Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy for Biharupdate.online

Welcome to Biharupdate.online (hereinafter referred to as “we,” “us,” “our,” or the “Website”). We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring the security of your personal information. This Privacy Policy outlines the types of information we collect, how we use it, the measures we take to protect it, and your rights regarding your information.

By accessing and using our Website, you consent to the practices described in this policy. If you do not agree with any term in this policy, please discontinue your use of our Website immediately.

1. Information We Collect

We collect information to provide a better experience for our users. The information we collect can be categorized as follows:

a) Information You Provide Voluntarily:

Contact Information: When you contact us via a contact form, email, or subscribe to our newsletter, you may provide us with your name and email address.
User Content: Comments you post on our articles may contain personal information.
Communications: Records of your correspondence with us.

b) Information Collected Automatically:
When you visit our Website, certain information about your device and your visit is automatically logged. This includes:

Log Data: Your IP address, browser type and version, operating system, pages you visit on our site, time and date of your visit, time spent on those pages, and other diagnostic data.
Cookies and Similar Technologies: We use cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies to collect information about your browsing behavior. For more details, please see our “Cookies” section below.

c) Information from Third Parties:
We may receive information about you from third-party services, such as:

Analytics Providers: Like Google Analytics.
Advertising Networks: Which help us deliver relevant advertisements.

2. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect for the following purposes:

To operate, maintain, and improve our Website.
To deliver our newsletter and other updates to subscribers.
To enable you to comment on articles and participate in discussions.
To analyze trends, track user movements, and gather demographic information to understand how our audience uses the Website. This helps us create more relevant content.
To display targeted advertisements from Google AdSense and other advertising partners.
To respond to your comments, questions, and requests.
To detect, prevent, and address technical issues and security vulnerabilities.

3. Legal Basis for Processing (GDPR Compliance)

For users in the European Economic Area (EEA), our processing of your personal data is based on the following legal grounds:

Consent: Where you have given us consent for specific purposes (e.g., sending our newsletter).
Legitimate Interests: For operations like website analytics, security, and delivering relevant content and ads, which are necessary for our legitimate business interests.
Contractual Necessity: To fulfill a request you have made (e.g., responding to a query).

4. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our Website and store certain information.

Types of Cookies We Use:

Necessary Cookies: Essential for the operation of the Website. They enable basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas.
Analytics Cookies: These cookies allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and see how they move around the site. This helps us improve the way our Website works.
Advertising Cookies: These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you. They perform functions like preventing the same ad from continuously reappearing and help us display ads from our advertising partners, like Google AdSense.

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 Website.

5. How We Share Your Information

We do not sell your personal information to third parties. We may share your information in the following limited circumstances:

Service Providers: With trusted third-party vendors who provide services on our behalf, such as email newsletter delivery, data analysis, and advertising. These vendors are obligated to keep your information confidential.
Legal Obligations: If required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or a government agency).
Business Transfers: In connection with a merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
With Your Consent: We may share your information for any other purpose with your explicit consent.

6. Advertising

We use Google AdSense to serve ads on our Website. Google AdSense uses cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to your website or other websites.

Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to your users based on their visit to our sites and/or other sites on the Internet.
Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google’s Ads Settings.

7. 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 also retain and use your information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our policies.

8. Your Data Protection Rights

Depending on your location, you may have the following rights regarding your personal data:

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 or 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.
The right to withdraw consent – Where we rely on your consent, you have the right to withdraw it at any time.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the contact information provided below.

9. Children’s Privacy

Our Website is not intended for use by children under the age of 13 (“Children”). 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 Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

10. 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 and updating the “Last Updated” date at the top. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.