Privacy Policy

Who is responsible

OccultGuide is owned and operated by the company below, which is responsible for any personal data the site handles:

What we record

• No account is needed to read. You can read everything without signing up or telling us who you are.
• Searches. The words you search for, how many results came back and which result was clicked are stored without any name, IP address or account attached, to improve search.
• MCP and API queries. Queries sent to our MCP server are stored the same way, with no identity attached.
• Your city. If you choose a city for dates, it is kept in a cookie on your device so pages can show local sunrise-based times.
• Birth details. Details entered for a kundali or matching are used to compute the chart for that request.
• Newsletter. If you subscribe, we store your email address only to send the newsletter. You can ask us to remove it at any time.
• Emails you send us are kept only as long as needed to answer them.
• Server logs (IP address, browser, page requested) are kept briefly by us and our hosting and network providers for security and to keep the site running.
• Error and speed monitoring. To find and fix problems quickly, we use Laravel Nightwatch, a monitoring service run by Laravel. It receives technical records only: the page opened, without anything after the “?” in its address (so never your question or what you searched for), how long it took, your IP address and browser, any error that happened, and, if you are signed in, your account number but never your name or email. It never receives what you type into the chat or any form. These records are kept for a limited time.

The chat

• Your chats are stored. When you agree to our terms, we create an account for you (no name needed) and keep your conversations so you can return to them. They travel to us encrypted (HTTPS) and are stored encrypted with their own key, which is kept apart from our database. This is not end-to-end encryption: our servers decrypt a chat to answer you. You can delete one conversation, or your whole account, at any time from Your data; it is deleted from our database at once.
• No one at OccultGuide reads your chats. Our systems decrypt a chat only to answer you, to show it back to you, and, if you chose “Help OG get better”, for automated analysis. Our admin tools have no screen that shows a chat. Where a person checks an answer to improve OccultGuide, they see a copy with names and personal details removed by our AI. We would hand over data only where the law requires it.
• Your notebook, the lines you write or agree to add about yourself, is stored with your account, encrypted, and read by the chat to answer you.
• Email. If you sign in, we keep your email address to send sign-in codes and to keep your chats across devices.
• What you agreed to. We record which terms you accepted, under which version, from which device type, and when. We also record when you last used the chat; an account with no email that is unused for 30 days is deleted with its chats.
• Improving OccultGuide. Only if you tick “Help OG get better” do we use your chats to improve the answers, for example to find questions the scriptures we hold could not answer. Our AI reviews them each night and keeps a short, redacted summary. You can turn this off at any time, and the summaries of your chats are deleted when you do.
• Private chat stores nothing: the conversation stays in your browser tab and is gone when you close it.
• Anthropic. To write each answer, your message is sent to our AI provider, Anthropic, in the United States. Anthropic does not train its models on it and deletes it within 30 days, unless its safety systems flag it as breaking its usage policy or the law requires it to be kept.
• Daily use. We count how many messages you send each day and how much of the AI they used, as numbers only, to keep the message allowances.
• Misuse. When the chat declines a question as outside its subject, harmful or an attempt to break its rules, we record that it happened and when, never what was asked. Repeated misuse pauses the chat. If a paused account is deleted, we keep a one-way fingerprint of its email address (not the address) until the pause ends, so the pause cannot be skipped by signing up again.
• Adults only. Stored chats are for people aged 18 or older.
• Take it with you. You can download everything we hold about you as one file from Your data.

Our YouTube channel and YouTube API Services

We publish videos on our YouTube channel, ॐ शान्तिः. To run that one channel we use an internal tool that connects to YouTube API Services. By watching or commenting on our videos you use YouTube, which is governed by the YouTube Terms of Service and the Google Privacy Policy.

• What the tool reads. Only our own channel: our videos and their settings, the public comments viewers leave on our videos (the commenter’s public channel name and picture, the comment text and its time), and our channel’s own analytics reports, which YouTube gives us as totals, not per viewer.
• What it does. It uploads and schedules our own videos, sets their titles, descriptions and thumbnails, adds them to our playlists, and replies to comments from our channel. Replies are written with the help of AI under our rules; comments that need a person are answered by us by hand, or not at all.
• Where it is kept. Copies of comments and replies are stored only in a private database on our own computer, used only to answer viewers and to plan our videos, and never sold, shared or combined with other information about you. We do not access your Google account, and this website does not ask you to sign in with Google.
• Deleting it. If you delete your comment on YouTube, our copy is deleted within 30 days. You can also ask us to delete it sooner through the contact page.
• Revoking access. The tool acts only through our own channel’s Google account. If you ever authorise any app to use your YouTube account, you can remove its access at any time from your Google security settings.

Analytics and cookies

We use Google Analytics to understand which pages are read and how visitors arrive. Google sets its own cookies and processes this data under its own privacy policy. You can block it with your browser’s settings or a content blocker; the site works fully without it. The site also uses a session cookie needed for forms to work securely.

What we do not do

We do not sell personal data, show targeted advertising, or share your information with anyone except the service providers needed to run the site, or where the law requires it.

Your rights

Under India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, you may ask us what personal data we hold about you, ask us to correct or erase it, withdraw consent, and raise a grievance. Write to us through the contact page; we aim to respond within 30 days.

Children

The site is meant for a general audience and does not knowingly collect personal data from children under 18.

Changes

We will update this page when our practices change; the date above shows the latest version. See also the terms of use.