Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Last updated: July 12, 2026

This Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of Your information when You use the Service and tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You.

As a news publisher and blogging platform, We use Your Personal data to provide, monetize, and improve the Service. By using the Service, You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.


Interpretation and Definitions

Interpretation

The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.

Definitions

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

  • Account means a unique account created for You to access our Service or parts of our Service.
  • AI (Artificial Intelligence) refers to machine learning models, generative AI tools, and automated systems used to create, edit, or recommend content on our Service.
  • Company (referred to as either "the Company", "We", "Us" or "Our" in this Agreement) refers to WaoFam.
  • Cookies are small files that are placed on Your computer, mobile device or any other device by a website, containing the details of Your browsing history on that website among its many uses.
  • Country refers to: Maharashtra, India
  • Device means any device that can access the Service such as a computer, a cellphone or a digital tablet.
  • Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
  • Service refers to the Website (the news and blogging platform).
  • Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Company. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the Company to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on behalf of the Company, to perform services related to the Service or to assist the Company in analyzing how the Service is used.
  • Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
  • Website refers to WaoFam, accessible from https://www.waofam.net

You means the individual accessing or using the Service, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.


Collecting and Using Your Personal Data

Types of Data Collected

Usage Data

Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service.

Usage Data may include information such as Your Device's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

When You access the Service by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit our Service or when You access the Service by or through a mobile device.


Newsletters, Subscriptions, and User-Generated Content

As a news and blogging platform, We collect specific information when you interact with our editorial content:

  • Newsletters & Alerts: We collect Your email address and name if You subscribe to our newsletters, breaking news alerts, or daily blog digests.
  • Comments & Forums: If You leave comments on our news articles or blog posts, we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as Your IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection. Please note: Any information you post in the comments section becomes public.
  • Social Logins: If You decide to register through a Third-Party Social Media Service (like Google or Facebook), We may collect Personal data associated with that account, such as Your name, email address, and profile picture to display next to your comments.

Tracking Technologies, Cookies, and Advertising

We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on Our Service and store certain information to keep our journalism and blog content free.

  • Essential Cookies. Necessary for the website to function properly, such as logging into your account.
  • Functionality Cookies. Allows us to remember your preferences, such as your preferred language or region for local news delivery.
  • Advertising and Analytics Cookies (Google AdSense). To fund our editorial operations, we use third-party advertising companies. Google, as a third-party vendor, uses the DoubleClick cookie to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our Service or other websites. You may opt out of the use of the DoubleClick Cookie for interest-based advertising by visiting the Google Ads Settings web page. We also use analytics tools (like Google Analytics) to monitor traffic and reading trends.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Usage and Policies

As technology evolves, WaoFam integrates Artificial Intelligence (AI) to enhance our newsroom and blogging operations. We believe in transparency regarding how AI intersects with your data and our content.

  • AI in Content Creation: We may use AI tools to assist our human journalists and bloggers in researching, proofreading, summarizing, or generating preliminary drafts of news stories and blog posts. All AI-assisted content is reviewed, edited, and fact-checked by our human editorial team before publication.
  • AI Personalization: We may use machine learning algorithms to analyze Your Usage Data (such as the categories of news you read most often) to recommend related articles and personalize your news feed.
  • Your Data and AI Training: We do not sell Your Personal Data, including your private account information, to third-party AI companies to train their Large Language Models (LLMs). If we deploy internal AI models to improve our Service, we rely on anonymized and aggregated usage data, not identifiable personal profiles.

Copyright, Intellectual Property, and AI Scraping

Protecting the intellectual property of our journalists, bloggers, and guest contributors is a core priority.

  • Ownership of Content: All articles, blog posts, images, videos, and graphics published on WaoFam are the exclusive intellectual property of the Company or our licensors, protected by national and international copyright laws.
  • Prohibition of AI Scraping: We expressly prohibit the unauthorized scraping, crawling, or downloading of our news articles, blog posts, and website data by third-party web crawlers, AI developers, or automated bots for the purpose of training Artificial Intelligence (AI) models, Large Language Models (LLMs), or generative AI systems without our prior, explicit written consent. We actively deploy technological measures to block such unauthorized data harvesting.
  • User-Generated Content: By submitting comments, guest posts, or forum replies on our Service, You grant Us a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to display, reproduce, and distribute your content across our platform. You retain the copyright to your original comments.
  • DMCA & Copyright Infringement: If you believe that any content on our Website infringes upon your copyright, please contact us immediately with a detailed notice so we can investigate and remove the infringing material in compliance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) or applicable local laws.

Use of Your Personal Data

The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:

  • To provide and maintain our Service, including to monitor the usage of our news platform.
  • To manage Your Account: to manage Your registration and grant access to functionalities like commenting, bookmarking articles, or managing newsletter preferences.
  • To contact You: To contact You by email, telephone calls, SMS, or push notifications regarding breaking news, blog updates, or security alerts.
  • For data analysis and editorial strategy: We may use Your information for other purposes, such as identifying reading trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns, and evaluating which news topics or blog categories are most popular with our audience.

Sharing Your Personal Information

We may share Your personal information in the following situations:

  • With Service Providers: To monitor and analyze the use of our Service, and to process newsletter mailings.
  • With Advertising Partners: To deliver relevant advertisements to You and help monetize our content.
  • With other users (Public Areas): When You share personal information or otherwise interact in the public areas (such as article comments) with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside the website.
  • For business transfers: We may share or transfer Your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of Company assets, financing, or acquisition.
  • With Your consent: We may disclose Your personal information for any other purpose with Your explicit consent.

Retention, Transfer, and Deletion of Your Personal Data

Retention: The Company will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements (such as retaining records of DMCA notices).

Transfer: Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company's operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely.

Deletion: You have the right to delete or request that We assist in deleting the Personal Data that We have collected about You. Our Service gives You the ability to delete certain information (like your comments or account) from within the Service by visiting your account settings. You may also contact Us directly to request data deletion.

Disclosure of Your Personal Data

The Company may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: comply with a legal obligation, protect and defend the rights or property of the Company, prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service, protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public, or protect against legal liability.

Security of Your Personal Data

The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.


Children's Privacy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 13 (or 16 in certain jurisdictions). We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children. If You are a parent or guardian and You are aware that Your child has provided Us with Personal Data, please contact Us. If We become aware that We have collected Personal Data from a child without verification of parental consent, We will take steps to remove that information from Our servers.

Links to Other Websites

As a news and blogging platform, Our articles frequently contain hyperlinks to external websites that are not operated by Us for citation and reference purposes. If You click on a third-party link, You will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third-party sites or services.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in journalism standards, AI regulations, or data laws. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

We will let You know via email and/or a prominent notice on Our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "Last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, your data rights, or copyright issues, You can contact us:

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