Privacy policy

RishiSetu is an app for learning Vedic astrology, numerology, Vastu Shastra and Samudrika Shastra. This policy covers the website rishisetu.com and the learning app at app.rishisetu.com. Here “we” means RishiSetu, and “you” means you, the learner.

You can write to us about anything in this policy at hello@rishisetu.com.

When you use the app, we keep:

• Your email address, to sign you in. If you sign in with Google, Google also gives us your name and an account number that tells your Google sign-ins apart.
• The name you give for your certificates, and the language you choose.
• Your learning: the lessons you finish, your answers and scores, XP, streaks, badges, exam results and certificates.
• The questions you ask Guruji, Guruji’s answers, and whether you marked an answer helpful.
• Where you came from when you joined: the website or campaign that sent you (a search engine or a shared link, for example), the page you landed on, and who invited you if you joined through an invite link.
• Your birth date, time and place, if you add them in My birth chart. They are saved on your device. To draw your chart, the app sends them to our server, which calculates the chart and does not save them to your account.
• The network address (IP address) a sign-in code was asked from, to stop misuse.
• Your email address, if you ask us to tell you when sign-in opens.
• Your visits to the website and the app, measured by Google Analytics: the pages you open, your type of device and browser, your approximate region (a city or country), and how you arrived (from a search or a link, for example).

We collect no payment details: RishiSetu takes no payments today. The app uses a sign-in cookie to keep you signed in, and keeps your settings on your device. The website and the app also use Google Analytics, which sets its own cookies (see “Who else handles it”).

We use your data to run RishiSetu for you:

• to teach you: to show your lessons, check your answers and bring back what you missed;
• to keep your place, so your progress follows you to any device;
• to issue your certificates, and the public page where anyone can check one;
• to send the codes that sign you in;
• to answer the questions you ask Guruji, and to improve the lessons and answers by looking at what learners ask;
• to see, as totals, which places bring learners to RishiSetu and which pages they use (with Google Analytics);
• to keep RishiSetu safe and working: to stop misuse and to find and fix faults.

Your email address is used for signing in and for messages about your account or about RishiSetu itself, and for nothing else.

Your data is kept on RishiSetu’s own server in Oracle Cloud’s Mumbai region, in India.

The connection between your device and RishiSetu is encrypted (HTTPS). Database backups are encrypted before they are stored, and access to the server is limited to the people who run RishiSetu.

The visit measurements of Google Analytics are kept by Google on its own servers, which may be outside India.

A few services do part of the work for us. Each receives what its task needs:

• Google, when you choose “Continue with Google”. Google confirms who you are; we never see your Google password. If you sign in with an email code, Google is not involved.
• The email provider that delivers your sign-in codes. It receives your email address and the code.
• An AI service provider that writes Guruji’s answers. It receives your question and the lesson you are on, not your email address or your name.
• The network service that carries traffic to our server and protects it from attacks. Your requests pass through it on their way to us.
• Google Analytics, a Google service that measures visits to the website and the app: the pages viewed, the device and browser, the approximate region, and how people arrived. It uses cookies to do this. It never receives your name, your email address, your sign-in codes or your birth details, and we do not use it for advertising (its advertising features are switched off). To opt out, block or delete cookies for rishisetu.com in your browser, or install Google’s Analytics opt-out browser add-on (tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout).

We do not sell, rent or trade your personal data. RishiSetu shows no ads and uses no advertising trackers. We share data with the authorities if Indian law requires it, and in no other case.

We keep your data for as long as you have an account. Sign-in codes stop working after 10 minutes. Google Analytics keeps its records of visits for at most 14 months; after that, just the totals remain.

When you delete your account, your email address, progress, answers, certificates and questions to Guruji are removed from our database at once, and the public pages of your certificates stop working. Encrypted backups are replaced on a rolling basis, so your data leaves them within a short time after that.

India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 gives you these rights over your personal data:

• Access: ask for a summary of the data we hold about you and how we use it.
• Correction: ask us to correct, complete or update it. You can change your name and language yourself in the app.
• Erasure: ask us to delete it, or delete your account yourself.
• Withdrawing consent: stop at any time by deleting your account. This does not undo what was done lawfully before.
• Grievance: tell us when something is wrong, and get an answer.
• Nomination: name a person who can use these rights for you if you die or cannot act for yourself.

To delete your account, open the app and go to You → Delete account. For anything else, write to hello@rishisetu.com from the email address of your account, so we know the request is yours. We reply within 30 days.

If you are not satisfied with our answer, you can complain to the Data Protection Board of India.

If you are under 18, you need the consent of a parent or guardian to use RishiSetu, and they should read this policy with you.

If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has an account without your consent, write to us and we will delete it. RishiSetu shows no ads and builds no advertising profile of anyone, children included.

If we change this policy, we will update this page and the date at the top. If a change affects how we use your data in an important way, we will tell you in the app or by email before it takes effect.

Write to RishiSetu at hello@rishisetu.com. Please write from the email address of your account when your message is about your data.