📖 Introduction
Merahi Village is an independent community information platform created to share the village's history, culture, places, people and everyday life. It exists to share the village's history, culture, people and everyday life — not to run a business, sell anything, or profit from visitor data.
These policies explain how the site is built, what happens when you use the contact form, which outside tools power features like the map embeds and live weather, and what rights you have as a visitor. If anything here is unclear, the Contact page is the fastest way to ask.
🔒 Privacy Policy
We respect your privacy and do not sell, rent, or trade personal information for commercial purposes — ever. This site has no login system, no user accounts, and no advertising network of any kind.
- Information you submit through the Contact form is used only to read and reply to your message.
- We do not build advertising profiles, and no data collected here is sold to third parties.
- Basic, aggregate visitor statistics (such as page views) may exist through GitHub Pages' own hosting logs — these are not personally identifying and are not used to track individuals.
🗂️ What Data We Collect
Here is a complete, page-by-page account of what personal or usage data this website can collect:
| Where | What is collected | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Contact page form | Name, email address, subject, and message you type in | Solely to read your message and reply to you by email |
| Weather page | Nothing personal — the page requests weather for the village's fixed coordinates, not your location | To show live conditions for Merahi |
| Places / video pages | None directly from us — but playing an embedded YouTube video may let YouTube set its own cookies | Only if you choose to press play |
| Map embeds | None directly from us — Google Maps may log standard request data per its own policy | To display village and landmark locations |
| Every page | Standard web request data (browser type, approximate region, page requested) via GitHub Pages hosting and Google Fonts delivery | Normal web hosting and font delivery — not used for tracking |
We do not collect passwords, payment details, government ID numbers, or any sensitive personal data anywhere on this site — the site simply has no feature that asks for them.
🔗 Third-Party Services We Use
Like most modern websites, Merahi Village relies on a handful of outside services to work properly. Each one operates under its own privacy policy, which governs any data it collects when its part of the page loads. Here's exactly what we use and why:
| Service | Used for | What it may collect |
|---|---|---|
| Google Fonts | Loading the site's Fraunces, Work Sans and Noto Sans Devanagari typefaces | Your IP address, as part of standard font delivery |
| YouTube (embedded videos) | Village videos shown on individual Places pages | If you press play, YouTube/Google may set cookies and log viewing activity under their own policy |
| Google Maps (embedded) | Location and direction maps across Weather, Contact, About and Places pages | Map interaction data, per Google's privacy policy |
| Open-Meteo (weather API) | Powering the live Weather dashboard | Only the village's fixed coordinates are sent from your browser — never your personal location |
| jsDelivr (CDN) | Delivering the social media icons in the site footer | Standard content-delivery request logs |
| Google Forms | Delivering messages from the Contact page to us | The name, email, subject and message you submit — sent directly to Google Forms, the same as filling out any Google Form |
🍪 Cookie Policy
This site does not set its own tracking or advertising cookies. Any cookies you encounter here come from the third-party services listed above — mainly YouTube, if you play an embedded video, and possibly Google Maps or Google Fonts as part of their normal delivery process. You can block or clear these at any time through your browser's settings without affecting your ability to read the site's content.
📜 Terms & Conditions
- Use this website responsibly and for its intended purpose — learning about and celebrating Merahi village.
- Do not publish, submit or attempt to inject false, harmful, or misleading information through the Contact form or any other channel.
- Respect the village's values, culture and traditions in anything you send us.
- Unauthorized attempts to access, modify, or disrupt this website or its hosting are prohibited.
✅ Content Policy
- Content on this site is kept as accurate and respectful as we can make it.
- Deliberate misinformation about the village, its people, or its history is not published.
- Illegal, hateful, or harmful content has no place here and will be removed if it ever appears.
- Content may be edited, corrected or removed at the administrator's discretion, including in response to feedback from villagers.
🤝 Community Guidelines
- Treat everyone connected to this site and village with respect.
- Keep discussion and feedback constructive.
- Abusive, threatening, or discriminatory language will not be entertained in any message we receive.
- The goal of this site is to support Merahi's development and community harmony — contributions in that spirit are always welcome.
©️ Copyright Policy
Photos, videos and text original to Merahi Village belong to the village community and its contributors unless stated otherwise. Content embedded from third parties — YouTube videos, map tiles, stock photography, or font files — remains the property of its respective owners and is used here under their terms of embedding or licensing.
Sharing our own original content for educational or community purposes is welcome, with credit back to Merahi Village.
🌐 External Links Disclaimer
Links to external sites — including our own social media pages, YouTube channel, and blog — are provided for convenience. Merahi Village is not responsible for the content, privacy practices, or availability of any third-party website linked from here.
📝 User Contributions
Residents and contributors may submit stories, photographs, historical details and village updates through the Contact page. The administration reserves the right to review, edit, or decline to publish any submitted content, and to remove previously published content if needed.
🧒 Children's Privacy
This website is intended for a general audience and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children through the Contact form or any other feature. If a parent or guardian believes a child has submitted personal information to us, please reach out through the Contact page and it will be removed.
📊 Data Disclaimer
Data presented on this website is compiled from publicly available sources, including Census of India 2011, District Administration records, Wikipedia, and local/community sources. Information may be historical, approximate, incomplete, or subject to change and is provided for general informational and civic purposes only. Users should verify important information with the relevant official authority before relying on it.
⚖️ Independence
This website is an independent, non-governmental informational platform. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by any government body, political party, political candidate, or government department.
⚠️ Disclaimer
Content on Merahi Village is published for informational and community purposes only. While we make reasonable efforts to keep information accurate and up to date — including live data like the Weather dashboard, which depends entirely on a third-party forecasting service — no warranty is given regarding its completeness, accuracy, or reliability at any given moment.
Use of this website is at your own discretion. Merahi Village is not liable for any loss or damage resulting from reliance on its content, including forecasts, directions, or embedded third-party data.
📮 Contact Information
🔄 Policy Updates
These policies may be updated periodically as the website grows or as the third-party services it relies on change. Continued use of this website after any revision indicates acceptance of the updated policies. The current version reflects the site as of its most recent build.
Last updated: 15 August 2026.