Privacy Policy
This website, NextKashmir.com, serves as the digital platform for Next Kashmir News Network, which includes the online editions of Next Kashmir Urdu and Next Kashmir 47 – the largest English-language media company in Pakistan-administered Kashmir.
Our postal address is: Rehman Plaza, Neelam Road, Muzaffarabad, Azad Kashmir, 13100
For any inquiries, please reach us at Telephone: +92-03330560447 Email: contact@nextkashmir.com
At Next Kashmir, we value the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy outlines the information we collect and how we use it. If you have further questions or need more information about this policy, please do not hesitate to contact us.
This Privacy Policy applies solely to our online activities and is valid for visitors to NextKashmir.com concerning the information shared and/or collected on this website. It does not apply to any offline information collection or channels other than this website.
Consent
By using our website, you consent to this Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.
Information We Collect
We may ask you to provide personal information when necessary, with clear explanations of why we need it. If you directly contact us, we may receive additional information such as your name, email address, phone number, message content, and attachments you send us.
When registering for an account, we may request your contact information, including items such as name, company name, address, email address, and telephone number.
How We Use Your Information
We use the collected information in various ways, including:
- Operating and maintaining our website
- Improving and personalizing our website
- Analyzing how you use our website
- Developing new products, services, features, and functionality
- Communicating with you for customer service, updates, and marketing purposes
- Sending you emails
- Detecting and preventing fraud
Log Files:
Next Kashmir employs log files to follow standard procedures, collecting information such as IP addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and clicks. This data is used for analysis, site administration, tracking user movement, and gathering demographic information. It is not linked to personally identifiable information.
Cookies and Web Beacons
Like any other website, Next Kashmir uses ‘cookies’. These cookies are used to store information including visitors’ preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing our web page content based on the visitor’s browser type and/ or other information.
Google DoubleClick DART Cookie
Google is one of the third-party vendors on our site. It also uses cookies, known as DART cookies, to serve ads to our site visitors based upon their visit to www.website.com and other sites on the internet. However, visitors may choose to decline the use of DART cookies by visiting the Google ad and content network Privacy Policy at the following URL https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads.https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads.
Advertising Partners Privacy Policies
You may consult this list to find the Privacy Policy for each of the advertising partners of Next Kashmir.
Third-party ad servers or ad networks uses technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on Next Kashmir, which are sent directly to users’ browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.
Note that Next Kashmir has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.
Third-Party Privacy Policies
Next Kashmir’s Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt out of certain options.
You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found on the browsers’ respective websites.
CCPA Privacy Rights (Do Not Sell My Personal Information)
Under the CCPA, among other rights, California consumers have the right to:
Request that a business that collects a consumer’s personal data disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data that a business has collected about consumers.
Request that a business deletes any personal data about the consumer that a business has collected.
Request that a business that sells a consumer’s personal data, not sell the consumer’s personal data.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.
GDPR Data Protection Rights
We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:
The right to access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.
The right to rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.
The right to erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to restrict processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to object to processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to data portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.
Children’s Information
Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.
Next Kashmir does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.
