Privacy Policy

The information collected depends on how you interact with KalaDharma. Visitors can access many public pages without creating an account.

You should provide only information that is accurate, relevant, and necessary for the service you are using.

When submitting information about another person, temple, institution, publisher, or community, you should ensure that you have an appropriate basis or permission to provide it.

Where consent is required, KalaDharma aims to provide a clear explanation of the information requested and the purpose for which it will be used.

You may choose not to provide optional information. However, some features may not work without the information required to provide that service.

You may withdraw consent for optional communications by using the available unsubscribe method or contacting KalaDharma. Withdrawal will not affect processing that was lawfully completed before the withdrawal.

Validator accounts may contain identity, region, language, printed Panchangam, assignment, validation, review, membership, and contribution-history information.

Certain approved contributor details may be displayed publicly only where the contributor has been informed and the applicable profile settings or permissions allow publication.

Passwords should never be stored in readable form in production systems. Authentication will be handled through appropriate account-security controls.

Information submitted for public contributor profiles, regional observances, temple festivals, acknowledgements, or published validation records may become publicly visible after review.

Do not include private phone numbers, personal addresses, confidential documents, or sensitive personal information in a contribution intended for publication unless specifically requested and appropriate.

KalaDharma may request browser-based location access to provide location-relevant sunrise, sunset, Panchanga, or calendar information.

Precise browser location is accessed only after device or browser permission. You may deny or withdraw location permission through your browser or device settings.

Where precise location is unavailable, KalaDharma may use a selected location, regional reference location, or approximate network-derived location.

KalaDharma may use cookies, local storage, session storage, and similar technologies to maintain sessions, remember preferences, improve security, measure website usage, and support website functionality.

Essential technologies may be required for login, security, language preferences, validator sessions, and other requested services.

Optional analytics or marketing technologies should be introduced with appropriate notice and controls where required.

KalaDharma may use privacy-conscious analytics to understand page visits, device categories, referral sources, performance, and general usage patterns.

Analytics information should be used to improve the platform and should not be used to make unrelated decisions about an individual.

KalaDharma may send transactional communications related to registration, authentication, assignments, validation reviews, corrections, account security, purchases, or requested services.

Promotional email, WhatsApp, or similar messages should be sent only where there is an appropriate permission or lawful basis. Users should be provided with a reasonable way to stop optional communications.

Scanning a printed KalaDharma QR code may open a public calendar, launch page, regional month, product page, or digital companion.

Scanning a public QR code does not by itself require account registration. Normal technical access information may still be processed for security, performance, and basic website operation.

KalaDharma may use carefully selected service providers for hosting, email, authentication, messaging, analytics, security, backups, payment processing, delivery, and technical operations.

Service providers should receive only the information reasonably required to perform their assigned service and should be subject to appropriate contractual, confidentiality, and security requirements.

Where KalaDharma enables online purchases, payment information may be processed by an authorized payment provider.

KalaDharma should avoid storing complete card credentials. Order records may include customer details, product, payment status, invoice, delivery, and support information.

KalaDharma does not intend to sell personal information.

Information may be shared with service providers, professional advisers, authorized team members, delivery partners, payment providers, or public authorities where reasonably necessary for the service, security, legal compliance, or protection of rights.

Public contribution information may be published only according to the relevant contribution or profile process.

Some technology providers may process or store information outside India.

Where cross-border processing occurs, KalaDharma will aim to use providers and arrangements consistent with applicable legal requirements and reasonable security safeguards.

Personal information should be retained only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, legal compliance, dispute resolution, security, accounting, or preservation of approved contribution records.

Different retention periods may apply to accounts, assignments, transactions, support requests, consent records, security logs, backups, public contributions, and correction histories.

Information that is no longer required should be deleted, anonymized, or securely archived where appropriate.

KalaDharma aims to use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards appropriate to the nature of the information and the risks involved.

Although reasonable safeguards are used, no website, network, storage system, or electronic transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

Users should protect their passwords, devices, email accounts, and authentication access and should notify KalaDharma if they suspect unauthorized account activity.

KalaDharma is not designed to knowingly collect unnecessary personal information from children.

Where a service involves a child, appropriate consent and safeguards should be obtained from a parent or lawful guardian as required.

Parents or guardians may contact KalaDharma if they believe a child has provided personal information without appropriate permission.

Subject to applicable law and verification of identity, you may contact KalaDharma to request information about your personal data or to seek correction, updating, completion, deletion, withdrawal of consent, or grievance resolution.

Some information may need to be retained where required for legal compliance, security, fraud prevention, accounting, dispute resolution, or preservation of legitimate public contribution records.

Privacy questions, requests, complaints, or suspected data-security concerns may be sent to support@kaladharma.com.

Please include sufficient information to identify the relevant account, request, or interaction. Do not send passwords, payment credentials, or unrelated confidential information by email.

KalaDharma may update this Privacy Policy as the platform, services, technology, or legal requirements change.

The updated date will be shown on this page. Material changes may also be communicated through the website or relevant user channel where appropriate.