Last updated: 2 August 2026
SearchInPublic respects your privacy and aims to handle personal information responsibly.
This Privacy Policy explains what information may be collected when you visit searchinpublic.com, how it may be used, and the choices available to you.
1. Information We May Collect
Information you provide voluntarily
We may collect personal information when you contact us, submit a form, report a correction, request information, or communicate with SearchInPublic.
This information may include:
- Your name
- Your email address
- The content of your message
- Any other information you choose to provide
Please do not send passwords, payment details, government identification numbers, or other sensitive information through the website.
Information collected automatically
When you visit SearchInPublic, certain technical information may be collected automatically by the website, hosting provider, security services, analytics tools, or similar technologies.
This may include:
- IP address
- Browser and device type
- Operating system
- Referring website
- Pages visited
- Date and time of access
- Approximate location
- Website-performance and error information
2. How We May Use Information
We may use collected information to:
- Operate, maintain, and secure the website
- Respond to messages, questions, corrections, or enquiries
- Understand how visitors use the website
- Improve content, navigation, performance, and user experience
- Detect spam, abuse, security threats, or technical problems
- Comply with legal obligations
- Protect the rights and safety of SearchInPublic and its users
3. Cookies and Similar Technologies
SearchInPublic may use cookies and similar technologies to support website functionality, remember preferences, measure website usage, improve performance, and protect the website.
Third-party services used by the website may also place cookies or use similar technologies.
You can control or delete cookies through your browser settings. Disabling certain cookies may affect how some parts of the website function.
4. Analytics and Search-Performance Tools
SearchInPublic may use website analytics and search-performance services, such as Google Analytics or Google Search Console.
These tools may collect technical and usage information, including visited pages, general location, browser details, device information, traffic sources, and interactions with the website.
Information collected by third-party services is also subject to their own privacy policies and terms.
5. Contact Communications
When you contact SearchInPublic, we may retain your message and contact details for as long as reasonably necessary to:
- Respond to your enquiry
- Maintain records of the communication
- Resolve disputes or complaints
- Prevent abuse
- Comply with legal requirements
We do not currently operate a public user-account, commenting, or newsletter-subscription system.
If these features are introduced later, this Privacy Policy may be updated before or when they become active.
6. Embedded Content and External Links
Articles may contain embedded content or links from third-party websites, including videos, images, social-media posts, reports, or tools.
Embedded content may behave as though you visited the third-party website directly. Those third parties may collect data, use cookies, or track your interaction according to their own policies.
SearchInPublic is not responsible for the privacy practices of external websites.
7. How Information May Be Shared
SearchInPublic does not sell personal information.
Information may be shared only when reasonably necessary with:
- Website-hosting providers
- Analytics, security, backup, or technical-service providers
- Professional advisers
- Government authorities or law-enforcement bodies where legally required
- A successor organisation if the website or its assets are transferred
Service providers should receive only the information reasonably required to perform their services.
8. Data Retention
Personal information is retained only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this policy, including communication, security, record-keeping, dispute resolution, and legal compliance.
Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information and the reason it was collected.
9. Data Security
We aim to use reasonable administrative and technical safeguards to protect information from unauthorised access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.
However, no website, internet transmission, or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
10. Your Choices and Rights
Depending on applicable law, you may have the right to request:
- Information about personal data processed about you
- Correction of inaccurate or incomplete information
- Deletion of personal information where applicable
- Withdrawal of consent where processing is based on consent
- Grievance redressal regarding the handling of your personal information
To make a request, contact SearchInPublic through the Contact page.
We may need to verify your identity before acting on a request.
11. Children’s Privacy
SearchInPublic is intended for a general audience and is not specifically directed at children.
We do not knowingly seek to collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has submitted personal information, please contact us so that appropriate action can be considered.
12. International Processing
Some hosting, analytics, security, or technology providers may process information on servers located outside India.
Where this occurs, information will be handled according to the service provider’s terms, applicable safeguards, and relevant law.
13. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy when our website, technology, data practices, or legal requirements change.
The revised version will be posted on this page with an updated “Last updated” date.
14. Contact
For privacy-related questions, requests, or concerns, please use the Contact page.