Privacy Policy

At Viral Prompts (https://viralprompts.in), accessible worldwide, the privacy of our visitors, creators, and community members is of paramount importance. This comprehensive Privacy Policy document outlines the types of personal, technical, and analytical information collected and recorded by Viral Prompts, how we process, store, and safeguard it, and your statutory rights under international privacy frameworks including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA/CPRA), and Google Publisher Policies.

1. Consent & Scope

By browsing, accessing, or interacting with our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to all of its provisions. If you do not agree with any part of this policy, please discontinue use of Viral Prompts immediately. This policy applies strictly to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website with regards to the information shared and/or collected across Viral Prompts.

2. Information We Collect

We adhere to the fundamental principle of data minimization. The personal and technical information you may be asked to provide or that is automatically gathered during your visits includes:

• Direct User Submissions: When you contact our support desk, submit a prompt suggestion, or report an issue via email ([email protected]) or contact forms, we receive information such as your name, email address, message contents, and any attachments or prompt links you choose to send.
• Community Comments & Interactions: When posting public comments on prompt cards, you may submit a display name and your comment text. Comment text is sanitized, screened for malicious payloads, and published publicly. We strongly advise against posting private contact details or sensitive personal identifiers in public comment fields.
• Creator Collaboration Details: If you apply to join our verified creator directory or submit partnership requests via our collaborators portal, we collect your creator handle, social profile URL (e.g. Instagram, YouTube), portfolio email, follower metrics, and submitted sample reels.
• Browser Local Storage & State: We store non-identifying client preferences in your browser's local storage (localStorage), such as dark/light interface theme preference, recent prompt copy tallies, and UI state dismissals.

3. Log Files & Server Telemetry

Viral Prompts follows a standard procedure of using server log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting providers do this as part of hosting services' analytics and origin defense. The information collected by log files includes:

• Internet Protocol (IP) addresses (with the final octet masked/anonymized for privacy compliance)
• Browser type, engine version, and user-agent string
• Internet Service Provider (ISP) and regional edge routing node
• Date and time stamps of incoming HTTP/HTTPS requests
• Referring and exit pages
• Operating system platform and device classification (Desktop, Mobile, Tablet)

These logs are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The sole purpose of the information is for analyzing traffic trends, administering the site, tracking users' navigation across prompt categories, thwarting distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, and gathering broad demographic insights.

4. Google AdSense & DoubleClick DART Cookies

Google is one of the third-party vendors on our site. Google uses cookies, known as DART cookies, to serve ads to our site visitors based upon their visit to viralprompts.in and other sites on the internet.

• Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this website or other websites across the Internet.
• Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its certified advertising partners to serve ads to our visitors based on their browsing history across our site and/or other destinations on the web.
• How to Opt Out of Personalized Ads: Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings at https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads or https://adssettings.google.com/.
• Alternatively, you can opt out of third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) WebChoices tool at https://optout.aboutads.info/ or the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) opt-out tool at https://optout.networkadvertising.org/. European visitors can manage ad preferences via the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance at https://www.youronlinechoices.eu/.

5. Advertising Partners & Third-Party Cookies

Some of the advertisers on our site may use cookies, web beacons, and JavaScript to track ad effectiveness and personalize the advertising content that you see. Each of our advertising partners maintains its own comprehensive Privacy Policy. We recommend consulting their privacy notices directly for detailed practices and opt-out directives.

Viral Prompts has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers. You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. Detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers can be found at the browsers' respective websites (Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Microsoft Edge).

6. Web Analytics (Google Analytics 4)

Viral Prompts utilizes Google Analytics 4 (GA4) with IP Anonymization enabled by default. GA4 processes aggregate engagement events—such as page visits, prompt copy button clicks, scroll depth, and category navigation—without capturing Personally Identifiable Information (PII). This data helps us understand which prompt genres (e.g., Gemini photorealism, festive portraits, cyberpunk characters) deliver the most value to our users.

You can prevent Google Analytics from collecting data on your visits by installing the official Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

7. GDPR Data Protection Rights (EEA & UK Visitors)

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA) or the United Kingdom, you are entitled to specific statutory data protection rights under Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR). We ensure that you can exercise any of the following rights:

• The right to access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data held by us.
• The right to rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate, or complete information you believe is incomplete.
• The right to erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal data under certain qualifying conditions.
• The right to restrict processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data under certain conditions.
• The right to object to processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data under certain conditions.
• The right to data portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at [email protected] or [email protected].

8. California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA / CPRA Notice)

Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), California residents are granted specific rights regarding their personal information:

• Right to Know: You may request disclosure of the categories and specific pieces of personal data collected, the categories of sources, the business or commercial purpose for collecting it, and the categories of third parties with whom it is shared.
• Right to Delete: You may request the deletion of your personal data collected by us, subject to statutory legal exceptions.
• Right to Opt-Out of Sale or Sharing: Viral Prompts does not sell or rent consumer personal data to third parties for monetary consideration.
• Right to Non-Discrimination: We will never discriminate against you, deny goods or services, or provide a different level of quality for exercising any of your CCPA/CPRA rights.

To submit a CCPA verifiable request, please email [email protected] with the subject line "CCPA Request".

9. Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)

Protecting the online privacy of young children is especially important to us. Viral Prompts does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. Our service is designed for general audiences, content creators, students, and digital artists. If you believe that your child provided personal information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately, and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

10. Data Security & Storage Safeguards

We enforce strict security safeguards to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction of data. These measures include strict TLS/SSL 256-bit encryption for all data in transit, strict Content Security Policy (CSP) headers, hardened PHP routing, and isolated cloud infrastructure protected by Cloudflare edge firewalls.

11. Modifications to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy periodically to reflect technological developments, operational enhancements, or statutory legal obligations. When changes are published, the "Last Updated" date at the top of this page will be updated accordingly. We encourage visitors to review this page frequently to stay informed about how we safeguard information.

12. Contact Information

If you have any questions, suggestions, or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please reach out directly through our designated privacy channels:

• Primary Email: [email protected]
• Secondary Email: [email protected]
• Official Website: https://viralprompts.in
• Postal Jurisdiction: New Delhi, India