Privacy Policy
Effective Date: 14 August 2026PowerCut.Live (“we,” “our,” or “us”) respects your privacy. This policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, store, and protect information when you use our website, maps, outage reporting tools, alerts, and related services.
1. Information We Collect
We may collect information you provide directly, including your name, email address, outage reports, confirmations, comments, feedback, and support messages. We may also collect device and browser information, IP address, pages visited, usage information, approximate location when you enable location features, and advertising or analytics identifiers where permitted.
2. How We Use Information
We use information to operate and improve the Service, display outage information, moderate user content, respond to support requests, prevent abuse, maintain security, measure performance, provide advertising where enabled, and comply with law.
3. Google AdSense and Advertising Cookies
PowerCut.Live may use Google AdSense and other advertising partners to display advertisements. Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies, web beacons, IP addresses, local storage, or similar technologies to serve, measure, limit, and improve advertising based on a user's visit to this website or other websites, subject to applicable law and user choices.
Google's advertising cookies may allow Google and its partners to serve ads based on visits to PowerCut.Live and/or other sites on the internet. Other third-party vendors or advertising networks may also use cookies or similar technologies where enabled.
Users may manage or opt out of personalized advertising through Google Ads Settings. Users may also review third-party advertising choices through YourAdChoices. Information about Google's partner-site data practices is available through Google's partner-site privacy information.
4. Cookies and Analytics
We use necessary technologies for the Service and may use analytics and advertising technologies to understand usage, measure performance, prevent abuse, and support advertising. Where consent is legally required, we will obtain consent before using non-essential cookies or similar technologies for the relevant purpose. Browser controls and the advertising controls above may also be used to manage cookies. For users in the EEA, UK, and Switzerland, applicable advertising consent requirements are handled in accordance with Google's publisher requirements and applicable law, including use of a Google-certified consent management platform when required for personalized advertising.
5. Location Data
PowerCut.Live does not perform background tracking or continuous GPS monitoring. Location access is requested only for location-based features and may be denied or revoked through device settings.
6. User Reports
Outage reports, confirmations, comments, and other submitted content may be stored, processed, analyzed, and displayed as part of the Service. Do not submit information you do not want to be public.
7. Sharing
We do not sell personal data. Information may be shared with service providers that operate hosting, databases, maps, analytics, advertising, authentication, or email services; when required by law; to protect users and the platform; or during a business transfer.
8. Retention and Storage
Information is retained only as reasonably necessary for the Service, legal obligations, dispute resolution, security, moderation, and historical analysis. Data may be processed in India or other countries by infrastructure providers with appropriate safeguards.
9. Your Rights
Depending on applicable law, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict, or object to certain processing, withdraw consent, change device permissions, and opt out of non-essential analytics or personalized advertising where available.
10. Contact
For privacy questions, complaints, or requests, use the Contact page.
11. Children
PowerCut.Live is not intended for children under 18. We do not knowingly process children's personal data without appropriate consent where required by law.
12. Changes
We may update this policy from time to time and will revise the effective date when changes are made.