This Privacy Policy describes how Daily Capital (dailycapital.pk) collects, uses, and shares information about visitors to our website. In summary: we do not operate any signup forms, do not collect email addresses, and do not maintain a user database. The information described below is collected automatically by standard web infrastructure and by third-party advertising and analytics services that operate on our site. This policy was last updated on the date shown at the top of this page.
Information we collect
Daily Capital does not operate any user-facing forms. We have no account signup, no newsletter subscription form, no comment system, and no contact form. As a result, we do not directly collect names, email addresses, phone numbers, addresses, financial information, or other personal information that you would type into a form.
Standard server logs: like all websites, our hosting infrastructure (Cloudflare Pages) automatically generates access logs when your browser requests pages from our site. These logs include your IP address, browser type and version, operating system, the referring URL (the page you came from), the requested URL, the response status, and the timestamp of your visit. These logs are retained for a short period for operational purposes (security monitoring, error diagnosis, capacity planning) and are not associated with any personal identity that we hold.
Cookies set by our infrastructure: Cloudflare sets a limited set of technical cookies for security and performance purposes — for example, to identify suspicious traffic patterns and to route traffic efficiently. These are functional cookies that do not track behavior across sites and are not used for advertising purposes.
Cookies and data collected by third-party services: we use Google AdSense to serve advertising on our site, and we may in future use Google Analytics or similar services to understand aggregate site traffic patterns. These services collect substantially more information than our own infrastructure — described in detail below.
Google AdSense and third-party advertising
Daily Capital uses Google AdSense to serve advertisements. Google AdSense is a third-party advertising service operated by Google LLC. When ads are served on our pages, Google and its advertising partners may collect information about your visit — including cookies, device identifiers, and interaction data — to serve relevant advertising, measure ad performance, and prevent ad fraud.
Types of information Google may collect through AdSense on our site:
- Cookies stored on your browser for ad personalization and measurement
- Your IP address, converted to approximate geographic location
- Device information including browser, operating system, and device type
- Pages you visit on Daily Capital and time spent on each page
- Interactions with advertisements (impressions, clicks, conversions)
- Identifiers used to distinguish your browser from other browsers
- For users in the EEA/UK, consent choices communicated via consent frameworks
How Google uses this information: Google uses the information collected through AdSense to serve advertisements based on your visits to our site and other sites on the internet, to prevent fraudulent ad impressions and clicks, to measure ad performance for advertisers, and to improve its advertising services. Google's use of this information is governed by Google's Privacy Policy at policies.google.com/privacy.
Personalized advertising and your choices: Google may use cookies to serve you personalized advertising based on your browsing history. You can control personalized advertising through Google's Ads Settings at adssettings.google.com. You can also opt out of personalized advertising by third-party vendors at the Network Advertising Initiative's opt-out page (optout.networkadvertising.org) or the Digital Advertising Alliance's opt-out page (optout.aboutads.info).
Consent for users in the EEA, UK, and Switzerland: for visitors from the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, and Switzerland, we display a consent notice on your first visit that lets you accept or reject the use of cookies for personalized advertising. Your choice is remembered on your device for future visits. You can change your choice at any time by clearing your browser cookies for our site, which will cause the consent notice to appear again on your next visit.
How we use the information
Because we do not directly collect personal information through forms, our own use of information is limited to what standard server infrastructure records for operational purposes:
Server access logs are used for security monitoring (identifying and blocking abuse patterns like scraping, brute-force attempts, or DDoS), for operational diagnostics (identifying broken pages, slow-loading resources, or availability issues), and for aggregate traffic understanding (which pages receive most traffic, which regions readers come from at country level).
We do not build user profiles, do not associate log data with individual identities, do not sell log data to third parties, and do not use log data for advertising or marketing purposes.
Information collected by Google AdSense is used by Google and its advertising partners as described in Google's privacy policy — we receive only aggregate, non-personally-identifying reports about ad performance on our site.
Information sharing and disclosure
We do not sell your information. Daily Capital does not sell, rent, or trade personal information to third parties.
Service providers: we use Cloudflare Pages for hosting and content delivery, which processes information necessary to serve our site to your browser. We use Google AdSense to serve advertising. These service providers process information under their own privacy policies and applicable data processing agreements.
Legal requirements: we may disclose information if required to do so by law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Daily Capital, our users, or the public. Such disclosures would be limited to what is legally required.
Business changes: if Daily Capital undergoes a change of ownership, merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, information collected through the site may be transferred to the acquiring entity, which would be bound by the terms of this Privacy Policy or provide notice of any material changes.
Data retention
Server access logs are retained for a limited operational period — typically 30 to 90 days — before being deleted or anonymized. Cookies set by our infrastructure have expiration periods appropriate to their functional purpose (session cookies expire when you close your browser; longer-lived cookies typically expire within days or weeks).
Retention of information collected by Google AdSense is governed by Google's data retention policies, which you can review at policies.google.com/privacy.
Children's privacy
Daily Capital is intended for adult audiences interested in Pakistani bureaucratic processes, consumer topics, and financial procedures. We do not knowingly collect information from children under 13, and our content is not directed at children. If you believe that we have inadvertently collected information from a child under 13, please contact us at privacy@dailycapital.pk and we will delete such information promptly.
International data transfer
Daily Capital operates from Pakistan and uses service providers (Cloudflare, Google) headquartered in the United States and operating globally. Information collected through the site may be processed in jurisdictions other than your country of residence, including Pakistan and the United States. Different jurisdictions have different data protection laws; by using our site you consent to such international transfer where legally permissible.
Your rights
Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have rights regarding personal information collected about you:
- Right to know what information is collected about you
- Right to access information held about you
- Right to request correction of inaccurate information
- Right to request deletion of information (subject to legal retention requirements)
- Right to opt out of personalized advertising as described above
- Right to withdraw consent for optional data processing at any time
- Right to file a complaint with your local data protection authority
Because we do not maintain user accounts or hold individual identity records, most of these rights are exercised through the third-party services (particularly Google) that collect information on our site. For matters within our direct control, please contact privacy@dailycapital.pk with your request. We will respond within 30 days.
Security
We use industry-standard technical measures to secure our site infrastructure, including HTTPS encryption for all traffic, security headers to prevent common attack vectors, and secure hosting on Cloudflare Pages which provides DDoS protection and web application firewall services. However, no method of internet transmission or storage is completely secure. If you become aware of a security issue with our site, please report it to privacy@dailycapital.pk.
Changes to this policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, service providers, or legal requirements. Material changes will be reflected in the "last updated" date at the top of this page. For substantive changes affecting how we process personal information, we will make reasonable effort to provide additional notice — for example, through a notice on the site homepage or a prominent update banner. Your continued use of the site after such changes constitutes acceptance of the revised policy.
Contact us about privacy
For questions about this Privacy Policy, to exercise your data subject rights, or to report privacy concerns, please contact privacy@dailycapital.pk. Please include enough information for us to verify your identity before processing requests for access to or deletion of information.
Frequently Asked Questions
No. Daily Capital has no signup forms, no newsletter subscription, and no contact form. We do not collect email addresses from site visitors. If you email us at the addresses on our contact page, we retain your correspondence for the purpose of responding — no other use.
Ads on Daily Capital are served by Google AdSense, Google's advertising service. Google selects which ads to show based on the content of the page, general context, and where you've consented to personalization based on your browsing history. Google's use of information for ad serving is governed by Google's Privacy Policy at policies.google.com/privacy.
Yes. If you decline the consent notice for personalized advertising, you'll still see ads on the site (they're just less relevant to you) and the site's functionality is unaffected. Some technical cookies used by our hosting infrastructure and by Google for basic ad serving cannot be disabled without breaking site functionality — these are described in our Privacy Policy.
You can manage your personalized ad preferences through Google's Ads Settings at adssettings.google.com. You can also opt out of personalized advertising by third-party vendors participating in the Network Advertising Initiative (optout.networkadvertising.org) or the Digital Advertising Alliance (optout.aboutads.info). Opting out doesn't eliminate ads — it just makes them less personalized to your interests.
Daily Capital is operated from Pakistan. Pakistani data protection law applies to our processing of information. For visitors from other jurisdictions with their own data protection laws (such as GDPR for EU/UK visitors, CCPA for California residents), the applicable local law also protects information collected during your visit. Our Privacy Policy is designed to accommodate these various legal frameworks.
Please email privacy@dailycapital.pk with details of your request. Include enough information for us to identify what data (if any) we hold about you and to verify your identity before we take action. We respond to substantive privacy requests within 30 days.