Last updated: October 20, 2026
Welcome to Indian Tech Dost (https://indiantechdost.com). We respect your privacy and are committed to explaining how information may be collected, used, and shared when you visit our website.
This Privacy Policy explains how Indian Tech Dost collects, uses, and shares information when you visit our website.
1. Information We Collect
We may collect the following types of information, depending on how you interact with our website:
- Contact information: Information such as your name, email address, and message when you contact us.
- Comments: Information you provide when submitting a comment, if comments are enabled on a page.
- Technical information: Information such as browser type, device information, pages visited, referring website, and interactions with our website.
- Usage information: Information about how visitors navigate and interact with our website, which may be collected through analytics tools.
Please do not submit sensitive personal information through comments or contact forms.
2. How We Use Your Information
We may use collected information to:
- Operate, maintain, and improve Indian Tech Dost.
- Respond to enquiries and messages.
- Understand website traffic and visitor behaviour.
- Improve our articles, smartphone comparisons, buying guides, and website experience.
- Detect spam, prevent abuse, and protect website security.
- Measure website performance and, if advertising is enabled, support advertising measurement and delivery.
- Comply with applicable legal obligations.
We do not use contact information for unrelated marketing communications without an appropriate basis.
3. Google Analytics 4 and Google Tag Manager
Indian Tech Dost uses Google Analytics 4 (GA4) to understand website traffic and visitor interactions. We use Google Tag Manager to manage website tracking tags.
Depending on the configuration of these tools, information collected may include pages viewed, events, referral sources, browser and device information, and approximate geographic information.
Google Analytics may use cookies and similar technologies to measure website usage. Information collected through Google services may be processed by Google according to its own privacy policies and applicable settings.
Google Tag Manager is a tag-management tool. The data collected depends on the tags and services configured through it.
For more information, please review:
- Google Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
- How Google uses data on partner sites: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites
4. Cookies and Similar Technologies
Indian Tech Dost and the services used on our website may use cookies or similar technologies for essential website functionality, analytics, security, and advertising when enabled.
Cookies are small files stored by a website or service in your browser. They may help remember preferences, understand website usage, or support other functions.
Examples of cookies or similar technologies may include:
- Essential cookies: Used for website functionality, security, and certain WordPress features.
- Analytics cookies: Used by services such as Google Analytics to measure visitor activity and website performance.
- Advertising cookies: If advertising services are enabled, these may be used to deliver, personalise, or measure advertisements.
The specific cookies used and their duration depend on the services and configurations active on the website.
You can manage or delete cookies through your browser settings. Blocking certain cookies may affect some website functions.
Where required by applicable law, we will seek the appropriate consent for cookies or similar technologies.
5. Advertising and Google AdSense
Indian Tech Dost may use Google AdSense to display advertisements if the website is approved for the service and advertising is enabled.
When Google AdSense or other advertising services are active, Google and its advertising partners may use cookies, web beacons, IP addresses, or similar technologies to deliver and measure advertisements, prevent invalid activity, and support advertising-related functions.
Depending on the advertising settings and applicable consent choices, these technologies may be used to display advertisements based on a visitor’s previous visits to this website or other websites.
Third-party vendors, including Google, may collect or receive information as a result of advertising displayed on this website. Their information practices are governed by their respective privacy policies.
Users can manage personalised advertising through Google Ads Settings: https://adssettings.google.com
Additional information about Google’s advertising technology and data practices is available at: https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads
If additional advertising providers are used, this policy will be updated to provide relevant information about those providers.
Where required for advertising in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, we will implement the applicable consent-management arrangements required by Google and relevant law.
6. Comments
If comments are enabled and you leave a comment on Indian Tech Dost, we may collect the information entered in the comment form, together with technical information such as your IP address and browser user agent, to help detect spam and maintain website security.
If the website uses a service such as Gravatar to display commenter profile images, an anonymised identifier derived from your email address may be shared with that service.
Gravatar Privacy Policy: https://automattic.com/privacy/
Approved comments and the information displayed with them may be visible to other website visitors.
7. Contact Forms and Enquiries
If you contact us through our Contact page or another communication method provided on the website, we may collect the information you choose to provide, such as your name, email address, and message.
We use this information to respond to your enquiry, maintain relevant communication records, and protect against spam or abuse.
Please contact us if you would like to request access to, correction of, or deletion of personal information you have submitted, subject to applicable legal requirements.
8. Embedded Content and External Websites
Our articles may contain links to external websites or embedded content, such as videos, images, or other media.
External websites operate independently of Indian Tech Dost. When you access or interact with their content, those services may collect information, use cookies, or apply their own tracking technologies.
We encourage visitors to read the privacy policies of external websites before sharing information with them.
We are not responsible for the privacy practices of third-party websites that we do not control.
9. Sharing of Information
We do not sell personal information as a business practice.
Information may be processed or shared where necessary with:
- Service providers: Companies that support website hosting, security, spam prevention, analytics, and website functionality.
- Google services: Google Analytics and, if enabled, Google advertising services may process information as described in this policy and Google’s documentation.
- External services: Third-party services you choose to access through embedded content or external links may collect information independently.
- Legal and security authorities: Information may be disclosed when required by law or when reasonably necessary to protect the website, its users, or our legal rights.
We limit information sharing to purposes relevant to operating, protecting, and improving the website, subject to applicable requirements.
10. Data Retention
We retain information for only as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this policy, unless a longer period is required or permitted by law.
Comments and their associated metadata may be retained to support moderation and spam prevention.
Information submitted through contact channels may be retained for as long as needed to respond to enquiries and maintain appropriate records.
Analytics information is retained according to the relevant service settings and applicable retention controls.
11. Data Security
We take reasonable steps to protect the information processed through our website against unauthorised access, misuse, loss, or disclosure.
However, no website or method of electronic transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
Visitors should avoid submitting sensitive personal information through public comments or general enquiries.
12. Children’s Privacy
Indian Tech Dost is intended for a general audience interested in smartphones, technology, and buying guides.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children in circumstances where parental consent or other safeguards are required by applicable law. If you believe a child has provided personal information inappropriately, please contact us so that we can review the matter.
13. Your Privacy Rights and Choices
Depending on applicable law, you may have rights to request access to, correction of, deletion of, or information about the processing of your personal data.
You may also manage certain cookie preferences through your browser and personalised advertising preferences through Google’s Ads Settings.
To make a privacy-related request, contact us through our Contact page. We may need to verify your request before taking action and may retain certain information where legally required.
14. International Data Processing
Some service providers, including Google, may process information on servers located outside your country or region.
When such processing takes place, the relevant service providers’ privacy policies and applicable legal requirements govern their handling of the information.
15. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy when our website, analytics tools, advertising services, or legal obligations change.
Any changes will be published on this page, and the revised date at the top will be updated accordingly.
We encourage visitors to review this page periodically.
16. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or how Indian Tech Dost handles information, please contact us through our Contact page:
Website: https://indiantechdost.com