Effective Date: August 22, 2026
Welcome to Gospel Lamp (“we,” “us,” “our,” or “Gospel Lamp”). Gospel Lamp is a Christian blog dedicated to sharing Bible verses, Christian teachings, biblical topics, prayers, encouragement, and faith-based articles to help readers grow in their understanding of God’s Word.
This Privacy Policy explains how information may be collected, used, stored, and disclosed when you visit and use our website:
The website is owned and operated by Sangita Biswas.
By accessing or using Gospel Lamp, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy.
1. Information We Collect
We respect your privacy and aim to collect only the information that is reasonably necessary to operate and improve our website.
Information You Provide
You may voluntarily provide information when you:
- Contact us by email
- Submit a comment or other user-generated content, where available
- Communicate with us regarding the website or its content
- Participate in any feature or activity that may request information
Depending on how you interact with the website, this information may include your name, email address, and the contents of your message.
Please do not provide sensitive personal information through our website or email unless it is specifically required for a legitimate purpose.
Information Collected Automatically
When you visit Gospel Lamp, certain technical information may automatically be collected by our website, hosting provider, analytics services, advertising partners, or other technologies.
This information may include:
- IP address
- Browser type and version
- Device type
- Operating system
- Referring website
- Pages visited
- Date and time of your visit
- Approximate geographic information
- Website interaction and usage information
- Other standard technical information
This information is generally used for website security, analytics, performance monitoring, troubleshooting, and improving the visitor experience.
2. Cookies and Similar Technologies
Gospel Lamp may use cookies and similar technologies to provide, maintain, and improve website functionality.
Cookies are small text files stored on your device by websites that you visit. They may help us understand how visitors use the website, remember certain preferences, improve website performance, and support advertising and analytics services.
You can control or disable cookies through your browser settings. However, disabling certain cookies may affect some website functionality.
3. Google AdSense and Advertising
Gospel Lamp may use Google AdSense and other third-party advertising services to display advertisements.
Google and its advertising partners may use cookies, web beacons, IP addresses, device information, or similar technologies to collect information about visitors and to provide, measure, and personalize advertising.
Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies to serve advertisements based on a user’s prior visits to this website or other websites.
Google’s use of advertising cookies may enable Google and its partners to serve advertisements based on users’ visits to Gospel Lamp and/or other websites.
For information about how Google uses information from sites and apps that use its services, please visit:
https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites
Users can learn more about advertising personalization and manage certain advertising preferences through Google’s advertising settings:
https://adssettings.google.com
Users may also learn about options for controlling certain third-party advertising cookies through resources such as:
Google’s publisher policies require websites using Google advertising products to clearly disclose the use of cookies, identifiers, and related technologies.
4. Third-Party Services
Gospel Lamp may use third-party services to operate, analyze, secure, or monetize the website.
These services may include:
- Google AdSense
- Google Analytics or similar analytics services
- Website hosting and security providers
- Social media services
- Other necessary website technology providers
These third parties may process certain technical or usage information according to their own privacy policies.
We do not control the privacy practices of third-party websites or services. We encourage visitors to review the privacy policies of any third-party service they interact with.
5. Google Analytics
If Google Analytics or another analytics service is used on Gospel Lamp, it may collect information about how visitors interact with the website.
Analytics information may include pages viewed, approximate location, device information, browser information, traffic sources, and other usage statistics.
Analytics data is used to understand website traffic, identify technical problems, improve content, and improve the overall user experience.
6. How We Use Information
Information collected through Gospel Lamp may be used to:
- Operate and maintain the website
- Improve website content and functionality
- Understand visitor behavior and website usage
- Respond to inquiries and communications
- Detect and prevent spam, abuse, fraud, and security problems
- Maintain website security
- Analyze website performance
- Improve the user experience
- Display and measure advertisements
- Comply with applicable legal obligations
We do not sell your personal information as a standalone product.
7. Comments and User-Submitted Information
If Gospel Lamp allows visitors to submit comments or other content, information submitted through those features may be publicly visible.
Please avoid publishing private, confidential, financial, or sensitive personal information in public comments.
We reserve the right to remove comments or other submissions that are inappropriate, abusive, spam, misleading, unlawful, or unrelated to the purpose of the website.
8. External Links
Gospel Lamp may contain links to third-party websites, including social media platforms, reference resources, Bible resources, or other websites.
Once you leave Gospel Lamp and visit another website, that website’s privacy policy and terms will apply.
We are not responsible for the privacy practices, security, content, or policies of third-party websites.
9. Children’s Privacy
Gospel Lamp is a general-audience Christian website and is not specifically directed toward children under the age of 13.
We do not knowingly request or intentionally collect personal information from children under 13.
If you believe that a child has provided personal information to us, please contact us. If we become aware that such information has been collected without appropriate authorization, we will take reasonable steps to delete it.
10. Data Security
We take reasonable administrative and technical measures to help protect information handled through the website.
However, no website, server, electronic transmission, or method of storing information can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
Therefore, while we work to protect information, we cannot guarantee absolute security.
11. Data Retention
We retain information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including responding to inquiries, maintaining website security, complying with legal obligations, resolving disputes, and maintaining legitimate business records.
Retention periods may vary depending on the type and purpose of the information.
12. Your Privacy Choices
Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information.
These may include the right to:
- Request information about personal data we may hold about you
- Request correction of inaccurate information
- Request deletion of certain information
- Object to or restrict certain processing
- Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
- Manage certain advertising and cookie preferences
Some requests may be subject to applicable legal or technical limitations.
You may also manage cookies through your browser settings and manage personalized advertising preferences through Google’s available privacy and advertising controls.
13. International Visitors
Gospel Lamp may be accessed by visitors from different countries.
Depending on the services used by the website, information may be processed by third-party service providers in countries other than your own.
By using the website, you acknowledge that information may be processed in accordance with applicable laws and the privacy policies of the relevant service providers.
Where required by applicable law, appropriate privacy and consent mechanisms may be provided.
14. Legal Compliance
We may disclose information when reasonably necessary to:
- Comply with applicable laws, regulations, or legal processes
- Respond to lawful requests from government authorities
- Protect the rights, property, or safety of Gospel Lamp, its visitors, or others
- Investigate fraud, abuse, security incidents, or other unlawful activities
- Enforce our website policies
15. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our website, services, advertising technologies, legal requirements, or privacy practices.
When we make changes, we will update the Effective Date at the beginning of this policy.
We encourage visitors to review this Privacy Policy periodically to stay informed about how information is handled.
16. Contact Us
If you have questions, concerns, requests, or comments regarding this Privacy Policy or the privacy practices of Gospel Lamp, please contact us.
Website: Gospel Lamp
Website URL: https://gospellamp.com/
Owner: Sangita Biswas
Support Email: jitenpanday2@gmail.com
We will make reasonable efforts to review and respond to privacy-related inquiries.
17. Consent
By using Gospel Lamp, you acknowledge that you have read this Privacy Policy and understand how information may be collected and used as described above.
Where applicable law requires consent for cookies, personalized advertising, or other forms of data processing, appropriate consent or privacy-choice mechanisms may be provided.