Privacy Policy

EVsBuzz.com (“we”, “us”, “our”) respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy describes the personal information we collect when you visit https://evsbuzz.com (the “Site”), how we use it, with whom we share it, the legal bases on which we rely, your rights, and how long we keep it. This Policy should be read together with our Cookie Policy, GDPR Consent Policy and Terms of Use.

1. Who we are

EVsBuzz.com operates the website https://evsbuzz.com and the related social-media presence. For the purposes of the EU GDPR, the UK GDPR and the Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 (India), EVsBuzz.com is the controller / data fiduciary of personal data processed on the Site, except where we act as a processor / data processor for our partners (e.g. when running an advertising campaign on their behalf).

2. Information we collect

2.1 Information you give us

• Newsletter sign-up — your email address, optionally your name.
• Comments and forum posts — your display name, comment text, optionally avatar.
• Contact, correction, DMCA and data-subject requests — your name, email, postal address (where you provide it), and the content of your message.
• Surveys, polls and contests — the responses you submit and any contact details required to deliver a prize.

2.2 Information we collect automatically

• Device and connection — IP address, user-agent, device type, browser type and version, operating system, language, time zone, screen size, approximate location derived from IP.
• Site usage — pages visited, time on page, scroll depth, referrer, search terms used on-site, clicks on links and ads.
• Cookies and similar — as described in our Cookie Policy.

2.3 Information from third parties

• Social-media platforms — where you choose to log in or share content via a social plug-in.
• Advertising and analytics partners — measurement, attribution and audience data, as permitted by your consent.
• Public sources — where we report on individuals or businesses, the relevant publicly available information.

3. How we use your information

Purpose	Legal basis (GDPR / DPDP)
Operate, secure and improve the Site	Legitimate interest / contract
Send the newsletter you signed up for	Consent
Respond to your messages and requests	Legitimate interest / contract
Display contextual advertising	Legitimate interest where permitted
Display personalised advertising via Google AdSense, Google Ad Manager and partners	Consent
Measure audience and ad performance	Consent / legitimate interest where permitted
Comply with legal obligations	Legal obligation
Defend our legal rights	Legitimate interest

4. Advertising — Google AdSense & Ad Manager

We are a publisher in the Google AdSense and Google Ad Manager programmes. Google and its certified partners may use cookies and other identifiers to deliver, frequency-cap, measure and (where you consent) personalise ads. As required by Google publisher policies:

• Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this Site and other sites.
• Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to our Site and/or other sites on the Internet.
• You may opt out of personalised advertising via Google Ads Settings or industry opt-outs at aboutads.info/choices.

5. Analytics

We use Google Analytics 4 with IP-truncation enabled (where required) to understand traffic patterns. We do not combine Google Analytics data with personally identifying details such as email address. See How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.

6. Sharing of information

We do not sell your personal information for money. We share personal information only with:

• Service providers acting on our behalf (e.g. hosting, email delivery, CMP, CDN, anti-spam).
• Advertising partners (e.g. Google AdSense, Google Ad Manager, programmatic SSPs) where you have consented to personalised advertising or where the law permits non-personalised processing.
• Authorities, regulators, courts or law-enforcement agencies where we are legally required to disclose.
• A successor entity in the event of a merger, acquisition or sale of all or part of our assets, subject to the same protections set out here.

Where US state law characterises certain ad-tech behaviour as “sale” or “sharing” of personal information, you may opt out via the CMP or the Global Privacy Control signal. See our Cookie Policy.

7. International transfers

The Site is hosted in India and accessed globally. Some of our service providers are based outside your country of residence (including outside the EEA, UK or Switzerland). Where we transfer personal data internationally, we rely on EU Standard Contractual Clauses, the UK International Data Transfer Addendum, the Swiss-US Data Privacy Framework (where applicable), or other recognised safeguards.

8. Retention

Data	Retention
Newsletter list	Until you unsubscribe + 30 days
Comments and forum posts	Until you delete your account or request removal
Email correspondence	Up to 3 years from last contact
Server access logs	Up to 90 days, longer if needed for security investigation
Analytics aggregates	26 months in Google Analytics by default
Consent records	As long as needed to demonstrate compliance

9. Your rights

Subject to the applicable law, you have the following rights with respect to your personal data:

• Access — a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
• Rectification — correction of inaccurate or incomplete data.
• Erasure (“right to be forgotten”) — subject to legal exceptions.
• Restriction — limit how we use your data.
• Portability — receive your data in a structured machine-readable format.
• Objection — to processing based on legitimate interest, including direct marketing.
• Withdraw consent — at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of past processing.
• Opt-out of “sale” / “sharing” — under CCPA/CPRA and similar US state laws.
• Complain — to your supervisory authority (e.g. the Information Commissioner, EU Member State DPA, Data Protection Board of India).

To exercise these rights, contact privacy@evsbuzz.com. We may need to verify your identity before responding to protect your data from unauthorised disclosure.

10. Children

EVsBuzz.com is not directed at children under 13 (or the applicable age in your jurisdiction) and we do not knowingly collect personal data from them. If you believe a child has provided personal information, please contact us and we will delete it.

11. Security

We apply administrative, technical and organisational measures (TLS encryption in transit, access controls, password hashing, regular updates, isolated database access, logging and monitoring) appropriate to the risk of processing. No internet transmission or storage system is perfectly secure; we cannot guarantee absolute security.

12. Updates to this policy

We may update this Policy from time to time. Material changes will be notified by an on-site banner and by email to subscribers where appropriate. The current version is always available at this URL with the “Last reviewed” date at the top.