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We collect as little as possible, and we say plainly what we do collect.
- No accounts, no mailing list. You never need to sign up or give us an email address to read or use anything here.
- Analytics. We use Google Analytics 4 to see, in aggregate, which pages are useful and where visitors come from. Google signals, advertising storage and ads personalisation are switched off for everyone. Whether it uses cookies depends on where you are, which Google’s tag works out from your IP address:
- In the UK, the EU and the rest of the European Economic Area, and Switzerland (and their territories), it runs in cookieless mode unless you switch analytics cookies on. Analytics storage is denied, so it sets no cookies and cannot tell returning browsers apart.
- Everywhere else, analytics cookies are on by default: it sets the first-party
_gacookies to tell returning browsers apart.
_gacookies. We do not use analytics for advertising or to identify you, and we do not share the data with anyone else. - The tools. The tools run entirely in your browser. The journal, mala counter, daily-verse streak and kept verses save their state in your browser’s local storage; nothing about your practice is sent to us, and clearing your browser’s site data removes it.
- Ask the Dharma. The text you type is sent to our server and on to Anthropic’s API to generate the reflection. We do not store it or attach it to your identity. Anthropic may keep it for up to 30 days under its API data-retention policy and then deletes it; see how long Anthropic stores API data.
- Hosting. The site is served by Vercel, which keeps standard, short-lived server logs (such as IP addresses) to run and protect the service.
- We don’t sell your data. Ever.
Data controller: Tim Yu, e-Buddhism.com, Singapore. Questions or requests about your data are welcome via the contact page.
Effective date: 24 October 2026. If this page changes materially, the date changes with it.