Privacy Policy

1. Who we are

kannadapanchanga.in (“we”, “us”) is published by HappyMynds. Contact: happy.mynds@gmail.com · Contact page.

This site provides a Kannada / English Panchanga calendar, festival lists, and educational guides for general reference.

2. Information we collect

2.1 Information you give us

If you email us or submit the contact form, we receive your name (if provided), email address, and message. We use this only to reply to feedback, corrections, or questions. We do not sell this information or use it for third-party marketing.

2.2 Automatically collected data

When you visit the site, servers and analytics tools may process technical data such as IP address (often truncated/anonymised where configured), browser type, device type, approximate location derived from IP, referring URL, and pages viewed. This helps us understand traffic and fix problems.

3. Cookies, local storage, and similar technologies

We and our partners use cookies and similar technologies:

• Essential / functional — For example, remembering light/dark theme via local storage on your device. These are not used for advertising.
• Analytics cookies — Google Analytics (GA4) may set cookies or use similar identifiers to measure visits, popular pages, and site performance. We configure Analytics with IP anonymisation where supported.
• Advertising cookies — If Google AdSense (or related Google advertising services) is enabled on the site, Google and its partners may use cookies — including advertising and measurement cookies — to show ads, limit how often you see an ad, and measure ad performance. This can include cookies associated with domains such as doubleclick.net / googlesyndication.com.

You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings. Blocking some cookies may affect analytics accuracy or ad personalisation; the site’s core calendar content remains usable.

4. Google AdSense and personalized ads

We may display ads served by Google AdSense. Google uses advertising technologies described in the Google Advertising and Google Privacy Policy pages.

• Non-personalized ads — Based on the page you are viewing and other non-personal factors (for example, approximate location or time of day), not on your long-term profile.
• Personalized ads — Where permitted, Google may use information from your activity on this site and other sites to show ads more relevant to you. Partners may collect data such as cookie IDs and ad interaction events.

You can control ad personalisation via Google’s tools, including Google Ad Settings and (where available) industry opt-outs such as the YourAdChoices page. In the European Economic Area, UK, and Switzerland, Google may require a consent message (Funding Choices / Consent Management Platform) before personalized ads or certain cookies are used; we will present such a message when legally required and when ads are live.

Publisher ID used for ads.txt: pub-4660446874660815. Ad scripts are only loaded with a matching publisher ID when advertising is enabled.

5. Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to understand aggregated usage (for example, which guides are read). Google’s processing is described in Google’s privacy documentation. You may use browser controls or Google’s opt-out mechanisms where available to limit Analytics.

6. How we use information

• Respond to contact and correction requests
• Operate, secure, and improve the website
• Measure traffic and content performance
• Display advertising (when enabled) to support free access to the site
• Comply with applicable laws and respond to lawful requests

We do not sell your personal information.

7. Legal bases and regional notices (India, EU/EEA/UK)

India: We process information as needed to provide the website, respond to you, and pursue legitimate interests such as security and analytics, consistent with applicable Indian IT / data protection rules as they apply to this site.

EEA/UK/Switzerland visitors: Where GDPR/UK GDPR applies, processing may be based on consent (for non-essential cookies and personalized ads), legitimate interests (security, basic analytics where permitted), or performance of a request you initiate (replying to email). You may have rights to access, rectify, erase, restrict, or object to certain processing, and to withdraw consent. Use the contact details below to exercise these rights. You may also complain to your local supervisory authority.

8. Children’s privacy

The site is a general cultural calendar. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children for profiling. Parents who believe a child has submitted personal data via email may contact us to request deletion of that message.

9. Data retention and security

Contact emails are kept as long as needed to resolve the request and for ordinary mailbox retention. Analytics and ad data are retained according to Google’s product settings and policies. We use reasonable technical measures, but no method of transmission or storage is 100% secure.

10. Third-party links

Pages may link to external sites (for example, temple resources or Google policy pages). Their privacy practices are their own; this policy applies only to kannadapanchanga.in.

11. Changes

We may update this Privacy Policy. The “Last updated” date at the top will change when we do. Continued use of the site after updates means you should review the new policy.

12. Contact

Privacy questions or data requests: happy.mynds@gmail.com or Contact Us.