Effective Date: October 25, 2026
Last Updated: October 25, 2026
Welcome to TomBite (“TomBite,” “we,” “our,” or “us”), accessible at https://tombite.com/.
TomBite publishes educational book summaries, key ideas from books, personal development content, articles, and related learning resources. Our goal is to make valuable ideas easier to understand through our tagline: Big ideas, small bites.
We respect your privacy and are committed to being transparent about how information may be collected, used, stored, and shared when you visit our website.
This Privacy Policy explains our privacy practices and your choices regarding personal information. It applies to visitors and users of tombite.com and its associated website features.
1. Information We Collect
The information we collect depends on how you use our website and which features are enabled.
1.1 Information You Provide Voluntarily
You may provide information directly to us when you:
- Contact us through a contact form or email.
- Submit a comment on an article.
- Send feedback, corrections, or suggestions.
- Submit an inquiry about a book, author, publisher, or partnership.
- Subscribe to a newsletter, if available.
- Participate in other interactive features we may introduce.
Depending on the feature, this information may include your name, email address, website address, message, and any other information you choose to provide.
Please do not submit sensitive personal information through public comments or general contact forms.
1.2 Information Collected Automatically
When you visit TomBite, certain technical information may be collected automatically by our website, hosting provider, security tools, or other services that are enabled.
This information may include:
- Internet Protocol (IP) address.
- Browser type and version.
- Device type and operating system.
- Referring website or page.
- Pages visited and the date and time of access.
- Approximate location inferred from technical information, such as an IP address.
- Website performance, error, and security logs.
The specific information collected depends on your device, browser, website configuration, and the services in use.
We use this information, where applicable, to maintain website functionality, diagnose technical issues, protect against abuse, and understand how visitors use our website.
1.3 Comments
If comments are enabled, we collect the information entered into the comment form, together with technical information that may be needed to help detect spam or protect the website.
If you use a third-party profile or service to interact with our website, that service may process additional information according to its own privacy policy.
Please remember that comments may be publicly visible. Avoid including personal information you do not want others to see.
2. How We Use Information
Depending on the features enabled on TomBite, we may use collected information to:
- Operate, maintain, and improve our website.
- Publish and manage educational articles and book summaries.
- Respond to questions, feedback, and inquiries.
- Moderate comments and reduce spam.
- Protect our website, visitors, and systems against fraud, abuse, and unauthorized activity.
- Understand website traffic and content performance through analytics, where configured.
- Display advertising, where enabled.
- Manage affiliate links and measure referrals, where applicable.
- Deliver newsletters or other communications when you have subscribed.
- Comply with applicable legal obligations.
- Exercise or defend legal rights when necessary.
We do not claim to use every service or feature listed in this policy. Our actual practices depend on what is installed, activated, and configured on the website.
3. Cookies and Similar Technologies
TomBite may use cookies and similar technologies, depending on the website features and third-party services enabled.
Cookies are small files stored by your browser that can help websites remember preferences, maintain functionality, and understand website usage.
3.1 Types of Cookies
Where applicable, cookies and similar technologies may be used for the following purposes:
Essential cookies: These may support website security, basic functionality, comment features, or administrative functions.
Preference cookies: These may remember choices such as display preferences or other settings.
Analytics cookies: If analytics tools are enabled, these may help measure traffic, popular pages, visitor interactions, and website performance.
Advertising cookies: If advertising services are enabled, these may be used to deliver, measure, or personalize advertisements, subject to applicable settings and consent requirements.
Third-party cookies: Embedded videos, social media features, advertising networks, and other external services may use their own cookies or similar technologies.
3.2 Managing Cookies
You can manage or delete cookies through your browser settings. Depending on the browser, you may be able to block certain cookies or receive notifications before they are stored.
Blocking some cookies may affect website functionality.
Where required by applicable law, we will provide an appropriate consent mechanism before using non-essential cookies or similar technologies. You can use the available consent controls to change your preferences where supported.
Simply visiting our Privacy Policy does not replace any consent that may be legally required.
4. Third-Party Services and Embedded Content
TomBite may contain links to or embedded content from third-party websites and services. Examples include YouTube videos and, if added, Spotify, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest, or other platforms.
These features can make educational content more useful, but third-party services operate independently of TomBite.
4.1 YouTube and Other Embedded Media
If we embed a YouTube video or other third-party content, the relevant provider may receive technical information such as your IP address, browser information, the page you are visiting, and information associated with your interaction.
Depending on the provider, your browser settings, and the embedding method, the provider may also use cookies or similar technologies.
Third-party content may collect information when a page loads or when you interact with the embedded player. Where available and appropriate, we may use privacy-enhanced embedding options or consent controls to limit data transmission before you choose to play embedded content.
Using a privacy-enhanced embedding option does not necessarily prevent all data collection.
4.2 External Links
Our articles may link to books, publishers, authors, retailers, social media profiles, educational resources, or other websites.
When you follow an external link, you leave TomBite and become subject to the destination website’s privacy practices and terms.
We do not control the privacy policies, security, or data collection practices of external websites. We encourage you to review their privacy policies before providing information or making a purchase.
5. Analytics and Website Performance
We may use analytics or website performance tools to understand how visitors interact with TomBite, but only if such tools are enabled.
These services may collect information about page views, traffic sources, approximate geographic areas, browser types, device categories, and interactions with website content.
If Google Analytics or another analytics provider is configured, that provider may process information according to its own privacy documentation and applicable settings.
We may use analytics information to identify popular articles, improve navigation, understand audience interests, and enhance the reading experience.
We do not represent that Google Analytics, Microsoft Clarity, or any other specific analytics service is currently active unless it has actually been installed and configured.
6. Advertising
TomBite may display advertisements in the future to help support website operations and educational content.
If advertising services are enabled, advertising providers may use cookies, device information, page information, or similar technologies to display advertisements, measure performance, prevent fraud, or personalize ads where permitted.
Depending on the advertising provider and applicable settings, information may be processed to deliver contextual or personalized advertising.
If Google AdSense or another advertising network is used, its applicable privacy policies and advertising controls will also apply.
Where required, we will provide appropriate disclosures and consent or preference mechanisms for advertising-related data processing.
Visitors may be able to manage personalized advertising through the relevant provider’s settings. For Google advertising, see:
For information about how Google processes data when websites use its services, visit:
We do not claim that advertisements or advertising cookies are currently active unless advertising has been configured on TomBite.
7. Affiliate Links and Referral Programs
TomBite may use affiliate links to books, educational resources, products, retailers, or other services.
If an affiliate program is enabled, we may receive a commission when a visitor follows a qualifying link and completes a purchase or another qualifying action. Where applicable, this may be at no additional cost to the visitor.
Affiliate partners may use cookies, referral identifiers, or similar technologies to attribute a purchase or referral to our website.
The information processed and the duration of any tracking depend on the affiliate program and its terms.
We will disclose relevant affiliate relationships where required and place disclosures clearly in connection with applicable recommendations or links.
Affiliate relationships will not be described as active unless we have actually joined or implemented the relevant program.
For more information about affiliate relationships, please refer to our Affiliate Disclosure page, if available.
8. How We Share Information
We do not sell personal information in exchange for money.
However, depending on the services enabled and the applicable law, information may be shared or made available in the following circumstances:
8.1 Service Providers
We may share necessary information with service providers that help operate our website, such as hosting companies, security providers, spam prevention services, email providers, analytics providers, and technical support services.
These providers may process information on our behalf or for their own purposes as described in their applicable terms and privacy policies.
8.2 Third-Party Platforms
If you interact with embedded media, advertisements, analytics tools, affiliate links, or social media features, information may be received directly by the relevant third-party provider.
Their processing is governed by their own policies and settings.
8.3 Legal Requirements and Protection
We may disclose information when we reasonably believe disclosure is necessary to comply with applicable law, respond to lawful requests, protect the rights or safety of individuals, investigate fraud, or protect the security and integrity of our website.
8.4 Business Transfers
If TomBite or its website assets are transferred, reorganized, or acquired, information may be transferred as part of that transaction, subject to applicable legal requirements and appropriate safeguards.
8.5 With Your Direction or Consent
We may share information for another purpose when you request or authorize the sharing, or when another lawful basis permits it.
9. Data Retention
We retain information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this policy, subject to applicable legal requirements.
Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information and the reason it was collected.
For example:
- Contact messages may be retained for as long as necessary to respond and maintain relevant records.
- Comments may remain published until removed by us or the relevant user, subject to our moderation practices and legal obligations.
- Security logs may be retained for a limited period needed to investigate technical issues or protect the website.
- Analytics information may be retained according to the settings and retention policies of the relevant provider.
- Records required for legal, security, or administrative purposes may be retained for the applicable period.
When information is no longer needed, we will take reasonable steps to delete it, anonymize it, or otherwise dispose of it appropriately, subject to technical limitations and legal obligations.
10. Data Security
We take reasonable technical and organizational measures to help protect information against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, loss, and misuse.
These measures may include website security tools, access controls, software updates, secure connections, and appropriate hosting or backup practices.
However, no website, online service, or method of electronic transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
You should use care when sharing information online and avoid sending passwords, payment card details, or other highly sensitive information through general contact forms or public comments.
11. International Data Transfers
Some of our hosting providers, analytics services, advertising networks, embedded media platforms, or other third-party providers may process information in countries outside Nepal or your country of residence.
Where this occurs, the information may be subject to the laws of the country in which it is processed.
Where required by applicable law, appropriate safeguards will be used for international transfers of personal information.
The locations in which information is processed depend on the providers and services actually used on the website.
12. Your Privacy Rights and Choices
Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have rights regarding your personal information.
These rights may include:
- Requesting access to personal information we hold about you.
- Requesting correction of inaccurate or incomplete information.
- Requesting deletion of personal information where applicable.
- Objecting to or requesting restriction of certain processing.
- Withdrawing consent where processing is based on consent.
- Requesting a copy of certain information in a portable format, where applicable.
- Managing cookie preferences or opting out of certain advertising or tracking activities where required or available.
- Lodging a complaint with a relevant data protection authority where applicable.
These rights are not absolute and may be subject to legal exceptions.
To make a privacy-related request, contact us at:
Email: contact@tombite.com
Please describe your request and provide enough information for us to understand and respond to it. We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling certain requests.
We will respond within the time required by applicable law. If we cannot fulfill a request, we will explain the reason where required.
12.1 Visitors in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, and Other Regions
Depending on your location and the circumstances of our processing, additional privacy laws may apply, including the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), UK GDPR, or other applicable data protection and privacy laws.
Where these laws apply, we will process personal information in accordance with the relevant requirements, including providing information about the legal basis for processing where required.
Possible legal bases, depending on the circumstances, may include consent, performance of a requested service, compliance with a legal obligation, legitimate interests that do not override applicable rights, or another lawful basis recognized by the relevant law.
If applicable, details of a data protection representative or other required contact will be provided here:
Representative or privacy contact: contact@tombite.com
12.2 Visitors from California and Other U.S. States
Depending on our activities, your state of residence, and the scope of applicable law, you may have additional privacy rights under U.S. state privacy laws.
These may include rights to know, access, correct, or delete certain personal information, and to opt out of certain forms of targeted advertising or the sale or sharing of personal information as those terms are defined by applicable law.
We do not sell personal information for money. Certain advertising or tracking activities may nevertheless be classified as a sale or sharing under particular laws, depending on the facts and applicable definitions.
Where legally required, we will provide the appropriate disclosures and methods for exercising these rights.
To submit a request, contactcontact@tombite.com
13. Children’s Privacy
TomBite is intended for a general audience interested in books, learning, and educational content. It is not specifically directed at children under 13.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 in circumstances where parental consent or other legal requirements apply.
If you believe a child has provided personal information to us inappropriately, please contact us at [Insert your official contact email]. We will review the request and take appropriate action where required by applicable law.
Different countries may impose different age limits and requirements. We will follow the requirements applicable to our activities and audience.
Parents and guardians should supervise children’s use of online services, including third-party video and social media platforms.
14. Email Communications and Newsletters
If TomBite offers a newsletter or email subscription feature, we may collect the email address and any other information you choose to provide for the purpose of delivering the requested communications.
We will use such information in accordance with the purpose disclosed when you subscribe and applicable law.
You may unsubscribe from promotional emails using the unsubscribe link provided in the message, where available, or by contacting us.
If we do not offer an email subscription feature, this section applies only if such a feature is introduced.
15. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in our website, services, technology, business practices, or legal obligations.
When changes are made, we will update the “Last Updated” date at the top of this page.
Where required by applicable law, we will provide additional notice or obtain consent for material changes.
We encourage visitors to review this page periodically to remain informed about our privacy practices.
16. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, our website’s privacy practices, or a request concerning your personal information, please contact us:
Website: https://tombite.com/
Website Name: TomBite “Big ideas, small bites.”
Email: contact@tombite.com
We will make reasonable efforts to review and respond to legitimate privacy inquiries in accordance with applicable law.
This Privacy Policy is intended to explain TomBite’s privacy practices in clear language. It is a general informational document and does not constitute legal advice or guarantee compliance with every law in every jurisdiction. You are responsible for ensuring that the published policy accurately reflects your actual website configuration and business activities.