Privacy Policy

Dharma Sangrah (“we,” “us,” or “our”) is an open digital sanctuary and educational initiative operated by CodingMantra, based in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. Our mission is to preserve, translate, and make accessible the sacred literature, philosophy, and devotional hymns of Sanatan Dharma for readers worldwide.

This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, store, process, and protect your information when you access our website (dharmasangrah.in), use our reading tools, or interact with our community channels. We handle all data with the utmost transparency, adherence to India's Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act 2023, and alignment with global data privacy best practices.

We adhere strictly to the principle of data minimization. We only collect the minimal personal information necessary to deliver spiritual content and community assistance:

• Contact and Feedback Inquiries: When you submit a message through our Contact page, we collect your name, email address, message subject, message content, and submission timestamp.
• Newsletter Subscriptions: When you subscribe to library updates or festival announcements, we collect your verified email address and subscription timestamp.
• Technical and Diagnostic Logs: When accessing our web server, automated logs may record your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URL, and page request timestamps to monitor service stability, thwart distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, and maintain network security.

We do not collect sensitive personal data such as financial account details, payment credentials, biometric records, or government identification numbers.

To provide a personalized, uninterrupted spiritual experience without requiring account creation, Dharma Sangrah stores your personal reading preferences directly on your device via standard browser localStorage:

• Theme Setting: Remembers your light, dark, or system appearance mode.
• Script & Language Selector: Remembers your preferred translation language (English, Hindi, or Gujarati) for scripture verses and hymns.
• Typography Sizing: Remembers your comfortable reading font size.
• Saved Bookmarks: Keeps your bookmarked verses, aartis, and stories saved locally on your current device.
• Daily Sadhana Reflection: Records whether you have viewed today's daily contemplation to support your daily practice.

These preferences never leave your browser and are not shared with any remote profiling service. You can clear them at any time by clearing your browser cache or site storage.

Dharma Sangrah does not employ invasive tracking cookies, third-party advertising cookies, or cross-site behavioral retargeting pixels.

Any session cookies utilized by our server infrastructure are strictly essential for fundamental site operations (such as load balancing, CSRF protection, and rapid page rendering).

To understand which scriptures, stories, and devotional hymns resonate most with seekers, Dharma Sangrah integrates Google Analytics for Firebase (Firebase Analytics). We utilize this service under privacy-first, non-invasive configurations:

• Page Visits and Navigation: We log aggregated page views (URL path, page title, and content category such as scriptures, stories, or festivals) to measure reader interest and library reach across single-page transitions.
• Language Preference Insights: When you select your preferred reading language (English, Hindi, Gujarati, or Sanskrit), this choice is recorded as an anonymous aggregate property (preferred_language) and event (select_language). This enables our editorial team to prioritize translation efforts and verify multi-lingual coverage for the most sought-after texts.
• Devotional Interactions: Anonymous aggregate events are recorded when readers save bookmarks (bookmark_toggle) or complete daily sadhana reflections (daily_reflection_complete).
• Technical Telemetry: General, non-identifying telemetry such as device category (mobile, desktop, tablet), browser family, and broad country/region-level geography (without precise GPS or geolocation).

What We Never Track: We do not track or transmit personal identifiers (such as names, email addresses, or form submissions) to analytics. We do not use Google Analytics for cross-site behavioral retargeting or commercial advertising profiling.

Your Control and Opt-Out: Our analytics scripts load asynchronously during idle browser time and strictly respect user autonomy. If you utilize content blockers, privacy shields, or browser extensions that disable analytics scripts, Dharma Sangrah remains 100% accessible and fully functional without interruption.

To deliver our web experience reliably, we engage reputable technical service providers (“sub-processors”):

• Google LLC (Firebase & Google Cloud): Provides cloud infrastructure (Firebase App Hosting) and aggregated analytics (Firebase Analytics) subject to strict enterprise data protection terms.
• External Media Embeds: Certain devotional entries provide links to classical recordings or video recitals hosted on platforms like YouTube. Media is never automatically played. When you initiate external playback or visit external sites, their respective privacy policies apply.

All voluntary form submissions, subscriber records, and library data are maintained within secure databases hosted in hardened server environments with encryption in transit via modern Transport Layer Security (TLS/HTTPS).

Access to user correspondence is strictly restricted to authorized administrative personnel who need to review inquiries, correct shloka typographical errors, or maintain infrastructure.

We retain contact inquiries only for the period necessary to investigate feedback, address theological corrections, and resolve correspondence.

Newsletter subscriber records are retained until you choose to unsubscribe. Every newsletter email includes a clear unsubscribe mechanism, and you may also request immediate manual removal at any time by contacting our team.

Under applicable data protection laws, including the DPDP Act 2023 and GDPR guidelines, you possess the following rights regarding your personal information:

• Right of Access: Request confirmation of whether we hold personal data relating to you and obtain a copy.
• Right to Rectification: Request correction of inaccurate, outdated, or incomplete personal details.
• Right to Erasure (“Right to be Forgotten”): Request the permanent deletion of your contact form messages or email subscription.
• Right to Withdraw Consent: Withdraw your consent for newsletter communications at any point without penalty.
• Right to Grievance Redressal: File an inquiry or grievance with our designated Grievance Officer.

Dharma Sangrah provides wholesome, cultural, philosophical, and devotional literature suitable for learners of all ages. We do not knowingly collect, profile, or market to children under the age of 18. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that a child has submitted personal details through our forms, please notify us, and we will promptly delete that data.

We may revise this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect technological enhancements, operational changes, or legal updates. Any modifications will be posted directly to this page with an updated “Last Updated” date. Continued access to the library following updates signifies your acknowledgment of the revised policy.