Privacy policy

In short

AQI247 has no accounts and no sign-up, and its only cookies are for counting visits (Google Analytics). We don’t sell personal data. The only personal information we handle is what you choose to send: your location when you press “Use my location”, your email if you write to us, and, if you turn on alerts, the notification details described under Alerts.

Who we are

AQI247 is published by Social-Impact Innovations Pvt. Ltd. (social-impact.in), which is responsible for personal data processed through this site. Contact: contact@social-impact.in.

Your location and searches

If you press “Use my location”, your browser first asks your permission. It then sends your approximate coordinates to our server once, only to find the nearest monitoring station. We don’t store them or link them to you. Search text is used the same way, only to find the place you asked for.

Hosting and technical data

The site runs on Google Cloud servers in Mumbai. Our application doesn’t keep logs of visitors’ requests. Like any website, the network that delivers our pages briefly processes technical data, such as your IP address and browser type, to send you the page and protect the site against abuse.

Cookies and embedded content

AQI247’s only cookies are Google Analytics ones, used to count visits (see Analytics below). Pages that show our live stream embed YouTube in its privacy-enhanced mode; YouTube may set cookies once you play the video, under Google’s privacy policy.

Places you track with ☆ Track are saved only in your own browser (its local storage), not on our servers. To show their readings, the home page sends us the page addresses of those places, not who you are. The home page also remembers, in the same way and only in your browser, the place you last viewed and the station nearest to you after you press “Use my location” (the station’s page address, never your coordinates). Clearing your browser data removes all of these.

Alerts

If you turn on alerts, your browser gives us a push address at its own notification service (Google, Mozilla, Apple or Microsoft, depending on the browser), with keys that let us encrypt messages so only your browser can read them. We store that address, the page addresses of the places you track, your alert level, your language and your alert settings. We don’t ask for, and don’t store, your name, phone number or email.

We use this only to send you the alerts and morning summaries you chose. Pressing “Turn off alerts” deletes it from our server straight away, and we delete it ourselves if the notification service tells us the address no longer works.

Advertising

We may show ads from Google AdSense. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to show ads based on your visits to this and other websites. Google’s advertising cookies let it and its partners show you ads based on your visits to AQI247 and other sites.

You can turn off personalised advertising in Google’s Ad Settings, and read how Google uses data in advertising. Where the law requires it, we ask for your consent before personalised ads are shown.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics 4 to understand how many people visit, which pages they read and how they found us (search, WhatsApp and so on). It sets first-party cookies (named _ga) and receives technical data such as your browser, device type and approximate location; Google Analytics 4 doesn’t log or store IP addresses. We don’t send Google your name, email, tracked places or alert details, and we have turned off Google signals and ad personalisation for this data. You can block it with Google’s opt-out add-on or your browser’s cookie settings; the site works the same without it.

Your rights

Under India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, you can ask us what personal data we hold about you, ask us to correct or erase it, withdraw consent you gave, and raise a grievance. Write to contact@social-impact.in; we’ll respond within the time the law requires. You can also approach the Data Protection Board of India.

Children

AQI247 is a general information site and doesn’t knowingly collect personal data from children.

Changes to this policy

If we change how we handle data, we’ll update this page and the date below.