Privacy Policy

When you share something with The Nybr or write to us, we collect what you give us:

• Your name and your community
• A phone number or email address, so we can check details with you
• The content itself - stories, photographs, artwork, and voice notes
• For advertisers and associations: business or organisation name and enquiry details
• If you use the contact form: your name, email, an optional phone number, and what you write. It is stored in our system so an enquiry cannot be lost in a mailbox, and is kept so we can show what was asked and answered. Write to us if you would like your message removed.
• If you create an account: your name, email address, an optional phone number, and the community, block, and flat you tell us you live in. If you sign in with Google, we receive your name and email address from Google — never your Google password.

We do not collect anything beyond what you choose to share.

Like every website, thenybr.com keeps server logs. When you visit, our servers record the request: the IP address you connect from, the page or file you asked for, the date and time, whether it succeeded, the page you arrived from, and the browser and device description your browser sends. This happens on every visit, to every visitor, and is not linked to your name or to anything you have submitted.

We use these records only to understand how much the site is being used, to tell real visitors apart from automated bots, and to investigate errors and abuse. We do not use them to build profiles of individuals, and we never sell or share them.

They are kept on private, encrypted storage in India (Mumbai) and are deleted automatically after 90 days.

We also use Google Analytics to understand how the site is used. Until you accept analytics in the banner, it runs without cookies and without any identifier that could single you out - Google receives only aggregate signals. If you accept, it sets a cookie so we can tell a returning visit from a new one. You can decline, and the site works exactly the same. We do not run advertising trackers, and we never allow analytics data to be used for ad targeting.

• To review, edit, and publish the submissions you consented to share
• To contact you about your submission - a clarification, a preview, a thank-you
• To respond to enquiries from associations and advertisers
• To run your account, and to confirm with your community that you live where you said you do
• To improve our publications, website, and services
• To send updates about The Nybr, only where you have agreed to receive them

Only what you have consented to, with the attribution you chose. Your phone number and email address are never published and never shared with advertisers. Consent is recorded with every submission.

You can withdraw consent at any time: we remove website content promptly and stop print use from the next edition. Please note that once an edition has been printed and distributed, content cannot be modified or removed from those physical copies.

Content involving children is collected and published only with a parent’s or guardian’s permission, and receives additional editorial review before it appears anywhere.

With the association’s blessing, The Nybr may photograph community events - festivals, sports days, gatherings - for editorial coverage in print and online. If you appear in an event photograph and would prefer not to, tell us and we will not use it; for images already in distributed print, the note above applies.

We do not sell personal data, and we do not run third-party advertising trackers on thenybr.com. The one third-party service that sees visit data is Google Analytics, described in section 2. We do not share your personal information or submitted content with any third party without your prior consent, except where required by law, or with trusted service providers who help operate The Nybr (such as printing and cloud infrastructure) under appropriate confidentiality obligations. Advertisers see how their placements perform (for example, QR scan counts) - never who scanned. There is one further disclosure, and it is deliberately narrow: if your community has points of contact, they see a limited set of details in order to confirm you live there. Section 8 sets out exactly what they can and cannot see.

Some communities have one or more points of contact — usually members of the resident association — who help The Nybr confirm who lives there. They are residents of your community, not members of The Nybr’s team, so what they can see is deliberately narrow.

Where your community has points of contact, they can see:

• Your name, the block and flat you gave, and the date you asked to be confirmed, so they can recognise you as a neighbour. Your phone number and email address are not shown to them.
• The current and past editions of your community’s magazine
• Only those submissions an editor has specifically referred to them for review — for example, an item about the association, or about a matter affecting the whole community. They see the item, never the contributor’s phone number or email address, and they see nothing else residents have submitted.

A point of contact can confirm you as a resident of your community, or remove that confirmation later. Neither affects your account, anything you have already sent us, or anything already published.

Content and contact details are stored on secured cloud infrastructure with access limited to The Nybr’s editorial team, and — for the narrow set of details described in section 8 — to your community’s points of contact. If you set a password, we store it only as a one-way encrypted value: we cannot read it, and nobody at The Nybr can tell you what it is. We take reasonable measures to protect personal information from unauthorised access, misuse, alteration, or disclosure - while noting that no method of electronic storage is completely secure.

• Update or correct your personal information
• Request changes to a submission before it is published
• Withdraw consent for publication (see section 4 for how print is handled)
• Close your account. This does not by itself withdraw consent for what is already published — tell us if you want that too
• Ask us what we hold about you, or ask us to delete it

We may update this policy from time to time. The latest version will always be available on this page, with the date below.

Privacy questions, corrections, or removal requests: to@thenybr.com. Our team will review your request and respond as soon as possible.