Read and agree with the following privacy policy of TechSansar.com, its services and immediate sister sites like techsansar.com.np. If you require any more information or have any questions about our privacy policy, please feel free to contact us by email at [email protected].
At TechSansar.com, the privacy of our visitors and subscribers is of extreme importance to us. This privacy policy document outlines the types of personal information is received and collected by TechSansar.com and how it is used. All legal issues and jurisdictions shall be governed under the Democratic Republic of Nepal. Select one of the options below to get it thru:
- User activities: Activities tracked & Data used
- Website log files
- Ads: Activities tracked & Data used
- Portal protection: Activities tracked & Data used
- Resource utilization policy
- Comment and engagement policy
- Do Not Track (DNT) policy
User activities: Activities tracked & Data used
In this portal, we track certain user activities – depending upon type of user – subscriber, registered or first time visitor user, are tracked. TechSansar commonly tracks login attempts/actions, post and page update and publish actions, comment/ping back submissions and management actions, plugin and theme management actions, widget updates, user management actions, and the modification of other various site settings and options. Successful and failed login attempts, which will include the actor’s IP address and user agent are also tracked.
For various user activities at TechSansar, user’s activities including site management, user email address, user role, login, display name, plugin information are recorded.
Website Log Files
Like many other Web sites, TechSansar.com makes use of log files. The information inside the log files includes 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. IP addresses, and other such information are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable.
Part of our web portal is also hosted on a dedicated server and others on a Virtual Private Server (VPS) at the Digital Ocean facility in Singapore. Here is there privacy policy in case you need it.
In order to check login activity and potentially block fraudulent attempts, the following information is used: attempting user’s IP address, attempting user’s email address/username (i.e. according to the value they were attempting to use during the login process), and all IP-related HTTP headers attached to the attempting user.
Website Cookies and Web Beacons
TechSansar.com does use cookies to store information about visitors preferences, record user-specific information on which pages the user access or visit, customize Web page content based on visitors browser type or other information that the visitor sends via their browser. First time visitors of TechSansar.com, are displayed an optional agreement to “Cookies privacy policy”, users must accept to visit this website or vice versa while this is mandatory for users surfing our website from the European Union (EU). Notification for cookies acceptance may also be published at the footer of TechSansar.com pages. Cookies are also stored by 3rd party plugins, modules and web instances being used besides those set by techsansar domain.
Social Linkages
If you link or connect to us via any social applications (not necessarily developed by TechSansar), then your name might be stored by the application but never the password. Also ensure to read the privacy policies of such sites and applications. For instance, social network plugins like Facebook, Twitter and others have their own cookies policy, they store cookies linked with their user account which enables users to share TechSansar’s resources on their social profile. In such case, users are advised to read policies of those social networks.
DoubleClick DART Cookie
- Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on TechSansar – its main site and sister sites mentioned in the first paragraph of this privacy policy page.
- Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to users based on their visit to TechSansar and other sites on the Internet.
- Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy at the following URL – http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html
- Settings for Google Ads can be enabled or disabled by visiting Google’s Ads Setting page here.
Other Advertising Cookies
Apart from Google’s advertising platform, TechSansar might use other advertising services, as a result such advertising partners may use cookies and web beacons on our site for better targeted ads. Other advertising partners may include
- Amazon affiliates
- Infolinks
- Occasional 3rd party affiliates and/or referrals
These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to the advertisements and links that appear on TechSansar.com send directly to your browsers. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. Other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons) may also be used by the third-party ad networks to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and / or to personalize the advertising content that you see.
You can opt out of the DoubleClick cookie, as well as other companies’ cookies used for interest-based ads, by visiting the aboutads.info choices page. If you want to permanently opt out of the DoubleClick cookie, you can install the DoubleClick opt out extension.
TechSansar portal Resource utilization
TechSansar.com respects user privacy and promise that we never disclose our user’s information to third-party whatsoever the condition be unless required by the law. TechSansar.com has 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 for more detailed information on their practices as well as for instructions about how to opt-out of certain practices. TechSansar.com’s privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or web sites.
If you wish to disable cookies (here is the guide to DNT), you may do so through your individual browser options. More detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.
TechSansar’s Comment Policy
Team TechSansar never censor comments based on political or ideological point of view or of a critical nature. We reserve the right to delete those comments that are off-topic, “spammy” in nature, abusive, use excessive foul language, or include ad hominem attacks irrespective of comment language.
Once a comment is made public on the TechSansar.com or TechSansar.com.np or any of our applications/websites, we will not remove it by request as we strongly believe once public in Internet, it’s there forever. As a user, you are responsible for your own communications and are responsible for the consequences of their posting. Comments might also be published on our social platforms and discussion board/forum, and even on offline purposes such as ads or infomercials.
Comments will only be considered for removal
- in response to legal process, for example, in response to a court order, or
- in response to a law enforcement agency’s request, or where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take actions regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of another person, violations of our terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
All comments and other content contributed to TechSansar shall adhere to the following policy, and may be edited or removed at TechSansar’s discretion if it is deemed to be in violation of this policy.
- Personal Attacks: Please don’t engage in personal attacks (on authors, other users or any individual), persistent trolling or mindless abuse. The community should focus on intelligently discussing topics by furthering the conversation and informing the participants with resourceful and constructive ideas.
- Hate speech: Racism, sexism and homophobia will not be tolerated.
- Language and Threats: Please watch your language and respect other people’s views, beliefs and emotions. We reserve the right to remove any content that might be found extremely offensive or threatening.
- No Spam: Spam and advertising content will be removed.
- Smear Tactics: Although we acknowledge criticism of our articles and our writers, we will not allow misrepresentation. We will distinguish between constructive arguments and smear tactics.
- Relevancy: Please keep conversations relevant. Off-topic comments are subject to removal in order to keep the thread on track.
- Quality: We encourage you to take responsibility for the quality of the conversations in which you’re participating. Maintain intelligent discussions in the community by being respectful and considerate.
- Help us: Maintain an inviting interaction space by self-policing threads and flagging spam. Although we have a hands-on approach to community engagement, we do sometimes miss problem commenters or trolls. We appreciate your efforts to keep the community environment inviting, insightful and constructive. Let the conversations be quality ones.
TechSansar’s Do Not Track (DNT) Options and provisions
Team TechSansar respects DNT utmost. DNT is a mechanism in a user’s web browser to tell websites not to track their activities. This should be closed understood with cookies, where both of them are concern with the user’s privacy. Different browsers have different DNT mechanisms, you can follow for each of them as mentioned in this guide.
Additional information on Cookies and Privacy Policies of TechSansar
Since TechSansar uses multiple third party services, we would like to share privacy policies of those product and service providers here.
- Google’s privacy policy (reCAPTCHA)
- Google’s privacy policy for Google Ads
- Automattic (WordPress, Akismet, Jetpack)
Last updated: July 12, 2019 20:56 Nepal Standard Time