Privacy Policy

Eastern Times Media Ltd. (“we,” “us,” or “our”) prioritizes the security and privacy of our digital readers. This Privacy Policy documents our handling practices for information gathered through our public frontend web portal (https://easterntimes.in).

1. Regulatory Compliance (DPDP Act)

In compliance with the Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDP) of India, we collect and process personal data solely based on explicit, informed, and unambiguous reader consent. We serve as the sole Data Fiduciary for user records collected on our platform.

2. Scope of Data Collection

We collect minimal, necessary information required to maintain our digital dispatches:

• Newsletter Subscriptions: Your explicit email address when you voluntarily sign up for our morning or opinion digests.
• Communications: Name, email address, and targets selected in our contact forms.
• Site Security Logs: Basic internet protocol addresses and browser user-agent tokens logged automatically to prevent malicious distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) loops.

3. Third-Party Integrations & Cookies

This portal does not employ unrequested tracking pixels, behavior profiling cookies, or data brokers. Analytics are processed locally without identifying single-user locations, respecting reader privacy boundaries.

4. Reader Rights and Grievance redressal

Under Indian compliance parameters, our subscribers have absolute rights of data correction, deletion, and retrieval. You may withdraw your consent for news dispatches at any time using the “Unsubscribe” buttons attached to our digests.

Any complaints regarding data storage security can be submitted directly to our designated Grievance Officer at compliance@easterntimes.in.

By browsing our dispatches, you acknowledge our data policies. This text serves as our formal notice under the Information Technology Rules, 2011.