Alokito Darpan is committed to protecting the privacy of our users. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect your personal data when you use our website/services (www.alokitodarpan.com).
Data We Collect
We may collect the following personal data:
- Information you provide directly: This includes information you provide when you create an account, contact us, or use our services. Examples may be name, email address, phone number, and IP address.
- Information collected automatically: This includes data collected through cookies and similar technologies when you visit our website. This may include browsing history and preferences.
Legal Basis for Processing Data
We process your data only when we have a lawful basis to do so. The legal basis may include:
- Consent: In some cases, we may ask for your explicit consent to process your data for a specific purpose.
- Contract: We may need to process your data to fulfill a contract with you.
- Legitimate Interests: We may process your data for our legitimate interests, such as improving our website or preventing fraud, provided those interests do not override your rights.
How We Use Your Data
We use your data for the following purposes:
- To provide and improve our website/services.
- To personalize your experience.
- To respond to your inquiries and requests.
- To send you marketing communications (if you consent).
- For security and fraud prevention.
Data Retention
We will retain your data only for as long as necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, or as required by law.
Your Data Rights
Under the GDPR, you have certain rights regarding your personal data. These rights include:
- The right to access your personal data.
- The right to rectification of inaccurate data.
- The right to erasure of your data (under certain circumstances).
- The right to restrict processing of your data.
- The right to data portability.
- The right to object to processing of your data.
Data Security
We take appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your data against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction.
International Data Transfers
If we transfer your data to a country outside the European Economic Area (EEA), we will ensure that it is protected with appropriate safeguards.
Children’s Privacy
We do not knowingly collect or solicit personal data from children under the age of 13.
Changes to this Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on our website.
Consumer Rights:
- Right to Know: Explain how users can request information about the categories and specific pieces of personal information you collect, use, and disclose.
- Right to Delete: Detail the process for users to request deletion of their personal information, with exceptions for legal or contractual obligations.
- Right to Correct: Outline how users can request correction of inaccurate personal information.
- Right to Opt-Out of Sale or Sharing: Clearly explain user options for opting out of the sale or sharing of their personal information, including sensitive data.
Transparency:
- Categories of Information Collected: List the categories of personal information you collect (e.g., name, email, geolocation).
- Purposes of Use: Describe the purposes for which you use the collected personal information.
- Third-Party Sharing: Disclose the categories of third parties you share user information with and the purposes for sharing.
- Right to Limit Use of Sensitive Information: If you handle sensitive data (e.g., Social Security number, race), explain user rights to restrict its use for specific purposes.
- Right to Know the Source of Sale or Disclosure: Detail how users can request information about the recipients of their sold or disclosed data.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us at dailyalokitodarpan@gmail.com.