Privacypolicy

1. Who is responsible

The data controller for this website and the 108K+ Bricks of Love campaign is:

Representative in the European Union (Art. 27 GDPR), for people in the EU and for supervisory authorities:

We follow the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (DPDP Act).

2. Visiting this website

This website is hosted by Netlify, Inc., 101 2nd Street, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA. When you open a page, your browser automatically sends technical information that the server needs to deliver it: your IP address, the date and time, the page requested, the referring page and your browser and operating system. The host keeps this in short-lived server logs for security and to keep the site running.

Legal basis: our legitimate interest in a secure, working website (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). We do not combine this information with other data or use it to identify you. Netlify processes it on our behalf under a data processing agreement. Netlify is certified under the EU–US Data Privacy Framework, which covers transfers to the USA.

3. Cookies, tracking and fonts

This website sets no cookies for visitors and uses no analytics, advertising or tracking tools. It also embeds no social media widgets or videos. Only the campaign team’s password-protected admin page uses one strictly necessary cookie to keep the admin logged in; it is deleted when they log out or after 12 hours.

The fonts are stored on this website itself, so loading them sends no data to Google or any other font service. Links to other websites (for example YouTube or notebook makers in the FAQ) only take you there when you click them; from then on, that website’s own privacy policy applies.

4. Registering your books (optional)

Everyone can take part without registering. If you choose to use the registration form, we process:

• whether you are registering books you are starting or completed books, and how many;
• your name (spiritual or civil), city, country and e-mail address;
• whether you would like to receive campaign updates (optional);
• the date and time of your registration and, only to stop spam, a shortened code made from your IP address that changes every day (we never store the IP address itself).

Why: to count the books started and offered, to show participating cities on the world map, to send you a confirmation e-mail with a personal link to tell us when your book is completed, to give the campaign team a daily overview of new registrations and, only if you ask for it, to send you campaign updates.

What is public: the counter shows totals only. The world map shows cities, never names.

Legal basis: your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR, Section 6 DPDP Act). Because taking part in Likhita Japa can reveal your religious practice, we also rely on your explicit consent under Art. 9(2)(a) GDPR. The short spam-protection code is based on our legitimate interest in keeping the form free of abuse (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). You can withdraw your consent at any time by writing to info@108kbricksoflove.org (people in the EU can also write to dataprotection@bhaktimarga.org), or simply by replying to your confirmation e-mail. Withdrawal does not affect what was done before.

Who sees it: only the campaign team of Bhakti Marga, through a password-protected admin page, and these service providers, who process the data on our behalf under a data processing agreement:

• Netlify, Inc. (USA): hosts the website and stores the registrations in its database (Netlify Database);
• Resend, Inc. (USA): sends the confirmation e-mails and the daily overview;
• OpenStreetMap Foundation (United Kingdom): when a new city is registered, only the city and country name are looked up in OpenStreetMap to place the city on the map. No names or e-mail addresses are sent.

Netlify and Resend are certified under the EU–US Data Privacy Framework, which covers transfers to the USA. The United Kingdom has an EU adequacy decision. We never sell your data or pass it on for advertising.

How long: until six months after the inauguration of the temple (planned for November 2028). After that we delete your data or keep only anonymous totals. If you withdraw your consent earlier, we delete your data without delay. If you unsubscribe from updates, we stop sending them straight away. The spam-protection code is meaningless after one day.

5. Contacting us

If you write to us by e-mail, we use your e-mail address and message only to answer you. Legal basis: Art. 6(1)(b) or (f) GDPR. We delete the correspondence once your question is settled, unless the law requires us to keep it longer.

6. The Special Edition

The Special Edition is not sold on this website. It is only available at the Bhakti Shop in Vrindavan; the shop’s own terms and privacy policy apply to purchases there.

7. Your rights

You have the right to:

• access the personal data we hold about you and receive a copy;
• have incorrect data corrected and incomplete data completed;
• have your data deleted, and to restrict how we use it;
• receive your data in a common, machine-readable format (data portability);
• object to processing based on our legitimate interest;
• withdraw your consent at any time, with effect for the future;
• nominate another person to exercise your rights if you die or become unable to (DPDP Act).

To use any of these rights, write to info@108kbricksoflove.org or, in the EU, to dataprotection@bhaktimarga.org. We answer within one month.

You can also complain to a data protection supervisory authority, for example in the EU country where you live (see the list of EU authorities). In India, if we do not resolve your concern, you can approach the Data Protection Board of India.

8. Children

Children are warmly welcome to write Likhita Japa. To register, you must be 16 or older, or register with the permission of a parent or guardian.

9. Security

This website is only served over an encrypted connection (HTTPS). We protect stored data with appropriate technical and organisational measures, though no system can be guaranteed completely secure.

10. Changes to this policy

We update this policy when the website or the law changes. The date at the top shows the latest version. The general privacy policy of Bhakti Marga India is at bhaktimarga.in.