Last updated: August 2026
Introduction
Farmer Bazaar Journal ("we", "us", "our") operates the website farmerbazaar.shop ("the Site"), a publication focused on organic gardening and home-farming guidance for Indian growers. This Privacy Policy explains, in plain language, what information we collect from visitors, why we collect it, how it is used, who we share it with, and the choices available to you regarding your information. We have written this policy to be genuinely readable rather than dense legal boilerplate, because we believe you should actually understand it, not just scroll past it.
By using this Site, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. If you do not agree with any part of it, please discontinue use of the Site.
Who This Policy Applies To
This policy applies to all visitors, readers, and any users who interact with farmerbazaar.shop, including those who read articles, browse pages, subscribe to updates (if offered), leave comments, or contact us by email. It does not apply to third-party websites we may link to, which maintain their own separate privacy practices.
Information We Collect
1. Information You Provide Directly
If you contact us through email, a contact form, or by commenting on an article, we collect the information you choose to share, which may include your name, email address, and the content of your message or comment. We only use this information to respond to you and to improve our content based on the questions and feedback we receive.
2. Information Collected Automatically
Like nearly every website, when you visit farmerbazaar.shop our servers and any third-party tools we use (such as analytics and advertising partners) automatically collect certain technical information, including:
• Your IP address and approximate geographic location (city/region level, not precise location)
• Browser type and version, and device type (mobile, tablet, desktop)
• Operating system
• Pages visited on our Site, and the order in which you visited them
• Time spent on each page and overall session duration
• The website or search engine that referred you to our Site
• General interaction data, such as scroll depth and link clicks, used in aggregate to understand which content is useful
This information is collected through cookies, log files, web beacons, and similar tracking technologies, and is standard practice across virtually all modern websites that use analytics or advertising.
3. Cookies
A cookie is a small text file stored on your device that helps a website remember information about your visit. We use the following broad categories of cookies:
Essential cookies — required for basic site functionality, such as remembering your cookie consent choice.
Analytics cookies — help us understand how visitors use the Site (for example, via Google Analytics), so we can see which articles are helpful and which need improvement.
Advertising cookies — used by third-party ad networks, including Google AdSense, to serve ads that are more relevant to you based on your browsing history across different sites.
Google AdSense and Third-Party Advertising
This Site may display advertisements served by Google and other third-party advertising companies. These companies may use cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies to collect information about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services that may interest you.
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. Google uses cookies such as the DoubleClick cookie to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to our website or other websites.
You may opt out of the use of the DoubleClick cookie for interest-based advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings. Alternatively, you can opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info. For more detail on how Google uses information from sites that use its services, see Google's Partner Sites policy.
How We Use the Information We Collect
We use the information described above for the following purposes:
1. To operate and maintain the Site — ensuring pages load correctly across devices and browsers.
2. To understand our readers — identifying which topics, formats, and articles are genuinely useful, so we can write more of what helps and less of what doesn't.
3. To respond to inquiries — when you email us or leave a comment, we use your contact details solely to reply to that specific communication.
4. To display relevant advertising — through partners like Google AdSense, which helps fund the research, testing, and writing time that goes into our free content.
5. To detect and prevent abuse — such as spam comments or attempts to exploit our contact forms.
We do not sell your personal information to third parties, and we do not use your email address for unsolicited marketing beyond directly responding to your inquiry, unless you have separately and explicitly opted in to a newsletter or similar communication.
Third-Party Links and Embedded Content
Our articles may include links to external websites — for example, to a horticultural research paper, a government agricultural extension resource, or a tool or supplier we mention. Once you click through to an external site, that site's own privacy policy governs your data, not ours. We encourage you to review the privacy practices of any third-party site before providing personal information there. Similarly, if we embed content from a third-party platform (such as an embedded video), that platform's own cookies and tracking may apply.
Data Retention
We retain the content of emails and contact form submissions only as long as necessary to address your inquiry and for a reasonable period afterward for our own records, typically no longer than 24 months, after which such communications are periodically deleted. Aggregated, non-identifying analytics data (such as overall page-view counts) may be retained indefinitely since it does not identify any individual.
Data Security
We take reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect the information we hold from unauthorized access, alteration, or disclosure. This includes using secure hosting infrastructure and limiting access to contact-form submissions to the small team that runs this publication. That said, no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
Children's Privacy
Farmer Bazaar Journal is a general-audience gardening publication and is not directed at, nor knowingly used to collect personal information from, children under the age of 13. If we become aware that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we will take steps to delete such information promptly.
Your Rights and Choices
Depending on your location, you may have rights regarding your personal information, including the right to request access to, correction of, or deletion of personal data we hold about you. To exercise any such request, email us at hello@farmerbazaar.shop and we will respond within a reasonable timeframe. You can also control cookies directly through your browser settings — most browsers allow you to block or delete cookies, though doing so may affect how some parts of the Site function, and may affect the personalization of advertisements you see.
Do Not Track Signals
Some browsers offer a "Do Not Track" (DNT) signal. There is currently no industry-standard way to respond to DNT signals, so our Site does not currently alter its data-collection practices specifically when it detects a DNT signal, though the cookie and opt-out choices described above remain available to you regardless.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in our practices, legal requirements, or the tools and partners we use. Any changes will be posted on this page along with an updated "Last updated" date at the top. We encourage you to review this page occasionally to stay informed.
Contact Us About Privacy
If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or how your information is handled, please reach out to us at hello@farmerbazaar.shop. We read and personally respond to every message.