Privacy

This site collects nothing about you. It has no account, no analytics, no advertising trackers and no third-party scripts. We mean to keep it that way.

Religious practice is sensitive data

What you read here can say something about your faith: a prayer, a fast, a festival, a temple. Many privacy laws treat religious belief as sensitive data, and so do we. That is why this site keeps no record of which pages you read, and why it uses no analytics tools and no advertising trackers. Nothing you do here is sold, shared or used to build a profile of you.

What stays in your browser

• If you choose a light or dark theme, or a larger text size, your choice is saved in your browser’s local storage under the names sd-theme and sd-text. It never leaves your device. You can clear it in your browser settings.
• If you use a reading plan and mark a portion as read, the record (which portions, and the day you started) is saved in your browser’s local storage under the name sd-plan- and the plan’s name. It never leaves your device, and the app does not read it. The verse of the day uses your device’s date to pick the verse and sends nothing.
• When you open a prayer, a Gita verse or a library text, this browser remembers where you were, so the library page can offer “Continue reading”: that page’s address and its title, in your browser’s local storage under the name sd-place. It holds no date and no count of days. It never leaves your device. “Forget” on the library page removes it.
• The city you pick, and any calendar choice, is only a page address you open or a setting in your browser. On a vrat page, the city you choose is saved in your browser’s local storage under the name sd-city, so the page shows the dates for that city next time. The search and Ask the texts pages read it only in your browser, to show your country’s help line if a question reads as a crisis. It never leaves your device. We do not store your city on a server, and we do not link it to you.
• On a phone, if you close the “Open in the app” bar, that choice is saved in your browser’s local storage under the name sd-appbar, so the bar does not come back. It never leaves your device.
• Written AI answers on Ask the texts are off today. If they are switched on, the page first shows a short notice about AI answers. When you agree, the version of that notice is saved in your browser’s local storage under the name sd-ai-notice, so the notice does not show again. The page sends this version with your question to our own server. Before the answers are switched on, the Ask the texts section below will say what happens to your question then.

What we do not do

• We do not ask for your location. You choose a city from a list.
• We load no scripts, fonts, images or frames from other websites. The whole site comes from one place.
• We set no cookies. We use no analytics and no advertising tools.
• We do not sell or share data, because we hold none.

Server logs

Our hosting provider keeps ordinary technical logs (address, time, page) for a short time to run and protect the service. We do not use them to follow what a person reads.

Calendar feeds

If you add one of our calendar feeds to Apple Calendar, Google Calendar or another app, that app fetches a file from this site about once a day. Depending on the app, the request comes from your device or from the app maker’s servers. The file is the same for everyone who picks the same city and rule. We set no cookie, and we learn no name or account. Our hosting provider’s ordinary logs record the request, like any other. The feed address names a city and a rule, so the company behind your calendar app can see which feed you chose; its own privacy policy applies to that.

Ask the texts

Ask the texts finds the verses that match your question. It runs in your browser. Today it shows verses only, and no AI writes an answer.

• When you go to the question box, or open a link that has a question in it, the page downloads the search index and the verse lines from this site. These files are the same for everyone. They do not hold your question.
• The page matches your words against the index in your browser. It does not send your question to us or to anyone else, and we keep no list of questions.
• After you ask, your question is put into the page address (for example /ask/?q=karma; on the search page /search/?q=karma or /search/?ask=karma), so that you can share a link to the same search. Your browser keeps this address in its history. If you open the page again, open a link that has a question in it, or ask while JavaScript is off (the form then opens that address), the address goes to our hosting provider like any other page request, and its ordinary logs (see “Server logs” above) may keep it for a short time. If you open a verse from the results, your browser may also send this address to this site with that request. Other sites get only this site’s name, not the address. We do not use these logs to follow what a person asks.
• The page saves nothing in your browser for a search.

Before written AI answers are switched on, we will add a section on them to this page. It will say what happens to your question then: what the page sends to our server, what our server sends to the AI company, and how long each one keeps it. Until that section is here, the written answers stay off.

Problem reports

If you use the report form, it sends the page address, the kind of problem and your words to our own server. We store no name, account, IP address or device with the report. We delete your words 24 months after we close the report, or 3 years after you sent it if it is never closed. The page address, the kind of problem and any fix stay. To stop floods of reports, a one-way code made from your connection’s address (not the address itself) is counted for a minute and deleted within a day. If you email us instead, the email stays in our corrections mailbox only while we work on the fix.

Temple pages

Temple pages are built from public records and from each temple’s own website. They hold no names or contact details of people. If you represent a temple and want its page corrected or removed, tell us. We act within 7 days.

Your account, and getting or deleting your data

This website has no account. The apps have an optional one: it exists only if you turn on sync, and sync copies only what you agree to, item by item. You can get a copy of your data, or delete it, at any time. Your account and your data has both:

• Download my data: from the app, from our server if you use sync, and what this website saved in your browser. If you get the copy from our server on this website, you sign in with Google. During the sign-in, the page keeps a short note in your browser’s session storage under the name sd-account-download-google (two one-time check codes for the sign-in), which goes when you close the tab.
• Delete your account: in the app, or on this website if you no longer have the app. If you delete on this website, you sign in with Google, and we email a code to the address on that sign-in. We use the address once and never store it. While you do this, the page keeps a short note in your browser’s session storage under the name sd-account-delete, and, during the Google sign-in, another under the name sd-account-delete-google (two one-time check codes for the sign-in). Both go when you close the tab.

How long the server keeps it: a consent to sync lasts 12 months, and the app asks you to renew it. If you do not, sync stops, and 30 days later we delete the copy on our server. An account that is not used for 24 months (no sign-in and no sync) is deleted with everything in it. We also keep a log of what was done to each account and when (for example “consent given” or “account deleted”), with no content. The account is shown only by a one-way code, not by its id. Each line stays for one year, also after the account is deleted, and is then deleted, because India’s data protection rules (rule 8(3)) ask for it.

If this changes

Before we add analytics, accounts or location features, we will update this page and say what is collected, why, and how to delete it. Religious practice stays sensitive: any such feature will ask for your clear consent first. Apps for phones will have their own privacy notice.

Who is responsible

Pujadeep is made by Surabhi Agnihotri, an independent developer. Surabhi Agnihotri runs it as an individual, not as a company, and is the person responsible for your personal data (in legal terms, the “controller”). To ask about your data, write to support@pujadeep.com.

Last updated 16 October 2026.