Privacy Policy & Data Protection

1. Commitment to Spiritual Privacy

At GyanDharam (https://www.gyandharam.com/), we honor the sanctity and confidentiality of every seeker’s spiritual study. We ensure that your reading habits, bookmarked shlokas, prayer history, and personal details remain encrypted and strictly protected under global data protection standards (GDPR, IT Act 2000, and DPDP Act 2023).

2. Information We Collect

• Account & Authentication: Name, Email Address for saving reading bookmarks and chapter progress across devices.
• Reading & Audio Telemetry: Timestamp offsets, favorite verses, and playback speed preferences stored locally and encrypted on database servers.
• Payment & Licensing Data: One-time digital chapter unlocks (₹49 / ₹199) processed securely via PCI-DSS compliant Razorpay and UPI gateways. We never store credit card PINs or bank passwords.

3. Digital Rights & Watermarked PDF Security

When downloading licensed offline manuscript PDFs, personal DRM watermarking is generated embedding your authorized seeker email to prevent unlawful redistribution while granting you unconditional personal lifetime study rights.