Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes how Bharath News Network, operating our online platform and services including breaking news reporting, live updates, investigative journalism, leader interviews, current affairs analysis, digital publishing, multimedia production, and online news portal management, collects, uses, and protects your personal data.

We are committed to protecting your privacy and handling your data transparently and in accordance with applicable data protection laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other relevant legislation.

Information We Collect

We may collect certain information when you access or use our site. This information can include:

**Usage Data:** Information about how you use our service, such as the pages you visit, the time spent on those pages, the links you click, and other statistical data.
**Technical Data:** Information about the device and connection you use to access our site, including your IP address, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this service.
**Cookie Data:** Information collected through cookies and similar tracking technologies used on our site to enhance your browsing experience, analyze site traffic, and personalize content.

We collect this data to operate and maintain our service, understand how our content is consumed, improve our site features and performance, and ensure the security of our platform.

How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect for various purposes, including:

To provide and maintain our service.
To improve, personalize, and expand our service.
To understand and analyze how you use our service.
To develop new products, services, features, and functionality.
To detect and prevent fraud and abuse.
To comply with legal obligations.

Legal Basis for Processing

We will only process your personal data when we have a lawful basis to do so. Our legal basis for processing your data typically includes:

**Legitimate Interests:** Processing is necessary for our legitimate interests in operating, managing, and improving our online news platform, provided these interests are not overridden by your data protection rights. This may include analyzing user behavior to optimize site content and performance, maintaining the security of our systems, and conducting business reporting.
**Consent:** In certain circumstances, we may rely on your consent to process your personal data, particularly for the use of non-essential cookies or for specific interactions where consent is explicitly requested. You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
**Legal Obligation:** Processing may be necessary to comply with a legal obligation to which we are subject.

Data Retention

We retain your personal data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

Your Data Protection Rights

Under data protection laws, you have certain rights regarding your personal data. These may include:

The right to request access to your personal data.
The right to request rectification of inaccurate or incomplete personal data.
The right to request the erasure of your personal data under certain conditions.
The right to request restriction of processing of your personal data under certain conditions.
The right to object to our processing of your personal data under certain conditions.
The right to data portability, allowing you to obtain and reuse your personal data for your own purposes across different services.
The right to withdraw consent at any time where we rely on consent to process your personal data.
The right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority if you believe your rights have been infringed.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the contact details provided below.

Data Security

We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures designed to protect your personal data from accidental loss, unauthorized access, use, alteration, or disclosure. However, no method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your data.

Third-Party Links

Our service may contain links to third-party websites, plug-ins, and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our site, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.

International Data Transfers

As a news and media company based in India, the personal data we collect may be processed and stored in India or other locations where we or our service providers operate. If we transfer personal data covered by GDPR outside the European Economic Area (EEA), we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by implementing appropriate safeguards, such as relying on adequacy decisions or standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission.

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. 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.

Contacting Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our data processing practices, please contact us at:

Bharath News Network
Platina
G Block, Bandra Kurla Complex,
Mumbai, Maharashtra,
400051
India