Privacy

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 _ga cookies to tell returning browsers apart.
  Wherever you are, the control in the footer of every page switches analytics cookies on or off, and your browser remembers the choice. Switching them off also deletes the _ga cookies. 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. Each message you send, together with the earlier messages of the same conversation, goes to our server and on to Anthropic’s API to generate the answer. We do not store the text or attach it to your identity; we record only how many tokens a reply used. The conversation itself stays in your browser tab and is gone when you close it. To limit abuse, we count requests by a one-way hash of your IP address, never the address itself, and those counts expire within about a day. Anthropic deletes API inputs and outputs within 30 days, unless its automated safety systems flag them as violating its Usage Policy, in which case it may keep them for up to 2 years; 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: 5 November 2026. If this page changes materially, the date changes with it.