Privacy Policy

2. What you give us when you sign up

• Your name, email address and a password. Passwords are stored in encrypted form — nobody at the site can read yours.
• If you sign in with Google, Google sends us your name and email address. We never see your Google password.
• Reading the verses, chapters and stories needs no sign-up at all, and asks for nothing.

3. What you tell us about yourself

After signing up, your profile asks for a few details so the site can suggest what to do next: a photo, phone number, city and country, where you are in your spiritual journey, whether you are connected to ISKCON or a temple, whether you are initiated, how many rounds you chant, your experience level, your goals, and how often you plan to learn, live and lead. Every one of these is yours to edit or clear at any time in your account.

4. What we note as you study

To power your dashboard, points, badges and leaderboards we keep a simple record of what you have done here:

• Which verses you have studied, and which purports you have marked as read.
• Quizzes you have made and the scores you earned.
• Days you have marked as days you lived the teachings.
• Class and reel plans you made in Lecture Studio, and whether you gave them.
• How often you use the study tools, so we know what to improve.

5. What we do not keep

• There are no private notes, bookmarks or reflections stored anywhere — the site has no place to write them.
• We never ask for card or bank details.
• We do not sell, rent or trade your information to anyone.

6. The few services that help us run the site

• Google — lets you sign in with your Google account.
• A location service (ipapi.co) — fills in your city and country once, so you do not have to type them.
• An AI service — writes the answers in Ask the Bhagavad-gītā, Test yourself and Lecture Studio, using only Śrīla Prabhupāda's translations and purports.
• vedabase.io — opens in a new tab when you click a purport link. Once you are there, that site's own policy applies.

7. Cookies and storage

A small login token keeps you signed in between visits, and a little text saved in your browser remembers your settings on this device. Clearing your browser storage signs you out and forgets those settings.

8. What other readers can see

Your name, city, points and badges may appear on the Learn, Live and Lead leaderboards so readers can encourage one another. You can hide yourself from the leaderboard in your account settings, and then only you can see your own numbers.

9. How we protect your information

The site is served over an encrypted connection, and access to the records is limited to what each part of the site needs to do its job. Your records are kept while your account is open.

10. Your choices

You can edit or clear any profile detail yourself. To leave, write to info@gitastudymap.com from your signed-up email address and ask us to delete your account; we will remove your profile, progress, quizzes, lived days and lecture records, and confirm once it is done.

11. Children

The site is written for adults. Someone under thirteen should use it together with a parent or guardian.