Who we are
Our website address is: https://lekhaksheart.in.
At Lekhak’s Heart, we are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring the security of your personal information. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, share, and protect your data when you use our website and services. By accessing or using Lekhak’s Heart, you agree to the terms of this policy.
Information We Collect
We may collect and process the following types of personal data:
- Personal Identification Information: Name, email address, phone number, city, state, country.
- Performance Information: Previous performance links, artist profiles, and other content you submit.
- Enquiry Details: Any information you provide when making an enquiry or registering for events.
- Technical Data: IP address, browser type and version, device type, operating system, referral source, pages visited, and time spent on our site.
- Cookies and Usage Data: Data collected via cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies (see Cookies section below).
- Comments: When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service Privacy Policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
How We Collect Data
- When you fill out forms to register as an artist, book an artist, or submit an enquiry.
- When you interact with our website (e.g., browsing, commenting, or using our contact forms).
- Automatically, through cookies and analytics tools.
How We Use Your Data
We use your personal information for the following purposes:
- To provide and manage our services: Processing registrations, bookings, and event participation.
- To communicate with you: Responding to enquiries, confirming registrations/bookings, and sending updates about events or articles (if you opt in).
- To improve our website: Analyzing usage patterns to enhance user experience and site functionality.
- For marketing and promotions: With your consent, sending newsletters or promotional materials.
- To comply with legal obligations: Fulfilling requirements under applicable laws and regulations.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Suggested text: Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal information to third parties. We may share your information in the following situations:
- With service providers: Such as payment processors, event partners, or email service providers, only as necessary to provide our services.
- With your consent: For example, displaying your artist profile or performance links on our platform.
- For legal reasons: If required by law, regulation, or legal process.
- If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Updates will be posted on this page. Please review this policy periodically.
Contact Us
For questions about these Terms & Conditions, please contact:
Email: lekhaksheart@gmail.com