Privacy
This page summarises the privacy policy, which is authoritative.
Haribol collects as little data as possible. Reading requires no account, and the app contains no advertising, analytics or tracking. Haribol is a private, non-commercial project run from Germany; the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) applies.
Data on your device
Section titled “Data on your device”Settings, bookmarks, notes, reading history, the offline library, downloaded languages and pictures you have viewed are stored only on your device: in the app, or in the browser’s storage for the web app. Haribol sets no tracking cookies. Clearing the browser’s site data or uninstalling the app removes them.
Servers the app contacts
Section titled “Servers the app contacts”| When | Server | Data received |
|---|---|---|
| You use the web app or read online | Haribol’s servers at Google Cloud. The web app is delivered through Google’s worldwide network; the library server is in Frankfurt. | Your IP address, the time, the page requested, and your browser or device type. Server logs are kept for 30 days. From them, Haribol keeps only counts (app starts, pages opened per day, language, country), with nothing that identifies you. |
| You view a picture, play a Sanskrit recitation, or download an app, the offline library or a language | Haribol’s storage at Google Cloud in Frankfurt, North Virginia (USA) or Singapore. The app chooses the nearest location by your device’s time zone and falls back to another if one fails. | Your IP address. It may reach a server outside the EU. |
| You play a recorded talk | media.prabhupada.io, which streams the recordings | Your IP address. |
| You open a video | YouTube. From then on, YouTube’s privacy policy applies. | What YouTube collects. |
| You donate | PayPal. Donate with PayPal opens PayPal’s site, and PayPal’s privacy policy applies. | What you enter there. Haribol receives what PayPal passes on with a payment: your name, email address and any message. |
| You sign in | Google (sign-in) and Supabase (accounts and sync; data stored in Ireland) | See With an account. |
| You use AI search | Haribol’s AI search service at Google Cloud in Frankfurt, and Google’s AI models in Frankfurt and the Netherlands | Your question. See AI search. |
Video thumbnails and the app’s fonts come from Haribol’s own servers, so nothing is loaded from Google while you read. No one else receives your data, and it is never sold.
With an account
Section titled “With an account”An account is optional. Signing in with Google passes on your email address, name, profile picture and Google account ID.
| Data | Storage and visibility |
|---|---|
| Notes (private and public), bookmarks, reading history | Stored with Supabase, so they appear on all your devices. |
| Profile (username, display name, location, about text, profile picture), public notes, whom you follow and who follows you | Visible to anyone, including people who are not signed in, for example through a public note’s link. Keep anything you do not want to share out of your profile and public notes. |
| Profile picture | Reduced in size on your device and stored with Supabase; visible to anyone. |
| Private notes | Visible only to you. |
Download my data provides a copy of everything stored for your account. Delete account removes it all at once; copies in backups are removed after a period stated in the policy. Notes and bookmarks on your device remain until you remove them. See Account and sync.
You must be at least 16 years old to create an account.
AI search
Section titled “AI search”A question to AI search, together with your earlier questions in the same chat, goes to Haribol’s AI search service in Frankfurt and from there to Google’s AI models (Gemini) in Frankfurt and the Netherlands, which find the passages and write the answer.
- Google processes the questions for Haribol under its data processing terms and does not use them to train its models.
- Haribol does not store or log your questions on its servers. It counts only how many you ask each day, for the limit of 20.
- Your chats are saved with your account so you can return to them. You can delete any chat at any time; chats are included in Download my data and deleted with your account.
Do not include names or other personal details in your questions.
Your rights
Section titled “Your rights”You can request access to the data stored about you, its correction or deletion, restriction of its processing, a copy in a portable format, and you can object to its processing. Contact Bhakta Jai Khanna at jai41khanna@gmail.com, also for any other privacy question. You can also lodge a complaint with a data protection authority.
The full policy, with the legal details, is at haribol.app/legal/privacy.