We at Bhagdatpuram.com strive to maintain complete openness regarding our identity, funding sources, and the advertising practices employed on our platform. This policy explains our ownership policy, revenue streams, and directions of sponsored or commercial content in order to fulfill the expectations of our readers regarding transparency and accountability.
Ownership Policy
Bhagdatpuram.com is an independent local news platform that is self-owned, hence a private, non-biased corporation or government. Without affiliations to any corporate conglomerate, the site receives funds with autonomy in all editorial decisions pertaining to specific content selection and exclusion. Our Bhagalpur (Bihar) focused news platform is operated by a fully dedicated editorial team serving with reliable journalism for the local populace. Supposedly free of any political party or government agency shackles, our editorial team claims to have full control over content choices.
Editorial Independence
We accept external funding and advertisement collaborations. However, we ensure that no sponsor, advertiser, or contributor has full control over dictated editorial decisions, reporting, and publishing policies, with complete autonomy. This guarantees that our sponsors do not alter products, services, or political agendas in return for financial sustenance for suppression.
Our editorial team follows strict journalistic principles alongside our guarantee of content. In order to know more about this, please check our Editorial Policy.
Funding Sources
The website Bhagdatpuram.com receives support from the following sources:
- Digital Advertising: We utilize third-party networks such as Google AdSense or direct advertisers to display ads on our website, which helps support our operations.
- Sponsored Content: Advertised articles or branded content that we publish are sponsored, and they are marked as such. Our independent reporting is separate from these pieces, as they do not reflect our editorial views.
We would like to make it clear that no financial support, advertising partnerships, or sponsorships impose restrictions on our editorial standards, the topics we choose to cover, or even how we discuss said topics.
Advertising Policy
We ensure our advertising practices are ethical and do not interfere with our readers’ experience. As a reader, you will trust us due to the following reasons:
- Guidelines for Trust: As for advertising and sponsorships, we ensure they adhere to advertising guidelines. We do not permit misleading content that violates ethical and legal standards of the platforms.
- Bhagalpur Business Sponsorship: We solely accept advertising as well as sponsorships from small to medium businesses in Bhagalpur. Through this, we intend to promote local journalism alongside aiding the regional economy.
Sponsored and Native Content
From time to time, we work along with some other organizations and institutions to create sponsored posts, advertorials, alongside native advertising, which include:
- Put into place for readers to see throughout the review document to ascertain the correct information provided.
- Stop the ad documents from making any form of unverifiable claims.
- Distinct from independent journalism and released to avoid misrepresentation.
We maintain the option of rejecting and removing content that fails to meet our mission, ethical norms, and expectations as set by tools and readers. In order to know more about this, check our privacy policy.
Ownership Policy Updates
We may make changes to this document, Ownership, Funding, and Advertising Policy from time to time as we change the operations, funding vehicles, or ethical values.
For any ownership, funding, or advertising-related queries, questions, or if you have some feedback, feel free to reach out to us – Contact Us.
At Bhagdatpuram.com, the first rule of engagement with our readers and audience is being transparent. As the independent voice of Bhagalpur, we assure our audience that we will do our best to earn your trust and work ardently to retain it.
