Privacy Policy

Last Updated: 2025-9-25

1. Introduction

Welcome to The Panoramic Post ("we," "our," or "us"). We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring the security of your personal information. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website [YourWebsiteURL.com] (the "Site").

Please read this privacy policy carefully. By using our Site, you consent to the practices described herein. If you do not agree with the terms of this policy, please do not access the Site.

2. Information We Collect

We may collect information about you in a variety of ways.

a) Information You Voluntarily Provide to Us:

• Comments: When you leave a comment on a blog post, we collect the data shown in the comments form (such as your name or username and email address), your IP address, and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
• Contact Forms: If you contact us via a contact form, we will collect your name, email address, and the content of your message.
• Newsletter Subscription: If you subscribe to our newsletter, we collect your email address and possibly your name.
• Account Registration: If you create an account on our Site, we will collect your username, email address, and any other information you provide.

b) Information Collected Automatically:
When you visit, use, and navigate the Site, we may automatically collect certain information about your device and usage patterns. This information may include:

• Log Data: Your IP address, browser type and version, operating system, referral URLs, pages you view on our Site, time and date of your visit, time spent on those pages, and other statistics.
• Cookies and Tracking Technologies: We use cookies, web beacons, and similar tracking technologies to collect information. See Section 5 for more details.

c) Information from Third Parties:
We may receive information about you from third-party services. For example:

• Social Media Platforms: If you interact with us on social media (e.g., by liking our Facebook page or commenting on our Instagram post), we may receive basic profile information.
• Analytics Providers: We use third-party analytics services like Google Analytics. These services collect data about your use of the Site.

3. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect for various purposes, including:

• To operate, maintain, and improve the Site.
• To respond to your comments, questions, and requests.
• To send you administrative information, such as updates to our policies.
• To send you promotional communications, such as newsletters, if you have opted in. You can opt-out at any time.
• To monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with the Site.
• To detect, prevent, and address technical issues and fraudulent or illegal activities.
• To personalize your experience on the Site.

4. Legal Basis for Processing (GDPR Compliance)

If you are from the European Economic Area (EEA), our legal basis for collecting and using your information depends on the information and the context in which we collect it. We typically rely on the following bases:

• Performance of a Contract: To fulfill our obligations to you when you sign up for an account or comment.
• Consent: Where you have given us clear consent, for example, by opting into our marketing newsletter.
• Legitimate Interests: For our legitimate business interests, such as administering the Site, ensuring security, and analyzing how the Site is used, provided that your fundamental rights do not override those interests.
• Legal Compliance: To comply with applicable laws and regulations.

5. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

What are cookies? Cookies are small data files stored on your device by your web browser.

How we use cookies:

• Essential Cookies: Necessary for the Site to function properly (e.g., remembering your login session).
• Analytics Cookies: Allow us to count visits and traffic sources to measure and improve Site performance. We use Google Analytics for this purpose.
• Functionality Cookies: Enable enhanced functionality and personalization (e.g., remembering your name or preferences).
• Advertising Cookies: Set by us or our advertising partners to deliver ads that may be relevant to you. We may use Google AdSense or other ad networks.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Site.

6. How We Share Your Information

We value your privacy and do not sell your personal information. We may share your information in the following situations:

• Service Providers: With trusted third-party vendors who perform services on our behalf, such as hosting, data analysis, email delivery, and marketing assistance. These parties are contractually obligated to keep your information confidential.
• Legal Obligations: If required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or a government agency).
• Business Transfers: In connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
• With Your Consent: We may disclose your information for any other purpose with your explicit consent.

7. Data Retention

We will retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this policy, or as required to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

• Comment data is retained indefinitely so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically.
• Newsletter subscriber data is retained until you unsubscribe or ask us to delete it.

8. Your Data Protection Rights

Depending on your location, you may have the following rights regarding your personal data:

• The right to access – You can request copies of your personal data.
• The right to rectification – You can request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
• The right to erasure (the "right to be forgotten") – You can request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to restrict processing – You can request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to data portability – You can request that we transfer the data we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
• The right to object to processing – You can object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details provided in Section 11.

9. International Transfers

Your information may be transferred to and maintained on computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ. If you are located outside [Your Country] and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including personal data, to [Your Country] and process it there. Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

10. Children's Privacy

Our Site is not intended for individuals under the age of 16 ("Children"). We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 16. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Child has provided us with personal data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected personal data from Children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

11. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, your data, or your rights, please do not hesitate to contact us at:

• Email: [email protected]