Privacy Policy Notice

The policy: This privacy policy notice is for BhajanLyrics.com and governs the privacy of those who use it. The purpose of this policy is to explain to you how we control, process, handle and protect your personal information while browsing or using this website, including your rights under current laws and regulations. If you do not agree to the following policy you may wish to cease viewing / using this website.

Policy key definitions:

  • "I", "our", "us", or "we" refer to BhajanLyrics.com.
  • "you", "the user" refer to the person(s) using this website.
  • GDPR means General Data Protection Act.
  • EEA means European Economic Area.
  • PECR means Privacy & Electronic Communications Regulation.
  • ICO means Information Commissioner's Office.
  • Cookies mean small files stored on a users computer or device.

Processing of your personal data

Under the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) we control and / or process any personal information about you electronically using the following bases:

  • Lawful basis: Legitimate interests
  • The reason we use this basis: We use your data in ways you would reasonably expect and which have a minimal privacy impact
  • We process your information in the following ways: In the European Economic Area (EEA), we primarly store cookies for analytics and saving your consent preferences. If you provide consent, we will also serve you with personalised ads which also use cookies. Other content is stored on your device to enable offline use, but this is not personal information.
  • Data retention period: Pages stored for offline viewing remain on your device indefinitely. Retention periods for other content varies
  • Sharing your information: We do not capture nor share your personally identifiable information.

If, as determined by us, the lawful basis upon which we process your personal information changes, we will notify you about the change and any new lawful basis to be used if required. We shall stop processing your personal information if the lawful basis used is no longer relevant.

Your individual rights

Under the GDPR your rights are as follows:

  • the right to be informed;
  • the right of access;
  • the right to rectification;
  • the right to erasure;
  • the right to restrict processing;
  • the right to data portability;
  • the right to object; and
  • the right not to be subject to automated decision-making including profiling.

You can read more about your rights, including your right to complain about the handling of your data, at ICO.

We handle subject access requests in accordance with the GDPR.

Internet cookies policy

Cookies are essentially a small text file on your device / hard-drive. Some cookies will be saved for specific time periods, where others may last indefinitely. Your web browser should provide you with the controls to manage and delete cookies from your device, please see your web browser options.

In the European Economic Area (EEA), cookies are only used for ads personalisation if user consent is provided. Regardless of consent, cookies are used to allow for frequency capping, aggregated ad reporting and to combat fraud and abuse.

It should be noted that other data is also stored on your device / hard-drive that enables you to use BhajanLyrics.com offline - this data includes bhajan pages, A-Z listing pages, Category pages etc. These are not strictly cookies and are not used for tracking nor adverstising.

Data security and protection

We ensure the security of any personal information we hold by using secure data storage technologies and precise procedures in how we store, access and manage that information. Our methods meet the GDPR compliance requirement.

Transparent Privacy Explanations

We have provided some further explanations about user privacy and the way we use this website to help promote a transparent and honest user privacy methodology.

Our website may contain adverts, sponsored and affiliate links on some pages which are served through our advertising partners. We only use trusted advertising partners who each have high standards of user privacy and security. However we do not control the actual adverts displayed by our advertising partners.

Definitions:

  • Ads are considered personalised when they are based on previously collected or historical data to determine or influence ad selection, including a user's previous search queries, activity, visits to sites or apps, demographic information (e.g. "sports enthusiasts"), or location. Specifically, this would include, for example: demographic targeting, interest category targeting, remarketing, targeting Customer Match lists, and targeting audience lists uploaded in Display & Video 360 or Campaign Manager.
  • Ads are considered non-personalised when they are not based on a user’s past behavior. They are targeted using contextual information, including coarse (such as city-level) geo-targeting based on current location, and content on the current site or app or current query terms. Google disallows all personalized targeting, including demographic targeting and user list targeting. Learn more about personalised and non-personalised ads
  • Personally-identifiable information (PII) includes, but isn't limited to, e-mail addresses, telephone numbers, and credit card numbers.

In the EEA, our partners will only show visitors to BhajanLyrics.com personalised ads if user consent if provided. Even so, PII is not captured as per the requirements for third-party ad serving. If user consent is not provided, non-personalised ads are served instead. Although these ads don’t use cookies for ads personalisation, they do use cookies to allow for frequency capping, aggregated ad reporting and to combat fraud and abuse.

Clicking on any adverts, sponsored or affiliate links may track your actions by using a cookie saved to your device. Your actions are usually recorded as a referral from our website by this cookie. In most cases we earn a very small commission from the advertiser or advertising partner, at no cost to you, whether you make a purchase on their website or not. We use advertising partners in these ways to help generate an income from the website, which allows us to continue our work and provide you with the best overall experience and valued information.

If you have any concerns about this we suggest you do not click on any adverts, sponsored or affiliate links found throughout the website. You can also use your browser to delete your stored data for this site.

Our partners

Email marketing messages & subscription

We do not send marketing materials