Janasabdham.com
Effective Date: 22 May 2024
This Privacy Policy describes how Janasabdham.com (“we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, and discloses your information when you use our website (the “Service”).
Janasabdham.com is a news portal dedicated to publishing current news in the Malayalam language. We use Google Site Kit and Google Analytics to understand our audience and improve our service. Your privacy is of utmost importance to us, and this policy outlines our practices to safeguard your personal information.
Information We Collect
We collect information that you provide directly to us and information that is automatically collected when you use our Service.
Information You Provide to Us:
- Comments: When you leave comments on our articles, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also your IP address and browser user agent string to help with 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.
- Contact Forms: If you contact us through a contact form, we will collect your name, email address, and any other information you provide in the message.
- Newsletter Subscription: If you subscribe to our newsletter, we will collect your email address.
Information We Collect Automatically:
Through our use of Google Site Kit and Google Analytics, we automatically collect certain information about your device and your use of our Service. This data helps us understand how our visitors engage with our website. This information includes:
- Log and Usage Data: This may include your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, device information, pages viewed, links clicked, and the dates and times of your visits.
- Cookies and Similar Tracking Technologies: We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service and hold certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.
Use of Your Information
We use the information we collect for various purposes, including to:
- Provide, operate, and maintain our Service.
- Improve, personalize, and expand our Service.
- Understand and analyze how you use our Service.
- Develop new content, features, and functionality.
- Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the website, and for marketing and promotional purposes.
- Send you newsletters and other promotional communications, if you have opted in.
- For compliance purposes, including enforcing our terms of service, or other legal rights, or as may be required by applicable laws and regulations or requested by any judicial process or governmental agency.
- For security purposes, including to prevent and detect spam and other malicious activity.
Google Analytics and Google Site Kit
We use Google Analytics and Google Site Kit to collect and analyze information about the use of our Service. These services collect information such as how often users visit this site, what pages they visit when they do so, and what other sites they used prior to coming to this site. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to this site is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy.
You can prevent your data from being used by Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.
Advertising
We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.
Data Retention
We will retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our policies.
Your Data Protection Rights
Depending on your location, you may have the following rights regarding your personal information:
- The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
- The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete information you believe is incomplete.
- The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at our contact information below.
Cookies and Web Beacons
Janasabdham.com uses ‘cookies’. These cookies are used to store information including visitors’ preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors’ browser type and/or other information.
Children’s Privacy
Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, we will take steps to remove that information from our servers.
Links to Other Websites
Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, you can contact us:
- By email: janasandham@gmail.com