Privacy

The form asks for your name, mobile number, email, PIN code and address, and optionally your date of birth. We use them only to issue your receipt and to contact you about your sponsorship. Donors’ names are never shown on this website.

• Payment: you enter your card, UPI or bank details on CCAvenue’s secure page. We never see them.
• Receipt: your details go to our receipt system so the donation receipt can be issued, with your address printed on it.
• WhatsApp: your receipt and seva certificate are sent to the mobile number you give, through WhatsApp.

The form asks how you paid, the amount, the date, the transaction reference (UTR), your name, mobile number and, optionally, email. We use them to match your payment against our bank statement and send your receipt.

Your question is sent to an AI service to write the explanation. Questions and answers are kept for 30 days with email addresses, phone numbers and PAN numbers removed, then the text is deleted. We do not store your IP address. Your browser keeps your last two questions in that tab only, so that follow-up questions make sense. Please don’t type personal details.

If you choose English or हिन्दी with the switch at the top, a cookie remembers your choice for a year. The donation forms use a short-lived security cookie. We use no advertising cookies.

We use Google Analytics to count visits and see which pages are read, so we can improve the site. It sets its own cookies and Google receives the page address, your browser and device type and an approximate location. The payment and receipt-status pages are not counted, and Google never receives the details you type into a form. You can block it with your browser’s privacy settings or an ad blocker; the site works the same.

Your reading progress, saved verses and reading plan are kept in your browser on this device, not on our server. You can clear them on the My reading page.

We do not sell or trade your details. They go only to the services named above (CCAvenue, our receipt system, WhatsApp, the AI service for Ask Gita and Google Analytics), or to others when the law requires it.

Donation records, including your name and contact details, are kept as long as Indian tax and accounting law requires.

This website is run by the trust named below. To see, correct or remove your details, or with any question about this policy, contact us and we will tell you what can be done.