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Plain-language summary: Astro Sindhi Observatory is primarily a public scientific, educational, and research portal. We aim to collect as little personal information as possible. Most tools are designed to work without user accounts. Where technical logs, analytics, contact messages, or API usage information are processed, we use them only for security, reliability, research integrity, service improvement, and lawful communication.

1. Scope of this Policy

This Privacy Policy applies to the Astro Sindhi Observatory website, tools, pages, public APIs, scientific calculators, simulations, documentation, and related services available at https://astro.sindhilanguage.org/.

It also applies to related institutional pages that describe the Observatory, SindhiLanguage.org, open data, developer tools, and research services, unless a specific page provides a separate policy.

2. Who We Are

Astro Sindhi Observatory is a scientific and open research initiative developed under SindhiLanguage.org and owned by Indusian Technologies (Pvt) Ltd. The project is designed to support astronomy, Sindhu Sambat research, Sindhi language technology, open data, educational computing, and developer access to scientific APIs.

Project	Astro Sindhi Observatory
Developer	SindhiLanguage.org
Owner	Indusian Technologies (Pvt) Ltd
Core Engineer	Amar Fayaz Buriro
Contact	[email protected]

3. Information We May Collect

3.1 Information you provide voluntarily

Name, email address, organization, and message content when you contact us.
Research collaboration requests, feedback, corrections, bug reports, or legal inquiries.
Developer questions or API support requests submitted through forms or email.

3.2 Technical information collected automatically

IP address, browser type, operating system, device information, referring URLs, visited pages, date and time of access, and server error logs.
Security logs used to detect abuse, spam, scraping, denial-of-service attempts, or unauthorized access.
API request metadata such as endpoint path, timestamp, approximate rate, HTTP status, user agent, and error response.

3.3 Scientific tool input

Some tools may process date, time, latitude, longitude, timezone, or location-like parameters entered by the user. These values are used to calculate astronomy results such as sunrise, moonrise, planetary visibility, eclipse visibility, Sindhu Sambat dates, seasons, and pahars. Unless a feature clearly states otherwise, these inputs are treated as calculation parameters and not as identity data.

4. Legal Bases for Processing

Where data protection laws such as the GDPR apply, we process personal information under one or more of the following legal bases:

Legal basis	Typical use
Consent	Optional communications, cookies where required, or voluntary submissions.
Legitimate interests	Website security, service reliability, abuse prevention, analytics, debugging, and research quality improvement.
Contract or pre-contract steps	Responding to collaboration, API access, support, or service requests.
Legal obligation	Compliance with lawful requests, regulatory requirements, or record-keeping duties.
Public interest / research interest where applicable	Open scientific documentation, reproducible research, citation, and academic collaboration.

5. How We Use Information

To operate, maintain, secure, and improve the Observatory portal.
To provide scientific calculations, simulations, APIs, documentation, and research tools.
To respond to messages, collaboration requests, bug reports, and legal inquiries.
To monitor performance, diagnose errors, and improve accessibility and mobile usability.
To prevent abuse, scraping, unauthorized automated activity, spam, or attacks.
To develop open scientific infrastructure for Sindhi astronomy, Sindhu Sambat validation, and language technology.

We do not sell personal information.

6. Cookies, Local Storage, and Analytics

The website may use cookies, browser storage, or similar technologies for essential functions, security, performance measurement, and analytics. Examples include remembering basic preferences, measuring page performance, preventing abuse, or understanding which public tools are most used.

If third-party analytics or embedded services are used, they may collect technical information under their own policies. We aim to configure analytics in a privacy-conscious manner where possible.

You can usually control cookies through your browser settings. Blocking some cookies may affect certain website functions.

7. API and Developer Usage Data

Public APIs may generate technical logs for rate limiting, diagnostics, security, debugging, availability monitoring, and research reliability. API logs may include endpoint path, request time, status code, IP address, user agent, approximate request volume, and error data.

Developers must not submit sensitive personal data to astronomy calculation endpoints unless a specific endpoint explicitly supports and documents such processing. Public calculation endpoints are intended for scientific parameters, not private personal profiles.

8. Data Retention

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.

Data type	Indicative retention approach
Contact messages	Retained as long as needed to respond and maintain appropriate records.
Server and security logs	Retained for a limited period needed for diagnostics, security, and abuse prevention.
API logs	Retained as needed for reliability, debugging, rate limiting, and security.
Published research content	Retained as part of the public scholarly record unless correction, removal, or archival changes are appropriate.

9. When We Share Information

We may share limited information with service providers, hosting providers, analytics providers, security tools, legal advisors, or technical collaborators where necessary to operate and protect the platform.

We may disclose information if required by law, legal process, security necessity, or to protect the rights, safety, and integrity of users, the platform, or the public.

10. International Data Transfers

Because this is a web-based scientific platform, service providers and technical infrastructure may be located in different countries. Where required, we aim to use appropriate safeguards for international data transfers, such as contractual protections, data minimization, and privacy-conscious configuration.

11. Security

We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure. However, no internet service can guarantee absolute security.

Security measures may include access control, server hardening, software updates, monitoring, backups, rate limiting, and review of abnormal activity.

12. Your Privacy Rights

Depending on your location, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict, object to, or receive a portable copy of your personal information. You may also have the right to withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.

To exercise a privacy right, contact us using the email address below. We may need to verify your request before acting on it.

13. Children and Educational Use

The Observatory provides educational and scientific information. It is not designed to collect personal information from children. If a parent, guardian, or teacher believes that a child has submitted personal information, they may contact us for review and appropriate action.

14. Changes to this Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy as the Observatory, APIs, datasets, legal requirements, or technical infrastructure evolve. The effective date at the top of the page indicates the current version.

15. Contact

For privacy questions, requests, or concerns, contact:

SindhiLanguage.org
Indusian Technologies (Pvt) Ltd
Email: [email protected]

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