This Privacy Policy describes how The DigiBlogs.com (“we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, and discloses your personal information when you visit, read, comment on, or otherwise interact with The DigiBlogs.com (the “Site”).
1. Information We Collect
We collect various types of information from and about users of our Site, primarily to provide and improve your blogging experience.
- Personal Information You Provide to Us: This includes information you voluntarily provide when you interact with our Site, such as:
- Contact Information: Name, email address (e.g., when you subscribe to our newsletter, submit a comment, or use a contact form).
- Comment Information: Your name/username, email address, and the content of your comments when you post on our blog articles. Please note that your name/username and comment content will be publicly visible.
- Correspondence: Records of your communications with us (e.g., emails sent through our contact form).
- Information We Collect Automatically: When you access and use our Site, we may automatically collect certain information about your device and usage, including:
- Log Data: Your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, pages viewed, and access times. This information helps us understand how our content is being accessed and consumed.
- Device Information: Information about the device you use to access our Site, including device type, unique device identifiers, and mobile network information.
- Cookies and Tracking Technologies: We use cookies and similar tracking technologies (like web beacons and pixels) to track activity on our Site and hold certain information. Cookies are small data files placed on your device. We use them for purposes such as:
- Remembering your preferences (e.g., if you’ve dismissed a pop-up).
- Analyzing site traffic and user behavior to improve our content and user experience.
- For comment functionality, 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. 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, some portions of our Service, such as comment functionality, may not work as intended.
2. How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect for various purposes related to operating a blog, including to:
- Provide and Maintain our Service: To operate, maintain, and improve our blog content and Site functionality.
- Enable Commenting: To allow you to post comments on our articles and display them publicly.
- Communicate with You: To respond to your inquiries, send you newsletter updates (if you have subscribed), and provide other service-related communications.
- Analyze and Improve: To understand how readers interact with our blog content, identify popular topics, and improve the overall user experience and content strategy.
- Security and Fraud Prevention: To detect, prevent, and address technical issues, security incidents, and fraudulent activity.
- Legal Compliance: To comply with applicable laws, regulations, and legal processes.
3. How We Share Your Information
We may share your personal information in the following situations:
- Publicly for Comments: When you post a comment on our blog, your chosen name/username and the comment content will be publicly visible to all visitors of The DigiBlogs.com. Your email address associated with the comment will NOT be publicly displayed but is collected to prevent spam and for internal moderation.
- With Service Providers: We may share your information with third-party vendors, consultants, and other service providers who perform services on our behalf, such as website hosting, analytics (e.g., Google Analytics), email delivery services (for newsletters), and comment moderation tools. These service providers are obligated to protect your information and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
- For Business Transfers: In the event of a merger, acquisition, restructuring, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your information may be transferred to the acquiring entity.
- With Your Consent: We may share your information with your explicit consent or at your direction.
- For Legal Reasons: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court order or government agency in India or elsewhere, as applicable).
- To Enforce Our Rights: We may disclose your information to protect our rights, property, or safety, and the rights, property, or safety of our users or others.
4. Your Choices and Rights
You have certain choices and rights regarding your personal information:
- Access and Update: If you have an account or have left comments, you can request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us.
- Opt-Out of Newsletter: You can opt-out of receiving marketing emails (newsletters) from us by following the unsubscribe instructions provided in those emails.
- Cookies: Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually choose to set your browser to remove or reject browser cookies. Please note that if you choose to remove or reject cookies, this could affect the availability and functionality of certain features on our Site, such as remembering your comment details.
- Deletion of Comments: If you have left comments on our blog, you can request that we erase any personal data we hold about you, excluding any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
- Data Principal Rights (DPDPA 2023): As per the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, if applicable, you may have rights such as the right to access information, the right to correction and erasure, the right to grievance redressal, and the right to nominate. Please contact us using the information below to exercise these rights.
5. Data Retention
We retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. For comments, data will be retained as long as the comment remains on the blog unless you request its removal.
6. Security of Your Information
We implement reasonable security measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. However, no method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. Therefore, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
7. Third-Party Links
Our Site may contain links to third-party websites that are not operated by us (e.g., links within blog posts to external resources). We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.
8. Children’s Privacy
Our Site is intended for a general audience and is not specifically directed at individuals under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 18. 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 without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.
9. 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 of this Privacy Policy. 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.
10. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, your data, or would like to exercise your rights, please contact us:
By visiting our contact page: https://thedigiblogs.com/contact/