Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is www.edpublica.com (Hereinafter referred to as EdPublica/We/EP/Us/Our). We’re a digital news platform with a special emphasis on education, science, and knowledge.

This privacy policy is to explain our policy regarding the collection, use, and transfer of data by www.edpublica.com, which is owned by Ed Publica, a new-media startup based in Cochin, Kerala, and Abu Dhabi, UAE. Our registered office is located at at 2nd Floor, Kolath Towers, New Colony Road, Palarivattom, Kochi 682 025.

What personal data we collect

We may ask you to enter your name, email address or other details to enrich your experience and make our services and publishing activities better. We collect details from you when you enter the information on our site by means of registering feedback, comments or something in that genre.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy   available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Why we collect it

EP may use the information for our newsletter, respond to a survey or marketing communication, surf the website, or use certain other site features like personalizing your experience and to allow us to deliver the type of content that you are interested and to improve our platform in order to better serve you.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, audios, images, text-based articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Third-party disclosure

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your Personally Identifiable Information.

Third-party links

Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third-party products or services on our website. These third-party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.

Google

Google’s advertising requirements can be summed up by Google’s Advertising Principles. They are put in place to provide a positive experience for users. https://support.google.com/adwordspolicy/answer/1316548?hl=en

We have not enabled Google AdSense on our site till now, but we may do so in the future.

What data breach procedures we have in place?

We will take the following responsive action, should a data breach occur:

We will notify you via email within seven business days, and we will notify the users via in-site notification within 7 business days

We collect your email address in order to send information, respond to inquiries, and/or other requests or questions

If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, you can email us at

contact@edpublica.com or edpublicaonline@gmail.com and we will promptly remove you from all correspondence.

Contacting Us

If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy, you may contact EdPublica using the information below.

EdPublica

2nd Floor,

Kolath Towers,

New Colony Road,

Palarivattom, Kochi, 682 025

Kerala, India