Privacy Policy

Last updated: 5 October 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how Sisne Himal Media Pvt. Ltd. handles personal information through ThaiNepali.com, official Thai Nepali mobile applications that link to this policy, and communications with our team.

Thai Nepali is the English edition of ThailandNepal.com.

1. Who Is Responsible for Your Information?

Operator and data controller: Sisne Himal Media Pvt. Ltd.
Address: Kirtipur–8, Kathmandu, Nepal
Privacy email: news@thailandnepal.com
Thailand contact: +66 98 276 9577
Nepal contact: +977 974-5374729

The Thailand telephone number is a contact channel. It does not, by itself, identify a registered office or statutory data-protection representative.

We handle information under applicable privacy laws, including Nepal’s privacy legislation and Thailand’s Personal Data Protection Act where it applies to our activities.

2. Information We Collect

The information involved depends on how you use our services and which features are enabled.

Information you provide

This may include:

• Your name, email address, phone number, and message when contacting us.

• Account and profile details if registration is available.

• Comments, articles, images, videos, and other submissions.

• Newsletter preferences if you subscribe.

• Details supplied with complaints, corrections, privacy requests, and advertising enquiries.

Provide only information relevant to your request. Contact us before sending confidential documents or sensitive personal information.

Technical information

Depending on our website and app configuration, technical information may include IP addresses, browser and device details, access times, pages visited, error reports, security logs, cookie identifiers, and notification tokens.

Services and SDKs actually used:
[Insert the names of active hosting, analytics, advertising, authentication, notification, and crash-reporting providers; describe the data each receives and link to its privacy notice.]

Other sources

For reporting, information may come from interviews, contributors, public records, official statements, and other legitimate editorial sources.

If third-party sign-in is enabled, we receive the information authorised through that provider.

3. How and Why We Use Information

Where relevant, we use information to:

• Deliver website and app features.

• Manage accounts and reader preferences.

• Respond to enquiries and correction requests.

• Review contributions and moderate comments.

• Send requested newsletters or notifications.

• Maintain security and investigate misuse.

• Understand usage and improve performance.

• Manage advertising and business enquiries.

• Comply with legal obligations and address legal claims.

Where a legal basis is required, it may include consent, contractual necessity, legal obligations, or another basis available under applicable law.

Where we rely on legitimate interests under an applicable law, we assess those interests against individuals’ rights. Sensitive information requires additional consideration and safeguards.

4. Required and Optional Information

Required fields are needed for the stated service or request. Without them, we may be unable to complete that action.

Optional information can be withheld without affecting unrelated services. Consent to optional marketing or tracking is separate from acceptance of our Terms & Conditions.

5. Cookies, Analytics, and Advertising

Cookies and similar technologies may support security, sessions, saved preferences, analytics, and advertising, depending on our configuration.

Cookie details and controls:
[Insert an accurate cookie list or cookie-policy link showing providers, purposes, expiry periods, and the actual preference-control link.]

Where required, optional tracking is activated only after consent. You can withdraw that consent using the relevant controls. Browser settings can also restrict cookies, although some features may be affected.

Advertising disclosures:
[Identify any advertising partners and data shared, or state that no advertising tracking is used if that is accurate.]

6. Newsletters and Notifications

If newsletters are available, you can unsubscribe using the email’s unsubscribe link or by contacting us.

If app notifications are enabled, you can disable them through your device or available app settings.

Permissions for device features should be explained when requested. You can manage them through your device settings.

7. Sharing Information

Where necessary and lawful, information may be shared with:

• Authorised staff and contributors who need it for their work.

• Hosting, security, communications, and other service providers we use.

• Professional advisers.

• Authorities where disclosure is legally required or justified.

• A successor operator during a business transfer, with appropriate safeguards and notices.

Providers acting on our behalf must operate under appropriate instructions and safeguards. Public contributions are treated as described below.

8. Public Contributions and Confidential Tips

Published comments and contributions may be visible alongside the name or attribution used for publication.

Do not place private information in public comments. Published content may also be copied or indexed by third parties outside our control.

Private correspondence is not automatically intended for publication. If confidentiality is important, contact us before sending sensitive material. Ordinary email should not be assumed to provide an anonymous or fully secure reporting channel.

9. Editorial Information

News reporting may involve personal information. We consider relevance, accuracy, privacy, and public interest when making editorial decisions.

Any journalistic exceptions are assessed under the applicable law and circumstances; they do not automatically cover account management, advertising, or other operational processing.

Please send concerns about personal information in an article to our privacy email, including the article link and an explanation.

10. Processing Across Borders

Information may be accessed by our publisher in Nepal and authorised personnel or providers in other countries, depending on the service.

Actual overseas processing arrangements:
[Insert relevant provider locations, access arrangements, and applicable transfer safeguards.]

Where transfer restrictions apply, we use an appropriate lawful mechanism and safeguards. Merely using our website does not constitute consent to a transfer that requires separate consent.

11. Retention

We keep personal information for the relevant purpose and any justified legal, security, or dispute-resolution period.

Retention schedule:

Category	Period or specific retention criteria
Accounts and profiles	[Insert actual period, including after closure]
Enquiries and complaints	[Insert period after resolution]
Security and diagnostic logs	[Insert configured period]
Analytics and cookies	[Insert configured periods]
Newsletter records	[Insert period and unsubscribe handling]
Submissions and editorial records	[Insert retention and review criteria]
Advertising and accounting records	[Insert applicable period]
Backups	[Insert rotation and deletion period]

Editorial archives may be retained for a continuing lawful journalistic purpose. Other records may be retained where necessary for legal obligations or claims.

Information is deleted or anonymised when retention is no longer justified.

12. Security

We use appropriate technical and organisational safeguards to protect personal information and limit access to authorised purposes.

No system is completely secure. If a personal-data breach occurs, we will assess it and notify affected people or authorities where required by applicable law.

13. Your Rights and Requests

Depending on applicable law and relevant exceptions, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict, object to, or obtain a portable copy of eligible personal information.

Where processing relies on consent, you may withdraw it. Withdrawal does not affect processing that was lawful before withdrawal.

You may also raise a complaint with a competent authority. Where Thailand’s PDPA applies, this may include the Personal Data Protection Committee of Thailand.

Send requests to news@thailandnepal.com with the subject “Thai Nepali — Privacy Request.”

We may request proportionate identity verification. We will respond within applicable legal time limits and explain any lawful reason for declining a request.

14. Account Deletion

If accounts are available, request deletion by contacting our privacy email.

Additional deletion route, if available:
[Insert the actual in-app menu path or web deletion-request link.]

Some records may need to be retained for legal obligations, security, claims, or lawful editorial purposes. Account deletion does not automatically require the removal of all published reporting.

15. Children’s Information

Our news services are intended for a general audience.

Where collecting a minor’s information requires parental or guardian authorisation, we obtain that authorisation before the relevant processing.

If you believe a child has provided information without required authorisation, contact us so we can review the situation.

16. Third-Party Services

External links, embedded videos, and social-media features may involve separate providers and privacy policies.

Please review their notices. Where consent is required before optional third-party tracking loads, it should be obtained through the relevant controls.

17. Policy Updates

We may update this policy to reflect changes in our services, providers, or legal obligations. The revision date will be updated accordingly.

Material changes will receive appropriate notice. We obtain new consent where required rather than treating continued use as blanket consent.

18. Contact

Sisne Himal Media Pvt. Ltd.
Publisher of Thai Nepali, the English edition of ThailandNepal.com
Address: Kirtipur–8, Kathmandu, Nepal
Thailand contact: +66 98 276 9577
Nepal contact: +977 974-5374729
Email: news@thailandnepal.com
Website: https://thainepali.com