Overview

ZohairAnsari.com (“we,” “us,” or “our”) is committed to protecting the privacy of the visitors, customers, and other users of the site (“user, “you,” or “your”). This privacy policy describes the information we collect through this website (the “Site”), how and why we collect, store, use, and/or share (“process”) such information when you (i) visit our website (ii) interact with any material or online service provided by us.

Please read our privacy policy carefully.

By visiting http://www.zohairansari.com, you are consenting to our privacy policy regardless of whether or not you’ve read it.

Terms and their Use

TermsReferring to
“we,” “us,” and “our”ZohairAnsari.com
Owner and Data ControllerZohair Ansari
“user,” “you,” and “your”Visitors, Customers, and other users of the site.

Scope of the Privacy Policy

This privacy policy applies between you (all website visitors, customers, and other users) and us (ZohairAnsari.com). To be specific, it applies to all the data collected and processed by us from you or provided by you yourself with regard to your use of our website.

All the information, materials, and online services provided on the website are subject to this Privacy Policy. This privacy policy does not extend to linked webpages, social media sites, or other websites that can be accessed from the home page, blog posts, category pages, or any other pages of our website including links to our social media handles.

We have no control over the privacy policies and data management of linked websites or pages excluding pages under our website domain (www.zohairansari.com). We advise you to read the privacy policy of other websites before using them or their services.

Summary

This section answers some of the key questions from our privacy policy but you can check out detailed information about the topics by referring to the respective sections using the Table of Contents below to find what you’re looking for.

Do we record any Personally Identifiable Information?

No, we do not unless you yourself (willingly) give it to us in the comment section. The third-party services we use do collect your information to help us provide you better service and improve your experience on our website. Read more about the information we collect in the section, “Data Collected & Why.“

How do we collect your data?

(1) Any data you directly give to us and data that is collected from you automatically when you visit the website. Refer to the “Data Collected & Why” section to learn more.

What do we do with the data we collect from you?

In short, to enhance your overall website experience and show you personalized content and ads.

Who do we share your personal data with?

We share your personal data with a number of plugins and tools to provide you with a smooth and memorable experience on our website. You can learn more about it in the “Sharing of Your Data” section.

Do you collect any sensitive personal data like phone numbers or health information?

No, we do not collect such information.

What third-party services and add-ons do we use on the site?

Our site is hosted on Bluehost and we use WordPress as our content management system. Inside WordPress, we use multiple plugins such as (but not limited to) Google Site Kit, Updraft Plus, Akismet Anti-Spam, and Steam for providing and improving our services on the website.

Where are the servers hosting our site located?

United States of America

Does this privacy policy extend to other websites?

No. This privacy policy does not extend to any linked websites or pages including social media handles.

Does our privacy policy has a section dedicated to Californian Users and their Privacy rights?

Yes, refer to the Table of Contents below to find it.

Does our privacy policy has a section dedicated to European Users and their Privacy rights?

Yes, refer to the Table of Contents below to find it.

Do we record any data from children under the age of 13?

No, we comply with both COPPA and GDPR and do not record any personal information from children under 13. Refer to the “Children’s Personal Data” section to learn more.

Can you review, update or delete the Data we collect from you?

Yes, based on the applicable laws in your country, you may have that right. You can contact us and submit a request in case you want to review, update or delete your personal information.

How can you contact us for any data-related query or regarding the information on this privacy policy?

By emailing us at zohairansari101@gmail.com. Refer to the “Contact Us” section for more information.

Data Collected & Why

We do not directly ask our site visitors or users to provide their personal information for viewing information or using our services. Hence, we do not collect your name, date of birth, contact information (email address or phone number), specific location (postcode), etc. The exception is when a user provides these details to us willingly in the comment section below the blog posts or by sending us an email on our email address.

In short, We only collect the information you voluntarily provide to us.

However, we do indirectly collect data from you when you visit our site i.e. technical data. This data is collected by third-party services (plugins) we’ve added to our content management system, WordPress, for the smooth functioning of our site and to improve your website experience. All of this information is collected automatically from you when you visit or navigate pages on our website. For example, Google Analytics collects information about site usage (without personally identifying the user) via cookie technology and reports it to us so we can enhance your website experience. We will share (in detail) the plugins and all the information they collect from you below.

Account Data

Currently, our website doesn’t have any functionality to collect customer data such as the customer’s name, email address, phone number, shipping address, etc. Hence, we neither collect this information nor share it with any third party. ZohairAnsari.com aims to offer you great content and service experience by requiring as fewer details as possible from you.

Transactional Data

We do not provide digital products or services as of now. So we do not collect transactional data like contact details, card details, or order information. Currently, we do not work with any payment services provider such as Stripe or Paypal. If this changes, we will notify you in accordance with our privacy policy. Refer to the “Changes to our Privacy Policy” Section to learn more.

Emails

We may collect your data when you contact us via email. Whatever data you may provide in the email is collected including the email address, in accordance with this privacy policy. We also collect emails when someone wants to comment on our website to ensure we can have quality discussions with our visitors and avoid spam in the comment section of our posts.

We do not send any emails whatsoever to our website viewers/ visitors or users as our information or services do not require us to send emails. Once we include services such as newsletters or digital products in the form of courses or ebooks, we may be required to collect such information. In that case, all the changes will be notified to you prior to the release of the services or the start of the data collection.

WordPress.org

The content management system we use for our website, WordPress, does not collect any personal data about website visitors. You can read more about its privacy policies, practices, and what non-personally-identifying information it gathers here: https://wordpress.org/about/privacy/

Hosting Provider

Our website is hosted on Bluehost, which is a GDPR-Complaint hosting provider. Bluehost collects the personal information of its users to effectively provide its services and improve its platform. This information is mostly collected in de-personalized form but when they collect personalized information, it’s out of necessity in providing the service. You can find the information about the GDPR complaint of Bluehost at https://www.bluehost.in/hosting/help/gdpr and Bluehost’s full privacy policy at https://newfold.com/privacy-center/privacy.

Comments

We do capture all of the comments and the information you willingly provide in the comments on our website. When you comment, we ask for your name, email address, website, and the content of the comment. We do not display your email addresses besides your comments as we collect emails to make sure the user is legit and isn’t spamming the comment section.

We recommend you don’t provide any personally identifiable information in the comment box since the comment will be made public and can be viewed by anyone. This information may be collected by third parties without our awareness to message you or target you with unsought messages. These practices are beyond the knowledge and control of the owner and beyond the scope of this policy. In case you’ve shared any personal information in the comments unknowingly, let us know by contacting us at our email address and we will remove it as soon as possible.

We also collect a commenter’s IP Address through the Akismet Anti-Spam plugin to help spam detection. Refer to Akismet Anti-Spam’s Privacy Policy here: https://automattic.com/privacy/

Media

We do not have the functionality to let you upload images on our website, neither through guest posts nor with comments. So we do not collect any information in this format, but we would highly recommend users to not upload images on other websites to protect their location information which can be extracted from the uploaded images.

Contact Forms

We do not have any contact forms on our website. Hence, we do not collect any data or personal information through contact forms.

Embedded Content from Other Sites

Embedded content from other sites behaves the same way as if you visited that particular website. Our privacy policy doesn’t apply to embedded content on the website including, but not limited to, embedded YouTube videos or embedded Instagram posts.

Many articles on our site include embedded content from YouTube and other social networks and these websites collect data about you if you interact with the embedded content on our website. So be sure you read the privacy policies of the respective sites (from where the embedded content is used) before interacting with the embeds.

Advertising

We are affiliated with Google Adsense and Google may process your information on our website to develop and display personalized content and advertising tailored to your interests, location, and more. Google uses advertising cookies to serve you ads on our website based on your visits to sites on the Internet. You can learn more about Google’s personalized advertising and how you can opt out of it here: https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/1348695.

Affiliate Sites

We do include affiliate links but try our best to notify the user when we provide an affiliate link. We only provide affiliate links to trusted websites and expect our affiliates to respect your privacy. Please note, that we do not have control over the practices of the external websites and we are not responsible for the actions of these third parties. Be sure to check the privacy policies of all affiliates before interacting with their offerings or services.

Cookies

Cookies are small pieces of text or files that get downloaded to a device when a user clicks or interacts with a website or application. Like many websites, we use cookies throughout our website to enhance our website experience and performance.

Our Content Management system, WordPress, uses Cookies to improve your site experience. If you decide to leave a comment on the site, it will ask you whether you want to save your name, email address, and website in the form of cookies. These are solely for your comfort and convenience so you don’t have to re-enter the details when you want to write another comment on our website. These cookies last for a time period of one year.

Google also uses its advertising cookies on our site to personalize your advertising experience. These cookies are automatically downloaded unless you decide to opt out.

We also use Google Analytics to get the usage reports of our website. You can find more information about the use of cookies for analytical purposes in the section below.

Analytics

Our website is connected with Google Analytics and Google will process information about how you use our Services and report it to us via Google Analytics so we can improve our Services. We also use the Rank Math plugin on WordPress which is a GDPR-friendly plugin that reports analytics by the means of cookies to us. You can reach more about Rank Math’s Privacy Policy here https://rankmath.com/privacy-policy/

Both Google Analytics and Rank Math collect the following personal data through cookies and other similar technologies to report site analytics:

  • Demographic Information: your country, city, etc.
  • Device Information: device type (phone, laptop, etc.), browser type, hardware model, operating system, etc.
  • Usage Information: session time, pages viewed, error reports, etc.

Please note, that the Analytics reported by these providers does not reveal the specific identities of our visitors.

We use the combined usage statistics to identify patterns between our site users to improve our site and its offerings. For instance, the pages most visited and what attracted users to them or the time spent by all the users on a particular page to see the content retention. Again, these usage statistics cannot personally identify you or any user individually but rather they are combined statistics from Google to help enhance our services to you and analyze traffic on our site.

You can learn more about Google’s Privacy Policy here: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

Opt Out

You may refuse to accept cookies or opt out of any kind of tracking technology. This can vary for different browsers and vary between different versions as well. We would recommend you search online for blocking or deleting cookies from your specific browser. If you use Google Chrome, which is used by the majority of internet users, you can find the latest information about managing your cookies here: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647

Please beware, blocking essential cookies of our website may result in a poor site experience for you as some features and functionalies might be negatively affected or completely stop working.

Sharing of Your Data

Neither, do we share your voluntarily shared personal data with anyone nor does our content management system, WordPress. However, as listed above, we do use certain plugins and services with whom we must share your personal data (that’s automatically generated with site visits) to provide you with a great experience on our site.

We share data with Google Analytics, Google Adsense, Rank Math, WordPress, Bluehost, Updraft Plus, Akismet Anti-Spam, Kadence Blocks, and Steam for the proper functioning of our website and to provide good services to our site visitors.

Data Transfer

Our hosting servers are located in the United States which is outside the European Economic Area (EEA); however, they are completely secured with Bluehost (our hosting provider) which is a GDPR-compliant hosting service. With the Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy (TADP) agreement between European Union and the United States underway, it would provide added protection to the already safeguarded data with Bluehost (a company based in the US). Hence, all of our site data will be stored and processed in the United States and it will be safeguarded by Bluehost to the same standards as if it was in Europe.

There are appropriate protective measures in place to protect your personal data: Your data is placed in highly secured servers and under the SSL certification service offered by Bluehost, which keeps the data safe from intrusions.

Data Retention

Your data will be processed and stored for as long as required for the purpose it was collected for or until you request the data removal of your data. For instance, a comment and its data will be retained indefinitely until a removal request is received. This is to recognize follow-up comments and respond with ease and with a previously commented background in mind.

Even if your data is deleted, it may still be present in backup files for legal and other purposes.

Data Protection & Security

We use protective measures to safeguard your personal information from any intrusion, misuse, or unauthorized access. These protective measures include, but are not limited to, highly protected servers from a global hosting provider, Bluehost, with secured networks (containing your information) located in the United States and organizational measures to deal with any suspected data misuse or breach through our organization’s internal reporting system.

We comply with the United States Fair Information Practices (FIP) and in the event of a data breach, we will notify all of our users if any information has been misused or accessed by unauthorized sources.

If you suspect any loss or unauthorized access to your data, please contact us immediately at zohairansari101@gmail.com.

We make every effort to protect your personal information; however, no data transfer over the Internet is 100% secure, it is susceptible to tampering or manipulation like when a third party, without our knowledge, targets our users using publically posted comments on our site. We have no control over this and it is beyond the scope of the privacy policy.

Your Rights

The site users and visitors have certain rights depending on their country of residence and the applicability of data protection laws in their countries. We respect the privacy laws in the European Union, the United States as well as other countries.

California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA)

Our privacy policy is framed in compliance with the privacy rights of Californian residents through the law of CalOPPA which requires all the information collected from the people of California to be listed on our privacy policy page. You can read more about it here: https://consumercal.org/about-cfc/cfc-education-foundation/california-online-privacy-protection-act-caloppa-3/

We agree and comply with the requirements of CalOPPA, some of which include:

  • The Privacy Policy page is clearly visible on the home page.
  • A HyperLink on the word “Privacy Policy” appears on the homepage.
  • Disclose all the data collected from the website and by the third parties operating on the site.
  • Users can visit our site anonymously.

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

Our privacy policy also complies with the General Data Protection Regulation which requires organizations and businesses to protect the personal information and privacy of EU citizens.

If you reside in a country of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have the following rights:

  • Right to Access – the right to request a copy of any information that we hold about you at any time.
  • Right to Rectification– you have the right to ensure the accuracy of your information with us and request changes if the information is not complete or inaccurate.
  • Right to Erasure – you have the right to request us to delete all of your personal information from our systems.
  • Right to Data Portability – you possess the right to request us to move or transfer your personal data.
  • Right to Object – you can object to our use of your data anytime.
  • Right to Restrict Processing – You can request us to stop further processing of your data.

You can learn more about GDPR and description of your rights at the following address https://gdpr.eu/

With the regulations of the GDPR, you can practice any of your rights including the right to erasure, right to rectification, right to objection, and right to access your information with all the personal data we have about you.

If you want to exercise your right, be it through accessing information or through the removal of your information, you can do it by contacting us at our email address zohairansari101@gmail.com. We will get back to you with the information we have about you after verifying you in our records.

In case you find that your rights have been violated or if you’re not satisfied with certain circumstances, please contact us immediately at the email address mentioned above.

You can also contact our service providers for the removal of data or the exercise of any of your rights via GDPR as most of them are GDPR-compliant businesses.

Children’s Personal Data

ZohairAnsari.com complies with Children Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)’s guidelines pertaining to Children’s Online Privacy and doesn’t collect or market or allow third parties to collect or market the Personally Identifiable Information of minors (children under the age of 13). We respect children’s online privacy and require parental consent (or consent of a child’s guardian) before we can process the personal data from children under the age of 13.

If we find we have received any personal information from a child below 13 years of age against the terms of our policy, we will immediately delete that data. In case you found ZohairAnsari.com to have any information about a person under 13 that is in violation of this policy, be sure to email us at the email address given in the “Contact Us” section below.

Governing Law

We are free to transfer our rights in this privacy policy where it doesn’t affect your rights, but under this policy, you may not transfer any of your rights to another person.

This policy is governed by Indian Law and if a dispute arises under the policy, we will try to resolve it through mediation. If it doesn’t resolve the dispute, we will solve it through arbitration. Any dispute arising from this policy will be subject to the jurisdiction of the Indian Courts.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

ZohairAnsari.com reserves the right to create any modification or change to this privacy policy as necessary or if required by law. The changes, if made, will be immediately notified to the users and customers of the site and/or (if possible) by sending a notice to the site users via any contact information available.

Hence, we highly recommend you refer to the last update date to this privacy policy at the bottom of this page and check this policy as often as you can. Your continued use of the site after the posting of any alterations to terms of the privacy policy will mean you consent to the changes.

Any information collected before the changes to the terms will be handled according to the laws and regulations that were in effect at the time of the information collection.

Contact Us

In case you may have any questions about our Privacy Policy, your rights, or specific practices of our website, please write an email to us with “Privacy Policy” as the Subject at the following email address: zohairansari101@gmail.com

Currently, we are not available by post; however, if you wanna know where the owner of the site is located and from where the operations of the site are carried out, here it is:

Zohair Ansari

Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh

India

Last Updated — September 2, 2022