Privacy Policy

At Bhagdatpuram.com, nothing is as valuable as your privacy. We are fully committed to your trust with us by ensuring the utmost care while handling your personal data as well as being straightforward in our data collection methods, usage, and sharing. This privacy policy clarifies which data we collect, how we use it, and informs you of your rights associated with it.

Using our website constitutes acceptance and compliance with the practices described in this policy.

Privacy Policy: Information We Collect

Types of information collected from visitors may include the following:

A. Personal Information (if provided by you)

  • Full name
  • Email
  • Phone number
  • Contact form messages and comments

Only information provided willingly is collected, for example, while signing up to newsletters or via comment sections on articles.

B. Non-Personal Information

  • Device type and its operating system
  • IP address
  • Pages Proctored and duration of time spent visiting each page on the site
  • Traffic from other websites

How is Your Information Used?

  • Enhancement of Content and Services User-Provided
  • Respond to user messages or questions
  • Send newsletters or updates to subscribed individuals
  • Traffic and behavior analysis
  • Security and technical issues identification and prevention
  • Legal obligation compliance
  • No personal data provided will ever be sold to third parties or rented out.

Privacy Policy: Sharing of Information

  • Service Providers: Commissioned individuals, such as Google and other email/mobile service providers, who aid in the website’s hosting, are classified as trusted third parties, enabling the smooth functioning of the site.
  • Legal Authorities: Compliance with legal responsibility requires answering inquiries originating from court sessions or governmental offices.
  • Advertising Agencies: Information that does not identify an individual can be provided to advertising networks for the purpose of providing particular ads.

All third party associates use and handle the data under the law and also according to contracts that are set up outside of this agreement.

Cookies and Technology Tracking

Use of cookies and other related storage enhancing of user experience through the understanding of interactions with the website is possible through these technologies.

  • Key Cookies: Critical photographic, structural, and site functionalities, such as password and username, are remembered.
  • Analytics Cookies: Strategic tools like Google Analytics uses these to study and monitor accentuation of websites and their rates of use.
  • Advertising Cookies: Help promote tailored advertisements using the user’s browsing history.

Cookies can be managed or turned off through browser preferences. Please understand that turning off cookies may limit the services available on this site.

Advertising by Other Parties

We may engage advertising partners, including Google AdSense and other local advertisers, to feature ads on Bhagdatpuram.com. These advertisements may place cookies or utilize other tracking techniques to tailor content to users.

You can block interest-based advertising through Google’s Ads Settings or through third-party programs such as the NAI Consumer Opt-Out.

Retention of Data

We restrict access to your personal data to the duration stated in this policy or as permitted by law. Data that does not identify a person may be kept for the purposes of analysis or record-keeping.

Security of Data

We take reasonable measures (for example, SSL encryption, firewall) to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, deletion, or abuse. Notwithstanding, no method of data transmission over the internet or electronic storage is completely safe.

Privacy of Children

Bhagdatpuram.com does not actively obtain personal information from any individuals that are younger than 13. If you believe that a child has given us personal information, please reach out to us for immediate deletion.

Your Rights and Choices

Access the personal data we possess relating to you. Request rectification or erasure of your information. Revoke authorization for data processing. Restrict processing of data (advertising, for instance). File a grievance with a relevant authority responsible for data protection.

Hypertext Links

The website may include hypertext links leading to other websites. These links are provided solely for your convenience, and we explicitly state that we are in no way responsible or liable for the content or privacy policies employed by these websites. Their privacy policies must be examined separately and independently.

Updates to This Policy

This Privacy Policy may be subject to amendments, which will be made from time to time in response to changes in the law, technology, or operations. This document will specify the date of revision.

For any inquiries or clarifications about this Privacy Policy or your personal details, do not hesitate to contact us.

Privacy is important at Bhagdatpuram.com so they thank you for choosing them as your local news source and for supporting journalism in Bhagalpur which is socially responsible.