economic Area, including in the United States. They do so under the safeguards the GDPR allows, such as the EU-US Data Privacy Framework or the European Commission’s standard contractual clauses.
We don’t sell personal information, and we don’t share it for advertising.
How long we keep it
- Server logs are kept by Vercel for a limited period under its own retention settings, then deleted.
- Emails are kept while the conversation is useful, and deleted within 2 years of the last message unless we need them to resolve a dispute.
Your rights
If you are in the European Economic Area or the UK, you can ask us to show you the personal data we hold about you, correct it, delete it, limit how we use it, or send it to you in a portable form. You can also object to processing based on legitimate interest. Write to hello@pennybench.com and we’ll answer within one month.
You can also complain to a data protection authority. Ours is the Romanian National Supervisory Authority for Personal Data Processing (ANSPDCP, dataprotection.ro). You can also go to the authority where you live.
If you are in the United States, you have the same access and deletion options by writing to us. We don’t sell or share personal information as US state privacy laws define those terms.
Children
Pennybench is written for business owners and isn’t aimed at children. We don’t knowingly collect data from anyone under 16.
Changes
If we add anything that collects more data, such as analytics or a newsletter, we’ll update this page first and change the date at the top.