Privacy on this site
No accounts, no cookies, no analytics, no advertising network. Here is exactly what happens to the two things you can type into this site, and to the record your browser leaves by asking for a page.
This policy covers IndianCulture.com only. Sangh and Sākṣī are separate services with their own policies; if you sign in to either, what happens there is described there, not here.
The short version
This site is a set of plain files. There is no account to create, nothing is stored on your device, no advertising network appears on any page, and nothing here follows you anywhere else.
Three things generate a record. Your browser asking for a page. The newsletter box. The enquiry form. That is the complete list, and the rest of this page is the detail of each.
Who is responsible
Vialynx Inc, a company registered in New Jersey, United States, is the controller of the personal data described here.
- Privacy questions and data requests: privacy@indianculture.com
- Anything else: hello@indianculture.com
- Postal: [TKTK — address on hold; see docs/legal-review.md]
What is collected, and why
1. Reading a page
These files are served by Cloudflare. Like any web server, it records the request: the IP address it came from, the time, which page, and which browser and operating system asked. This is how the site is delivered and how attacks and abuse are absorbed.
We do not use this to build a profile of you, we do not combine it with anything else, and nothing about it identifies you to us by name.
- Why we may do it (GDPR): legitimate interests — delivering the site and keeping it available (Article 6(1)(f)).
- How long: Cloudflare's own retention applies; we hold no copy.
2. The newsletter box
The email address you type, and the page you typed it on. Nothing else — we do not ask for a name and the box will not take one.
- Why we may do it (GDPR): your consent (Article 6(1)(a)). You give it by submitting the box, and you may withdraw it at any time by writing to privacy@indianculture.com.
- How long: until you unsubscribe or ask us to delete it.
As of 5 September 2026 the newsletter box has been removed from the site, and nothing is being collected through it. It was taking addresses we had no way to write to, which is the wrong side of a promise. It comes back when there is a real subscriber list behind it, a record of when each person signed up, and a one-click unsubscribe that works immediately — and this page will say so before it does. Addresses collected before that date are still here; ask us to delete yours and we will.
3. The enquiry form on a services page
Your name, your email address, whatever you enter in the location field, and what you write in the message box. Nothing is collected that you did not type.
- Why we may do it (GDPR): taking steps at your request before entering into a contract (Article 6(1)(b)) — you have asked to be put in touch with someone who can help.
- How long: three years from your last contact with us, unless you ask for it sooner, so that we can pick up a conversation you return to.
An enquiry is not added to any mailing list. Asking a question about property is not consent to receive a newsletter, and the two forms do not talk to each other.
Where a form submission goes
Both forms post to the customer system Vialynx Inc runs at
viacrm.vialynx.com. It is not shared with the public, it has no advertising
attached to it, and the people who can open it are the people who reply to you.
These companies process the data on our behalf, under contract, and may not use it for anything of their own:
| Who | What they do | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare | Serves this site; records requests | United States and its global network |
| Vercel | Hosts the customer system | United States |
| Supabase | Stores the records the forms create | [TKTK] |
| Mailgun | Sends the confirmation and notification emails | United States |
Leaving your country
Vialynx Inc is a United States company, and the systems above run in the United States except where the table says otherwise. If you write to us from the UK, the EU, or anywhere else, your information is transferred to and stored there.
For transfers out of the UK and EEA we rely on the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses, with the UK Addendum where the UK GDPR applies.
What we never do
- We do not sell personal information, and never have.
- We do not share it for cross-context behavioural advertising.
- We do not use it to train machine-learning models, ours or anyone else's.
- We do not enrich it with data bought from anyone.
- We do not make automated decisions about you, and there is no profiling.
Cookies, and the absence of them
This site sets no cookies. Not for analytics, not for preferences, not for anything. It stores nothing in your browser's local storage either.
There is no analytics package on any page — no Google Analytics, no pixels, no tag manager, no session recording, no heatmaps.
The two typefaces are served from this domain. They are Google fonts by origin,
but they are downloaded when the site is built and shipped as files from
indianculture.com, so your browser never contacts Google to read this
page. That is deliberate, and it is why there is no cookie banner: there is
nothing to consent to.
Your rights
Write to privacy@indianculture.com. We answer within 30 days and we do not charge. We will ask you to confirm the email address you used, because that is the only thing tying a record to a person.
If the UK or EU GDPR applies to you, you have the right to: a copy of what we hold; correction of anything wrong; erasure; restriction of processing; objection to processing based on legitimate interests; portability of anything you gave us, in a machine-readable file; and withdrawal of consent at any time, which does not undo what was lawful before you withdrew it.
You may also complain to your data protection authority. In the UK that is the Information Commissioner's Office; in the EU it is the authority for the country you live in. We would rather you told us first, but it is your right either way.
If you are a California resident, the CCPA as amended by the CPRA gives you the right to know what we have collected and why, to a copy of it, to have it deleted, to have it corrected, and not to be treated worse for asking. You also have the right to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information — there is nothing to opt out of, because we do neither.
In the twelve months to the date at the top of this page, the categories collected were identifiers (name, email address, IP address) and internet activity (which pages were requested). We collect no sensitive personal information as the CPRA defines it, so there is nothing to limit the use of.
You may use an authorised agent. We will ask for proof that you authorised them.
Children
This site is not directed at children and we do not knowingly collect anything from anyone under 16. If you believe a child has sent us something, write to privacy@indianculture.com and it will be deleted.
Security, honestly stated
Everything travels over HTTPS, the form systems require a login, and access is limited to the people who answer enquiries. No system is perfectly secure and we will not pretend otherwise. If a breach affects you and the law requires us to tell you, we will, without waiting to be asked.
When this changes
The date at the top is the last change. If we begin collecting something new, or start using what we have for a different purpose, this page changes before that starts, not after. Material changes will be noted here rather than made quietly.
Questions: privacy@indianculture.com.