🪔 1. Our Sacred Covenant: Privacy in a Digital Mandir
In traditional Sanatana Dharma culture, walking into a temple (mandir) or sitting for dawn japa (mantra repetition) is an inward, deeply personal spiritual act (antarmukha sadhana). A devotee does not expect someone lurking behind temple pillars noting down which deity they revere, how many verses they chant, or what prayers bring tears to their eyes.
Stotra Darshan is built on that identical temple sanctity. We recognize that when you visit this platform at 4:30 AM during Brahma Muhurta to recite the Hanuman Chalisa, Vishnu Sahasranama, or Shri Rudram, your spiritual communion is sacred. Our architecture is designed from the ground up around Client-Side Sovereignty & Zero-Tracking Devotion.
"We believe that a sacred prayer library must never treat a devotee as a digital commodity. We do not sell, rent, monetize, or broker personal seeker data to data aggregators, marketers, or analytics brokers."
🔓 2. Zero Mandatory Accounts & Registration-Free Devotion
Unlike modern commercial websites that force users to register, surrender email addresses, link social media profiles, or provide phone numbers before accessing content, Stotra Darshan is 100% open and registration-free.
You never need to log in, create a username, or remember a password to:
- 📖 Read, chant, and study all 100+ Sanskrit Stotras, Sahasranamas, Chalisas, Ashtakams, Kavachams, and Suktams.
- 🌐 Transliterate any hymn in real time across 11 authentic Indic scripts (Devanagari, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Gujarati, Bengali, Odia, Gurmukhi, IAST, and English).
- 🖼️ Contemplate sacred artwork in our synchronized, fullscreen Visual Gallery (Chitra Katha).
- 🎶 Listen to continuous Vedic audio chanting with repeat loops and playback speed controls.
- 🎨 Generate, customize, and download high-resolution devotional manuscript cards via the Canvas Card Maker.
You enter our sanctuary, immerse yourself in divine prayer, and leave with complete anonymity.
💾 3. Client-Side Sovereignty: Browser LocalStorage
To deliver a personalized, distraction-free devotional experience without relying on remote user accounts, Stotra Darshan uses standard browser localStorage purely on your personal device.
The following preferences are saved strictly within your device's browser sandbox:
Script & Language Preference
Remembers your chosen Indic script (e.g., Sanskrit Devanagari, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, or Roman IAST) so subsequent hymns open instantly in your preferred mother script.
Interface Language Setting
Stores your chosen interface navigation language (English, Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam) for buttons, tabs, and category headings.
Saved Favorite Stotras
Maintains your private list of bookmarked stotras on My Favorites for quick daily access during puja rituals.
Audio Chanting Memory
Remembers your preferred audio volume and chanting speed multiplier (e.g., 0.8x for slow study, 1.0x for standard recitation).
Visual Gallery Subtitle Toggles
Remembers your preferences for hiding or showing verse lines and word meanings during fullscreen visual gallery contemplation.
Sandalwood & Tulsi Theme
Maintains our permanent Sandalwood Cream and Tulsi Green daytime palette designed to prevent eye strain during long recitations.
🛡️ Zero Server Transmission Guarantee
Every single item listed above lives exclusively inside your device's web browser. It is never transmitted across the internet to our servers or stored in any database. If you clear your browser's cache or site data, this information is permanently wiped without a trace.
🎨 4. Visual Gallery & Devotional Canvas Card Maker
Our Visual Gallery (Chitra Katha) and Card Studio allow seekers to contemplate high-resolution classical artwork and generate beautiful manuscript-bordered quote cards for personal meditation or sharing with family.
All card generation is executed 100% client-side using the HTML5 Canvas API in your browser:
- When you click "Make Card" or download an image, your computer or phone's local processor renders the sacred verse, selected script, and decorative border.
- No customized image, generated graphic, or verse snippet is ever uploaded, cached, or recorded on our servers.
- Your artistic devotional expressions remain completely confidential to your personal device.
📢 5. Google AdSense, Cookies & Ethical Publisher Standards
Stotra Darshan is maintained as a free public spiritual offering (seva) to devotees across the world. To sustain high-speed cloud server hosting, multi-region CDN delivery, high-definition image bandwidth, and continuous audio streaming without paywalls, we display non-intrusive banner advertisements provided by Google AdSense.
Third-Party Advertising Disclosures (Google AdSense & DoubleClick DART Cookies)
Under Google's Publisher Policies, General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA/CPRA), and Indian Information Technology regulations, we disclose the following third-party cookie practices:
- Google as a Third-Party Vendor: Google uses cookies, including the DoubleClick DART cookie, to serve advertisements on Stotra Darshan based on a seeker's visits to this website and other websites across the internet.
- Personalized Advertising: Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.
- Opting Out of Personalized Ads: You may opt out of personalized Google advertising at any time by visiting Google Ads Settings.
- Industry Opt-Out Portals: You can also opt out of third-party vendor use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting AboutAds.info Opt-Out Portal or the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI).
🪔 Our Reverent Ad Safety Guarantee
Because Stotra Darshan is a temple sanctuary, our advertisement implementation adheres to strict devotional standards that go far beyond standard internet guidelines:
- Strictly Zero Ads in Prayer: Advertisements are strictly prohibited inside verse recitation cards, between mantra couplets, or over sacred deity iconography.
- Zero Audio Interruptions: Auto-playing video or audio advertisements are completely disabled to ensure your japa and meditation are never disturbed.
- Zero Intrusive Pop-ups: We never display modal screen takeovers, countdown blockers, or deceptive clickbait overlays.
- Sattvic Ad Category Filtering: We actively filter and block ad categories that contradict dharmic ethos—including gambling, betting, adult content, predatory lending, alcohol, and political sensationalism.
- Zero Ads on Support & Seva: Our voluntary donation sanctuary contains zero advertisements.
🙏 6. Voluntary Seva, Dakshina & Payment Security
Devotees who wish to support the preservation of ancient Sanskrit hymns, hosting infrastructure, and multilingual audio production may offer voluntary dakshina on our Support & Seva Page.
How Payments are Handled:
- Direct Banking Rails: Voluntary contributions made via UPI (Unified Payments Interface) using the PhonePe QR code or VPA ID (
9849303310@axl) are executed entirely inside your trusted banking application (PhonePe, Google Pay, BHIM, Paytm, or your bank's mobile app) through the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) network. - Beneficiary Identity: All voluntary contributions are received by our project steward, Wunudurthy Vamsi Vikas, exclusively for sustaining platform infrastructure and literary digitization.
- Zero Financial Data Retention: Stotra Darshan never requests, views, processes, or stores your bank account numbers, debit/credit card CVVs, net banking credentials, or UPI PINs.
- Voluntary Devotion: Contributions are 100% voluntary. No hymn, audio chant, or visual gallery scene is ever withheld or placed behind a paywall.
🖥️ 7. Web Server Infrastructure & Technical Logs
Like all standard web servers across the internet, our hosting infrastructure automatically records transient technical access logs whenever a web page is requested.
These standard HTTP access logs include:
- Anonymized IP address of the requesting device
- Browser user-agent string and operating system architecture
- Specific requested URL path (e.g.
/pages/stotras/shri-hanuman-chalisa.html) - HTTP response status code (e.g. 200 OK) and transfer byte size
- Date and timestamp of the network request
Purpose & Security: These technical logs are used strictly for network performance diagnostics, detecting server faults, defending against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, and blocking automated scrapers. They are never linked to personal identities and are automatically rotated and purged on a standard schedule.
👶 8. Protection of Children's Privacy
In Sanatana Dharma families, spiritual stotras and devotional shlokas are chanted by seekers of all generations—from young children memorizing the Ganesh Stotra or Gayatri Mantra to elderly grandparents.
Stotra Darshan is a strictly family-safe, educational, and devotional environment. We fully comply with the United States Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDPA 2023):
- We do not knowingly collect, solicit, or maintain personal information from children under 13 years of age (or under 18 under applicable Indian legislation).
- Because our platform requires zero accounts, children may recite and listen to sacred hymns in complete safety without surrendering identity.
- If a parent or guardian discovers that personal data was inadvertently transmitted to our contact desk, please contact us immediately for swift removal.
⚖️ 9. Global Seeker Rights (GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, and India DPDPA 2023)
Regardless of whether you access Stotra Darshan from India, North America, the European Union, the United Kingdom, or Australia, we extend full respect to your fundamental privacy rights:
- Right to Transparency & Notice: You have the right to be informed clearly and simply about what minimal data is processed when visiting our platform.
- Right to Self-Erasure & Reset: You can completely erase your saved reading preferences, bookmarked hymns, and audio volume states at any time by clearing your browser's local cache or using our one-click tool below.
- Right to Non-Discrimination: We will never withhold content, degrade performance, or restrict stotras if you choose to utilize privacy-focused browsers (such as Brave or Firefox), enable "Do Not Track" signals, or block third-party cookies.
- Right to Opt-Out: You retain complete autonomy to opt out of third-party advertising cookies via official industry opt-out portals.
🛡️ Your Client-Side Privacy Controls
Because all your favorite stotras, script selections, and player preferences reside solely in your browser, you have absolute power over your data.
✉️ 10. Seva Desk, Grievance Redressal & Contact
If you have any questions, suggestions, feedback regarding this Privacy Policy, or wish to report a scriptural correction, our devotional seva desk is here to serve you: