Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy for Random Pearls and its sister sites. This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit any of these sites:

PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT: You are not required to register or create an account to read most of the content of the website, but some content may need your login (such as posting comments). We don’t take your personal information like email address or name unless you create an account. When you create an account, the username chosen by you is shown as your identity on the website. We do not disclose your other information such as email etc. without your explicit consent. The term Personal Information as used in this policy does not include your name, email and any other information you explicitly provided to us while creating your account on this website, and we do not share it with third parties.

The term Personal Information is hereby expanded to include your device information. Please continue to read for understanding our policy regarding your Personal Information. We do not sell, share, transfer or rent any information including Personal Information to anyone other than what is mentioned in this Privacy Policy. When you visit this website, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device.
Additionally, as you browse the website, we collect information about the individual web pages that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the website, and information about how you interact with the website. For e.g number of pages visited, time spend on the website, entry page, exit page etc. We refer to this automatically-collected information as “Device Information.” We collect Device Information using the following technologies:

“Cookies” are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
“Log files” track actions occurring on the website, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.
“Web beacons,” “tags,” and “pixels” are electronic files used to record information about how you browse the website.

When we talk about “Personal Information” in this Privacy Policy, we are talking only about Device Information.

HOW DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION: We use the Device Information that we collect to help us improve and optimize our website (for example, by generating analytics about how our readers browse and interact with the website and to give you the best user experience).

SHARING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION: We do not share your personal information with third-parties unless you give your consent by allowing the Tracking and performance cookies. With your consent, we share your above mentioned Personal Information with third parties, to help us use your Personal Information, as described above. We use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the website. You can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/.

GOOGLE ANALYTICS: We are using Google Analytics to track visitor information on our website as mentioned above – like how many visitors per day, from which country, number of minutes spent per page and other user behavior like entry page, exit page etc. As a user, you can completely block google analytics tracking by adding an add on to your browser. Click on this link Google’s Analytics Opt-out browser add-on to find more about it. This addon provides website visitors the ability to prevent their data from being used by Google Analytics. You can turn off the use of cookies at any time by changing your specific browser settings. Finally, we may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful requests for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.

BEHAVIOURAL ADVERTISING: If you consent to our Targeting and advertising cookies, we use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you. For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at https://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work. You can opt-out of targeted advertising by going to the Cookie Preferences Center on this website and turning off Targeting and advertising cookies, or by visiting:

FACEBOOK – https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads
GOOGLE – https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous
BING – https://advertise.bingads.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/policies/personalized-ads
Additionally, you can opt-out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at https://optout.aboutads.info/.

ADVERTISERS WE HAVE PARTNERED WITH: Google, Facebook

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY: We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. This privacy policy was last updated on 28 Jan 2021.

DISCLAIMER: Please be advised that:

We are not responsible for republished content from this blog on other blogs or websites without our permission.
By using this website you are giving us the consent to gather the data or personal information or device information which are mentioned above and is used for optimizing the website for best and optimum user experience and optionally for other third-party services like Google Analytics, etc which we are using in the website.

CONTACT US: For more information about our privacy policies or if you have questions or concerns, please send us a message using the Contact Us page.