Privacy Policy

The privacy of my visitors is of extreme importance to me. This privacy policy document outlines the types of personal information received and collected by antarasdiary.com and how it is used.

Who We Are

Our website address is: https://antarasdiary.com.
The sole owner / web-admin of Antara’s Diary is Ms. Antara Datta (LinkedIn profile).

What Personal Data Are Collected And Why They Are Collected

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.

Contact Form

When you submit the contact form the data is mailed to antara[at]antarasdiary.com which is a gmail account. This data includes your name and email id. We DO NOT share the data knowingly with anybody. We DO NOT use the information submitted for any marketing purposes. Contact form submissions older than a year are deleted.

Newsletter Form

When you submit the newsletter form the data is stored in our site antarasdiary.com. This data includes your email id which you submit with your own consent. We use your email id to send periodic emails regarding new articles and updates or other products and services. We DO NOT share the data knowingly with anybody. We DO NOT use the information submitted for any marketing purposes.

Cookies and Web Beacons

We use cookies to store information about your preferences, record user-specific information on which pages you accessed or visited, customize web page content based on your browser type or other information that you send via your browser.

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.

Our hosting provider, security and seo plugins use cookies to track your browser data, ip address etc. The social media plugins used in the site might also use cookies and check if you are logged in or not. Our advertisement plugin uses cookies to track the number of views of the advertisements. The newsletter plugin uses cookies to check if you have already subscribed or if you have closed the pop-up box.

Some of our advertising partners may use cookies and web beacons on this site. We have no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers and plugins for more detailed information on their practices as well as for instructions about how to opt-out of certain practices. This privacy policy does not apply to, and cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers / web sites / plugins.

You may disable cookies through your individual browser options. More detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.

Log Files

Like many other websites, we make use of log files. The information inside the log files include internet protocol ( IP ) addresses, type of browser, Internet Service Provider ( ISP ), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement around the site, and gather demographic information.

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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

We use Google analytics and statcounter to get reports about the website traffic. You can use a Google Analytics Opt-Out browser add-on to prevent your data from being collected and used by Google Analytics from your end.

Unlock Content

We often ask to tweet or like in order to unlock content in our site.

Who We Share Your Data With

Following is the list of the 3rd party plugins and websites with whom we share your data along with their respective privacy policy page / website links:

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 who subscribe on our website, we store the email id they provide for indefinite period. Website administrator can see and edit that information. Any user can unsubscribe from our newsletter subscription list by clicking the unsubscribe link provided in our newsletter. We DO NOT share the subscriber emails with anyone knowingly.

The contact form submissions are deleted after a year.

The Google analytics data are stored for 14 months.

The Statcounter stores the recent 500 logs.

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 We Send Your Data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Log files are stored by the hosting provider.

Affiliate Links

Some of the links in our site are “affiliate links”. This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, the site owner will receive an affiliate commission.

Links to Other Websites

Our website contains number of links to other websites for your easy navigation. Once you leave our site using any of these external links, we do not have any control whatsoever over the content shown in those websites / your activities on those websites. Such sites are not governed by this privacy policy statement.

Comment Policy

We allows commenting on the blog posts. Please note, all comments are moderated before publishing and we reserve the right to delete comments for any reason. Most common reasons for not approving a comment includes:

  • comments which are irrelevant to the subject of the blog post.
  • comments that appear to be entered by spam bots
  • comments made for the purpose of promoting links entered by the commenter.
  • comments with inappropriate / abusive / hateful / obscene language.

Our Contact Information

If you have any questions / queries on this policy please contact us via our contact page or directly email the site administrator at antara[at]antarasdiary.com.