Privacy Policy

The Outsider uses Google Analytics to improve the performance of the website, enhance the quality of its content, improve the website’s security, and analyse how our readers navigate the site. Google Analytics utilizes cookies. Learn more about cookies.

See the following page for information on what data is collected using Google Analytics: GA4 Data Collection.

The Outsider may display third-party advertisements using Google AdSense, which uses cookies. For more information, see Google’s privacy statement on advertisements

Data collected using Google Analytics are used to improve the performance of the website and its content. Apart from Google, these data are not shared with any third-party. The information is used to determine:

• The number of users of the website, the number of unique users, the number of new and returning users, popular pages, popularity rankings of our pages by topic, time spent on each page, and so on.

Data collected using Google AdSense is used to serve advertisements based on your interaction with this site or other sites.

• If you use Google services, you may opt out of the use of the advertising cookie for interest-based advertising by changing the Ad Personalization settings in your Google account.

The Outsider does not share or sell any data collected by Google AdSense or Google Analytics.

The following data are sent by your browser when you request access to any page on the site, i.e., when you “open” the site in your browser and are automatically logged by our hosting service provider. The data are stored in Access logs and Error logs irrespective of your cookie preferences, and considered “required”. The data includes:

• The IP address of your computer. IP addresses are used by your computer every time you are connected to the Internet. Your IP address is a number that is used by computers on the network to identify your computer.
• The operating system on your device and the web-browser that you use, e.g., “Mozilla Firefox 102, on Windows 10” or “Google Chrome version 82, on MacOS”, and so on.
• The screen-resolution of your device.
• The URL of the page that you requested.
• The date and time when the URL was requested.

These logs may be used by our Hosting Provider for security. Logs are not shared with any third-party.

You may choose to contact us via e-mail. If you do, the following information is stored by us:

• Your name, your email address, the IP address of the computer you used to send the mail, and other information in the header of your email. See this article for more information

• General guidelines for sending e-mails to us are on the letters page.

• We assume that by writing to us you have given us consent to publish your letter and your name (first name) on the Outsider.
• Your e-mail address and your surname (last name) will not be published. Please do use a fake name!
• We reserve the right to edit your letter before it is published.
• Your e-mail address and your name are not shared with any third-party.

• The Outsider uses fonts from the Google Fonts service. See this page for more information.
• The Outsider uses JavaScript and CSS files associated with the Bootstrap Framework. These are loaded by your browser from BootstrapCDN. See this page for more information.
• The Outsider uses a Twitter/X post button to allow readers to share the page on Twitter/X. See this page for more information.

• Depending upon your preferences, advertisements shown on this site may or may not be personalized. Learn more about personalised advertisements.
• Clicking on advertisements on this website may lead you to external websites, which may result in the collection of your information by advertisers or their partners depending on the privacy settings of the external website, your browser, and (if applicable) your privacy-related preferences with a third-party, such as Google or Facebook.
• We have no control over collection of data on an external website. For more details on data collection from clicking on advertisements, and how your information is used, please refer to the respective advertiser’s privacy policy. Also see Google’s Advertising Principles.

For details about how Google AdSense, Google Analytics, Facebook, X(formerly Twitter) handle data collected through cookies and tracking technologies, please refer to their respective privacy policies.

• Google Privacy Policy.
• Meta/Facebook
• Twitter/X Privacy Policy

• The terms “the/this website/site”, and “the Outsider” refer to the website located at theoutsider.in.
• “We” and “us” refer to the contributors and editor of the Outsider; “you”, “your”, and “reader(s)” refer to the users of the website.
• “External website(s)” refer to any site or webpage that is not within the domain “theoutsider.in”.