Privacy Policy
How we collect, use and protect the information you give us when you contact us or apply for membership.
1. Information We Collect
When you contact us or submit a membership application, we collect the information you provide: your name (in Nepali and English), date of birth, gender, address, mobile number, email address, membership details, a passport-size photograph, and your citizenship number. Citizenship numbers are stored encrypted at rest and are never written to logs; access is limited to authorised office staff. To prevent abuse of the forms, we store a one-way hash of the visitor's IP address — never the address itself.
2. Analytics & Cookies
We use two tools to understand how visitors find and use this website — which pages are read, and roughly where visitors come from. Google Analytics sets cookies in your browser and records a truncated form of your IP address. Vercel Analytics runs on our own hosting and records page views and loading performance without setting advertising cookies. We use both only to improve the site: we do not use them to build advertising profiles, and we do not sell or share the results. Neither tool is given the details you enter in a form, and we remove the query portion of a page address before it is recorded. You can block cookies in your browser settings without losing access to any part of this site.
3. How We Use Information
Information is used to respond to enquiries, process membership applications, and keep you informed about programmes and events at the Nepal Pahari Bikash Sangh. We never sell personal data.
4. Sharing & Disclosure
We use service providers to run this website — hosting, database, photo and document storage, email, SMS, and website analytics — and share only what each provider needs to deliver its service. We do not otherwise share personal information with third parties except where required by applicable law.
5. Data Retention
Personal information is retained only as long as necessary for the purposes described in this policy, or as required by law.
6. Your Rights
You may request access to, correction of, or removal of your personal information at any time using the contact page. We respond to verified requests.
7. Contact
Questions about this policy can be sent to the association's privacy contact using the contact page.
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