Welcome to our Privacy Policy.

Who we are

Our website address is: https://www.gauravbadola.com.

Your privacy is critically important to us.

It is Gaurav Badola’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Certain visitors to Gaurav Badola’s websites choose to interact with Gaurav Badola in ways that require Gaurav Badola to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Gaurav Badola gathers depend on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for our blog at https://www.gauravbadola.com to provide a name and email address. We collect information from you when you subscribe to our newsletter, respond to a survey, or fill out a form.

We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. We use third party tools to collect the information in order to keep you informed of any latest development and any new announcement. This also helps us in providing you with news and posts that are most relevant to you through email.

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. They are also used to help us understand your preferences based on previous or current site activity, which enables us to provide you with improved services.

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.

Do we use ‘cookies’?

Yes. 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.

We use cookies to:

1. Understand and save user’s preferences for future visits.

2. Compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interactions in order to offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We may also use trusted third party services that track this information on our behalf.

If you disable cookies off, it will turn off some of the features that make your site experience more efficient and some of our services will not function properly.

By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to Gaurav Badola’s use of cookies.

Embedded content from other websites (Audio, videos, images, articles, etc.) & Links to External Sites

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. We are in no way responsible for that.

Our Service may also contain links to external sites 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 and terms and conditions 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, products or services.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Gaurav Badola collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Gaurav Badola’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Gaurav Badola’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Gaurav Badola may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Gaurav Badola also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on https://www.gauravbadola.com blog posts. Gaurav Badola only discloses logged in user and commenters IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Gaurav Badola will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Gaurav Badola discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental requests, or when Gaurav Badola believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Gaurav Badola, third parties or the public at large.

If you are a registered user of https://www.gauravbadola.com and have supplied your email address, Gaurav Badola may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Gaurav Badola and our products. We primarily use our blog to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Gaurav Badola takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Analytics

Gaurav Badola may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. Gaurav Badola may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Gaurav Badola does not disclose your personally-identifying information except in situations described above.

Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.

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.

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.

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:

    • The right to access, update or to delete the personal information we have on you
    • The right of rectification
    • The right to object
    • The right of restriction
    • The right to data portability
    • The right to withdraw consent

Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests.

Changes in this Privacy Statement

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page. We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, Although most changes are likely to be minor, Gaurav Badola may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Gaurav Badola’s sole discretion. Gaurav Badola encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.