Copyright & Take Down Policy

Khowari is a non-profit initiative. The material on our website is either contributed directly by the owner or acquired from open sources. In either way, we recognize the rights of the original source and try to give credit to them. However, if anyone is still concerned that there exists material on our website, for which the owner of the content has not given permission, or feel that Khowari has in any form, breached copyrights, please contact us by email at khowarichitral@gmail.com stating your complain. We will assess the validity of the complaint and if found true, will come to a solution after mutual consent.

Khowari permits the dissemination and sharing of it’s content for fair use on the condition that due credit will be given to it and the ownership of Khowari will be recognized. However, using Khowari’s content with intention of commercial use, spreading hate speech related to race, religion, politics, etc is strictly prohibited and Khowari reserves the right for legal action against such person or organization.

Disclaimer

The views expressed in the contents of this website are the contributors’ own and do not necessarily reflect Khowari’s editorial stance.

Privacy Policy

Our website address is: https://khowari.com. We aim to archive the history, literature & culture of Chitral.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

How long we retain your data?

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

Where your data is sent?

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. We don’t sell to or share with your data with unauthorized person or organization.