Privacy Policy

Arahaz operates an editorial website and related reader features, including accounts, subscriptions, comments, saved articles, and analytics. For privacy questions, requests, or complaints, you can contact us at contact@arahaz.com.

Depending on how you use Arahaz, we may collect the following categories of data:

• Account and identity data: email address, display name, avatar, login provider, and basic account metadata.
• Subscription and communication data: digest signup details, category preferences, subscription status, send history, and unsubscribe records.
• Community and profile data: comments, comment votes, reports, saved articles, public profile information, and related timestamps.
• Device, usage, and analytics data: browser and device information, approximate region, page views, referral information, interaction events, and performance diagnostics.
• Contact data you choose to send us: any information included in messages you send to Arahaz for support, legal, editorial, or privacy matters.

• Provide the website, authentication flows, saved items, comments, and reader tools.
• Send digest emails, operational notices, and subscription-related communications.
• Understand readership trends, traffic quality, site reliability, and feature usage.
• Prevent spam, fraud, abuse, unauthorized access, and other harmful activity.
• Moderate community features and enforce our rules, policies, and legal rights.
• Comply with legal obligations, audits, law-enforcement requests, and dispute handling.

Depending on your location, we may process personal data based on one or more of the following grounds: your consent, performance of a contract with you, our legitimate interests in operating and securing the service, and compliance with legal obligations.

We use cookies and similar technologies to keep essential site features working, maintain sessions, remember basic preferences, measure traffic, and improve performance. Some features may not function correctly if you block or remove essential cookies.

Where required, we present a cookie banner that lets you accept or reject analytics cookies. You can also revisit your choice from the Cookie Settings control in the site footer. Browser-level choices may affect sign-in, saved preferences, subscription flows, and analytics collection.

Arahaz uses Google Analytics 4 to understand aggregate traffic and reader engagement. According to Google's published documentation, Google Analytics can use first-party cookies and similar identifiers to distinguish users and sessions and report on site interactions.

We do not intentionally send direct personal identifiers such as your email address to Google Analytics. You can learn more from Google's Privacy Disclosures Policy, Safeguarding your data, and Privacy Policy.

If you want to limit Google Analytics measurement, you can adjust your browser cookie settings or use Google's opt-out browser add-on.

We do not sell personal information for money. We may share information with trusted service providers that help us operate the site and deliver core functionality, including analytics, authentication, database and storage infrastructure, security tooling, and digest email delivery.

In practice, this can include providers used for Google/Firebase services and email delivery. We may also disclose information when reasonably necessary to comply with law, respond to valid legal process, protect users, enforce our terms, or investigate abuse or security issues.

We keep personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this policy, including service operation, analytics, security, moderation, legal compliance, and dispute resolution.

Retention periods vary by data type. Public or community-facing content may remain visible where needed to preserve discussion integrity, and backup copies may persist for a limited period after live data is updated or removed.

Subject to applicable law, you may have the right to request access to, correction of, deletion of, portability of, or restriction of certain personal data, and to object to some processing. You may also unsubscribe from digest emails at any time using the unsubscribe link in the message or available account controls.

To make a privacy request, contact contact@arahaz.com. We may need to verify your identity before acting on a request.

Our service providers and infrastructure may process information in countries other than the country where you live. Where required, we rely on contractual, technical, and organizational safeguards intended to support lawful international processing.

We use reasonable technical and organizational safeguards designed to protect personal information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, or alteration. No method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security.

Arahaz is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided personal information to us, contact contact@arahaz.com so we can review and address the issue.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect product, operational, or legal changes. When we do, we will update the "Last updated" date at the top of this page. Material changes become effective when posted unless a different date is stated.