Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how Cricket Chautari ("we", "us") collects, uses, and protects information when you visit our website. Cricket Chautari does not require account registration, and we do not knowingly collect personal information beyond what is described below.

We do not ask you to create an account or submit personal details to browse the Site. We do automatically collect limited technical information, including:

• IP address, browser type, and device information
• Pages visited, time spent, and referring/exit pages
• General location (country/region), inferred from IP address

This information is collected automatically through cookies and similar technologies used by our analytics and advertising providers, described below.

We use cookies and local storage for:

• Preferences — remembering your light/dark theme choice.
• Analytics — understanding how visitors use the Site via Google Analytics.
• Advertising — serving and personalizing ads via Google AdSense.

You can control or disable cookies through your browser settings. Disabling cookies may affect some Site functionality, such as theme preference persistence.

Information collected is used to:

• Operate, maintain, and improve the Site
• Understand aggregate traffic patterns and usage trends
• Serve relevant advertising
• Detect and prevent abuse, fraud, or security issues

We use the following third-party services, which may collect information as governed by their own privacy policies:

• Google Analytics — website traffic analytics.
• Google AdSense — displays third-party ads and may use cookies to personalize ads based on your visits to this and other sites. You can opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings.
• YouTube — embedded video content and channel data.

For more on how Google handles data, see Google's Privacy Policy.

We do not sell your personal information. We share limited technical data with the third-party service providers listed above solely to operate analytics and advertising on the Site.

We retain automatically collected technical data only as long as necessary for the purposes described above, and rely on our service providers' security practices to protect it in transit and at rest. No method of transmission over the internet is 100% secure.

The Site is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has provided us with information, please contact us so we can remove it.

You can manage or delete cookies through your browser settings at any time, and opt out of personalized advertising via Google Ads Settings or the Digital Advertising Alliance opt-out page.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Changes will be posted on this page with an updated "Last updated" date. Continued use of the Site after changes are posted constitutes acceptance of the revised policy.

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please reach out via our Facebook page.