Privacy Policy

Welcome to TheUrbanDraft.com an innovative platform. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal information. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and safeguard your data when you interact with our website.

1. About TheUrbanDraft.com

With endless images, trends, and architectural opinions available online, finding thoughtful, clear, and meaningful insight can feel overwhelming. TheUrbanDraft was created to slow things down and offer well-considered content for curious minds who want to understand architecture beyond the surface.

We explore a wide range of architectural ideas, from spatial mood and architectural process to design expression, context, and enduring architecture. Each article is carefully developed through observation, research, and reflection, focusing on clarity, depth, and relevance rather than hype or complexity.

You’re always welcome to reach out to us with questions, ideas, or themes you’d like to see explored. To make your reading experience comfortable and engaging, our content is presented in a clean, easy-to-navigate format, so you can explore architectural thoughts, spaces, and concepts with focus, curiosity, and ease.

2. Information We Collect

  • Information you provide: When you fill out contact forms or comment on articles, we may collect your name, email address, or other contact details.
  • Log and device data: Our servers automatically record information such as IP address, browser type, operating system, referring/exit pages, date/time stamps, and clickstream data.
  • Cookies and tracking technologies: We use cookies and similar technologies to recognise your browser, store preferences, and deliver personalised content.

3. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device when you visit our Sites. We use:

  • Essential cookies are required for the Sites to function.
  • Analytics cookies to understand how users interact with our content (e.g., Google Analytics).
  • Advertising cookies to serve personalised ads.

We operate a consent-management platform (CMP) that allows you to manage cookie preferences. Non-essential cookies will not be set until you have provided consent.

We implement technical and organizational measures such as HTTPS encryption, access controls, and regular security reviews to protect personal data. However, no method of transmission or storage is 100% secure.

4. Data Retention Policy

We retain personal data only as long as necessary to provide services, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce agreements. Non-essential data, such as analytics logs, is retained for 1 year.

5. Third-Party Advertising and Analytics Partners

We partner with several third-party vendors who may set cookies or collect data when you visit our Sites. These vendors use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits and to measure ad performance. Our partners include (but are not limited to):

Other vendors (e.g., advertising networks, affiliate programs): We may work with additional advertising or analytics providers. A current list of vendors is available via our cookie banner or upon request.

We do not control the data-collection practices of these third parties and encourage you to review their privacy policies. Our CMP allows you to choose which categories of third-party cookies you accept.

6. How We Use Information
Provide, maintain and improve the sites.
Display content and advertisements relevant to your interests;
Analyse usage trends and measure the effectiveness of our marketing;
Respond to comments, questions or requests;
Comply with legal obligations.

7. How We Share Information
Service providers: Companies that process data on our behalf (e.g., hosting providers, analytics providers).
Advertisers and ad networks: To serve and measure ads, as described above.
Legal authorities: When required by law or to protect our rights.

We do not sell your personal information for monetary compensation. Under the CCPA/CPRA, “sharing” for cross-context behavioral advertising may occur through advertising cookies; you may opt out through our cookie banner or the “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” link on our Sites.

8. Consent Management and User Choices
Accept or reject different categories of cookies (e.g., advertising, analytics).
Revoke consent at any time via a “Cookie Settings” link.
Access a list of all vendors that may set cookies and read their privacy policies.
You can also manage cookies through your browser settings.

9. Your Rights
Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have the right to access and receive a copy of personal data we hold about you, request correction or deletion of your data, object to or restrict certain processing, withdraw consent at any time, and lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.

10. Arbitration
Arbitration Location: Arbitration shall primarily be administered by the State of Delhi
Arbitration Court: Delhi Commercial Arbitration Centre
Seat of Arbitration: Delhi
Language of Arbitration: English.

11. Children’s Privacy
Our sites are intended for general audiences and are not directed at children under 16. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children.

12. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The English version will prevail in case of conflict.