At Raj & Co, the privacy of our visitors is of extreme importance to us. Accordingly, this privacy policy document outlines the types of personal information received and collected by rajn.co, and how is it used.
Log Files
Like many other web sites, rajn.co makes use of log files. Eventually, the information inside the log files includes:
- Internet Protocol (IP) address of a visitor.
- Screen resolution of the visitor.
- Operating system of the visitor.
- Type of browser used to access this site.
- Internet Service Provider (ISP) of the visitor.
- Date/time stamp.
- Referring/exit pages.
- Number of clicks.
Consequently, these information helps to analyze the trends, to administer the site, to track the visitor’s movement around the site, and to gather demographic information. However, IP addresses and other such information are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable.
Cookies and Web Beacons
We use many different cookies on our site. Nonetheless, if you do not know what cookies are, or how to control or delete them, then we recommend you visit http://www.aboutcookies.org for detailed guidance. So, the cookies store information about a visitor’s preferences, to record user-specific information on which pages the user accesses or visits, and to customize the web page content based on the visitor’s browser type or other information that the visitor sends via their browser.
As a matter of fact, currently we operate an “implied consent” policy which means that we assume you are happy with this usage. However, if you are not happy, then you should not use this site. Else, should delete the rajn.co cookies having visited the site. If not, you should browse the site using your browser’s anonymous usage setting. It is “Incognito” in Chrome, “InPrivate” for Internet Explorer, “Private Browsing” in Firefox and Safari etc.
Third-party vendors whose plugins used or advertisements placed on this website, may use cookies or web beacons. Details of these vendors are below.
Third Party Cookies, Advertiser Cookies, and Web Beacons
Some of our plugin providers or advertising partners may use cookies and web beacons on our site. Our plugin providers and advertising partners include but not limited to:
- Google Adsense
- Clickbank
- Amazon
- Akismet
These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to serve their advertisements. As a result, the links that appear on rajn.co reach to your browser from their servers. They receive your IP address when this occurs. Other technologies employed by the third-party ad networks include but not limited to cookies, JavaScript, or web beacons. They measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see.
rajn.co has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.
You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information on their practices as well as for instructions about how to opt out of certain practices. rajn.co’s privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or web sites.
DoubleClick DART Cookie from Google
- Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on rajn.co.
- Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to the users based on their visits to rajn.co and other sites on the Internet.
- Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy at the following URL: http://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/
Google AdSense
This cookie is used by Google to report to us how the adverts shown on rajn.co are performing. User data is all anonymous.
You can find out more generally about Google and its policies and principles as regards advertising at http://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/
Google Analytics
We use this to understand how the site is being used to improve the user experience. User data is all anonymous.
You can find out more about Google’s position on privacy as regards its analytics service at https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245
Persistent Cookies for Site Performance
Web Beacons
Our web pages may contain electronic images known as Web Beacons (sometimes called single-pixel gifs). Web beacons along with the cookies help us compile aggregated statistics. These web beacons help us analyze the usage of our site. It can be there in some of our e-mails to let us know the e-mails and links opened by recipients. This allows us to gauge the effectiveness of our customer communications and marketing campaigns.
Social Buttons
On the pages of the site, you may see “social buttons.” These enable users to share or bookmark the web pages. There are buttons for: Twitter, Facebook “Like,” LinkedIn “Share,” and StumbleUpon and other similar. To implement these buttons and connect them to the relevant social networks and external sites, there are scripts from the domains outside of Raj & Co. You should be aware that these sites are likely to be collecting information about what you are doing all around the Internet, including on Raj & Co’s site. So if you click on any of these buttons, these sites will be registering that action and may use that information.
In some cases, these sites will be registering the fact that you are visiting Raj & Co, and the specific pages you are on, even if you don’t click on the button if you are logged into their services, like Google and Facebook. Therefore, you should check the respective privacy policy of each of these sites to see how exactly they use your information and to find out how to opt out, or delete, such information.
Comments That You Leave On This Blog
We have a separate comments policy for this blog. Automattic‘s plugin Akismet differentiates between human beings and bots that leave comments on this blog. Akismet collects user data to differentiate between spam and real comments. You can find out more of that details on Automattic’s privacy notice.
External Web Services
We use some external web services on this site to display content within our web pages. For example, to display images we often use Flickr. To display slideshows we sometimes use SlideShare. And to show videos we use Vimeo and YouTube. This is not an exhaustive or complete list of the services we use or might use in the future when embedding content, but these are the most common. As with the social buttons, we cannot prevent these sites or external domains from collecting information on your usage of this embedded content. If you are not logged in to these external services, then they will not know who you are. Moreover, they are likely to gather anonymous usage information, e.g., number of views, plays, loads etc.
If you wish to disable cookies at your end itself, you may do so through your individual browser options. More detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.
If you require any more information or have any questions about our privacy policy, please feel free to contact us.