Privacy

Drishtara treats birth date, time, and place as personal data under India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (DPDP). Audience: India. Operator: United States. Production region intended: AWS Mumbai (ap-south-1). This page says exactly what we collect, why, and how to make it go away.

What we collect

To compute a kundali we need a name (optional quality), birth date, birth time, IANA timezone, and place coordinates. Place search fills the coordinates and timezone; you do not have to know them. Signed-in accounts also store an email and which chart hashes have a paid detailed PDF. That is the whole list. We do not sell this data, and we do not use advertising trackers.

How your birth data is used

Birth details you type in the browser are sent to the Drishtara Jyotish Engine — FastAPI on our own server, not a third-party astrology service. The engine computes the chart with the Swiss Ephemeris and returns interpretations rendered from a rules corpus that never ships to your browser. The calculation happens before your eyes and nowhere else.

Server logs record a chart hash prefix, never a plaintext date of birth. The chart hash itself is a SHA-256 of the normalized birth moments and place, which is how paid entitlements are tracked without tying money to a named person more than the account already does.

Retention and deletion

Anonymous charts expire on their own — about 24 hours. Signed-in charts stay in your library until you delete them. You can erase your profile, stored charts, entitlements, and server-side reports at any time from Account (DELETE /v1/account). Deletion is immediate and covers everything stored server-side for that sign-in.

After deletion we keep only bare Razorpay payment and order ids, with the session and chart references removed. This exists for one reason: a late webhook retry cannot create a duplicate purchase or re-grant anything to a deleted account. No birth data survives deletion.

Your rights (DPDP)

You can ask for access to your data, correction, erasure, or nominate someone to exercise these rights after you, by emailing support@drishtara.com. Deletion requests are treated the same as the self-service button in Account. Because we collect almost nothing beyond birth details and an email, these requests are usually a five-minute job.

Processors and hosting

Razorpay processes UPI payments for the detailed kundali PDF — it sees payment metadata, not your birth details. Optional Stripe paths exist in the code but are unused for this India SKU. Hosting is planned on AWS (Mumbai) behind Cloudflare DNS/WAF; the static site is served by Cloudflare Pages. We do not put the rules corpus or ephemeris files on Cloudflare. Place search falls back to OpenStreetMap Nominatim when a query is not in the built-in India-first city list.

Cookies and local storage

The site keeps a session token and your recent charts in browser storage so your library loads without re-entering everything. Clearing your browser data removes those copies; clearing the account (above) removes the server copies. There are no third-party advertising cookies.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes materially, we update the date at the top of this page. Questions about anything written here: support@drishtara.com.

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