At The Hindu Voice, accessible from https://thehinduvoice.com/, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data when you use our Services and your choices associated with that data.
Information Collection And Use
We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our Service to you.
Information we collect
We may collect both personally identifiable information (such as your name, email address) and non-personally identifiable information (such as your IP address, browser type, and operating system) when you voluntarily provide it to us or contact us directly and when you use our website. This information may be collected through a variety of methods, including automatic data collection tools such as contact forms, newsletter subscriptions, or cookies.
How we use your information ?
We use the information we collect in various ways, including to :
- Provide, operate, and maintain our website.
- Improve, personalize, and expand our website.
- Understand and analyze how you use our website.
- Develop new products, services, 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 periodic emails
Log files
The Hindu Voice follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services’ analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.
Cookies and Web beacons
Like any other website, The Hindu Voice 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.
How We Protect Your Information ?
We adopt proper data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure or destruction of your personal information, usernames, passwords, transaction information and data stored on our site.
Data Security
We do not sell, trade, or rent Users personal identification data to others. We may share generic aggregated demographic information not linked to any personal identification information or data regarding visitors and users with our business partners, trusted affiliates, and advertisers for the purposes outlined above.
CCPA Privacy Rights
If you are a California resident, you have the following rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) :
- Right to know :- You have the right to request information about the categories of personal information we have collected, the sources of the information, the purpose of collection, and the categories of third parties with whom we share your information.
- Right to delete :- You may reserve the option to request the cancellation of your own data that we have collected, subject to certain exceptions.
- Right to opt-out :- You have the right to opt-out of the sale of your personal information.
GDPR Data Protection Rights
We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following :
- Right of access :- You have the right to request access to your personal information and to obtain information about how we process it.
- Right to rectification :- You have the right to request the correction of inaccurate personal information and to have incomplete information completed.
- Right to eradication :- You reserve the option to demand the erasure of your own data, dependent upon specific exemptions.
- Right to limit handling :- You reserve the option to demand the limitation of the handling of your own data in specific situations.
- Right to information transportability :- You reserve the option to accept your own data in an organized, ordinarily utilized, and machine-clear organization and to communicate it to another regulator.
- Right to object :- You have the right to object to the processing of your personal information under certain circumstances, including for direct marketing purposes.
Our Advertising Partners
Some of advertisers on our site may use cookies and web beacons. Our advertising partners are listed below. Each of our advertising partners has their own Privacy Policy for their policies on user data. For easier access, we hyperlinked to their Privacy Policies below.
Advertising partners privacy policies
Third-party ad servers or ad networks uses technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on The Hindu Voice, which are sent directly to users’ browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.
Third party links
Our website may contain links to third-party websites or services that are not operated by us. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of those websites, and we encourage you to review their privacy policies.
Affiliate Disclosure
This site uses affiliate links and does earn a commission from certain links. This does not affect your purchases or the price you may pay.
Children’s Privacy
The Hindu Voice does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 18. Assuming you feel that your kid gave this sort of data on our site, we strongly encourage you to reach us right away and we will do our earnest attempts to eliminate such data from our records instantly.
Changes To This Privacy Policy
The Hindu Voice has the discretion to update this privacy policy at any time. Thus, we advise you to review this page periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. These changes are effective immediately, after they are posted on this page. It is your responsibility to review this policy periodically to stay informed about how we collect, use, and protect your information.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy. Please feel free to reach out to us by filling out the form:
If you face any issues with the contact form, please feel free to email us directly at admin@thehinduvoice.com. We will respond as soon as possible.