Privacy Policy

Last Updated: 7 October 2026

At Knowgens, accessible at https://knowgens.com, we respect your privacy and are committed to handling personal information responsibly and transparently.

This Privacy Policy explains what information we may collect when you visit or interact with Knowgens, why we collect it, how it may be used, how long it may be retained, and the choices and rights available to you.

Knowgens is an independent educational publication based in India. The website explores the history, philosophy, texts, traditions, and development of Yoga.

By using this website, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy. Where applicable law requires your consent for a particular type of processing, such processing will be based on your consent rather than merely on your use of the website.

1. Who Is Responsible for Your Personal Data?

For purposes of applicable data-protection law, the person responsible for the processing of personal data through Knowgens is:

Knowgens
Founder and Publisher: Joy Aditya
Website: https://knowgens.com
Email: [email protected]
Contact page: https://knowgens.com/contact-us/

For purposes of India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, where applicable, Knowgens acts as the Data Fiduciary in relation to personal data processed through this website.

2. Information We Collect

The information we collect depends on how you interact with the website.

Information You Provide Directly

When you use the contact form or communicate with us by email, we may collect:

  • Your name
  • Your email address
  • The subject of your enquiry
  • The contents of your message
  • Any information you voluntarily include in your communication

The live Knowgens contact form currently requests a name, email address, subject, and message. Knowgens

If comments are enabled on articles, we may also collect information associated with a comment, such as your name, email address, IP address, browser information, and the content of the comment.

If Knowgens offers an email newsletter or subscription service, we may collect your email address and any subscription preferences you provide.

Information Collected Automatically

When you visit Knowgens, certain technical information may be collected automatically by the website, hosting provider, analytics tools, security systems, or other services used to operate the site.

This information may include:

  • IP address
  • Browser type and version
  • Device type
  • Operating system
  • Referring page or website
  • Pages visited
  • Date and time of access
  • Approximate geographic region derived from an IP address
  • Website interaction and performance information
  • Cookie or similar technology identifiers

This information is generally used to operate, secure, measure, and improve the website.

3. How We Use Information

We may use information collected through Knowgens to:

  • Operate and maintain the website
  • Respond to questions, feedback, corrections, and collaboration enquiries
  • Protect the website against spam, abuse, fraud, and security threats
  • Understand how visitors use the website
  • Improve website performance, usability, and content
  • Manage comments, where comments are enabled
  • Deliver newsletters or other communications when a visitor has requested them
  • Measure website traffic and readership
  • Display and measure advertising, where advertising is enabled
  • Meet legal, regulatory, or legitimate administrative requirements

We do not use personal information for purposes that are materially unrelated to those described here without providing appropriate notice or obtaining consent where required.

4. Contact Form and Email Communications

Knowgens provides a contact form through which visitors can send enquiries, suggestions, corrections, feedback, and collaboration requests. The website states that submissions reach the same inbox used for general enquiries. Knowgens

When you contact us, the information you provide is used primarily to:

  • Read and respond to your message
  • Maintain an appropriate record of correspondence
  • Investigate content corrections or website issues
  • Respond to collaboration or research enquiries

Please do not submit sensitive personal information through the contact form unless it is genuinely necessary for your enquiry.

5. Cookies and Similar Technologies

Knowgens may use cookies and similar technologies to operate the website, remember visitor preferences, understand website usage, prevent abuse, and support analytics or advertising services.

Cookies may include:

Essential Cookies

These are required for core website functionality, security, or technical operation.

Analytics Cookies

If analytics services are enabled, they may collect information about how visitors use the website, such as page views, visit duration, general device information, and traffic sources.

Advertising Cookies

If Knowgens displays advertising, advertising providers may use cookies or similar identifiers to deliver, limit, measure, or personalise advertisements where permitted.

Where applicable law requires prior consent for non-essential cookies, such cookies should not be activated until the visitor has made the appropriate choice.

You can also control or delete cookies through your browser settings. Blocking some cookies may affect certain website features.

6. Google Analytics

Include this section only if Google Analytics is currently installed on Knowgens.

Knowgens may use Google Analytics to understand how visitors interact with the website.

Google Analytics may collect information such as:

  • Pages viewed
  • Session duration
  • Approximate location
  • Device and browser information
  • Referral source
  • Interaction information

Google states that Google Analytics provides privacy controls and that IP addresses are not logged or stored in Google Analytics properties in the conventional manner. Google Help

Google Analytics retention periods are configurable, so Knowgens should state a specific retention period here only after confirming the actual Analytics property setting. Google Help

For information about Google’s privacy practices, visitors can review Google’s Privacy Policy and information about Google Analytics.

7. Google AdSense and Advertising

Keep this section if Google AdSense or another Google advertising service is actually active on Knowgens.

Knowgens may use Google AdSense or other advertising services provided by Google.

Google and its advertising partners may use cookies or similar technologies to:

  • Serve advertisements
  • Limit how often advertisements are shown
  • Measure advertisement performance
  • Prevent fraud
  • Serve personalised advertisements where permitted and where appropriate consent has been obtained

Google states that third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies to serve ads based on a visitor’s previous visits to a website or other websites. Google also requires publishers using its advertising services to disclose relevant cookie and advertising data practices in their privacy policies. Google Help

Visitors may manage Google’s advertising personalisation preferences through Google’s advertising settings.

Where legally required, including in certain European jurisdictions, Knowgens should use an appropriate consent-management mechanism before personalised advertising cookies are placed. Google currently requires qualifying publishers serving ads in the EEA, UK, and Switzerland to use a Google-certified consent-management platform in applicable circumstances. Google Help

8. Third-Party Services

Knowgens may rely on third-party providers for services such as:

  • Website hosting
  • Analytics
  • Advertising
  • Email delivery
  • Newsletter management
  • Spam prevention
  • Website security
  • Contact-form processing
  • Content delivery
  • Website backups

These providers may process limited information where necessary to provide their services.

We do not authorise service providers to use personal information for unrelated purposes except where permitted by their own relationship with you or by applicable law.

Before publishing this policy, Knowgens should identify the services actually in use and ensure the disclosures in this section match them.

9. External Links

Knowgens contains links to third-party websites, academic institutions, publishers, museums, research organisations, government resources, and other external sources.

When you follow an external link, you leave Knowgens. We do not control the privacy practices, cookies, security, or content of third-party websites.

You should review the privacy policy of any external website you visit.

10. Comments

Keep this section only if comments are enabled.

When visitors leave comments, Knowgens may collect the information entered into the comment form together with technical information such as the visitor’s IP address and browser user-agent information for spam detection and website security.

Comments may remain publicly visible for as long as the related article remains published unless they are removed earlier.

You may contact Knowgens to request removal of a comment containing your personal information, subject to applicable legal and administrative requirements.

11. Newsletter and Email Subscriptions

Keep this section only if a newsletter or subscription form is available.

If you voluntarily subscribe to a Knowgens newsletter, we may process your email address for the purpose of sending the communications you requested.

You can unsubscribe at any time using the unsubscribe mechanism included in the relevant email or by contacting us.

After unsubscribing, limited information may be retained where reasonably necessary to record your opt-out preference and prevent unwanted future communications.

12. How Long We Keep Personal Data

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, including legitimate operational, security, accounting, dispute-resolution, and legal requirements.

Different categories of information may therefore have different retention periods.

For example:

  • Contact correspondence may be kept while an enquiry remains relevant and for a reasonable period afterward.
  • Newsletter information may be retained while you remain subscribed and for a limited period after unsubscribing where necessary to honour the opt-out.
  • Security and server logs may be retained for a limited period for fraud prevention, debugging, and security.
  • Analytics information is retained in accordance with the settings configured in the relevant analytics service.
  • Public comments may remain while the relevant article remains published unless removed earlier.

We avoid stating fixed retention periods unless those periods have been verified against the actual systems used by Knowgens.

13. How We Protect Personal Information

Knowgens takes reasonable technical and organisational measures designed to protect information against unauthorised access, loss, misuse, disclosure, alteration, or destruction.

These measures may include:

  • HTTPS encryption
  • Restricted administrative access
  • Password protection
  • Software and plugin updates
  • Spam and security filtering
  • Access controls
  • Appropriate backup practices

No method of internet transmission or electronic storage can be guaranteed to be completely secure. Accordingly, we cannot promise absolute security.

14. Sale of Personal Data

Knowgens does not sell personal information in the ordinary sense of selling visitor names, email addresses, or contact details to data brokers or unrelated businesses.

Where advertising technologies are used, certain identifiers or technical information may be processed by advertising providers in accordance with their own policies and applicable law.

This distinction is important because advertising-related disclosures should not be replaced by an overly broad statement that no information is ever shared.

15. Children’s Privacy

Knowgens is a general educational publication and is not intentionally directed toward children.

We do not knowingly request personal information from children for the purpose of profiling, behavioural monitoring, or targeted advertising.

Where applicable law requires parental or guardian consent before processing a child’s personal data, Knowgens will seek to comply with those requirements.

If you believe that a child has submitted personal information to Knowgens inappropriately, please contact us so that the matter can be reviewed and, where appropriate, the information removed.

16. Rights of Users in India

Knowgens is based in India.

India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 and associated rules are being brought into force according to government-notified commencement dates. The Government notified the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025, with different provisions taking effect at different stages. MeitY

To the extent the relevant provisions apply to Knowgens and are in force, individuals may have rights relating to their personal data, including rights concerning:

  • Access to information about processing
  • Correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal data
  • Erasure where applicable
  • Withdrawal of consent
  • Grievance redressal
  • Nomination in circumstances provided by law

Requests may be submitted through the contact details provided in this Privacy Policy.

Because the Indian framework is being implemented in stages, this policy should be reviewed as additional DPDP provisions become effective.

17. Visitors from the European Economic Area and United Kingdom

Where the GDPR, UK GDPR, or related privacy laws apply, visitors may have rights including, depending on the circumstances:

  • Access to their personal data
  • Correction of inaccurate personal data
  • Erasure
  • Restriction of processing
  • Objection to certain processing
  • Data portability
  • Withdrawal of consent where processing is based on consent
  • Complaint to an appropriate supervisory authority

The applicable legal basis for processing will depend on the relevant activity and may include consent, legitimate interests, legal obligations, or steps taken at your request.

18. United States Privacy Rights

Residents of certain US states may have privacy rights under applicable state law.

The rights available vary by jurisdiction and may depend on factors such as the nature and scale of Knowgens’ activities.

Rather than claiming that a particular US privacy law applies to Knowgens when it may not, we will respond to valid privacy requests in accordance with applicable law.

If you wish to make a privacy-related request, please contact us using the details below.

19. Your Choices

Depending on how you use Knowgens, you may be able to:

  • Decline or manage non-essential cookies
  • Change browser cookie settings
  • Opt out of personalised advertising through relevant advertising-provider controls
  • Unsubscribe from newsletters
  • Request correction or deletion of information you provided
  • Contact us about how your information has been handled

Where processing is based on consent, withdrawing consent will not affect processing that was lawful before withdrawal.

20. International Processing

Some service providers used by Knowgens may operate infrastructure outside India.

As a result, information may be processed or stored in countries other than the country in which you are located.

Where required by applicable law, appropriate safeguards will be used in connection with international transfers of personal information.

21. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect:

  • Changes to the website
  • Changes to the services we use
  • Changes in our data practices
  • Changes in applicable law
  • Changes in advertising, analytics, or cookie technologies

The date at the top of this page will indicate when the policy was most recently updated.

Material changes may be highlighted where appropriate.

22. Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, wish to exercise an applicable privacy right, or have concerns about how your personal information is handled, please contact:

Knowgens
Founder and Publisher: Joy Aditya
Website: https://knowgens.com
Email: joyaditya08
Contact page: https://knowgens.com/contact-us/