Privacy Policy

At Dinesh Picks, we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting any personal data you share with us. As an editorial platform covering useful products, practical guides, AI tools and workflows, AI prompts, recommendations, and curated discoveries, we believe in complete transparency regarding how data is collected, utilized, and safeguarded.

This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect when you visit Dinesh Picks, how we use that data, and your choices regarding your personal information.

1. Information We Collect

We collect information in two primary ways:

2. How We Use Information

We use the collected information for legitimate operational purposes, including:

• Operating, maintaining, and improving the Dinesh Picks platform.
• Responding to your questions, support requests, and feedback.
• Delivering editorial newsletter editions to voluntary subscribers.
• Analyzing aggregated traffic trends and reader interests to create more helpful content.
• Detecting, preventing, and addressing technical issues, malicious behavior, and spam.
• Managing affiliate referral attribution and link functionality.
• Complying with applicable legal and regulatory requirements.

3. Cookies & Similar Technologies

Dinesh Picks uses cookies, local storage, and similar technologies to enhance your browsing experience:

• Essential Cookies & Storage: Necessary for site navigation, security, and remembering local user preferences (such as saved bookmarks or theme settings).
• Analytics Cookies: Help us measure visitor traffic, popular pages, and general usage patterns anonymously.
• Affiliate Attribution Identifiers: Placed by merchant networks when you click affiliate links to attribute eligible referral sales.
• Advertising Technologies: If third-party advertising services are active, advertising partners may use cookies to deliver and measure ad performance.

You can modify or disable cookies through your browser settings at any time. For a full breakdown of cookies and control options, please read our Cookie Policy.

4. Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics 4 (GA4) to collect aggregated, pseudonymous statistics on how visitors interact with our pages. Google Analytics uses cookies to report website trends without identifying individual visitors personally. The information gathered (such as session duration, page views, and geographic region) is used solely to optimize our content and technical performance.

You can prevent Google Analytics from collecting your data by disabling cookies or by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on provided by Google.

5. Newsletter Subscriptions

When you subscribe to "The Weekly Edit" or our email updates, your email address is stored securely in our database. We use your email address exclusively to send editorial roundups, guides, and platform updates. We do not sell or rent our subscriber lists to third parties. You can request to be removed from our email list at any time by contacting us.

6. Contact Form Inquiries

When you send a message through our Contact page, the information provided is used solely to address your inquiry, provide support, or review product suggestions. Contact submissions are retained only as long as needed to resolve the correspondence.

7. Supabase Backend Infrastructure

We utilize Supabase as our secure backend cloud database service. Supabase securely stores structured application data, including newsletter subscriber lists, contact form records, and editorial metadata, utilizing industry-standard encryption and access controls.

8. Hosting & Edge Infrastructure

Our web application is hosted on Vercel's global edge network. Vercel processes HTTP requests, serves static assets, provides SSL/TLS encryption, and records standard edge server logs to maintain high availability, performance, and platform security.

9. Affiliate Links & Merchant Networks

Dinesh Picks contains affiliate links to external merchants, including Amazon India, Flipkart, and Wishlink. When you click an affiliate link, you are redirected to the merchant's website, and tracking cookies or session parameters may be set by the affiliate network to attribute qualifying purchases.

These external networks operate independently and are governed by their own respective privacy policies. For more details on our commercial relationships, see our Affiliate Disclosure.

10. Advertising & Third-Party Technologies

Dinesh Picks may use advertising and advertising-related technologies from third-party providers. If advertising services such as Google AdSense are enabled, those providers may use cookies or similar technologies according to their own policies and applicable consent requirements to serve relevant ads based on visits to this and other websites. Users may manage personalized ad preferences through Google's Ads Settings or industry opt-out tools.

11. Third-Party Services Summary

To provide our platform and content, we work with selected third-party service providers:

• Google Analytics: Aggregated web analytics and traffic insights.
• Supabase: Backend database and cloud data management.
• Vercel: Web hosting, content delivery network (CDN), and serverless routing.
• Affiliate Networks: Merchant attribution via Amazon Associates, Flipkart Affiliate, and Wishlink.
• External Services & AI Platforms: Linked merchants and third-party AI tools that operate under their own independent terms.

12. Data Retention & Security

We retain personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required by law.

We maintain reasonable technical, organizational, and electronic safeguards to protect information against unauthorized access, loss, alteration, or misuse. However, no method of internet transmission or electronic storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

13. Your Privacy Rights & Choices

Depending on your location and applicable data privacy regulations, you may have rights regarding your personal information, including the right to request access to the data we hold about you, request corrections, or request deletion of your newsletter or contact records.

To submit a privacy inquiry or exercise your data rights, please contact us at dinesh29ad@gmail.com.

14. Children's Privacy

Dinesh Picks is designed for a general audience and is not directed to children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe that a child has provided us with personal information without parental consent, please notify us immediately at dinesh29ad@gmail.com, and we will promptly delete the data.

15. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect modifications in our content offerings, operational practices, technology stack, or legal obligations. The "Last updated" date at the top of this page will indicate when the latest revisions were made. Continued use of Dinesh Picks following any changes constitutes acceptance of the revised policy.

16. Contact Us

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy or our data handling practices, please contact us:

• Email: dinesh29ad@gmail.com
• Online: via our Contact Page