Privacy Policy · The Bollywood Wave

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Who we are

The Bollywood Wave (“we”, “us”) is published by [legal entity name] of [registered address]. For any question about this policy, or to exercise the rights described below, write to contact@thebollywoodwave.com.

What we collect

We collect three kinds of information, and no more than we need.

Information you give us. If you subscribe to our newsletter we store your email address. If you use the contact form we store your name, email address and message. That is the whole list.

Information collected automatically. Like almost every website, our servers and analytics receive your IP address, browser and device type, referring page, and the pages you view. We use this to understand what people read and to keep the site working.

Information from cookies. Cookies set by us and by third parties, described in detail below.

Advertising

We use Google AdSense to serve advertising on this site. This has specific consequences you should know about:

Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites.
Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the internet.
You may opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings. You can opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalised advertising at aboutads.info.
Third-party vendors and ad networks other than Google may also serve ads on this site and set their own cookies.

Consent in the EEA, UK and Switzerland

If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, we present a consent management platform before serving personalised advertising, as Google requires of its publishers. You may accept or refuse, and you may change your choice at any time through the privacy controls on this site. Refusing consent does not restrict your access to any content — you will simply see non-personalised ads.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics 4 to understand aggregate readership. It sets cookies and processes your IP address. We have not enabled advertising features that would link analytics data to advertising identifiers beyond what is described above. You can prevent Google Analytics entirely with the official opt-out add-on.

We use your email address to send the newsletter you asked for, and for nothing else. We do not sell, rent or share subscriber lists. Every email contains an unsubscribe link, and unsubscribing is immediate. You can also ask us to delete your address entirely by emailing contact@thebollywoodwave.com.

Affiliate links

Some outbound links are affiliate links. Clicking one may cause the destination site to set a cookie identifying us as the referrer. We receive no personal information about you from this — only aggregate commission reporting. See our affiliate disclosure.

How long we keep things

Newsletter addresses: until you unsubscribe, then deleted within 30 days. Contact form messages: 24 months. Analytics: per Google’s retention settings, currently [14 months].

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct, delete or export your personal data, to object to processing, and to withdraw consent. Readers in the EEA and UK have these rights under the GDPR; readers in California have comparable rights under the CCPA/CPRA, including the right to opt out of any sale or sharing of personal information; readers in India have rights under the DPDP Act.

To exercise any of them, email contact@thebollywoodwave.com. We respond within 30 days. If you are unhappy with our response you may complain to your local data protection authority.

We do not sell your personal information. We do not knowingly collect data from anyone under 16.

Changes

We will update this page when our practices change, and revise the date at the top. Material changes will be flagged on the site.