Privacy Policy

About LOCAL SAMBAD

“Local Sambad” is an emerging Bengali news portal, with a team consisting of freelance reporters, passionate content writers, and skilled web developers. Our primary focus is to serve local and hyperlocal Bengali news content related to entertainment, technology, science, lifestyle, astrology, finance, jobs etc.

Consent

By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our website, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. This is done for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details multiple times when you leave multiple comments. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit the login page on our website, we will set a temporary cookie to determine whether your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal information and is discarded when your browser is closed.

When you log in, we will also set up multiple cookies to store your login information and your screen/display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen/display options cookies last for one year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login cookie will stay for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit/publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal information and just indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after one day.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

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: automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture(if any) is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

Visitors can see, click on and download any media (audio/video/images/text etc.) posted on this website. If you edit or publish an article for a post or page, or add a comment, the media should not contain any sensitive or personal information. “Local Sambad” shall not be held responsible for any misconduct or any legal issues arising due to the same.

Links

Our website, wherever required, may contains links to other websites that are neither controlled nor owned by us. We are not in control of privacy practices followed by such websites. We encourage you to read the privacy statements of each website that may collect personal information.

Visitors can see, click on and visit any link posted on the website. If you include any link in your post or page or in your comment which contains any sensitive information, “Local Sambad” shall not be held responsible for any misconduct or any legal issues arising due to the same. You should avoid inserting any links with any sensitive or personal information in any part of your post or page or comment on this website.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this website may include embedded content (e.g. articles, images, videos etc.) from multiple other websites. An embedded content may behave in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, and detect whether you have an account in their website and are logged into that website.

Information we 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 we ask you to provide your personal information.

If you contact us directly, we 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 us, and any other information you may choose to provide.

When you register for an account, we may ask for your contact information, including items such as name, address, email address, and telephone number.

How we use your information

We use the information we collect in various ways, including:

• Providing, operating, and maintaining our website
• Improving, personalizing, and expanding our website
• Understanding and analysing how you use our website
• Developing new products, services, features, and functionalities
• Communicating with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the website, and for marketing and promotional purposes
• Sending you emails if required
• Finding and preventing unauthorized use of certain parts of the website

Who we share your data with

If a password reset is requested by you, the IP address of your device will be included in the password reset email. The comments might be checked by an automated spam detection tool. We do not share your comment data with any other third-party services or organizations.

To provide you the best experience while surfing through this website, some of your personal information (IP address, device information, session information) might be collected and securely shared with third-party analytics service providers, and personalized ads service providers.

How long we retain your data

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.

For users that register on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All 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.

Information security

We safely store information provided by you, on secure computer servers, defended against unauthorized access. We only keep information which are truly necessary and required to make sure you have the best experience while browsing through the website.

GDPR Privacy Policy (Data Protection Rights)

We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every single user is entitled to the following:

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

If you make a request, it might take up to one month for us to respond to you. If you are willing to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

CCPA Privacy Policy

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, it might take up to one month for us to respond to you. If you are willing to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

Children’s Privacy

Protecting children while using the internet is important. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.

LOCAL SAMBAD does not knowingly collect any personal identifiable information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided his/her information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such data from our records.

If it comes to our knowledge that we have unknowingly collected personal contact information other than an email address from a child under the age of 13, we will delete the information as soon as possible.

Contact information of the Publisher(s):