A venture of Aadyaa Communications
Privacy Policy
How Bengaluru Baath handles personal data.
1. Introduction
This Privacy Policy explains how personal data is collected, used, shared and protected when you visit or interact with the Bengaluru Baath website at https://bengalurubaath.com.
We have written this policy in plain language rather than legal shorthand, because a privacy notice that nobody can read is not much of a notice. Where the policy says we “may” do something, it means the practice is permitted by this policy but is not necessarily in use on the website today.
By using the website, you acknowledge that you have read this policy. Where the law requires your consent for a specific activity, we will ask for it separately rather than treat your continued use of the site as consent.
2. Who Operates This Website
This website is operated by Bengaluru Baath, a venture of Aadyaa Communications.
| Detail | Information |
|---|---|
| Publication | Bengaluru Baath |
| Venture of | Aadyaa Communications |
| Registered or correspondence address | Manipal Centre, N119, North, Dickenson Road, off Mahatma Gandhi Road, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560042 |
| Privacy contact | bengalurubaath@gmail.com |
| Phone | 7760119030 |
| Website | bengalurubaath.com |
3. Information We May Collect
The data actually collected depends on how you use the website and which features are enabled on it. We may collect:
Information you give us
- Name
- Email address
- Phone number, where you choose to provide it
- Contact form submissions, including the content of your message
- Newsletter subscription details, if a newsletter is offered
- News tips, story submissions, feedback and any material you send us
- Comments or other user content, if comment functionality is enabled
Information collected automatically
- IP address
- Browser type, device type, operating system and similar technical information
- Approximate location inferred from network information
- Cookies and similar technologies, subject to the cookie section below
- Usage data such as pages viewed, time spent, referring pages and links clicked
- Advertising interaction data, where advertising is served on the website
- Analytics information about how the website is used
We do not ask for financial account details, payment card numbers or government identification numbers through this website. Please do not send them to us.
4. How We Use Information
Where we process personal data, we do so for purposes including:
- Operating, maintaining and improving the website
- Responding to your enquiries, tips, corrections and correspondence
- Sending newsletters or updates you have asked to receive
- Understanding how the website is used and which content readers find useful
- Improving our content and editorial decisions
- Serving and measuring advertising, where advertising is enabled
- Detecting, preventing and addressing abuse, spam, fraud and security incidents
- Maintaining the security and integrity of the website
- Complying with applicable legal obligations and responding to lawful requests
Where consent is the basis on which we process your personal data, you may withdraw that consent at any time by writing to bengalurubaath@gmail.com. Withdrawing consent does not affect processing carried out before the withdrawal, and may mean we can no longer provide a feature that depends on it.
5. Cookies and Similar Technologies
Cookies are small files placed on your device by a website. Similar technologies include pixels, tags and local storage. Where the website uses them, they may fall into the following categories:
| Category | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Essential cookies | Needed for the website to function, including security and basic site preferences. |
| Analytics cookies | Help us understand how visitors use the website so we can improve it. |
| Advertising cookies | Used to deliver, limit and measure advertising, where advertising is enabled. |
| Third-party cookies | Set by third-party services used on the website, and governed by those providers’ own policies. |
The specific analytics, advertising, newsletter and hosting services used on the website are named in the Third-Party Services section below as and when they are in use. Where a category of cookie described above is not in use on the website, no cookie of that category is set.
Most browsers allow you to block or delete cookies through their settings. Blocking cookies may affect how parts of the website work. Where a consent mechanism for non-essential cookies is implemented on the website, your choices through that mechanism will apply.
6. Third-Party Services
The website may use third-party services for hosting, analytics, advertising, email delivery, video embedding and social media functionality. Examples of the kinds of services commonly used by publications of this type include analytics platforms such as Google Analytics, advertising platforms such as Google Ad Manager or AdSense, video platforms such as YouTube, social media platforms, newsletter providers and hosting providers.
We are not stating that Bengaluru Baath uses any particular one of these services. This section is updated to name the services actually in use as they are implemented on the website. If enabled on the website, such a service may collect or receive information about your visit in accordance with its own privacy policy, which we encourage you to read. If you want to know what is running on the site today, write to us and we will tell you.
7. Advertising
Where advertising is served on the website, third-party advertising providers and their partners may use cookies or similar technologies to deliver, cap, target and measure advertisements. This may involve processing information about your device and your browsing activity.
Such processing is subject to the provider’s own policies, to the settings and controls the provider makes available, and to applicable consent requirements under law. Where an advertising provider offers opt-out or ad personalisation controls, those controls are operated by the provider rather than by us.
Sponsored and branded content published on the website is labelled as such. Labelling of commercial content is an editorial and advertising matter and is described on the Advertise With Us page.
8. Data Retention
We retain personal data for as long as is reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, including to respond to your correspondence, to operate the website, to meet legal and regulatory obligations, to resolve disputes and to maintain security.
We have not stated fixed retention periods in this policy because retention will depend on the systems and services actually implemented. Where applicable law prescribes a retention period or a deletion requirement, that requirement will apply.
9. Data Security
We take reasonable steps intended to protect personal data against unauthorised access, disclosure, alteration and loss, having regard to the nature of the data and the resources available to us.
No website, server or transmission method is completely secure, and we do not claim that our systems are immune to compromise. We cannot guarantee absolute security of information transmitted to or stored by us.
If a personal data breach occurs and affects you, our intention is to inform you in plain language about the nature of the breach, its likely consequences, the steps being taken to address it and how you can contact us, and to make any notification required under applicable law.
10. Your Rights
India’s data protection framework is set out in the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, together with the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025 notified by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology in November 2025. Those Rules provide for phased implementation, and several substantive obligations under the framework take effect on dates specified in the Rules rather than immediately. The Information Technology Act, 2000 and rules made under it also continue to apply to the extent they are in force.
Subject to and in accordance with applicable law, you may be entitled to:
- Access a summary of the personal data we process about you and how it is processed
- Request correction, completion or updating of inaccurate or incomplete personal data
- Request erasure of personal data, subject to legal and operational retention requirements
- Withdraw consent previously given for processing
- Nominate another individual to exercise your rights in the event of your death or incapacity
- Raise a grievance about how your personal data has been handled
- Escalate an unresolved grievance to the Data Protection Board of India as provided under the applicable framework
To exercise any of these, write to bengalurubaath@gmail.com with enough detail for us to identify you and understand the request. We may need to verify your identity before acting, and we may be unable to act on requests that are unclear, unverifiable or excessive.
The Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025 contemplate a maximum period of ninety days for responding to such requests once the relevant provisions are in force. We aim to respond as quickly as we reasonably can, and within any period required by law that applies to us at the time.
11. Children’s Privacy
This website is a general-audience entertainment publication and is not designed or directed towards children, and we do not intentionally collect personal data from children without an appropriate lawful basis and consent.
Indian law provides specific protections for the personal data of children, including a requirement for verifiable consent from a parent or lawful guardian before processing a child’s personal data, subject to exemptions set out in the applicable framework.
If you believe a child has provided personal data to us, write to bengalurubaath@gmail.com and we will take reasonable steps to address it.
12. External Links and Embedded Content
Our articles link to external websites and may embed content from third-party platforms such as video players and social media posts. Those websites and platforms are operated by others and are governed by their own privacy policies and terms.
We are not responsible for the privacy practices, content or security of external websites or embedded services. Embedded content may collect information about you directly when it loads.
13. Sharing of Information
We do not sell personal data. Personal data may be shared:
- With service providers who host, operate, analyse, secure or support the website, for those purposes
- With advertising or analytics providers, where such services are enabled, in accordance with their policies and applicable consent requirements
- Where required by applicable law, regulation, legal process or an enforceable governmental request
- Where necessary to establish, exercise or defend legal claims, or to protect the rights, safety or property of Bengaluru Baath, our readers or others
- With professional advisers, where required for legal, accounting or compliance purposes
14. Changes to This Policy
We may update this policy as the website, the services it uses or the law change. The revised policy will be posted on this page with an updated effective date. Where a change is significant, we will take reasonable steps to bring it to readers’ attention. Please check this page periodically.
15. Contact
| Privacy enquiries | bengalurubaath@gmail.com |
| General contact | bengalurubaath@gmail.com |
| Phone | 7760119030 |
| Postal address | Manipal Centre, N119, North, Dickenson Road, off Mahatma Gandhi Road, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560042 |
| Website | bengalurubaath.com |
If you have raised a concern with us and are not satisfied with our response, you may be entitled to escalate it to the Data Protection Board of India in accordance with the applicable framework.