Privacy Policy
Last Updated: 21 October, 2026
1. Introduction
Welcome to BibhashKarn.com (“the Website”). This Privacy Policy explains how information may be collected, used, stored, and shared when you visit or interact with this website.
BibhashKarn.com is a personal website featuring articles, opinions, professional experiences, technology, learning, entrepreneurship, and other topics of personal and professional interest.
In this policy, “I,” “me,” and “my” refer to Bibhash Karn, the person responsible for the website. “You” and “your” refer to visitors and users of the Website.
I respect your privacy and aim to handle personal information responsibly, transparently, and in accordance with applicable privacy and data-protection laws, including relevant provisions of Nepal’s Privacy Act, 2075 (2018).
By using the Website, you acknowledge this Privacy Policy. Where applicable law requires consent for particular processing activities, that consent will be obtained separately rather than relying solely on your use of the Website.
2. Information I Collect
The information collected depends on how you interact with the Website.
2.1 Information You Provide
You may voluntarily provide personal information when you:
- Submit a comment on a blog post.
- Send a message through a contact form.
- Contact me regarding professional opportunities, collaborations, feedback, or other inquiries.
Depending on the interaction, this information may include your name, email address, website URL, message content, and any other information you choose to provide.
Please avoid submitting sensitive personal information unless it is genuinely necessary for your inquiry.
2.2 Information Collected Automatically
When you visit the Website, certain technical information may be collected automatically by the website, hosting infrastructure, security services, analytics tools, or other technologies.
Depending on the services in use, this information may include:
- IP address and approximate location derived from it.
- Browser type, operating system, device information, and language settings.
- Pages visited, referring websites, time spent on pages, and interactions with website content.
- Dates, times, and technical details of requests made to the Website.
- Information relating to errors, suspicious activity, or security events.
This information may be used to understand website performance, maintain security, diagnose technical problems, and improve the visitor experience.
2.3 Information I Do Not Intentionally Collect
The Website does not offer public user registration or visitor accounts as a standard feature.
I do not intentionally request sensitive personal information for ordinary blog browsing. However, visitors may voluntarily include personal information in comments or messages.
3. How I Use Your Information
Information collected through the Website may be used to:
- Respond to questions, messages, and professional inquiries.
- Review, publish, moderate, or respond to comments.
- Operate, maintain, and improve the Website.
- Understand visitor interests and website usage through analytics.
- Monitor performance and identify technical problems.
- Detect spam, abuse, fraudulent activity, and security threats.
- Maintain appropriate records of communications.
- Comply with applicable legal obligations and respond to lawful requests.
I will seek to use personal information for appropriate, disclosed purposes and will not knowingly use it for unrelated purposes in a manner inconsistent with applicable law.
4. Comments
When you leave a comment on the Website, the comment form may collect the information you submit, such as your name, email address, website URL, and comment.
Technical information, including your IP address and browser user-agent information, may also be processed to assist with spam detection, security, and comment moderation.
If your comment is approved, your comment and any publicly displayed profile information you provide may be visible to other visitors. Please do not include private contact details or other confidential information in a public comment.
Comments may be checked by automated spam-detection services. Depending on the tools installed, information associated with a comment may be transmitted to a third-party service for this purpose.
If the Website offers an option to save your name, email address, or website in a cookie for future comments, this option is intended to make commenting more convenient. You may decline this option where it is presented.
I may remove comments that are spam, abusive, unlawful, misleading, or otherwise inappropriate.
5. Contact Forms and Communications
If you submit a message through a contact form, the information you provide will be used to review and respond to your inquiry.
Depending on the form configuration, the information may be processed by the website software, stored in the website database, transmitted by email, or handled by a third-party form or email service provider.
Contact information and message contents may be retained for as long as reasonably necessary to respond to the inquiry, maintain relevant correspondence, manage professional relationships, resolve disputes, protect the Website, or meet applicable legal obligations.
Contact form submissions are not automatically treated as permission to send promotional emails or newsletters. Any separate marketing communications will be handled in accordance with applicable law and any required consent.
Please do not submit passwords, payment-card information, identity documents, or other sensitive information through a general contact form.
6. Cookies and Similar Technologies
The Website may use cookies and similar technologies to support essential functionality, remember preferences, protect the Website, and measure website traffic.
Cookies are small files stored in your browser or device. The cookies used depend on the features and services enabled on the Website.
They may include:
- Essential or functional cookies: Support website operation, security, and certain user preferences.
- Comment cookies: May remember information entered into comment fields when you choose to use that feature.
- Analytics cookies: May help measure visits, page views, visitor interactions, and website performance.
- Third-party cookies: May be set by embedded content or external services integrated into the Website.
Cookie names, lifetimes, and purposes may change depending on the technologies in use.
You can manage or delete cookies through your browser settings. Blocking certain cookies may affect some website features.
Where applicable law requires prior consent for non-essential cookies or tracking technologies, the Website should obtain that consent before activating them. Browser controls alone may not disable every form of tracking.
7. Analytics and Website Performance
I use Google Analytics to understand how visitors interact with BibhashKarn.com and to improve the website's content, performance, and user experience.
Depending on the configuration of Google Analytics and the tags deployed through Google Tag Manager, information collected may include page views, referral sources, browser and device information, approximate geographic information, interactions with website content, and online identifiers.
Google Tag Manager helps me manage and deploy website tags. The information collected depends on the tags configured and activated through it; Google Tag Manager itself should not be assumed to collect every category of analytics or advertising data.
Google and other relevant service providers may process information in accordance with their applicable privacy policies, service terms, and the configuration of the tools used on this website.
I configure analytics and other tracking technologies in accordance with applicable consent requirements. Where prior consent is required, the relevant non-essential tracking technologies should not activate before that consent is obtained.
You can manage cookies through your browser settings. Depending on the available controls and the configuration of the website, you may also be able to manage analytics or tracking preferences.
For further information, please review Google's Privacy Policy and Google Analytics information.
8. Embedded Content and External Websites
Articles and pages on the Website may include content from third-party websites, such as videos, images, social media posts, or other embedded material.
Embedded content may behave similarly to visiting the external website directly. The third-party provider may collect information about your device or browser, use cookies, apply tracking technologies, or record your interaction with that content.
These activities are governed by the third party’s own privacy policy and practices.
The Website may also contain links to external websites, including professional projects, business websites, social media profiles, and other resources. Visiting an external website means leaving this Website, and its privacy practices may differ from mine.
I do not control the privacy practices, security, content, or data-handling activities of external websites. You should review their respective privacy policies before providing personal information.
9. Third-Party Service Providers and Data Sharing
The Website may rely on third-party providers for hosting, analytics, security, spam prevention, email delivery, embedded content, and other technical functions.
These providers may process information when necessary to deliver their services, maintain security, or support the Website.
I do not sell personal information to third parties as a business practice.
Personal information may be disclosed where reasonably necessary:
- To service providers supporting the Website.
- To protect the Website, its visitors, or other individuals against security threats, abuse, or unlawful activity.
- To comply with applicable laws, court orders, or lawful requests from authorized authorities.
- To establish, exercise, or defend legal claims where appropriate.
Where applicable, I aim to use reasonable safeguards when engaging service providers that process personal information on my behalf.
The Website’s actual third-party integrations may change over time. The providers used should be reflected accurately in this policy and any applicable cookie disclosures.
10. Data Retention
Personal information is retained only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this policy, subject to applicable legal requirements.
Retention may depend on the type of information:
- Comments: May remain published until removed by the website operator or upon an appropriate request, subject to moderation, legal, and administrative considerations.
- Contact form submissions: May be retained for the time needed to respond, maintain relevant correspondence, and manage legitimate follow-up requirements.
- Analytics information: Is retained according to the settings and retention policies of the analytics provider in use.
- Technical and security logs: May be retained for a period appropriate to security monitoring, troubleshooting, and incident investigation.
Information may be retained longer where required by law or reasonably necessary to resolve disputes, enforce applicable terms, or protect legitimate interests.
Where information is no longer needed, reasonable steps will be taken to delete it or otherwise dispose of it appropriately, subject to technical limitations and legal obligations.
11. Data Security
Reasonable technical and organizational measures are used to help protect the Website and the information processed through it.
Depending on the infrastructure in use, these measures may include access controls, security updates, encrypted connections, spam protection, backups, and monitoring for suspicious activity.
No website, online transmission, or electronic storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure. I therefore cannot promise absolute security of information transmitted to or stored by the Website.
Visitors should use discretion when sharing personal information online and avoid sending confidential information through public comments or general contact forms.
11.1 Website Security, Cloudflare, and Spam Prevention
I use Cloudflare to support website delivery, security, and protection against malicious or suspicious traffic. Depending on the services enabled, Cloudflare may process technical information such as IP addresses, connection details, browser information, and website request data.
The Website also uses Wordfence Security to help protect against unauthorized access, malicious requests, and other security threats. Depending on its configuration, Wordfence may process IP addresses, security events, and technical request information for firewall protection, security monitoring, and incident investigation.
Antispam Bee is used to help identify and prevent unwanted comments. Information associated with comments may be processed to assess whether a submission is spam.
The information processed and the applicable retention periods depend on the configuration of these tools and the services enabled.
For more information, please review the relevant providers' privacy policies:
11.2 Website Backups
I maintain website backups for recovery, continuity, and restoration purposes. Depending on their contents, backups may include website files, database records, comments, contact form submissions, and other information stored on the Website.
Backup copies may remain available for a period after information is deleted from the live Website. Their retention depends on the backup schedule and storage configuration in use.
Where information is no longer needed, reasonable steps will be taken to remove it through the applicable backup deletion, expiry, or overwrite process, subject to technical limitations and legal obligations.
12. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on applicable law and the circumstances of the processing, you may have rights concerning your personal information, including the right to:
- Request information about the personal data held about you.
- Request access to your personal information.
- Ask for inaccurate information to be corrected.
- Request deletion of personal information where appropriate.
- Object to, or request restriction of, certain processing where applicable.
- Withdraw consent where processing relies on consent.
- Raise a concern with an appropriate authority where available under applicable law.
These rights are subject to applicable legal requirements, legitimate retention obligations, and other lawful limitations.
If you have left comments or submitted information through a contact form, you may request access to or deletion of relevant personal information, where applicable.
To make a privacy request, contact me using the privacy contact details provided at the end of this policy. Please identify the relevant interaction or information sufficiently for the request to be reviewed. Additional information may be requested where reasonably necessary to verify your identity and protect your privacy.
I will review and respond to requests in accordance with applicable law.
13. International Data Processing
Some hosting providers, analytics services, embedded content providers, or other third-party services may operate outside Nepal.
As a result, information may be processed or stored in another country, depending on the services used by the Website.
Where international processing occurs, I aim to take reasonable steps to ensure that personal information is handled appropriately and in accordance with applicable legal requirements.
The countries involved and the safeguards available depend on the actual providers and configurations in use.
14. Children's Privacy
This Website is intended for a general audience and is not specifically directed at children.
I do not knowingly seek to collect children's personal information unnecessarily. Parents or guardians who believe that a child has submitted personal information through the Website may contact me to request that it be reviewed and, where appropriate, deleted.
Any request concerning children's information will be handled in accordance with applicable law.
15. Legal Compliance
This Privacy Policy is intended to explain the Website’s information-handling practices in a transparent manner.
The Website will seek to handle personal information in accordance with applicable laws, including relevant provisions of Nepal’s Privacy Act, 2075 (2018), and any other privacy or data-protection requirements that apply to particular activities or visitors.
Where a particular law grants additional rights or imposes specific obligations, those requirements will take precedence over any inconsistent statement in this policy.
This policy is informational and does not constitute a legal opinion or guarantee of compliance with every law that may apply.
16. Changes to This Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time to reflect changes in the Website’s features, technologies, service providers, information-handling practices, or applicable legal requirements.
The revised version will be published on this page, and the “Last Updated” date will be changed accordingly.
Visitors are encouraged to review this page periodically. Where required by applicable law, material changes will be communicated or consent will be obtained as appropriate.
17. Contact
If you have questions, concerns, or requests relating to this Privacy Policy or the handling of your personal information, please contact:
Website: https://www.bibhashkarn.com/
Email: [email protected]