Privacy Policy

[Updated on April 21, 2020]

NOTE: The terms ‘website’ and ‘site’ on this page refer collectively to all pages on this website domain www.rekhabhatnagar.in

Policy and Principle

As a matter of policy and principle, Dr. Rekha Bhatnagar (website owner and moderator based in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India) does not believe in collecting or using any data from site visitors for personal gain, promotion or profit. This website does not collect any financial data nor does it feature any advertising or marketing campaigns.

Use of Web Cookies

This website uses cookies to give visitors / users the best possible user experience. Cookie information is stored in visitors' web browsers and performs functions such as helping the moderator understand which sections of the site they find most interesting and useful.

Visitors / users can control the use of cookies by deleting stored cookies, disabling storage of cookies or selectively accepting certain cookies, via the Help, Preferences or Settings functions of their web browsers. This may, however, limit the functionality of this site. For visitors who are concerned about their privacy, it may be a good practice to clear cookies from their web browsers periodically (browsers can also be configured to automatically remove cookies). You can learn more about cookies at: www.internetcookies.org

Contact Form

When visitors use the Contact form and submit messages / queries on this site, the data input, the e-mail id submitted and also the visitors' IP address and browser user agent string information is collected to help in spam detection. Comments and e-mail IDs submitted are not made public but privately read by the moderator. E-mail IDs received through the contact form are used for visitor identification and for further communication, if required. Selected messages received including helpful feedback are stored indefinitely on the mail server of this website. Most messages and spam comments are, however, deleted periodically.

How User Data Is Protected

This website uses a TLS or SSL Certificate which ensures a secure connection between the user’s web browser and the server. It also uses industry standard security features to prevent unwanted intrusions.

Your Rights Over Your Data

If you have contacted the moderator using the Contact form of this website in the past, you can request to receive information via e-mail of the personal data this site holds about you. You can also request that any personal data you have provided be erased from this website. This may not, however, include any data obliged to be stored for technical, administrative, legal, or security purposes. In this regard, please note that spam and messages that have no further use are periodically deleted by the moderator. Kindly contact the moderator for any queries / requests regarding your data via the Contact form. For you data to be shared with you and / or deleted, please provide the e-mail ID you had used / submitted earlier on this website.

Use of Analytics

The sole purpose of this website is to share the artist's works with visitors from across the globe and it is thus important to understand which part/s of the world they come from and which sections of the website they access the most — for which this site uses cookie-based web analytics tools / services. The following analytics tools are used on this website:

1. Bing Webmaster Tools — This service from Microsoft stores cookies and beacons on visitors web browsers. Beacons, also known as pixels, are small invisible graphics that can be used to detect if a web page has been accessed. With these tools, search results (for this website) can be optimised for best appearance in Bing search results. For more information on how Microsoft (including Bing services) collects user data, kindly see Microsoft Privacy Statement.

2. Google Analytics — This tool collects information and reports site usage statistics without personally identifying individual visitors to Google. The main cookie used by Google Analytics is the ‘_ga’ cookie. Analytics reports are used to optimise this site for Google search. For more information, see Google Analytics Cookie Usage on Websites page. Google Analytics Privacy Document has more details about data collected by Google Analytics. Visitors can prevent Google from collecting their site usage data by installing Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

These analytics tools do not collect any personal data (for example names or e-mail IDs of visitors) for this website.

Updates to Privacy Policy

The moderator reserves the right to change or modify the Privacy Policy of this website at any time. Continued use of this site by users / visitors after any such updates shall constitute their consent to such changes.

Contacting the Moderator

For any privacy related or other issues with this website, kindly get in touch the moderator via the Contact form. Thank you!