Privacy Policy / গোপনীয়তা নীতি

1. Consent

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

2. Information We Collect

PuruliaTime is an open public directory of bus timetables and travel guides. We collect minimal personal data:

• Direct Communications: If you contact us directly via email or our contact form, we may receive additional information such as your name, email address, phone number, the contents of your message, and any attachments you provide.
• Timetable Feedback Submissions: Information provided when commuters report schedule updates, new bus additions, or route corrections.

3. Log Files

PuruliaTime follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting services do this as part of hosting analytics. The information collected by log files includes:

• Internet Protocol (IP) addresses
• Browser type and operating system
• Internet Service Provider (ISP)
• Date and time stamp
• Referring / exit pages
• Number of clicks

These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users' movement on the website, and gathering broad demographic information.

4. Cookies and Web Beacons

Like any other website, PuruliaTime uses 'cookies'. These cookies are used to store information including visitors' preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users' experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors' browser type and/or other information.

5. Google DoubleClick DART Cookie & Third-Party Advertising (AdSense Compliance)

Google is one of our third-party vendors on our site. It also uses cookies, known as DART cookies, to serve ads to our site visitors based upon their visit to puruliatime.com and other sites on the internet.

Third-party ad servers or ad networks use technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on PuruliaTime, which are sent directly to users' browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.

Note: PuruliaTime has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

6. Third-Party Privacy Policies

PuruliaTime's Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options.

You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers' respective websites (Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Microsoft Edge).

7. CCPA Privacy Rights (Do Not Sell My Personal Information)

Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), among other rights, California consumers have the right to:

• Request that a business 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. (Note: PuruliaTime does not sell any personal information.)

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

8. GDPR Data Protection Rights

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

• The right to access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
• The right to rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or 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.

9. Children's Information (COPPA)

Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.

PuruliaTime does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

10. Contact Us

If you have any questions or suggestions about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us:

• Email: puruliatime.help@gmail.com
• Website: puruliatime.com/contact
• Location: Purulia, West Bengal, India - 723101