Privacy Policy

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This is personal blog of Sairam Sivakumar. Website URL is https://sairams.com.

Privacy Policy

We respect your privacy and are committed to protect it through our compliance with this privacy policy. This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide on the sairams.com website and our practices of collecting, using, maintaining, protecting and disclosing that personal information. It also describes the choice available to you regarding our use of personal information and how you can access and update it.

This policy is a legally binding agreement between you and this website operator. If you do not agree with the terms of this policy, you must not accept this policy and may not access and use the website and services. By accessing and using the website and services, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by the terms of this policy. This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that we do not own or control, or to the individuals that we do not employ or manage.

Collection of information

Our top priority is customer data security and as such, we exercise the no logs policy. We may process only minimal user data, only as much as it is absolutely necessary to maintain the website and the services. Information collected automatically is used only to establish statistical information regarding the usage and traffic of the website and Services. The statistical information is not otherwise aggregated in such a way that would identify any particular user of the system.

Our website and Services may use third-party analytics tool that uses cookies, web beacons, or other similar information gathering technologies to collect standard internet activity and usage information. The information gathered is used to comply statistical reports on user activity such as how often users visit our website and services, what pages they visit and for how long, etc. We use the information obtained from these analytics tools to monitor the performance and improve our website and services. We do not use third-party analytics tool to track or collect any personally identifiable information of our users and we will not associate any information gathered from the statistical reports with any individual user.

When visitors leave comments on this website, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your Gravatar profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on this website, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave 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 also set up several cookies to save your login information and your 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.

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.

What rights you have over your data

If you 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.

Privacy of Children

We do not knowingly collect any personal information from children under the age of 18. We encourage parents and legal guardians to monitor children’s internet usage and to never give out personal information when online without their permission.

Policy update

We reserve the right to modify this policy or its term related to the website and Services at any time at our discretion. When we do so, we will revise the updated date at the bottom of this page.

If you have questions, concerns, or complaints regarding this policy, we encourage you to contact us using the details below

This document was last updated on June 18, 2025.