Effective Date: 20 September 2026
Last Updated: 20 September 2026
Welcome to Crime Halchal News (“we,” “us,” “our,” or “Website”). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting the personal information of visitors, readers, subscribers, and users of our website.
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect information when you visit or interact with Crime Halchal News.
By accessing or using our Website, you agree to the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
1. Information We Collect
We may collect the following categories of information:
A. Information You Provide
You may voluntarily provide information when you:
- Contact us through email, contact forms, or other communication channels.
- Subscribe to newsletters or updates.
- Submit news tips, stories, photographs, videos, or other content.
- Comment on articles, where commenting is available.
- Participate in surveys, contests, or other activities.
- Communicate with our editorial or support team.
Depending on the interaction, this information may include your name, email address, phone number, location, and other information you choose to provide.
B. Information Collected Automatically
When you visit our Website, certain information may be collected automatically, including:
- IP address.
- Browser type and version.
- Device type.
- Operating system.
- Pages visited and time spent on pages.
- Referring website or search terms.
- Approximate geographic location.
- Date and time of access.
- Other technical and usage information.
We may use cookies and similar technologies to collect some of this information.
2. Cookies
Crime Halchal News may use cookies, web beacons, pixels, and similar technologies to improve website functionality and understand how visitors use our Website.
Cookies may be used to:
- Remember user preferences.
- Analyze website traffic and performance.
- Improve website content and user experience.
- Provide relevant advertisements.
- Measure advertising effectiveness.
You can control or disable cookies through your browser settings. However, disabling certain cookies may affect some Website features.
3. How We Use Your Information
We may use collected information to:
- Operate and maintain our Website.
- Publish and manage news and editorial content.
- Respond to inquiries and communications.
- Send newsletters or updates when you have requested them.
- Analyze website traffic and audience engagement.
- Improve our content, services, and Website.
- Detect and prevent fraud, abuse, spam, or security incidents.
- Maintain the security and integrity of our Website.
- Comply with applicable laws and legal obligations.
We will not use your personal information for purposes that are materially incompatible with those described in this Privacy Policy unless permitted or required by applicable law.
4. News Tips and User-Submitted Information
If you voluntarily submit a news tip, photograph, video, document, statement, or other material to Crime Halchal News, you should carefully consider whether it contains personal, confidential, sensitive, or identifying information.
Please do not submit information that you are not authorized to disclose.
Where appropriate, we may contact you to verify information or seek additional details. Submission of information does not guarantee publication.
If you request confidentiality, we will consider the request, but we cannot guarantee absolute confidentiality where disclosure is required by law or is otherwise necessary to protect our legal rights.
5. Comments and Publicly Available Information
If our Website allows comments or other public submissions, information you post may be visible to other users and may be copied, shared, or indexed by search engines.
Please avoid publishing personal information that you do not want to make publicly available.
We may moderate, remove, or restrict content that violates our terms, applicable law, or editorial policies.
6. Advertising and Third-Party Services
Our Website may display advertisements provided by third-party advertising networks or platforms.
These third parties may use cookies, pixels, or similar technologies to collect information about visitors for purposes such as advertising, analytics, frequency measurement, and fraud prevention.
Crime Halchal News does not control the privacy practices of third-party advertisers or external websites. You should review the privacy policies of those third parties for more information.
7. Analytics
We may use third-party analytics services to understand Website traffic and usage patterns.
These services may collect information such as IP address, device information, browser information, pages viewed, and interaction data.
Analytics information helps us understand our audience and improve our Website and content.
8. Links to Other Websites
Our Website may contain links to third-party websites, social media platforms, videos, advertisements, or other external services.
We are not responsible for the privacy practices, security, or content of third-party websites.
We encourage you to review the privacy policy of any third-party website you visit.
9. How We Share Information
We may share information in the following circumstances:
- Service Providers: With trusted vendors who help us operate, host, secure, analyze, or maintain our Website.
- Advertising and Analytics Partners: Where necessary for advertising, analytics, measurement, and related services.
- Legal Requirements: When required by applicable law, court order, government authority, or legal process.
- Protection of Rights: When reasonably necessary to protect our rights, users, property, safety, or the integrity of our Website.
- Business Transfers: In connection with a merger, acquisition, restructuring, sale, or transfer of some or all of our business or assets.
We do not sell personal information merely because you visit our Website.
10. Data Security
We take reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect information against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, misuse, or destruction.
However, no method of transmitting information over the Internet or storing information electronically can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
Therefore, we cannot guarantee absolute security.
11. Data Retention
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including providing services, maintaining business and editorial records, resolving disputes, enforcing agreements, and complying with legal obligations.
The retention period may vary depending on the type and nature of the information.
12. Children’s Privacy
Our Website is not specifically directed toward children.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children where such collection is prohibited by applicable law. If you believe that a child has provided personal information to us, please contact us so that we can take appropriate steps.
13. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on applicable law, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information, which may include the right to:
- Request access to personal information we hold about you.
- Request correction of inaccurate information.
- Request deletion of information where legally applicable.
- Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.
- Request information about how your personal information is processed.
- Raise a privacy-related complaint or grievance.
Some requests may be subject to legal or other applicable limitations.
To exercise an applicable privacy right, please contact us using the details provided below.
14. Indian Privacy Laws
Crime Halchal News operates with regard to applicable Indian laws and regulations relating to privacy and personal data, including the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, and rules or regulations made under applicable law, as and when applicable to our processing activities.
Where required, we will update our privacy practices to comply with applicable legal and regulatory requirements.
15. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our Website, services, technology, or legal requirements.
Any updated Privacy Policy will be posted on this page with a revised “Last Updated” date.
We encourage you to periodically review this page.
16. Contact Us
If you have questions, concerns, complaints, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or our handling of personal information, please contact us:
Crime Halchal News
Website: www.crimehalchal.com
Email: crimehalchal@gmail.com
Phone: +91 9201520914
Address: Narayan Village, 104 Sarvadharma, Sector-D, Kolar road- Bhopal, MP Pin code: 462042
We will make reasonable efforts to respond to privacy-related inquiries within a reasonable period.
17. Consent
By using the Crime Halchal News Website, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy and agree to the collection and use of information as described above, subject to applicable law.
Crime Halchal News reserves the right to update this Privacy Policy at any time.