Effective date: Jul 21, 2026. This policy is written for readers, advertisers, contributors, and visitors who use Dhaka City. It is not legal advice, and local privacy obligations may vary depending on your location and how you use the site.
Information We Collect
We may collect information you provide directly, such as your name, email address, phone number, organization, message content, correction request, advertising inquiry, or privacy request. If you contact us about an article, we may keep the article URL, the details you provided, and our response so we can review the issue and maintain an editorial record.
We may also collect technical and usage information automatically when you visit the website. This can include your IP address, browser type, device type, operating system, pages visited, referring URLs, approximate location derived from network information, timestamps, interaction events, and cookie or advertising identifiers where permitted.
How We Use Information
We use information to operate the website, publish and improve content, respond to messages, review corrections, prevent abuse, measure audience interest, understand technical performance, protect security, comply with legal obligations, and support advertising that funds the site. We may use aggregated or de-identified data to understand which topics are useful to readers and where content needs improvement.
We do not sell personal contact messages to unrelated third parties. We may share limited information with service providers that help us host the website, deliver email, analyze traffic, protect against spam, manage advertising, or provide consent management. These providers are expected to process information only for the services they provide to us or as otherwise allowed by their own policies and applicable law.
Cookies, Analytics, and Advertising
Dhaka City may use cookies, local storage, pixels, tags, and similar technologies. Some are essential for security, preferences, and basic website operation. Others help us measure traffic, understand article performance, remember consent choices, or serve advertising. Analytics tools may collect information about how visitors use the website, such as page views, session duration, device type, and referral source.
We may use Google Analytics to understand website usage and improve reader experience. Google Analytics may use cookies or similar technologies to collect usage information. Depending on configuration and region, Google may process this information on servers in different countries. You can learn more about Google's privacy practices and available controls through Google's own privacy resources.
We may use Google AdSense or other advertising partners to display ads. Google and its partners may use cookies or mobile identifiers to serve, measure, personalize, limit, or improve ads. In regions where consent is required, including the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland, we aim to use a Google-certified consent management platform so visitors can consent, refuse, or manage advertising and analytics choices before non-essential processing occurs where required.
Google AdSense and Third-Party Vendors
Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this website or other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads based on visits to Dhaka City and other sites on the internet. Users may opt out of personalized advertising through Google ad settings where available, and visitors in covered regions may use our consent message to manage choices.
Advertising partners may receive information such as device identifiers, IP address, browser data, ad interactions, consent status, and page context. The exact data processed depends on the ad product, region, consent status, browser settings, and partner configuration. We do not control every cookie or technology used by third-party advertisers after you interact with their services or leave our website.
Your Rights and Choices
Depending on your location, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict, object to, or receive a copy of certain personal information. You may also have the right to withdraw consent where processing is based on consent. To make a request, contact us with enough information to identify your request. We may need to verify your identity before acting on certain requests.
You can also manage cookies through your browser settings. Blocking cookies may affect some features, consent storage, analytics measurement, or advertising behavior. If a consent message is available in your region, use it to manage non-essential cookies and advertising preferences.
If you are located in a region with specific privacy rights, such as the EEA, the UK, Switzerland, or another jurisdiction with data protection laws, you may also have the right to complain to a local supervisory authority. We encourage you to contact us first so we can understand and respond to the request.
Data Retention and Security
We keep information only as long as reasonably needed for the purposes described in this policy, including operating the website, responding to inquiries, keeping editorial records, resolving disputes, preventing abuse, and meeting legal obligations. Retention periods may vary by information type and business need.
We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect information, but no website, network, or storage system can be guaranteed completely secure. If you believe information you sent us has been exposed or misused, contact us promptly.
Legal Bases Where Applicable
Where a legal basis is required, we may process information because it is necessary to provide the website, because we have a legitimate interest in operating and improving Dhaka City, because we need to respond to your request, because we must comply with legal obligations, or because you gave consent. Advertising and analytics processing may depend on consent in some regions.
Legitimate interests may include website security, content measurement, fraud prevention, editorial recordkeeping, service improvement, and basic business administration. When consent is required for optional analytics or personalized advertising, we aim to request that consent through an appropriate consent management platform.
International Transfers and Service Providers
Some service providers may process information outside your country. For example, hosting, analytics, advertising, email, security, and consent management providers may operate infrastructure in multiple regions. Where required, these providers may rely on contractual safeguards, technical protections, or other lawful transfer mechanisms.
We choose service providers based on operational need and expected reliability, but each provider may maintain its own privacy documentation. You should review third-party policies when interacting directly with their services, ads, embedded content, or destination websites.
Children, International Visitors, and Updates
Dhaka City is intended for a general audience and is not directed to children under the age required by applicable privacy law. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children for behavioral advertising. International visitors understand that information may be processed in countries where our service providers operate.
We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in our website, advertising tools, analytics, consent systems, laws, or business practices. The updated version will be posted on this page with a revised effective date. Continued use of the website after an update means the new policy applies from that date forward.
Contact
For privacy requests or questions, use the Contact Us page. If a public email is configured for Dhaka City, it will be shown there.