Privacy at Yajman

Where your information actually lives

Yajman has no customer database. There is no account, no password, no server holding your orders. Everything you enter in the shop, the family calendar, or a signup form is saved by your web browser on the device you typed it on, under storage names beginning with "yajman".

Three exceptions:

An email address you enter on the family calendar form or the Nine Nights form is also sent to this site as you submit it, along with a count of how many household members you listed. No mailing list tool is connected today, so nothing is stored or forwarded, but the address does pass through the host on its way here.

Every page you open, including a shared blessing link, reaches the host as a normal web request. Section 10 covers what that means.

Once card payment is switched on, the payment company holds a record of your payment and the email you gave it. Section 8 covers that.

Two consequences of storing things in your browser. First, it is not backed up. Clear your browser data, switch devices, or use a private window, and it is gone, and we cannot restore it. Second, it is stored as plain text on your device, the way any website's saved data is, so anyone who can use your unlocked device can read it. It is not encrypted, and we do not claim it is.

What you type, and what you can leave blank

To order a blessing we ask for the recipient's name, your name, and an email address for delivery. Two fields are optional and marked optional on the form: the wish or intention you write in your own words, and gotra. A blessing is complete without either.

We also save the delivery date you choose and your time zone, which your browser fills in so "the morning of" means their morning and not ours.

A Family Pack works the same way, at up to twelve recipient names in one order, with one message and one delivery email shared across them. Copying all the links at once puts every name and every link on your device's clipboard, where other apps on that device may be able to read it.

If you arrived from a link somebody shared with you, the shop saves the code that was on that link so we can tell which blessing brought you here. It is a code, not a name, it is not part of anything you share onward, and it goes away when you close the tab, though it stays attached to any order you place in that visit.

The family calendar saves an email address, the names and relationships of the people in your household, the dates you want remembered including memorial dates, and a language preference. Only the email address and the number of people you listed are sent to us. The names, the relationships and the dates never leave your device. Saving the form also marks you as joined to the founding waitlist on your device, which is a flag in your browser and nothing more. Section 12 explains what it does and does not commit you to.

The Nine Nights signup saves an email address, and will hold several if more than one person in the family signs up on the same browser.

"Remind me next year" saves the recipient's name, an email address, and a date. It never leaves your browser, and nothing is scheduled to send.

The baby name nakshatra tool takes a date of birth, holds it only while the page is open, never saves it, and never sends it anywhere.

The healing blessing, and words about an illness

The healing occasion asks what the person is recovering from. We want to be direct about what that is: it invites a health detail about someone else, who is not in the room and has not been asked whether they want it written down.

So: you can leave it blank, and the blessing still works. You do not need to give a diagnosis. If you would rather write what you wish for them than what is wrong with them, that is the better answer for the blessing anyway.

If you do write it, here is everywhere it goes. It is saved in your browser. It is placed into the prayer text, so it becomes part of the blessing itself. It travels inside the blessing's shareable link, which means whoever holds that link can read it. It appears on the delivered page as a quoted line. A person at Yajman reads it while preparing the blessing. If you ordered a voiced or video blessing, that person copies a script containing your words into the voice tool, and for video into the video tool as well, because that is how the recording gets made. Section 10 names those tools.

It is used to write and produce the blessing, and for nothing else. It is never used for advertising, never sold, never used to build a profile of you or of the person named.

The memorial blessing

The memorial occasion asks you to tell us about them. Whatever you write is handled exactly as section 3 describes, and the same choice is yours: a name alone is enough, and the blessing is complete without a single detail you would rather keep.

One thing worth knowing before you share: a memorial blessing's link carries what you wrote inside it, so forwarding the link forwards those words to whoever opens it.

Gotra

Gotra is optional. We ask because families who observe it want it named in the blessing, and leaving it out would make the words wrong for them. If your family does not observe it, or you would rather not say, leave it empty and nothing about the blessing suffers.

If you enter it, it is spoken and printed in the blessing, saved in your browser, carried inside the shareable link, included in the script given to the voice or video tool for those tiers, and written into the order email we receive. We do not sort, price, segment, target, or analyze anyone by gotra. We do not sell it. It exists in the product for one reason: to be said correctly in the prayer.

Health information, stated plainly

Washington and Nevada have laws written specifically about health information, and they apply to a business of any size, including one this small. So here are the facts in one place, where the answer is easy to find.

• What we collect: only what you type into the healing occasion's message field, and the fact that a memorial date exists if you enter one on the family calendar. There is no health question anywhere else on this site.
• Why: to write and produce the blessing you ordered. That is the only purpose.
• Where it is kept: in your browser. If you send us an order email, a copy sits in our mailbox.
• Who sees it: the person preparing your blessing, and the voice or video tool if you ordered a recording. Nobody else.
• We do not sell it. We do not share it for advertising, and we do not use it to target you or anyone else.
• You can withdraw it. Leave the field blank, clear your browser's data for this site, or write to us and ask us to delete what has reached us. We will delete it and tell you what we could not reach.

Using this site says something about you, and we treat that as sensitive

Everything on Yajman is Hindu practice. Being here at all suggests something about your household's faith, and the page you are reading says more: a healing page, a memorial page, a festival page. Some laws call that sensitive. So do we.

There are no cookies on this site. There are no advertising pixels, and we do not sell, rent, or trade any of this to anyone, for any price. We do not build audiences and we do not let anyone else target you because you came here.

There are no trackers and no third party scripts running today. If we ever add visitor counting it will be a cookieless kind that counts pages rather than people, and these pages will be kept out of it entirely: /blessings/healing, /blessings/memorial, /blessings/delivered and every page under it, /row and every page under it. Where we record that a checkout was started, the healing and memorial occasions will both be reported as "private". We will change this page before we switch anything on, not after.

What changes when an order is paid

Today Yajman is not taking payment. Card checkout is switched off in the live site, and the shop runs a preview that charges nothing and never asks for a card.

When payment is switched on, here is the change. Checkout sends you to Stripe's own page. Stripe collects your name, email, and card details under its own privacy terms, and holds its own record of the payment. We never see or hold a card number. The only thing that crosses from Yajman to Stripe is an order reference number: no name, no email, no intention, no gotra.

Coming back, your order is marked paid on your device and the blessing's link is created. Because there is no server, the details have to reach a human somehow. There are two ways that happens.

The first is the order email. The confirmation page offers one tap to send it from your own mail app. It contains the occasion, the tier, your name, the delivery email address, the schedule, and for each blessing the recipient's name, the gotra if you gave one, the order id, and the link, which carries your message inside it. It is not sent unless you tap it. It travels through your mail provider to our mailbox, and it sits in that mailbox afterward.

The second is the payment record. If you do not send the order email, we match your payment to your order using the order reference number Stripe passed along, and we reply to the email address on your receipt. So even with no database of our own, a paid order can be traced back to you through Stripe.

The link you share, and why we cannot take it back

The blessing travels inside its own link. The names, your message, and the gotra are encoded into the web address itself. Encoded is not encrypted and not password protected: anyone holding the link can open it and read all of it, on any device, with no account.

That is the point of it, and it is also the risk. It is what lets you send a blessing to a phone we have never touched. It also means forwarding the link forwards everything in it, and once a link is out of your hands we cannot recall it. There is no switch on our side to turn a link off, because there is no our side. If you need it gone from a chat, delete the message in that chat.

These pages are marked so search engines do not list them, which is a request that reputable crawlers honor, not a lock.

Two more things to know. The page title is built from the link, so the recipient's name appears in the browser tab and in your browser history. And when you paste the link into a messaging app, that app fetches a preview card from us, and the address of that card contains the recipient's name and your name, so those two names reach that messaging company. The preview card is also kept in the host's cache for about a day. Your message and the gotra are not in the preview address.

Everyone else who touches any of this

Vercel hosts the site. Every page you open reaches Vercel's servers, including a shared blessing link, which means the encoded address can appear in their request logs. This site also decodes that address on the server to build the link preview.

Stripe, only once payment is switched on, and then as section 8 describes.

Your messaging app, only if you choose to share.

Your email provider and ours, only if you tap the order email, or if we reply to your payment receipt.

For voiced and video blessings, a person prepares a script containing the names, your message, and the gotra, and runs it through a voice tool to make the recording, and for video through a video tool as well. The voice tool we use today is ElevenLabs. Nothing is sent to either tool automatically by the website; a person copies the script and pastes it in.

Not contacted today, and we will edit this page before any of it changes: no analytics service, no advertising network, no email marketing service, no font service (the fonts are served from this site), no other content network. Email signups are posted to this site's own address and then discarded, because no mailing list tool is connected, so today a signup is kept only in your browser.

Who at Yajman can see your order

Today, one person: the founder, who prepares the blessings. Whoever prepares your blessing sees the recipient's name, your name, your message, the gotra if given, and the delivery email.

Pandit Arvind Narayan Shastri and any other reviewer see the prayer library only: the verses, their sources, and the wording. The review desk holds no orders, no names, no messages, and no email addresses. Your words are never part of what he reviews.

The working pages used to prepare blessings sit behind a username and password on the live site, and if that password is not configured those pages do not exist at all.

The founding waitlist, and what happens if a membership ever charges

Saving a family calendar puts a "joined the founding waitlist" flag in your browser, along with the founding price held for you. Nothing is charged, no card is asked for, and there is no subscription running. That flag is a note on your own device.

If a paid membership ever starts, it does not start quietly. Before any recurring charge exists, the price, how often it is charged, how long it runs, how to cancel, and whether it renews by itself will all be stated on the page where you join, above the button, before you are asked for any payment detail. This page will be updated on the same day to say what the membership stores and for how long. Nothing on this page today should be read as consent to a future charge, because there is nothing to consent to yet.

How long we keep it, and how to have it deleted

On your device, it stays until you remove it. Nothing expires on a timer, because no code deletes it.

You can remove all of it yourself at any time by clearing this site's data in your browser settings. That erases the orders, the household profile, the reminders, and the signups this browser has saved. It cannot be undone and we cannot recover it for you.

You can also write to us at yajmanblessings@gmail.com and ask us to delete what has actually reached our side: order emails sitting in our mailbox, any note we made while preparing a blessing, and any signup record. We will do it and tell you what was deleted.

There are limits. We cannot recall a link you have already shared, we cannot remove anything from another person's phone or chat history, and we cannot reach into the payment company's records or the host's server logs beyond what those companies allow.

Children

Blessings are often for children, so a child's name and sometimes a birth date are part of what a buyer types. The nakshatra tool keeps nothing at all. Yajman is sold to adults buying a gift, and we do not knowingly collect information directly from children.

Changes, and how to reach us

This page describes the site as it is built today. When the build changes, this page changes first, with a new date at the top, and anything significant gets a line saying what changed.

Yajman is an independent business preparing to open. The legal entity behind it is being registered, and this page will name it, and its address, before the first payment is taken. Write to us at yajmanblessings@gmail.com.

This page was written from the code itself, line by line.