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Privacy Policy

Last Updated: 01-09-2025

Welcome to FastArticle.in (the “Site”). We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring you have a positive experience on our website. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, and safeguard your personal information when you visit our site.

By using FastArticle.in, you consent to the practices described in this policy.

1. Information We Collect

We collect information to provide a better experience for all our visitors. The types of information we collect include:

a) Information You Voluntarily Provide to Us:

  • Comments: When you leave a comment on an article, we collect the data shown in the comments form, your IP address, and browser user agent string to help with spam detection. The comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely.
  • Contact Forms: If you contact us directly via a contact form, we collect your name, email address, and the content of your message to respond to you.
  • Email Subscriptions: If you subscribe to our newsletter, we collect your email address to send you updates about new articles and content.

b) Information Collected Automatically:

  • Log Data: When you visit the Site, our servers automatically record information (“log data”) that your browser sends. This includes your IP address, browser type and version, the pages of our Site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other statistics.
  • Cookies and Similar Technologies: We use cookies to collect information and improve our Service. A cookie is a small file placed on your device’s hard drive. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Site.

2. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect for various purposes, including to:

  • Operate and maintain the website (e.g., to display content correctly).
  • Improve, personalize, and expand our website (e.g., by understanding which science topics are most popular).
  • Understand and analyze how you use our website.
  • Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the website, and for marketing and promotional purposes (you can opt-out at any time).
  • Process and manage comments you post on our site.
  • Send you emails if you have subscribed to our newsletter.
  • Find and prevent fraud and spam.

3. Legal Basis for Processing (GDPR)

If you are from the European Economic Area (EEA), our legal basis for collecting and using your information depends on the information and the specific context in which we collect it. We typically process your information because:

  • We need to perform a contract with you (e.g., delivering the newsletter you subscribed to).
  • You have given us permission to do so.
  • The processing is in our legitimate interests (e.g., site analytics and security) and is not overridden by your rights.

4. How We Share Your Information

We do not and will not sell your personal information to third parties. We may share your information in the following situations:

  • Service Providers: We employ third-party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service (e.g., website hosting, analytics, email delivery). These third parties have access to your information only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.
  • Legal Requirements: We may disclose your information where required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or a government agency).

5. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We use cookies for several purposes:

  • Necessary Cookies: Essential for the operation of the site (e.g., managing consent settings).
  • Analytics Cookies: These allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us know which pages are the most and least popular. We use Google Analytics for this purpose. You can learn more about how Google uses your data here: https://policies.google.com/privacy. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
  • Functionality Cookies: These enable the website to provide enhanced functionality and personalization (e.g., remembering your name/email if you comment again).

6. Your Data Protection Rights

Depending on your location, you have certain data protection rights. These may include:

  • The right to access and receive a copy of your personal data.
  • The right to rectification of any inaccurate or incomplete information we hold about you.
  • The right to erasure (the “right to be forgotten”) of your personal data.
  • The right to restrict processing of your personal data.
  • The right to data portability.
  • The right to object to our processing of your personal data.
  • The right to withdraw consent where we relied on your consent to process your personal information.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details provided at the end of this policy.

7. Data Retention

We will retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our policies.

8. Children’s Privacy

Our Site is focused on science education and is not intended for children under the age of 13 (“Children”). We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Child has provided us with personal data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected personal data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

9. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the “Last Updated” date at the top. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.

10. Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, or if you wish to exercise your data protection rights, please do not hesitate to contact us at:

  • Email: contact@fastarticle.in