Privacy Policy

Privacy at a glance

Information stored on your device

Saved Places and Checklists, selected language and certain trip-planning choices use browser storage on your device. This allows the feature to remember your choices without creating an account or a server-side My Tamil Nadu profile.

Browser-stored information normally remains in that browser on that device until you clear the relevant feature, clear site data or use browser controls to remove it. It may not appear on another device or browser and can be lost when browser data is cleared. Do not use these features as the only record of essential travel information.

Near Me and location permission

Near Me asks the browser for location only after you choose to use your current location. You may deny the request and continue through supported manual location choices. Browser or operating-system controls can be used to withdraw permission later.

When permission is granted, coordinates are used in page memory to rank published places by approximate straight-line distance. The Near Me feature does not place those coordinates in the page URL or save them to LocalStorage. Your browser, device and location provider may process the permission request under their own policies.

Maps and external websites

The interactive Maps experience loads map tiles from OpenStreetMap infrastructure. Choosing a Google Maps handoff opens Google’s service. External links may also lead to government departments, institutions, transport providers, tourism resources or other websites used for context and current verification.

When your browser requests an external resource or you follow an external link, the provider may receive ordinary request information such as your IP address, browser details, referring page and time of access. External services control their own cookies, accounts, logs and privacy practices. My Tamil Nadu does not control those practices.

Weather and current information

Tamil Nadu Today requests available current information through the site’s server endpoints. Those endpoints may obtain weather data from Open-Meteo and, only when separately configured and available, official alert data from the India Meteorological Department. Event and notice information may also be provided through reviewed site data.

The hosting provider and any external data provider involved in a request may process standard technical information needed to deliver, secure and diagnose the service, including IP address, request time, browser details and requested resource. My Tamil Nadu should show an unavailable state when a reliable current service cannot respond rather than require additional personal information from the reader.

Email enquiries

The public contact address is rathishblog@gmail.com. When you send an email, you choose what information to provide. Your name, email address, message, attachments and other details you include will be processed by your email provider, the receiving email provider and My Tamil Nadu for the purpose of reading and responding to the enquiry.

Email may be retained where reasonably needed to manage the enquiry, document a correction, address a rights concern or maintain an appropriate record of a commercial discussion. Do not send passwords, payment-card details, identity documents, precise private location information or other sensitive personal data unless it is genuinely necessary and an appropriate secure method has been agreed.

Cookies and consent choices

My Tamil Nadu starts Google analytics and advertising storage in a denied state. Where a consent message is required, a Google-certified consent management platform should ask for your choices before eligible advertising or analytics storage is enabled. You can accept, reject or manage the available purposes through that message and revisit your privacy choices through the message’s privacy-options control when it is active.

Necessary browser storage used for saved places, checklists, language and planning preferences is described above and is not an advertising profile. You can also restrict or clear cookies and site data through your browser. Declining optional advertising or analytics storage should not prevent access to editorial guides.

Google Analytics

My Tamil Nadu uses Google Analytics through the Google tag identified as G-6ZZCWSCCYN. Analytics helps the site understand aggregated patterns such as pages viewed, approximate visit duration, referring sources and general device or browser categories so that content, navigation and technical performance can be improved.

When analytics is permitted and an analytics-enabled page loads, Google may receive technical and usage information including your IP address, browser and device details, requested page, referring page, interaction data and approximate geographic information derived from technical signals. Google Analytics may use cookies or similar identifiers subject to your consent choices, browser settings, Google’s controls and applicable requirements. My Tamil Nadu does not use analytics reports to ask for your name, create a site account or sell your personal information.

Read Google Analytics privacy information, Google’s Privacy Policy and Google’s available analytics opt-out information.

Google advertising and advertising cookies

My Tamil Nadu is connected to Google AdSense and may display Google-served advertising on eligible content pages after approval and consent requirements are satisfied. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a visitor’s prior visits to this website or other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables Google and its partners to serve ads based on visits to My Tamil Nadu and other sites on the Internet.

Where personalized advertising is available, visitors can manage or opt out of personalized advertising through Google Ads Settings. Visitors may also review industry opt-out choices at YourAdChoices, where applicable.

Google and other approved advertising vendors may receive or use information such as IP address, browser and device details, page address, referring page, ad interactions and consent signals to deliver, limit, measure and protect advertising. When other third-party advertising vendors or networks are used, their names and privacy information should be presented through the active consent message or an updated version of this policy. Advertising and affiliate relationships are kept distinguishable from independent editorial content.

Server logs and security

Like most hosted websites, the hosting and delivery environment may keep technical logs needed to provide the site, investigate errors, prevent abuse and maintain security. These can include IP address, date and time, requested URL, response status, browser or device information and referring page. The precise operation and retention of infrastructure logs are controlled by the relevant hosting or service provider.

No internet transmission or storage system can be guaranteed completely secure. My Tamil Nadu aims to limit the information its own public features require and does not ask readers to create an account for the current discovery and planning tools.

Your choices

• Use the certified consent message and its privacy-options control, when active, to accept, reject or revisit optional advertising and analytics choices.
• Manage personalized advertising through Google Ads Settings.
• Use browser controls to clear or restrict cookies, deny or withdraw location permission, and remove Saved Places, checklists or other site data.
• Avoid sending unnecessary personal or sensitive information by email.
• Review the privacy terms of Google Maps, OpenStreetMap infrastructure, weather providers and other external websites before using their services.
• Contact My Tamil Nadu to ask about information you have voluntarily provided by email.

External links and children

My Tamil Nadu links to external websites for maps, sources, travel context and current verification. A link does not mean that My Tamil Nadu controls the destination or its privacy practices. Review the destination’s policy before providing personal information or completing a transaction.

The website is a general-audience information service and is not designed to knowingly collect personal information from children through accounts or forms. Parents and guardians should guide younger users when they follow external links or use location-enabled services.

Changes to this policy

This policy may be revised when features, data providers, advertising practices or legal requirements change. The review date at the top identifies the version currently described. Material changes should be reflected on this page rather than assumed to apply silently.

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