Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how Bhajan Baan collects, uses, shares, and protects your information when you use our website, account features, bhajan submissions, live sabhas, and paid plans.

1. Information We Collect

• Account data: name, display name, email, hashed password, optional avatar/mobile.
• Content data: bhajan submissions, edits, reports, comments, and community posts.
• Usage data: search activity, bhajan page views, source/referrer information, campaign parameters, likes/bookmarks, moderation actions, and session logs.
• Device and technical data: IP address, browser/device details, cookie/local storage identifiers, and approximate location for nearby sabha features (when allowed).
• Payment/subscription data: plan, transaction status, and billing references from payment partners; we do not store full card details on our servers.

2. How We Use Information

• To create and manage user accounts and authentication.
• To review, publish, and moderate submitted bhajan content.
• To run community and live-sabha features.
• To process subscriptions, payments, and account benefits.
• To send transactional emails (for example verification, review decisions, alerts).
• To understand which bhajans and discovery sources are most useful to readers.
• To detect abuse, enforce policies, and improve reliability and performance.

3. Legal Bases and Consent

We process data to provide our services, comply with legal obligations, protect platform safety, and with your consent where required (for example optional notifications/location).

4. Sharing of Information

• With infrastructure and service providers needed to run Bhajan Baan.
• With payment processors (such as Razorpay) for billing and subscription processing.
• With email providers for transactional communication delivery.
• When required by law, legal process, fraud prevention, or rights protection.

5. Cookies, Local Storage, and Analytics

We use cookies and local storage for login sessions, preferences, security, and basic analytics. You can control cookies through your browser settings, though some features may not work properly if disabled.

For bhajan analytics, we may store a temporary first-party session identifier in your browser session storage. We use it to count page views, unique visitors, traffic source type, referring website, landing page, campaign parameters, and device type. This helps us improve devotional content discovery and does not require us to store raw IP addresses in the bhajan view analytics table.

6. Advertising and Google AdSense

Bhajan Baan may display advertisements through Google AdSense and related Google advertising services. Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies, web beacons, IP addresses, device identifiers, or similar technologies to serve ads, measure ad performance, prevent fraud, and limit repeated ads.

• Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to Bhajan Baan or other websites.
• Google’s use of advertising cookies enables Google and its partners to serve ads based on visits to this site and/or other sites on the internet.
• Other third-party ad vendors or ad networks may also use cookies or similar technologies if enabled through Google advertising services.
• You can manage or opt out of personalized Google ads at Google My Ad Center. You can also manage browser cookies through your browser settings or visit aboutads.info for participating third-party advertising choices.
• You can read more about how Google uses information from sites and apps using Google services at Google partner sites policy and how Google uses advertising cookies at Google advertising technologies.

7. Data Retention

We retain data as long as needed for service operation, moderation integrity, legal compliance, and legitimate business purposes. Retention periods vary by data type.

8. Your Rights

• You may request access, correction, or deletion of your personal data.
• You may request account closure, subject to legal/compliance obligations.
• You can opt out of non-essential communications where applicable.

9. Security

We use technical and organizational safeguards to protect data. However, no internet transmission or storage system is 100% secure.

10. Children’s Privacy

Bhajan Baan is not intended for children under 13. If we learn that personal data from a child under 13 has been collected without proper authorization, we will remove it.

11. Policy Updates

We may update this Privacy Policy over time. Material changes will be reflected with a revised “Last updated” date and, where appropriate, additional notice.

12. Contact

For privacy-related requests, contact: support@bhajanbaan.com