Effective Date: June 23, 2025
This Privacy Policy describes how aanmeegam.org (referred to as “we,” “us,” or “our”), a spiritual blog about Temples, Mantras, and related aspects of Hindu religion, collects, uses, and shares your personal information when you visit and use our website, https://aanmeegam.org.
Who We Are
Our website address is: https://aanmeegam.org. We are dedicated to providing valuable content about Hindu spirituality, temples, and mantras to our readers.
Information We Collect and How We Use It
When you interact with our website, we may collect certain information from you. Here’s a breakdown:
- Comments: When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form (your name, email address, website, and comment text), and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string. This information is primarily used to help detect and prevent spam. 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 (if you use Gravatar) 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.
- User Accounts (if applicable): For users who register on our website (if this feature is enabled), we store the personal information they provide in their user profile. This includes their username, email address, and any other details they choose to provide. All registered users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information. This data is used to manage your account and provide you with access to certain site features.
- Website Analytics: We use Google Analytics to measure and analyze site traffic and user behavior. This tool uses cookies and similar technologies to collect data such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, and pages visited on our site. This data is used in an aggregated and anonymous form to help us understand how our website is used, identify popular content, and improve the website’s functionality and user experience.
- Security & Troubleshooting: We may collect your IP address and browser information to help us monitor for and prevent malicious activity, troubleshoot technical issues, and ensure the security of our website.
Cookies
Our website uses cookies to enhance your experience. A cookie is a small piece of data stored on your device that helps websites remember information about you.
- Comments: 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.
- Login & User Sessions: If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me,” your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
- Article Editing: If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
- Analytics & Advertising: Cookies are also used by third-party services, such as Google Analytics and (once implemented) advertising platforms, to collect data for traffic analysis and personalized advertising.
You can disable cookies through your individual browser settings. However, please note that disabling cookies may affect the functionality of some features on our site.
Third-Party Services and Advertising
To understand how our website is used and to provide you with relevant content and (once approved) advertisements, we utilize third-party services:
- Google Analytics: As mentioned above, we use Google Analytics to analyze website traffic. You can learn more about Google’s data practices by visiting their privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy. If you wish to opt out of Google Analytics, you can install the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
- Google AdSense (and other advertising platforms, if applicable): If and when implemented, third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads on our site based on your prior visits to our website or other websites across the internet. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our sites and/or other sites on the Internet.
- You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google’s Ads Settings or by visiting www.aboutads.info/choices/.
- These third-party advertising platforms may also collect and process data in accordance with their own privacy policies. We encourage you to review their policies directly for more information on their data collection and usage practices.
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 external 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 not responsible for the privacy practices of these external sites.
Data Sharing and Disclosure
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your personally identifiable information to outside parties for their direct marketing purposes without your explicit consent. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or serving our users, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others’ rights, property, or safety.
How Long We Retain Your Data
- Comments: 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.
- Registered Users: For users who register on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile for as long as their account remains active.
Your Rights
Depending on your location and applicable data protection laws, you may have certain rights regarding your personal data, including:
- Accessing the personal data we hold about you.
- Requesting correction or updating of your data.
- Requesting deletion of your data (subject to certain legal obligations).
- Withdrawing consent (if applicable) for data processing activities for which we rely on your consent.
- Filing a complaint with a relevant data protection regulatory authority in your jurisdiction.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the information provided below.
Children’s Privacy
Our website is not intended for children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect any personal information from children under 13. If you believe we have inadvertently collected such information, please contact us so we can promptly take appropriate action.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. The updated version will be posted on this page with a revised “Effective Date” at the top of the policy. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us at: sdineshdg@gmail.com
