Who We Are
Our website address is: Explore Bangladesh. We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring the security of your personal information. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, and safeguard your data when you visit our website.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on our site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to check if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment is approved, your profile picture (if available) will be visible to the public alongside your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, please avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These cookies are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when leaving another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will set up several cookies to save your login information and screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me,” your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Advertising and Affiliate Marketing
We use third-party advertising and affiliate marketing programs to support our website. These include, but are not limited to:
- Google AdSense:
- Google AdSense serves ads on our website using cookies to display personalized ads based on your browsing behavior.
- Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to our site and other sites on the internet.
- You can opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google’s Ads Settings.
- Amazon Affiliate Program:
- We participate in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.
- When you click on an Amazon affiliate link on our website, a cookie may be placed on your browser to track referrals for commission purposes.
- Other Advertisers and Affiliate Programs:
- We may work with additional advertisers and affiliate marketing programs that use cookies and similar technologies to track user interactions and measure the effectiveness of ads.
For more information about how these third parties use your data, please review their respective privacy policies:
- Google AdSense: https://policies.google.com/privacy
- Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=468496
Who We Share Your Data With
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
We may share your data with third-party service providers, including:
- Advertisers (e.g., Google AdSense).
- Affiliate marketing programs (e.g., Amazon Associates).
- Spam detection services for comment moderation.
We do not sell your personal data to third parties. However, aggregated, anonymized data may be shared for analytics or advertising purposes.
How Long We Retain Your Data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users who register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What Rights You Have Over Your Data
If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where Your Data Is Sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Data collected by third-party advertisers and affiliate programs (e.g., Google AdSense, Amazon Associates) may be sent to their respective servers for processing. Please refer to their privacy policies for more details.
Contact Information
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or your personal data, please contact us at:
Email: info@ofbangladesh.com
Address: Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated revision date. We encourage you to review this policy periodically to stay informed about how we are protecting your data.
Last Updated: 16 February, 2025.
This Privacy Policy is designed to comply with general data protection principles and provide transparency about how we handle your information on Explore Bangladesh, including our use of advertising and affiliate marketing programs.