Privacy Policy

1. Overview & Scope

Pakistan Times Today ("we", "us", or "our"), a subsidiary network of Baaghi Digital Media Networks, is dedicated to upholding the privacy rights and confidentiality of all visitors, registered subscribers, and readers.

This Privacy Policy details how we collect, process, store, and safeguard your information when you visit our website (pakistantimestoday.com) or interact with our digital services.

2. Information We Collect

We only collect data necessary to deliver high-quality news reporting and personalized digital experiences:

• Account & Profile Details: When you register an account, comment on articles, or sign up for our morning newsletter, we collect your name, email address, and optional biographical information.
• Authentication Credentials: Passwords are encrypted using irreversible multi-round Argon2/Bcrypt cryptographic hashing. We never store plain text passwords.
• Usage & Device Information: Browser type, operating system, IP address, referral URLs, and pages viewed to optimize caching and mobile responsiveness.
• Reader Interactions: Articles bookmarked, reading time, and approved community commentary.

3. Cookies & Tracking Technologies

We deploy strictly necessary cookies for session authentication, security protection, and CSRF token verification.

With your consent via our Cookie Preferences banner, we also use performance cookies to monitor article engagement and embedded media (e.g. YouTube video journalism). You may modify your cookie preferences at any time using the Manage Cookies toggle in our website footer.

4. How We Use Your Data

• To deliver breaking news alerts and requested daily newsletter briefings.
• To moderate community discussions and prevent spam, defamation, or abuse.
• To diagnose infrastructure performance and protect our systems from cyber threats.
• We never sell, lease, or monetize your personal reader data to third-party data brokers.

5. Data Protection & Reader Rights

You retain full ownership of your personal data. At any time, you have the right to:

• Request a copy of the data associated with your reader profile.
• Update or rectify inaccurate profile information via your Reader Dashboard.
• Unsubscribe from email digests via the single-click link in any newsletter.
• Request full deletion of your reader account and commentary records.