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Privacy policy

Overseas Pakistani Friends is news & discussions website meant to provide related information to overseas Pakistanis

Our website address is: https://opfblog.com.

                Your privacy is very important to us. At OPFBLOG we have a few fundamental principles that we follow:

We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. (We can’t stand services that ask you for things like your gender or income level for no apparent reason.)

We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.

We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of our site.

It is opfblog’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, OPFBLOG collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. OPFBLOG’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how our visitors use its website. From time to time, we may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

We also collect potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our website or contacting us by filling contact forms. OPFBLOG only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to OPFBLOG’s website choose to interact with us in ways that requires us to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that we gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who fill different forms to provide a phone number and email address. Those who wish to receive a reply via email, we collect their emails. In each case, OPFBLOG collects such information only as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with us. OPFBLOG does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

We may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to our website. For instance, we may monitor the most popular pages on the web site or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. We may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, OPFBLOG does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

OPFBLOG discloses potentially personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on OPFBLOG’s behalf or to provide services available at OPFBLOG’s website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using OPFBLOG’s website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. OPFBLOG will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees or affiliated organizations, as described above, OPFBLOG discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when OPFBLOG believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of OPFBLOG, third parties or the public at large. OPFBLOG takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. OPFBLOG uses cookies to help us identify and track visitors, their usage of OPFBLOG’s website, and website access preferences. Website visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using the website, with the drawback that certain features of the website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Ads

Ads appearing on our website may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by OPFBLOG and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Comments

Comments and other content submitted to anti-spam service are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, OPFBLOG may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in our sole discretion. OPFBLOG encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.