Privacy Policy

1. Introduction and Scope

Shubham Artical (“we”, “our”, or “us”) publishes peer-reviewed legal scholarship, case analyses, and regulatory commentaries at https://shubhamartical55.com (the “Website”). We are deeply dedicated to transparency and the protection of reader personal data. This Privacy Policy details how personal information is collected, processed, and safeguarded across our digital journal, in strict adherence to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the California Consumer Privacy Act as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (CCPA/CPRA), the ePrivacy Directive, and Google AdSense Publisher Policies.

2. Information We Collect Automatically (Log Files and Telemetry)

In accordance with standard digital publishing protocols, our servers routinely record network telemetry when you visit the Website. This data is collected to verify network integrity, defend against unauthorized intrusion and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) threats, and ensure high-availability content delivery. The logged information includes:

• Internet Protocol (IP) addresses and approximate geographical routing nodes;
• Browser category, software version, rendering engine, and operating system;
• Referring and exit pages, uniform resource locators (URLs), and navigational sequences;
• Timestamped entry records, search query strings entered on the site, and content delivery metrics.

These technical log entries are processed under legitimate security interests (GDPR Art. 6(1)(f)) and are never combined with personally identifying information.

3. Google AdSense & DoubleClick DART Cookies

Shubham Artical uses Google AdSense to serve contextually relevant automated advertisements to sustain our free-access legal scholarship. Please note the following disclosures regarding Google advertising technologies:

• Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve advertisements based on a user’s prior visits to your website or other websites on the internet.
• Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and/or other sites on the Internet.
• Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings (https://adssettings.google.com).
• Alternatively, you can opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance Consumer Choice Portal at www.aboutads.info/choices or the Network Advertising Initiative at thenai.org/opt-out.

4. Third-Party Advertising Networks and Web Beacons

Third-party ad servers or ad networks use technologies such as cookies, JavaScript, and Web Beacons in their respective advertisements and links that appear on Shubham Artical. These technologies are sent directly to your browser and automatically record your IP address. They are utilized to evaluate the efficacy of advertising campaigns and to personalize the advertising content displayed to you on websites you browse.

Shubham Artical has no access to or control over these third-party advertising cookies. We advise readers to consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers for comprehensive information on their practices and instructions on opting out.

5. Reader Rights under GDPR (EEA & United Kingdom)

If you reside within the European Economic Area (EEA) or the United Kingdom, Chapter III of the GDPR grants you comprehensive statutory rights over your personal data:

• Right of Access (Article 15): The right to obtain confirmation as to whether your personal information is being processed and receive a copy.
• Right to Rectification (Article 16): The right to demand correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal records.
• Right to Erasure / “Right to Be Forgotten” (Article 17): The right to obtain the erasure of personal records under defined legal circumstances.
• Right to Restriction of Processing (Article 18): The right to suspend active data processing while disputes are evaluated.
• Right to Data Portability (Article 20): The right to receive personal data in a structured, machine-readable format.
• Right to Object (Article 21): The right to object at any time to processing predicated upon legitimate interests or direct marketing.

To exercise your GDPR statutory rights, contact our appointed Data Protection Officer at privacy@shubhamartical55.com. Verified requests are fulfilled within 30 days without cost.

6. California Consumer Privacy Rights (CCPA / CPRA Disclosures)

Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), California residents possess distinct rights:

• Right to Know: You may request disclosure of categories of personal data collected, commercial purposes for processing, and categories of third parties with whom data is shared.
• Right to Delete: You may request the deletion of personal data collected directly from you.
• Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information: Shubham Artical does NOT sell personal information to brokers or third parties for monetary consideration. We honor Global Privacy Control (GPC) opt-out preference signals emitted by compliant browsers.
• Non-Discrimination: We will never deny services, alter content quality, or impose discriminatory rates against readers exercising statutory privacy privileges.

7. Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) Compliance

Preserving the privacy of minors is an imperative obligation. Shubham Artical is an academic and professional legal journal designed exclusively for adult practitioners, jurisprudence scholars, and university researchers. We do not knowingly solicit, collect, or retain personal data from children under the age of 13. If you believe a minor has submitted identifying information through our contact desk, please notify us at privacy@shubhamartical55.com, and we will immediately purge the record from our database.

8. Policy Amendments, Security Protocols & Contact Coordinates

We deploy high-grade Transport Layer Security (TLS 1.3), automated vulnerability audits, and strict cryptographic safeguards across our infrastructure. We reserve the authority to revise this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in regulatory directives or judicial precedents. Modifications become binding immediately upon publication to this page.

Data Protection Officer: privacy@shubhamartical55.com
Editorial Headquarters: contact@shubhamartical55.com
Physical Location: 850 Courthouse Plaza, Suite 600, Washington, D.C. 20001
Direct Telephone: +1 (202) 792-8410