Who we are
Our website address is: https://buddhafest.in.
Comments
Policy for Comments and Data Gathering
We gather specific data when users post comments on our website in order to provide a secure and useful commenting experience. This comprises:
Your name, email address, website URL (if applicable), and the comment itself are examples of the information you provide in the comment form.
Technical Details: We additionally gather the visitor’s browser user agent string and IP address. By using automated techniques, this aids in the detection and prevention of spam and abuse.
Integration with Gravatar
We might make use of the Gravatar service to customize your commenting experience:
In order to verify whether you have a registered profile image, the Gravatar service may receive an anonymized string (referred to as a hash) produced from your email address when you submit a comment.
If you do, after your comment is accepted, your Gravatar profile picture will be shown publicly next to it.
Gravatar’s privacy policy has further information about how they manage your data.
Your Comment’s Visibility
Following approval, your remark, name, and profile picture (via Gravatar, if applicable) are made publicly accessible.
Because other site visitors may be able to access the information you choose to include in your remark, please be careful what you pick.
We are dedicated to upholding openness and safeguarding user information. Please see our complete Privacy Policy for additional information on how we manage your personal data.
Media
Policy for Uploading Images and Location Information (EXIF GPS)
We strongly advise removing any embedded location data (EXIF GPS) from your photographs before submitting them to our website, if you decide to do so. This is the reason:
EXIF GPS Data: What Is It?
The majority of contemporary smartphones and digital cameras automatically add EXIF data, or information, to images.
Technical information like the camera kind, settings, and exact GPS coordinates (i.e., the location of the shot) might be included in this metadata.
Why Is Location Data Removal Necessary?
Privacy Risk: If location information is left in place, someone else could be able to see or deduce the precise spot where the photo was taken, which could be your house, place of employment, or another private area
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Public Access: After being uploaded, pictures on the website could be available to the general public. It is possible for anyone to download the picture and utilize software to extract its EXIF data, which includes location data.
What You Can Do: Remove EXIF data, particularly GPS coordinates, from your photos using photo-editing software or your phone’s settings before uploading.
You can quickly and simply delete metadata from your photos with a variety of free tools and applications.
You can help safeguard both your privacy and the privacy of anyone else who might be in your pictures by taking this precaution.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies.
When you leave a comment, you’ll be given the option to have your name, email, and website details saved in your browser using cookies. This is done purely for your convenience—so the next time you comment, your details will already be filled in, saving you time and effort.
These cookies will remain active for one year unless you clear them manually through your browser settings
To check if your browser allows cookies, we will install a temporary cookie when you visit our login page.
This is a straightforward test cookie that aids in determining whether cookies are supported and permitted by your browser.
It is automatically removed when your browser closes and doesn’t keep any personal information.
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To remember your login session and display choices, we set a number of cookies when you log in.
By keeping you logged in and remembering your preferred view of the website (e.g., bright or dark mode, layout options), these cookies help you have a better experience.
- For a period of two days, login cookies safely save your login information.
- For a year, screen display choice cookies (such as font size and theme) are kept.
- You can stay logged in for up to two weeks without having to input your login information again if you select the “Remember Me” option when logging in.
- For security reasons, your browser immediately deletes the login cookies after you log out.
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An extra cookie will be placed in your browser whenever you update or publish an article.
This cookie aids in the system’s memory of the most recent article you updated.
It is used internally to enhance the editorial experience and doesn’t contain any personal information—just the post’s ID.
After a day, this cookie expires.
Embedded content from other websites
This website’s articles may contain embedded content, such as pictures, videos, and other types of content.
It’s possible that some of the articles on our website have embedded content from other websites. Images, maps, articles from other platforms, social network posts (like Instagram, Twitter), videos (like YouTube, Vimeo), and more are all included in this.
The behavior of embedded content from other websites is identical to that of a visitor who has visited the other website.
Your browser makes a direct request to the third-party website that is hosting the embedded content whenever you interact with it. This implies that the third-party provider may handle your interaction as if you were going straight to their platform, so exposing you to their own privacy policies and conditions of use.
These websites may employ cookies, gather personal information about you, incorporate extra third-party tracking, and track how you interact with the embedded content—
Various types of data, including your IP address, device information, browser type, and behavior (e.g., how long you viewed a video or what links you clicked), may be collected by the external site. In order to create a profile of your online activities, they might also install cookies on your device or employ other tracking technologies.
—including, if you have an account and are signed in to that website, tracking how you interact with the embedded material.
The third-party website might be able to link your interaction with your personal profile if you are signed into your account there (for example, your Facebook or YouTube account). For example, it can note that you interacted with a social media post on our website or viewed a specific video. Before engaging with the embedded material of these external websites, we advise visitors to read their privacy policies
Your usage of embedded material is subject to the privacy and tracking rules of third-party providers, as we have no control over their data practices.
Who we share your data with
Your IP address will be included in the password reset email if you request one.
For security and verification reasons, we include your IP address in the password reset email that you receive when you submit a request for a new password on our website. This information can be helpful in identifying the location from where the request originated and in identifying any suspicious or unauthorized activities. For instance, the existence of an unknown IP address may warn you of possible account abuse if the password reset request was not made by you. Adding the IP address is an extra security precaution to safeguard your private information and preserve the integrity of your account.
How long we retain your data
Both the comment and its information are saved permanently if you leave one.
When you leave a comment on our website, we save not only the comment’s content but also related metadata, such your IP address, browser user agent, and the time and date it was submitted. For the purpose of managing and streamlining future encounters, this data is kept forever. We can improve your user experience and cut down on the time it takes to post your comments by using this information to automatically identify and approve any further comments you make rather than requiring manual approval.
We also keep the personal data that users enter in their user profiles when they register on our website, if any.
Your name, email address, and any other optional profile information you choose to include during the sign-up process are safely saved in your user account, if our website permits user registration.
Every user has the ability to see, modify, or remove their personal data at any moment (but they are unable to alter their username).
You have complete control over the information on your personal profile after registering. You have the option to see, edit, or remove your information at any moment by logging in. However, your username might not be changeable in order to preserve uniformity in our system and records.
Administrators of the website can view and modify that data as well.
User profiles can be accessed and changed by designated website administrators for operational, support, and security reasons. We can help with technical problems, enforce site policies, or handle accounts in accordance with administrative or legal obligations thanks to this access.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us.
As part of our commitment to transparency and data privacy, we allow users to request a copy of their personal information stored on our website. This may include details such as your profile information, comments, contact details, and any other data you’ve submitted during your interactions with our site. Upon request, we will compile and provide this data in a structured, commonly used format, enabling you to view or transfer it as needed.
You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you.
If you no longer wish for us to retain your personal information, you have the right to request its deletion. Upon verification of your identity, we will remove your personal data from our systems.
This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Please note that certain information may be retained despite a deletion request if it is necessary for us to comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce our policies, or maintain essential site functions. Examples include transaction records, security logs, or data needed for fraud prevention.
Where your data is sent
An automatic spam detection service can be used to review visitor comments.
A spam detection system may be used to automatically filter all visitor comments in order to preserve the integrity and security of our website. This service looks for and filters out potentially dangerous or unsolicited messages (spam) by analyzing a number of variables, including the comment’s content, the commenter’s IP address, the browser user agent, and other technical identifiers. This procedure aims to safeguard our community against offensive, unsuitable, or malicious content and to maintain the discussion area’s safety, civility, and significance for all users.