Privacy Policy

Sanskrit (sanskrit.mayash.org) is a project of Mayash Foundation, a non-profit organization in Jabalpur, India. Mayash Foundation is responsible for the personal information described here (the “data controller” or “data fiduciary”) and is the merchant that receives donations made on this site. “We” and “us” below mean Mayash Foundation.

This policy covers this site only. The Foundation’s own website has its foundation-wide privacy policy, which also applies to the donation service described in section 5.

You do not need an account to read anything here, and we do not ask who you are. We do not use analytics, advertising or tracking tools, and we do not sell or share information for advertising.

Like every website, our servers receive your IP address and basic request details (the page asked for, browser type) when you load a page. Our hosting providers keep these in short-lived logs to deliver the site and keep it secure. Our web server also passes your IP address to our API so the API can limit abusive traffic, such as repeated sign-in attempts.

Accounts are by invitation only: there is no public sign-up. An administrator creates an account for each scholar or contributor. For an account we keep:

• your name and email address, and a phone number if one is added for phone sign-in;
• your password, stored only as a one-way hash, never in readable form;
• your public profile: display name, profile address, an optional short bio, and the languages you work in;
• your role (reader, contributor or administrator), and whether an administrator has disabled the account;
• your sign-in sessions: when each started and expires, and the IP address and browser it came from. You can see these on your account page and sign out of all of them; administrators can see them too, to help keep accounts safe. A session lasts up to seven days;
• the date you accepted the contributor terms, if you have.

Where offered, you may sign in with Google (Google confirms your email address and we keep the link to your Google account) or with your phone number (Google Firebase sends and checks a one-time SMS code). Only email addresses and numbers an administrator has already added can sign in.

Transcriptions, translations, explanations and other versions you write are published on the site straight away, credited to your display name, as the contributor terms on your account page describe. Earlier wording of an edited version is kept as its history. Published contributions are public by design: anyone can read them, and search engines can index them.

The “₹1 for Dharma” button lets you give to Mayash Foundation. When you choose to pay, your browser sends the amount and the phone number you enter to Mayash Foundation’s donation service at mayash.org, which creates a payment order on the Foundation’s Razorpay account with your phone number and a note that the gift came from this site. Razorpay’s own checkout window then collects your payment details.

This site never receives or stores your card, UPI or bank details; Razorpay handles them under its own privacy policy. Donation records are kept by Mayash Foundation, as described in its privacy policy.

We set only cookies the site needs to work or to remember a choice you made. None is used for tracking or advertising.

• sanskrit_session: keeps you signed in. Set only when you sign in; not readable by scripts; ends when you sign out or after seven days.
• NEXT_LOCALE: the interface language you picked in the menu. Set only when you pick one; kept for a year.
• reading_script and meaning_lang: the script you read verses in and the language of their meaning, if you change them.
• sanskrit_reading and sanskrit_compare: how verses are displayed (text sizes, which parts are shown) and the language you compare with.

Your light or dark theme is kept in your browser’s local storage. In browsers that support it, a service worker keeps copies of pages you have read and of the site’s files on your device, so they open again offline and when you install the site as an app; it never keeps sign-in, account, editing or administration pages. Signing in with Google, where offered, sets short-lived cookies on our API’s address during the sign-in.

You can delete all of these at any time by clearing this site’s data in your browser; you will be signed out and your choices reset.

We share information only with the service providers that run the site for us, each only to provide its service:

• Vercel, which hosts the website;
• Railway, which hosts our API and database (in Singapore);
• Razorpay, which processes donation payments for Mayash Foundation;
• Google, only if you use Google or phone sign-in where offered.

The WhatsApp button opens a chat with the Foundation in WhatsApp, run by Meta under its own policy; we receive only what you choose to send. We may also disclose information when the law requires it, or to protect the rights, property or safety of the Foundation, our contributors or others.

Your information may be processed outside India, including in Singapore, where our API and database run, and wherever our hosting providers operate. We keep account information while your account exists. Sessions end when you sign out or expire. If you ask us to delete your account, we delete your sign-in details and sessions; the versions you published stay published under the contributor terms, with their credit.

You can ask us to tell you what we hold about you, to correct it, or to delete your account, and you can withdraw a consent you gave. Your account page shows your profile, your ways to sign in and your sessions. For anything else, write to privacy@mayash.org.

This site is not meant for children under 18, and accounts are given only to invited contributors. If we learn that we hold information about a child without a parent’s or guardian’s consent, we will delete it.

When what the site does changes, we update this page and its “Last updated” date. Please read it again from time to time. See also our Terms and Conditions.

Questions, requests and complaints about privacy go to Mayash Foundation:

Organization

Mayash Foundation

Email

privacy@mayash.org

Phone / WhatsApp

+91 99931 35837 · WhatsApp

Address

132, North Milloniganj, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh 482002, India