Privacy Policy

At Shambhavi Thakur’s website, accessible from https://shambhavithakur.com/ and henceforth referred to as this website, one of the main priorities is the privacy of visitors. This Privacy Policy document specifies the types of information that I collect and record and explains how I use the information.

If this document does not answer any of your questions about this website’s privacy policy, please contact me.

This Privacy Policy applies only to online activities and is valid for visitors with regards to the information that they share with me via this website. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.

By using this website, you hereby consent to the website’s Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.

The information that I collect

The personal information that you are asked to provide, and the reasons why you are asked to provide it, will be made clear to you at the point I ask you to provide the information. If you contact me directly, I may receive additional information about you, such as your name, email address, phone number, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send to me, and any other information you may choose to provide. When you register for an account, I may ask for your contact information, including items such as name, company name, address, email address, and telephone number.

How I use your information

I use the information I collect in various ways, including to

  • send you emails.
  • find and prevent fraud.
  • provide, operate, and maintain this website.
  • improve, personalize, and expand this website.
  • understand and analyze how you use this website.
  • develop new products, services, features, and functionality.
  • communicate with you, either directly or through one of my partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the website, and for marketing and promotional purposes.

Log files

This website follows a standard procedure of using log files to store details about website visitors. All hosting companies do this as part of their hosting services’ analytics requirements. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movements on the website, and gathering demographic information.

Cookies and Web Beacons

Like any other website, this website uses cookies. These cookies are used to store information including website visitors’ preferences and the pages that the visitors accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing content based on the visitors’ browser types and/or other information.

For more general information on cookies, please read “What Are Cookies” from Cookie Consent.

Google is one of a third-party vendors on this website. Google uses cookies, known as DART cookies, to serve ads to our website visitors. If you want to decline the use of DART cookies, please visit the corresponding Privacy Policy page of Google.

Advertising partners’ privacy policies

You may consult this list to find the Privacy Policy for each of the advertising partners of this website.

Third-party ad servers or ad networks use technologies such as cookies, JavaScript, and Web Beacons in their respective advertisements and links that appear on this website. These technologies are sent directly to your browser. The ad networks automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. They use the received information to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.

Note that this website has no access to or control over the cookies of third-party advertisers.

Third-party privacy policies

This website’s Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options.

You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. For more detailed information about cookie management in specific web browsers, visit the websites of the browser vendors.

CCPA privacy rights (Do Not Sell my personal information)

Under the CCPA, among other rights, California consumers have the right to

  • request that a business that collects a consumer’s personal data disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data that a business has collected about consumers.
  • request that a business delete any personal data about the consumer that a business has collected.
  • request that a business that sells a consumer’s personal data, not sell the consumer’s personal data.

If you make a request, I have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact me.

GDPR data-protection rights

Every website user is entitled to the following rights:

  • The right to access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data. I may charge you a small fee for this service.
  • The right to rectification: You have the right to request that I correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that I complete the information you believe is incomplete.
  • The right to erasure: You have the right to request that Ierase your personal data, under certain conditions.
  • The right to restrict processing: You have the right to request that I restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
  • The right to object to processing: You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data on this website, under certain conditions.
  • The right to data portability: You have the right to request that I transfer your data that I have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, I have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

Children’s information

Another part of my priority is adding protection for children while they use the internet. I encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide the online activities of their children to the greatest extent possible.

This website does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on this website, I request you to contact me immediately and I will do my best efforts to promptly remove such information from my records.