Deshbandhu is committed to protecting the privacy of Internet users. This statement discloses the privacy practices for Deshbandhu.
The information gathered by us falls into two categories:
(1) information voluntarily supplied by visitors to our website through optional registration and
(2) tracking information gathered as visitors navigate through our site.
To make use of certain features on Deshbandhu, visitors must provide certain information as part of the registration process. (We may ask, for example, for your name, email address, sex, age, and PIN code, and we might request information on your occupation, interests, and the like.)
Supplying such information is entirely voluntary. In some instances, which involve, for example, subscriptions, you may need to provide all the information before the subscription can reach you. We can't deliver your newspaper if we don't know how to contact you.
Of course, even if you want to remain completely anonymous, you are still free to take advantage of the wealth of content available on our site without providing any personal information.
Our web servers automatically collect limited information about your computer's connection to the Internet, including your IP address, when you visit our site. (Your IP address is a number that lets computers attached to the Internet know where to send you data -- such as the web pages you view.)
Your IP address does not identify you personally. We use this information to deliver our web pages to you upon request, to tailor our site to the interests of our users, to measure traffic within our site and let advertisers know the geographic locations from where our visitors come. Deshbandhu also includes links to other websites whose privacy policies we do not control. Once you leave our servers (you can tell where you are by checking the URL in the location bar on your browser), use of any information you provide is governed by the privacy policy of the operator of the site you are visiting.
That policy may differ from ours. If you can't find the privacy policy of any of these sites via a link from the site's homepage, you should contact the site directly for more information.
When we present information to our advertisers -- to help them understand our audience and confirm the value of advertising on our website -- it is usually in the form of aggregated statistics on traffic to various pages within our site.
If you do register with Deshbandhu, we may, from time to time, contact you about content and features that we believe may be of interest to you.
All information gathered on Deshbandhu site is securely stored within the Deshbandhu controlled database. The database is stored on servers secured behind a firewall; access to the servers is password-protected and is strictly limited.
However, as effective as our security measures are, no security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of our database, nor can we guarantee that information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet. And, of course, any information you include in a posting to the discussion areas is available to anyone with Internet access.
Questions regarding this statement should be directed to Deshbandhu at privacy@deshbandhu.co.in or by contacting Deshbandhu, 506, INS Building, Rafi Marg, New Delhi - 110 011 or by calling our main number at (91) 11-23718195.