Legal

Privacy policy

Ananta Naad has no accounts, no analytics and no advertising. Your preferences stay in your own browser.

Last updated 9 August 2026

The short version

There are no user accounts, so there is nothing to sign up for.
We do not run analytics, tracking pixels or advertising scripts.
We do not build a profile of you and we do not sell or share personal data.
Your theme, saved mantras and chosen city are stored in your own browser and never sent to us.
Starting a chant loads a YouTube player, at which point YouTube can see your request.

Who is responsible

Ananta Naad is published by an individual, not a company. That individual is responsible for how this site handles your information.

You can reach us at anantanaad.studio@gmail.com.

What we collect

Nothing that identifies you is collected by this site. There is no registration form, no newsletter, no comment system and no analytics service.

Like any website, the servers that deliver these pages process the technical details of your request — your IP address, the page requested, and your browser's user-agent — in order to return a response and to keep the service secure. This is ordinary server operation and is not used to profile you.

What is stored on your device

The list below is the complete inventory. Every entry is first-party, stays in your browser, and is never transmitted to us.

Strictly necessary

an:brand-loader-played
sessionStorage
Marks that the opening title animation has already played, so it is not repeated while you browse.
Kept: Cleared when you close the browser tab.
an:consent:v1
localStorage
Records your last consent decision, and when it was made, so the site can honour it without asking again. Written only after you actually make a choice.
Kept: Until you reset it on the Privacy choices page or clear this site's data.

Preferences

an-theme
localStorage
Remembers whether you chose the dark or light appearance.
Kept: Until you clear this site's data.
an:favourites:v1
localStorage
The list of mantra addresses you saved with the heart control, plus the date you saved each one.
Kept: Until you remove them or clear this site's data.
an:calendar-location:v1
localStorage
The city you selected for panchang timings, so the calendar opens on the same place next time.
Kept: Until you change it or clear this site's data.
an:calendar-recent-locations:v1
localStorage
Up to four recently chosen cities, shown at the top of the location selector.
Kept: Until you clear this site's data.

Advertising

Nothing in this category is stored on your device.

Clearing this site's data in your browser removes all of it, including your saved mantras.

Third parties

A small number of external services are involved in delivering the site. Each one is listed here, including the ones that are present in the code but not switched on.

YouTube (Google)
Video playback
Only when you start a chant. Players are embedded through youtube-nocookie.com and are not loaded until you press play.
What they can see: Your IP address, device and browser information, and playback activity for that video.
Their privacy notice
Google Fonts
Typefaces
On every page load, to download the site's typefaces.
What they can see: Your IP address and browser information.
Their privacy notice
Prokerala
Panchang data source
Never from your browser. Panchang timings are requested by our server and cached; your device is not involved.
What they can see: Nothing about you.
Their privacy notice
Google Privacy & Messaging (certified CMP)
Not in use
Not loaded. The integration exists in code but no consent platform is configured, so nothing is fetched.
What they can see: Nothing today.
Their privacy notice
Google AdSense
Not in use
Not loaded. Advertising is not enabled on this site, and no advertising script or identifier is present.
What they can see: Nothing today.
Their privacy notice

Advertising

This site currently serves no advertising. No advertising script is loaded, no publisher identifier exists in the published build, and no advertising cookie or identifier is set. If advertising is introduced later, a consent choice will be requested first where the law requires it, this policy will be updated on the same day, and the cookie policy will list exactly what changes.

Children

Ananta Naad is a general-audience devotional site. It is not directed at children, and because we do not collect personal data we do not knowingly hold any information about a child.

Your choices and rights

Because we hold no personal data about you, there is no account to export, correct or delete. The information this site keeps is on your own device, and you control it directly:

Remove a saved mantra with the heart control, or clear them all at once.
Change or reset your city in the calendar's location selector.
Clear this site's data in your browser to remove everything at once.

Depending on where you live you may also have rights over data held by the third parties above — for example YouTube. Those requests are handled through their own privacy notices.

Changes to this policy

When this policy changes, the "last updated" date at the top changes with it. Material changes — in particular anything that would introduce tracking or advertising — will be described in plain language rather than folded quietly into the text.