Applies to hansabenporiya.com
This Privacy Policy explains what information hansabenporiya.com (“the website”, “we”, “us”) collects when you use it, why we collect it, and the choices you have. The website is run by the family and team of devotional singer Hansaben Poriya, Surat, Gujarat, India, to share Gujarati kirtans, bhajans, lyrics and devotional stories.
You can use most of the website — reading lyrics, articles, Gods History, the Mahabharata and the Ramayana, watching videos and printing lyrics — without creating an account or giving us any personal information.
1. Information you give us
We only collect personal information when you choose to use a feature that needs it:
- Google sign-in: when you sign in with Google, we receive your name, email address, profile photo and Google account ID from Google. We never see or store your Google password.
- Favourites and likes: the kirtans you like are saved to your account so you can find them again.
- Messages: if you use the Messages page, we store the messages you send and our replies.
- Contact form: when you send the contact form, we store your name, email, phone number (optional), subject and message so that we can reply.
2. Information collected automatically
Like almost every website, our hosting providers automatically record technical information when pages are requested, such as IP address, browser type, device type, pages visited and the date and time. This is used to keep the website secure (for example, to block abuse through rate limiting), to fix errors and to understand overall usage. It is not used to identify you personally.
We also use Google Analytics to understand how many people visit the website, which pages they read and how they found us. Google Analytics uses cookies and collects anonymised usage information; it does not tell us who you are. You can install the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on to stop this.
- Google Analytics opt-out add-on: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
3. Cookies and local storage
The website stores a few small items in your browser so that it works the way you expect:
- Your sign-in session (so you stay signed in).
- Your preferred language (English, Gujarati or Hindi).
- Your preferred text size for stories.
Third-party services described below (Google sign-in, YouTube and Google advertising) may also set their own cookies.
4. Advertising (Google AdSense)
We may show advertisements provided by Google AdSense to keep this website free. Google and its partners use cookies to serve ads based on your previous visits to this website and other websites on the internet. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to hansabenporiya.com and/or other sites.
You can opt out of personalised advertising at any time in Google’s Ads Settings. You can also opt out of some third-party vendors’ use of cookies for personalised advertising at aboutads.info. Visitors from the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland are asked for their consent through a consent message before personalised ads are shown.
- How Google uses information from sites that use its services: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites
- Google Ads Settings (turn off personalised ads): https://adssettings.google.com
- Opt out of third-party advertising cookies: https://www.aboutads.info/choices
5. YouTube videos
Kirtan videos are hosted on YouTube. A video player from YouTube is loaded only when you press play. YouTube (Google) may then collect information and set cookies according to its own privacy policy.
- Google Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
6. How we use your information
- To provide your account, favourites and Messages features.
- To reply to your messages and contact requests.
- To keep the website secure and prevent spam and abuse.
- To improve the website and its content.
We do not sell, rent or trade your personal information to anyone, and we do not send marketing emails.
7. Where your information is stored
The website is hosted by Vercel (website) and Render (server), and data is stored in a MongoDB Atlas database. These providers may store data on servers outside India. Access to the data is limited to the people who run this website.
8. How long we keep it and your choices
We keep your account information, favourites and messages for as long as your account exists, and contact form messages for as long as needed to respond. You can ask us at any time to see, correct or delete your personal information and account by emailing support@hansabenporiya.com. We will respond within 30 days.
9. Children’s privacy
The website is suitable for all ages, but accounts are not intended for children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has given us personal information, please contact us and we will delete it.
10. Changes to this policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The “Last updated” date at the top shows when it was last changed. Continuing to use the website after a change means you accept the updated policy.
11. Contact us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or your information, contact us:
- Email: support@hansabenporiya.com