Privacy Policy

Welcome to NostalgiaFlation ("we," "our," or "us"). We are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website nostalgiaflation.com (the "Site").

Who Is Responsible for Your Data

NostalgiaFlation is an independently run website. The person responsible for the personal data described in this policy — the data controller under the EU/UK GDPR, and the Data Fiduciary under India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 — is:

We are not established in the European Union and have not appointed an Article 27 representative, as we do not target the EU market; the Site is aimed at an Indian audience. We are below the threshold at which a statutory Data Protection Officer is required, so privacy requests are handled directly by the controller named above. If you need a postal address for a formal legal request, write to privacy@nostalgiaflation.com and we will provide one.

Information Automatically Collected

When you visit our Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including:

• Device Information: Browser type, operating system, device type, screen resolution
• Usage Data: Pages visited, time spent on pages, click patterns, referring URLs
• IP Address: Used for general geographic location (country/region level)
• Cookies and Similar Technologies: Small data files stored on your device

Information You Provide

We collect information you voluntarily provide when you:

• Use our contact form. We store the name, email address and message you submit, together with the IP address the submission came from, which we keep to detect and block automated abuse of the form.
• Subscribe to our newsletter. The subscription form in our footer stores the email address you enter. You can unsubscribe at any time using the link in any newsletter email, or by emailing us; the address is then deleted within 30 days.
• Post a comment on an article. We store the display name, comment text, the email address you supply and the IP address the comment came from. Your name and comment are shown publicly once approved; your email address and IP address are never published and are visible only to us, for moderation and abuse prevention.
• Participate in surveys or feedback requests.

Information Stored Only on Your Device

The calculators, the price tracker and the quiz, Wordle and bingo games save your inputs, saved comparisons, scores and streaks in your browser's localStorage. This data stays on your device, is never transmitted to us, and is removed if you clear your browser's site data.

We use the information we collect for the following purposes:

• To operate and maintain our website
• To improve user experience and website functionality
• To analyze usage patterns and optimize our content
• To respond to your inquiries and provide customer support
• To send periodic emails regarding updates (with your consent)
• To display advertisements through Google AdSense
• To comply with legal obligations

Google AdSense (Advertising)

This website uses Google AdSense to display advertisements. Google AdSense is an advertising service provided by Google LLC. It uses cookies — including the DoubleClick cookie — to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website and other websites on the Internet. This means you may see personalized ads that are tailored to your interests.

Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to our site and/or other sites on the Internet.

Google's use of the DART cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visits to this Site and/or other sites on the Internet. We do not control the cookies used by these third-party vendors, and this Privacy Policy does not cover their practices.

Third-party ad networks other than Google may also participate in the auctions that fill ad space on this Site. A current list of the companies Google may share data with in this way is published in Google's list of ad technology providers.

How to opt out of personalized ads:

• Visit Google Ads Settings (also reachable at My Ad Center) to manage or switch off ad personalisation
• Visit optout.aboutads.info (Digital Advertising Alliance) to opt out of third-party vendor cookies
• Visit optout.networkadvertising.org (Network Advertising Initiative)
• If you are in the EEA or UK, visit youronlinechoices.eu
• Use the Cookie Settings link in our footer to withdraw or change your consent on this Site at any time
• Use your browser's cookie settings to block third-party cookies

For more information, see How Google uses data when you use our partners' sites.

Google-Certified Consent Management Platform

To collect and record consent for advertising in regions that require it, this Site loads Google Funding Choices (also called the Google CMP), a Google-certified consent management platform operating under the IAB Europe Transparency & Consent Framework (TCF). Where it applies, it may store a TCF consent string and related identifiers (for example FCNEC / FCCDCF) on your device so that your recorded choice can be passed to advertising vendors. If the Google CMP presents you with a consent message, the choice you make there governs how advertising vendors may process your data.

Google Analytics

This Site uses Google Analytics 4 (measurement ID G-CJY83CWZX2) on every page to understand how the Site is used. Analytics cookies are only set after you consent, and in regions with a consent requirement they are denied by default until you choose.

Where analytics is enabled, Google Analytics collects:

• Pages viewed, time on page, and the order in which you move through the Site
• Referring website or search engine, and campaign parameters in the URL
• Approximate location derived from your IP address, at city level or coarser
• Device type, screen size, operating system, browser and language
• A randomly generated identifier stored in a cookie that distinguishes one browser from another

We do not send names, email addresses or any other directly identifying information to Google Analytics, and we have not enabled Google Signals or advertising-personalisation features on the Analytics property. Google Analytics 4 does not store raw IP addresses; IP addresses are used to derive approximate location and are then discarded.

How to opt out of Google Analytics: decline analytics cookies in our banner, change your choice via the Cookie Settings link in our footer, or install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on, which blocks Analytics on every site you visit.

You can learn more about Google's privacy practices at Google Privacy Policy, and about how Google handles data for site owners at How Google uses information from sites that use its services.

International Transfers of Your Data

Google LLC is based in the United States, and the advertising and analytics services above process data on servers located outside India and outside the European Economic Area. Where data originating in the EEA or UK is transferred to the United States, Google relies on the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses and its certification under the EU–US Data Privacy Framework. Details are set out in Google's privacy resources for businesses. Data you send us directly through the contact form, newsletter form or comments is stored on our own server infrastructure.

Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit a website. Alongside cookies, this Site also uses your browser's localStorage, which works similarly but has no expiry date and is never transmitted to a server. We use the following categories:

Types of Cookies We Use

The Specific Cookies and Storage Keys We Set

The exact names may change when Google updates its products, but at the time of the last update to this policy the following are used:

Cookie Consent

When you first visit our Site, you will see a consent banner offering Accept All, Decline, and Customize (separate toggles for analytics and advertising). Declining is a single click, exactly like accepting. Essential functionality and security storage cannot be switched off, because the Site cannot operate without them.

Withdrawing or changing your consent: use the Cookie Settings link in the footer of any page. It reopens the preference dialog with your current choices shown, and takes effect immediately. Withdrawing consent is as easy as giving it.

Consent Defaults by Region

We implement Google Consent Mode v2. Before any Google tag is allowed to store or transmit anything, this Site declares a default consent state that depends on where you appear to be:

• Denied by default — analytics and all three advertising signals (ad_storage, ad_user_data, ad_personalization) start denied, and ad data is redacted, for visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, India, Brazil, Canada, South Africa, and US states with comprehensive privacy laws. Until you choose, you may still see ads, but they are non-personalised.
• Granted by default — for visitors elsewhere, analytics and advertising storage start granted, and you can withdraw at any time using the banner or the footer link.

Personalisation storage is denied by default everywhere until you consent.

• Analytics data (Google Analytics): Retained for 26 months, then automatically deleted.
• Advertising cookies (Google AdSense): Retained for up to 13 months, refreshed on each visit.
• Contact form submissions (name, email, message, IP address): Retained for up to 24 months after your last interaction, then deleted. We usually delete them sooner, once the conversation is closed.
• Newsletter subscriber email addresses: Retained until you unsubscribe, after which the address is deleted within 30 days. The short delay lets us reverse an accidental unsubscribe.
• Article comments: The public name and comment text are retained for as long as the article remains published. The associated email and IP address are retained for 12 months for moderation and abuse prevention, then deleted.
• Cookie consent preferences: Stored in your browser's localStorage until you clear it or revoke consent.
• Server logs: Retained for 90 days for security and debugging purposes.

Depending on your location, you may have the following rights:

• Access: Request a copy of the personal data we hold about you
• Correction: Request correction of inaccurate personal data
• Deletion: Request deletion of your personal data
• Opt-out: Opt out of marketing communications
• Data Portability: Request transfer of your data to another service

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the information below.

If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA), United Kingdom, or Switzerland, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) applies to our processing of your personal data.

• Legal Basis: We process your data based on your consent (for analytics and advertising cookies) and our legitimate interests (for site functionality and security).
• Right to Be Forgotten: You may request complete erasure of your personal data.
• Data Portability: You may request your data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format.
• Right to Object: You may object to processing based on legitimate interests.
• Right to Restrict Processing: You may request restriction of processing while a complaint is resolved.
• Withdraw Consent: You can withdraw consent at any time by clearing your cookies or using the cookie settings on this site.

If you are a California resident, you have the right to know what personal information we collect, request deletion of your personal information, and opt out of the sale of personal information.

Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information: Although we do not sell personal information, you may still submit a verifiable consumer request by contacting us at the email provided in the Contact section below. We will respond within 45 days as required by law.

If you are located in India, the Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDPA) 2023 applies to our processing of your personal data. Under the DPDPA:

• Consent: We process your personal data based on your informed consent, obtained through our cookie consent banner and contact forms.
• Purpose Limitation: Your data is processed only for the purposes stated in this policy — site functionality, analytics, and advertising.
• Right to Access: You may request information about the personal data we hold about you.
• Right to Correction: You may request correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal data.
• Right to Erasure: You may request deletion of your personal data, subject to legal retention requirements.
• Right to Grievance Redressal: You may raise concerns about our data processing practices by contacting our designated Grievance Officer (details below).
• Data Fiduciary Obligations: As a data fiduciary, we implement reasonable security safeguards to protect your personal data and ensure it is processed lawfully.

Our Site is not intended for children under 13 years of age (or under 18 years of age for users in India, as required by the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023). We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under these age thresholds. If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us. For Indian users, verifiable parental consent is required for processing children's data under the DPDPA.

We implement appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal information. However, no method of transmission over the Internet is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last updated" date.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us: