Privacy Policy
Effective Date: July 22, 2025
Version: 1.0
Welcome to DBatuengineering, accessible at https://dbatuengineering.blogspot.com. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your personal information in accordance with the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (DPDPA) and other applicable laws.
1. Information We Collect and Its Use
- Log Files: We collect information such as your IP address, browser type, ISP, date/time stamps, referring pages, and clicks. This data helps us administer the site, ensure its security, and analyze website trends and traffic patterns.
- Cookies: Small data files used to enhance your Browse experience, remember preferences, and facilitate analytics and advertising through services like Google.
- Analytics Data: We use Google Analytics to understand visitor behavior, traffic trends, and overall usage statistics in an aggregated and anonymous form.
- Tool Interaction Data: Anonymous statistics derived from your use of our College Predictor tool, such as button clicks and popular filter selections (e.g., specific cities, colleges, branches, percentage ranges). This data is used solely for improving the tool's functionality and relevance.
Personal Information (Directly Provided)
When you choose to contact us via forms on our website, we may collect your name and email address. This personal information is used solely to respond to your inquiries and is handled with care. This data is stored securely and is not shared with third parties.
2. Cookies and Web Beacons
We use cookies to store visitor preferences and to optimize your overall website experience. You have the ability to manage and disable cookies through your individual browser settings. Note that disabling certain cookies may affect the functionality or features of our website. For more general information on cookies, please visit: www.allaboutcookies.org.
3. Google AdSense & DART Cookies
Google, as a third-party vendor, uses DART cookies to serve advertisements on our site based on your visit to DBatuengineering and other sites across the internet. You may opt out of the use of DART cookies by visiting the Google Ad and Content Network Privacy Policy at: Google Ad Policies.
4. Your Rights Under DPDPA (2023)
As a data principal under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (DPDPA), you have specific rights regarding your personal data:
- Right to Access: You have the right to know what personal data about you we process and the activities undertaken regarding its processing.
- Right to Correction/Erasure: You can request us to correct inaccurate or incomplete personal information, or to delete your data where it's no longer necessary or if you withdraw your consent.
- Right to Withdraw Consent: You have the right to revoke any permissions you've given for the processing of your personal data at any time.
- Right to Grievance Redressal: You have the right to contact us with any grievances concerning the exercise of your rights or our data handling practices.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us through our dedicated contact page: contact us here.
5. Children’s Privacy
Protecting children's privacy online is very important to us. We do not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you believe that your child has provided such information on our website, please contact us immediately, and we will make every effort to promptly remove it from our records.
6. Third-Party Services and Data Sharing
We engage reputable third-party services, such as Google Analytics (for website analytics) and Google AdSense (for advertising), to help operate and monetize our site. These third parties may process data on our behalf as Data Processors (or act as independent Data Fiduciaries in certain cases). Their use of your information is governed by their respective privacy policies, which we encourage you to review for more details.
7. Data Security and Retention
We implement reasonable security measures designed to protect your personal data from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. We retain your personal data (such as name and email from contact forms) only as long as necessary to fulfill the purpose of responding to your inquiry or as legally required. Anonymous data, like aggregated tool interactions, may be retained indefinitely for analytical purposes. **We do not collect any personally identifiable information (PII) through our College Predictor tool.**
8. Consent
By using our website, you provide your consent to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this policy, please discontinue use of our website. **Please note:** Once a comprehensive cookie consent banner, compliant with DPDPA, is fully implemented on our website, this specific "Consent" clause will be updated or removed to align with the explicit consent requirements of the Act.
9. Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please reach out via our Contact Page.
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