Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how The Indus Compass (“we”, “us”, “our”) collects, uses and protects information when you visit The Indus Compass website (the “Site”). By using the Site, you agree to the practices described here.

Information we collect

Information you give us. If you contact us through our contact form, comment on an article or sign up for our newsletter, we collect the information you provide, such as your name, email address, message or comment. Comment email addresses are optional and are never published.

Information collected automatically. When you visit the Site, we and our service providers may automatically collect certain information, including your IP address, browser type, device information, pages visited, the referring website and the date and time of your visit.

Cookies

Cookies are small text files stored on your device. We use cookies and similar technologies to:

Make the Site work properly and remember your preferences
Understand how visitors use the Site (analytics)
Show advertising, including personalised advertising where permitted

You can control or delete cookies through your browser settings. Blocking some cookies may affect how the Site works.

We use Google AdSense to display advertisements. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this Site or other websites.

Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to this Site and/or other sites on the Internet.
You may opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google’s Ads Settings.
You can also opt out of some third-party vendors’ use of cookies for personalised advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.

For more information, see how Google uses information from sites that use its services.

Analytics

We use Vercel Web Analytics to understand how many people visit the Site and which pages they read. It works without cookies and reports only aggregated statistics, such as page views, referring websites, countries and device types; it does not identify individual visitors. If we add Google Analytics in future, it will use cookies to collect similar information, and we will update this policy.

How we use information

We use the information we collect to:

Operate, maintain and improve the Site
Respond to your messages and requests
Understand readership and improve our journalism
Display advertising that helps fund our work
Protect the security of the Site and prevent abuse

We do not sell your personal information.

We share information only with service providers who help us operate the Site (such as hosting, analytics and advertising providers), when required by law, or to protect our rights and the safety of others.

Comments you submit are stored so our editors can review them, and approved comments are published with the name you provide. Newsletter sign-ups are stored so we can send you the Daily Briefing; you can ask us to remove your email at any time through our Contact page.

Data retention

We keep personal information only for as long as necessary for the purposes described in this policy, or as required by law.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct or delete personal information we hold about you, or to object to certain processing. To make a request, contact us through our Contact page.

Children’s privacy

The Site is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children.

Links to other websites

The Site may link to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of those sites.

Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The “Last updated” date at the top of this page shows when it was last revised.

Contact

Questions about this policy can be sent through our Contact page.