Effective Date: April 20, 2026
1. Who we are
Our website address is: https://gharapnasa.com.
Ghar Apna Sa is operated as a Sole Proprietorship. We are committed to maintaining the trust and confidence of our visitors while ensuring full compliance with national data protection standards.
2. Personal Data Collection and Purpose
We collect personal data only when necessary to provide our services, improve user experience, or comply with legal obligations.
- Comments: When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to assist in spam detection. An anonymized string (hash) created from your email address may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. (Gravatar privacy policy: https://automattic.com/privacy/).
- Media: If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
- Contact Forms: Information submitted through our contact and inquiry forms (Name, Email, Phone, and Project Details) is retained for customer service purposes for a period of two years. This data is not used for marketing purposes unless explicit consent is provided.
3. Cookies
To enhance your experience, we use cookies to manage sessions and preferences:
- Comment Cookies: If you leave a comment, you may opt-in to saving your name, email, and website in cookies. These last for one year.
- Login Cookies: If you visit our login page, a temporary cookie is set to determine if your browser accepts cookies (contains no personal data; discarded upon closing the browser). Upon login, we set cookies to save login info (2 days) and screen display choices (1 year). If you select “Remember Me”, your login persists for two weeks.
- Content Editing: If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie is saved in your browser indicating the post ID. It expires after 1 day.
4. Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles). Embedded content from other websites behaves 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.
5. Data Sharing and Transfers
- Service Providers: We do not sell your data. We share data only with trusted third-party providers (e.g., hosting, spam detection) necessary for website operations.
- Technical Sharing: If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
- Automated Services: Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
- Technical infrastructure and website maintenance are managed by our digital partner, TenG Spectrum. While TenG Spectrum ensures the technical performance and security of the platform, they act solely as a service provider and hold no liability for the business operations, service claims, or content accuracy provided by Ghar Apna Sa.
6. Data Retention
- Interactions: If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely to recognize and approve follow-up comments automatically.
- User Profiles: For users that register on our website, we store the personal information provided in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except their username). Website administrators can also view and edit that information.
7. Your Rights Over Your Data
If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you have the right to:
- Request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you.
- Request that we erase any personal data we hold about you.
- Note: This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
8. Data Protection and Security
We take the security of your data seriously.
- Technical Measures: We employ SSL encryption for all data transmissions and secure server protocols to prevent unauthorized access.
- Breach Procedures: In the event of a potential or actual data breach, we have internal reporting systems in place to identify the source and notify affected users and relevant authorities within the legally mandated timeframe.
9. Contact Information
For any privacy-specific concerns or to exercise your data rights, please contact the Proprietor directly at:
Email: ruchi@gharapnasa.com
Website: https://gharapnasa.com
