Your information. Your choices.
Privacy Policy.
Understand how information is used when you read our stories, explore our website, or get in touch.
This Privacy Policy explains how personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit hunterfly.in, contact us, or interact with the services described below.
hunterfly is part of IndyaStory. Prosenjit Barman is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of IndyaStory. “We,” “us,” and “our” refer to IndyaStory in connection with hunterfly.
About this policy
hunterfly is a women’s digital magazine covering fashion, beauty, lifestyle, entertainment, wellness, relationships, culture, and empowerment.
This policy covers the information practices described here in connection with hunterfly. It also explains available choices relating to Google Analytics, Google AdSense, and communications with us.
Privacy enquiries can be sent to [email protected].
Information we collect
Information you provide
When you email us, we receive your email address, any name you provide, your message, and attachments or contact details you choose to include.
Editorial pitches and business enquiries may include professional information, organisation details, biographies, portfolio links, and information about proposed stories or partnerships.
Analytics and advertising information
Google Analytics and Google AdSense process information about website visits and interactions as described below. The information processed depends on service configuration, applicable requirements, and your privacy choices.
How we use information
We use relevant information to:
- Respond to questions, enquiries, and reader feedback.
- Review story ideas and contributor proposals.
- Investigate editorial concerns and correction requests.
- Discuss advertising and commercial partnerships.
- Understand readership and improve website content.
- Deliver and measure advertisements.
- Maintain records relevant to enquiries, disputes, and applicable legal obligations.
Reading this policy or continuing to browse does not itself provide consent to optional tracking or personalised advertising.
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors use hunterfly, including which pages they visit and how they interact with our content. This helps us evaluate website performance and improve the reader experience.
Depending on our configuration and your consent choices, Google Analytics uses cookies and similar technologies to collect information such as pages viewed, interactions, referring websites, browser and device information, and approximate location.
Learn more about how Google uses information from sites and apps that use its services and read the Google Privacy Policy .
Your Analytics choice
Google provides a
Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on
for supported browsers. It concerns Google Analytics
and does not disable other website technologies
or advertising.
Google AdSense and advertising
We use Google AdSense to display advertisements on hunterfly. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve advertisements based on your previous visits to this website or other websites.
Google’s advertising cookies enable Google and its partners to display advertisements based on your visits to hunterfly and other websites across the internet. Personalisation depends on applicable requirements, your consent choices, and advertising settings.
Advertising technologies may process cookie identifiers, IP addresses, browser and device information, and interactions with advertisements. These technologies support advertisement delivery, measurement, frequency control, fraud prevention, and personalisation where permitted.
Google advertising choices
Manage your preferences through Google Ads Settings and partner advertising settings .
Additional opt-out options
Explore participating advertising companies’ controls through the Digital Advertising Alliance .
Opting out of personalised advertising does not necessarily remove advertisements. You may continue to see advertisements selected using contextual information. Some choices apply only to the browser or device where they are made.
More information is available in Google’s advertising technologies information and Google’s cookie information .
Cookies and consent
Cookies are small files stored on your device. Google Analytics and AdSense use cookies and similar technologies for audience measurement and advertising, depending on configuration and your choices.
- Analytics technologies: Help measure visits and interactions with content.
- Advertising technologies: Support advertisement delivery, measurement, fraud prevention, and personalisation where permitted.
Where required, consent must be obtained before using optional cookies or processing information for personalised advertising. This policy does not replace a consent request.
Where a cookie or consent-settings interface is displayed, use its controls to review or change your selections. You can also contact us with questions about withdrawing consent.
Browser settings allow you to block or delete cookies. Blocking certain cookies may affect website features. Preferences may need to be set again after cookies are deleted or when you use another browser or device.
Information sharing
Information is processed by Google in connection with Analytics and AdSense as described in this policy. Google’s handling of information is explained in its linked privacy and service information.
We may disclose relevant information when required by applicable law or valid legal process, or when reasonably necessary to investigate fraud, protect safety, or establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.
Messages and submissions
Please provide only information relevant to your enquiry. Avoid sending identity documents, financial details, private medical records, or other sensitive material unless we explain why it is needed and arrange an appropriate way to receive it.
If you share information about another person, make sure you have an appropriate basis for doing so.
If you have concerns about confidentiality or how a proposed story may identify someone, discuss them with our editorial team before sending sensitive material.
External websites
Articles and advertisements may link to websites operated by other organisations. Their collection and use of information are governed by their own privacy policies.
Review external services’ privacy policies before providing personal information to them.
Data retention
Retention depends on the purpose for which information was collected, ongoing enquiries or disputes, service settings, and applicable legal requirements.
You can contact us to ask about retention or request deletion of information you have provided. Some records may need to be retained for legal obligations or the establishment, exercise, or defence of legal claims.
Google’s retention of information under its own control is explained in its data retention information .
Security
No internet transmission or storage system can be guaranteed completely secure. Please avoid sending unnecessary sensitive information through email.
If you believe information connected with hunterfly has been compromised, contact [email protected] with relevant details.
International processing
Google operates infrastructure in multiple countries. Information processed through its services may be handled outside your country of residence, subject to relevant service terms and applicable requirements.
See the Google Privacy Policy for information about Google’s international processing and transfer safeguards.
Your privacy requests
You can contact us to ask about personal information you have provided, request correction or deletion, or raise a concern about its use.
Additional privacy rights may apply depending on your location and the law in force. We assess requests under the requirements applicable to our processing.
Where processing relies on consent, you can request its withdrawal. Withdrawal does not affect processing already lawfully carried out.
We may need proportionate information to verify your identity before acting on a request. Do not send identity documents unless requested through an appropriate channel.
Send a privacy request
Email
[email protected]
with the subject
Privacy Request — hunterfly.
Children’s privacy
Children’s personal information requires particular care. If you are a parent or guardian and believe a child has provided personal information to us, contact us so we can investigate and take appropriate action under applicable law.
Policy updates
We may update this policy to reflect changes to our services, data practices, or applicable requirements. The revised policy will display an updated date.
Where required, we will provide additional notice or request consent before introducing a new use of personal information.
We’re here to help
Let’s talk privacy.
Have a question about your information, a privacy request, or a concern? Get in touch.
Email
[email protected]
Subject
Privacy Request — hunterfly
Dhaloguri, Bokalir Math
Cooch Behar, West Bengal
India – 736133
Please describe your concern without including unnecessary sensitive information.
