1. Introduction
Welcome to BWDN24 (“we,” “our,” or “us”).
BWDN24.com is an online news and information platform covering geopolitics, international relations, politics, wars and conflicts, diplomacy, defence, economics, and other national and international developments.
We respect your privacy and are committed to handling personal information responsibly. This Privacy Policy explains how information may be collected, used, stored, disclosed, and protected when you visit our website or interact with its features.
By using BWDN24.com, you acknowledge this Privacy Policy. Where consent is legally required for particular processing activities, we will seek that consent through appropriate mechanisms.
2. Information We May Collect
Depending on how you use our website, we may collect the following categories of information.
2.1 Personal Information You Provide
You may voluntarily provide personal information when you contact us, submit a news tip, request a correction, send an advertising enquiry, or use a contact form.
This information may include:
- Your name.
- Your email address.
- The contents of your message.
- Your organisation or business name.
- Information you voluntarily include in an enquiry.
Please avoid submitting passwords, payment card details, government identification numbers, or unnecessary sensitive personal information through our website.
2.2 Automatically Collected Information
When you visit BWDN24.com, certain technical information may be collected automatically by our website, hosting provider, analytics services, or other technologies.
Depending on the services implemented, this information may include:
- IP address.
- Browser type and version.
- Device type and operating system.
- Pages visited and time spent on pages.
- Referring websites and links.
- Approximate geographic location derived from technical information.
- Date, time, and frequency of website visits.
- Technical logs and diagnostic information.
We may use this information to understand website usage, improve performance, maintain security, identify technical problems, and evaluate readership trends.
2.3 Cookies and Similar Technologies
We and certain third-party service providers may use cookies, pixels, web beacons, local storage, or similar technologies to support website functionality, remember preferences, analyse traffic, measure advertising performance, and deliver advertisements.
The specific technologies used depend on the services installed and enabled on our website.
You can manage available privacy and cookie choices through our consent-management tools, where provided, and your browser settings.
Disabling certain technologies may affect some website features or advertising functionality.
3. How We Use Information
We may use collected information for the following purposes:
- To operate and maintain BWDN24.com.
- To respond to questions, feedback, and correction requests.
- To review news tips and editorial submissions.
- To communicate about advertising and business partnerships.
- To understand readership trends and improve our content.
- To analyse website traffic and technical performance.
- To detect spam, fraud, security threats, and abusive activity.
- To maintain website functionality and troubleshoot errors.
- To display and measure advertisements, where applicable.
- To comply with legal obligations and protect our legitimate rights.
We will process personal information in accordance with applicable law and any consent requirements relevant to the processing activity.
4. Google AdSense and Third-Party Advertising
BWDN24.com may use Google AdSense or other third-party advertising services to display advertisements.
These providers may use cookies, device identifiers, IP addresses, or similar technologies to deliver advertisements, measure advertising performance, prevent fraudulent activity, and personalise advertising where permitted.
Third-party advertising providers may process information about your visits to this website and other websites or applications, subject to their own privacy policies and applicable requirements.
Google’s advertising services may use cookies to serve advertisements based on previous visits to this website or other websites, depending on the user’s settings, location, consent choices, and the advertising products in use.
You can learn more about Google’s advertising practices through:
- How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services
- Google Privacy Policy
- Google My Ad Center
You may be able to manage personalised advertising through Google’s advertising settings. Available controls may vary by location and account settings.
BWDN24 does not control all data-processing activities performed independently by third-party advertising providers.
5. Personalised and Non-Personalised Advertising
Depending on applicable law, your consent choices, location, and the advertising services configured on our website, advertisements may be personalised or non-personalised.
Personalised advertising may use information about interests or previous activity to make advertisements more relevant.
Non-personalised advertising is not based on a user’s advertising profile in the same way, although certain information may still be processed for purposes such as frequency capping, aggregated reporting, and fraud prevention.
Where required, we will provide appropriate consent and privacy controls before enabling relevant advertising technologies.
6. Analytics and Website Performance
We may use website analytics tools, such as Google Analytics, if installed and enabled, to understand how visitors interact with BWDN24.com.
These tools may collect information about page views, traffic sources, interactions, device characteristics, and general usage patterns.
We use analytics information to assess website performance, improve navigation, understand readership interests, and make our content more useful.
The information collected and the available privacy controls depend on the analytics services we use and their configuration.
For more information about Google’s privacy practices, visit Google’s Privacy Policy.
7. Contact Forms, Emails, and News Tips
If you contact us at contact@bwdn24.com, we may process the information you provide to understand and respond to your enquiry.
We may use your information to:
- Respond to general questions.
- Review factual correction requests.
- Assess copyright complaints.
- Consider news tips and story suggestions.
- Respond to advertising and partnership enquiries.
- Maintain records of relevant communications.
Please do not assume that an ordinary email or contact form provides a secure or confidential channel for sensitive information.
We retain correspondence for as long as reasonably necessary to respond to enquiries, maintain relevant records, resolve disputes, and meet legal obligations.
8. How We Share Information
We do not sell personal information in exchange for money.
However, we may disclose or make information available in the following circumstances, subject to applicable law:
Service Providers
We may share relevant information with hosting providers, website maintenance providers, security services, analytics providers, email services, and other vendors that help us operate the website.
Advertising and Analytics Partners
Third-party advertising and analytics providers may collect or receive information through their technologies when you visit our website.
Their processing may be governed by their own privacy policies and applicable consent requirements.
Legal Obligations and Security
We may disclose information where reasonably necessary to comply with applicable law, respond to lawful requests, investigate fraud, protect our rights, or safeguard the website and its users.
Business Transfers
If the website or its relevant operations are transferred, merged, or reorganised, information may be transferred as part of that transaction, subject to applicable legal requirements.
We do not authorise third parties to use information received from us for purposes that are incompatible with the applicable agreement or law.
9. Data Retention
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.
Retention periods may depend on the type of information, the reason it was collected, the nature of the enquiry, security requirements, and legal obligations.
For example, contact correspondence may be retained until an enquiry has been resolved and for an appropriate period afterward when necessary for recordkeeping or dispute resolution.
Technical logs and analytics information may be retained according to the settings and policies of the relevant service providers.
When information is no longer needed, we will take reasonable steps to delete it, anonymise it, or otherwise handle it appropriately.
10. Data Security
We take reasonable measures to protect information against unauthorised access, disclosure, alteration, loss, and misuse.
These measures may include access controls, security updates, hosting protections, and technical safeguards appropriate to our website operations.
However, no website, electronic transmission, or data storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
You should exercise caution when transmitting personal information online and avoid sending sensitive information through unsecured channels.
11. Your Privacy Rights and Choices
Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have rights concerning your personal information.
These rights may include:
- Requesting access to personal information we hold about you.
- Requesting correction of inaccurate information.
- Requesting deletion of certain information.
- Objecting to or requesting restrictions on particular processing activities.
- Withdrawing consent where processing is based on consent.
- Managing available cookie and advertising preferences.
- Submitting a complaint to an appropriate privacy authority.
These rights may be subject to legal exceptions and verification requirements.
To submit a privacy-related request, email contact@bwdn24.com and describe your request. Please do not include unnecessary sensitive information in your message.
We will review and respond to requests in accordance with applicable law.
12. International Data Transfers
Some service providers used by BWDN24 may process information on servers located outside Bangladesh or in other countries.
Where personal information is transferred internationally, we will take the steps required by applicable law, where relevant.
The privacy laws and protections available in other countries may differ from those in your country of residence.
13. Children’s Privacy
BWDN24.com is a general-interest news website. Some articles may discuss wars, political violence, crime, and other sensitive subjects.
Our website is not intended to knowingly collect unnecessary personal information from children.
If you believe a child has provided personal information to us in circumstances where it should not have been collected, please contact us at contact@bwdn24.com. We will review the request and take appropriate action where required by law.
14. Third-Party Websites
Our articles may contain links to external websites, news sources, government agencies, research publications, social media platforms, and other third-party resources.
We do not control the privacy practices, security, or content of these external websites.
When you follow an external link, the third party may collect information according to its own privacy policy and settings.
We encourage you to review the privacy policy of any external website you visit.
15. Social Media and Embedded Content
BWDN24 may include links to social media platforms or embed third-party content, such as videos, posts, or other media, where available.
Depending on the implementation, third-party embedded content may interact with your browser or collect information in accordance with the provider’s policies.
Your interactions with social media platforms and embedded services are subject to their respective privacy policies and settings.
16. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in our website, advertising services, analytics tools, data-processing practices, or legal obligations.
Any revised version will be published on this page with an updated “Last Updated” date.
We encourage you to review this page periodically to remain informed about how information may be handled.
Where legally required, we will provide additional notice or obtain consent for material changes to our processing practices.
17. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, wish to submit a privacy request, or have concerns about how information is handled, please contact us.
Website: https://bwdn24.com/
Email: contact@bwdn24.com
Publisher: BWDN24
Please include sufficient details to help us understand your enquiry without unnecessarily disclosing sensitive personal information.
By using BWDN24.com, you acknowledge that you have had the opportunity to review this Privacy Policy. Where applicable law requires consent for specific data-processing activities, that consent will be handled separately through the appropriate mechanism.
