Privacy Policy

1. What Valkala Collects

You can read Valkala and use its devotional tools without creating an account. Valkala receives personal information when you choose to contact us: your name, email address, selected topic, message, and the technical information ordinarily sent with a web request.

2. Information Stored in Your Browser

LocalStorage keeps preferences and tool state on your device, including interface language and theme, reader mode, long-form reading position, font and audio choices, onboarding hints, recently read and favorite texts, saved, compared and recently viewed product guides, your Pooja Queue, Japa progress, history and streaks, and an optional internal-traffic marker used by site operators. This browser data is not submitted through the contact form. You can remove it by clearing site data in your browser.

3. Contact Form Processor

The contact form sends the fields you enter to FormSubmit, a third-party form delivery service, which forwards the message to [email protected]. Do not include passwords, financial data, health records, government identifiers, or other sensitive information. FormSubmit’s own processing is described in its privacy and terms notice.

4. Analytics

Google Analytics 4 loads only when Valkala is deployed with a valid production measurement ID and the browser has not been marked as internal traffic. When active, it can set a first-party identifier and receive page location and title, reader-mode and reading-depth interactions, approximate location, and browser or device information. Valkala configures the analytics stream without Google Signals or advertising-personalization signals. If no measurement ID is configured, or an operator has opted that browser out as internal traffic, the Google Analytics script is not loaded. See Google’s Privacy Policy for Google’s processing practices.

5. Advertising and Cookies

Valkala uses Google AdSense to show advertisements on its pages. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a visitor’s prior visits to this website or to other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to Valkala and/or other sites on the Internet. Advertising cookies and similar identifiers may record which ads were shown and whether they were clicked, along with your browser, device and approximate location.

You can opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google’s Ads Settings. You can also opt out of some third-party vendors’ use of cookies for personalised advertising at www.aboutads.info, and, in the EEA and UK, at youronlinechoices.eu. If you opt out, you may still see ads, but they will not be personalised. How Google uses information from sites that use its services is explained at How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services, and its advertising cookies at Google advertising technologies.

Where the law requires consent for advertising cookies, such as in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, Valkala asks for it through a Google-certified consent message before personalised ads are shown. Advertising does not influence which texts, sources or practices Valkala publishes. Individual product pages on Pooja Essentials use affiliate links instead and do not load ads; see the Affiliate Disclosure.

6. Use, Retention, and Your Choices

Contact details are used to respond to inquiries, investigate corrections, and protect the service from abuse. Messages may remain in our email records for as long as reasonably needed for those purposes. To request access, correction, or deletion of a contact message, email [email protected] from the address used in the message. You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings; the reader works without them. Applicable rights depend on your location and should be assessed for your circumstances.

7. Contact

For privacy questions, contact Valkala Editorial at [email protected].