Privacy Policy of The Gujarati Shayari

1 Introduction & Scope

This Privacy Policy describes how The Gujarati Shayari (“we”, “us”, “our”) collects, uses, stores, shares and protects information when you access thegujaratishayari.com (the “Site”) and any feature, page, tool or content available through it.

This Policy applies only to this Site. It does not apply to any third-party website, application or service that we link to. Please read this Policy carefully. By using the Site, you agree to the practices described here.

If you do not agree with this Policy, please stop using the Site.

This Policy should be read together with our Terms & Conditions and our Disclaimer, which cover different subjects and do not repeat the content of this page.

2 Who We Are

The Gujarati Shayari is an independent, free-to-use website that publishes Gujarati shayari across categories such as love, sadness, friendship, attitude, family, devotion and everyday life.

For the purposes of data protection laws (including the EU General Data Protection Regulation, or “GDPR”), we act as the data controller in respect of any personal data processed through the Site. For California residents, we act as a business under the California Consumer Privacy Act as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (“CCPA/CPRA”).

We do not have a Data Protection Officer because we do not carry out large-scale or systematic monitoring of individuals, and the data we process is limited to what is necessary to operate a simple content website.

3 Information We Collect

We collect very little information directly. Most information is collected automatically by your browser and by the third-party services that make the Site work.

3.1 Information You Provide Directly

We do not ask you to create an account, provide an email address, or fill in any form on the Site. There is no newsletter, no login system, and no comment form.

If you email us using the address on our Contact page, we will receive your email address and the contents of your message. We use this only to respond to you.

3.2 Information Collected Automatically

When you visit the Site, certain information is collected automatically by your browser and by our hosting, security and analytics providers. This typically includes:

• IP address (in shortened or full form, depending on the provider)
• Browser type and version
• Operating system and device type
• Screen size and language preference
• Referring URL (the page that sent you to us)
• Pages visited and time spent on each page
• Date and time of your visit
• Approximate geographic location derived from IP address (country or city level)

This information is not used to identify you personally. It is used in aggregate to understand how the Site is used and to keep it secure.

3.3 Information Stored on Your Device

Some features of the Site store small pieces of data in your browser’s local storage (a modern replacement for certain cookies). This includes:

• Shayari you have saved to your favourites list
• Likes you have given to individual shayari
• Your generated personalized shayari (if you use the Studio feature)

3.4 Information We Do Not Collect

We do not knowingly collect, and we do not ask for:

• Your name, postal address, or phone number
• Your email address (except when you email us first)
• Payment or financial information of any kind
• Government-issued identification numbers
• Precise geolocation data
• Biometric data or health data
• Data from children under the age of 13 (see Section 18)

4 How We Collect Information

Information reaches us through four channels:

4.1 Automatically from your browser

Every time a web page is loaded, the browser sends basic technical information to the server hosting the page. This is a standard part of how the web works and is not something we can switch off.

4.2 Through cookies and similar technologies

Cookies and local storage are used to keep the Site working, remember your preferences on this device, and support advertising. These are described in more detail in Sections 6 and 7.

4.3 Through third-party service providers

We use a small number of third-party providers — for example, an advertising network, a web analytics service, a content delivery network, and a security service. These providers may independently collect information when their code runs on our pages. Their practices are governed by their own privacy policies, which we link to in the relevant sections below.

4.4 Directly from you, if you contact us

If you send us an email, we receive whatever you choose to include in that message.

5 Why We Use Information & Legal Basis

We use the limited information we collect for the following purposes:

Where we rely on consent, you may withdraw it at any time. Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before the withdrawal.

We do not use your information for automated decision-making that produces legal effects, and we do not build behavioural profiles for any purpose other than serving advertising through our third-party ad partner.

6 Cookies & Similar Technologies

Cookies are small text files placed on your device by a website you visit. They are widely used to make websites work, to remember preferences, and to provide information to the site owner and its partners.

We also use local storage and session storage, which work in a similar way but store data inside your browser rather than in a cookie file.

6.1 Categories of Cookies and Storage Used on This Site

• Strictly necessary: Required for the Site to function — for example, to remember your cookie choices or to protect against malicious traffic. These cannot be switched off.
• Preference storage (local storage): Used to remember which shayari you have saved and liked on your device. This never leaves your browser.
• Analytics cookies: Used by our analytics provider to measure how visitors use the Site in aggregate.
• Advertising cookies: Placed by our advertising partner (Google AdSense) and its partners to serve ads. These are explained in Section 7.

6.2 Managing Cookies

You can control or delete cookies through your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to block all cookies, block third-party cookies only, or delete existing cookies. Doing so may affect how the Site works — for example, your favourites may not persist between visits.

Where consent is required by law, we ask for it before non-essential cookies are placed. You can change your choices at any time through the cookie banner or your browser settings.

For more general information on cookies, see aboutcookies.org.

7 Third-Party Advertising & Google AdSense

The Site is supported by advertising. Ads are the only commercial element on the Site — we do not sell products, take paid posts, or run affiliate links.

7.1 Types of Data Used by Ad Partners

Google and other ad vendors may collect or use information such as your IP address, device identifiers, browser type, approximate location, and browsing behaviour in order to display relevant ads and measure their performance. This data is processed under Google’s own privacy policy, available at policies.google.com/technologies/ads.

7.2 Consent for Advertising Cookies

Where required by law — for example, for visitors in the European Economic Area (EEA), the United Kingdom, or Switzerland — we obtain consent before advertising cookies are placed. You can withdraw or change your consent at any time through the cookie banner or your browser settings.

7.3 Non-Personalised Ads

If you do not consent to personalised advertising, you may still see ads on the Site. These will be non-personalised and will not be based on your browsing history, though they may still use cookies for frequency capping and aggregated reporting.

7.4 Other Ad Partners

We may, from time to time, work with advertising networks other than Google AdSense. If we do, their names and their privacy policies will be added to this section. We do not allow ad networks on the Site that we have not verified for basic privacy compliance.

8 Analytics & Performance Tools

We use web analytics to understand, in aggregate, how visitors use the Site. This helps us decide which categories to expand, which pages to improve, and how to keep the Site fast.

8.1 Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics 4. Google Analytics collects information such as your IP address (which may be shortened before storage), pages visited, time on page, referral source, browser and device type, and general location. This information is used to produce aggregated reports.

Google Analytics may place cookies on your device. Where required by law, these cookies are only set after you give consent.

You can opt out of Google Analytics across all websites by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. You can read Google’s privacy policy at policies.google.com/privacy.

8.2 Other Measurement Tools

We may also use privacy-focused analytics tools that do not use cookies and do not track individuals across websites. If we do, their use will be reflected in this section. We do not use session recording, heatmapping, or any tool that captures what you type.

9 Hosting, CDN & Security Providers

Like every website, the Site is served by a hosting provider and protected by a content delivery network (CDN) and security service. These providers process technical information — such as your IP address, request headers, and request timestamps — as part of delivering pages to your browser and protecting the Site from malicious traffic.

These providers act as our data processors and are contractually bound to use the information only for the purposes of hosting, delivering and protecting the Site.

Server logs generated by our hosting provider are retained for a limited period (typically a few weeks to a few months) and are used only for security, diagnostics and abuse prevention.

10 How We Share Information

We do not sell your personal information, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioural advertising beyond the ad-serving described in Section 7. We share information only in the following limited circumstances:

10.1 With Service Providers

We share technical information with the third-party providers that help us run the Site — for example, our hosting provider, CDN, security service, analytics provider, and advertising partner. These providers receive only what they need to perform their function.

10.2 With Advertising Partners

As described in Section 7, our advertising partner (Google AdSense) and its partners may collect and use information directly when ads are served on the Site. We do not pass your personal information to them ourselves; the collection happens through cookies and similar technologies placed when the ad code loads.

10.3 For Legal Reasons

We may disclose information if we are required to do so by law, or if we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to comply with a legal obligation, protect our rights, or protect the safety of any person.

10.4 Business Transfers

If the Site is ever sold or transferred to a new owner, any information held by us may be transferred as part of that transaction. The new owner would be bound by this Privacy Policy, or by a policy at least as protective.

10.5 What We Never Do

• We do not sell your personal information.
• We do not rent or trade email addresses or contact details.
• We do not share information with data brokers.
• We do not use your information to train AI models.

11 International Data Transfers

Our hosting provider and third-party services may store or process information in countries outside your own — including the United States, the European Union, and other regions where they operate data centres.

Where personal data is transferred out of the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, we rely on appropriate safeguards recognised by applicable law, such as the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses or an adequacy decision. Our service providers are contractually required to maintain equivalent protections.

If you would like more information about the safeguards in place, please contact us using the details in Section 22.

12 Data Retention

We keep information only for as long as it is needed for the purpose it was collected for.

• Server and security logs: retained by our hosting and security providers for a limited period, typically between a few weeks and a few months, then deleted automatically.
• Analytics data: retained by our analytics provider according to its standard retention period (typically 14 months for Google Analytics 4), then deleted or aggregated.
• Emails you send us: retained in our mailbox for as long as needed to resolve your enquiry, and for a reasonable period afterwards for record-keeping. You can ask us to delete them at any time.
• Local storage data (favourites, likes): stored only on your device, and retained until you clear your browser data or use the “Clear all” button in the Favourites panel.

We do not retain personal data for longer than necessary, and we delete or anonymise it once the retention period ends.

13 Data Security

We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect the information processed through the Site. These include:

• HTTPS encryption across the entire Site
• Regular software and plugin updates
• Security monitoring and firewall protection through our CDN and hosting provider
• Access controls limiting who can administer the Site
• No storage of sensitive data such as passwords or payment details, because we do not collect them

No method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is completely secure. While we take security seriously, we cannot guarantee absolute security, and you use the Site at your own risk.

If we ever become aware of a data breach affecting your personal data, we will notify affected users and any relevant authority as required by applicable law.

14 Your Rights (GDPR / EEA & UK)

If you are located in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, you have the following rights under the General Data Protection Regulation:

• Right of access — to request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
• Right to rectification — to ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete data.
• Right to erasure (“right to be forgotten”) — to ask us to delete your personal data where there is no good reason for us to keep it.
• Right to restrict processing — to ask us to suspend processing of your data in certain circumstances.
• Right to data portability — to receive your data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format.
• Right to object — to object to processing based on legitimate interests, or to direct marketing.
• Right to withdraw consent — to withdraw any consent you have given at any time.
• Right to lodge a complaint — with your local data protection authority. In the UK this is the Information Commissioner’s Office; in the EU it is the supervisory authority of your member state.

Because we do not operate accounts and do not collect identifying information unless you email us, in practice most of these rights apply only to the emails you have sent us.

To exercise any of these rights, contact us at thegujaratishayari.com@gmail.com with the subject line “GDPR Request”. We will respond within 30 days.

15 Your Rights (California – CCPA / CPRA)

If you are a California resident, you have specific rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act.

15.1 Right to Know

You have the right to request that we disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you, the categories of sources, the purposes of collection, and the categories of third parties with whom we share it.

15.2 Right to Delete

You have the right to request that we delete personal information we have collected from you, subject to certain legal exceptions.

15.3 Right to Correct

You have the right to request that we correct inaccurate personal information we hold about you.

15.4 Right to Opt Out of Sale or Sharing

We do not sell personal information. We do not share personal information for cross-context behavioural advertising except through the third-party advertising cookies described in Section 7. You can opt out of those cookies through the cookie banner, via Google Ads Settings, or by using the Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal in a supported browser.

15.5 Right to Limit Use of Sensitive Personal Information

We do not collect sensitive personal information as defined by the CPRA.

15.6 Right to Non-Discrimination

We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your privacy rights. You will receive the same access to the Site and the same level of service regardless.

15.7 How to Exercise These Rights

Email us at thegujaratishayari.com@gmail.com with the subject line “California Privacy Request”. Because we do not hold identifying information about most visitors, we may not be able to locate a specific record about you — but we will respond either way, explaining what we hold.

You may designate an authorised agent to submit requests on your behalf. We may ask for proof that the agent is authorised to act for you.

16 Rights for Other Regions

16.1 India (DPDP Act)

Visitors in India have rights under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, including the right to access, correct and erase personal data, and the right to grievance redressal. As with other regions, the only personal data we hold is what you choose to send us by email. To make a request, contact thegujaratishayari.com@gmail.com.

16.2 Brazil (LGPD)

Visitors in Brazil have rights under the Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados, including confirmation of processing, access, correction, anonymisation, portability and deletion. Requests can be made to thegujaratishayari.com@gmail.com.

16.3 Canada (PIPEDA)

Visitors in Canada have the right to access and correct personal information, and to withdraw consent, under the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act. Requests can be made to thegujaratishayari.com@gmail.com.

16.4 Australia (Privacy Act)

Visitors in Australia have rights under the Privacy Act 1988 and the Australian Privacy Principles, including access and correction rights. Requests can be made to thegujaratishayari.com@gmail.com.

16.5 CalOPPA

In accordance with the California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA), we make this Privacy Policy easily accessible from the homepage of the Site. We do not change our practices in response to Do Not Track signals (see Section 17).

17 Do Not Track & Global Privacy Control

Some browsers offer a “Do Not Track” (DNT) setting. There is currently no common industry standard for how websites should respond to DNT signals, and the Site does not respond differently to them at this time. This does not affect your ability to control cookies through the cookie banner or your browser settings.

We do honour the Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal where it is sent by a browser and where it is legally required — for example, under the CCPA/CPRA. If your browser sends a GPC signal, we treat it as a request to opt out of the sharing of personal information for targeted advertising.

18 Children’s Privacy

The Site is intended for a general audience and is not directed at children under the age of 13 (or under 16 in the European Economic Area). We do not knowingly collect personal information from children.

If you are a parent or guardian and believe that a child has provided personal information to us — for example, by sending us an email — please contact us at thegujaratishayari.com@gmail.com and we will delete it promptly.

We comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) in the United States and equivalent laws in other jurisdictions.

19 Third-Party Links

The Site contains links to other websites and services — for example, links to Google’s ad settings, analytics opt-out pages, and other informational resources. These links are provided for your convenience.

We are not responsible for the privacy practices of those websites. Once you leave the Site, this Privacy Policy no longer applies. We encourage you to read the privacy policy of any website you visit.

20 AI Training & Automated Decision-Making

We do not use any personal information collected through the Site to train artificial intelligence or machine learning models.

We do not use your information to make automated decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects. The only automation used on the Site is:

• The personalized shayari generator, which runs entirely inside your browser and does not send any data to us or to any server
• Advertising systems operated by our ad partner, which are governed by their own policies

21 Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in the law, changes in our practices, or improvements to the Site.

When we make material changes, we will update the “Last Updated” date at the top of this page. In some cases, we may also post a notice on the homepage. We encourage you to review this page periodically to stay informed about how we protect your information.

Your continued use of the Site after changes are posted constitutes your acceptance of the updated policy.

22 How to Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, or if you would like to exercise any of the rights described above, please contact us by email. We respond to all privacy-related emails within 30 days, and we aim to respond much sooner.

You can also reach us through the Contact page, which lists the correct email for corrections, copyright requests and general enquiries.