Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy for PaattuVarikal.com

Last Updated: June 18, 2025

Welcome to PaattuVarikal.com. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

1. Important Information and Who We Are

Purpose of this Privacy Policy

This privacy policy aims to give you information on how PaattuVarikal.com collects and processes your personal data through your use of this website, including any data you may provide through this site when you post a comment or use our contact form.

Contact Details

Our full details are: Website: PaattuVarikal.com Email address: [email protected]

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact us using the details set out above.

2. The Data We Collect About You

We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:

  • Identity Data: includes first name, last name, or username you provide when commenting.
  • Contact Data: includes email address you provide when commenting or using our contact form.
  • Technical Data: includes your internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website. This is collected automatically.
  • Usage Data: includes information about how you use our website, such as which pages you visit and how long you spend on them. This is collected by our analytics services.

3. How Is Your Personal Data Collected?

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

  • Direct interactions: You may give us your Identity and Contact Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us. This includes personal data you provide when you:
    • Leave a comment on a post.
    • Contact us via our contact form.
  • Automated technologies or interactions: As you interact with our website, we will automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment and Usage Data about your browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs, and other similar technologies. This includes:
    • Google Analytics: To track website usage and user engagement. We use a “heartbeat” feature that signals your continued presence on a page to provide more accurate session data.
    • Post Views Counter: To count the number of times a song lyric page has been viewed to display trending content.
    • IP-Based Rate Limiting: We temporarily store your IP address when you submit our contact form to prevent spam and repeated submissions.
  • Third parties or publicly available sources: We will receive personal data about you from various third parties as set out below:
    • Google AdSense: This service uses cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to our website or other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our sites and/or other sites on the Internet.
    • Google reCAPTCHA: We use this service on our contact form to protect against spam and abuse. This service checks if you are a human user and may process your IP address and other Technical Data.

4. How We Use Your Personal Data

We have set out below a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so.

  • To respond to your inquiries submitted through our contact form.
  • To display your comments on our posts and to notify you of replies if you opt-in.
  • To operate and maintain the security of our website, including preventing spam on our contact form.
  • To analyze website traffic and user engagement (via Google Analytics) to improve our content and user experience.
  • To display personalized advertisements (via Google AdSense) to help support our website.
  • To determine trending or popular content based on page views.

5. Cookies

Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we put on your computer. These cookies allow us to distinguish you from other users of our website, which helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.

The cookies we use are for functionality, analytics, and advertising purposes, primarily through third-party services like Google Analytics and Google AdSense. You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies.

6. Third-Party Links

This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications (e.g., social sharing buttons). Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements.

7. Data Security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or disclosed.

8. Your Legal Rights

Depending on your location, you may have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data, including the right to request access, correction, erasure, or to object to processing. If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.