Privacy Policy

Overview

PakMediaTrendz (“we”, “this site”) is an independent website that ranks Pakistani dramas and music using public YouTube viewing statistics. We collect as little personal data as we can: the site has no user accounts and no sign-in. We use Google Analytics to count visits, and outside the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland it sets cookies to do so (see Analytics). This page explains what little data is involved in running the site, and the third-party services that appear on it.

Information we collect

Server logs. Like almost every website, our server records standard request logs — IP address, browser user-agent, the page requested, and a timestamp. We use these only to keep the site secure and working (rate limiting, abuse prevention, and debugging). Logs are rotated routinely and are not used to build visitor profiles.

Content you submit. If you submit content through an interactive feature (for example audience ratings or reviews, when that feature is available), we store what you chose to submit — such as a star rating, a display name, and review text. For abuse prevention we also store a one-way cryptographic hash (SHA-256) derived from your IP address and browser user-agent; the raw address itself is not stored with your submission.

Your watchlist. The watchlist is saved in your own browser’s local storage. It never leaves your device and is never transmitted to our servers. Clearing your browser data deletes it.

Third-party services

YouTube API Services. Rankings, view counts, and video metadata come from YouTube API Services — the public statistics attached to videos on YouTube. By using this site you also interact with data provided under Google’s terms; see the Google Privacy Policy.

Embedded video players. Drama and song pages show a thumbnail with a play button. Until you press it, no video player is requested and no YouTube cookie is set — the thumbnail images are the only thing your browser loads. Pressing play opens a player from youtube-nocookie.com, Google’s privacy-enhanced domain, which does not use what you watch for ad targeting; from that point YouTube’s own terms and privacy policy apply. You can always watch on YouTube directly instead, using the “Watch” links beside each episode.

Images, fonts and scripts. Our fonts, stylesheets and scripts are served from this site’s own server. Video thumbnails load from YouTube’s image servers (i.ytimg.com), so Google receives your IP address and browser user-agent with those requests, as with any web request. The third-party code the site loads is Google Analytics, described below, and, when advertising runs, the ad network’s own scripts.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics 4, a service provided by Google, to understand how the site is used: how many people visit, which pages they read, how they found us, and what kind of device and browser they use. We read these reports in aggregate, to decide what to improve, and never to identify anyone.

What is sent to Google. When a page loads, a script from googletagmanager.com sends Google the address of the page, the page that linked to it, how you use it (for example scrolling, using a share button, or following a link to another site), your browser, device, screen size and language, and your IP address. Google uses the IP address to estimate a coarse location (city, region and country) and to filter out spam. Google says Analytics never links the raw address to an identifier and discards it after use, and that for visitors in the EU, Switzerland and the UK it is not logged or stored at all. See how Google safeguards Analytics data.

Cookies. For visitors outside the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, Google Analytics sets two first-party cookies on this site, _ga and _ga_<ID>. They last up to two years and let it tell a returning browser from a new one. For visitors in those regions it sets no cookies at all, and their visits are counted only through cookieless pings.

No advertising use. Google Signals is switched off, and the site tells Google not to use what it measures here for advertising: for every visitor, ad storage, ad user data and ad personalisation are set to “denied”.

Opting out. You can stop Google Analytics on every website with Google’s opt-out browser add-on, or by blocking cookies or scripts from googletagmanager.com and google-analytics.com in your browser. The site works the same either way. For more, see how Google uses information from sites that use its services.

Advertising and cookies

Apart from the analytics cookies described above, PakMediaTrendz sets no cookies of its own. The site shows no advertising at present, so no advertising cookies are set. We may use Google AdSense to fund the site in future. If we do, third-party vendors, including Google, will use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this and other websites, and Google’s use of advertising cookies will enable it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.

You can opt out of personalised advertising at Google Ads Settings, or opt out of some other third-party vendors’ cookies at www.aboutads.info. Before any ad is shown, we will update this section to name the ad network and to explain how visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland are asked for consent. For more detail, see how Google uses cookies in advertising.

Your choices and rights

You can browse the entire site without submitting anything. You can clear or block local storage and cookies in your browser settings at any time. If you have submitted content and want it corrected or removed, or have any question about your data, email contact@pakmediatrendz.com and we will help.

Children

This is a general-audience site about television and music. It is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes — for example when advertising goes live — we will update this page and revise the date at the top. Significant changes will be visible here rather than announced elsewhere.