Privacy Policy

KapilArya.com is a Windows dedicated blog which shares troubleshooting articles and how-to based guides. This blog is launched, operated and maintained by Kapil Arya, who is presently a Microsoft MVP (Windows IT Pro) and Windows Insider MVP. This website is completely an independent website and is not authorized, approved, sponsored in any manner by Microsoft® Corporation or any other tech giant. The main intention of this blog is to help end users with issues and make them aware of latest Windows OS features, tricks and tips.

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This privacy policy applies only to the actions of KapilArya.com and users with respect to this website. It does not extend to any websites that can be accessed from this website.

KapilArya.Com does not collect any personal information about you such as your name, address, phone number or e-mail ID without your knowledge. When you provide your e-mail ID while contacting us using contact page, we never share it with anyone. We only use it to respond to your e-mail and never make it available publicly. When you visit this site, like any other site on web, your IP address is detected automatically.

When you submit a comment, the e-mail ID you provide is stored in our database which helps the website to recognize you when you comment next time. If your previous comment was approved, then site recognizes you at new comment automatically and approves the newer comment without moderation. We don't share your e-mail ID to anyone.

You can leave comments on this site and may do so completely anonymously. When you leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form. You may (but don't have to) use your real email ID or name.

If you leave a comment, the comment, your name and email ID are retained indefinitely until we manually remove the older comments from our site to reduce database overhead. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

You have the following rights in relation to your data:

1. Right to access - the right to request (i) copies of the information we hold about you at any time, or (ii) that we modify, update or delete such information. If we provide you with access to the information we hold about you, we will not charge you for this. Where we are legally permitted to do so, we may refuse your request. If we refuse your request, we will tell you the reasons why.

2. Right to correct - the right to have your data rectified if it is inaccurate or incomplete.

3. Right to erase - the right to request that we delete or remove your personally identifiable data from our systems.

4. Right to restrict our use of your data - the right to "block" us from using your data or limit the way in which we can use it.

5. Right to data portability - the right to request that we move, copy or transfer your data.

Visitor information such as IP address and comments are checked through our security mechanisms (firewall and automated spam detection service) for a legitimate interest to secure and protect this website from spam and hacking attempts and based on these check results, the user is allowed or denied to access this website. This site is using Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) to digitally sign DNS look ups. DNSSEC protects the Internet community from forged DNS data by using public key cryptography to digitally sign authoritative zone data when it comes into the system and then validate it at its destination. In other words, the DNSSEC digital signature ensures that you're communicating with the site or Internet location you intended to visit. All the data sent to your browser from this website, is digitally signed for authenticity.

When you submit comments on this site, your name, e-mail ID and comment data is securely encrypted with SSL encryption. This makes it very difficult for third-party to see your data over network transfer. Then your data is decrypted at same level so that we can see your comment data and approve/deny it. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam over comments. You can locate Akismet's privacy policy here to learn how your data is processed. An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service of WordPress to see if you are using it. If you're using Gravatar, your avatar will be shown on site, else not. The Gravatar service/WordPress privacy policy is available here.

A possible interaction between a web browser and a server holding a web page in which the server sends a cookie to the browser and the browser sends it back when requesting another page. Cookies are arbitrary pieces of data, usually chosen by the web server, and stored on the client computer by the browser.

Cookies can be used by web servers to identity and track users as they navigate different pages on a website and to identify users returning to a website.

Cookies may be either "persistent" cookies or "session" cookies. A persistent cookie consists of a text file sent by a web server to a web browser, which will be stored by the browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date (unless deleted by the user before the expiry date). A session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.

This website uses both type of cookies. Cookies helps us to store a bit of website data on your device, which helps your browsing experience for this site, in successive sessions.

When you opt to enable dark mode on this site, the site will save your preferences in form of cookies on the system. This will help the site to load the site in your preferred mode. If you wish to remove the dark mode cookies, you can clear them under your browser settings and keep visiting the site in default light mode.

We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of this website. Google Analytics generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies, which are stored on users' computers. The information generated relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of the website. Google will store this information. Google's privacy policy is available here.

When you use this website, you may also be sent third-party cookies.

Our advertisers i.e. Google Adsense, Infolinks may send you cookies. They may use the information they obtain from your use of their cookies:

• To track your browser across multiple websites.

• To build a profile of your web surfing.

• To target advertisements which may be of particular interest to you.

Our advertising services providers may send you cookies for the purpose of enabling the service of advertisements based on your previous visits to our website.

We publish Google Adsense interest-based advertisements on our website. These are tailored by Google to reflect your interests. To determine your interests, Google will track your behavior on our website and on other websites across the web using the DART cookie. You can view, delete or add interest categories associated with your browser using Google's Ads Preference Manager, available at here. You can opt-out of the Adsense partner network cookie on that same page. To ensure that an opt-out is maintained in respect of a particular browser, you should use the Google browser plug-in available at Google Ad preferences.

You may also opt-out advertising cookies by clearing them under your browser settings.

KapilArya.com reserves the right to change this privacy policy as we may deem necessary from time to time or as may be required by respected law. Any changes will be immediately posted on this page and you are deemed to have accepted the terms of the privacy policy on your first use of the website following the alterations.