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Privacy Policy

Last updated: April 30, 2026

Temples of India is a devotee-led, non-profit temple knowledge platform. This policy explains how we handle information connected to accounts, temple contributions, uploaded images, communications, and platform operations.

We do not sell personal information. We use information to run, secure, improve, and moderate the platform.

Information You Provide

We collect the information you choose to share when you create an account, sign in, contribute temple details, upload images, submit writing, contact us, or participate in review workflows.

This may include your name, email address, profile image, authentication details, contributor profile information, submitted text, uploaded media, edit history, review decisions, and messages you send to us.

Temple Contributions

Temple information, corrections, photographs, comments, and other contributions are meant to improve a public knowledge platform. Approved contributions may appear publicly on temple pages, blog pages, contributor pages, search results, or other public areas of the site.

We may keep attribution, edit history, moderation notes, and audit records where needed to preserve context, protect platform integrity, and understand how public temple information changed over time.

Information Collected Automatically

We may collect basic technical information such as IP address, browser type, device information, pages visited, request timestamps, error logs, rate-limit signals, and security events.

This information helps us keep the platform reliable, prevent abuse, diagnose issues, measure site performance, and understand how the platform is used.

How We Use Information

We use information to operate the directory, authenticate users, review contributions, publish approved content, send account or verification emails, protect the platform, improve search and discovery, and respond to support requests.

We do not sell personal information. We also do not use contact emails submitted for support or contribution requests to send unrelated marketing.

Support and Donations

At present, support and donation interest is handled by email contact. Please do not send sensitive payment details, bank information, government IDs, or passwords through email.

If we add a formal donation or payment flow later, we will use appropriate payment providers and update the relevant public information before collecting payment details through the site.

Service Providers

We use service providers for hosting, database infrastructure, object storage, authentication, email delivery, analytics, rate limiting, and security monitoring.

These providers process information only as needed to support the platform and its operations.

Your Choices

You may contact us to request access, correction, or deletion of personal information associated with your account, subject to operational, legal, and archival requirements.

Some public contribution records may be retained when needed to preserve attribution, moderation history, platform integrity, or the accuracy and continuity of temple information.

Security and Retention

We use reasonable technical and organizational safeguards, including access controls, authentication safeguards, rate limiting, and secure infrastructure practices.

We retain information for as long as needed to operate the platform, preserve public contribution history, comply with obligations, resolve disputes, and prevent misuse. No internet service can guarantee complete security, but we work to reduce risk and respond to issues responsibly.

Contact

For privacy requests or questions, contact us at contact@templesofindia.org.