Last updated: August 28, 2026.
ChickenJournal (“ChickenJournal,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) operates chickenjournal.com (the “Site”) from Odisha, India. The Site is accessible to readers worldwide. This Privacy Policy explains how information is collected, used, disclosed, and protected when people visit or interact with the Site, regardless of where they are located.
Information We Collect
Information you provide. If you comment, subscribe, contact us, or otherwise interact with the Site, we may receive your name, email address, website URL, message, subscription choices, and any information you include. Comments may be displayed publicly with the name and website you provide; email addresses are not displayed publicly.
Information collected automatically. The Site and its service providers may collect IP address, browser and device information, operating system, approximate location, referring and exit pages, pages viewed, timestamps, identifiers, cookie information, and interactions with content, ads, links, or embedded media.
Information from third parties. Advertising, analytics, anti-spam, subscription, affiliate, social, and embedded-content providers may provide reporting or inferred information, subject to their own policies and settings.
Tools and Data Flows Currently Used
- Google Analytics measures traffic and use of the Site.
- Jetpack/Automattic may provide site statistics, security, performance, subscriptions, and related WordPress features.
- Grow by Mediavine may provide reader engagement, identity, sharing, subscription, and related audience features. It may use cookies or similar technologies according to user choices and applicable law.
- Advertising providers, when advertising is enabled on the Site, may display, deliver, measure, and report advertisements. Where permitted by applicable law and user choices, advertising may involve cookies or similar technologies, IP address, device and browser information, approximate location, browsing activity, and interactions with advertisements.
- Akismet processes comment and form-related data to detect spam.
- Gravatar may use a hashed form of an email address to determine whether a profile image is associated with it.
- Amazon and other affiliate merchants may receive information when you click an affiliate link and may use cookies or identifiers to attribute purchases.
- Embedded services, such as YouTube or social platforms, may collect data when their content loads or when you interact with it.
How We Use Information
- Operate, secure, troubleshoot, and improve the Site.
- Publish and moderate comments; detect spam, fraud, abuse, and security threats.
- Provide requested subscriptions, notifications, or responses.
- Understand readership and content performance.
- Display, personalize, measure, and report advertising where permitted.
- Track affiliate referrals and commissions.
- Comply with law, enforce our terms, and protect rights and safety.
Cookies and Similar Technologies
We and our providers use cookies, pixels, tags, local identifiers, and similar technologies for essential functions, preferences, analytics, advertising, engagement, affiliate attribution, and embedded content.
Advertising and Regional Privacy Choices
We do not sell personal information for money. However, some advertising and analytics activities may be treated as a “sale,” “sharing,” targeted advertising, behavioural advertising, or profiling under laws that apply in a visitor’s location. Where required, eligible users may opt out or object through the privacy choices made available on the Site, by withdrawing consent, by using a supported Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal, or by contacting us. Available controls and legal terminology vary by jurisdiction.
When We Disclose Information
We may disclose information to service providers and advertising, analytics, affiliate, security, hosting, email, subscription, and embedded-content partners for the purposes described above; when required by law or legal process; to protect rights, safety, and the Site; or in connection with a business transfer. Providers process data under their own terms and, where applicable, our instructions.
Retention
We retain information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described, including legal, security, accounting, and dispute-resolution needs. Comments and related metadata may be retained while the comment remains published or as needed for moderation. Correspondence is retained as needed to respond and maintain records. Analytics, advertising, anti-spam, subscription, and affiliate data are retained according to provider settings and policies.
Your Choices and Privacy Rights
You may block or delete cookies in your browser, use available Site privacy controls, unsubscribe using links in emails, avoid optional fields, and disable certain embedded or advertising features through provider or industry opt-out tools. Blocking cookies may affect Site functions.
Depending on where you live, you may have rights under applicable privacy or data-protection law. These may include the right to know or access personal information; correct or delete it; restrict or object to certain processing; receive a portable copy; withdraw consent; opt out of sale, sharing, targeted or behavioural advertising, or certain profiling; and complain to a data-protection authority. Some jurisdictions also prohibit discrimination for exercising privacy rights. We may need to verify a request and may deny or limit it where an exemption applies. Authorized agents may submit requests where permitted, subject to verification.
Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control
Browser Do Not Track signals do not have a single industry-standard response, so the Site may not respond to them uniformly. Where legally required and technically supported, we treat a valid GPC signal as an opt-out request for the browser or device sending it. Other privacy choices may be available through the Site’s consent or advertising controls.
Children’s Privacy
The Site is intended for a general audience and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we learn that such information was collected without legally valid parental consent, we will take reasonable steps to delete it. A parent or guardian may contact us to request review or deletion.
International Data Transfers
ChickenJournal is operated from India, while readers and service providers may be located around the world. Information may therefore be transferred to or processed in India, the United States, and other countries whose data-protection laws may differ from those where you live. Where required, we and our providers use appropriate transfer mechanisms and safeguards.
Security
We use reasonable administrative and technical measures appropriate to the Site, but no online transmission or storage system can be guaranteed completely secure.
Third-Party Sites and Services
Links, advertisements, affiliate merchants, and embedded content are controlled by third parties. Their privacy practices are governed by their own policies, not this Policy.
Changes to This Policy
We may update this Policy as the Site, providers, or laws change. The revised version will show a new “Last updated” date. Material changes may also be highlighted where appropriate.
Contact
Privacy requests and questions may be submitted through the Contact page on ChickenJournal or by email at chickenjournalcontact@gmail.com.